Counterterrorism Blog
The first multi-expert blog dedicated solely to counterterrorism issues, serving as a gateway to the community for policymakers and serious researchers. Designed to provide realtime information about terrorism cases and policy developments.
March 2010 Archives

Kenya frees American suspected of terrorism links - Suleman Essa and 2 others were released Friday 3/26

Pentagon eyeing drone shift to aid Somalia

Trial opens for five Americans in Pakistan

Ethiopian Airlines 'Interested' in Report of Bomb Aboard Crashed Jet - January 2010 crash off coast of Lebanon

Government must reveal more evidence against taxi driver accused of supporting al-Qaida - Raja Lahrasib Khan in Chicago

Nigerian Islamist sect threaten to widen attacks - Boko Haram sect

Russia's Fear of Female Bombers Is Revived

9 Tied to Militia Charged in Plot to Murder Officers - Members of Christian militia group Hutaree

Cases Nada Prouty worked for the government

Subway Blasts Kill Dozens in Moscow - Female suicide bombers

FBI agents conduct raids in Mich., Ohio, Ind. - AP reports that members of Hutaree, a Christian militia group, said their property in southwest Michigan was being raided

Obama Makes a Surprise Visit to Afghanistan

Iraq Bomb Blasts Kill 42 And Wound 65

IDF probe: Mistakes made in Gaza incident

Department of Justice releases International Terrorism and Terrorism-Related Statistics Chart 9/11/2001-3/18/2010, 403 convictions in list of unsealed cases and announcement

Access to Mumbai terrorist creates rift between India, U.S. - David Headley

American Terror Suspect Traveled Unimpeded - David C. Headley

Bin Laden warns US against executing 9/11 mastermind - OSAMA BIN LADEN tape on Al Jazeera

Kenyan police arrest American on terror watch list - Suleman Essa

Visa denial was reversed for terrorism suspect in 2004 - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

(Indonesia) Bali's successors issue new call for jihad - Al Qaeda in Aceh

Former Gitmo detainee targeting Afghan charities - Abdul Hafiz AKA Abdul Qawi

Somali Backlash May Be Militants' Worst Foe

Insurgent Faction Presents Afghan Peace Plan - Hezb-i-Islami

United States Transfers Three Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Georgia - Names were not released

In bid to thwart al Qaeda, Libya frees three leaders of jihadist group - Libyan Islamic Fighting Group leaders repudiated Al Qaeda ideology: Abdullah Sadeeq, emir; Abu Mundhir al Saadi, religious guide; Abu Hazem, deputy leader

U.S. judge orders release of Guantanamo detainee - Mohamedou Ould Slahi of Mauritania

Kenya: Terror Suspect Might Have Fled to Uganda - Hashi Hussein Farah, holds Australian passport

Colombian Narco-terrorist Sentenced To 20 Years In US Prison For Role With FARC - Jorge Enrique Rodriguez Mendieta

Al-Shabaab Commander Gunned Down at Close Range in Somalia - Sheikh Daud Ali Hassan

(Saudi Arabia) Kingdom says Iman Bin Laden's repatriation a humanitarian issue - Daughter of Osama Bin Laden

(Pakistan) Explosion kills three in Pakistan

U.S. Adds Two Firms in Gaza to Terror List - Islamic National Bank and Al-Aqsa Television

Arrests Halt U.N. Talks With Taliban

Key al Qaeda operative killed in US strike in North Waziristan - Sadam Hussein Al Hussami, AKA Ghazwan al Yemeni

"JihadJane" said to have confessed - Colleen LaRose

Drone Strike Kills Senior Qaeda Leader in Pakistan - Hussein al-Yemeni

Yemen-American imam calls for US Muslim revolt - Anwar al Aulaqi

(Pakistan) Americans have direct access to Taliban No. 2 - Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar

Who's Abu Yahya Mujahideen Al-Adam?

