More then 60 people killed and 300 wounded in a series of bomb blasts and mortar attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. One car bomb exploded outside the office of foreign ministry. Foreign ministry office lies on the edge of the heavily guarded and fortified Green zone. The blast created a large crater outside the office of foreign ministry.

Another car bomb went off just next to the finance ministry building which is also close to the Green Zone.

A barrage of mortar attacks hit the green zone in the capital Baghdad. Green Zone is a four square mile area is also the most protected, fortified and the safest area in Baghdad. The green zone has many of the important buildings in the city which also includes top government offices, government ministries and many Embassies.

Although no group has claimed responsibility of the attacks but it could have been done mostly by any of the al Qaeda based groups. This is one of the first well coordinated and organized attacks on the areas in and close to the centrally located green zone in the city.

In fresh fighting between Philippines military and Islamic Militants, more then 44 people have been killed. Out of the total killed in the fighting, 23 are Filipino military soldiers. The fighting resulted as the military raided training camps run by Abu Sayyaf militant group. There camps were located on the southern island of Basilan in the Silangkum and Baguindan villages.

According to latest reports atleast 40 militants were killed in the fierce fighting but only 21 cadavers were recovered from the site. Military recovered explosives and documents on how to make bombs from the camps. The camp was also use by the militants as a temporary facility to keep kidnapped victims.

Abu Sayyaf is amongst the several Islamic terrorist groups operating in Philippines and has links with the al Qaeda terrorist network. The group has its strong hold in Basilan and operates in the same region. The group has also been blamed for the kidnapping several Red Cross officials and also for a few journalists. Abu Sayyaf terrorist group was also responsible for the bombing of a ferry in 2004 in which more then 130 people were killed.

An Indonesian wing of the deadly terrorist organization al Qaeda has taken responsibility for the 17th July twin luxury hotel blast that rocked the south easy Asian country capital. 19 people lost there lives while 50 were injured in the horrific incident as two bombs detonated within minutes of each other. Out of the nine dead, two are expected to be the suicide bombers.

Noordin M. the leader of the breakaway fraction group of the terrorist out fit Jemaah Islamiyah claimed responsibility of the attack on behalf of al Qaeda in Indonesia. The statement claiming responsibility appeared on a radical Islamist Web sites.

The statement said that the hotels were targeted as the two hotels were the biggest hotel properties owned by Americans in Jakarta. The statement also had names of the MU team members, MU cancelled the Jakarta leg of there tour post the blasts. Also mentioned in the statement was that the MU team members were Christians and they don’t deserve any respect or money in Indonesia.

Another statement mentioned that the attack on Marriot was to target American who had business and diplomatic ties with the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industries.

The 37-yr old comic star, Sacha Baron Cohen who plays Bruno has been compelled to beef up security measures for himself and his kin, since he has been receiving death threats from Islam terrorists. As an act of vengeance, the extremists have targeted him for his deriding remarks about a terrorist faction in the film where he dons the role of a gay fashion idol.

Yesterday, Baron Cohen’s lawyers have informed the Daily Star that he has been targeted by an extremist faction that has taken accountability for the latest terror attacks. The group most probably, the Al Aqsa Martrys’ Brigade have been offended by Baron Cohen calling Osama bin Laden, the Al Qaeda head, a ‘dirty wizard or a homeless Father Christmas’ in his film ‘Bruno’.

In the movie, the ostentatious fashion correspondent is seen telling the group’s believed head, Ayman Abu Aita that he wants to be famous and wants the best guys in the industry to kidnap him. Ayman Abu Aita is seen irately summoning for Bruno to go away after he affronts Bin Laden saying he was interrogated under phony pretence and asserted that he no more belonged to the militant faction.

The Martyrs’ Brigade have made an announcement in which they condemned the misuse of their brother Ayman’s name and the name of Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade for which they were rightful in responding to this misdeed in a way they found appropriate.

Baron Cohen has even made a verbal punch at Hamas, the Palestinian military group, gaffing them for hummus, the chick pea paste in the movie.

