Anwar al Awlaki, a top al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader, said that the uprisings in the Middle East will benefit al Qaeda and allied jihadist movements. Awlaki, an American citizen, made the statement in the fifth edition of Inspire magazine.
Jihadists denied that they took over a radio station in Abyan province. The government blamed al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for a blast at a weapons factory in Jaar in Abyan that killed more than 100 civilians.
Pro-Gaddafi forces continue to push rebel forces out of towns ceded just days ago. Rebels have retreated from Ras Lanuf and are falling back to the east. More than 1,000 jihadists are estimated to be in Libya.
Syria accuses fundamentalists of stirring unrest
Danish foreign minister rejects impunity-exile deal for Gaddafi
Transport authorities are investigating the recent shipment of a fake bomb, containing timer, wires, and detonator, concealed in a wedding cake box, on a UPS flight from London to Istanbul. A 26-year-old Turkish man was detained in London in connection with the shipment but released on bail. The UK expelled five Libyan diplomats, including the […]
Egyptian Islamists won’t cap ambitions forever, Brotherhood leader says
Karzai blasts US troops for gruesome Afghan deaths
A US appeals court backed Iran on the issue of whether Persian antiquities in US museums could be used to pay damages for victims of a 1997 suicide bombing in Israel. The US sanctioned a state-owned energy company in Belarus for doing business with Iran. Tehran welcomed Egypt’s offer to reset diplomatic relations between the […]
Indonesia is sending a team to Pakistan to investigate reports that Umar Patek was captured. Patek is a senior Jemaah Islamiyah operative and has been connected to the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people.
Al Qaeda exploits Yemen chaos
Pakistan has ‘hands full’ against terrorists: NATO
Amid rebels, ‘flickers’ of al Qaeda
Medvedev follows lethal attack on Islamic separatists with warning
Washington debates idea of arming Libyan rebels
Security forces arrested six Taliban fighters accused of attacking the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in 2009. The Army claimed 14 paramilitary troops killed in Khyber were killed in a friendly fire incident.
A three-judge DC Circuit Court panel overturned a lower court’s ruling that would have granted freedom to Guantanamo detainee Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman.
The Taliban overran a district in Nuristan, killed three ISAF troops in the east, and destroyed seven communications towers in Helmand. Security forces killed and captured dozens of Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Uruzgan, Kapisa, Khost, Paktika, Logar, Kunar, and Jawzjan.
Libya rebels flee Gadhafi assault as world debates
An al Qaeda in Iraq suicide assault team killed 53 people during an assault on the Tikrit provincial center. Insurgents killed two civilians in Baghdad. Security forces arrested 12 wanted men in Basrah.
A US federal appeals court overturned a lower court’s order to release al Qaeda operative Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman from Guantanamo. Uthman, a Yemeni, fought US forces at the battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in 2001.
The Yemeni government is said to have lost control of six of the country’s 18 provinces. Casualties from yesterday’s explosion at a weapons factory in Abyan have risen to 93 dead. More than 20,000 anti-government protesters marched in Sana’a.
Doku Umarov and his top two commanders, Emir Khamzat and Emir Supyan, are rumored to have been killed during a raid in Ingushetia. Russian officials do not believe Umarov was killed.
AQI hit a provincial council meeting.
Danish Foreign Ministry to give space and cash to Libyan revolution
President Assad’s cabinet resigned in an attempt to placate anti-government protesters. Tens of thousands of Syrians held pro-government rallies across the country.
President Gaddafi’s forces retook the town of Bin Jawad and have pushed rebel forces back to Ras Lanuf. The US launched 22 cruise missile strikes against Gaddafi’s military.
Insurgents use Iraq war model missiles in Afghanistan
UK: Diplomats did not discuss arming Libya rebels
India and Pakistan to co-operate in Mumbai attack probe