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US: Pakistan must show it wants Afghan peace
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US Predators kill 21 in South Waziristan strikes
The strikes are the first in a week. The US has executed 12 Predator strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas this month, the highest total since December 2010.
Special operations forces capture 5 al Qaeda operatives in Afghan southeast
The raid took place in Ghazni province. The targeted facilitator operates in Pakistan, plans operations, and shuttles money and fighters into both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
DC district court denies former Taliban governor’s habeas petition
In a decision released on Thursday, a DC district court denied Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The court cited Khairkhwa’s clandestine meetings with Iranian officials, among other evidence.
Al Qaeda
Cellphone Offers Clues of Bin Laden’s Pakistan Ties
Obama announces rapid drawdown of surge forces from Afghanistan
Ten thousand troops will be withdrawn by the end of the year, and an additional 23,000 troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of the summer of 2012.
AQAP releases martyr’s biography for ex-Gitmo detainee
AQAP’s chief Mufti, Ibrahim Rubaish, has released a biography honoring ex-Gitmo detainee Fahd Saleh Suleiman al Jutayli. Rubaish, himself a former Gitmo detainee, denies that Jutayli was killed while fighting alongside the Houthis in Yemen.
ISAF captures ‘foreign fighter’ facilitator in southeastern Afghanistan
“The facilitator assisted in the transfer of Uzbeks and Farsi speaking foreign fighters from Pakistan into Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban,” ISAF reported.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed filed a petition in court that called for the government to halt US Predator airstrikes on Pakistani territory. Saeed asked the court to order the government to release all information related to the “secret deals” between the US and Pakistan.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: US cautioned to take Pakistan along on talks with Taliban
Siraj Haqqani threatens to attack Afghan judges, courts
The Afghan government executed a Haqqani Network fighter involved in the February attack on a bank in Jalalabad.
US Predators strike the Haqqani Network in Kurram
The strike hit in an area run by Fazal Saeed Utezai, a Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan commander who supports the Haqqani Network.
Is the US really negotiating with the Afghan Taliban?
Gates admits he’s not even sure the US is speaking to “genuine representatives of the Taliban leader Mullah Omar.”
Afghanistan
Pakistani secular leaders alarmed by US Afghan-withdrawal plans
Taliban suicide assault team strikes in Afghan capital
Three Taliban fighters wearing military uniforms killed nine people in an attack on a police station in the capital.
Al Qaeda
Pak’s Osama session video leaked to US?
Somalia’s Shabaab vows allegiance to new al Qaeda emir Zawahiri
Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage “announces the renewal of its allegiance to the Emir of Qaedat al-Jihad,” according to a statement released on an al Qaeda-linked forum.
Afghanistan
Gates stresses the importance of ties with Pakistan
Harakat-ul-Mujahideen chief lives in open near Islamabad
Fazle-ur-Rahman Khalil, the man Osama bin Laden consulted before issuing his infamous fatwa against the US, lives comfortably near Islamabad.
State Department designates former Gitmo detainee turned AQAP commander
The State Department designated former Gitmo detainee Othman al Ghamdi as a global terrorist today. Al Ghamdi is an “operational commander” in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Al Qaeda appoints Ayman al Zawahiri successor to bin Laden
In an official statement released by As Sahab, al Qaeda’s media arm, Zawahiri was named emir. Al Qaeda said it would continue to fight with the Taliban in Afghanistan and support jihad in theaters across the globe.
Al Qaeda
Terror leader lives freely near Pakistani capital
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Pakistan arrests for CIA help are reality: Gates
Al Qaeda
Pakistan detains alleged informant
Al Qaeda
Pakistan’s chief of army fights to keep his job
Jordanian al Qaeda fighter killed in US airstrike in eastern Afghanistan
Mahmoud Hamdan Nizal was killed while fighting for al Qaeda in the Bermel district in eastern Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda
AP sources: Pakistan arrests 5 CIA informants from bin Laden raid in latest US-Pakistan rift
Al Qaeda
Slain Pakistani journalist reported ‘on facts, not what govt likes’
US Predator strike kills 15 ‘militants’ in South and North Waziristan
The unmanned aircraft hit a vehicle and a compound in an area administered by “good Taliban” leader Mullah Nazir, and a vehicle in an area run by the Haqqani Network.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan arrests CIA informants in bin Laden raid