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Foreign Fighters Leaving Iraq -- A growing number of foreign fighters are leaving or attempting to flee Iraq as U.S. and Iraqi forces have weakened al-Qaeda and forced its members from former strongholds, U.S. military officials say.
The trend reflects a broad disenchantment among foreign fighters, particularly since al-Qaeda has lost sanctuaries in parts of Baghdad and Anbar, a Sunni province west of the capital, U.S. military intelligence officials say.
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Great News! 24 Al Qaeda Arrested Across Iraq In One Day! -- "We will continue to destroy and dismantle al-Qaida networks to ensure a more secure Iraq, free of the dangerous terrorists who threaten innocent lives," said spokesman Cmdr. Scott Rye. |
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Waziristan |
Missiles Strike Taliban/AQ Safe House, Kill 16 -- A volley of seven missiles destroyed what had been either a terrorist safe house or the home of a terrorist leader in South Waziristan, killing 16. The wire services only have very preliminary reports, and no one knows for sure who actually fired the missiles yet. It appears either Pakistan or the US have improved their intelligence of late, as this is the second such targeted attack on a safe house in the last few weeks. |
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Cuba |
High-Level Al-Qaida Figure Is Captured -- Authorities have captured a high-level al-Qaida figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001, the Pentagon announced Friday. Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to say when or where Mohammad Rahim was captured—or by whom—announcing only that he was handed over by the CIA to the Pentagon earlier this week and is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
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Odierno: Progress In Iraq Approaches Point Of Irreversibility -- The former commander of Multinational Corps Iraq reflected today on vast improvements made during the past 15 months and said Iraq is approaching the point where no single incident or chain of events will be able to reverse those positive trends. |
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Somalia |
Notorious Al Qaeda Operative The Target In U.S. Strike In Somalia -- U.S. forces struck an Al Qaeda training camp in southern Somalia Monday, and officials say the target was a notorious Al Qaeda operative whom FOX News has exclusively determined to be Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan. Nabhan is wanted for questioning in connection with a hotel resort homicide bombing in Mombasa, Kenya, five years ago, and for a shoulder-fired missile attack on an Israeli passenger liner. |
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Iraq |
U.S. Military Kills Al Qaeda Leader in Iraq -- A U.S. military helicopter fired a guided missile to kill a wanted Al Qaeda in Iraq leader from Saudi Arabia who was responsible for the bombing deaths of five American soldiers, a spokesman said Sunday. U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Gregory Smith said Jar Allah, also known as Abu Yasir al-Saudi, and another Saudi known only as Hamdan, were both killed Wednesday in Mosul. |
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Lebanon |
Syria Criticizes U.S. Warship Deployment Off Lebanon as "Muscle Flexing" -- Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Saturday that a U.S. Navy deployment off the coast of Lebanon threatens security in the region and warned the United States it cannot impose its own solution to the long-running political crisis in Lebanon.