Yemen kills Qaeda chief in fresh air strikes - Jamil Nasser Abdullah al-Ambari

(Philippines) Militant with money links leads Abu Sayyaf faction - Khair Mundus

(Yemen) NJ-born Al-Qaida suspect tricked, killed guard - Sharif Mobley

A Tale of Two Taliban Reveals U.S. Afghan Dilemma - former Guantanamo detainees Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul and Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef

Suspected ETA member arrested in London - Garikoitz Ibarlucea Murua

(Iraq) US soldier killed in central Iraq

Yemen suspect tricked guards

U.S. Woman Held in Plot Is Released, Family Says - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez

Three Released in Ireland Terror Case

.For the Love of Islam: A Second American Woman Is Arrested in Cartoonist Case - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez

Opinion: Afghan Prosecutors Key to Beating Taliban. Establishing a Judicial System Afghans Can Trust Must Be Priority.

Pakistan militants attack checkpoint

(Spain) Venezuela-bound ETA suspect held in Portugal - Andoni Zengotitabengoa

Jailed Jordanian Cleric Is a Poster Boy for Al Qaeda Recruiters - Shaykh Abu Muhammad al-Tahawi

Al-Qaida vet 'takes over Somali jihadists' - Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

Friend: Suspected US al-Qaida Member Grew Radical - Sharif Mobley worked at nuclear plants in NJ

Al Qaeda link, a gun in hand: Jersey man held in Yemen - Sources: Sharif Mobley met Anwar al Aulaqi

Interview: 'My Life With the Taliban' - Translators of autobiography of Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan and former Guantanamo detainee

US District Court Sends Summonses to N. Korean Foreign Minister - DC cases stem from the alleged abduction of a missionary who was aiding N. Korean defectors in China and alleged North Korean weapons sales to Hezbollah

'Jihad Jane' Exposes Web's Dark Side

An Awlaki Link for Jihad Jane? via IPT Blog

Hamas Releases British Journalist

Yemen Reportedly Holding U.S. Terror Suspect - Sharif Mobley

South Jersey Man Accused of Terror Attacks: Sources say Sharif Mobley may be linked to al-Qaeda and is accused of shooting Yemeni police guards - Sharif Mobley, 26, of Buena Borough, N.J. is accused of going on a shooting rampage in a Yemeni hospital on Monday, according to sources

Bali bomber led new terrorist gang - After Dulmatin's death, seeking terrorist cell's last at-large

Russia: Militants formally arrested over Russian train bombing - 6 other militants, including Alexander Tikhomirov AKA Said Buryatsky, were killed.

Spain: Aid worker snatched by al Qaeda freed - AQIM still holds 2 Spanish workers kidnapped in Mauritania

(Sweden) 'Jihad Jane' visited Sweden to plan attack - Also, in Swedish, Dagens Nyheter extensive coverage

(UK) British Airways employee faces terrorism charges Rajib Karim advised foreign terrorists on airport security measures, including suspicion scans, liquid allowances, and computer systems, prosecutors alleged

(Indonesia) Police Kill Bali Nightclub Bombing Suspect - Dulmatin

Eritrean pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists - Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, Al Shabaab

Pa. woman accused of recruiting jihadists: Indictment alleges American used Internet to spark terror overseas - Colleen R. LaRose, relates to Ireland case re Swedish artist threat

Irish arrest 7 over threat to kill Swedish artist - Drawings by Lars Vilks published in a Swedish newspaper in August 2007

Nigeria extradites Al-Qaeda suspect - Ibrahim Haman Ahmed

Venezuela linked to terror groups

(EU) Passenger data deal key to catching terrorists, says US - Passenger Name Records (PNR) agreement has been provisionally in force since 2007, but now requires ratification by the European Parliament

Brought to U.S., Man Is Charged With Aiding Somali Terrorists - Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed brought from Nigeria on Saturday, believed to be Eritrean citizen resident of Sweden

(Canada) Distinguish between jihadists and terrorists, Harkat trial told - Expert testimony of US professor at trial of Mohamed Harkat

Terror trial opens for 9 in Belgium - Names of defendants

Al Qaeda agent held in Pakistan is not Adam Gadahn; the Riverside man is still at large -
Pakistani officials reverse earlier statements that they had arrested the spokesman and propagandist for the terrorist network. They now say the man seized in Karachi is a Pennsylvania native.

