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Nuclear terrorism risk seen growing
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Iran
US SecDef Gates said solid evidence exists Iran is supplying IEDs to the insurgency in Iraq. Iran plans celebrations on Sunday for its nuclear program. The chief Iranian negotiator canceled his meeting in Europe “due to illness.”
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Palestinian Territories
Hamas and Fatah agree on the creation of a unity government. Hamas wants the West to accept the government, but refuses to recognize Israel. Israeli police quell rioters at the Al Aqsa mosque. Israeli officials blame Egypt for arms smuggling into Gaza.
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Iraq
Shiite District, Flash Point in Baghdad, Rebuilds
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France
Paris court takes up Muslim cartoon case
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Hezbollah
Hezbollah says seized truck belongs to resistance
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Al Qaeda
al Qaeda in Saudi Arabian released the jihadi propaganda monthly “Voice of Jihad”, where it calls for the attack on oil infrastructure world wide. An aide to al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri was captured in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad.
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Iraq
Aux armes citoyens
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Somalia
Friends of Somalia Brigades Reports Attacks on American and Ethiopian Targets, Somali Presidential Quarters
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Afghanistan
Spain to send more armour to Afghanistan
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Philippines
House fails to ratify anti-terror bill
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Iraq
New Weapon Targeting Copters?
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Palestinian Territories
Palestinians reach deal on unity government
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North Korea
North Korea Nuke Talks Resume on Positive Note
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Afghanistan
Afghan forces detained 8 ‘terrorists who confessed to a string of killings in the southern city of Kandahar,’ while two Taliban were killed in a battle in Zabul. A senior defense official said NATO must launch an offensive against the Taliban. “It will be a bloody spring,” according to Said Jawad, the US ambassador to Afghanistan.
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Iraq
US troops open Joint Security Station in Doura
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United Kingdom
Muslim preacher who barracked Reid arrested
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Pakistan
The Taliban bombed a children’s relief agency in the NWFP and attacked a social welfare office in South Waziristan. An Intelligence Bureau inspector was gunned down in Darra Adamkhel. NATO considers deploying 2,000 troops to the Pakistani border. “Four more militant suspects from the NWFP” were detained for suspicion in involvement in wave of suicide attacks.
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Somalia
Somalia deported 39 Islamists, including the wife of Fazul Mohammed, to Ethiopia for interrogation. Yemeni newspapers claim the US is negotiating for the release of 15 US prisoners. Three Islamist insurgents were captured in Mogadishu, along with a huge cache of explosives, while 3 civilians were killed and 10 wounded during a wave of bombings in the capital.
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Iran
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said “any invasion would be followed by a comprehensive reaction to the invaders and their interests all over the world.” Iran arrested over 100 “on espionage charges working for the United States and Israel.” Iran is conducting military exercises in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.
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Thailand
Trends in Thailand’s Insurgency in Early 2007
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Iraq
Enemy doubles IED use in Iraq
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Iraq
Iraqi Special forces arrested “a senior Ministry of Health official… who is suspected of being a central figure in alleged corruption and rogue Jaysh Al-Mahdi infiltration” of the health ministry. Iraqi papers claim the al Qaeda anti-aircraft cells possess Strelas, and the NY Times reports a civilian helo was downed south of Baghdad on January 31st. A Coalition airstrike killed 13 insurgents in Amiriya.
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Lebanon
Lebanese and Israeli troops clash
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Iran
Iran starts military drill in the Gulf and Sea of Oman
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Qatar
Qatar panel to combat terror
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Iraq
Surging
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Deploying the The Snake Eater in Khalidaya
A much needed biometric technology is brought to the battlefield in Khalidaya The Snake Eater in action. Click photo to view. In the middle of January, I embedded with the joint U.S. Marine and U.S. Army Military Transition Team based in Khalidaya in Anbar province. The MTT was then commanded by Major Owen West. Major West’s greatest criticisms of the war effort is our failure to recognize the nature of the insurgency, which in many parts of Iraq is fought by applying what he calls “heavy police tactics,” and our failure in applying the right tools to deal with the…
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al Qaeda’s anti-aircraft squads
al Qaeda in Iraq is believed to be operating Strela missile teams, courtesy of Iran An AH-64 Apache. Click photo to view. The past three weeks has seen a dramatic increase in the downing of U.S. helicopters operating in central Iraq. Five helos have been shot down since January 20th, four U.S. Army helos and a civilian Blackwater helo. Twenty-six Americans have been killed in the five shoot-downs. The five helicopters lost represents ten percent of all such aircraft lost since Operation Iraqi Freedom began, with fifty total lost. The timing and increase in downed helos is no accident, American…
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Iraq
Row between US, Egypt over al-Zawra, Iraq’s insurgency TV