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"U. S. Missiles' Kill 13 In South Waziristan -- At least 13 militants, including some foreigners, were killed and 11 others were critically injured as three missiles, allegedly fired by the US forces, hit a house in Kaloshah area of Wana District in South Waziristan Agency on Thursday, eyewitnesses said. |
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Egyptian Al Qaeda Leader Reported Killed In South Waziristan Airstrike -- Pakistani and US intelligence are attempting to sort out the names of the al Qaeda and Taliban operatives killed in yesterday's airstrike in Azam Warzak, South Waziristan. Initial reports indicated Arabs and fighters from Central Asia were killed in the operation. One report indicates an "al Qaeda fugitive from Egypt" was among those killed, sparking rumors that Ayman al Zawahiri was the target of the strike. |
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Palestinian Territories |
Under Fire, Israel Warns Of Unleashing "Holocaust" in Gaza -- Israeli leaders warned Friday that the army may unleash a “holocaust” on the Gaza Strip if Islamists there do not end their daily barrages of rockets, the Times of London reports. |
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Philippines |
Bali Bomber Reportedly Found Dead In Philippines -- A body believed to be that of Indonesian terrorist leader Dulmatin, wanted for the October 2002 Bali bombings, was recovered Monday afternoon by a joint military team in Tawi-Tawi province. Thes said the corpse was jointly identified by informants with notable wounds in the head, chest and right foot to include clothing in physical characteristics matched with previous revelations. |
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Iraq |
Al Qaeda Defeated In Baghdad: Iraqi PM -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki proclaimed on Friday that Al-Qaeda had been routed in Baghdad thanks to a security plan launched a year ago, and would soon be defeated throughout the country. |
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Syria |
Hezbollah's Most Wanted Commander Killed In Syria Bombing -- Hezbollah leader Imad Moughniyah, on the United States' most wanted list for attacks on Israeli and Western targets, was killed by a bomb in Damascus, the Lebanese group said on Wednesday. |
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Pakistan |
Senior Taliban Figure Killed in Pakistan -- Pakistani security forces killed a top figure in the Taliban militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and captured four other militants Monday, a military official said. Mansoor Dadullah, brother of slain Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah, was among five militants caught after a shootout near a seminary in southwestern Baluchistan province
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Al Qaeda Leader's Diary Reveals Organization's Decline -- U.S. troops found a diary belonging to an al Qaeda in Iraq leader that has Coalition forces believing the terrorist organization is “on its heels,” a senior military official in Baghdad said this morning. Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team on Nov. 3, 2007, captured a diary belonging to Abu Tariq, an al Qaeda emir in control of five battalions within two sectors. The 16-page diary contains records about man power, operations, weapons, and finances, and it shows that al Qaeda is hurting badly in the belts of Baghdad. "There were 600 al-Qaeda members in this sector, now there (are) 20 or less."
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Algeria |
Algeria Rebels Ambush And Kill 8 Soldiers -- The ambush on Thursday night was the deadliest attack in Algeria since December 11 when 37 people, including 17 United Nations staff, were killed in a double suicide bombing in the capital Algiers. |
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Rocket Attacks From Gaza Continue, Israel Strikes Back -- After a turbulent day on which some 40 Kassams and mortar shells slammed into the western Negev, the attacks continued Saturday morning as two rockets fired from Gaza hit the Sha'ar Hanegev region. |
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United States |
U. S. General Explains How To Fight Terrorism -- In his book Terrorism: The Target is You!, Gen. Halley calmly but emphatically calls upon the American public to internalize that the war imposed upon them by extremist Muslims is for real. Each and every citizen has a role to play in this war, Halley says, mainly in understanding that a concerted war effort is crucial. His list of Do's and Don'ts includes the following: Don't judge progress based on casualty reports; Don't have unrealistic expectations; Don't overreact to bad news or future terrorist attacks; Do be alert; and Do put aside political differences in order to present a unified front against radical Islam. We [the US and allies] are the only force that can stop the Muslim extremists, and they are the only force that can stop us. |
