(Pakistan) Multiple conflicts bleed Pakistan army -- "high" casualty rate as well as "unprecedented" levels of desertions, suicides and discharge applications
(U.S.) Al Qaeda expected to target economy -- shifting toward "small and medium-sized operations in the hopes of draining U.S. resources and economy"
(Gaza) Blast in Gaza damages salon, no injuries -- bomb near entrance - ongoing Islamist intimidation against salons, Internet cafes, cigarette shops
(Netherlands) Five freed on jihad charges -- female defendant sentenced to one month in jail for spreading provocative texts
Iraqi Terror Trial Exposes Belgium’s Muslim Dilemma - 6 accused of recruiting Europe's first female suicide bomber
Spanish police detain seven ETA supporters - Accused of making explosives to attack police officers, buildings, railways, buses
(Gaza) Palestinian tunnelers were Army of Islam - police -- planned to enter Israel to carry out suicide attacks
Syria accused of plot to kill Lebanon PM - Saad Hariri claims Syria behind plot to kill him and prime minister
(Yemen) U.S. officials visit Cole bomber - U.S. Embassy officials in Yemen visited Jamal Badawi in prison cell
(Afghanistan) Taliban overrun Afghani district - 20 Taliban killed and wounded - Gulistan district of Farah province
(Afghanistan) Coalition soldier, Afghan spy chief killed -- 6 killed -- 2 soldier in Kandahar, security chief and two others in Langhman province
(Pakistan) Suicide blast kills seven near Musharraf's HQ -- in Rawalpindi -- half a mile from where Musharraf holding security talks
(Pakistan) Islamabad put on high alert -- reports that suicide bombers entered city
Pakistan's problem child recites the Koran -- influence of madrassas grown 20 times since 1971
(Iran) US: Iran seeks nuclear weapons -- tells IAEA's Mohamed ElBaradei to stay out of diplomacy
(Israel) Palestinian Islamic Jihad enabler sent to 7 years in prison -- Husam Hafez Suaftma convicted of purchasing fertilizer for his brother to create explosives
NBC: Was Bin Laden's last video faked? -- debate over September 7 video doctoring
Spain: Islamic terrorist cell members sentenced - 2 of 6 convicted of inciting Jihad and giving financial support to Islamists
Dubai at center of US efforts to pressure Iran - see CT Blog posts on Oct. 25 about Iran sanctions
(Bangladesh) Huji emerged with open declaration - Brief history of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji)
(Afghanistan) Key tribal leader on verge of deserting Taliban - Mullah Abdul Salaam a former Taliban corps commander and governor of Herat province
Syria: A New Intelligence Failure? - See Jonathan Winer's Oct.28 post and Olivier Guitta's Dec. 28 post on Syria's hidden nuclear program
2.000 Turkish Soldiers are in Iraq - Report: Soldiers are 8-20 km inside northern Iraq
(Afghanistan) Five dead in Afghanistan suicide blast - on a police vehicle in Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province
Somalia's prime minister resigns -- amid accusations he failed to quell the country's Islamist insurgency
(UK) Saudi king chides UK on terrorism -- says UK could have prevented July 2005 bombings
Israel Restricts Gaza Crossing as Firing Persists - Fuel supplies reduced, one crossing closed due to continued rocket fire
(U.S.) Holy Land trial revealed a covert Islamist agenda (commentary) - Douglas Farah quoted about "decades of deceit" by MB groups in US
Yemen says bomber of U.S. destroyer Cole still detained - Says Jamal Badawi still "detained," might be under house arrest
(Afghanistan) US says 80 Taliban killed in battle - see James Gordon Meek's Oct. 27 post - fifth major fight in that area since Sept. 1 - also suicide bomber killed 5
(Israel) War against Egypt in the winter Israel is furious that Egypt allowed about 80 Hamas explosive experts - allegedly trained in Iran - to enter the Gaza Strip
