Leading al-Qaida member killed in southern Yemen

Image via Wikipedia ADEN, Yemen, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- A local leading member of the Yemen-based al-Qaida wing were killed Friday evening, along with three bodyguards, when the government army forces shelled the hideouts of the terrorist group in the war-torn southern province of Abyan, a security official told Xinhua.The army forces pounded the hideouts of the terrorists...

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D.C. suicide attack thwarted after FBI sting investigation

Image via Wikipedia A 29-year-old Moroccan man suspected of plotting a suicide attack at the Capitol was arrested Friday near the building in an FBI sting operation, according to the U.S. Capitol Police and media reports. “This arrest was the culmination of a lengthy and extensive operation during which the individual was closely and carefully monitored,” Capitol Police...

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Car bomb in Mogadishu police compound wounds 2

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A car bomb exploded inside a police compound in Somalia's capital on Friday, wounding two people, an official said. Smoke was billowing into the sky after a car bomb went off inside the compound of the building housing a police unit against crime, witnesses told Xinhua. The blast rattled Mogadishu, but Lt. Aden Kalmoy Dhaqane, a military official,...

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21 al-Qaida fighters captured in security raid in south Yemen

Image via Wikipedia SANAA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Yemeni government forces captured 21 al-Qaida operatives in a raid on Friday dawn in the country's restive province of al-Bayda, a local security official said, a day after a al-Qaida local chief was assassinated in an intelligence-organized operation."A total of 21 al-Qaida fighters, including two commanders, were captured...

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15+ killed in suicide blast in NW Pakistan(updated)

Map of Pakistan (Photo credit: Omer Wazir) UPDATE: At least 25 people were killed and over 50 others were injured in a suicide blast that hit a mosque in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency which borders Afghanistan Friday afternoon, reported local media. The attack took place at about 1:50 p.m. local time when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden...

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US Predators kill 19 'militants' in 2 North Waziristan strikes

By Bill Roggio - February 16, 2012 - LWJ Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 19 "militants," including foreign fighters, in a pair of strikes in the Miramshah and Mir Ali areas of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today. The strikes broke a one-week-long lull in US attacks in the tribal...

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Russian forces kill Caucasus Emirate's commander for Dagestan

By Bill Roggio - February 16, 2012 3:56 PM - LWJ/ThreatMatrix The Islamic Caucasus Emirate announced that Russian troops killed Emir Saleh (Ibragimkhalil Daudov), the terror group's governor of Dagestan and the military commander of the Dagestani front. Saleh's death was announced yesterday by VDagestan, a jihadist site linked to the...

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