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Pakistan
Pakistan’s failing war on terror
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The UK agrees to aid in resumption of formal peace talks between MILF and Philippines
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Muslim separatist campaign has intensified in Thailand
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India
India blocks millions of mobiles for security reasons
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Iran
Iran offers $20m to militants for fighting west
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Somalia
Shabaab fighters reportedly disarmed Hizbul Islam top leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, according to state radio. Security forces in Bosaso captured a wanted pirate called Omar Hassan Osman, also known as Baqalyo, who hijacked and received $4 million in ransom from an Italian ship.
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United States
The US Attorney’s office has announced that hearings for David Coleman Headley will be deferred indefinitely. Headley was scheduled for preliminary and detention hearings on Dec. 4 for his role in a conspiracy to carry out attacks abroad on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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Pakistan
Pakistani journalist critical of the military is threatened
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Iraq
Civilian deaths in Iraq have dropped to a six-year low in November. Iraqi and US forces detained 11 al Qaeda fighters in Northern Iraq and two more in Diyala, and four insurgents in Dalouiya. Insurgents killed a civilian and wounded a soldier and 14 more civilians in Kirkuk, Baghdad, and Mosul.
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Pakistan
Pakistan’s Zardari on the ropes
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Afghanistan
The Taliban killed a civilian and wounded three more in a bombing in Uruzgan, and wounded a policeman in an attack on checkpoints in Kunduz. Afghan and Coalition forces detained four Haqqani Network fighters in Khost. Australia said it will increase police and civilian aid to Afghanistan.
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United Kingdom
British Muslim woman lawmaker pelted with eggs
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Iran’s fist still clenched
An IRGC Navy fast attack speed boat (near boat). Image from Fars News. Thanksgiving weekend gave President Obama little to be thankful for in terms of the administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran. Not only did Tehran turn down the offer of sending its nuclear material to Russia for enrichment, but the Iranians also declared a plan to construct 10 more nuclear enrichment facilities in future years. Despite the fact that mounting sanctions and technical hurdles make the construction of these new plants difficult, the recent rebuff by Ahmadinejad is disconcerting. Even more troubling is news from the US Office of…
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Afghanistan
UK – Special forces provide unique abilities in Afghanistan
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Iran
Senior cleric denounces Iranian militia for crackdown
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Suicide bomber kills Pakistani politician
A member of a secular Pashtun political party who served in the provincial assembly was killed as he greeted Eid well-wishers outside his home in Swat.
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Al Qaeda
Italy’s Gitmo detainees linked to al-Qaida base
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Iran
Tehran warned that it will take strong action against five detained British sailors whose yacht entered Iran’s Persian Gulf waters. China announced that more talk, not tougher sanctions are needed to resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute.
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Al Qaeda
Algerian Guantanamo detainee transferred to France
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Hekmatyar offers terms for ‘peace’ in Afghanistan
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of a faction of the Hezb-i-Islami that is allied with the Taliban and al Qaeda, is toeing the Taliban line on conditions for “peace” in Afghanistan: a full US/NATO withdrawal and the “transfer of power to an Islamic government” (read: the Taliban). He even went one step further and is calling for the punishment of “deciding the fate of those people who supported the invaders.” A partial translation of Hekmatyar’s Eid speech is provided by MEMRI: “Moscow and Washington want to repeat the same strategy which they followed after the withdrawal of Russian forces [at the…
