Haqqani Network
US ‘threat’ of military action unites Pakistan
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Haqqani Network
Use of bombers in Pakistan under study: US senator
Al Qaeda
Pakistan says US pressure on militants must end
Amin al Haq confirmed to have been freed by Pakistan’s ISI
“Amin al-Haq had been arrested mistakenly, therefore, the police failed to prove any charge of his association with Osama bin Laden and the court set him free,” a Pakistani official said.
Dagestan
Situation in Dagestan going out of control
Afghanistan
Musharaff: Why Haqqani terrorist group can help Pakistan
US citizen plotted aerial ‘drone’ strikes on Pentagon and Capitol
Rezwan Ferdaus, a physicist from Massachusetts, planned an assault that involved striking the Pentagon and the Capitol using airplane models carrying bombs, blowing up bridges, and shooting politicians. He also sought to aid al Qaeda by building detonation devices for use in killing US soldiers overseas.
United States
Authorities arrested Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, in Framingham, Mass., after he accepted weapons from undercover agents, believing them to be his accomplices in an al Qaeda plot to attack the Pentagon and the US Capitol. The Northeastern University physics graduate also is accused of making bomb parts to be used against US forces in Iraq.
Thailand
Muslim insurgents killed four members of a security detail assigned to protect teachers in the south. Also, hundreds of CCTV units were torched on a highway in Pattani province.
Afghanistan
Taliban stalks outskirts of calm Afghan city
Turkey
Turkey’s Elephant in the Room – Religious Freedom
Lashkar-e-Taiba
The US added two Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders to the list of global terrorists. Zafar Iqbal co-founded the terror group and is a top fundraiser, and Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi is the deputy emir and ideologue who aided in the 2008 Mumbai terror assault.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Army chiefs, EU in Libya fallout talks
Iran
Iran equips marine forces with ‘cruise’ missile
Pakistan
Police have again detained Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader Malik Ishaq after claiming he inspired anti-Shia violence. Prime minister Malik vowed to hunt down Chinese terrorists based in Pakistan. A tribal lashkar in Bajaur killed an Afghan Taliban commander.
Iran
White House, experts dismiss Iran naval threat to US coast
India
FBI’s terrorism search goes undersea
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed eight policemen in Helmand, three ISAF soldiers in the east, and a New Zealand SAS soldier in Wardak. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Logar, and Nangarhar.
Pakistan
White House will not second admiral on Pakistan
Pakistan
No disagreement in Pentagon on Pakistan role: US
North Korea
North Korea unlikely to give up nuclear arms, outgoing British ambassador says
US adds 2 Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders to list of terrorists
Zafar Iqbal co-founded the terror group and is a top fundraiser, and Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi is the deputy emir and ideologue who aided in the 2008 Mumbai terror assault.
Al Qaeda
Fallout in the Sahara: Did the War in Libya Play into the Hands of al-Qaeda?
AQAP calls Ahmadinejad a 9/11 Truther
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s rebuke of the Iranian president reminds us of a classic spoof by The Onion that takes on 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula called Iranian President Ahmadinejad a Truther for his “ridiculous” theory that the US government was behind the 9/11 attacks. The group said Iran and Shia in general “do not want to give al Qaeda credit for the greatest and biggest operation ever committed against America because this would expose […]
Yemen
Tribesmen shot down a Russian-made Sukhoi fighter from the Yemeni air force in the Naham area outside of Sana’a. The government accused the Joint Meeting Parties of blowing up a pipeline in Marib.
Somalia
An unconfirmed Iranian press report claims “dozens” of people were killed in three US Predator strikes in Kismayo on Sept. 25. Shabaab claimed it will display the remains of a US drone it said it shot down in Kismayo.
Norway
Authorities have released Davud Jakobsen, one of three men recently charged with terrorism-related offenses linked to al Qaeda and involving plots in Norway and Denmark. Jakobsen, a Uighur, began working as an informant in November 2009 but still faces trial.
Caucasus
Leader of Islamic charity sentenced to nearly 3 years in money smuggling case
Al Qaeda
20,000 Heat-Seeking Missiles Reportedly Feared Missing From Libyan Warehouse