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The
FBI matched
Ali’s
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DNA to explosives
recovered in Afghani-
stan, where he worked
as a bomb maker for
Al Qaeda.
Augus 2018 Edition
On July 23,
2018: Ali Charaf
Damache, 53, an
Alegrian-born
(Khalid Ali had three blades tucked into his clothes when he was arrested by armed police in
Irish citizen,
Westminster. Courtesy of ITV News and YouTube. Posted on Jun 26, 2018.)
pleaded guilty to
attempting to provide material sup- TALIBAN
port to terrorists.
Operations Against the Taliban
Damache acted on behalf of Al Qaeda in a
plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting On July 7, 2018: Qari Abdullah
Dawar, a Taliban commander who
the Prophet Mohammed in a drawing.
BOKO HARAM
Recent Boko Haram Attacks
On July 26, 2018: A clash between
Nigerian soldiers and Boko Haram
militants in Bama, Borno State, has
left 20 soldiers missing.
Reports state that the soldiers embarked on
a clearance operation.
The military has stated that 22 members of
Boko Haram were neutralized.
had been hiding in Tor Tangai, Wa-
ziristan, has been killed in an appar-
ent airstrike.
Recent Taliban Attacks
On July 11, 2018: The Pakistan Tali-
ban has claimed a suicide attack on a
political rally in Peshawar which left
20 dead.
This marks the first attack since Mufti Noor
Wali Mehsud assumed control of the group
last month after its previous leader Mullah
Fazlullah was killed in an airstrike.
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