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issue 26 / october 2010 1 in this issUe FoCUs This edition looks at the European terrorist the Plot thiCkens: plot; the kidnapping trade in the Sahel; ETA’s announced ceasefire: and the splintering of the Caucasus Emirate. Page 4 - 13 >> Europe goes on alert PAGE 4 >> disClosUre The latest threat warnings from around the world. Page 14 >> GroUP ProFile: ÓGliaGh na h’Éireann A profile of the most active dissident republican group in Northern Ireland, Ógliagh na h’Éireann. Page 15 -17 >> Contents news in brieF A monthly review of terrorist attacks in every region of the world. Page 2 >> news hiGhliGhts This month’s highlights include Al-Shabaab suicide attacks, IMU activity in Tajikistan, and a terrorist attack on the British Embassy convoy in Yemen. Page 3>> attaCks by seCtor A breakdown of business sectors affected by terrorist activity across the world. Page 18 - 19 >> •Unless otherwise stated, ALL iMaGES LICENsED FROM Pa iMaGes issue 26 / october 2010 2 news in brieF aMeriCas Police appeal for civilians died during Algerian press reported a ‘poorly circuited and On 8 September, four information after the assault. Prior to that Al-Maqdisi’s arrest crudely assembled’ the murder of unidentified gunmen the jailbreak, the prison came after he met two device that had failed to Imran Farooq explode. It was unclear killed the Mayor of El in London contained more than 100 members of Al-Qaeda Naranjo, in the state of suspected members of the in the Islamic Maghreb, who was behind the attack, although shortly San Luis Potosi, Mexico. group who were awaiting who had reportedly asked afterwards the Indian On the same day, Hillary trial. the cleric for a fatwa Mujahideen (IM), an Clinton, the US Secretary legitimising armed struggle Islamist militant group of State, remarked that Middle east in Algeria. linked to the Pakistan- Mexico’s drugs war On 17 September, based Lashkar-e-Toiba increasingly looks like a soUth asia Jordanian security (LeT), threatened to Colombia-style insurgency. services arrested Abu On 19 September, an target the Commonwealth A Mexican government Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, unknown gunman opened Games in response to spokesman disputed this a jihadist theorist. Al- fire on a parked tourist the killings of civilians but acknowledged that Security officers disarmed kidnapped seven Maqdisi has proclaimed bus outside Delhi’s main in india-administered a spate of recent car two large car bombs foreigners, including five his support for jihad mosque, the Jama Masjid Kashmir. bomb attacks constituted in a residential area French nationals, in the in Iraq and the North and injured two Taiwanese terrorism. of Stavropol, in south- Arlit desert region 500 Caucasus before and nationals. Three hours east asia western russia on 30 miles north of niger’s was once a mentor of later, a car parked 100 On 26 September, a eUROPe September. Police said capital, Niamey. Two of the now-deceased Al- yards from the bus burst bomb exploded outside they found a corpse in one the captives worked On 16 September, Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu into flames. Police said the Nang Loeng Horse car wearing an explosive for Areva, a Paris-based unidentified assailants Musab al-Zarqawi. The that the car contained Stables in central Bangkok, belt. The bombs were nuclear energy firm. stabbed a founding thailand. Police reported large with an equivalent The other five worked member of the Muttahida that the device was weight of 60kg of TNT. for the construction Quami Movement (MQM) planted under a flyover The Stavropol region has company Satom. On 30 in london. MQM is the bridge that runs past the seen little of the type September, AQIM released leading political party in stables close to the official of violence seen in the photographs of the seven Karachi and currently residence of the prime nearby republics. hostages but made no part of Pakistan’s national minister, Phitsanulok ransom demands. coalition. One press House. No group claimed sUb-saharan Suspected Boko-Haram report said the victim responsibility for the aFriCa militants attacked a prison was about to leave attack. MQM to join a new On 15 September, Al- in Bauchi, nigeria, and party set up by Pakistan’s Qaeda in the Islamic freed 750 inmates on former president, Pervez Maghreb (AQIM) 8 September. A soldier, A car catches fire near Jama Masjid mosque after the shooting Musharraf. a policeman and two issue 26 / october 2010 3 news hiGhliGhts its attacks on harder and MI5 stated that it was ‘only country’s north over the The attack, which was the more critical targets. a matter of time’ before past year. second on British officials Somali inspired terrorism in Yemen this year, injured On 21 September, the reached the streets of the An IMU spokesman three people. In April, an Somali prime minister UK. He revealed that a claimed responsibility for AQAP suicide bomber resigned, after long- significant number of UK the attack, and said it was detonated his explosive Al-Shabaab