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United Arab Emirates |
Fourth Undersea Cable Cut Near UAE, Suspicions Rise -- For the fourth time in a week, an undersea communications cable has apparently been cut (or "failed due to a power outage," as some sources suggest), and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious. |
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U. S. Anti-Missile Ship To Dock In Haifa -- An American missile ship set to dock at Haifa Port on Monday is equipped with an anti-missile defense system that could be deployed in the region in the event of an Iranian missile attack against Israel. |
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Pakistan |
Swat Fighting More Deadly Than Iraqi Insurgency -- More than two months after the Pakistani military launched an operation to clear the district of Swat in the Northwest Frontier Province, pockets of Taliban forces and safe havens remain. The Pakistani military and police have taken casualties far greater the combined US and Iraqi forces have fighting the insurgency in Iraq, according to an Interior Ministry report obtained by the Daily Times. |
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Al-Qaeda Figure Is Killed in Pakistan -- A senior al-Qaeda commander was killed this week in Pakistan, according to Western officials and an Islamic radical Web site. Western officials declined to give details of how Libi died. But there is evidence he was targeted in a missile strike that killed 12 people early Tuesday in a remote village in northwestern Pakistan. |
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Today's Terrorist Roundup -- Lots of news from all over: Libi killed and Toori captured. |
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Yemen |
Al-Qaeda Fighting Rebels "At Government's Request" -- Yemeni al-Qaeda cell spokesman Ahmad Mansour has said that the government asked it to fight a Shia rebel group in the North of the country, local newspaper al-Wasat reported. "They [the government] have asked us to fight against the followers of Imam al-Houthi of Saada. In return, Yemeni security forces will ease the persecution of our members," said Mansour. |
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U. S. Homes In On Militants In Pakistan -- Another piece of the United States' regional jigsaw is in place with the completion of a military base in Afghanistan's Kunar province, just three kilometers from Bajaur Agency in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. |
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Afghanistan |
Official Says Iranian Mines Found In Taliban Commander's House -- A provincial police chief says authorities have discovered a weapons cache in western Afghanistan containing 130 land mines of different types that appear to have been imported from Iran. The cache, discovered in Farah Province near the Iranian border, includes about 40 sophisticated remote-controlled mines. |
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Iraq |
Iraq Ready For "Final" Battle With Al Qaeda -- Iraqi security forces have begun a "decisive" final offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq to push the Sunni Islamist militants out of their last major stronghold in the north, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday. |
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Military: 75% Of Baghdad Areas Now Secure -- The military classifies 356 of Baghdad's 474 neighborhoods in the "control" or "retain" category of its four-tier security rating system, meaning enemy activity in those areas has been mostly eliminated and normal economic activity is resuming. |
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CIA Places Blame For Bhutto Assassination -- The CIA has concluded that members of al-Qaeda and allies of Pakistani tribal leader Baitullah Mehsud were responsible for last month's assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and that they also stand behind a new wave of violence threatening that country's stability, the agency's director, Michael V. Hayden, said in an interview. |
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Islamic Militants Overrun Pakistani Forts -- Pakistani troops abandoned an outpost near the border with Afghanistan after receiving threats from Islamic militants who a day earlier overran a nearby fort, an intelligence official and a resident said Thursday. |
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3,200 Marines Prepare for Afghan Tour -- Military officials said that about 3,200 Marines are being told to prepare to go to Afghanistan - a move that will boost combat troop levels in time for an expected Taliban offensive this spring. |
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6 Killed In Attack On Luxury Kabul Hotel -- Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked a luxury hotel on Monday, killing at least six people in a brazen attack on Western civilians in Kabul, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the Norwegian foreign minister, who was not hurt, was the target of the assault, which came as the Norwegian embassy was holding a meeting at the Serena Hotel. |
