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Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity OCTOBER 2008 . VOL 1 . ISSUE 11 Recent Highlights in dead, in addition to six of the attackers. individuals who were planning attacks “The attack involved multiple vehicle- on non-Muslims. Munshi is now 18-years- Terrorist Activity borne devices and armed personnel on old. – dailyrecord.co.uk, September 20 foot, seemingly in an attempt to try to September 16, 2008 (UNITED STATES): breach the embassy’s perimeter, enter September 19, 2008 (GERMANY): Central Intelligence Agency Director the compound and inflict further damage German authorities arrested two men Michael Hayden said that “there is no and loss of life,” stated an Associated on terrorism charges, alleging that they greater national security threat facing Press report. Analysts suspect that were involved in a cell that was planning the United States than al-Qaida and its the attackers were linked to al-Qa`ida. mass bombing attacks on U.S. targets associates,” warning that al-Qa`ida is None of those killed or wounded were in Germany in 2007. The suspects, a the CIA’s top nuclear concern because U.S. diplomats or embassy employees. Turkish national and a German citizen, it has the intent to use a nuclear weapon – AP, September 18 allegedly traveled to Pakistan in 2007 should it be able to acquire one. Hayden with the goal of receiving military also said that his agency does not believe September 17, 2008 (PAKISTAN): training at camps run by the al- that Usama bin Ladin is still the head According to security officials, Qa`ida-affiliated Islamic Jihad Union. of al-Qa`ida’s day-to-day operations as Pakistani fighter jets bombed a series – Washington Post, September 20 the jihadist leader “is spending a great of militant hideouts in Bajaur Agency deal of his energy merely surviving.” of the Federally Administered Tribal September 19, 2008 (SOMALIA): Hayden does believe, however, that Areas, killing at least 19 fighters. – AFP, Islamist militants exchanged intense killing or capturing Bin Ladin would September 18 gunfire with Somali Transitional Federal have a powerful impact on al-Qa`ida. Government forces and Ethiopian troops – AP, September 16 September 18, 2008 (GLOBAL): A new in Mogadishu, causing the deaths of an survey released by the Pew Research estimated 15 civilians. The fighting came September 16, 2008 (PAKISTAN): Center found that the number of after an African Union military aircraft Three Pakistani soldiers were killed Muslims around the world who think defied an al-Shabab ban on planes using after Taliban fighters attacked their suicide attacks are acceptable has fallen Mogadishu’s airport. The plane landed checkpoint in the Swat Valley of the significantly in the past six years. – AFP, successfully, yet under fire. – Reuters, North-West Frontier Province. The September 19 September 19 attack began when a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives as security September 18, 2008 (PAKISTAN): September 20, 2008 (PAKISTAN): A personnel approached his vehicle at Taliban militants in Swat District of the suicide bomber detonated a truck loaded the checkpoint. After the explosion, a North-West Frontier Province released with approximately 590 kilograms of group of militants engaged the rest of eight policemen who had been held explosives outside the Marriott Hotel in the soldiers. – AFP, September 16 captive since July 29. – Dawn, September 19 Islamabad. The huge bomb blast caused significant damage to the hotel and September 16, 2008 (THAILAND): September 19, 2008 (GLOBAL): An al- led to the deaths of at least 53 people; Muslim separatist insurgents in Qa`ida video marking the anniversary hundreds more were wounded. The southern Thailand shot dead two of the September 11, 2001 attacks bombing killed the Czech ambassador to Muslim rubber tappers who worked appeared on the internet. The video’s Pakistan, in addition to two American as village defense volunteers in Yala release was apparently delayed due to officials with the U.S. Department Province. When police and villagers technical problems, as a number of al- of Defense. A group calling itself the arrived at the scene after the killings, Qa`ida’s main websites went offline. “Islam Commandos” took credit for the insurgents detonated a 20 kilogram In the video, al-Qa`ida’s commander the operation; little is known about bomb, wounding five policemen and for Afghanistan, Shaykh Sa`id Mustafa the group, and authorities suspect that three villagers. – Reuters, September 16 Abu’l-Yazid, promised “more large- the attack was actually conducted by scale attacks” in Afghanistan and called either al-Qa`ida- or Taliban-affiliated September 17, 2008 (IRAQ): Twin car on militants in Pakistan to “strike the militants. – AP, September 21; AP, September bombs ripped through the al-Khark interests of Crusader [Western] allies 25; AFP, September 21 district in western Baghdad, killing in Pakistan.” The video is titled, “The eight people. – AFP, September 17 Results of Seven Years of Crusades.” September 20, 2008 (PAKISTAN): A – Reuters, September 20; AP, September 20 suicide bomber attacked a security September 17, 2008 (AFGHANISTAN): force