Six Pakistani handlers are recorded giving orders to murder civilians, being asked to remain on the phone, and cheering after the killings, according to the Indian dossier. Former ISI chief Hamid Gul is one of the handlers.
Pakistan sacked its national security adviser for admitted the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist is Pakistani. The Taliban murdered two more “US spies” in North Waziristan and killed three policemen in Hangu. Police arrested four al Qaeda operatives in Panjgur near the border with Iran.
Powerline cited Thomas Joscelyn’s article on the danger of releasing the detainees held at Guantánamo Bay.
National Review Online cited Thomas Joscelyn’s article on the Uighurs in US detention.
USA Today quoted and cited Thomas Joscelyn in a report on the closing of Guantanamo Bay.
Prime Minister Gilani fired his national security adviser after he went of Indian television and confirmed the captured Mumbai attacker is a Pakistani citizen.
Muqtada al Sadr urged Iraqis to attack US troops for Israel’s operation in Gaza. No major security incidents were reported during today’s Ashura procession. Iraqi security forces detained 28 wanted men and insurgent suspects in Basrah.
The story of Muhammad Saad Iqbal, a former Guantanamo detainee, is far more complicated than The New York Times lets on.
Fighting in Gaza resumed after a three-hour truce to allow in humanitarian aid into the war zone expired. Israel views the proposed Egyptian-French cease-fire “favorably.” Hamas said it rejects any permanent truce with Israel. A UN official said Hamas was not firing from the school that was attacked yesterday, but two witnesses said Hamas fighters […]
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah was prepared to fight Israel and attacked Arab states for failing to support Hamas. “The Zionists will discover that the war they had in July (2006) was a walk in the park if we compare it to what we’ve prepared for every new aggression,” he said.
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US troops killed 23 Taliban fighters during a raid on a bomb-making factory in Laghman province. NATO rejected claims that its soldiers killed civilians during an operation against the Taliban in Helmand province. Four terror suspects held at a US base in Afghanistan are asking a US federal judge for the right to sue for […]
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Al Qaeda operative Abdullah Salih al Ajmi was released from Guantánamo Bay in 2006 and detonated a massive suicide truck bomb in Mosul, Iraq in 2008.
Malaysia released Yazid Sufaat, a dangerous terrorist and former detainee at Guantánamo Bay, from jail. The case highlights the dangers of turning over terrorists to their home countries.
The New York Times misses the story on Muhammad Saad Iqbal, a detainee at Guantánamo Bay from 2002 until late last year. Iqbal was released despite being strongly suspected of plotting terror attacks for al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda sniffs opportunity in Gaza
The operation may be expanded into southern Gaza. Israeli leaders are open to a political solution as reports indicate Hamas’ command and control is in disarray.
Ayman al Zawahiri vowed revenge for the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza on a newly released 10-minute audiotape. “We will never stop until we avenge the death of all who are killed, injured, widowed and orphaned in Palestine and throughout the Islamic world,” he said. He also blamed President-elect Obama and Egyptian President Mubarak for […]
A spokesman for Jamaat-ud Dawa, the front group for Lashkar-e-Taiba, warned that Pakistan is making a “big mistake” by acting against the group after the United Nations labeled it a terror entity last December. “Hafiz Saeed (the group’s founder) has followers all over Pakistan, and it is not possible for the government of Pakistan to […]
‘Taliban™s sharia paving way for army operations in FATA™
The Taliban murdered two more “US spies” in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed four policemen during an attack on a checkpoint in Hangu; another policeman was killed while defusing a bomb in Bannu. Four more beheaded bodies were found in Swat. An office of the political administration in Mohmand was bombed and the Taliban attacked […]
Afghanistan: Petraeus plan to defeat the Taliban to be tested in 2009