Kadhafi's call for Jihad not linked to violence, terrorism - Civil jihad against Switzerland?

Full text of the Gadahn video posted Sunday 3/7 - read down on page, via Intelwire

Qaeda Operative Arrested in Pakistan Was it Gadahn? NYT identifies as Abu Yahya Mujahdeen al-Adam

Canada to ban militant Somali Islamist group - Al Shabaab

Alleged al-Qaida Terrorist Cell on Trial in Brussels - Trial includes a woman, Belgian-Moroccan Malika El Aroud,

Qaeda suspect kills guard in Yemen hospital escape bid - German citizen of Somali origin

Pakistan Arrests American-Born al-Qaida Militant - Adam Gadahn Update

Philippine marines kill 7 suspected militants - wanted Malaysian suspect Marwan escapes

Somali man accused of smuggling East Africans through Texas - Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane

American al-Qaida spokesman lauds Fort Hood killer - Adam Gadahn

Taliban leader in Swat Valley killed in airstrike - Fateh Mohammad

U.S. Sees a Terror Threat; Pakistanis See a Heroine - Aafia Siddiqui

Report: Hamas admits losing control in Gaza. Gaza in anarchy as extremist groups challenge Hamas regime, military chief tells Damascus leader.

Soldier killed by explosion in Afghanistan

NATO details its Afghan night raids policy

Norwegian ship hijacked off Madagascar

Police say 12 killed in NW Pakistan suicide attack - Report of Pakistan army attack on hideout of Al Qaeda militant Maulvi Faqir Mohammed

Pakistan: Another Taliban leader captured - Agha Jan Mohtasim

Wife of UK airline bomb plotter cleared - Cossor Ali

Is al Qaeda Bankrupt?

Somali in custody in S. Texas charged with lying about terror ties - Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane

(Philippines) Terror threat remains

The Militant Pipeline: Between the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Region and the West - Paper by Paul Cruickshank at New America Foundation

Former security chief: O'Hare vulnerable to attack - lawsuit filed by James Maurer

Singapore Warns of Strait Attack

Former Pakistani Officer Embodies a Policy Puzzle - Brig. Sultan Amir AKA Col. Imam

Germany Sentences 4 in Terror Case - Sauerland cell planned "monstrous bloodbath" against US targets

(Uganda) Police arrest Tunisian with bomb devices - Dhaduadi Lofti claims he was headed to Yemen

Taliban confirm wanted terror leader Qari Zafar killed in US airstrike - Leader of Fedayeen-i-Islam

UK police arrest BA employee in terror probe - British Airways employee

(Bangladesh) Hijacker of Indian plane to Kandahar nabbed again in Dhaka - Nannu Mian (AKA Belal Mandol AKA Billal) served 10 years in India for 1999 hijacking

(UK) Islamic Scholar Issues Anti-Terrorism Fatwa - Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri

American Muslims face Pakistan court - Men from northern Virginia area

Bail granted in Fla. Hezbollah finance case - Khaled Safadi

Woman Who Killed Sister of Former Colombian President Nabbed - Beatriz Villalba Betancourt of FARC


Al Qaeda-linked Chinese terrorist leader reported killed in US strike in Pakistan - Uighur Abdul Haq al Turkistani

Spanish Judge Accuses Venezuela of Links to Rebels Indictment links ETA, FARC

Al Qaeda Growing in Strength in North Africa - AQIM

Al-Shabaab Bans UN Food Agency in Somalia - World Food Programme operations threatened