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Fallujah government center struck by chlorine suicide attack
Iraq. Click map to view. Iraq Police, Army stop bomber short of target; dozens wounded, poisoned Al Qaeda in Iraq is conducting a full fledged chemical war in Anbar province. Today, Al Qaeda conducted yet another chlorine gas suicide bombing, this time directed at the Fallujah government center, in the very heart of the city of Fallujah. The attack was coordinated; Multinational Forces West described it as “complex.” The two suicide truck bombs, suicide attcks on foot and small arms fire was preceded by mortar fire, which likely was designed to distract the guards at the gates.
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Iran
Blair warns Iran standoff could escalate
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Al Qaeda
Iraqi bomb attacks kill 77
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The Sunni Civil War
A map of al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq. Al Qaeda ‘s campaign against the Sunni tribal and insurgent leaders who oppose al Qaeda, or are considering it Al Qaeda in Iraq is pressing hard with its assassination, terror and intimidation campaign against Sunni tribal leaders and insurgent groups who refuse to join the Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s political front designed to give the Sunni insurgency an Iraqi face. Today, al Qaeda conducted a suicide attack against the home of Sheikh Thahir al-Dhari, the leader of the al-Zuba’a tribe. Thahir was not killed in the attack, however his…
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Another chlorine truck bomb found near Ramadi
The ninth attempted chlorine attack, 7 have been successful; Karma Iraq. Click map to view. Al Qaeda in Iraq continues its dirty chemical war in Anbar province. Another truck packed with explosives and chlorine cannisters was found and disarmed in Ramadi. U.S. troops from Multinational Forces West responded to the suicide bombing attack north of Ramadi, which killed one Iraqi and wounded seven. Coalition troops cordoned the area, when “local citizens provided information about a second truck bomb that may be in the area,” according to the Multinational Forces West press release. “Acting on the tip, a search was conducted…
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Afghanistan
The Taliban suicide bomber killed 4 police outside the provincial police station in Lashkar Gah, Helmand. Two Canadians were wounded after a suicide bomber attacked their convoy in Kandahar. Eight Taliban were captured in raids in Kunar, Khost and Girshk.
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Philippines
The US put a $5 million bounty out for Zulkifli bin Hir, aka Marwan, the Malaysian leader of the Kumpulun Mujahidin Malaysia who is working with Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. Marwan is behind a series of bombings in the Philippines.
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Pakistan
Just 1 day after the official signing of the Bajaur Accord, 4 Pakistan intelligence agents were found killed in the tribal agency. Yesterday, the TNSM threated a suicide campaign if its leader wasn’t freed. A bomb in Peshawar killed 4. The target appears to have been the leader of the secular Awami National Party, who was seriously wounded.
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Thailand
Phone tower, school burned in Southern Thailand
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Caucasus
In the front line of Putin’s secret war
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Palestinian Territories
Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinian gunmen in W. Bank
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Iran
US Long Worried Iran Supplied Weapons in Iraq
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Thailand
Violence tests soft strategy in Thailand’s Muslim south
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Iraq
Four Saudis slain in Anbar
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Iraq
US, Iraqi forces launch operation aimed at expanding security zones
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Baghdad High Value Targets Nabbed
The Baghdad Order Of Battle as of March 26, 2007. Click map to view. Three mass murderers have been arrested in Baghdad over the past week Al Qaeda in Iraq and their network of suicide and car bomb cells have been the greatest threat to security in Baghdad, particularly since the implementation of the Baghdad Security Plan. Suicide attacks are aimed at Shia neighborhoods and markets in an attempt to reignite the sectarian murders, as well as at security forces in an attempt to break the will of the Iraqi police and soldiers. Over the past five days, Iraqi and…
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Afghanistan
Twenty Taliban were killed and 22 captured in operations in Wardak and Ghazni provinces. Mullah Abdul Ali, a Taliban commander in Farah province, was captured and three others were killed after attempting to kidnap Indian contractors.
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The Bajaur Accord is now official
The Taliban from Bajaur threaten a suicide campaign the same day the agreement is signed NWFP/FATA map. Red agencies are openly controlled by the Taliban; yellow are under threat. Click map to view. Today, the Pakistani government has officially inked the Bajaur Accord with the local tribes and the Taliban in the restive tribal agency. On March 17, the government came to an official verbal agreement with the Mamoond tribe. Today’s agreement was with the Salarzai and Utmankhel tribes, as well as the ‘local Taliban,’ also known as the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (the TNSM, or Movement for the Implementation of Mohammad’s Sharia…
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The Taliban is emboldened in the Northwest Frontier Province
NWFP/FATA map. Red agencies are openly controlled by the Taliban; yellow are under threat. Click map to view. TNSM threatens suicide campaign; Taliban recruit in Tank; Peace in our time in Waziristan The signs of the Talibanization of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) manifest on a near daily basis. Last week, Kohat was recognized as one of several districts and agencies controlled by Taliban. The two latest examples of the Taliban’s rise from prominence to dominance occurred in the settled district of Tank and the tribal agency of Bajaur. Meanwhile, the recent fighting in South Waziristan is being misrepresented by…
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Iran
Intelligence assets listen in to Teheran
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Iraq
(Baghdad) Making the best of a Spartan situation
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Iraq
Baghdad Plan Shows Progress, But Challenges Persist
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Iran
Two US, one French aircraft carrier in Gulf region
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Iraq
US Talks to Iraq Rebels Over Anti-Qaeda Front
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Indonesia
(Indonesia) Terror suspect DNA library compiled
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Somalia
A large explosion occurred at an Ethiopian base in Mogadishu, but the cause or casualties are unknown. Over 70 government soldiers defected. The Hawiye clan released 18 soldiers captured in fighting last week.
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Iran
Blair: Iran must free naval prisoners in days
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Pakistan
The banned TNSM (the Pakistan Taliban) is demanding the release of Sufi Mohammed, its leader, or it will conduct a suicide bombing campaign. One Taliban and one policemen were killed in Tank after police blocked a Taliban recruiting drive at a school. The Taliban have recruited 100 students in prior drives. NATO said Pakistani patrols are blocking the movement of the Taliban into southern Afghanistan.
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The Baghdad Security Operation Order of Battle: March 26, 2007
The Baghdad Order Of Battle as of March 26, 2007. Click map to view. By DJ Elliott, CJ Radin and Bill Roggio With the passing of the four year anniversary of the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraqi and Coalition security forces continue to press with reestablishing security inside the capital and the outer Baghdad belts. The Baghdad Security plan continues to show signs of progress. Sectarian murders have been dramatically reduced inside Baghdad, as have the mass casualty suicide attacks which plagued the city on a regular basis. Al Qaeda is still able to conduct suicide and car bomb…
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Rutbah – Fact vs Fiction
Report of ambush, casualties on U.S. forces in the western town of Anbar false Iraq. Click map to view. News from the distant western towns of Anbar province is few and far between as reporters do not often travel to the far reaches of Iraq. The town of Rutbah is particularly distant from the center of gravity of Baghdad. Rutbah is a smuggler’s town and a transit point in the Syrian desert in the southwestern corner of Iraq, which is nearly equidistant from Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda has attempted to control the town to facilitate the transit…