shows off its new recruits running disputes with residents are training in in response to the Tajik vest close to a car carrying President Sharif Sheikh Al-Shabaab’s Somali camps, government’s closing of the British ambassador. al-shabaab ups Somalia) vehicle entering Ahmed. Four days later, a and warned that Somalia mosques and widespread attaCks as soMali the compound. In two mainly Sufi paramilitary is showing the same repression of Muslims. The Yemeni authorities GovernMent other suicide attacks, Al- group withdrew from a characteristics which led The spokesman warned had boosted security weakens Shabaab’s suicide bombers seven-month old deal to Afghanistan becoming that further attacks would around embassies prior to hit Mogadishu’s airport a ‘seed bed’ for terrorism the incident after receiving The Somali Islamist with the government for follow. and seaport. prior to the fall of the information about a movement Al-Shabaab providing armed support Taliban. Janusian does not planned attack. declared a ‘final, massive in exchange for sharing Al-Shabaab now controls believe the IMU has the war’ against foreign power. This move will large areas of Mogadishu the iMU resUrFaCe operational capacity In a separate incident ‘invaders’ on 23 August. almost certainly weaken and the local media has in taJikistan to launch a sustained on the same day, an Shortly afterwards, its the government’s ability to reported that although the campaign in Tajikistan, armed guard for the fighters launched several push back Al-Shabaab. On 19 September, AMISOM troops engage although further isolated Austrian energy group attacks on high-profile militants from the Islamic in heavy battles around The international Movement of Uzbekistan attacks are likely. OMV shot and killed a targets in Mogadishu, Frenchman working in its the Dabka and Bakarah community has growing (IMU) ambushed a military including several suicide Haddah compound on Junctions, AMISOM troops concerns that those convoy as it passed terrorist attaCk attacks. the outskirts of Yemen. can do little to move aligned to Al-Shabaab through a gorge in the on british News reports suggested out from the defensive could internationalise Rasht valley in Tajikistan eMbassy Convoy The group attacked the that the man was OMV’s positions around the port, the group’s struggle. and killed 25 soldiers. presidential compound Suspected Al-Qaeda in the head of operations in airport and Villa Somalia. In late September, the twice, on 30 August and Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) Yemen, although this was United Nations issued a The assailants used again on 20 September. terrorists fired a rocket- unconfirmed. The fractured internal warning of the growing assault rifles and grenade In the second attack, propelled grenade (RPG) politics of the TFG threat posed by the group launchers and attacked a suicide bomber - a at a diplomatic convoy The motive behind the (Transitional Federal internationally. from higher ground. The former security guard Government) adds to the guerrilla-style ambush carrying the deputy British attack remains unclear at the Interior Ministry ambassador to Yemen on 6 and security sources have existing instability within On 16 September, the marked a shift from - penetrated the site by Mogadishu and may be October, in Sana’a. not confirmed if this was Director General of the spate of low-level jumping onto an AMISOM a factor that is driving a personal dispute, or a Britain’s Security Service, bombings seen in the (African Union Mission in Al-Shabaab to increase terrorist attack. issue 26 / october 2010 4 a Plot thiCkens: eUroPe Goes on alert tourism infrastructure. counter-terrorism The British government officials, said that the followed suit - and threat originated from a updated its travel advice variety of ‘credible threats for France and Germany. from terrorist groups in France highlighted the Pakistan’. The Washington threat to the UK. Japan Post claimed the alert and Sweden also issued related to intelligence of warnings. a plan to target Britain, France and Germany using Meanwhile, the German similar tactics to those interior ministry claimed used in the November that the danger was 2008 Mumbai attacks, with hypothetical and said that multiple teams of gunmen while it was aware of Al- striking several targets Qaeda’s and other global at once in urban swarm Islamist groups’ long-term attacks. aim to attack Western targets, there were a tiP-oFF ‘no concrete pointers France goes on alert Most sources seem to to imminent attacks in agree that the first pointer Germany.’ a sequence of counter- to major plot in Europe The last three weeks vaGUe travel On 3 October, the US came from a German terrorism operations the eUroPean saw a string events and alert warninG State Department issued national captured in Kabul in Pakistan and Plot europe, followed by warnings that suggested The first indications of a travel alert warning in July called Ahmed Sidiqi mixed warnings from Europe was under threat.

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