Victims Remember Moscow Theater Seizure - Five years since over 800 taken hostage and 130 died
(U.S.) Secret Agent Schmuck - Exposee of Juval Aviv - Steven Emerson: "It's amazing to see how many times he fooled people"
As-Sahab Announces Upcoming Video with Taliban Commander Mansour Dadullah - SITE Institute press release, link soon - See Banner Image
(U.S.) FBI Warns Again Of Shoe Bomb Danger - CBS News: Terrorists want to use "modified footwear as a concealment method for explosive devices" -- related photos
(North Korea) Diplomat tries to reassure US lawmakers on North Korea talks -- declined to address North Korea attempt to offer nuclear help to Syria
Al Qaeda reveals signs of weakness - Evan Kohlmann: "Iraq was Al Qaeda's greatest achievement and its greatest failure" - see his Oct. 25 post
(Afghanistan) 13 suspected Taliban, 5 soldiers killed in Afghan clashes, 14 wounded - in southern Afghanistan -- 4 Afghan soldiers wounded in Daychopan district of Zabul province
Afghan province chief survives bombing -- suicide bomb near convoy of cars in Khost
(Afghanistan) Jihad Commander in Afghanistan Sheikh Al-Ustadh Yasser in New Al-Sahab Video: 'The American is an Infidel Fighting the Muslims – Hence, the Muslims Must Fight Him Everywhere'
(Pakistan) Suicide explosion in northern Pakistan kills 40 -- and -- 30 dead in Pakistan military blast - outside Mingora near Swat -- suicide bomber detonated near military truck with explosives
(Pakistan) Important advances made in Oct 18 bomb blasts inquiry: Sindh Chief Minister - calls Bhutto "plunderer and absconder" and says charges against Benazir Bhutto should not be dropped
(Lebanon) UN chief calls for end to 'foreign interference' in Lebanon - information corroborates "allegation that Syria facilitates the flow of weapons and fighters across the Syrian-Lebanese border"
(Israel) Google Earth used to target Israel -- Palestinian militants are using Google Earth to help plan their attacks on the Israeli military and other targets
(Iraq) U.S. outlines Baghdad security handover plan - Most of Baghdad to be turned over to Iraqi control by end of 2008
Pakistan deploys 2,500 soldiers at Islamic militant stronghold -- northwest frontier province -- and surrounding Maulana Fazlullah in the Swat district
(U.S.) IPT: "MASterful Lies" - article on Mahdi Bray, head of Muslim American Society's "civil rights" arm, the Freedom Foundation
(U.S.) Miami: Teacher who attacked base had death wish, FBI says -- Tahmeed Ahmad arrested after attacking the Homestead Air Reserve Base
(Palestinian Territories) U.S. Army officers e-mailing terrorists -- Author slams 'clueless' American trainers, says Washington arming, funding jihadists
(Russia) Second blast in troubled Russian region -- roadside bomb injured two people in Russia's troubled Dagestan region
Spain: Six detained after Islamist terrorist cell uncovered -- in the northern Spanish city of Burgos -- and -- Police seize 'world jihad' team - Men accused of using the Internet to recruit for and plot a 'world jihad'
Spanish judge indicts 22 for terror -- suspected of links to a recruitment network sending fighters to Iraq
Italy: North Africans found guilty of terrorist links -- accused of having ties to an Iraqi guerilla group, Ansar al-Islam
Philippine police mall blast theory rejected -- property firm rejects police theory that gas explosion caused blast
Sharp drop seen in US deaths in Iraq - 20,000 Iraqi "Concerned Citizens" signed up in past 4 months
(U.S.) Bad News for Holy Land Defendants - Palestinian Authority closed zakats because of HAMAS ties, undercutting HLF
(U.S.) Ohio No Stranger to Radical Islam - "A budding Hamas support network" - Steven Emerson quoted
A Kurdish Lesson: Terrorist groups often have nine lives - "(t)errorist groups never die. At best they just fade away."
