With most of the publicity being focused on Najibullah Zazi, his accomplice Zarein Ahmedzay’s arrest and guilty plea did not receive all that much media attention comparatively. One of the more interesting pieces of information to come out of Ahmedzay’s court proceedings, though, is the revelation that Zazi, Ahmedzay, and their alleged accomplice Adis Medunjanin [...]

British Convoy Escapes Attack In Yemen – New York Times
The British ambassador in Yemen narrowly escaped a suicide attack Monday, when a young man in a school uniform detonated his explosives belt near his armored car in a poor neighborhood of Sana’a.
Though no group has yet claimed responsibility for this attack, al Qaeda in the [...]

Arrest Led To Strike On Two Top Iraq Qaeda Leaders – New York Times
The previously undisclosed arrest of a senior leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq in Baghdad last month provided Iraqi and American security forces with a trove of intelligence that led to the killing of the group’s two top leaders in an early [...]

Somalis with terrorist links feared headed to U.S. border – Washington Examiner
Somalis with ties to a terrorist organization are believed to be plotting to illegally enter the United States after being mistakenly released from custody in Mexico.
All were in Mexican Immigration custody due to illegal entry into Mexico and released on January 21, 2010.
It’s difficult [...]

James Joyner assesses some of Hamid Karzai’s recent statements about the presence of “foreigners” in Afghanistan.  Joyner ultimately argues this is just about Karzai bolstering his standing at home.
Is Hamid Karzai Crazy? | Atlantic Council
On April Fools Day, Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at “foreigners” who have been criticizing his corrupt, inept government, leveling [...]

Drones Batter Al Qaeda and Its Allies Within Pakistan – New York Times
In the first six weeks of this year, more than a dozen strikes killed up to 90 people suspected of being militants, according to Pakistani and American accounts. There are now multiple strikes on some days, and in some weeks the strikes occur every other [...]

Terrorist violence in Russia has increased dramatically over the past two year, so the attacks in Moscow yesterday are just a reflection of that broader trend:
Subway Blasts Kill Dozens in Moscow – NYTimes.com
Female suicide bombers set off huge explosions in two subway stations in central Moscow during the Monday morning rush hour, Russian officials said, [...]

CIA director says secret attacks in Pakistan have hobbled al-Qaeda – Washington Post
Those operations are seriously disrupting al-Qaeda. It’s pretty clear from all the intelligence we are getting that they are having a very difficult time putting together any kind of command and control, that they are scrambling. And that we really do have them [...]

“JihadJane” said to have confessed – Philadelphia Enquirer
According to anonymous sources close to the investigation, Colleen LaRose, the 46-year-old American woman indicted for, among other things, plotting to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, confessed to the murder plot shortly following her arrest in October 2009. Despite this confession, and despite reportedly cooperating with the FBI, [...]

Al-Qaeda-linked New Jersey Man Sharif Mobley, arrested in Yemen, Worked in Nuclear Power Plants – NY Daily News
Sharif Mobley, a 26-year-old American native of Somali heritage, was arrested in Yemen this month in a roundup of suspected Al Qaeda members. He was being treated at a hospital in San’a [sic] when he killed one guard [...]