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Iraq |
Symposium: Crushing Al-Qaeda -- Iraq's interior ministry spokesman recently revealed that 75% of Al-Qaeda in Iraq's network has been destroyed. This announcement corresponded with myriad other reports that have indicated that Osama’s terror group is in serious trouble in Iraq. What accounts for this U.S. success and Al-Qaeda failure? To discuss this question, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel. |
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Middle East |
U. S. Navy Fired Warning at Iranian Craft -- The U.S. Navy said Friday that one of its ships fired warning shots at a small Iranian boat in the Strait of Hormuz in December during one of two serious encounters that month. The USS Whidbey Island fired the warning shots on Dec. 19 in response to a small Iranian boat that was rapidly approaching it. |
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The Terrorist Roundup for January 11, 2008 -- Army Staff Sgt. Joe Hammond, right front, leads his squad through a gully during Operation Patriot Strike in Ubaydi, Iraq. Hammond is assigned to the the 101st Airborne Division's Company B, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment. |
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Massive U. S. Air Attack South of Baghdad -- U.S. warplanes unleashed one of the most intense airstrikes of the Iraq war Thursday, dropping 40,000 pounds of explosives in a thunderous 10-minute onslaught on suspected al-Qaida in Iraq safe havens in Sunni farmlands south of Baghdad. The mighty barrage—recalling the Pentagon's "shock and awe" raids during the 2003 invasion—appeared to mark a significant escalation in a countrywide offensive launched this week to try to cripple remaining insurgent strongholds. |
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U. S. Launches Airstrike South Of Baghdad -- U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday, flattening what the military called safe havens for al-Qaida in Iraq on the southern outskirts of the capital. The strikes, carried out above approaching U.S. and Iraqi troops, was part of Operation Phantom Phoenix, a nationwide campaign launched Tuesday against al-Qaida in Iraq. |
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Waziristan |
Tribesmen Raising Anti-Al Qaeda Lashkar -- Thousands of armed tribesmen of South Waziristan met here on Wednesday, vowing to organise a Lashkar to hunt down Al Qaeda-linked militants blamed for killing nine of their kinsmen. The tribal jirga in Wana came three days after militants stormed two offices and killed nine tribal elders of a government-sponsored peace committee. The jirga ordered tribesmen from every household belonging to the Wazir tribe to come to Wana with arms to prepare for action. |
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United Arab Emirates |
Dubai Counters Rising Terror Threat -- This oil-rich Persian Gulf state has outfitted high-rises with the latest security, installed an iris-recognition ID system and nearly completed a 500-mile-long barrier along its borders with Oman and Saudi Arabia. |
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Pakistan |
U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan -- President Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan. |
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U. S. Military Says 51 Qaeda Leaders Killed Or Captured -- The US military said on Wednesday that 51 Al-Qaeda leaders were killed or captured by multinational forces in Iraq during December, as efforts to close down the Islamist extremist group intensified. Of those captured in December, "eight were regional, city or functional emirs, nine were cell leaders, six were involved in media and propaganda activities and five that were foreigner terrorist facilitators," Bergner said. He said the others were involved in bomb-making, or were spiritual advisers, financiers, intelligence gatherers or weapons traffickers.
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Pakistan |
The Final Front For al-Qaeda -- I have been saying for months the final operations against al-Qaeda will take place in the tribal regions of Northern Pakistan along the border with Afghanistan. |
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Iraq |
Man With A Message Of Hope -- The critics said it couldn't be done, but the vision and determination of General David Petraeus have brought greater security and cause for optimism to the people of Iraq. He is The Sunday Telegraph's Person of the Year. |
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Somalia |
