Posts belonging to Category JEM
Posted by Thanos on December 7, 2008
Just breaking, Pakistan has raided a Lashkar e Toiba camp, who are believed by most world intelligence agencies to be responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks. This comes just in the wake of Secretary of State Rice stating unequivocably on Wolf Blitzer’s program that there was “No doubt that the attacks were planned in Pakistan.”
Story from [...]
Categories: India, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Lashkar e Toiba, Military, Pakistan |
Tags: army, attacks, camps, e, India, lashkar, mumbai, Pakistan, raid, rehman, reuters, terror, Terrorism, toiba | 
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Posted by Thanos on December 4, 2008
As a followup to yesterday’s story on Hamid Gul, Bill Roggio has made some queries and has a solid report up at The Long War Journal. Well worth your your time to read.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, India, Israel, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism |
Tags: gul, hamid, huji, hum, India, JEM, kashmir, lal, let, masjid, Pakistan, terror, Terrorism, TNSM, TTP, un, us | 1 Comment »
Posted by Thanos on December 3, 2008
The US is asking the UN to declare Hamid Gul and three other ex-ISI terrorists, this according to the International Times. Since Hamid Gul himself is a known liar, (see this interview two weeks after 9/11,) I wouldn’t put it beyond him to float this finely crafted newsbit on his own. So the 24 hour [...]
Categories: Al Qaeda, China, India, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Waziristan |
Tags: 9/11, al, attacks, bin, gul, hamid, ISI, laden, mossad, mumbai, qaeda, terror, Terrorism | Comments Off
Posted by Thanos on November 19, 2008
Reports from Bill Roggio and AFP both say we might have gotten another member of Al Qaeda’s Shura council. A good way to go into the Thanksgiving holidays.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Military, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, War |
Tags: abdullah, Abdullah Azam al-Saudi, al, azam, bannu, bin, council, laden, Pakistan, qaeda, saudi, shura, terror, Terrorism, Waziristan, Zawahiri | Comments Off
Posted by Thanos on October 7, 2008
This one’s hard to read, I can tell you where John should have zinged Barack a bit harder, but anyone can see those. As a political junkie I have to say that I don’t know how this will fly with non-political people. Trying to be objective, I would say that of the two John McCain [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Economy, Iran, Iraq, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, John McCain, Jundullah, Military, Obama, Politics, Sarah Palin, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Waziristan |
Tags: Afghanistan, barack, debate, mccain, Obama, Pakistan, presidential | 2 Comments »
Posted by Thanos on August 1, 2008
FINAL UPDATE:
Pakistan Taliban Deny Zawahiri’s death. Maulvi Omar is the spokesworm for Baitullah Mehsud, and while he might be lying, it’s not likely. The Taliban are quick to promote the death of leaders on the internet when there are deaths (as they did this week with the real death from the missile strike) as this [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Military, Pakistan, Politics, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism |
Tags: al, ayman, baitullah, bin, dead, infected, injured, laden, mehsud, qaeda, qaida, Taliban, wounded, Zawahiri | 7 Comments »
Posted by Thanos on July 24, 2008
In Saturday’s report from Pakistan I noted that there was fighting between militant units of Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan. Post fighting it appears the TTP / Harkat ul Mujahideen force beat the Lashkar e Taiber (Tayyaba) force and is now in control of Mohmand Agency as outcome of that. Umar Khalid is their leader, and this appears [...]
Categories: Al Qaeda, India, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Pakistan, Sharia, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, Waziristan |
Tags: agency, baitullah, e, faqir, khalid, lashkar, maulvi, mehsud, mohmand, safi, sahib, shah, Taibor, taybr, Tayyaba, TTP, umar | Comments Off
Posted by Thanos on July 19, 2008
The schism that has stewed for a couple of months within Baitullah Mehsud’s loose alliance of Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan broke out into open large scale fighting in the Mohmand agency Friday. Initial reports had ten dead up until the point when the Afghan Taliban leadership brokered a peace through a Jirga. Fighting broke out again immediately after the Afghanistan [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Iraq, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Pakistan, Sharia, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism |
Tags: Afghanistan, al, baitullah, fighting, forces, Iraq, mehsud, murdered, qaeda, qaida, schism, spie, Taliban, tehreek, TTP, wazir, Waziristan, winter | Comments Off
Posted by Thanos on July 13, 2008
In a report from Pakistan’s military 2007 became the worst year so far for terror within Pakistan as 1500 innocents died to terror. Further thousands of Taliban and other terror group members died fighting the military, with the total deaths at 6,550 adding the military casualties in. The report further adds that over 3000 Pakistanis [...]