(Afghanistan) 12 Taliban die in firefight, Afghan military says -- Jalrez district of Wardak province -- and 5 suspected militants arrested in Kandahar
Afghan battle kills militants, civilians, officials say -- 20 suspected militants killed in airstrike in Wardak province
Pakistan's Bhutto receives new threat - letter in Urdu to kill her "by any means"
(Pakistan) Five Taliban militants arrested in Balochistan -- and -- 'Pakistan govt supporting pro-Taliban groups' -- report says Pakistan govt supports Islamists close to Taliban to suppress tribal insurgency in Balochistan
(India) Lethal similarity between terror strikes - Bombs at Mecca Masjid, Samjhuata Express & Ajmer the work of same person or cell
(U.S.) Dallas Morning News report on HLF trial aftermath: 'There was not enough evidence' - Defendants celebrate as U.S. vows to retry case -- Juror William Neal: "There were so many gaps in the evidence, I could drive a truck through it" -- Neal "had difficulty calling Hamas a terrorist group"
(U.S.) Navy SEAL's family gets Medal of Honor - First Medal of Honor for Afghanistan action
(Yemen) I'm born again, says freed Gitmo detainee - Sadeq Mohammed Saeed -- traveled to Afghanistan for Jihad -- viewed as holy duty
(Canada) Toronto terror suspect denied bail -- Steven Chand - in an alleged plot to blow up public buildings and behead Canada's prime minister
Netherlands: AIVD report on Islamic neo-radicalism published in English -- PDF file - "The radical dawa in transition: The rise of Islamic neoradicalism in the Netherlands"
(Iraq) Bombings in Baghdad kill at least 7 -- explosions in Zafaraniyah and roadside bomb in Karradah Shiite areas, advisor to Sunni politician gunned down
Iraq: At least 60 killed in clashes north of Baghdad -- between al-Qaeda and the Islamic Army in the area of al-Khannasa
Turkey considers Iraq attack - after 17 Turkish soldiers killed in Kurdish rebel attack
(Pakistan) Militant killed in botched Pakistan bomb blast -- Taliban Jihadist trying to plan bomb bomb in women's right group office in Karak tow
Nigeria: Two Christians Murdered In Kaduna -- following Muslim leaders' appeal to wage violent Jihad
(New Zealand) Evidence 'will judge raids' -- PM Clark silent on claim of threats to leaders
(Afghanistan) Eastern Afghan battle kills 20 Taliban, wounds 11 civilians -- Taliban using civilians as human shields - officials said Sunday (update)
(Afghanistan) Report: Taliban appoint new regional chief in Afghanistan -- Mullah Omar appoints Mawlawi Abdul Kabir as commander of Taliban loyalists in eastern Afghanistan
(Pakistan) Militants kill 2 tribal elders -- in Bajaur -- met with Taliban commander Baitullah Mahsud for cease-fire -- and -- Five Bugti tribesmen killed in bomb blast
Pakistan: Where the Jihad Lives Now -- Islamic militants have spread beyond their tribal bases, and have the run of an unstable, nuclear-armed nation -- and -- Amid Pakistan carnage, a 'nightmare scenario' for U.S. policy
(U.S.) FBI works to bolster Al Qaeda cases - FBI reconstructing cases against high-value accused Al Qaeda
(Iran & UK) SAS raiders enter Iran to kill gunrunners - British special forces in secret war against IRGC Al Quds
N.Korean, Syrian Officials Hold Talks - Top officials discuss improving relations
(U.S.) 2 GOP Lawmakers Allege Democrats Have Ties to Terrorism - 2 Virginia legislators accuse Governor and other Democrats of embracing radical Islamic groups
Senior Hamas figure slams Gaza takeover - Former spokesman calls takeover "trap"
(New Zealand) Top Maori were terror targets - Multiple targets would have included leaders
What to Do About Pixels of Hate - Dilemna of whether to shut down jihadist websites or use them to find terrorist leaders
(Israel) ABC Report: The Case for Israel's Strike on Syria -- Official: Air Attack Targeted Nascent Nuclear Facility Built With North Korean 'Expertise' -- update on story
(Taliban) New generation Taliban rivaling chief: US-led coalition -- brutal Siraj Haqqani trying to rival Mullah Mohammad Omar for the Taliban leadership
(U.S.) Houston: Student faces more charges in 'battlefield jihad' case -- Pakistani Adnan Mirza in US on student visa -- one of the four Muslim students accused of preparing to join the Taliban to fight U.S.-led forces overseas
(U.S.) Muslim charity verdict reached -- AP report on Holy Land Foundation trial decision -- IPT report