convoy near Mir Ali in North A roadside bomb exploded in eastern September 19, 2008 (UNITED KINGDOM): Waziristan Agency of the Federally Afghanistan, killing four international Hammad Munshi was sentenced to two Administered Tribal Areas, killing six soldiers and one Afghan national. years in jail after being convicted of people, three of whom were soldiers. Authorities did not identify the exact making a record of information likely to – Reuters, September 20 location of the incident. – AP, September 16 provide practical assistance to a person committing an act of terrorism. Munshi, September 20, 2008 (YEMEN): Yemen’s September 17, 2008 (YEMEN): A group who committed the crime when he foreign minister said that the September calling itself Islamic Jihad in Yemen was 16-years-old, downloaded jihadist 17 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sana`a launched a multipronged attack on the military manuals from the internet, and “has the markings of al-Qa`ida.” – AP, U.S. Embassy in Sana`a, leaving 11 people then passed the information to two other September 20 OCTOBER 2008 . VOL 1 . ISSUE 11 September 21, 2008 (AFGHANISTAN): September 23, 2008 (AFGHANISTAN): citizen and convert to Islam, and More than 140 workers involved in the A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy Houssain al-Malla, 23-years-old and construction of a military base were of German and Afghan troops in Kunduz a native of Lebanon. – Washington Post, kidnapped by suspected Taliban gunmen Province. There were no casualties other September 27 in Farah Province. The workers were than the life of the bomber. – Deutsche abducted while traveling in three buses Welle, September 23 September 25, 2008 (AFGHANISTAN/ in the province. – Reuters, September 22 PAKISTAN): NATO officials said September 23, 2008 (PAKISTAN): that Pakistani troops fired on ISAF September 21, 2008 (PAKISTAN/ Pakistani security forces claimed they helicopters in Afghanistan’s Khost AFGHANISTAN): Pakistani security killed 10 suspected insurgents during Province. Pakistani officials claim that forces claimed that they opened fire an offensive in Bajaur Agency of the the coalition helicopters crossed into on two U.S. helicopter gunships after Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Pakistani territory; NATO, however, they “violated Pakistan’s airspace.” – AP, September 23 responded that “at no time did ISAF The alleged incident occurred near North helicopters cross into Pakistani Waziristan Agency on the Afghanistan- September 24, 2008 (GERMANY): A airspace.” – Voice of America, September 25 Pakistan border area. The U.S. Department German court convicted a 25-year- of Defense denied the Pakistani account. old Moroccan man, Abdelali Miftah, September 26, 2008 (GERMANY): – AFP, September 22; AP, September 23 of supporting a foreign terrorist Authorities pulled two suspected organization and helping to found a terrorists from a plane in Cologne. The September 21, 2008 (NORTH AFRICA): terrorist cell. Miftah, who was sentenced Somali-born men had left notes in their The leader of al-Qa`ida in the Islamic to four years in jail, was accused of apartments near Cologne that suggested Maghreb appeared in a new videotape helping to recruit supporters for al- they intended to carry out a suicide blasting a “new colonial offensive” by Qa`ida to fight in Iraq. Prosecutors mission. Their travel agenda showed the West in North Africa. The leader, claim that he was a “communications that they planned to fly to Uganda via Abu Mus`ab `Abd al-Wadud (also facilitator” for a Europe-based group Amsterdam, and then from Uganda to known as Abdelmalek Droukdel), railed that assisted al-Qa`ida. – AP, September Pakistan. One of the men was a Somali against the Algerian government and 24 national, while the other was a German warned Muslims not to support the local citizen born in Mogadishu. – Washington “regimes of apostasy and treason.” He September 24, 2008 (IRAQ): Gunmen Post, September 27 also made a veiled reference to France’s ambushed and killed 12 policemen territorial security. – AP, September 22 and eight anti-al-Qa`ida fighters in September 26, 2008 (AFGHANISTAN): the village of al-Dulaimat in Diyala Most of the 140 civilian laborers who September 21, 2008 (PHILIPPINES): Province. Some reports state that an were abducted by Taliban fighters Two Abu Sayyaf Group members who additional 15 policemen were killed, on September 21 were freed. After claimed to have met with wanted Jemaah bringing the total number of dead to 35. mediation between tribal elders and Islamiyah members Dulmatin and – AFP, September 24; AFP, September 25 the Taliban, a Taliban spokesman said, Umar Patek surrendered to authorities. “We have released 118 of these workers – Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 23 September 24, 2008 (PAKISTAN): A and the rest will be freed soon.” – BBC, suicide bomber attacked a Frontier September 26 September 22, 2008 (FRANCE): The Corps convoy in Quetta in Balochistan French parliament voted to maintain Province, resulting in the death of a September 26, 2008 (AFGHANISTAN): its military role in Afghanistan and teenage female student.
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