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Suicide attack planned on Wilders
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Pakistan
Musharraf calls for more Waziristan-like peace deals, and said FATA will merge with the NWFP. The ban on shaving beards has been extended throughout Bajaur, thanks to a Taliban decree. US General Eikenberry called for strikes against the Taliban in Pakistan and said the ISI is supporting the terrorists.
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Al Qaeda
Islamic State of Iraq Reprimands Media for Calling it “al Qaeda in Iraq”
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Iran
Analysis: Iran, ‘a very serious threat’
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United Arab Emirates
Radical Islamists Target the UAE
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Iran
Iran envoy Larijani visits Saudi for nuclear talks
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Iraq
Troops Sweep 3 Shiite Areas in Baghdad Push
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Al Qaeda
Mexico says oil installations secure after threat
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Philippines
Where US is helping to make gains against terrorism
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Spain
Spain on edge as Madrid train bomb trial begins
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Palestinian Territories
Crisis looms in PA as Abbas cancels Mecca Accord speech
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Iran
Iran Revolutionary Guards: Unit engraved emblem on US ship
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The NATO Winter Offensive in Afghanistan
NATO doesn’t wait for the Taliban’s spring offensive as the Taliban attempts to seize Helmand province, launches Operation Kryptonite Map of ISAF Mission in Afghanistan. Click to Enlarge. NATO forces and the Taliban aren’t waiting for the snows to melt in the mountain passes, and are battling it out in the southern province of Helmand. The Taliban openly assaulted the town of Musa Qala in late January, a region the British ceded over to the Taliban in November, and is said to be reinforcing battle positions by “digging trenches and laying mines”. Over 300 Taliban fighters are estimated to be…
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Afghanistan
Taliban leadership endures a heavy blow
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France
French judge warns of terror threat
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Somalia
The US has indicted an American for training and fighting along side al Qaeda and the islamic Courts in Somalia, and conspiring to use WMD [full indictment here]. In his latest speech Zawahiri supported terrorist attacks in Somalia and the continuation of the jihad.
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Afghanistan
Taliban flee battle using children as shields: NATO
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Iraq
France arrests 11 in Iraq recruitment probe
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The war in the shadows against Iran & Sadr
The remains of a bus destroyed in Zahedan, southeastern Iran. 18 IRGC soldiers were killed. (AP Photo). Click photo to view. A bomb killed 18 IRGC soldiers in Iran, Mahdi Army continues to be targeted While the U.S. military and intelligence proceeds cautiously on exposing Iran’s involvement in Iraq’s insurgency, and treads carefully on exposing Muqtada al-Sadr’s backing of the Shia death squads, a war is being fought in the shadows – a war which we only see glimpses of. The war has escalated enough that Muqtada al-Sadr has left Iraq for safe environs in Iran. Sadr’s aides claim he…
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Iran
A car bomb killed 18 Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps soldiers on a bus in southwestern Iran. The European Union is pessimistic about being able to deter Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
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Australia
(Australia) Secret new US spy base to get green light
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Iraq
PM Maliki announces the beginning of the Baghdad operation. Sadr aides insist he is in Iraq, the military disagrees. Iraqi Special Forces captured a Mahdi Army arms merchant / financier and a cell member in Baghdad. 27 al Qaeda were detained in Ramadi, Karma, and Baghdad. Jordanian intelligence helped defeat an al Qaeda in Iraq operation that was supported from Syria and Lebanon, killing 2 and capturing 1. The CH-46 was indeed shot down.
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Al Qaeda
Terror in the Maghreb – Al Qaeda linked groups are spreading from Algeria and Morocco into Tunisia.
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Pakistan
Officials Promoting Terrorism in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas
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Muqtada al-Sadr left Iraq, in Iran
Muqtada al-Sadr. Under pressure, the leader of the Mahdi Army fled to Iran Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Iranian backed leader of the Jaish al-Mahdi, or Mahdi Army, left Iraq several weeks ago and is staying with ‘family’ inside Iran, according to an ABC News report. Military officials told ABC News Sadr is said to have left Iraq just prior to the deployment of U.S. forces, and feared being targeted by U.S. Air Force.
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Al Qaeda
Ayman al-Zawahiri’s latest tape rails against President Bush and Muslim ‘collaborators’, calls the Democrats complicit, claims the U.S. is losing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and states the West is facing jihad “in Chechnya, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Somalia, Algeria, and everywhere the Crusaders and Zionists have desecrated the lands of Islam with their feet.”
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Al Qaeda
Zawahiri’s Call For Unity
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Iraq
Badgers Down: Starting to Move Forward
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Iraq
The Road To Hell
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Iraq
US details methods insurgents use to shoot down copters