(Iran) G7 praises money-laundering task force action against Iran - Finance leaders praise FATF for uncovering money laundering & illicit finance - see Andrew Cochran's Oct. 16 post
(U.S.) Former counter-terror czar endorses Spitzer license plan - Richard Clarke endorsed NY Governor's plan to allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses
(Belgium) One-legged terrorist to reveal the truth - Youness Loukili promised to tell of his fighting with Al-Qaeda in Iraq
In Paraguay, Piracy Bleeds U.S. Profits, Aids Terrorists - Dennis Lormel: Tri-border area probably most lucrative for Hezbollah outside of state sponsors
(Pakistan) Blasts near Bhutto kill 136 in Pakistan - suicide bombing near Bhutto procession in Karachi -- see also -- Jeffrey Imm's Oct. 18 post - See list of worst Pakistan attacks
(Iraq) Oil pipeline set ablaze near Iraq's Kirkuk - Pipeline carries crude to refinery city of Baiji
(Iraq) Local Foes Commit to Peace in Baghdad - Sunni & Shiite leaders from SW Baghdad signed agreement
(Iraq) Ex-US officer not guilty of aiding enemy -- convicted him on three lesser charges, including unauthorized possession of classified documents
(Iraq) 2 Iraqis suspected of aiding insurgents held - Provincial council member & Iraqi brigade commander
(West Bank) Tackling Hamas, PA to shut down Islamic charitable organizations - Hamas says "declaration of war" on needy - PA arrested senior Hamas leader
(UK) 'Terror suspects filmed by BBC' - 3 of 5 men on trial for terror training were filmed for BBC programm
U.S. Scrutinizes Iranian Revolutionary Guard - U.S. looking for concealed links to Iranian companies - see Andrew Cochran's Oct. 16 post
The Moral Dilemma of Leaving Iraq - Multiple articles and interviews on aspects of eventual U.S. departure
(Afghanistan) 4 Taliban, 4 policemen killed -- Taliban killed in clash in Logar; police killed by landmine in Alisher district
(Afghanistan) 9 troops wounded in Afghanistan -- Taliban used heavy machine guns and rocket propelled grenades to ambush a U.S.-led coalition patrol near Kandahar
(Iraq) MNF arrests local official in Southern Iraq -- from the Sadr party, suspected of facilitating terrorist attacks
(Iraq) Hunting al-Qaida in Iraq -- Up-close look at U.S. soldiers' preparations for 'Operation Snake'
(India) Terror suspect detained for interrogation -- Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami suspect in Sikar district
(Israel) Israeli Arab sentenced for aiding bomber -- Ashraf Keisi get 5 life sentences for driving the suicide bomber who killed five Israelis and wounded 50 others
Mauritania arrests 7 men suspected of terrorism -- allegedly belong to al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa
(U.S.) Terror-fighting center chief steps down - John Redd to leave National Counterterrorism Center
Mauritania arrests 7 men suspected of terrorism - al-Qaida in Islamic Maghreb members planned attacks against Western interests
(Iraq) Blast in Diyala, US forces storm into Al-Sadr City -- Iraqi soldier was killed and four others from booby-trapped car in Diyala
(Iraq) Al-Qaeda 'emir' killed in northern Iraq -- in Mosul, three militants killed from Islamic State of Iraq organization including its leader, Safi
Somali forces storm UN compound in Mogadishu -- World Food Program representative Idris Mohamed Osman being held
(U.S.) Terror suspect in Gitmo meets his lawyer -- detainee Majid Khan - U.S. charges Khan involved in plots blow up American gas stations, poison U.S. reservoirs and kill the president of Pakistan
Romania extradites two to U.S. in terrorism case -- for suspicion of supplying FARC Colombian rebels with weapons
Iraq drawdown to begin in volatile area - Drawdown of U.S. forces to begin in volatile Diyala province
(Iraq) Attacks targeting Iraqi forces kill 17 (updated) - Baghdad checkpoint car bomb, Mosul suicide truck bomb
(Iraq) Car bombing in Iraq kills 6 - near army checkpoint in Baghdad
(Pakistan) New security force fails to garner recruits -- Local Taliban have warned tribesman against enlisting
Pakistan authorities withdraw curfew from tense tribal region -- as officials broker a ceasefire with pro-Taliban militants
(India J&K) Two militants killed at Gool - of Pakistan-based outfit Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT)
(U.S.) Telecoms barred from disclosing spying - Director of National Intelligence invoked state secrets act on AT&T, Verizon, Qwest
(U.S.) Bush urged to block merger -- between 3COM and China's Huawei Technology.