Hundreds Of Islamist Militants Advance On Baidoa -- Several hundred Islamist militants belonging to the al-Qaeda linked 'Young Mujahadeen' group have gathered at a disused miliatary base 40 kilometres from the southern city of Baidoa, where Somalia's transitional government is based, pan-Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat reports, quoting unnamed government sources. The 'Young Mujahadeen' are being led by the Islamic Courts movement's former miltary commander, Mukhtar Rabow, whose battlename is Abu Mansur. |
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U.S. Special Forces On Standby To Safeguard Pakistan Nuclear Arsenal -- There are reports that U.S. special forces snatch squads are on standby, awaiting orders to seize or disable Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the event of a collapse of government authority or the outbreak of civil war in Pakistan. The snatch teams, including volunteer scientists from America’s Nuclear Emergency Search Team organization, are under orders to take control of an estimated 60 warheads located in six to 10 high-security Pakistani military bases. |
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BMD Focus: A Good Year -- The U.S. ballistic missile program was overjoyed by a series of exceptionally successful tests across a wide spectrum of systems in 2007. The number and frequency of the successes, especially in the Aegis/Standard Missile-3 and Theater High Altitude Area Defense programs, suggested that these technologies are now firmly in the category of mature technologies, racking up an impressive track record of repeatedly successful tests. |
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Iraq |
Iraqi Police Uncover Major Weapons Cache -- Iraqi Police (IP) uncovered a major weapons cache in Kirkuk province, Dec. 18. The discovery was made during a series of pre-dawn raids at suspected cache sites. The operation was led by the IP into the town of Ruwadah, approximately 25 miles west of Kirkuk city. |
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Progress In Iraq -- Remarkable progress has been made in Iraq since the "surge" and related tactical changes were implemented by General Petraeus. These charts, courtesy of the Multi-National Forces, show the improvement visually. (MUST READ). |
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40,000 Troops May Be Home By July -- The Pentagon expects that more than 40,000 U.S. troops will be home by July if the situation in Iraq remains stable, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday. |
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Normalcy Returns to Baghdad’s Outskirts as Attacks Decline -- The decrease in violence seen in Baghdad’s northern and western outskirts has created a sense of stability and fueled economic activity that Iraqis view as a presage to the return of normalcy, a U.S. commander posted in Iraq told Pentagon reporters today. "From a security perspective, there has been significant progress," said Army Col. Paul E. Funk, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team
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After Action Report — General Barry R McCaffrey USA (Ret) -- This memo provides feedback on my strategic and operational assessment of current security operations in Iraq. Look forward to providing lectures to faculty and cadet national security seminars. |
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A Surge Of Their Own: Iraqis Take Back The Streets -- Attacks plummet as Shias join Sunnis in neighbourhood patrols to tackle militants and reunite communities
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Mullah Omar vows to keep fighting jihad -- In a message to mark Eid al-Adha, the militant chief said there would be no rest for troops in Musa Qala, which the Taliban held for 10 months before its recapture. “We’ll not allow rest for invading forces in Musa Qala. Our mujahedin (holy warriors) are still around the villages,” Omar said. |
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Iranian Qods Force still active in Iraq -- With a sharp reduction in the deadly landmine attacks used by the Iranian-backed Shia terrorists known as the Special Groups, a debate has raged over whether Iran has worked to reduce the number of attacks inside Iraq. |
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Afghanistan |
Afghan Border Attacks Drop 40 Percent -- A top American general said Sunday that attacks along the Afghan-Pakistan border have dropped more than 40 percent since July and the U.S. and its allies are making progress in the fight against the Taliban.
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Iraq at Its Quietest Since 2003 -- Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the man responsible for the ground campaign in Iraq, said that the first six months of 2007 were probably the most violent period since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. The past six months, however, had seen some of the lowest levels of violence since the conflict began, Odierno said, attributing the change to an increase in both American troops and better-trained Iraqi forces. |
