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August 2006 Archives

Five soldiers wounded in Sri Lanka mine blast

11 Chechens arrested in police raids

Fourth Moroccan arrested in terror probe - Suspected members of "Ansar El Mahdi" had contacts with wife of slain al-Qaeda member from Morocco

Australian Travel Warning for Egypt - "terrorists are planning attacks against a range of targets, including places frequented by foreigners such as resorts and hotels"

Israel begins handover of border zone

Hizbullah: We're arming for second round

'Dirty bomb' terror case loses much of its weight - Judicial rulings have stripped Padilla case of important counts

Officials underestimated Hezbollah's arsenal size - Hezbollah had broader access to sophisticated weaponry, including medium-range rockets made in Syria

Failing the Test Against Iraqi Militias - "Time" Magazine: Resolution of battle between Sadr's Mahdi army and Iraqi army shows Iraqi government still doesn't have will to rein in Shi'ite militias

(USA) Homegrown terror suspects raise concern

(Iraq) Bombing kills 2 at Baghdad gas station

Series of 22 Bombs Explode in Thailand - Killing Two, Wounding 28

U.S. goes full-bore on Iran sanctions

The Strategies for the Secret Jihad Cells - SITE Institute: Member of al-Qaeda-affiliated forum posted 8 strategies for secret jihadi cells to use on August 28

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade head killed - Fadi Khafisha killed in Nablus in exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers

Sunni Arab Diehards Fight to the Death - James Dunnigan: "the dozen or so major terrorist groups are still able to find secure areas for their activities"

(Yemen) Two Al-Qaeda escapees surrender - 2 brothers among 23 Al-Qaeda who escaped from prison in February

Hizbullah presents: How to recruit children

IDF urges Karni residents to stop terror

Obscure Neo-Taliban Group Claims To Join Afghan Insurgency - "Council of the Secret Army" says it joined forces with Hizb-e Islami, led by former Afghan PM Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Egypt: Al-Qaeda-Linked Sites Revile Mahfouz

Pakistani Troops Find Body of Slain Tribal Chief - Nawab Akbar Bugti killed when explosion destroyed hide-out in Baluchistan

Taliban Militants Attack Southern Afghanistan Town - 2 terrorists killed after attack in Helmand province

(Pakistan) Militants blow up rail line

Jihad on the Web: Al-Qaida's German Blog

Israeli forces launch strikes in Gaza

Insurgents kill 77 in Iraq as bloodshed mounts (updated)

Australian travelers get terror warnings - Travelers warned of danger of terrorists in parts of Nigeria and Bangladesh

FBI Shows Off Counterterrorism Database - Over 659 million records from over 50 FBI and other government sources

Lebanon refuses contact with Israel

Pakistani militants decapitate 2 men - Militants decapitated Islamic cleric and Afghan refugee accused of spying for U.S. and Afghan authorities in northwestern Pakistan

‘Hizbollah fund’ charge enrages Argentine Jews - “There is a bank account, opened by the Lebanese embassy, and anyone who can is collaborating, with both cash and humanitarian aid”

West Bank leader of Islamic Jihad militant wing dies of wounds - Hussam Jaradat shot by undercover Israeli soldiers on August 23

Afghan police arrest 3 Iranian nationals - Alleged terrorists in contact with Pakistani-based Jamaat-e-Tablighi

Ahmadinejad's blog hacked and defaced

Taxi Driver In London Acquitted in Terror Case - Iraqi taxi driver accused of helping make 2 videos of London landmarks that terrorists could use to attack

U.S. Freezes Assets Of Hezbollah Unit - see Andrew Cochran's August 29 post

3 more charged in jetliner bomb plot (UK)

Report: Kidnapped Israeli soldier alive

24 bodies dumped in Baghdad Shiite areas

Uganda military starts truce with LRA rebels - Under pact on Saturday, Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) terrorists have 3 weeks to assemble at 2 camps

Saudi Arabia releases 9 Guantanamo returnees

Turkish police 'foil another attack in Izmir' - 5th attack foiled, after 4 bombs hit resorts

Philippines: Security Forces Foiled Terror Attack - boarding Superferry with explosive devices

Cyber War Nightmares - James Dunnigan: "The wargames have shown that military operations could be crippled" - see Evan Kohlmann's August 22 post

Ex-militant chief re-arrested in Pakistan - Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, LeT founder and former leader, re-arrested

Iraqi forces regain control of city - Truce leads to shaky peace in southern city of Diwaniyah

