Threat Matrix: April 2008

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3538322,00.html
(AP)

“Philippine troops wound top al-Qaeda-linked commander in clash”
Published: 05.01.08, 14:05 / Israel News

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Philippine troops bombarded the Abu Sayyaf camp with artillery and mortar fire near Jolo island’s Indanan township early Wednesday, killing at least one militant and wounding rebel commander Isnilon Hapilon, regional military spokesman Maj. Eugene Batara said.”

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1396031

“Threat of Chesapeake Bay Meth labs a concern”
April 30, 2008 - 2:00pm
Neal Augenstein, WTOP Radio

WASHINGTON - T

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Allen says the Coast Guard is also looking for miniature submarines which are barely detectable from the air.

“This is the new conveyance of choice in moving cocaine out of Colombia, toward Central America and Mexico, toward the United States. It’s a significant enough threat to the Coast Guard that we’ve actually proposed legislation that would outlaw the operation of these vehicles in international waters, and we’re working with the Congress on that now.””

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U.S. air strike kills al Qaeda boss in Somalia
Yahoo News ^ | 5/01/08
Posted on May 1, 2008 4:23:21 AM PDT by Dawnsblood

U.S. war planes killed an Islamist rebel said to be al Qaeda’s leader in Somalia and at least a dozen other people on Thursday in Washington’s biggest blow against an insurgency raging since 2007.

The rebels said Aden Hashi Ayro — who led al Shabaab militants blamed for attacks on government troops and their Ethiopian allies — died in the first major success for a string of U.S. air-strikes on Somali insurgents in the last year.

“Infidel planes bombed Dusamareb,” Shabaab spokesman Mukhtar Ali Robow told Reuters by phone, referring to a town in central Somalia, where body parts lay strewn round a wrecked house.

“Two of our important people, including Ayro, were killed.”

The death of the Afghanistan-trained militant is likely to bolster the Western-backed Somali government’s efforts to stem a rebellion that has gained ground in recent months. But it is sure to enrage Ayro’s fellow fighters, who say they are waging a jihad to eject Ethiopian troops.

Ayro was a key figure on the ground masterminding the Islamists’ Iraq-style insurgency against allied Somali-Ethiopian troops. The violence had intensified in recent weeks, with scores of deaths in Mogadishu and a series of hit-and-run raids by the Islamists on towns outside the capital.

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