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Kashmir
Security forces kill seven guerrillas in Kashmir
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Sudan
Sudan masses its troops for a decisive strike on Darfur
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Al Qaeda
al Qaeda is winning the war of ideas, says Reid
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Somalia
TFG troops take control of Burhakaba after clashing with the ICU, and possibly Ethiopian troops. In Jawil on the Ethiopian border, the ICU has set up shop. Women have been banned from swimming at the main beach in Mogadishu.
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Iraq
18 Killed In Iraqi Sectarian Violence
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Iraq
Senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader and facilitator in Ramadi killed, 7 captured
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Gaza City: Security Men Block Road to Abbas House
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Somalia
Somalia: Islamic Court Bans Women From Mogadishu Beach
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Iraq
Baghdad: Suicide blast kills holiday shoppers
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Palestinian Territories
‘Gunmen’ fire on Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Haniyeh’s motorcade
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Mahdi Army, Iraqi Police Clash in Suwayra
Sadr’s attacks coincide with al Qaeda bombing, media campaigns and ‘marches’ in western Iraq. Shades of the Fall of 2004… The Iraqi Army in Amara. One day after the Mahdi Army attacked police stations in Amara and were beaten back by Iraqi Army and police units, Sadr’s militia struck again in the town of Suwayra, a town about 30 miles south of Baghdad. AFP reports “some 150 Mahdi Army militiamen armed with AK-47 assault rifles attacked a police station in the Tigris town… eight gunmen died and two civilians were wounded.” Sadr’s claims that there are elements of his militia…
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al Qaeda’s “Working Paper for a Media Invasion of America” – the Media Responds
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Afghanistan
France reviewing Afghanistan deployment: minister
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s stability lies with Pakistan
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A New Terrorist Haven
In the October 30th issue of The Weekly Standard, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of the Counterterrorsim Blog and I have an article on the rise of the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia. The article is reprinted in full below. A New Terrorist Haven The frightening advance of Islamists in Somalia. by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Bill Roggio 10/30/2006, Volume 012, Issue 07 Islamic Court Militia cheers during the handing over of weapons by the rivall militia in Mogadishu, Thursday, July 13, 2006. (AP Photo / Mohamed Sheikh Nor.) Click image to view. WHEN FIGHTERS from the radical Islamic Courts Union (ICU) seized Mogadishu,…
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Chavez’s anti-US voice rings hollow in U.N. vote
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Iraq
Propaganda Week: The “Ministry of Information in the Islamic State of Iraq” issued a press release on the Friday bombings in Baghdad. al Qaeda in Iraq’s shadow government does not control territory. al Qaeda conducted mini-marches in Haditha, Haqlaniyah, Anah and Bani Daher on Friday. According to an intelligence source, the al Qaeda demonstrators took heavy casualties after their march in Ramadi.
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Iraq
Top US Commander in D.C. for Talks Amid Iraq Concerns
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Sri Lanka says 20 rebels die in sea battle
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Pakistan
Bomb blast kills in Peshawar, Pakistan 7, wounds dozens
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Iraq
Mecca meeting seeks end to Iraq sectarian violence in Iraq
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Iraq
(Iraq) Me in the new Islamic State!
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Philippines
The Filipino Army is throwing 3 extra battalions, about 1,500 men, into the fight against Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah on Jolo Island. This raises the number to 7,500 troops. JI peratives Dulmatin and Umar Patek have been spotted on Jolo. Dulmatin’s wife will be deported to Indonesia. Four captives escaped from their Muslim kidnappers on Jolo.
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Iran
Israel must go, says Iranian President
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Iraqi Army, Sadr’s Mahdi Army Battle in Amara
Sadr’s Mahdi Army must be reined in Sheikh Mazen Saedi, Muqtada al-Sadr’s aide in Baghdad. Photo from AFP. Click image to view. Sadr’s Mahdi Army attacked Iraqi police in Amara “after police arrested a member of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia on suspicion of killing a local intelligence officer in a bomb attack,” reports AFP. The Associate Press claims the city is fully under the control of the Mahdi Army of “800 black-clad militiamen with Kalashnikovs.” This has not been confirmed by the Iraqi government. {Note: the report is updated to state “The Shiite militia run by the…
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CNN plays terrorist sniper video
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United States
House Intel Chair Suspends Staff Member for Leaking a National Intelligence Estimate to The New York Times
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North Korea
US tracking N. Korean ship with banned military equipment
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Hezbollah
Cluster Weapons Used by Hezbollah
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Palestinian Territories
Abbas to Form New Government in West Bank, Gaza Strip