Israeli air strike in Gaza wounds eight

11 bodies found in Baghdad; pipeline explodes

German Suspects From Opposite Sides of a Lebanese Town - Prime suspects in what German authorities say was gravest threat since 2001: only technical fault prevented explosion of homemade bombs on 2 trains on July 31

'No role for Al-Qaeda in J&K' - Kashmir's top separatist leader and JKLF chief says Al-Qaeda has nothing to do with Kashmir

al Qaeda and Jehadi groups in J&K are closely linked: Saran (India) - Indian Foreign Secretary says close alignment between al Qaeda and Pakistan-based Jehadi outfits in Jammu and Kashmir

JMB militant Jewel jailed for 64 years (Bangladesh)

Kurdish group claims responsibility for Turkey bombings - "Kurdistan Freedom Falcons" claims 2 attacks

Rebels say Sri Lankan air raids kill 20

US Issues Travel Warning on Nigeria

Kedumim terror attack mastermind killed (West Bank) - IDF kill 2 al-Aqsa in Nablus, including leader of West Bank terrorism attack

Riots hit southwest Pakistan - Sparked by killing of Nawab Akber Khan Bugti, militant Jamhori Watan Party (JWP) leader, in commando raid

Levey: Iran 'central banker of terror' - Top U.S. Treasury Department official: Iran provides millions to bankroll terrorist actsby Hezbollah

Timeline: Bomb blasts in Turkey - BBC timeline of terrorist attacks prior to Monday blast at Antalya

Scathing Self-Criticism by the Hamas Government Spokesman - MEMRI transcript of Hamas spokesman's critique in PA's daily Al-Ayyam

“Exporting” the radical ideology of the Islamic revolution in Iran - Booklet in possession of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon presents Khamenei's teachings

Blast said to kill 3 in Turkish resort - Explosion Monday in Antalya killed 3, injured 18, in second blast in 2 days

Iraqis to Take Control of Their Army, Air Force, Navy - DOD press release: Ministry of Defense to assume operational control in early September

Dozens killed in Iraq; 8 U.S. troops die - Suicide car bombing and clashes left at least 50 dead, after over 60 died Sunday, with 8 US troops killed

Pakistan court orders release of ex-militant chief - Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, LeT founder and former leader

Suicide blast kills 17 in Afghanistan - victims were all civilians and included children

3rd suspect in German plot ID'd as Syrian

Bomb on minibus injures 21 in Turkey

At least 50 killed in attacks across Iraq

Iran test-fires sub-to-surface missile

Captors Release Two FOX News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza Aug. 14 - forced to convert to Islam

Hamas militant killed in Gaza rocket attack

4 suspected militants killed in Russia

Jordanian parliament approves terrorism law

French soldiers, rebels killed in Afghan unrest - Two French soldiers killed in ambush - airstrikes in south killed 23 militants, including Taliban commander

Iraq tribal chiefs sign 'pact of honor' - Hundreds of Iraqi tribal chiefs gave important support to PM Maliki's reconciliation plan - 26 killed in dozen attacks

(Canada) Accused terror mastermind in court

(Canada) Fifth terror suspect granted bail

Danish Terror Suspects Were Watched

Hamas: Missing Fox journalists unharmed

(Iraq) Gunmen kill translator in Basra

2 soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan

Defying U.N., Iran opens nuclear reactor

Sri Lanka bomb kills six

Turkish Jets Hit P.K.K. In Northern Iraq

Pakistan: Peace Between Pro-Taliban Militants and Government Delayed Again - Syem Saleem Shahzad: Peace deal delayed again - temporary ceasefire extended and 10 fighters to be released

Flight Lands In Newark After Dynamite Found In Luggage (updated) - Checked luggage on Continental Airlines flight to Houston from Argentina contained dynamite residue - man told officials he works in mining and handles explosives - flight continued to Newark and held there

Two U.S. airliners diverted, passenger subdued: U.S. Airways from Phoenix to North Carolina, American Airlines from Manchester, England, to Chicago

'Fox newsmen held by Rogue Fatah men' - Another theory on who holds 2 hostages

Insurgents kill nine as Iraq violence rages

Germans Arrest 2 More in Train Plot

Morocco cell 'equipped for huge attack' - Cell was equipped to carry out a far bigger attack than the bombings which killed 45 people in Casablanca in May 2003

CNN's Documentary on Bin Laden Criticized - "could almost double as a recruiting video for Al Qaeda"

(Video) Commentary: CNN Recruiting for Bin Laden? Evan Kohlmann: CNN documentary view of Bin Laden based on old information