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Taliban Commander Killed in Eastern Afghanistan -- Afghan army backed by the U.S.-led Coalition forces have killed a senior commander of Haqqani Network, which is loyal to the Taliban, in an operation on Dec. 11 in eastern Afghanistan, said a Coalition statement issued here on Friday. |
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Heavy Taliban Losses in Musa Qala -- The Afghan Ministry of Defence says that hundreds of Taliban soldiers have been killed, wounded or taken prisoner in the fighting in and around the Afghan town of Musa Qala. |
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Over 50 Taliban Killed in 2-Day Battle -- Afghan soldiers backed by NATO air power killed more than 50 Taliban fighters during a two-day battle with militants who tried to attack a southern Afghan town near the one they were routed from this week. |
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Cuba |
Waterboarding in action -- Attacks disrupted, lives probably saved. |
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Ex-CIA Agent -- Waterboarding 'saved lives' |
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Iraq |
3,000 Undercover Cops to Track Down Dori, Ahmad Cells -- "The operatives of the so-called al-Awda (Return) Organization, which stemmed from the Baath Party and belong to Dori and Ahmad, will be hunted down by 3,000 policemen working undercover," Bulani said in a joint press conference with Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qader al-Ubaidi on Sunday. |
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Mortar Rounds Hit Iraqi Prison; 5 Dead -- Mortar shells slammed into an Interior Ministry prison Monday, killing at least five inmates and wounding 25, the U.S. military and Iraqi officials said. Separately, a fire broke out at one of Iraq's main refineries, but the U.S. said it was an industrial accident _ not an attack, as Iraqi officials insisted. |
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Taliban Leaders Seized in Assault on Afghan Town -- Afghan and NATO-led forces have captured two senior Taliban commanders during their offensive to retake the insurgents' most important stronghold in Afghanistan, the Afghan Defence Ministry said on Sunday. Musa Qala, in the southern province of Helmand, has a symbolic significance for both sides in the conflict in Afghanistan as the only sizeable Afghan town controlled by the Taliban. |
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Afghan and NATO Troops Storm Taliban Stronghold -- The Afghan National Army, supported by international coalition forces, launched an operation Friday to recapture Musa Qaleh, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province. |
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Coalition Forces Disrupts Al-Qaeda Networks; 12 Killed, 13 Detained -- During an operation south of Yusufiyah, Coalition forces targeted a suspected associate of an al-Qaeda leader involved in the network operating south of Bagdad. The network is believed to be involved in planning an attack against Coalition forces operating in the region. As Coalition forces approached the area, they observed several armed men emerge from the target building, maneuvering into military style positions into a nearby palm grove. Perceiving hostile intent, Coalition forces engaged. |
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Taliban Militants Mistakenly Blow Themselves Up; Troops Launch Offensive to Retake Afghan Town -- Three Taliban militants were killed on Friday when a roadside bomb they were planting exploded prematurely, as Afghan and foreign troops launched an operation to retake a neighboring Afghan town controlled by Taliban militants. |
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Allies Prepare To Seize Taliban Stronghold -- Western sources have told The Daily Telegraph that it is planned that Afghan forces will lead the assault - the first time that the fledgling national army has undertaken an operation on such a scale. |
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Israel Says Army Ready for Gaza Invasion -- Israel's army has completed plans for a large offensive in the Gaza Strip and is only waiting for government approval for the action, the military chief said Wednesday, shortly after two Palestinian militants were killed by Israeli tank fire in the coastal area. |
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Al-Qaida Losing Out to Citizens -- Al-Qaida is lashing out at Iraqi civilians who have volunteered to protect their neighborhoods in an area southwest of Baghdad. "The people have forced them out, so they strike back, they want to show that they still have some level of control over the local populace, and they can’t," said Army Col. Terry Ferrell, commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.
