Fighting in North and East Lebanon - New fighting between supporters of government and opposition
Purchases Linked N. Korean to Syria - NK firm acquired key materials from vendors in China & Europe, secretly transferring to Syrian construction site
(Iraq) Charity is other face of militant group - Sadr's movement ''has established itself as the main service provider in the country"
Qaeda says key member killed in Afghanistan - web - Abu Suleiman al-Otaibi, formerly one of the group's leaders in Iraq, was killed
(Lebanon) Hezbollah fighters in Beirut melt away - Army emerges after decisions to fire airport security chief and end Hezbollah phone network reversed
Shell pulls out of Iran gas deal - After criticism from U.S. Congress
(U.S.) Influential Muslim Cleric Fights Deportation in New Jersey -- Imam Mohammad Qatanan arrested and pled guilty to Hamas membership
(U.S.) Top Expert on Al Qaeda Victim of Budget Cuts -- regional specialists at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(India J&K) Firing along LoC: India to lodge protest with Pakistan -- initial reports that militants sought to infiltrate into Jammu region
(Netherlands) Dutch drop case against 3 suspected of attack plan -- insufficient evidence of attack plot by two Moroccans and one Sudanese
(Thailand) Police seize 21,000 fake passports -- gang leader charged with smuggling weapons to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels
(U.S.) Representative Hoekstra Sponsors Amendment to Intelligence Bill - to prohibit intelligence community from adopting "speech codes" that encumber accurately describing jihadists - See Jeffrey Imm's May 8 post
U.S. Urged: Fight Terror On Web -- Security Panel Finds Internet Being Used To Recruit, Train Terrorists -- growing use of Internet to recruit terrorists in U.S. -- Senate Homeland Security Committee report "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat" (Acrobat PDF file)
(Iraq) Seven killed in Baghdad battles - between Shiite fighters and US forces - in Sadr City
(Afghanistan) Twelve dead in Afghanistan violence - in Laghman province's Alishing area, and in Khost
'Pakistan may be launching point of future Al Qaeda strikes' -- U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Howard L. Berman
(Lebanon) Hizbullah: Qassem warns 'pro-Israeli factions' - Hizbullah warns against resistance, disabling Hizbullah's private communications network
(Lebanon) Top Sunni accuses Hezbollah of 'invading' Beirut - Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Kabbani: "an invasion of the city by an armed group"
Somalia fighting leaves 23 dead - in Garsani - Sheikh Abdirahin Ise: "our holy warriors with the help of Allah won a huge victory"
Sudanese convicted of espionage in Germany -- spying on opponents of Islamism in Sudan
(Canada) Terrorism suspect tries to quit his own trial -- 20-year old Islamic convert won't recognize Canadian law - name withheld as he was underage at time of arrest
Ecuador orders jets -- in response to the March 1 attack by Colombian troops on a FARC rebel base inside Ecuador
(U.S. & Colombia) Treasury Targets FARC Money Exchange House - Colombian money exchange house laundered funds - 4th action against FARC in 6 months
(Iraq) The Challenge Of Creating A Lasting Peace -- "Some of the Awakening are chanting for al-Qaeda and using slogans for al-Qaeda. I think the district will pay the price because of these problems."
(Pakistan) Five Baitullah bombers enter Karachi -- members of Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud group
(Pakistan) Cop gets bail in Rashid Rauf escape case -- Rauf is alleged mastermind in UK transatlantic jet plot to attack U.S.
U.S. aims to unlink Islamic, terrorism - UPI reports that former senior administration official involved in policy debates states "There's a growing consensus that we need to move away from that language" -- Investigative Project on Terrorism report referenced
(U.S.) Challenges Ahead for Counterterror Chief Leiter (NCTC) -- confirmation hearing addresses terrorism in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia - no mention of NCTC jihad lexicon memo
(Somalia) Ethiopia accuses Amnesty of smear campaign --- claims reports of atrocities fed to Amnesty Intl by "groups affiliated to al Shabaab"
Somali opposition accuses France of 'kidnapping' pirates -- ARS chairman Hussein Mohamed Aidid says France lacks the legal mandate to charge the six pirates who have held Le Ponant and its crew hostage
(Spain) Pakistan says Spain has solid evidence against its nine nationals -- for planning a terrorist attack in Spain and other European countries
(Thailand) Insurgents kill worker in South -- in the Muang district of Yala province
