Capture Zarqawi Aide
IRAQ NEWS
Iraqi Forces Capture Key Al Zarqawi Aide
Iraqi forces capture key aide, driver for al Qaeda-linked terrorist al Zarqawi during raid. (AP)
Network Helps Saudis To Iraq For Jihad
A few weeks after his son Ahmed disappeared, Abdullah al-Shayea got a call from an Iraqi official saying the 19-year-old was an intended suicide bomber who barely survived blowing up a fuel tanker in a deadly Christmas Day attack in Baghdad. (AP)
U.S. Moves To Preserve Iraq Coalition
Foreign troops in Iraq will increasingly move from providing security to training new army and police. (Washington Post)
Cleric Endorses Al Jaafari PM Nomination
United Iraqi Alliance candidate Ibrahim al-Jaafari said Friday that Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric has endorsed his nomination for prime minister. (AP)
INVESTIGATIONS
Italy
Italy Probes Possible CIA Role In Abduction
An Italian prosecutor investigating the apparent kidnapping of a suspected Islamic militant in the streets of Milan served military authorities this week with a demand for records of flights into and out of a joint U.S.-Italian air base in northern Italy. (Chicago Tribune)
International Terrorists Working With Domestic Criminals: Report
An Italian intelligence report said that document falsification is the main means of self-financing for Islamic militants active in Italy, and warned of possible cooperation between international terrorists and domestic criminals. (AP)
Philippines
Arrest of Jemaah Suspects Thwarted Planned Terror Attacks, Say Philippine Officials
Officials said yesterday they thwarted planned attacks on an airport, malls, a church and US troops with the arrests of three Jemaah Islamiyah members who allegedly came to the Philippines to train local militants to make bombs. (Arab News)
Spain
Islamist Suspect Found Hanged In Spanish Cell
A Moroccan suspected of plotting to blow up Spain's High Court was found hanged in his prison cell on Thursday, the prison service said. (Reuters)
Bosnia
Bahraini Prisoner Writes Book About Al Qaeda
A Bahraini who used to fight with the Arabs in Bosnia and is now imprisoned there is writing a book about al Qaeda in which he claims that it was present in Bosnia. Ahmed Ali Hamed said he was also willing to testify against the former commander of the Bosnian army and talk about crimes committed by "the mujaheddin." (Asharq Al Awsat)
LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS
Indonesia
Indonesian Court to Hand Down Verdict on Terror Suspect Abu Bakar Bashir
Next Thursday is when the Indonesian court will hand down the verdict for the trial of chief terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir. (Channel News Asia)
U.K.
Iraqi Govt Says It Captures Top Zarqawi Aide
The government's plans to put terrorist suspects under house arrest are unnecessary, may breach European human rights and should not be rushed through parliament, an influential committee of MPs and peers warned today. (The Guardian)
The Netherlands
Dutch 'Terror Plot' Trial Starts
A teenager has gone on trial in the Netherlands on charges of planning terror attacks. (BBC)
U.S.
Defense in Terror Trial Paints a Rosier Picture of 'Jihad'What does "jihad" mean? (NY Times)
ANALYSIS & OPINION
The Good Luck of Traumatized Afghanistan
More than three years after U.S. and Britain declared victory in Kabul and promised to rebuild the country, a new UNDP report paints a disturbing portrait, writes Simon Tisdall. (The Guardian)
Political Rhetoric and Religious Discourse
As of late, there has been a great deal of renewed religious discourse and the deliberations flared up because of the pressures exerted by the west on the Arab and Islamic countries under the pretext of fighting terrorism. The west believes that this religious discourse encourages terrorism and provides it with the ideological and financial support. (Al Hayat)
Thrown to the Wolves
Maher Arar is a victim of a reprehensible U.S. policy in which individuals are abducted by American authorities and transferred to regimes skilled in the art of torture. (NY Times)
Rage in Riyadh
Watching the president woo Europe, I wanted to go to the top of my hotel and wave him down into the Middle East. The sweet sounds of rapprochement coming from the president's trip are not what I'm hearing in Saudi Arabia. Here, the United States and George Bush in particular are distinctly disliked. (Washington Post)
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