Categories: Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, Waziristan |
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Posted by Thanos on July 1, 2008
Updated: [Last night I put down my initial thougthts and today I'm expanding a few sentences with some analysis.]
I’ve said for a long time that AQ and the Taliban pretend to be world Islamists looking for Kalipha as a recruiting tool, but that they are really collective gangs of regional thugs set on temporal power [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Islam, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, Sharia, Syria, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, Turkey, Waziristan |
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Posted by Thanos on June 28, 2008
The civil war in Pakistan has heated up, with the brutal Taliban Warlord, Baitullah Mehsud in the lead.Baitullah established his leadership in the Waziristans by a steady campaign of brief offensives, assasinations of opposition leaders, and intermittent peaces with the Musharraf government forces the past three years when pressed.
Initially he was applauded as a possible [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Iran, Iraq, JEM, Jundullah, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, Waziristan |
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Posted by Thanos on June 13, 2008
What were Pakistani troops doing in such close proximity to Taliban Troops?
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Pakistan, Politics, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism |
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Posted by Thanos on May 13, 2008
In another grim Islamist Terror group milestone, 902 muslims were killed in April, and another 1208 were maimed and injured. Indeed, since these numbers are compiled from news reports, some of the injured could have slipped into the death column after the news was reported, and many likely did.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Islam, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism, Waziristan |
Tags: Algeria, bombing, bombs, deaths, Islam, kidnap, muslim, Pakistan, qutb, sayid, terror, torture | 1 Comment »
Posted by Thanos on May 11, 2008
It appears that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is either making raids cross border, or seeking alliances or arms judging by who was killed in a recent clash with Afghan and NATO forces in Afghanistan. From the Hindu News:
The dead Taliban belonged to the Wazir tribe and were members of a group led by Pakistani Taliban Mullah Nazir, [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Military, Pakistan, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, Waziristan |
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Posted by Thanos on May 1, 2008
The Taliban affiliated group, Lashkar-e-Islami, leading the failed efforts in the Khyber Pass sought retribution today with a suicide bomber attack on one of their Tribal opponent’s offices. The blast killed several, but Namdar was not present.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism |
Tags: agency, assasination, bombing, forces, interdiction, islami, khyber, lashkar, lei, namdar, pass, suicide | 1 Comment »
Posted by Thanos on April 25, 2008
While the new government is on record pace to make deals with the Taliban, the Taliban is breaking the deals before the ink dries.
Bill Roggio has details on the NWFP deal here, as well as the ongoing negotiations with Baitullah Mehsud.
The Taliban celebrated the deal by attacking a Police station killing four muslims and [...]
Categories: Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Waziristan |
Tags: baitullah, fazlullah, mehsud, mohammad, sufi, tehreek | 4 Comments »
Posted by Thanos on April 19, 2008
The Khyber pass battles continue, and along with that the agit prop is continuing from all sides. There are a few things that are clear however. The first is that there aren’t many foreigner fighters, or Arab Al Qaeda, left alive in Pakistan - their numbers are thinning as is pointed out by this Asia Times article. The second [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Iran, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Nuclear, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Waziristan |
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Posted by Thanos on April 16, 2008
The papers are saying that there will be an operation in the Khyber Agency after 9 Khassadar officials were kidnapped. Right now it appears to be the usual gunship drive, but without a campaign such as the one mounted in Swat, this won’t accomplish much.
If they are going to use ground troops to pursue, then [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism |
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Posted by Thanos on April 15, 2008
Torkham gate in the Khyber pass remained closed the third day as tribals fight in the area with “militants” – obviously Taliban from their strategy outlined here the other night.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, Waziristan |
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Posted by Thanos on April 13, 2008
The Taliban strategy in the Khyber is bound to fail, as I’ve said in the past, but it won’t fail for want of trying. Syed at The Asia Times outlines it here, and in past articles (note that much of this is part of the Taliban’s new media blitz now that Al Masri is dead and [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Iran, Iraq, Islam, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, Politics, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, Waziristan |
Tags: agency, interdiction, khber, pass, supplies | 3 Comments »
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