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Suicide bombing at Islamabad airport
Baitullah Mehsud, covered, signs the South Waziristan peace agreement in 2005. (BBC Urdu Edition) Click photo to view. Another suicide bombing in the capital confirms a suicide campaign is underway; Prime Minister Aziz may have been the target Pakistan has been hit with its sixth targeted bombing in less than two weeks. Today’s attack was conducted at the airport in the capital of Islamabad. A suicide bomber detonated his vest in a parking lot after a security guard chased him. “The bomber was stopped in a car just outside the airport and ran into the airport’s car park after police…
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Islamic Terror in Bosnia and Kosovo
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Afghanistan
Dutch hand over “Taliban leader”
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United Kingdom
(UK) Extremist video uncovered
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Al Qaeda
Spanish authorities arrested Mbark El Jaafari, a Moroccan with links to al Qaeda and GSPC (now al Qaeda in the Maghreb) who recruited suicide bombers for Iraq, in Catalonia. al Qaeda linked Jaish-i-Mohamed, a Pakistani terrorist group, “has made Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia its principle European base” and “sought jihadi recruits in Spanish mosques.”
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Pakistan
Police battled with ‘militants’ after they attacked an NGO in Bannu. The Taliban supporting MMA political party said they will not allow Musharraf to end the jihad in Kashmir.
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Pakistan
Musa Qala still in Taliban control
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Iraq
The US military said an Iraqi lawmaker is responsible for the French and US embassies in Kuwait in 2003, and is backed by the Iranian Qods Force. Two members of Sadr’s Mahdi Army have been killed over the past week. An Iranian diplomat was kidnapped in Baghdad. An al Qaeda cell leader was captured; three members were killed, and 26 suspects were detained.
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France
Police confirm 13 PKK arrests and say operations ongoing
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Iran
‘Iran to test new uranium enrichment plant soon™
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia to boost fuel supply to US forces in Gulf
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Somalia
No al Qaeda have been found in the aftermath of US airstrikes. Ayro is believed to have survived, and Aweys and Turki are believed to be operating along the Kenyan border. Yemen has granted Sharif Ahmed asylum. Government forces were ambushed in central Somalia. A reconciliation meeting was held in Mogadishu.
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Afghanistan
NATO drops fliers calling on Taliban to abandon southern Afghan town
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Afghanistan
NATO commanders expect to fight a robust insurgency in coming weeks
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Yemen
Clashes with Shiite rebels in Yemen kill 42
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Somalia
Our World: The waning of American will
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Palestinian Territories
Alongside Its Islamist Ideology, Hamas Presents Pragmatic Positions
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Pakistani Army to conduct offensive in Waziristan?
Pakistan’s Daily Times reports Pakistani security services plan on offensive in North and South Waziristan. Baitullah Mehsud is a target. NWFP/FATA. Click map to view. Since the secret signing of the South Waziristan agreement that ceded control of the agency to the Taliban in the spring of 2006, and the subsequent signing of the ‘Waziristan Accord’ which also turned over control of North Wazirstan to the terrorists in the summer of 2006, the security situation in the Northwest Frontier province and beyond has dramatically deteriorated. The Pakistani government believed it could deter the Taliban and confine al Qaeda to the…
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Al Qaeda
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, al Qaeda’s East Africa operations chief who fled Somalia after the fall of the Islamic Courts, is believed to be hiding in Madagascar. Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law and al Qaeda financier, was killed by Task Force 145 in Madagascar last week, and his laptop was seized, perhaps providing the link to Fazul.
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United Kingdom
(UK) Woman hurt as letter bomb explodes in office
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Iraq
US-Iraqi coalition readies offensive
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Iran
What™s Our Iran Policy?
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India
Four JeM terrorists held in Delhi
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Iraq
“A Conquest from Allah and an Imminent Victory”
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Iraq
US officers said the Baghdad offensive will commence shortly and will be unprecedented in size and scope. Iraqi police took control of Kirkuk after 7 car bombs killed 3 and wounded 22. US forces killed a Sadr lieutenant in Baquba.
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Iraqi Security Forces Order Of Battle
Progression of Iraqi Army units ‘in the lead’ as of December 2006. Map courtesy of MNF-Iraq. Click map to view. The Fourth Rail is pleased to publish the first release of the Iraqi Security Forces Order Of Battle. The ISF OOB is based on open source information. We believe this document is a good representation of the structure of the Iraqi Security Forces. The OOB will be updated and published on a monthly basis. The Iraqi Security Forces Order Of Battle was compiled and written by DJ Elliott, who retired after 22 years as an Intelligence Specialist in the U.S.…
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Writer Recasts Kingdom’s History
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Iraq
After Deadly Blast in Iraq, Shiites Assail US Policy
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Iraq
US To Change Helicopter Tactics In Iraq
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Iran
Iran official says no plans to halt atomic work