Commentary: A Professor's Islamic Ties - Mentor for British-based Muslim Academic Azzam Tamimi supporting "martydom" is Georgetown University's Professor John Esposito

Hezbollah kit sold by British firm

(NYC) Man Charged With Relaying Hezbollah TV

Third Arrest For Moscow Bombing - August 21 bombing killed 10, injured 50

Iraq: Turkish Jets Strike Kurdish Bases As PKK Moots Truce - See Daveed Gartenstein-Ross' August 18 post

U.K. Regulator Freezes Charity Funds in Terror Probe - U.K. Charity Commission froze funds of Crescent Relief

Reporters' kidnappers denounced in Gaza - Palestinian official: "We were shocked at their demands because we don't need a new door of hostility opened with the U.S."

Man allegedly boasted of bombs - Spokane, WA, man owned 2 loaded ammo clips for AK-47, laptop computer reportedly containing al-Qaida training manual, and had traveled to Morocco

Airplane Terrorism Case Prompts Questions About the Work of Islamic Charities in Britain - Evan Kohlmann quoted on Muslim charities' role: “They also provide a cover story. They provide documents - and that is what they have always done in conflicts from Afghanistan to Bosnia-Herzegovina to the Caucasus to Iraq.”

Two U.S. Soldiers Killed South of Baghdad

Warning on portable missile threat

(Gaza) Militants release video of journalists

CNN lifts lid on Al Qaeda's obsession with media strategy - one of Bin Laden's media advisers used name "Abu Reuters"

Report: Bin Laden living in Pakistan

Somali Islamists open militia camp

Eighty Taliban join reconciliation scheme - Badghis province head of Taliban's religious police among converts

36 Taliban killed in clashes with NATO forces

HuJi leaders appeared after talks with government (Bangladesh) - Leaders of Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJi) were in hiding since last year - see Evan Kohlmann's August 18 post

Colombian rebels say hostage exchange at a standstill - FARC holds 62 hostages, including 3 American defense contractors and French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt

Does bin Laden trail lead to Pakistan? - Peter Bergen on likelihood of finding OBL

Police Get Quiz Extension (London airline plot) - Scotland Yard granted custody extensions for 9 suspects - at least one suspect released

12 passengers on Dutch flight arrested - 12 arrested after flight for India flown back to Amsterdam - see Walid Phares' August 23 post

President Ahmadinejad Expected to Announce Iran's "Nuclear Birth" - MEMRI translation of Iranian news service's report

Afghanis, Pakistan to conduct patrols - Agreement to conduct coordinated and simultaneous patrols with U.S. along border

NATO bomb kills 11 Taliban in Afghanistan

(UK) Targets film a joke: terror accused - Tablighi Jamaat admirer Rauf Mohammed claims video of UK targets for terror attacks were "joke"

Civilians' bodies used to conceal bomb in Algeria - two civilians killed by terrorists and bomb placed under bodies

Report: Iran Won't Stop Uranium Enrichment

Hamas speaker charged in Israel

Army of darkness - London "Telegraph" on Tablighi Jamaat group, to which some London airline plotters and London 7/7/05 bombers belonged

U.S. Says Over 100 Terrorists Captured In Iraq - One of those seized linked to February 22 "Golden Dome" mosque bombing

(UK) Wales 'terror suspects' freed

Bomb wounds NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

Hizbollah pushes past guards in show of force - UNIFIL guards brushed aside, "They will eat us alive," says UN peacekeeper

U.S. forces raid suspected terror camp (Afghanistan) - 3 suspects, arms and weaponry seized in raid against known al-Qaida facilitator

Iran Reportedly Rejects Demands to Halt Nuclear Efforts (updated)

(British Terror Plot) Charges Against 11 Suspects (my title) - 8 charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism, 3 charged with offenses under Terrorism Act of 2000; Suspects include two converts to Islam, mother of an eight-month-old baby, 17 year old

(British Terror Plot) Profiles of the eleven charged: Ahmed Abdullah Ali, 25; Cossar Ali, 24; Oliver Savant, 25; Adam Khatib, 19; Brian Young, 28; Waheed Zaman, 22; Tanvir Hussain, 25; Assad Ali Sarwar, 26; Abdul Muneem Patel, 17; Mehran Hussain, 23

(UK) Anger over radical's suicide bomb boast

(Australia) Bomb scare on flight to Sydney

Romanian oil rig comes under Iranian fire

(UK-Supplied) Hezbollah kit still a mystery

Italy to send up to 3,000 troops to Lebanon

Powerful bomb discovered in Sri Lanka

Is Europe a Hub for Homegrown Terror?

