Ali Mohamed, al Qaeda’s secret agent

Blurring of enemy lines

Latest al Qaeda tape made France a target: report

RP peace negotiator says MILF making unacceptable demand

Over 50 Taliban an 8 Afghan police were killed in battles across Afghanistan. Poland will send 1,000 troops to boost the NATO mission, while Latvia will send an additional 20. An aerial photograph of over 190 Taliban gathering at a funeral and the failure to strike calls the rules of engagement into question.

US counterterrorism work stumbles in Somalia

Operation Together Forward moves into several Baghdad neighborhoods over the past week Map of Baghdad operations. Click map to view. Iraqi and Coalition forces continue to clear Baghdad’s’ neighborhoods under Operation Together Forward. Over the last week, five neighborhoods have been the focus of the joint effort: Bakriya (East Monsour), Rusafa, Risala and Khadra in the southwestern sector of the city, and, surprisingly, Sadr City, the stronghold of Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Iranian backed cleric. The 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team is the tip of the spear for the clearing operations in Baghdad. The 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment of…

Nasrallah: No demilitarized area, Israel lying

Amnesty faults Hizbullah’s ‘war crimes’

Reservist generals to call on IDF chief to resign

50 Taliban, 8 policemen dead in Afghanistan

14 Taliban arrested in raid on Quetta hospital

Editor of Kuwaiti Daily: ‘Fighting Terrorism Should Not Be the Concern of Only the US – We Need an International Alliance to Combat This Phenomenon’

An EU official reports the army of the Islamic Courts is marching on the southern port city of Kismayo. The head of the Juba Valley Coalition denies the ICU is marching on the city. The African Union “will endorse an ambitious peacekeeping force for Somalia.”

Documenting the Taliban’s rise to power in Waziristan and beyond over the course of 2006 and 2007

Five militants, collaborators voluntarily surrender in Chechnya

Chechen al Qaeda commander Doku Umarov said he will continue the insurgency. Five Chechen fighters have surrendered over the past 24 hours. One policeman and 3 unidentified gunmen were killed when the gunmen attempted to cross the border from Chechnya into Ingushetia.

Terror Cells Tracked in Palestinian Territories

Federalism Plan Dead, Says Iraqi Speaker

Swedish troops come under fire in Afghanistan

Jund al-Sham most active in Syria

Baghdad death squads kill 60, bombs kill 22

Leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Tahir Yuldashev threatens presidents Karimov, Bakiyev, and Rakhmonov

Taliban could spark Pashtun ‘national war’

An al Qaeda cell was plotting to blow up a the main synagogue and other targets in Oslo, Norway. The cell was made up of Algerian GSPC, which is essentially al Qaeda’s organization in Africa.

Initial report of Hekmatyar’s capture was a case of mistaken identity On 9-11, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported “the commander of the Hizb-i-Islami militia in Hafezan in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, was arrested after credible intelligence led Afghan and coalition forces to his compound.” An independent intelligence source confirmed the initial report, which led to my post on this matter, however a subsequent identification by fingerprinting indicates the person in question is not Hekmatyar. The captured suspect is a high level commander in Hezb-i-Islami, and is said to be a dead ringer for Hekmatyar. The misidentification of terrorist commanders…

Canadians near mop-up phase for Afghan operation

President Musharraf says the West responsible for extremism, and the “centre of gravity of terrorism has shifted from Al Qaeda to the Taliban.” NWFP Governor Orakzai, the man who orchestrated the Waziristan surrender, says the US military is not needed to track Osama bin Laden. Security around US diplomatic missions has been increased.
