Files recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, show that the al Qaeda leader and his deputy Ayman al Zawahiri were in contact with Afghan Taliban emir Mullah Omar. The terror leaders plotted strategy in Afghanistan up to two weeks before bin Laden was killed.
Afghan forces killed 27 insurgents, including seven Pakistanis and Saudis, in an operation in Helmand. In other incidents, five Taliban fighters and two policemen were killed; and the Taliban freed 14 policemen in Badakhshan.
Samir H., a known “Islamist” from Aachen, is said to have been killed in the March 9 strike in Makeen in South Waziristan.
The strike is the first in Pakistan in a month. Foreign fighters, likely Arabs and members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, were reported to have been targeted.
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The Taliban’s leading website has been ‘infiltrated’ for the third time in less than a year by unknown cyber-assailants. The Taliban have yet to comment on the disruption to their El Emara website.
The raid took place in the Sayyidabad district, where on Aug. 6, 2011 the Taliban shot down a US Army Chinook helicopter and killed 28 US and Afghan special operations forces, including 17 Navy SEALs.
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Security forces killed 11 Pakistani and Arab fighters during a clearing operation in Ghazni, and killed and captured several Taliban commander and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Khost, and Logar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in the south.
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Abu Musab al Masri was killed in the April 16 strike in Shabwa province. He was detained by Egypt for attempting to wage jihad in iraq but was released.
The senior Haqqani Network facilitator is linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s leadership cadre in Pakistan and provides support for attacks in Kabul.
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Abu Miqdad al Masri’s widow confirmed his death as well as the deaths of two of their sons in a US drone strike in Darpa Danda Khel in North Waziristan on Oct. 14, 2011. The strike took place one day after senior Haqqani Network leader Jan Baz Zadran was killed in the same town.
At least 10 people have been killed and dozens injured after hundreds of Taliban fighters loyal to Hafiz Gul Bahadur and Sirajuddin Haqqani clashed with local anti-Taliban tribesmen in the Shawa area of North Waziristan.
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Coalition and Afghan forces have conducted seven raids against the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan this month.
Afghan intelligence officials announced the interdiction of 11 tons of potassium chlorate, a high-powered explosive, and arrested 12 Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in separate raids.
The NDS detained three Pakistani Taliban fighters and two Afghans involved in a major plot to attack Kabul; 10,000 kilograms of explosives were also seized. Security forces targeted an IMU leader in Baghlan.
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