FDD's Long War Journal

Afghanistan

Pakistan – PCNS agrees to link NATO supply to end of drone strikes

Al Qaeda

Pakistan addicted to using militants against India: Pentagon

US Predator strike kills 4 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan

The drones leveled a compound near the bazaar in Miramshah. The strike is the first in more than two weeks.

The al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters who kidnapped a Swiss woman have demanded the release of the wives of Osama bin Laden from Pakistani custody. AQAP also wants Iraq and Saudi Arabia to free women from custody.

Afghanistan

Pakistan parliament debate on US sputters to halt

Afghanistan

Pakistan – Supreme Court directs NAB to hold fair probe into NATO containers scandal

Yemen

“Gunmen” kidnapped a Saudi diplomat in the southern city of Aden. The government urged Pakistan to free Amal al Sadeh, one of Osama bin Laden’s wives, and her four children.

9/11 plotter spotted in Mir Ali

Ahmed Siddiqui said he met Said Bahaji, a fellow German who was a member of the 9/11 Hamburg Cell, in the terrorist haven in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.

Germany

Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, the German-Afghan al Qaeda operative whose capture in Kabul disrupted planned terror attacks in Europe, told a court that in 2010 he met with Younis al Mauretani and Said Bahaji in Mir Ali, Pakistan; Bahaji is an al Qaeda propagandist who helped facilitate the 9/11 attacks. Siddiqui also said he met the […]

Afghanistan

Security forces killed the top IMU commander in Afghanistan and several Taliban fighters and commanders. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south and are ejecting Afghans from their homes in Nuristan. HIG suspended peace talks with the government.

Afghanistan

Obama concedes strains between US, Pakistan

ISAF, Afghan forces kill top IMU commander in north

Makhdum Nusrat, “the senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader in Afghanistan,” was killed along with several IMU fighters during a raid in Faryab.

Afghanistan

Pakistan – Afghan Taliban say US must rebuild trust for talks

United States

Khalifa Ali Al-Akili, a.k.a. James Marvin Thomas Jr., was arrested on a weapons charge on March 15. According to an affidavit, the Pittsburgh resident told an FBI informant he planned to move to Pakistan and “wanted to strap on a bomb” and die a martyr. Al-Akili claimed the FBI had been trying to “set him […]

Afghanistan

US and Pakistan bargain over CIA drones

Al Qaeda

Pakistan: Court due to charge bin Laden family

India

India concerned over security of Pakistan’s nuclear programme

Afghanistan

Pakistani Taliban forcing Nuristan residents from homes

Afghanistan

Taliban warn Pakistan lawmakers over NATO supplies

Afghanistan

US Plans No Disciplinary Charges in Strike That Killed 24 Pakistanis

French fighters training in North Waziristan

Pakistani officials claim that 85 Frenchmen have been training in the known terrorist havens of Datta Khel and Miramshah.

Afghanistan

Resurgence of Afghan Taliban not in Pakistan’s interest: US general

Afghanistan

US withdrawal from Afghanistan; Pakistan wants closer ties with Tajikistan

Afghanistan

Officials: Pakistani Taliban training Frenchmen

Afghanistan

General Allen said Pakistan’s ISI still supports the Taliban and the Haqqani Network. The Taliban killed a former member of parliament, a tribal elder, and two bodyguards in an IED attack in Uruzgan. Security forces detained two Taliban leaders in Helmand and Kunduz.