Baghdad Security Efforts Seem to Yield Results

Panic in Tehran

The Global Islamic Media Front released “The Caravans of Martyrs on the Soil of Somalia,” which is the biographies of five Somali Islamic Courts “martyrs.” al Qaeda in Iraq issued a statement denying the capture of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.

The missing Iranian general who has knowledge of Iran’s nuclear program, Hezbollah and weapons smuggling into Iraq, is believed to have defected to the West. Iran is having trouble financing the Bushehr nuke plant, and has begun rationing fuel.

Muslim insurgents killed two Buddhists in the southern province of Yala. One of the men was beheaded. Two police were wounded after an IED was detonated near the man’s body. This is the 25 beheading in Thailand since January 2004.

(Iraq) The Fadhila party leaves Shiite bloc

Israeli army arrests Muslim cleric

Syria Denies Arms Crossing Border into Lebanon

Iran: We Will Attend Iraq Conference

Saudi Arabia warns foreigners of possible attacks

18 Palestinian fugitives arrested in Israeli raid

Taliban commander and suicide cell leader Mullah Mahmood was captured in Kandahar while wearing a Burka. A ” (bomb-making) expert and logistics officer for the Tora Bora Front” was captured in Jalalabab, while five more al Qaeda were arrested in Khost. Canada is providing 200 troops as a blocking force for Operation Achilles in Helmand province. The Taliban’s website has been blocked in Pakistan.

Terror nine face police experts in Australia

Attacking Iran

(Pakistan) NWFP govt™s website contains errors, promotes Islamists

(Pakistan) Court seeks record on Rauf™s detention

Over 100 Islamic courts fighters massed to attack a government base in Mogadishu. Islamists shelled the Mogadishu airport as 400 Ugandan troops arrived. “Gunmen” stormed a local meeting of police and “vigilantes” and killed 5. A former police colonel and 3 others were also murdered in the capital.

Follow the Money: Challenges and Opportunities in the Campaign to Combat Terrorism Financing

Court Reduces Sentences for Yemen Plotters

Business as usual as the situation in Pakistan deteriorates Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas The U.S. pressure campaign to get Pakistan to clean up the Taliban and al Qaeda strongholds in the western and southern provinces has had a limited effect at best. After arresting Mullah Obaidullah and two other senior Taliban commanders in Quetta, Pakistan indicated it will go no further. “The ‘North Waziristan Peace Agreement’ will remain intact and it will not be rescinded,” reports The Nation. “Any new major operation in Waziristan will lead to serious repercussions for Pakistan and cause strong backlash,…

5 JMB men held in Joypurhat

AU says former rebels kill 2 peacekeepers in Darfur

Organization Makes Progress Defeating IEDs

Israel Puts Embassies on Security Alert Following Reports It Kidnapped Iranian

African force attacked in Somalia

Gunmen storm Iraq jail, 140 freed

Indonesia plans island terrorist jail

US warns of Kenyan terrorist attack

Taliban claimed kidnapped journalist ‘was spying for British’

Foreign fighters in Afghanistan
