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   Analysing international terrorism


*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

*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

*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

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

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

*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

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

*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

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

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

*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

*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

*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

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

*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

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

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

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

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

*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

*AQIM risks Mali refuge
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has maintained a small presence in northern Mali for years, but this safe haven is now under threat. After...
27-Aug-2009

*Split personality in the ISI
The Iraqi authorities claim to have captured the leader (emir) of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), an Al-Qaeda affiliated jihadist umbrella group. However, US...
06-Aug-2009

Suspect flight 447 names dismissed
French police have dismissed two suspicious names on the list of passengers killed in the Air France Flight 447 crash off Brazil as a ...
03-Jul-2009

*Pakistani Taliban unity
The unity of the fractious Pakistani Taliban movement remains a crucial issue as the military gears up to assault Baitullah Mehsud's strongholds in the Federally...
03-Jul-2009

AQIM plans to take revenge on France
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) leader Abu Musab Abd-al-Wadud responded to French President Nicolas Sarkozy's comments about burkas not being welcome in France ...
03-Jul-2009

Money tight for Gaza militants
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) seems to be experiencing money problems. PIJ deputy secretary general Ziyad al-Nakhalah was evasive when the Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq...
03-Jul-2009

*Tigers' getaway sub resurfaces
Sri Lankan troops found on 14 June what the Sri Lanka Army claimed was the only operational submarine built by the rebel Liberation Tigers ...
03-Jul-2009





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