The Insider: Daily Terrorism Report

Sept. 15 -- 10 Pakistanis were arrested by Spanish police in northeastern Catalonia, Spain on charges of "suspected involvement in Islamic extremism", who emphasized that the arrests had no connection to the Madrid attacks earlier this year, according to AFP.

And in Iraq, anxious civilians walked back through rubble of flattened buildings to resume life after a two-week siege by U.S.-led forces targeting foreign fighters ended in Tal Afar, the Associated Press reported.

THE WAR ON TERROR

INVESTIGATIONS

Pakistan10 Suspected Pakistani Extremists Held In Spain: Police Spanish police arrested 10 Pakistanis suspected of involvement in extremism during an operation in the northeastern region of Catalonia. (Channel News Asia)

United StatesC.I.A. Unit On bin Laden Is Understaffed, a Senior Official Tells LawmakersThree years after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency has fewer experienced case officers assigned to its headquarters unit dealing with Osama bin Laden than it did at the time of the attacks, despite repeated pleas from the unit's leaders for reinforcements, a senior C.I.A. officer with extensive counterterrorism experience has told Congress.(NY Times)

U.S. Fears Terrorism Via Mexico's Time-Tested Smuggling RoutesIntelligence reports, security alerts and other incidents have led to increased security, greater cooperation on both sides of the border. (LA Times)

IndonesiaIndonesian Police Issue Sketches of 10 Most-Wanted After Embassy Blast Indonesian police issued sketches of their 10 most-wanted suspected extremists after last week's Australian embassy bombing and said they were closing on the owners of a van used in the attack. (Channel News Asia)

Terror In Indonesia Is Strand of Extremist Political WebThroughout the bloody American involvement in Vietnam, the most perceptive anti-insurgency experts in the West always understood that the aim of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese was political —the establishment of a communist regime in Saigon - and that military operations were but a means to that end. (CS Monitor)

AfghanistanAmericans Jailed In Afghan "Private Prison" TrialThree Americans were sentenced to up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty by an Afghan court on Wednesday of running a private jail and illegally detaining and torturing men in a freelance war on terror. (Reuters)

FranceFrance Detains Suspected Islamic MilitantsFrench counterterrorism officials detained five suspected Islamic militants thought to be linked to a Moroccan man with alleged ties to al-Qaida, judicial and police officials said. (AP)