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Iran
Iran’s Top Nuclear Negotiator Says Tehran May Lessen Cooperation With IAEA
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Iraq
Iraq: Reinstating Ba’athists Expected To Help Reconciliation
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United States
Democrats May Urge More Contact With US Adversaries
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Thailand
Buddhists flee from Muslim majority villages in Southern Thailand
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United Kingdom
British Muslim leaders dismiss radicalisation claims
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Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda May Be Plotting Holiday Attacks
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Dutch to ban Muslim veils
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Al Qaeda
Terror group ‘may tap into jihad’
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Palestinian Territories
Palestinian PM offers to resign
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Iran
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says U.S. midterm elections are “in fact a landmark victory of the Iranian nation.” Israel indicates it may strike Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Iran has bought SCUD missiles from North Korea and now “is able to provide its missile system to friendly nations that need it”.
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Pakistan
UK’s ‘serious’ terror threat linked to Pakistan
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India
6 killed and over 50 injured in mosque bombing in Srinagar
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United Kingdom
British officials track almost 30 terror plots
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Iraq
German president urges Europe to do more for Iraq
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Iraq
Marine to Receive Medal of Honor for Heroism in Iraq
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The al-Masri Victory Speech
Al-Masri declares victory in Iraq, Iraqi Army strikes at al Qaeda leader in Rawah Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Al-Qaeda in Iraq has weighed in on the U.S. midterm elections. Abu Ayyub al-Masri (a.k.a. Abu Hamza al-Muhajir), the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, has released an audiotape. In the tape, al-Masri praised the results of the midterm election, threatened continual attacks against the United States and Israel, declared allegiance to the Iraqi leader of the Mujahideen Shura, and devoted a large force to fight under his banner. “The al-Qaida army has 12,000 fighters in Iraq, and they have vowed to die…
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Iran
Orwellian censorship
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Dargai and AQAM
More on the Dargai suicide attack, and the role of AQAM A wounded Pakistani soldier from the Dargai suicide attack. Click image to view. The toll in the suicide attack on Pakistani Army recruits in Dargai in the Northwest Frontier Province has risen to 45 soldiers killed and wounded 20. Pakistani investigators are hunting for a second suspect, who was spotted near the scene of the bombing. It is likely he was a second suicide bomber. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf lashed out against the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, the Islamist political party that supports the Taliban and al Qaeda, for their role…
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Iraq
Conflict in Iraq: The sniper who shoots on video
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Karzai Discusses Worsening Security
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Rumsfeld Reaction: 4 Policy Battles That Could Shape Our Military
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CFR: Pakistan’s Tribal Areas
NWFP/FATA. Click map to view. Carin Zissis of the Council on Foreign Relations has written an overview of The Tribal Areas of Pakistan that is well worth a read. The article is an excellent primer on the history and politics of the region, Pakistan’s governance of the tribal areas, and the role of Islamist extremism. Ms. Zissis interviewed me for the article and I am quoted several times throughout the piece. One note: I suggested Pakistan needs to learn to fight the Taliban and al Qaeda insurgency ‘smarter’ and include economic and political benefits to support the pro-government elements in…
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Pakistan
Militants in Pakistan attack army convoy, wounding 5 soldiers
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Pakistan
Taliban fighters talk tactics – while safe in Pakistan
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Iraq
Mubarak warns against hanging Saddam
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Afghanistan
US surprised by strength of Taliban fightback
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Iraq
Bomb Attacks Kill at Least 16 in Baghdad
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Lebanon
Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace as France protests
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The Future of the Iraq Strategy
A change in strategy may be in order, but how much of a change will it be? Iraqi Army units ‘in the lead.’ Map courtesy of MNF-Iraq. Click map to view. The results of U.S. midterm elections will clearly have an impact on U.S. policy in Iraq. Less than one day after the Democrats took the House of Representative, and prior to the capture of the Senate, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tendered his resignation. President Bush immediately stepped up with an nomination for Rumsfeld’s replacement: Robert Gates, a former director of the CIA and a member of the Iraqi Study…
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Thailand
Muslim insurgents detonate 8 bombs simultaneously at car and motorcycle showrooms in southern Thailand, injuring 9. The Thai junta has lifted a ban on politcal assembly and may end martial law by November 18th.