U.S. resolution would disarm Hezbollah

Bomb-making equipment found in Britain - Eleven people were charged Monday with conspiracy to commit murder in the alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners, and investigators found bomb-making equipment and martyrdom video

Pakistanis arrest two over US consulate blast

U.N.: Iran turns away inspectors

(Russia) 2 Suspects in Moscow Market Blast Detained -- Report - Three or four people left a suspicious bag in the market's cafe and tried to escape

9 Killed by Blast at Moscow Market

(UK) Cleric who urged jihad to be freed from prison - Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal influenced July 7 bombers and other jihadists

Moroccan Hashish Linked to Terrorism

Saudi Security Forces Kill Two Terrorists

British kit 'in Hezbollah bunker'

How Britain may have helped Hezbollah

71 suspected Afghan militants killed

Germany warns of terrorist threat

UK ExpoIslamia features suicide-bombing advocate - UK rally speaker Azzam Tamimi, praises suicide bombers in Israel

(UK) Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed - Passengers refuse to allow holiday jet to take off until two Asian men are thrown off plane

War on Terror Futile for 79% in Britain

Israeli raid aims to cut off arms resupply

Israel seizes senior West Bank lawmaker

Iran test-fires 10 short-range missiles

(Iran) Ahmadinejad: U.S. ties hurting Britain

Egypt: 17 Muslim Brotherhood members arrested

Somali Islamists call national forum

Commentary: Afghan Iraqistan

UK terror plot police in Pakistan

(UK) CNN: Interview with a jihadist preacher

Report: Suspect in German bomb plot arrested

Pakistan arrests six al-Qaeda suspects

Jihad backer sentenced in Chicago for fraud

Hizbollah links US to Qana killings

Car Bomb in Colombia Kills 1, Wounds 8

Three policemen killed by Maoists in India

(Japan Terrorism) Death upheld for doomsday chemist - appealed denied for Aum Shinrikyo terrorist chemist Masami Tsuchiya who developed nerve gas used in a 1995 attack on the Tokyo subways that killed 12 people

New violence in Iraq - 2 killed, 7 wounded in a string of attacks around Baquba

Iraqi forces detain 77 in crackdown

(British Terror Plot) Terror detectives 'find bomb kit' - Police probing an alleged plot to bring down flights have found a suitcase containing items which could be used to construct a bomb

UK terror suspects' faith made in India

Court quashes terrorist conviction of Australian allegedly linked to al-Qaida - British-born "Jihad Jack" Joseph Thomas

Al-Aqsa: We learned missiles subdue Israel

Israel alarm at UN force members - Some UN "Peacekeepers" come from countries like Indonesia and Malaysia that do not recognize Israel's right to exist

Small percentage of airline cargo inspected

9/11 book rankles Presbyterian faith

(Russia) Chechen rebel leader surrenders

NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional - U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, who is based in Detroit, Michigan, orders immediate halt to program - PDF of ruling

Iran to launch major military maneuvers

(India) Two terrorists gunned down in Jammu

(Update) Disturbance Diverts London-D.C. Flight - Suspicious Vermont Woman Muttering "Pakistan", Matches, Lotion, and Gelatin-Like Substance

(Iraq) A mother as suicide bomber

(Iraq) The Jill Carroll Story

'Militants killed' in Afghanistan

Three Indian policemen shot in Kashmir

FBI training struggles to keep up - After 9/11, focus is on terrorism, but academy is tradition-bound

Dubai Ports seeking U.S. bids

21 killed in series of Baghdad bombings

Mossad missed Hezbollah threat

Iran leader praises Hezbollah resistance: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - "victory" for Islam

London-To-Washington DC Flight Diverted To Boston - airport spokesman previously said the woman was carrying lotion, a screw driver and matches, but backed off the statement

Hizbullah: Disarmament not on agenda - UN's Annan: "dismantling Hizbullah is not the direct mandate of the UN"

(Iraq) Bomb Kills 8, Wounds 28 in Baghdad

(British Terror Plot) "People are definitely skeptical"; Britons view terror plot as "cover-up" for Lebanon war, "propaganda", and "make-believe"

EU Ministers in Air Terror Talks

Somalia Islamists take new port

Lebanon: 'No Need to Disarm Hizbullah'

Gaza groups deny kidnapping journalists

Iran says won't back down over atomic rights

New 9/11 emergency calls to be released

(Oregon) Reward Offered in Pipe Bomb Case

Iran, Syria praise Hezbollah, mock U.S.

