Ah I see Gervase you say something and it just has to be accepted. Hey pal your contention that the incidents are related to militant Islam - You bloody well prove it, or at least attempt to offer something by way of substantiation. If you cannot do that then sorry I am not prepared to accept your premise.

Just a quick run down through your list:

Date          Dead       Injured       Incident

January 1       4       16       Khar, Bajaur Agency. Militants fired rockets at a civil colony in the Bajaur Agency town of Khar killing four people and injuring 16 others. The attackers were able to get away before police and army officials caught them.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Hardly, muslims killing muslims, care to tell us all how the cause of Islam is furthered by this attack. This district in the FATA of Pakistan is currently being contested by the Pakistani Army and the Tehrik-e-Taliban, the so-called Pakistani Taleban. The town serves as the main Pakistani Army Base in the district.

January 2       23       72       Yusufiya. A relative of a Sunni tribal shiek blew himself up at a Sunni gathering south of Baghdad killing 23 people and wounding 72 others, including many of his relatives.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Arab Sunni Muslim kills himself and other Arab Sunni Muslims how is this an example of militant Islam – it could just as well have been a family tiff.

January 4       35       79       Baghdad. A suicide bomb blast at a Shite religious shrine in Baghdad has killed at least 35 people and injured 79.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Possibly Arab Sunni Muslim targets a Shia Muslim Shrine in order to kill Arab Shia Muslims – Again does not further the cause of Islam and has all the hallmarks of a straightforward sectarian attack.

January 4       7       28       Dera Ismail Khan. Police officers investigating "explosives" in the North-West town of Dera Ismail Khan were attacked by a teenage suicide bomber resulting in the deaths of 7 people and the injuring of another 28. Five policemen are among the dead.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Attack on the police in NWFP town bugger all to do with militant Islam. Since August 2008 the town has been subject to sectarian violence primarily against the Shia community.

January 9       12       20       Zaranj,Nimroz. A car bomb in a market place killed 10 civilians and two Afghan police officers and injured at least 20 others.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Attack on Afghan Police Force part of the ongoing Taleban insurgency bugger all to do with militant Islam

January 11       3       0       . Suspected Islamic insurgents in Thailand southern provinces shot and killed two Buddhist men and a Muslim woman as they headed to work at a rubber plantation. Police are looking for four gunmen. LINKED

Ah Gervase this one is an example of militant Islam and attacks such as these have been common in this part of Thailand for years, they have nothing whatsoever to do with outrage over Afghanistan or Iraq.

January 12       9       18       Baghdad Three explosions in Baghdad in a market, at a checkpoint and a military patrol resulted in the deaths of at least 9 Iraqis and the injuring of 18 others.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Bugger all to do with militant Islam this is a Taleban attack on a military check point carried out as part of the ongoing insurrection in Afghanistan.

January 14       1       15       Bugti colony, Sui A remote control triggered explosive detonated in Sui province killing one man and injuring 15 others including ten Pakistani soldiers.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Ah so the Baluchi Liberation Army had nothing to do with this then Gervase?? Nothing whatsoever to do with militant Islam but a hell of a lot to do with nationalistic aspirations of the Baluchi people. Their primary "beef" with the Government of Pakistan is that the latter put a pipeline through their land and the locals are deriving very little benefit - This is about money not religion.

January 15       6       2       Bardhere Town A remote controlled landmine detonated in Bardhere town killing a militia commander and three other Somali militiamen and two civilians while injuring two more civilians in an attack blamed on Islamist rebels.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Assassination Gervase, carried out as part of internal struggle for power in Somalia, nothing to do with militant Islam.

January 17       6       19       Kabul A suicide car bomber in Kabul killed one U.S serviceman 4 civilians and himself and wounded 19 others in Kabul.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Taleban attack on US military personnel carried out as part of the ongoing insurrection in Afghanistan.

January 18       5       20       Qaiyara A Sunni political leader was killed along with four other people and at least 20 other people were wounded in a suicide bombing in the northern community of Qaiyara.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Sectarian attack in Iraq.

January 18       0       4       Herat A bridge was blown up by Taliban insurgents wounding four Afghan civilians as foreign troops were apparently going over the bridge. No foreign fatalities or injuries reported.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Failed Taleban attack on ISAF military personnel carried out as part of the ongoing insurrection in Afghanistan.

January 20       2       2       Kandahar A bicycle bomb exploded killing two Afghan police officers and wounding two more people.
Taleban attack on Afghan Police Force personnel carried out as part of the ongoing insurrection in Afghanistan.

January 21       4       10       Baghdad Ziyad al-Ain, a dean of Baghdad's Islamic University and the Iraqi Under-secretary for the Education Ministry, Ammar Aziz Mohammed Ali, survived a car bomb but four others including a woman and a child were killed and ten others injured.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Sectarian assassination attempt

January 24       14       30       Mogadishu A car bomb exploded in Mogadishu killing 15 civilians and one Somali policemen. The bomb was meant for AU peacekeepers but policemen noticed the suspicious vehicle and fired several shots at the driver resulting in the vehicle crashing short of its target and exploding. At least 30 others were wounded.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Failed attack on AU troops as part of ongoing internal violence in Somalia, a squabble for power that has got nothing to do with militant Islam

January 24       6       13       Jarma A car bomb exploded north of Baghdad killing five police officers and the suicide car bomber and injured 13 others just a week before provincial elections in Iraq.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Politically motivated attack nothing to do with militant Islam

January 24       0       0       Kidapawan City Two men tossed a grenade into a church grounds in the city of Kidapawan City in insurgency hit southern Philippines and it exploded causing some damage. No injuries or deaths were reported in the incident.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Inconclusive as no organization has claimed responsibility for this "attack" on a grave yard, so I'd be interested to hear your reasoning for linking this to militant Islamists.

January 26       2       6       Katahariya village A bomb hanging from a tree at the Katahariya village local market exploded killing one person and injuring two other people seriously. The Tarai Army has claimed responsibility for the blast.

LINKED to militant Islam claims Gervase:

Terai Army is an underground militant movement fighting for the rights and greater autonomy of Nepal's minority Madhesi people who are primarily Hindus. Again I'd be interested in your reasoning for linking this to militant Islamists.