First, the newest messaging twist from the Taliban’s latest commentary (Voice of Jihad English and PDF at non-terrorist site), summarized in haiku: Karzai, the puppet, talks jirga, lets USA be colonial. From the statement: He makes his assertion about reconciliation in every forum and gathering even in a gathering in Uruzgan a few days ago, […]
US forces pin hopes on new Afghan civil police
Headley names 6 Pak armymen in Karachi Project
Iraq’s top vote-getter reaches out to rivals
Pentagon revamps Afghan troop deployments
ISAF forces make strides in Helmand province
The Taliban overran a Frontier Corps post in Arakzai and killed five troops, including a senior officer; 21 Taliban fighters were killed in the counterattack. The Punjabi Taliban named Abuzar Khanjari the new leader of the Qari Zafar group. The US will spend $40 million to help build roads in Peshawar and Malakand.
Prosecutors charged a Chicago taxi driver with plotting an attack and providing material support to al Qaeda by transferring money overseas to the terror group. Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Pakistan-born US citizen, also has ties to al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri.
Afghanistan – US air support troops learn to hold back
US – Nuclear labs raise doubts over viability of arsenals
Kandahar becomes battlefield before a US offensive
Former Prime Minister Allawi’s Iraqi National Movement has a two-seat lead over Prime Minister Maliki’s State of Law Alliance. A suicide bomber killed more than 40 Iraqis in an attack in Baqubah. Iraqi forces killed an al Qaeda leader in Baghdad and captured another in Abu Ghraib, and detained 14 al Qaeda fighters in northern […]
Former Prime Minister Allawi takes a two-seat lead over current Prime Minister Maliki in the final count. The contest to form the next government will begin after the vote is certified.
Afghan marksmen – forget the fables
Two civilians were killed in a mortar attack in the northern part of Mogadishu. Somali police demolished several homesteads built near the Mogadishu Airport after reports emerged that they were built and used by Shabaab to carry out attacks. A Toronto student reported dead in Somalia was a blog author who posted the extremist propaganda […]
Muthanna Harith Sulayman al Dhari, the son of the leader of Iraq’s radical Association of Muslim Scholars, provides logistical and financial support for al Qaeda in Iraq.
Coalition and Afghan forces detained an undisclosed number of Taliban fighters in Marja in Helmand province. Two civilians were accidentally killed during an exchange of fire with the Taliban in Khost province on March 24. A dispute between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan has prevented some NATO supplies from reaching Afghansitan.
Jihadi cool: Terrorist recruiters’ latest weapon
More than 100 Taliban fighters overran a Frontier Corps outpost, killing five troops, including a senior officer, before the military retook control of the base.
Pakistani troops kill 34 militants after attack
Taliban says it can ‘reconcile’ with India
‘No evidence’ WFP’s Somalia food aid diverted
India – American terror suspect traveled unimpeded
Algerian security forces are on a manhunt for an Israeli national thought to have been kidnapped by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb after being captured by armed Salafists and then sold to the terrorist group. The Israeli was heading to Hassi Messaoud, home to much of Algeria’s oil infrastructure. He apparently made contact with […]
The West softened its sanction proposal against Iran to garner support from Russia and China. A Washington think-tank said Israel could use tactical nuclear weapons to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. NATO urged the establishment of a missile defense pact to deter Iran’s missile program.
Pak terror groups to step up ‘jihad™
US revamps Afghan troop deployments
War and peace: A Taliban view
US – Official hails effect of unmanned aircraft on warfare
Five civilians were killed in heavy shelling in Mogadishu. Kenyan police arrested a Somali-American as he and two associates attempted to fly to Somalia. Hashi Hussein Farah, who escaped from Kenya last weekend, is believed to be a major al Qaeda-linked fundraiser for Shabaab. The government is planning to launch its offensive to retain the […]