Mujahideen Brigades of Eritrea Issue a Video of Ambushing an Enemy Supply Vehicle, and Photographs of Somali Martyrs

Iraq wants U.N. Security Council mandate

(Israel) Olmert ready to free prisoners, proposes peace

Slaughter in the mosque: a new terror for Iraqis

French secret service agent killed in Iraq

Mortar attack sparks fire at an Iraqi oil facility

Afghanistan may destabilise Pakistan, India – Armitage

Sudan ‘rearming militia’ (the Janjaweed)

Shura member Mullah Ami claims Mullah Omar is leading the Taliban from Afghanistan and that the Taliban control “80 percent areas of over seven Afghan provinces.” A look at the Taliban operating from Baluchistan and Mujahideen Shura. The Taliban said it released two Pakistani reporters. Two NATO soldiers were killed in a suicide strike in Kandahar.

News reports that 4 mosques were burned and 6 Sunnis were dragged from a mosque and burned are either unconfirmed or false. The Iraqi Police Captain quoted is not authorized to speak to the media, and is being tracked by the Coalition (more). Reports of civilian deaths and the leveling of a neighborhood block are suspect.

38 killed in Iranian military plane crash

Abu Sayyaf field commander captured in Zamboanga Peninsula

Mashaal backed off of a threat to initiate the third intifada. PM Olmert may present a diplomatic initiative to the Palestinian government (Hamas). The IDF killed 2 two ‘armed Palestinians’ and arrested 15 in the West Bank.

Why Moqtada al-Sadr may end up deciding America’s fate in Iraq

Military plane carrying IRGC members crashes in Tehran

Iraq Study Group Weighs Overture to Iran and Syria

Baghdad Fearful – Some signs of cohesiveness as Shiites provide shelter to Sunnis

Nato urges end of right to opt out of Afghanistan combat

Suicide bomber hits NATO troops in Afghan south

Rift Over Afghan Mission Looms for NATO

Four Thais, including two soldiers, were murdered by by Muslim insurgents on motorbikes. The Thai government will lift martial law in all provinces but seven, including the three Muslim provinces on the Malaysian border.

The Islamic Courts has “dispatched thousands of troops Sunday to within 15 kilometers” of the Ethiopian border. The ICU rallied in the border town of Abudwaq, and has banned weapons. Over 3,000 TFG cadet graduates have been deployed in Baidoa.

Jonathan Chait: Bring back Saddam Hussein

(Iraq) Joint Operation Detains 10, seizes cache near Euphrates

Russian security services killed the Chechen al Qaeda leader in neighboring Dagestan Abu Hafs al-Urduni Click image to view. The Russian government has made significant progress against the Chechen branch of al Qaeda over the past year. Today, Russian’s Federal Security Services killed Abu Hafs, al Qaeda in Chechnya’s commander, during a raid on a safe house in the neighboring state of Dagestan, along with four associates. Abu Haf’s death follows that of Shamil Basayev, the leader of the Chechen jihad, along with much of his senior staff. Since his death, almost 350 Chechen terrorist have surrendered and accepted reconcilliation.…

The Taliban are holding two well known Pakistani journalists: Syed Saleem Shahzad and Qamar Yousafzai. The government is monitoring Afghan ‘prayer leaders’ in the NWFP. This is part of Pakistan’s attempt to shift the blame for the Taliban on Afghanistan.

Army Expands Training for Advisers Who Will Try to Improve Iraq™s Security Forces
