United States
An al Qaeda-linked Nigerian man was subdued by passengers after attempting to detonate an explosive cocktail during a flight. The Northwest Airlines-chartered plane en route from Amsterdam landed safely at its destination in Detroit.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Somalia
Clashes between Islamists and government and African Union forces killed 15 people in Mogadishu. Clashes between Puntland security forces and tribal militias resulted in 11 people killed. Hizbul Islam denounced the UNSC sanctions against Eritrea.
Radical US cleric survived airstrike in Yemen: family
Anwar al Awlaki, the cleric who provided advice to the Ft. Hood shooter, survived Thursday’s airstrike in Yemen’s Shabwa province.
Iraq
Twenty-five Iraqis were killed and more than 100 were wounded in yesterday’s bombing in Hillah. Three Kurdish soldiers were killed in a bombing in Sinjar. Four Iraqis were killed in bombings in Baghdad.
Afghanistan
The Taliban released a propaganda video of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, the captive US soldier. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured an undisclosed number of Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in Wardak and Paktika provinces.
India
Kashmiris come together to celebrate Christmas
Iran
Iran aims to improve image in Arab world
Taliban release propaganda video of captive US soldier
Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier who was captured by the Haqqani Network in June 2009 in Paktika province, is seen in fatigues and sunglasses.
Pakistan
The Taliban killed five Pakistanis in suicide attacks in Peshawar and Rawalpindi, and blew up two schools in Khyber. Security forces detained 32 suspected Taliban fighters in Kohat, 18 in Malakand, and four in Mianwali.
Afghanistan
Army’s new all-terrain vehicle debuts in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Validity of reports on secret raids questionable: US
Indonesia
Bahrudin Latif, the father-in-law of the late terrorist Noordin Mohammad Top, was arrested in a predawn raid in West Java. Latif, who is also known as Baridin, helped Top evade police detection shortly before Top masterminded the July 2009 Jakarta hotel bombings.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed eight people in an attack in Kandahar. The Taliban killed two civilians in Paktika and a Canadian soldier in the South. Afghan and Coalition forces detained an undisclosed number of Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in in Helmand, Kandahar, and Khost.
Iran
A Russian diplomat said his country is not convinced Iran’s nuclear program has a military component. The Iranian defense minister said Iran would deploy Iranian-made satellites. Security forces killed two people during a melee at an execution, banned memorials for an opposition cleric, and detained a former government spokesman.
Iraq
Terrorist killed 20 Iraqis during attacks on Shia processions in Baghdad, Sadr City, Karbala, and Hillah. Iraqi security forces detained 16 wanted men in Basrah, two members of an IED cell in Fallujah, a Syrian suicide bomber in Baghdad.
Iran
Courage, websites and sound judgment fight Iran™s media suppression
Yemen
The Yemeni government is claiming that Nasir al Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, his deputy Said al Shihri, and radical US-Yemeni cleric Anwar al Awlaki may have been killed in an airstrike that killed more than 30 al Qaeda operatives. The reports are unconfirmed.
Afghanistan
Report says Afghan drug effort lacks strategy
Mullah Sangeen: We don’t need bases in Pakistan
Image of Haqqani Network military commander Mullah Sangeen Zadran. Obtained by The Long War Journal from a Taliban propaganda tape. A few tidbits from someone claiming to be “Mullah Sangeen, a key commander of Afghan Taliban” (and the shadow governor of Paktika province) in this article in Pakistani media outlet The News: What Afghan Taliban […]
Yemeni airstrike targets top al Qaeda leaders
The government is claiming that Nasir al Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, his deputy Said al Shihri, and radical US-Yemeni cleric Anwar al Awlaki may have been killed in an airstrike that killed more than 30 al Qaeda operatives. The reports are unconfirmed.
United States
Yemeni Sheikh: US to blame for Ft. Hood
Egypt
Egypt™s Muslim Brotherhood conservatives win vote
Afghanistan
Afghanistan war: Marines move in to stop Taliban from Pakistan
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda’s sights on Pakistan, and beyond
Pakistan
Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Bajaur and detained a person transporting explosives in Mianwali. The Taliban bombed a school in Peshawar and fired rockets at a police station in Bannu. Members of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are regrouping in Karachi.
India
‘More than a dozen terror plots foiled in India’
Iran
Clashes with police reported in Iran
Iraq
Iran has reportedly occupied two more oil wells at the Fakka oil field in Maysan. Insurgents killed seven Iraqis and four policemen in attacks in Baghdad and Mosul. Iraqi troops detained 30 suspected insurgents in Bayji, 15 wanted men in Basrah, five al Qaeda cell members in Mosul, three Hezbollah Brigades members in Baghdad, and […]
Afghanistan
Can US troops run McChrystal™s ‘soft power™ playbook?
Iraq continues crackdown on Iranian-backed terror groups
Since Nov. 6, Iraqi security forces have detained 60 members of the Shia terror groups who are collectively known as the Special Groups by the US military.