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KENYAN NAVY SOFTENS UP KISMAYO PRIOR TO AMISOM ATTACK Kenya’s navy continues to play an important role in the multi-national struggle against Somalia’s al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab movement by shelling the Shabaab-held port of Kismayo in southern Somalia. These operations come at a time when Kenya... MORE
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MALI’S SELF-DEFENSE MILITIAS TAKE THE RECONQUEST OF THE NORTH INTO THEIR OWN HANDS With the Malian Army still in disarray, the United States urging caution and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) demanding the formation of a government of national unity before taking... MORE
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FATWA WARS CONTINUE AS SAUDI CLERIC BANS JIHAD IN SYRIA As both clashes with rebels and punitive violence increase in intensity within Syria, there have been numerous accounts of foreign jihadis entering Syria to exploit the struggle in furtherance of global Salafist-Jihadi objectives. However, such... MORE
May 2012 Briefs
UGANDA CAPTURES LRA COMMANDER CAESAR ACELLAM Caesar Acellam was captured with his wife, daughter and a helper by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) on May 13 while crossing the Mbomou River, which forms the border between the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic... MORE
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UYGHUR MILITANTS RESPOND TO NEW CHINESE LIST OF “TERRORISTS” The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) released a response in late April to the latest list of Uyghur “terrorists” prepared by China’s Ministry of Public Security. The TIP communiqué was entitled “A Statement Regarding the Declaration of... MORE
April 2012 Briefs
PAKISTANI TALIBAN JAILBREAK OPERATION FREES ADNAN RASHID Adnan Rashid was one of 384 inmates freed from a prison in Bannu, Pakistan on April 13 (Daily Times [Peshawar], April 16). The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the rescue operation and said that Rashid, who was in... MORE
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New Yemeni Resolve to Defeat al-Qaeda Bearing Results in Lawdar The battle for southern Yemen has intensified since the succession of Abd Rabu Mansur al-Hadi to the Yemen presidency and his subsequent vow to suppress the Islamist insurgency. The latest battleground in this struggle is... MORE
March 2012 Briefs
INTELLIGENCE LEADS ATS TO BIHAR IN SEARCH OF INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN’S YASIN BHATKAL India’s anti-terrorism squad (ATS) picked up clues about the location of the operational leader of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), Ahmed Zarar Siddibappa (alias Yasin Bhatkal or Shah Rukh), who masterminded the July 13,... MORE
January 2012 BRIEFS
ABU SHEKAU ISSUES VIDEO MESSAGE TO NIGERIAN PRESIDENT Abu Shekau, the leader of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, issued a message on YouTube on January 11, 2012 addressed “to the President of Nigeria, Jonathan, who has come out... MORE