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*Iraq's Sufi-Baathist insurgency When an Iraqi insurgent group calling itself the Army of the Men of the Naqshabandiyya Order (Jaish Rijaal al-Tariqa al-Naqshabandiyya: JRTN) was formed in late... 08-Mar-2010 *Af-Pak IED supply lines Afghan insurgents are sourcing blasting caps, detonating cord (det cord)and chemicals from Pakistan to make their improvised explosive devices (IEDs), according to United States military... 08-Mar-2010 *CIA bomber ridicules Jordanian intelligence On 28 February, Al-Qaeda's media wing released a 43-minute video featuring Jordanian doctor Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi before he carried out the suicide ... 08-Mar-2010 *JTIC Global Attack Index Trends in global attacks: February 2010 February saw a total of 658 attacks recorded worldwide from open sources by Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre ... 05-Mar-2010 NDS: LeT behind Kabul bombings A spokesman for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said on 2 March that the Pakistan-based jihadist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) was involved in the ... 08-Mar-2010 Shabab announces agricultural boom in Somalia The Shabab, the jihadist group that controls much of southern Somalia, claimed in a 28 February statement that the expulsion of the UN's World ... 08-Mar-2010 *Drone strike over Pakistan kills TIP leader Abdul Haq al-Turkistani, the leader of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), a jihadist group comprised of Uighur Muslims from western China, was killed by ... 08-Mar-2010 *AQIM frees French hostage in exchange for its members Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) released French aid worker Pierre Camatte on 23 February after Mali met the group's demand to free four ... 08-Mar-2010 Iraqi Shia group ends ceasefire Iraqi Shia group Asaib Ahl al-Haq broke its ceasefire on 6 February when it released a video of the kidnapped United States civilian contractor ... 08-Mar-2010 *Pakistan rounds-up Taliban US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates welcomed the arrest of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and other senior Afghan Taliban leaders as "real progress" and "another... 05-Mar-2010 *India remains on the radar India experienced its most significant act of urban terrorism in 14 months when a bomb exploded in the popular German Bakery in the city of... 02-Mar-2010 *Water bombing A new threat surfaced in Israel on 1 February, when barrels filled with explosive were found on beaches near the towns of Ashdod and Ashkelon.... 19-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 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 *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 *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 *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 *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 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 *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 *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 *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 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 *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 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 *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 *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 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 *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 *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 |
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