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Iraq
Iraq: Samarra Bombing Set Off Year Of Violence
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Iraq
Suicide Truck Bombing in Baghdad Kills 15
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Afghanistan
Insurgents set deadly sights on Afghan dam
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Algeria
al Qaeda in the Maghreb (formerly the GSPC) has claimed responsibility for 7 coordinated attacks on police, which killed 6 and wounded 30. The attack comes as concern in Europe increases over the spread of al Qaeda in North Africa.
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Sudan
Darfur rebels say govt attacks as peace envoys visit
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North Korea
North Korea has agreed “to shut down its main nuclear reactor and eventually dismantle its atomic weapons program” in exchange for 1 million tons of fuel oil. “The United States will also begin the process of removing North Korea from its designation as a terror-sponsoring state and also on ending U.S. trade sanctions.”
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Iraq
Iraq will close the Iranian and Syrian borders for 72 hours. Coalition and Iraqi forces detained an al Qaeda “military planner” and 14 terrorists throughout Iraq. US force and the Iraqi Army detained 10 insurgents in Mosul, and another 10 in Al Haswah. 934 Iraqi soldiers graduated from training in Habbaniyah, which is one of 7 training facilities.
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Lebanon
Three were killed and 20 wounded after bombs ripped through two buses in a Christian village. “”Banana-shaped’ bombs weighed between four and seven pounds” and “were packed with metal pellets and placed under seats,” said security officials. “The blasts were minutes apart.”
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Iran
Anxiety grows on Iran’s eastern border – Rumours grow over Iranian interest in Taliban heartlands of southern Afghanistan and tribal regions of Pakistan
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Afghanistan
The Taliban have taken the Helmand district of Washir, while an attack on the Kajaki dam was repulsed. 22 Taliban were killed during the fighting. The Taliban is implementing IED tactics. Norway will send 150 special forces, but to Kabul.
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Iranian sniper rifles in the hands of Iraqi insurgents
The Telegraph reports a large quantity of Austrian made .50 caliber sniper rifles were seized in Baghdad The Steyr HS50 sniper rifle. Click photo to view. On the heals of a U.S. military presentation which provided evidence of Iranian made Explosively formed projectiles, mortars and other weapons being supplied to to Iraqi terrorists, as well as evidence of Iranian Qods Force operatives captured in Iraq, The Telegraph reports a significant quantity of Iranian owned sniper rifles have been seized in Iraq. Over twelve percent of Iran’s Steyr HS50 sniper rifles purchased by the “National Iranian Police Organisation” in 2005 have…
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Iraq
Policing Iraq’s Police
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Somalia
Somali Islamists seek refuge in Yemen
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Al Qaeda
First Attack by Al Qaeda in Japan?
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Hezbollah
$5 million US reward for Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad suspects
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North Korea
North Korea nuclear accord advances
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Al Qaeda
A new tape by Ayman al-Zawahiri, his third this year, is expected to be released on the internet shortly. The tape is titled “Lessons, Examples and Great Events in the Year 1427 [2006].” LTG Eikenberry said the trail for Osama and Zawahiri “has gone cold.”
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Somalia
Several Somalis were killed an wounded after the presidential compound was mortared, and stray rounds hit civilian neighborhoods. Islamists attacked the home of the commerce minister. A curfew has been put in place in Kismayo after a bomb atack yesterday. The parliament passed a new ant-terrorism law.
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Radio Schedule
I’ll be on the radio at Monday, February 12 at 8:40 pm Eastern on The World Tonight with Rob Breakenridge. The topics will be Iraq and the bombings today in Baghdad. To listen online, visit the AM 770 website CHQR and click LISTEN LIVE.
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Palestinian Territories
Palestinian Authority PM Haniyeh wants West to restore aid
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Al Qaeda
al Qaeda threat growing in sub-Saharan Africa
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Afghanistan
Six Taliban were killed and 12 captured, while five police were killed during fighting in Helmand and Zabul provinces. The US claimed it killed a Taliban commander, but the Taliban spokesman said Helmand commander Mullah Abdel Hanan survived the attack. A Canadian Senate report said Canada should reconsider its mission if NATO does not up its support.
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Israel
Missile Defense Works (Again)
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Iraq
Iraqi army capture 43 terrorists
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Iraq
Italy foils ‘arms for Iraq plot’
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Iran
Iran denied supplying Iraqi groups with weapons. The slides of evidence from the briefing can be seen at the BBC. The European Union agreed on Iran sanctions, but is willing to conduct further negotiations. An Iranian general claims Iran is mass-producing stealth drones.
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Baghdad bombings, al Qaeda and the insurgency
The National Intelligence Estimate gets it wrong A map of the Sunni Islamic State from an al Qaeda video. Image from MEMRI. A pair of bombs ripped through a predominately Shia market in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 80 and wounding hundreds. While no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the likely culprit is al Qaeda in Iraq. In an effort to dissociate itself as a force promoting civil war and sectarian violence, al Qaeda has ceased to claim credit for brutal attacks against Shia. But it hasn’t ceased the attacks. Today’s bombings in Baghdad bear the hallmarks of…
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Iraq
Bombs Kill at Least 80 People in Iraq
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Philippines
Troops kill four militants in the Philippines
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Pakistan
Beards to stay in Bajaur