Experts: London plot not Osama's encore - Terror kingpin said preparing bigger strike on U.S. 'ground

Israel begins troop pullout from Lebanon

Israel humbled by arms from Iran

Hizbullah likely to retain weapons

Report: X-Rays Don't Detect Explosives

'Al Qaeda' threat to Bahrain man

10 Katyusha rockets explode in Lebanon - Israel's military said Hezbollah fired at least 10 rockets into southern Lebanon

FBI: No terror threat to Michigan bridge (Updated)

FBI: No terror groups in cell phone case

Britain investigates links to Pakistan

(Update) U.S.: Gas leak to blame for Iraq blasts 47 killed in Shiite area of Baghdad; Iraqis still blame bombs

11 Taliban killed in Afghan clash

(UK) Terror police target 70 'plots' - involving over 100 suspected Islamic extremists right now

(British Terror Plot) Baby bottle 'used as bomb' - to be used for liquid explosive on airline bome - British husband and wife planned to take six-month-old baby on a mid-air suicide mission - Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25, and his 23-year-old wife Cossor

(British Terrorism Plot) Hunt for chemistry student in British mass-terror plot - al-Qaida recruit with expertise in creating liquid explosives

Report: X-rays don't detect explosives

DHS scrapped flight-list plan as transatlantic threat grew -- Advanced database necessary to target high-risk passengers still eludes Customs

(Update) Hezbollah fires 250 rockets into Israel - on Sunday - worst barrage in terrorist group war on Israel

(British Terror Plot) 22 suspects questioned about terror plot - UK warns risk of another attack still remains high

US to ease flight rules: Chertoff

Imad Mughniyeh: Hezbollah's Phantom

UK lowers threat level to 'severe'

UK Terror Plot: Muslim Leaders Speak Out - condemning UK foreign policy, not condemning terror plot by British Islamists

(UK) Street unrest feared over terror arrests - UK govt is worried about waning support of the most influential Muslim groups in Britain

Analysis: The New Age of Terror

Britain's Al-Qaeda leader seized - UK security sources believe that a man arrested in last week's anti-terror raids in Britain is Al-Qaeda's leader

LeT founder's house arrest not related to terror plot: Pak - Pakistan official said no connection between airline terror plot and house arrest of Hafeez Muhammad Sayeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET)

Major terror attack averted in southern Russia - Russian security forces averted strike by Caucasian extremists, killing local warlord and seizing explosives

2 brothers emerge as focus of plot probe

British Terror plot: Internet cafes raided

Forces to target 4 'hotspots' in Baghdad

Israel surges into Lebanon, despite vote (updated)

Analyst sees Iran’s fingerprints on Hizbullah attacks on Israel - Olivier Guitta: "Israel needs to... kill Nasrallah and Mugniyeh...If they don’t kill those guys, they will regroup and go back to the same kinds of attacks..."

(British Terror Plot) Student activist and trips to Islamic camp - Waheed Zaman often went to the weekend camps in British mosques run by the Tablighi Jamaat movement

3 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Iraqi terrorist attacks kill nine

(Iraq) US says kills 26 in Ramadi

Somalia a 'potential safe haven for al-Qaeda'

Restaurant bomb kills six in Iraq

Britons arrested in Pakistan 'have Al Qaeda connections' - Afghanistan-based connections, naming Rashid Rauf as one of two British terrorists arrested

Afghan bomb kills Nato soldier

Thousands in Somalia rally for holy war - Pro-Hezbollah Rally - "Down with the enemies of Islam, wherever they are!"

Day of terror strikes was planned for August 16 - United Airline tickets dated August 16 found at raided address

Bomber kills soldier in Afghanistan

Pakistan Arrest 8 in Britain Terror Plot (updated)

Liquid Threat Is Hard to Detect

Terrorist Threat in New Delhi and Mumbai - US Embassy advisory that terrorists, possibly including Al-Qaida, allegedly intend to attack in or around New Delhi and Mumbai

(British Terror Plot) 13 raids in UK neighborhoods seeking terrorists (my title) - Heathrow Airport worker held

Americans not fazed by latest threat

Security in U.S. Airports to Intensify

(Lebanon) Massive battles in Marjayoun

Many in State Dept. Can't Talk the Talk - See Douglas Farah's August 4 post on State Department language proficiency

British: Thwarted plot involved 10 jets

The Man Who Is Planning the Next Attack on America - ABC News report on Matiur Rehman, keeper of log of recruits who attended al Qaeda training camps in 1990s

Pakistan Puts Leader of Militant Group Under House Arrest - Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT), put under house arrest by Pakistani authorities

