Pakistan

Peshawar police traced the recent suicide bombing in the city back to Baitullah Mehsud. The Islamabad airport bombing is traced to the Amjad Farooqi group, which is a subset of al Qaeda linked Jaish-e-Mohammad. Amjad Farooqi was “linked to suicide bombings, hijackings, the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl and assassination attempts on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf” before he was killed. Two Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists were arrested in Rawalpindi, and are linked back to Waziristan.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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