‘Good Taliban’ operate freely in South Waziristan
“It looked as though the army was giving them a free hand,” a resident said.
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Al Qaeda
Move to CIA puts Petraeus in conflict with Pakistan
Afghanistan
Unity among North Waziristan groups crumbles
ISAF captures HIG’s provincial commander for Khost
Special operation teams have hammered Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin’s command in an area of Khost under the control of the Haqqani Network.
Afghanistan
Pakistan urged Afghanistan to distance itself from the West, officials say
Obama set to shuffle national security team
Panetta to Defense, Petraeus to CIA, and Crocker returns to the diplomatic corps in Afghanistan.
Sweden
Reacting to the publication yesterday in Sweden of WikiLeaks documents about his prior detention at Guantanamo, Swedish terror suspect Mehdi Ghezali said, “I just want to be able to move on.” Returned to Sweden in 2004, Ghezali was briefly detained in Pakistan in 2009.
Afghanistan
Pakistan denies reports of efforts to split US, Afghanistan
How many al Qaeda operatives are now left in Afghanistan?
ISAF said it has killed more than 25 al Qaeda leaders and fighters in Afghanistan in the past month.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
The US has charged four Pakistani members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba in absentia for their conspiring in the November 2008 terror assault on Mumbai. The men are known as Sajid Mir, Abu Qahafa, Mazhar Iqbal, and “Major Iqbal.”
Saudi al Qaeda leader killed in Kunar airstrike
Abu Hafs al Najdi, a Qaeda’s operations chief in Kunar, was wanted by the Saudi government. ISAF said “more than 25 al Qaeda leaders and fighters” have been killed in Afghanistan over the past month.
Al Qaeda
Guantanamo documents name Pakistan ISI as al Qaeda associate
From the new Gitmo files: Al Qaeda and anthrax
A detainee assessment claimed that two al Qaeda operatives had knowledge of the 2001 anthrax attacks in the US, but the report cannot be confirmed.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan army boss Kayani says militants’ back broken
Afghanistan
Source: US departs Pakistan base
ISAF captures Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s top commander for Afghanistan
The IMU ‘s senior leader in Afghanistan served as “a key conduit between the senior IMU leadership in Pakistan and senior Taliban leadership in Afghanistan.” He escaped from a Pakistani jail in 2010.
US Predators kill 25 in North Waziristan strike
The strike in the Mir Ali area is the first in more than a week, and took place just one day after Admiral Mullen completed a trip to patch up ties with Pakistan’s military.
ISAF targets al Qaeda safehouse in Khost
The targeted compound is “associated with Pakistan-based al Qaeda leadership.”
Iraq
Insurgents killed a child in Samarra and a student in Mosul. Security forces detained 33 wanted men, including two Pakistanis and an Egyptian, in Basrah, and six insurgents in Kirkuk.
Afghanistan
Pakistan accuses US of ‘negative propaganda’
Afghanistan
Mullen: Pakistan’s ISI spy agency has ‘militant links’
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group leader ambushed by Qaddafi’s forces
A top Libyan Islamic Fighting Group leader known as Urwah was killed in an ambush by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s forces earlier this month. Urwah was reportedly detained by Iran in 2004 but allowed to return to Libya to fight Qaddafi.
17 Taliban, ‘foreign fighters’ killed during hunt for al Qaeda commander in Kunar
The al Qaeda leader “commands and facilitates insurgents throughout the province and border region, directing weapons acquisition, movement, employment of fighters and equipment to Kunar for attacks against Afghan and Coalition forces.”
Suicide bombers captured in Afghan border town trained in Quetta
Not all suicide bombers are trained in North Waziristan.
India
After Pakistan missile test, India flexes muscle
Zawahiri’s brother-in-law killed in Afghanistan
Osama Hassan was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Group and may have played a role in getting that group’s external faction to merge with al Qaeda in 2006.
Taliban/IMU commander killed in airstrike in Afghan north
Mullah Abdul Fatah Haqqani commanded and controlled facilitation networks for “foreign fighters” in Baghlan.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan plays hardball
Afghanistan
Pakistanis flee troubled areas near Afghan border
Fedayeen-e-Islam boasts 1,000 suicide bombers trained in North Waziristan camps
Spokesman Shakirullah Shakir said three camps in Mir Ali have cranked out the legion of terrorists.