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Morocco
The king of Morocco “removed a senior security officer from his position, following the exposure of an Islamist plot to infiltrate the police and armed forces.” MERIA looks at “the Islamization of the political sphere, the continuation of the authoritarian status quo, and accelerated evolution towards democracy.”
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Indonesia
Jemaah Islamiah detainees released
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Maghreb Regimes Scenarios
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Egypt
The Islamization of Egypt
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Egypt
FBI helping Egypt in hunt for al Qaeda
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Philippines
Australia to train RP troops in Mindanao
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Iraq
Briefing with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Barham Salih
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Somalia
Talibizing Somalia
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United Kingdom
UK terror suspect ‘happy’ over 9/11
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Iraq
Fifty more bodies found in Baghdad
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France
Suspected international terrorist is deported to France
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Al Qaeda
GSPC: Al Qaeda’s “New” Ally
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Iraq
In a Volatile Region of Iraq, US Military Takes Two Paths
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Yemen
“Suicide bombers tried to strike two oil facilities in Yemen with explosives packed cars, but authorities foiled the attacks and at least two bombers were killed.” Four suicide vehicles were used.
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Pakistan
A low level government official is kidnapped in North Waziristan by “masked gunmen.” A journalist was shot and killed in Dera Ismail Khan.
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Turkey
(Turkey) Detained PKK Leader Released
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Al Qaeda
GSPC (the Algerian based Salafist Group for Call and Combat) has pledged allegiance to al Qaeda. Global Crisis Watch has the video and an analysis. A GSPC cell recently was disrupted while plotting to destroy the main synagogue and other targets in Oslo, Norway.
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Al Qaeda
The Martyr’s Wedding – TV show about a young man is being symbolically wed to the ‘virgin’ that awaits him in heaven
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Hezbollah
Hezbollah ‘still in south Lebanon’
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Sudan
Rebels say they may abandon Darfur pact, fight on
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Afghanistan
NATO fears new front in Afghanistan – Farah Province
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Senior al Qaeda Leader Killed, Another Captured
Task Force 145, the group tasked with hunting al Qaeda in Iraq, has been busy in Baghdad al Qaeda in Iraq’s Mujahideen Shura. The Iraqi Interior Ministry has announced the death of Abu Jaafar al-Liby, a senior al Qaeda commander during a raid in Baghdad. Four other terrorists were killed and two captured during the operation. Al-Liby’s stature within al Qaeda in Iraq will be immediately called in question as the Interior Ministry has stated he is the second in command of the organization. The Associated Press describes al-Liby as follows: Al-Liby had been in charge of the Baghdad sector…
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Iraq
U.S. forces raid a Sadr office in Diwaniya, the scene of a battle between the Iraqi Army and Mahdi Army last month. The Iraqi Interior Ministry states a high level al Qaeda commander Abu Jaafar al-Liby has been killed, and Coalition forces state another unnamed member has been captured.
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Philippines
The Army claims Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah ‘Terrorists [are] trapped in mountains’ in Sulu. Brigadier General Juancho Sabban said JI leader Umar Patek “died from the wounds he suffered” in battle. Chief General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. says there is “no evidence to verify the info that Patek and Janjalani have been killed.”
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Al Qaeda
al Qaeda’s pointman in Lebanon: Abu Rushd al-Miqati
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Pakistan
Fourteen Taliban were arrested in raid on a hospital in Quetta. A Pakistani official says the ‘Waziristan pact won™t stop surgical strikes™ against al Qaeda. Alexis Debat discusses the powerful Al Qaeda-Taliban network in Waziristan.
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Somalia
Border tension between Somaliland, Puntland
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Israel
Israel general quits over Lebanon
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Algeria
GSPC™s Judge killed in Sidi Ali Bounab
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United States
US faces home-grown attack threat, experts say
