Yearly Archives: 2009

Al Qaeda

In online posts apparently by Detroit suspect, religious ideals collide





Iran

Iran: Newspaper editor among high-profile arrests


Nigeria

Religious clashes in bomb suspect’s state have killed thousands



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 […]


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.


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.


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.



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 […]





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.


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.





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 […]



United Kingdom

UK – Photographers issue plea to end ‘hostile’ public searches under anti-terror laws



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.


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.


Pakistan

10 killed in Pakistan bombings on anniversary of Bhutto assassination


Al Qaeda

Uninvestigated terrorism warning about Detroit suspect called not unusual


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.