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Al Qaeda Confession: Only 200 Foreign Terrorists are left in Iraq. -- In his speech released yesterday Abou Omar Al Baghdadi the supposed leader of the Islamic State in Iraq which is Al Qaeda in Iraq said that only two hundered Mohajeroon are left in Iraq. Mohajeroon which means immigrants in Arabic are the foreign terrorists who came to fight in Iraq. This is yet the most stunning admission by Al Qaeda in Iraq that they are totally destroyed and from the tens of thousands of foreign terrorists they had, almost all of them are killed and captured and only two hundreds are left. |
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Coalition Forces Target Foreign Terrorist Facilitators, Car-Bombers, Propaganda Cells -- Coalition forces killed one terrorist and detained 17 suspects late Thursday and today, during operations targeting al-Qaeda networks in central and northern Iraq. During operations near Sharqat, Coalition forces captured a wanted individual believed to be a key member in al-Qaeda in Iraq’s media and propaganda network. Reports indicate the wanted individual may have been using the target area as a safe haven to re-establish the network after significant degradation by Coalition forces’ recent operations. |
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U. S. To Target Al Qaeda Hideouts Inside Pakistan, Says Bush -- U. S. President George W. Bush has said that he will still send American troops into Pakistan if he gets actionable intelligence that Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders are hiding somewhere in the country. |
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6,000 Sunnis Join Pact With U.S. in Iraq -- Nearly 6,000 Sunni Arab residents joined a security pact with American forces Wednesday in what U.S. officers described as a critical step in plugging the remaining escape routes for extremists flushed from former strongholds. The new alliance, called the single largest single volunteer mobilization since the war began, covers the "last gateway" for groups such as al-Qaida in Iraq seeking new havens in northern Iraq,
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The Al Qaeda-Iran Axis Has Been Beaten in Iraq -- Now we learn that not only is terrorist violence vanishing in Sunni regions of AQI focus, but in Shia regions of Iranian focus. AP is reporting that Basra violence is down 90%. America's victory in Iraq means that both Al Qaeda and Iran have been defeated... simultaneously. |
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Ten killed, eight detained as Coalition forces target al-Qaeda senior leaders (Samarra) -- During three coordinated operations early Saturday, Coalition forces targeted senior al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders and associates, killing a wanted individual, believed to be associated with the Badush prison escape in March. Reports indicate that the wanted individual had previously been imprisoned for weapons smuggling. |
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34 Killed as Al-Qaeda Fighters Attack Iraqi Villages -- At least 34 people were killed in fierce gun battles as suspected Al-Qaeda fighters - some dressed as Iraqi soldiers - attacked three villages, officials said on Thursday. Gunmen dressed in army uniforms launched an attack on Howr Rajab, a Sunni village south of Baghdad, killing three soldiers and wounding three, a security official said. They then commandeered a Humvee armoured vehicle and charged into the village where they assaulted the headquarters of the Howr Rajab Awakening Council, a local anti-Qaeda front made |
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The Anti-al Qaeda Insurgency -- The Chicago Tribune has an excellent report on a familiar story: the revolt of former Sunni insurgents against the murderous al Qaeda thugs who for a time dominated much of Sunni Iraq. The Tribune tells the story of Amariyah, a Baghdad neighborhood that was the scene of an al Qaeda reign of terror until a former insurgent leader named Abul Abed killed the local al Qaeda commander. |
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Iraqi, U.S. Forces Continue to Expand Area of Control -- Recent security gains have allowed coalition forces to decrease the number of temporary outposts in cities like Fallujah while reinforcing new structures for use by Iraqis in the future. |
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A Plan To Attack Iran Swiftly and from Above -- Massive, devastating air strikes, a full dose of "shock and awe" with hundreds of bunker-busting bombs slicing through concrete at more than a dozen nuclear sites across Iran is no longer just the idle musing of military planners and uber-hawks.
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Returnees Find a Capital Transformed -- Iraqis are returning to their homeland by the hundreds each day, by bus, car and plane, encouraged by weeks of decreased violence and increased security, or compelled by visa and residency restrictions in neighboring countries and the depletion of their savings.