Osama bin Laden’s son, Sa’ad bin Laden is considered to be dead following a US Predator drone strike in Pakistan’s clannish area. The US intelligence bureaus is 80-85% convinced that Sa’ad bin Laden was killed in the former part of the year due to a drone attack. According to US intelligence, Sa’ad bin Laden, a well-known character involved in the gloomy association between Iran and al Qaeda, was considered to have spent many years in house detention in Iran prior to going to Pakistan.

It is still quite fuzzy as to whether he was present close to his father during the drone attacks. Sa’ad bin Laden believed to be close to his thirties, was not regarded as significant enough to be made a target, considering he was accidently present at the inopportune time.

Al Qaeda which is known to issue proclamation of martyred top leaders and chiefs has neither refused nor authenticated Sa’ad’s death.

According to sources, Sa’ad made crucial judgments for al Qaeda and belonged to a tiny al Qaeda faction that was engaged in managing the group from Iran. Sa’ad had come to Pakistan in September to meet up with Zawahiri.

An Al Qaeda website has a voice recording posting of the second in line command, Ayman al-Zawahiri that states that it is the individual responsibility of every Muslim in Pakistan to unite with the Mujahedeen in a campaign to flush out the US-allied government forces in their noble race to establish Pakistan as the stronghold of Islam.

Zawahiri has charged the US of heralding a movement to segregate Pakistan from a Muslim nuclear rule into a split nation of small fragments by stamping out the budding jihad nub. This divide would transform Pakistan into diminutive fractions faithful and reliant to the US.

Zawahiri, the Egyptian radical leader has termed the US allies in Pakistan as a dishonest gang of political leaders and military officials who are skirmishing for the sole purpose of staying on the US pay roll by utilizing Pakistan’s resources and military forces in America’s fight against Islam.

The Pak army undertook anti-insurgency measures to tackle the Taliban in the Swat valley who had laid siege over a district close to Islamabad. This heightened concerns about Pakistan’s nuclear weapon safety and its stability. Pakistan was lauded by the US for its offensive measures against the Taliban.

A leader of Taliban’s faction in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, has commented on air in June that if it was possible, the Al Qaeda would utilise Pakistan’s nuclear warehouse to put up a befitting fight against the US.

Ever since 2001, covert schemes had been set up to incarcerate or exterminate senior Qaeda rebels globally under the order of Dick Cheney, the then vice-president of CIA. The program was franticly devised post the 11th September attacks in the Bush administration that authorised CIA to carry out plans that involved sending out small batches around the world to kill top Qaeda terrorists like Osama Bin Laden or his top ranking agents.

The plans didn’t get functional due to several hitches ranging from logistics, legal to diplomatic. Several impending queries like would the allies co-operate if they were informed about CIA’s teams or considering the hypothetic situation that American officials or their aides were busted during their operation or in what way can America’s involvement be kept under covers.

With evolving years, the Bush governance had found a way to work around these hick-ups by seeking unconventional options like employing drone attacks or capturing the terrorists abroad and detaining them in covert CIA cells.

After the news of this secret program came to light, Leon E Panetta, CIA director terminated it in June that would have depended considerably on paramilitary personnel. The program was formulated in such a way that it purged terrorists in a hawk mannered precision, unlike the drone attacks wherein there were high possibilities of several innocent civilian casualties if operated in cities.

The notorious Al Qaeda  net headed by Osama bin Laden has engaged itself in the mission to even the scores for the atrocities handed out by Beijing to the minority Uighur Muslims who were attacked by  the Chinese workers in north-west Africa.

According to the South China Morning Post, there has been an alarming intelligence report based on the findings of a London-run risk assessment firm, the Stirling Assynt that quotes the Algerian wing of Al Qaeda , the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, also called AQIM, has sought reprisal for the injustice caused to China’s Muslim Uighurs.

The risk estimation done by Sterling Assynt has presaged a significant threat that should not be taken lightly. Though the AQIM is amongst the pioneers to take up the cause for Muslim Uighurs, there is a strong possibility that many others might follow suit.

The wide-ranging circumstances of the Uighur Muslims in China have reverberated amid the worldwide jihadist groups. There has been an escalation in bickering amongst the jihadist factions who want to set the records straight. Many of these entities have been trying to garner crucial information regarding China’s concern in matters relating to the Muslim community that would be utilised in future to mark them out.