(U.S.) The FBI At 100 -- How The Bureau Has Transformed From Capturing Gangsters With "Cool" Nicknames To Tracking Terrorists
(U.K.) Terror lunacy -- hundreds of terrorist inmates will have sentences cut in half
Pakistan plans no release of militant suspect -- Rafiuddin, allegedly a top aide to Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud
(Australia) Surge in calls to security hotline -- Australians increasingly worried about terrorism on home soil
(China) Beijing Olympics under clouds of terrorism -- terrorist threat unsurpassed in Olympic history
(Al Qaeda) UK's Guardian Observer: "The heretic -- How Al-Qaeda's mastermind turned his back on terror" -- Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, aka Dr. Fadl, "does not condemn all jihadist activity" also seeks "restrictions on jihad" stating "Jihad in Afghanistan will lead to the creation of an Islamic state with the triumph of the Taliban"
(Pakistan) Extremists threaten Daily Aaj Kal -- after cartoon of Lal Masjid Jihad advocate
Somali troops kill 7 -- accusing them of being part of an Islamic insurgency that has carried out a recent series of hit-and-run raids on government targets
U.S.: Facts Tie Muslim Groups To Hamas Front Case - Prosecutors say ISNA & NAIT had "intimate relationship" with Muslim Brotherhood, HLF
(J&K) Hizb militant arrested in Kupwara district - Pakistan trained Ali Mohammad Khan, alias Showkat, is deputy district commander of Hizbul Mujahideen
US-led strikes kills 64 Afghan civilians (updated) -- U.S. denies that civilians killed, only militants
(Pakistan) FATA: US helicopters bombard Pakistani tribal area, wound eight soldiers - were conducting raid against Taliban - Angorada area of the South Waziristan tribal agency
(Pakistan) NWFP: Army to start Swat withdrawal next month - under peace deal with Mullah Fazlullah's led Taliban -- see also Jeffrey Imm's postings on June 10, May 22
Pakistan: Containers found with radioactive material - in Karachi - neutron source material was of Soviet origin
(U.S.) Guantanamo Bay: Accused 9/11 Plotter Tells Guantanamo Judge He Would Be Proud to Attack U.S. -- Waleed bin Attash: "Any attack I undertook against America, or even participated or helped in, I am proud about it, and I am happy"
(UK) July 21 bomber's fiancee jailed for helping 'burka escape' -- Fardosa Abdullahi gave bomb plot ringleader Yassin Omar her mother’s long black robe to help him flee London
(U.S.) Worse than nuclear threat - analysis on biological, chemical, and nuclear threats
(India) Suspected terrorist walks free -- Tariq Ahmed Batloo who was arrested with explosives at the Konkan Railway station at Margao in March 2006
Lebanon leaders agree unity government: sources -- gives veto power for the Hezbollah-led opposition
(India) Foreign agencies supporting militant outfits: Buddhadeb - Chief Minister says foreign intel agencies helping LeT, Al-Badr, ULFA, KLO
(Iraq) Al-Qaida in Iraq militants detained - 30 detained in Baghdad, Fallujah, and Mosul
Pakistan foreign minister rejects foreign troops -- in battling insurgents near the Afghan border
(Pakistan) FATA: Landmine blasts kill six in Pakistan: official -- Kurram Agency -- also bullet-riddled body in FATA North Waziristan found with note alleging "spying"
(Al-Qaeda) Bin Laden's followers tell al-Qaeda's story in new video -- video, entitled "Jihad and Martyrdom", was produced by al-Sahab
(U.S.) Red Tape Nearly Stops Testimony by Top Former Islamic Radical -- on UK's Maajid Nawaz with Quilliam Foundation (formerly with Hizb ut-Tahrir) -- see also Andrew Cochran's July 7 posting
Somalia: Southwestern Town Overrun By Islamists - Spokesman -- Somali Islamists seized the control of Deynunay town 20km south of Baidoa city the seat of Somalia parliament
(Canada) PM brushes off evidence of Guantanamo abuse -- Omar Khadr alleges deprived of uninterrupted sleep
(Philippines) Armed Forces chief: Media should make own rules on conflict coverage -- for covering the August polls in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)
