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*Country Briefing - Thailand: Oct 2008 to Sep 2009 Operational tempo Between 1 October 2008 and 30 September 2009, Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre (JTIC) recorded 286 successful attacks in Thailand, equating to ... 11-Nov-2009 *Taliban chain of command The Afghan insurgency is a hotchpotch of Islamist factions, power-hungry warlords, criminals and tribal groupings all pursuing their own agendas and interests, from local blood... 06-Nov-2009 *New footage may contain image of Bin Laden Osama bin Laden may have appeared in a recent video, according to some Al-Qaeda watchers, who say a grey bearded man seen in blurred ... 09-Nov-2009 *Video suggests Al-Qaeda links to Taliban A previously unknown jihadist media organisation called Al-Emirate Media released a video on 3 November detailing a multiple suicide bomber attack in Kandahar on ... 09-Nov-2009 Pakistan finds militant foreigners' passports When Pakistani soldiers overran a jihadist stronghold at Sherwangai in South Waziristan on 17 October, they found a cache of passports of foreigners presumed ... 09-Nov-2009 *Yemen rebels turn attention to kingdom In an escalation in the northern Yemen conflict, the Zaydi Shia militant group Al-Shabab al-Muminin clashed with Saudi forces on 4 November. Saudi officials... 09-Nov-2009 Israel captures ship of arms The Israeli navy intercepted a vessel carrying a huge arms shipment on 3 November. The Israeli military claimed the weapons were Iranian and destined ... 09-Nov-2009 *LeT eyes global status Nearly a year after 10 Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) militants killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, the arrest in Chicago of two men indicates that the... 06-Nov-2009 *Rigi: Iran's most wanted The leader of the militant group Jondollah, Abdolmalek Rigi is Iran's most notorious terrorist and responsible for introducing suicide bombings to the country. No other... 06-Nov-2009 *Al-Qaeda feels the crunch Al-Qaeda is facing serious financial problems, according to the US Department of the Treasury. However, there is some debate as to the precise causes and... 06-Nov-2009 *MEND threatens more violence The Movement for the Emanc-ipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) threatened to renew its insurgency in a 7 October email. The email also described ... 09-Oct-2009 Russia releases insurgent figures Since 2003, Russian security forces have killed 2,186 militants in the North Caucasus, Interfax cited a Ministry of the Interior representative as saying on ... 09-Oct-2009 *FBI suspects US-Somali of suicide attack A US national of Somali descent is suspected of having participated in the 17 September suicide bombing against African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu. The... 09-Oct-2009 *Suicide in the sky British counter-terrorism officials breathed a sigh of relief on 7 September, when a jury convicted three men of plotting to bomb transatlantic passenger airliners. The... 09-Oct-2009 Iraqi jihadists reshuffle cabinet The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a jihadist group that fronts Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and poses as a shadow government, announced a cabinet ... 09-Oct-2009 *Al-Qaeda dejects recruits Two contrasting views of Al-Qaeda's ability to threaten Europe have emerged in recent months. One suggests the group is capable of orchestrating plots in several... 09-Oct-2009 *Hakimullah: alive and kicking Hakimullah Mehsud, leader of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has held a press conference to prove he is alive, while the suicide bombing in Islamabad a... 09-Oct-2009 India says Pakistan is crossing the line Indian officials have repeated their allegation that Pakistan supports militant infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC), the boundary dividing Indian-administered Kashmir from Pakistan-administered ... 09-Oct-2009 Ex-hostage angers Niger government In his first interview since his release in April, Robert Fowler, one of two Canadian UN officials kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ... 09-Oct-2009 *Insurgency hijacks Kunduz The previously relatively peaceful province of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan is developing into an insurgent stronghold. At least one of the province's districts is under... 09-Oct-2009 *Videos raise concerns of terrorist attack in Germany A series of jihadist videos focusing on Germany have been released in recent weeks, prompting fears of a possible attack in the country following ... 09-Oct-2009 Indonesian Al-Qaeda releases bomb tape A short video was released to jihadist forums on 7 October in the name of 'Al-Qaeda in Indonesia'. It showed a masked individual identified ... 09-Oct-2009 Al-Ikhlas online for anniversary Al-Ikhlas, one of the most prominent jihadist internet forums until it went offline in September 2008, made a brief reappearance for the anniversary of ... 09-Oct-2009 *Al-Qaeda interviews Afghan Taliban leader Al-Qaeda's media wing, Al-Sahab, released a video interview with Mawlawi Sangin, ¡purportedly a senior Afghan Taliban leader, to jihadist websites on 1 September. A ... 07-Sep-2009 ISI jihadists claim responsibility for Baghdad bombings The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a jihadist organisation that includes Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), claimed responsibility for the attacks on government buildings in ... 07-Sep-2009 *Yemen rebels show off spoils of war Al-Shabab al-Muminin (believing youth) rebels released a video in August showing weapons captured from the Yemeni military. The footage included scenes of armed militants ... 07-Sep-2009 Rebels down Peru army helicopter Peru's left-wing rebel group Sendero Luminoso (SL) shot down a military helicopter on 2 September, Minister of Defence Rafael Rey has confirmed. The state... 07-Sep-2009 Boko Haram's Afghan connection Nigeria's Boko Haram militant group has sent recruits to Afghanistan to train, according to a police press conference held in the northern Nigerian state ... 07-Sep-2009 AQIM joins forces with Abu Sayyaf Algeria's Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in the Philippines are co-operating with each other, according to an ... 07-Sep-2009 Russia hands out its own medicine An Algerian national known as Doctor Muhammad was killed in a counter-terrorism raid in the Russian republic of Dagestan on 30 August, Interfax reported. ... 07-Sep-2009 Nicaragua's ETA links revealed Nicaragua is again becoming a safe haven for the Basque militant group Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), the Spanish newspaper ABC reported on 31 August. ... 07-Sep-2009 *Home-made horror Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have become the principle weapon in Afghanistan's insurgency. The mostly simple devices are taking a steadily rising toll on coalition and... 07-Sep-2009 *AQAP targets Saudi prince Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has claimed responsibility for the failed attempt to kill Saudi Arabia's Prince Muhammad bin Nayif on 27 August. The... 04-Sep-2009 *Jihad times in Gaza Strip The clash that killed radical preacher Abd-al-Latif Khalid Muhammad Musa on 15 August highlighted the Gaza Strip's emergence as a base for Al-Qaeda type jihadists.... 03-Sep-2009 *New Baitullah on the bloc The death of Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan's most wanted terrorist, triggered a power struggle within the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the coalition of militant groups he created.... 03-Sep-2009 |
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