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Al Qaeda
In online posts apparently by Detroit suspect, religious ideals collide
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United States
US – Key security agencies lack permanent leaders
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United States
Northwest Airlines bomb photos
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Afghanistan
What’s the real plan for Canada’s 2011 exit strategy?
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Iran
Iran: Newspaper editor among high-profile arrests
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Nigeria
Religious clashes in bomb suspect’s state have killed thousands
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Al Qaeda
Al-Qaida in Yemen expands operations
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Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed more than 30 Pakistanis in an attack on a Shia procession in Karachi. Fifteen Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed in clashes in South Waziristan. Nine tribal fighters, including a tribal leader, and six Taliban fighters were killed in clashes in Arakzai. The Taliban destroyed five NATO supply trailers in Khuzdar and Mangochar, and bombed a girl’s school in Shabqadar.
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Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit for the attempted bombing of a US airplane on Christmas Day and vowed to conduct further attacks. “[W]e have come to slaughter you (and) will strike you with no previous (warning), our vengeance is near,” said a statement released by the group on the Internet.
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Somalia
Pirates released a Chinese ship hijacked in mid-October and seized a Yemeni cargo vessel with a crew of 16. Gunmen killed an officer working for an aid organization in the town of Bula-Hawo.
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Iran
Police killed 10 civilians during protests on Ashura. Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, the deputy commander of Iran’s armed forces, called the protests disgraceful. Israel said Iran is close to producing nuclear weapons.
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Al Qaeda
US – Official lauds Yemeni government for taking on al-Qaida
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Niger
Unidentified gunmen have killed three Saudi tourists and wounded three others in Niger. The three wounded tourists were taken to a hospital in Niamey. The attack happened near a village called Djambala, near the Mali border, where Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Taureg rebels are known to operate. The six Saudi tourists were traveling with two Malians on their way to Mali.
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Al Qaeda
Detroit terror attack: Yemen is the true home of Al-Qaeda
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Pakistan
Pakistan: Riots erupt in Karachi after deadly bomb attack
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Al Qaeda
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: there are many more like me
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Iraq
Security forces killed an Islamic State of Iraq leader and captured another in Tal Afar, and detained 14 al Qaeda in Iraq operatives in northern Iraq and three Special Groups fighters in Al Kut. Iraq’s Youth Minister escaped an assassination attempt in a bombing in Toz Kharmeto. “Gunmen” killed two cement factory workers in Mosul.
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Afghanistan
Eleven Taliban fighters and two policemen were killed during clashes in Badghis province, where Afghan and Coalition forces have launched an operation. Afghan and Coalition forces captured an undisclosed number of Taliban and Haqqani network commanders and fighters during operations in Kandahar, Helmand, Wardak, and Khost.
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United States
US orders body searches after botched airline attack
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United States
Security questioned after jet scare
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United States
US airline terror suspect’s family sought, got no help
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of two Italian nationals in eastern Mauritania. The audiotape, broadcast on Al Arabiya, claimed the kidnapping was politically motivated due to “crimes of the Italian government in Afghanistan and Iraq.” The husband, Sergio Cicala, and his wife, Philomene Kabouree, were taken from their minibus by armed fighters on Dec. 19.
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Suicide bomber kills 30 Shia mourners in Karachi
The attack is the latest against Shia worshippers during a religious festival. The al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which has regrouped in Karachi, is the prime suspect.
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United Kingdom
UK – Photographers issue plea to end ‘hostile’ public searches under anti-terror laws
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Al Qaeda
Detroit terror attack: MI5 hunt for bomber’s accomplices
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Pakistan
The Taliban killed a government official and five family members in Kurram and a tribal leader in Bajaur. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained three weapons smugglers in Sindh.
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Kashmir
A suicide bomber killed 15 Shia mourners and wounded 100 more in an attack on a procession in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-held Kashmir. Two policemen were among those killed. This was the third suicide attack in Pakistan-held Kashmir this year.
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Pakistan
10 killed in Pakistan bombings on anniversary of Bhutto assassination
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Al Qaeda
Uninvestigated terrorism warning about Detroit suspect called not unusual
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Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said it would avenge the deaths of those killed in the Dec. 17 and Dec. airstrikes that reportedly killed more than 64 al Qaeda fighters. “We will not let Muslim women and children’s blood be spilled without taking revenge,” the group said in a statement released in the Internet.
