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 |
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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 [...]
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In an intercepted letter to Iran, Ayman Al Zawahiri praises Iran for their aid in setting up the terror cells in Yemen responsible for the recent US Embassy attacks there. In the past both Al Qaeda and the Taliban have sheltered in Iran, and without Iran’s logistics and weapons aid it’s doubtful that they can [...]
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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 »
Take a stop by Zombie’s for an interesting new Pic and speculation.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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President Karzai of Afghanistan threatened to attack if Pakistan does not clean up there act in regards to cross border terrorism and not just tolerance of Jihadis, but in some quarters outright support.
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It appears we got an Algerian Al Qaeda leader in the Damadola village hellfire strike last week, this is the third one in the area. ( as reported here in February.) Jammie Wearing Fool has more
The Algerian, known by the nickname Abu Sulayman Jazairi, apparently died May 14 in the strike that killed as many [...]
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Tags: Afghanistan, border, damadohla, damadola, expert, explosives, hellfire, osman, strike, sulayman, suleiman, terror, Waziristan | 1 Comment »
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.
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Tags: Algeria, bombing, bombs, deaths, Islam, kidnap, muslim, Pakistan, qutb, sayid, terror, torture | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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Tags: baitullah, fazlullah, mehsud, mohammad, sufi, tehreek | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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Tags: agency, interdiction, khber, pass, supplies | 3 Comments »
Which references the original Takfirists, and in particular the Azraqi. In reality Al Qaeda is the group closest in actual deed and practice to the wiped out Araqi, who were in their day the hallmark of maniacal evil.
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President Pervez Musharraf has sworn in Yousef Raza Gilani as new Prime Minister of Pakistan, and it appears that the new coalition government has firmed up the factions and set a course. I’m still betting on Zardari to eventually move into the position, and will look at Gilani as the seat warmer until I see [...]
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When you shelter vipers for ten or more years, you should expect to get bit. Especially if all your neighbors chase them home to you. After large-scale failures in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Al Qaeda and the affiliated terror groups that shelter under their umbrella have no place better than Pakistan to run or hide.
Pakistan will continue [...]
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Caucausus
Five Bosnian Terrorist suspects were arrested in Sarajevo and Bugojna for arms smuggling and terror planning by Muslim-Croat authorities. They are suspected to be in the Muslim group Vahabis, yet another bud on the the Muslim Brotherhood planted Takfirist tree of terror groups. (A Takfirist is someone who believes in establishing the caliphate & who grants themselves the right to attack [...]
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