Iran's al Qaeda -- WSJ report on Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
(UK) 'Terror camp' pictures released -- police photographs of Mohammed Hamid - ringleader of a UK terror training camp with two of the July 21 bombers
Germany indicts man for plans to found terrorism school -- Jordanian "Thaer A" indicted in plot to set up Jihad school in Sudan
Denmark: Terrorism update -- Al-Qaeda in Iraq directed the terror cell in Odense to kill secret agent
(Netherlands) Amsterdam: Bilal B. summary -- additional news summary on role with Hofstad Gruop
(Thailand) Violence continues in Narathiwat -- powerful bomb blast critically injured a security guard at a train station in Rusoh district
(Iraq) Six killed in attack on Iraqi anti-al-Qaeda alliance -- Balad checkpoint of the Salahaddin Awakening Council forces
(Afghanistan) Taliban sets out demands to Afghan president -- Mullah Omar wants control of 10 southern provinces, a timetable for withdrawal of foreign troops, and the release of all Taliban prisoners within six months
(U.S.) An Internet jihad aims at U.S. viewers -- Samir Khan in North Carolina in "Islamic jihadi media" -- estimated 100 English language Jihad web sites
Egypt frees key Hamas terrorist -- Nahro Massoud - one of the commanders of Hamas's armed wing, Izzadin Kassam
(Belgium) Suicide bomber recruitment trial starts in Belgium -- including a female convert to Islam who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq
(Russia) "Suicide bombers plot to kill Vladimir Putin" - update - Kremlin confirms report, Iran dismisses report as "completely without foundation" -- and -- Putin confirms Iran trip, despite plot
New Zealand police hold 17 in terror raids -- Maori sovereignty and environmental activists
Report: Turkey shells Iraq border areas - Areas across Iraqi border in Kurdish region
Saudis arrest suspect in killings of four Frenchmen - Kileld in Feb. 26 attack - 2 terrorists already arrested, another killed
Israeli planes struck nuclear site inside Syria, analysts say -- partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel
(Iraq) Bomb targets Iraqis heading to shrine -- car bomb kills 9, including children - in Kazimiyah district
Iraqi warlord's defeat only hardens his resolve -- to battle against secular forces: "The Americans are very ignorant about us Islamists."
(Pakistan) Terrorists in training head to Pakistan -- Europe anti-terror officials fear Jihadists being trained in Pakistan
(Pakistan) Role of Pakistan's 'captain' shows enduring Taliban ties -- Analysts fear intelligence agency figure actually plays double role
The new Taliban -- growth of Taliban
(U.S.) Pentagon and Islam -- fighters increasingly frustrated by the apparent failure of senior military and civilian officials to distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys
(UK) Al Qaeda Target the Premiership Stadium -- reports that Al Qaeda Plotting To Bomb Soccer Game On Live TV
(Afghanistan) India not to back talks with Taliban -- does not support Karzai's offer to engage "good Taliban
(Indonesia) Bombers ready to die: "no there won't be any clemency because its not Islamic law - that is part of democracy and the law of democracy, and we are totally against democracy"
(Iraq) Gasps from al Qaeda -- letters of Abu Osama al-Tunisi to Al Qaeda chieftains
(Pakistan) Clashes resume in Waziristan -- between security forces and local Taliban
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood clashes with security forces on first day of Eid al-Fitr -- Muslim Brotherhood using iron poles and batons to prevent clerics from holding prayers
(U.S.) Jailed '93 WTC bomber claims he's now a Christian - James Gordon Meek: Ramzi Yousef may have converted to Christianity
Austria releases Bosnian in embassy bomb scare -- Austria keeps Bosnian with backpack bomb in custody
(Indonesia) On Anniversary of Bali Bombing, Terrorist Group Still Dangerous - Zachary Abuza on Jemaah Islamiyah: "They're simply lying low... It's allowing them to regroup"
(Iraq) Terrorist uses toys to harvest Iraqi children during Eid -- in Toz Khormato - adult and child killed, 16 children wounded, bomb placed in cart of toys
(Iraq) Bomb in Baghdad shopping area kills 4 - car bomb by clothing store - also investigation into U.S. military assault on AQ with claims of civilian deaths
(India) Terrorist held by Mumbai police -- Mustaffa Sayyad has been taking shelter in Hyderabad since May 2006
(Lebanon) Man says he planted German train bombs -- Jihad Hamad on trial in Lebanon for German train bomb plot
