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U.S. Airstrikes Continue in Southern Somalia
(Jan. 8, 2007) – An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the “Wildcats” of Strike Fighter Squadron One Three One (VFA-131) lands aboard the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Click image to view. Reports of al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed have yet to be confirmed The U.S. is continuing to pound Islamic Courts and al Qaeda targets in southern Somalia. Reuters reports four towns “in an area close to Ras Kamboni,” – Hayo, Garer, Bankajirow and Badmadowe – were struck by U.S. air assets. Ras Kamboni is the location of the al Qaeda and Islamic…
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Iraq
Over 1,000 Iraqi and U.S. forces are conducting an operation in Taleel Square in central Baghdad, and detained 15 insurgents in Haifa Street. The Iraqi Army detained an insurgent cell leader in Northern Baghdad, killed 3 insurgents in Baqubah, and is conducting an operation in Tahrir in north-central Iraq.
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Somalia
Will the US Win in Somalia?
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Downer shocks Saudis with extremist-mosque link
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Somalia
Britons held in Somali clash
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Iraq
Iraq policy: Less a surge than a squirt
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Philippines
Philippine Rangers killed Binang Sal, an Abu Sayyaf bomb expert, during fighting on Jolo Island. Khaddafy Janjalani, the leader of Abu Sayyaf, is alive, according to his brother & Philippine intelligence officers. The government downplays the threat of terrorist attacks on the ASEAN summit.
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Iran
A leader of the Basji claims Iran will block the Strait of Hormuz if the Iranian economy is threatened. The US has put sanctions on Bank Sepah, Iran’s fifth-largest state bank. The Arab nations fear Tehran’s influence in the Middle East, and wants US policy to counter this. The MEK terrorist group loses a court battle to be removed from the US terror list.
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Afghanistan
Sniper celebrates with cigar after killing Taliban officer
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Philippines
Islamic Suicide Cells in the Philippines
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Palestinian Territories
Hamas and Fatah gunmen clash in Gaza
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Algeria
GSPC leader refuses national reconciliation plan
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China
China says terror raid finds ties abroad
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Hezbollah
Hezbollah to step up protests
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Pakistan
Pakistan denies providing ‘covert assistance’ to the Taliban. Sixteen Taliban are arrested in Pashin. The US & Canada push Pakistan to reconsider mining the border, and Pakistan thinks twice. A look at the Taliban’s money men. A Pakistani from Waziristan recounts his path to become a suicide bomber.
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Iraqi Army goes on the offensive
Iraqi Army and U.S. conduct operations in Baghdad, Diyala, Yusifiyah as U.S. plans to announce a troop surge Iraq. Click map to view. As the United States prepares to ‘surge’ more troops in Iraq, about 20,000 to 30,000 American soldiers and Marines according to most press accounts, the Iraqi government announced over the weekend it was conducting its own operation to secure the city. The targets of the Iraqi led operation are said to be both Sunni insurgents and Shia militias. “Military commanders said operations against the al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia in its Sadr City stronghold would be left largely…
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China
Fresh Reports of Uighur Unrest in Xinjiang, China
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U.S. Helicopters Pound al Qaeda Targets in Southern Somalia
U.S. conducts second overt strike in Somalia, USS Eisenhower on station Satellite map of southern Somalia. Click image to view. As we noted yesterday, the AC-130 gunship attack on al Qaeda leaders in Somalia, followed by the movement of the Eisenhower carrier group from the Persian Gulf region to the Somali coast, indicated the U.S. entry into the fight in omalia was entering a new, active phase. Today, U.S. helicopters struck at al Qaeda targets in the southern tip of Somalia. The hunt for al-Qada and senior Islamic Courts leaders has expanded beyond Ras Kamboni. While the location of the…
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The Pakistani Taliban Org Chart
A look at the most influential Pakistani Taliban, Uzbek and Arab leaders in North and South Waziristan Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas Since the fall of North and South Waziristan during the spring and summer of 2006, the Pakistani Taliban, along with affiliated al Qaeda, Uzbek and Arab groups have built a powerful organization in the northwestern tribal belt of Pakistan. This influence has now spread beyond the tribal agencies of North and South Waziristan, and Taliban control has engulfed many of the districts in the Northwest Frontier Province. The Pakistani government has chosen to negotiate…
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Somalia
America™s Boots on the Ground in Somalia
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Jordan
Jordan killed al Qaeda suspected of plotting massive attack
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Somalia
Foreigners captured, wounded in Somalia: Zenawi
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Afghanistan
Crackshot kills, suicide bombs and surviving two bullets everyday Afghan tales
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Afghanistan
US outpost takes fight to the Taliban
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Iraq
Dead US Soldier in Anti-War Video ‘Alive and Well’
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Somalia
Ethiopia versus the Islamists – What the US military has been up to in the Horn of Africa.
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Somalia
US intelligence quietly backed Ethiopia in war against Somalia
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U.S. Gunship fires on al Qaeda Leader and Operative in Somalia
An AC-130 fires on wanted al Qaeda leader and a ringeader of the 1998 U.S. Embasy bombings in Kenya & Tanzania The United States forces of Combine Joint Task Force Horn of Africa based out of Djibouti have actively weighed in on the fighting in Somalia. CBS News reports an AC-130 gunship has struck at al Qaeda’s command cell in Somalia. The targets were described as “the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an al Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa.” Abu Taha al-Sudani (or Tariq Abdullah) is…
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Iraq
Regimental Combat Team 5 Welcomes Army Battalion
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Al Qaeda
A Message from a Muslim in Waziristan Calling for Financial Support, Presented by al-Fajr Information Center