Terror suspects planned to use liquid explosives to blow up planes - "US News & World Report" with new details

Hunt for terror suspects: 'Mass Murder Terror Plot' - 24 people arrested in London, Birmingham and the Thames Valley - plot to use liquid explosives - arrests due to covert counter-terrorist operation - See posts by Evan Kohlmann, Andrew Cochran, and Walid Phares

Tactics that have kept the Middle East's most powerful army at bay - "In the eyes of Arabs and Muslims Hezbollah has already “won” the month-long war simply because it has not been defeated" by Israel

DHS Red / Severe Alert Status for UK-USA Aviation Sector. Chertoff: "We believe that these arrests have significantly disrupted the threat, but we cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted." Intra-country USA flight status is Orange Alert.

US sends extra air marshals to UK

2 Held on Terror Charges in Ohio - Airplane passenger lists & information on airport security checkpoints found in car; up to $25,000 laundered

Bombing near Iraq shrine leaves 35 dead

40,000 troops poised to enter Lebanon - Senior IDF officer says 1 week to reach Litani and 4-6 weeks to clear out southern Lebanon of Hizbullah and destroy rockets

Israel stopping offensive until weekend

Australia: Fighting for Hizbullah is illegal

Bolton: Lebanon peace agreement very close

August 22: Does Iran have something in store? - Bernard Lewis' "Wall Street Journal" column on possible Iranian attacks on important day in Islamic calendar

Iranians among Hizbollah dead: Israel TV - Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard have been found among Hizbollah guerrillas slain by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon

Nasrallah's Men Inside America - "Newsweek" article quotes Dennis Lormel: "Their fund-raising activities have been very fruitful in the United States"

Israeli Cabinet approves wider offensive

4 Iraqis arrested in Carroll kidnapping - U.S. Marines arrested 4 Iraqi men in Anbar province

Afghan Taliban kill mother,son, Lebanese man rescued (updated)

Islamists take crucial Somali city

RP captures 5 suspected Abu Sayyaf militants - Philippine military hunting AS & Indonesian JI suspects - see Zacharay Abuza's August 9 post

How Hizballah Hijacks the Internet

(India) 2 dead in new violence in Kashmir

South Lebanon closed; Strikes kill 19

U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Remain Uncoordinated - "Washington Post" analysis of impacts of changes in U.S. bureaucracy since 9/11 attacks

Colombia and Afghanistan Cooperate - James Dunnigan: Colombian counternarcotics officials visited Afghanistan to share experiences

Bombings, shootings kill 33 across Iraq (updated) - Nearly 60 wounded in blasts

Analysis of the draft of the UN Security Council resolution... (shortened title) - Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center: "it is different in nature" from UNSCR resolutions after previous conflicts

Israel plans deeper push into Lebanon

4th Iraqi Army to take the lead - DOD press release on assumption of security in 2 provinces (3 major cities) from US 101st Airborne Division

Terrorism? What's That? - Claudia Rosett on UN's inability to define terrorism - Victor Comras quoted

(Israel) Troops catch 2 guerrillas with missiles - Hezbollah operatives were setting up anti-aircraft missiles

Bombings, shootings kill 31 across Iraq (updated)

Morocco arrests 44 terrorist suspects

(Lebanon) Minister: Hezbollah stays in S. Lebanon - Information Minister says Hezbollah has every right to be there

Police: 3,050 rockets have hit Israel so far

(Israel) Soldiers Kill Four Hizbullah Terrorists in Gun Battle - in the south Lebanon village of Bint Jbeil killed

Feds Hunt For 11 Egyptians Missing In U.S.

(Russia) N. Caucasus prosecutor injured in bomb attack - prosecutor in Daghestan, which borders on Chechnya

Three dead in Sri Lanka bomb attack

Security Issue Grounds London-To-Boston Flight - after U.S. authorities discovered a passenger's name was on their "no-fly" list

Lebanese PM rejects U.N. caese-fire plan

Been There, Done That (column) - Washington Institute analysis of futility of negotiating with Syria over Hezbollah and Lebanon

Indonesian jihadis set deadline - for peace in Middle East - or threatens "jihad activities that follow"

IDF commandos operate south of Tyre

How Syria, Iran armed Hezbollah - Used Iranian Bam Earthquake "Relief" Planes to Get Sophisticated Weapons to Lebanese Terrorist Group

(Hezbollah) Nasrallah's Men Inside America - Prosecutors suspect Hezbollah has fund-raising cells in the United States

Hezbollah resume Beirut patrols

(India) HuJI terrorist killed at Doda in J&K

(India) July 11 terror attacks part of LeT's mega terror plot - part of the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s larger, pan-India plan to spread terror

