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*AQAP under fire The failed attempt to bomb a United States airliner over Detroit on 25 December 2009 has led to an intensified counter-terrorist campaign against Al-Qaeda in... 05-Feb-2010 MEND threatens 'onslaught' on Nigerian oil trade The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) called off its unilateral ceasefire and threatened an "all-out onslaught" on Nigeria's oil industry ... 08-Feb-2010 *Militants fight Israelis on the beaches Palestinian militants claimed to have launched maritime improvised explosive devices (IEDs) off the coast of the Gaza Strip on 1 February. Fliers distributed in... 08-Feb-2010 AQIM supports Nigerian muslims Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) released a statement to jihadist websites on 1 February offering to support Nigerian Muslims against their Christian compatriots. ... 08-Feb-2010 *Russian forces kill veteran Al-Qaeda leader in Dagestan Russian security forces killed Egyptian Al-Qaeda leader Mahmud Muhammad Shahban (alias Sayf Islam) in Dagestan on 2 February. State television channel Rossiya 1 TV ... 08-Feb-2010 *AQI bombs target Baghdad Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) unleashed another wave of co-ordinated bombings against Baghdad on 25 January, the fourth such attack since August 2009. The campaign marks... 05-Feb-2010 *TTP denies Hakimullah's death by drone The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) continues to deny reports that its leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, but refuses to produce confirmation. Hakimullah appears to have... 08-Feb-2010 India reveals plane hijacking plotter The Indian government confirmed a possible airliner hijacking plot on 22 January. UK Bansal, home affairs minister for security, told Reuters: "We have alerted ... 08-Feb-2010 *JTIC Global attack index TRENDS IN GLOBAL ATTACKS: January 2010 January saw a total of 756 attacks recorded worldwide from open sources by Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre ... 05-Feb-2010 *Assault on Kabul Afghan insurgents demonstrated a further evolution in their urban assault tactics with a carefully planned operation in the heart of Kabul on 18 January. The... 04-Feb-2010 *Shabab's mixed messages The 3 December 2009 suicide bombing at Mogadishu's Shamo Hotel exposed the competing agendas within the Shabab, the militant Islamist group held responsible, according to... 27-Jan-2010 *JeM rejects US recruits The alleged contacts between five United States nationals arrested in Pakistan in December 2009 and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) suggests that aspiring foreign jihadists can easily find... 22-Jan-2010 Splinter forms Sahara Emirate An offshoot of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has rebranded itself as the Sahara Emirate covering Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Morocco, Al-Jazeera reported ... 08-Jan-2010 Iraq releases Iran-backed Shia cleric Iraqi government spokesman Alaa al-Taii confirmed on 5 January that Shia militant Qais al-Khazali had been released two days earlier. The leader of Asaib... 08-Jan-2010 *TTP denies responsibility for Ashura march bomb Azam Tariq, the official spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), made telephone calls to various media organisations on 31 December to deny the group ... 08-Jan-2010 Kashmiri militants infiltrate the capital Two militants attacked security forces in Srinagar, the capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, on 6 January. The attackers retreated to ... 08-Jan-2010 *Somali militants deny link to Danish cartoonist attack A spokesman for the Shabab has denied that the 28-year-old Somali man who allegedly attacked Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard on 1 January was affiliated ... 08-Jan-2010 *Pakistani Taliban identify Jordanian double agent as CIA bomber An informer has been identified as the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and one Jordanian intelligence officer at a base in Afghanistan's ... 08-Jan-2010 *Spain jails Metro terrorists Arrests in Barcelona on 18 January 2008 led to fears of a wave of terrorist attacks being planned across Europe in what was the first... 08-Jan-2010 *Danger over Detroit Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) emerged as an international threat when it attempted to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it arrived in Detroit... 08-Jan-2010 *Real IRA splinter threat An attempted car bomb attack in Belfast on 21 November highlighted the growing threat from dissident republican militants in Northern Ireland. The incident went unclaimed, ... 30-Dec-2009 *The many faces of Al-Qaeda In earlier years, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri were virtually the only Al-Qaeda leaders who showed their faces in videos or spoke in audio ... 30-Dec-2009 Pakistani Taliban defiant Pakistan-based jihadists have launched a propaganda counter-offensive in response to the military operations in South Waziristan. The jihadists are attempting to align their rhetoric with ... 03-Dec-2009 *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 an... 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 footage... 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 to... 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 for... 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 *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 1... 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 *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 *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 *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 *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 |
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