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'Al Qaeda Rolodex' Found in Iraq -- As many as 60 percent of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq in the past year have come from Saudi Arabia and Libya, according to documents discovered in a raid in September near the Syrian border. The documents confiscated in that raid listed the identities of more than 700 foreign fighters in Iraq, whom the United States believes entered that country since August 2006. The official describes the documents as "an al Qaeda rolodex." |
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More News On al-Qaeda’s Woes In Iraq and Elsewhere -- The stories of al-Qaeda’s problems are starting to avalanche as Iraq turns the corner, causing a domino effect across the Muslim world in terms of al-Qaeda’s falling credibility and respect. The wave of good news is so strong I can only synopsize and link to the stories these days. (Many links) |
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U.S. Electronic Surveillance Monitored Israeli Attack on Syria -- The U.S. provided Israel with information about Syrian air defenses before Israel attacked a suspected nuclear site in Syria. The radar site was struck with a combination of electronic attack and precision bombs that allowed the Israeli force to enter and exit Syrian airspace without being observed. As a result, all of Syria's air-defense radar system went off the air during the raid, U.S. intelligence analysts told AW&ST. |
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Pioneering "Heat Wave" Gun May Be Used in Iraq -- American commanders in Iraq are urging Pentagon chiefs to authorise the deployment of newly-developed heat wave guns to disperse angry crowds or violent rioters. |
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4,000 New Iraqi Troops Ready -- The first graduation of an Iraqi brigade as a fully trained and equipped unit marks a milestone. |
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U. S. - Iraqi Troops Crackdown on Sadr Militants -- US and Iraqi troops have arrested dozens of militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in a massive crackdown in the central city of Diwaniyah, officials said Monday. |
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Sadrist leader dies of wounds -- A leader of the Sadrist movement, or Iraqis loyal to Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr, died of wounds sustained during his arrest by police forces in Diwaniya last month, a media source from al-Sadr's office in the province said on Saturday. |
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F-16s Destroy Insurgent Mortar Team -- Two Air Force F-16s destroyed a mobile insurgent mortar team consisting of three al-Qaeda members, a mortar launcher and van Nov. 14 in Adwaniyah using Maverick laser-guided missiles. |
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Pakistan Army Masses for Assault -- Some 15,000 Pakistani troops have massed for a major assault on Islamic militants in a scenic northern valley, whose fall has raised concern about Pakistan's ability to withstand rising extremism, the army said Saturday. |
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How Royal Anglians killed 1,000 Taliban -- The intensity of combat in Afghanistan has been laid bare as one Army regiment revealed that it had fired one million rounds, killed 1,028 Taliban and lost nine men in a six-month tour of duty. |
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India |
Indian Police Foil Plot to Kidnap Rahul Gandhi -- Indian police said on Friday they had foiled a plot by Islamic militants to kidnap a top politician reported to be Rahul Gandhi, scion of the country’s famed Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty. |
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Iraq |
Basra Violence Down 90 Percent -- Attacks against British and Iraqi forces have plunged by 90 percent in southern Iraq since London withdrew its troops from the main city of Basra, the commander of British forces there said. |
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Iraq |
Qaeda Chased from Last Baghdad Bastion -- An armed Sunni group has ended Al-Qaeda’s tight two-year grip on north Baghdad’s volatile Adhamiyah neighbourhood and is now in control, an AFP correspondent witnessed on Friday. A local militia calling itself the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” took over the Sunni district on the east bank of the Tigris on November 10 in a swift and audacious raid that sent Al-Qaeda fleeing from its last stronghold in Baghdad.
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Iraq |
U.S. Launches Assault on Iraqi Qaeda Stronghold -- About 600 U.S. troops launched a pre-dawn assault south of Baghdad on Friday against al Qaeda fighters linked to the kidnapping of two soldiers six months ago, the U.S. military said. |
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Iraq |
Only CBS Notes Fewest Rocket and Mortar Attacks in Two Years -- Turning to Iraq now and another sign that violence there is decreasing. In October, insurgent rocket and mortar attacks fell to their lowest level in nearly two years. The U.S. military reported today there were 369 of those attacks last month. Rocket and mortar attacks peaked in June when there were more than a thousand. |
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Iraq |
Is Iraq Getting Better? -- Over the past three months, there has been a sharp and sustained drop in all forms of violence. The figures for dead and wounded, military and civilian, have also greatly improved. |
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Italy |
Italy Breaks Up European Terror Cell -- A Europe-wide sweep disrupted an Islamic cell that was recruiting potential suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, Italian police said Tuesday, announcing the arrests of 20 terror suspects. |
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Iraq |
Iraqi Army Detains 81, Discovers Large Weapons Cache -- Soldiers of the 8th and 10th Iraqi Army Divisions, advised by U.S. Special Forces, discovered a large weapons cache during an operation to clear al Qaeda in Iraq activity near Suwayrah. |
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