Jordan court convicts Islamist lawmakers

9/11 Conspiracy Theories Persist, Thrive

15 aid workers slain in Sri Lanka

Tehran and Hezbollah's Secret History - Hezbollah is one of the institutions of the ruling regime in Tehran and a main element of its military, according to Ali Akbar Mohatashemi, the former Iranian ambassador to Syria and the founding father of Hezbollah

Iran defies UN threat on uranium

Reuters admits altering Beirut photo - blogs call Reuters on authenticity of photograph, photo is withdrawn and photographer suspended

Charity Wins Deep Loyalty for Hezbollah

Iran's plot to mine uranium in Africa - A United Nations report, dated July 18, said there was “no doubt” that a huge shipment of smuggled uranium 238, uncovered by customs officials in Tanzania, was transported

IDF foils female suicide bomber near Nablus

Militants in Waziristan have split: Sherpao

IDF arrests Palestinian parliament speaker - Dr. Abdel Aziz Duaik captured in his home after seige

Bin Laden deputy welcomes Egyptian group - a revived Gamaa Islamiya, led by Mohammed al-Islambuli, joins al-Qaeda

Hezbollah equipped like the `Syrian or Iranian army' - Israel's enemy is no ragtag militia,Anti-tank missiles proving deadly

Tamil Tigers massacre over 100 refugees

U.S., France OK U.N. Mideast truce pact - draft UNSC resolution calls for a "full cessation" of fighting between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, but would allow Israel to defend itself if attacked.

Saudi religious leader blasts Hizbullah - Hizbullah, which translates as "the party of God," is actually "the party of the devil"

Jihadis to 'target Australia'

7 Abu Sayyaf killed in clashes in Jolo, Phillipines - included are two suspected Bali bombers

Israelis raid near Tyre

Bomb blasts wound 8 in Baqouba market (Iraq)

Breakthrough in Hamas-Israel prisoner swap

Colombian officials blame rebels for attacks - FARC blamed for 2 attacks, killing 7

Negroponte orders an update on terrorism's influence in Iraq - New National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq ordered

The Plot Against America - Review of new book, "The Looming Tower," about 9/11 attack plot, with new details

Travel advisory issued for Germany - explosive materials found at two train stations

Deadly arsenals dot Sri Lanka

Up to 40 farmers hurt in IAF raid near Syria - air strike occurred on Lebanese-Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley

Suicide bomb kills 10 south of Mosul

Israel warplanes destroy Lebanon bridges

US slaps sanctions on N.Korea, Russian firms - 7 companies from North Korea, Russia, India and Cuba hit for alleged arms dealings with Iran

Uganda's LRA rebels declare immediate ceasefire - see Douglas Farah's June 29 post, "Small Progress with the Lord's Resistance Army"

Dozens die in surge of violence in Iraq - Two dozen people died in northern Iraq, at least 17 others elsewhere - 17 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since July 27

2 bomb blasts in Turkey injure 17

Al Qaeda Web Site Calls for Undermining Its Islamic Rival Hezbollah in Lebanon - See Walid Phares' August 4 and Jeffrey Cozzens' August 3 posts

Iran Is Racing To Resupply Hezbollah

Civil war imminent in Iraq - Two US Generals

New weapons on tap in war on terrorism

Thousands flee as Sri Lanka battle rages

Troops continue assault in 3rd day of Sulu offensive (Philippines) - Filipino troops attack suspected lairs of Abu Sayyaf & JI leaders - Zachary Abuza quoted

Paraguayan Smuggling Crossroads Scrutinized - Paraguay, Brazil & Argentina "tri-border" the target of new US measures against rings funding Hezbollah and other groups

U.S. to Freeze Saudi Charity's Assets - see Zachary Abuza's August 3 post on designation of IIRO

Lebanese hospital: Number of casualties from Qana air strike is 28, not 52 - Tyre hospital revised count after Human Rights Watch questioned toll

Wave of Rockets Launched into Israel Claim 8 Lives (updated) - Over 180 rockets hit Israel, with IDF troops pushing into Lebanon - see Bill Roggio's August 3 post

Attacks Kill 21 Civilians, 4 NATO Soldiers in Afghanistan (updated)

Report: Bin Laden's son sent to operate against Israel - released by Iran for "building Islamist terror cells and preparing them to fight together with Hizbollah"

Israel advances 4 miles into Lebanon

Israeli troops raid south Gaza; 8 killed

Palestinians giving Hezbollah rockets - Abbas' party calling on its fighters to battle Israel in Lebanon

