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Pakistan Grants Bail to Key Suspect in 2008 Mumbai Attacks
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Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Pakistani jihadist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaatud Dawa now active in Gaza
US transfers Taliban commander to Pakistani custody
Latif Mehsud and two others detained by US forces in Logar, Afghanistan in 2013 have been handed over to the Pakistani authorities.
United Kingdom
In a largely secret trial, Erol Incedal, a law student from London, was convicted of possessing a manual on how to make bombs. Incedal is thought to have been planning a Mumbai-type attack as well as targeting former prime minister Tony Blair, and faces retrial on those charges in 2015. Incedal’s co-defendant, Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, also […]
US airstrike targets al Qaeda in Syria
The US military’s airstrikes in Syria show that there is no firm dividing line between al Qaeda’s so-called Khorasan Group and the Al Nusrah Front, which is al Qaeda’s official branch in the country.
Pakistan objects to Pentagon report that mentions jihadist sanctuaries, use of terrorist proxies
Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs objected to a DoD report that notes the country remains a sanctuary for jihadist groups, some which are used as “proxy forces” against India and Afghanistan. But the report was soft on Pakistan.
Islamist foreign fighters returning home and the threat to Europe
Testimony to the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats on the threat posed by Islamist foreign fighters returning home to Europe.
US adds 2 Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders, several aliases to terrorism list
The Pakistan-based terror group continues to use aliases in an attempt to hide its operations in South Asia. The US also said LeT conducted a suicide assault in Afghanistan as recently as May 2014.
Afghanistan accuses Lashkar-e-Taiba, ‘foreign country,’ of suicide attack that targeted presidential candidate
President Karzai accused Lashkar-e-Taiba and the “intelligence agency of a foreign country” of the June 6 suicide attack that targeted Abdullah Abdullah.
9/11 recruiter reportedly freed in Syria
Mohammed Zammar, who recruited al Qaeda’s Hamburg cell, has reportedly been freed inside Syria. His freedom was negotiated by Ahrar al Sham, an al Qaeda-linked group.
Treasury Department identifies another Iran-based facilitator for al Qaeda
The Treasury Department confirmed today that the head of al Qaeda’s Iran-based network, known as Yasin al Suri, is operational once again. Treasury also designated an additional “associate” of al Suri’s.
Report: Senior al Qaeda facilitator ‘back on the street’ in Iran
Al Jazeera reports that Yasin al Suri, the head of al Qaeda’s Iran-based network, is facilitating the terror network’s operations from Iranian soil once again. Al Suri was detained by the Iranian government after the US government exposed his network, and the deal between Iran and al Qaeda, in 2011.
India
India – Dead, jailed terrorists still CBI’s most wanted
US drones kill 2 Shabaab operatives in southern Somalia
A senior explosives expert was one of two Shabaab members killed in the airstrike. Today’s drone strike is the second reported US raid this month targeting a top Shabaab leader.
Target of SEAL raid in Somalia tied to top al Qaeda leaders
Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir, a.ka. Ikrima, was associated with al Qaeda leaders Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, and communicates with al Qaeda’s general command in Pakistan. Ikrima was not killed in the SEAL assault.
Shabaab claims it ‘repelled’ raid by Western special operations forces
Shabaab claimed that its fighters stopped a Western-led nighttime raid from the sea in the costal town of Barawe. The US special operations forces killed a top al Qaeda and Shabaab leader in Barawe four years ago.
Al Qaeda
Global jihad: smoke signals from Mumbai to Nairobi
Shabaab suicide teams target civilians in assault on Kenyan mall
At least 59 people have been killed and over 150 wounded in the largest terrorist attack in Kenya since al Qaeda’s 1998 bombing of the US Embassy. The Shabaab assault teams singled out non-Muslims for execution. The attack is similar to Lashkar-e-Taiba’s assault on Mumbai in 2008.
India
Police are searching for Afzal Usmani, an operative from the banned terrorist group Indian Mujahideen, who escaped from detention in Mumbai. He is accused of involvement in the 2008 Ahmedabad bombings in which 56 people were killed and over 200 wounded.
Taliban confirm death of Badruddin Haqqani in drone strike last year
The Taliban, including Mullah Omar, eulogized Badruddin in a video released on their official website. Badruddin was thought to have been killed in a US drone strike in August 2012.
Pakistani al Qaeda commander threatens government over execution of jihadists
Asmatullah Muawiya said the PML-N “will have to pay a price” if it carries out the executions of jihadists. Pakistan’s interior minister said the government will carry out death penalties starting next week.
Pakistan
Police in Islamabad arrested Abdullah Umar, an al Qaeda operative who is thought to have been behind the murder of the prosecutor who was investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as well as terrorists involved in the 2008 attack on Mumbai, India. Security forces in Chaman captured a “militant” and seized suicide […]
Uzbek national in Idaho arrested, charged with supporting the IMU
Fazliddin Kurbanov is charged with supporting the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, training others to purchase and assemble components of a bomb, and possessing an “unregistered destructive device.”
IMU lauds another German killed in US drone strike
German Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leaders Yassin and Mounir Chouka and other top IMU figures praised Samir Hatour, who was killed by the US in a strike in North Waziristan in March 2012.
ISAF captures senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leader in Ghazni
Also, an “insurgent leader” who financed foreign fighters and coordinated attacks throughout Afghanistan was killed in Kunar province.
German IMU fighter killed in drone strike last fall
Wanted Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan spokesman Yassin Chouka announced the death of Ahmed, who was described as “the King of Setterich.” Ahmed was killed in the Oct. 10, 2012 strike in Mir Ali, North Waziristan.
Al Qaeda in Iraq launches suicide assault in Kirkuk
The tactic of the suicide assault is being employed with increasing frequency by al Qaeda and its affiliates and allies in all of the major theaters of the Long War.
Pakistani merchants ban videogames for portraying country as terrorist breeding ground
Maybe it is just too much reality for Pakistan’s electronic entertainment association.
United States
The US added a wanted Saudi al Qaeda leader, Abu Maryam al Zahrani, to its list of designated terrorists. David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-born US citizen who helped the Lashkar-e-Taiba carry out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The Pentagon released a timeline of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on […]
Denmark
American Mumbai plotter to be sentenced in Chicago