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Al Qaeda
NATO officials dispute purported al Qaeda video
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Iraq
Iran’s Quds Force is “deeply enmeshed in Iraq.” Civilian deaths have dropped significantly in Iraq and Baghdad. Iraqi forces captured an al Qaeda cell leader in Muqdadiyah. The 1st Iraqi Army Division in Anbar is now under government control.
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Al Qaeda
New “Martyr” Stories From al Qaeda’s Network in Iraq
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Chad
Chad violence could erupt into genocide, UN warns
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Indonesia
An Indonesian ‘militant’ was ordered to behead 3 Christian schoolgirls in Poso. “He had joined Tanah Runtuh to learn to recite the Koran, but then had been trained in military skills.” Indonesian authorities are on high alert for terrorist activities in Poso. Jailed Bali bombers have been found with cell phones.
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Iraq
Iraqi President Says Al-Sadr Backs Security Plan
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Iraq
Trainers see progress in Iraq National Police
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Iraq
US Officials Worried About Iranian Involvement in Iraq
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Al Qaeda
Spain furious as US blocks access to Madrid bombing ‘chief’
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Algeria
Algerian police killed 26 suspected terrorists and arrested another 35 during operations in the mountainous region of Qashra, near the eastern city of Skikda. This is an area where al Qaeda in the Maghreb (formerly GSPC) is known to operate. al Qaeda claimed responsibility for seven bombing attacks in Algeria on February 13.
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Morocco
Moroccan police arrested 7 “Salafite Jihadists” believed to be linked to al Qaeda in the Maghrebin the city of Meknes. Explosives were also reported to have been confiscated during the raid.
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al Qaeda in Iraq leader al-Masri capture reports incorrect
Abu Ayyub al-Masri, from a video found last year. Click to view. Iraqis back off the claim, U.S. denies he is in custody, as does al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq Last evening’s reports of the capture of al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri appear to be incorrect. Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the spokesman for the Interior Ministry, initially reported al-Masri was wounded in a gunfight, and an aide was killed while trying to enter the city of Balad. Khalaf has since pulled back from this claim, while the deputy interior minister said the information could not be…
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Pakistan
Peshawar police traced the recent suicide bombing in the city back to Baitullah Mehsud. The Islamabad airport bombing is traced to the Amjad Farooqi group, which is a subset of al Qaeda linked Jaish-e-Mohammad. Amjad Farooqi was “linked to suicide bombings, hijackings, the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl and assassination attempts on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf” before he was killed. Two Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists were arrested in Rawalpindi, and are linked back to Waziristan.
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Somalia
Mortar and rocket attacks killed 1 and wounded 10 in Mogadishu. The interior minister blamed the Islamic Courts for the rash of attacks. Kenya released two ICU linked businessmen.
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Pakistan
2 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists arrested
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al Qaeda in Iraq Leader al-Masri reported wounded; aide killed
Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Reports are unconfirmed; US military is silent; aide may be the chief of al Qaeda’s security detail Iraqi and Coalition forces may have gotten a lucky break in the hunt for the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. CNN is reporting, based on a source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry, that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been wounded in a firefight on a road somewhere between Fallujah and Samarra. Al-Masri and his security detail are said to have been entering the city of Balad. Al-Masri’s aide is identified as Abu Abdullah al-Majamiai.…
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Afghanistan
Bush Says US and NATO Ready to Block Taliban Effort
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Indonesia
(Indonesia) Former Militia Leader Warns Jihad Could Start Outside Poso
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Al Qaeda
Canada court says bin Laden employee can be freed
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Afghanistan
The Afghan government wants to negotiate with the Taliban in Musa Qala to get them to leave without fighting. Afghan security forces captured Taliban commander Mullah Duad Trabi in Khost. A rocket attack forced 2 USAID workers to leave the Kajaki Dam project in Helmand.
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Iraq
Police in Iraq see jump in recruits
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Iraq
The Iraqi Army killed 1 member of the Mahdi Army and detained 4 in operations in Baghdad. Sadr is in Iran, according to a Maliki aide. He left without telling his own lieutenants, many whom left to prevent being targeted in the Baghdad crackdown. The Iraqi courts convicted a Syrian intel officer of arming foreign terrorists. MG Caldwell went on the record about Iran supplying weapons to insurgents.
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Iraq
Ahl al-Bayt Brigades Posts Video Showing Abducted US Army Sergeant Ahmed Qusai Al-Taie
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Al Qaeda
Murder in the Maghreb
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Al Qaeda
al Qaeda wants US oil sources hit
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Afghanistan
Missiles drive US staff from Kajaki dam that Royal Marines fought to save
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Iraq
Iraqi government adviser says al-Sadr in Iran
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Somalia
Mortars hit Mogadishu camp, residential area
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Palestinian Territories
Palestinian Islamic Jihad fires two mortars at Israeli settlement
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Lebanon
Thousands rally in Lebanon in memory of Hariri
