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Norway
Security police sought charges against three men arrested last year for plotting terror attacks against targets in Scandinavia; they are thought to have links to al Qaeda. Mikael Davud, a Uighur, and Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd, both confessed to plotting attacks; the third suspect, David Jakobsen, an Uzbek, was released last year.
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Pakistan
Pakistan security to shoot on sight in Karachi
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North Korea
South Korea – An Exit Interview with Gen. Sharp
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Predator strikes are ‘more like police work’?
Police don’t intentionally kill criminals. ‘Targeted assassinations’ is a far better description for the Predator strikes.
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Bahrain
Bahrain’s top cleric slams reconciliation talks
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Iran
Iran ‘supporting Shi’ite groups in Iraq that are killing US troops’
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Pakistan
Pakistan rejects US claims over Saleem Shahzad murder
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Polish war crimes trial impacts soldiers’ rules of engagement
Polish troops fear going “straight to Poznan” if they accidentally kill civilians in Afghanistan.
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ISAF nations follow US lead, announce early troop drawdowns
The US’s allies will remove thousands of troops from Afghanistan in the next two years.
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Pakistan
Pak nuclear stockpile to touch 200 in a decade: experts
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Al Qaeda
‘Qaeda hospital’ in N Waziristan demolished
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Iran
IRAN: Commander outlines Revolutionary Guard’s muscular role in politics and economy
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Al Qaeda
Mauritania: Military on alert for possible Al-Qaeda attack
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Syria
Syria accuses US of interference in its affairs
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Pakistan ‘sanctioned’ murder of Saleem Shahzad: Mullen
Admiral Mullen said the Asia Times journalist’s death was ordered by the Pakistani government but had no evidence that the ISI executed the attack.
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Afghanistan
Pakistani, Afghan, US militaries discuss border tensions
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Pakistan
Pakistan govt may have sanctioned Shahzad’s death: US
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Yemen
Yemen President Speaks on TV for First Time Since Injury
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Afghanistan
An Afghan official said that 11 civilians were killed in an ISAF airstrike in Ghazni; ISAF is investigating the claim. The Taliban killed six Afghan policemen in Uruzgan. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Ghazni, Khost, Paktia, Paktika, and Wardak.
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Yemen
President Saleh made an appearance on Yemeni television. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters killed 10 soldiers in an ambush in Abyan. Security forces killed an AQAP commander and several fighters in Abyan.
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Hezbollah
The US indicted Faouzi Ayoub for passport fraud. Ayoub, who was born in Lebanon and is a US citizen, tried to illegally enter Israel in 2000 to conduct a bomb attack for Hezbollah. Ayoub is currently missing.
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Syria
A human rights official claimed that Syrian troops killed 22 people and wounded more than 80 more during a crackdown in the city of Hama. Amnesty International accused the government of committing “crimes against humanity.”
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Somalia
Somali soldiers killed two civilians in Mogadishu. A prominent clan elder was beheaded in central Somalia. Police captured 10 suspected Shabaab fighters in the capital.
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Al Qaeda
US intelligence officials now believe that Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in the June 3 Predator airstrike in South Waziristan. Kashmiri, a Pakistani, is a top al Qaeda military commander and strategist.
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Abu Obeida Yusuf al ‘Annabi, a member of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s shura, said the group pledged fealty to Ayman al Zawahiri. “We pledge to you to be obedient, and we consider ourselves one of the arrows of Islam,” he said.
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US intel believes Kashmiri killed in June Predator strike
Ilyas Kashmiri, a top military commander and strategist, was targeted in a June 3 Predator strike in South Waziristan.
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Germany
German prosecutors charged Arid Uka, a 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian, with murder for killing two US soldiers near the Frankfort airport in March. The suspect allegedly had been motivated by watching jihadist propaganda online.
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Hizb-i-Islami
Peace Council in Indirect Contacts with Taliban Leader
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North Korea
Pakistan denies bribe from N.Korea for nuclear technology
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Russia
Shuttle’s Last Flight Leaves Russia With Space Monopoly