U.N.'s Malloch Brown Questions Hezbollah's 'Terror' Designation - see Victor Comras' July 20 post on lack of designations

Pakistan cell towers aid terror talk

(UK) Warning after parcel bomb find

Israel: Video proves hospital was Hezbollah HQ - Israeli forces raided hospital near Baalbeck, snatching 5 militants and killing 10 others

Stacked Deck: Rewards of Millions in the Hunt for Latin Narco Terrorists - ABC News reports on huge rewards for FARC, AUC, & ELN narcoterrorists

IDF, Hizbullah engaged in fierce battle in Atya a-Shab - Nearly 9,000 troops on ground in southern Lebanon

Ongoing violence kills 53 people in Iraq (updated) - Bombs exploded on soccer field, killing 11, and at least 42 others, including 2 Americans, died elsewhere

Hezbollah Answers Israeli Offensive With Rocket Attacks (updated) - Over 200 rockets fired, including one at West Bank 70 km from Lebanon

Energy industry and terrorism in Indonesia - Indonesia adding protection from JI attacks

Tajik authorities seize a batch of over 320 kilograms of drugs - 700 pounds seized included 40 kg (88 pounds) of heroin smuggled from Afghanistan

Digital Implication of the Attack to Lebanon: It's Cyber War - Hundreds of web sites attacked as protest against bombing by Israel (tip to TT)

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei threatens the West over Lebanon (my title) - IRNA press release with full text of his statement

A New Hub for Terrorism? - Selig Harrison on Bangladesh & Jamaat-e-Islami group's political ties

Iraq businesses shut down due to violence - Sectarian violence & rising crime transforming Baghdad’s once bustling commercial hubs into deserted streets

19 killed in Afghanistan fighting - 18 Taliban militants and one policeman were killed

(US) Border agents let fake IDs go through - including instances in which DHS agents didn't ask for ID

Hezbollah rocket reaches farthest point - struck Israel in Beit Shean - 42 miles south of the Lebanese border

Terror warning over Lebanon charities

German Police Probe Terror Link to Cases Packed With Explosives - luggage containing explosives left at two German train stations (Dortmund and Koblenz)

Bomb Kills Three Police Officers in Thailand - early Wednesday killing 3 - Day After 100 Attacks

(Indonesia) Anti-terror police search villages for suspected militants - Noordin Top possibly in search area

Fears of annual Indonesia bombing worries experts - between August and mid-October - Kenneth Conboy & Zachary Abuza quoted

47 killed in Sri Lanka fighting: military

(Israel) 300-400 Hizbullah Fighters Killed - since the start of the IDF counter-terrorism offensive in Lebanon

Assailants carry out attacks in Thailand - at least 40 bomb and arson attacks Tuesday night in Thailand's three Muslim-dominated southernmost provinces

Heavy clashes between IDF, Hezbollah; IAF to renew strikes (updated) - 3 IDF soldiers killed, up to 25 wounded - at least 10 Hezbollah killed

IAF hits 5 Hizbullah posts in Bekaa

Terrorists Detained in Afghanistan; Extremists Attack Girls School - DOD press release

Violence kills 70 people across Iraq (updated)

News of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation, July 15-31, 2006 - Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center on Hamas' attacks since Lebanon war began

Kazakhs Probe Somalia Arms Reports - See Douglas Farah's July 29 and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross' July 27 posts

Hezbollah forces were ready for Israeli retaliation - U.S. intel agencies say that Hezbollah remains intact and receiving outside support, primarily from Iranians

Michigan man faces charges related to Toledo terror probe - Accused of lying about link to Marwan El-Hindi, accused of conspiring to kill U.S. troops in Iraq

3 British troops killed in Afghanistan

2 suspected al-Qaida members captured in S. Afghanistan - in Afghanistan's southern restive province of Helmand

(India) One Arrested in Gaya Bomb Blast

Israel sends troops after Hezbollah

Iran cleric calls for Hezbollah weapons - Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati calls on all Muslim states to provide weapons to terror group Hezbollah

Assad tells Syrian army to get ready - supporting Hezbollah attacks on Israel

Syrian group claims it attacked Israel - "Front for the Liberation of the Golan" says it will stage more assaults against Israel

America nails Pakistan-blessed terror camps - US Defense Intelligence Agency satellite imagery confirms existence

(US) Islamic Charity Fundraiser Released - Holy Land Foundation's Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan Released Without Bond

(Thailand) Narrow escape in school bomb

Colombian pre-inauguration attacks kill 18