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Taliban torch another NATO fuel convoy in Islamabad

More than 60 NATO supply trucks and fuel tankers have been destroyed in Taliban attacks since the Pakistani government closed the Khyber Pass to NATO traffic. The latest attack took place near Islamabad.

Al Qaeda

Osama bin Laden released his second audiotape in two days. On the latest tape, bin Laden urged Muslims to help Pakistani flood victims and blamed Arab governments for failing to respond to their plight.

Sweden

The Swedish Security Service said “a handful” of citizens have traveled to Pakistan to train at terror camps. The terror alert in Sweden has been raised to its highest level in five years.

NATO

No end in sight to Pakistan-NATO supply standoff

Al Qaeda

Osama bin Laden released his first audiotape since March. On the tape, bin Laden said climate change is responsible for the floods in Pakistan and expressed concern over the natural catastrophe.

Al Qaeda

Poll: US strikes unpopular in Pakistan tribal belt

Gates: ‘A success for one is a success for all’

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had some interesting things to say during a speech at Duke University on Wednesday. In particular, the following caught my eye. From Reuters: [Gates] later fielded questions from students, telling them eastern Afghanistan “is increasingly an unholy syndicate of terrorist groups working together: al Qaeda, the Haqqani network, the Pakistani […]

The Taliban

Waliur Rahman Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban of the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan and Hakeemullah Mehsud’s deputy, said the Taliban is allied with al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden is alive, Predator strikes have killed many fighters but serve as a recruiting boon, and the Taliban has a 18,000-man army.

Waliur Rehman Mehsud says Taliban is tight with al Qaeda, bin Laden alive

Reuters scored an interview with Waliur Rahman Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban of the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan and Hakeemullah Mehsud’s deputy. Waliur conducted the interview from North Waziristan (despite claims from North Waziristan Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadar that the Mehsuds have been ejected). Below are some excerpts. Waliur says the […]

European terror plot begins to unravel

An increase in Predator strikes against al Qaeda groups in Pakistan and operations against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in northern Afghanistan is linked to a plot to carry out a Mumbai-like terror assault in several cities in Europe.

Al Qaeda

Britons training in Pakistan for UK terror attacks

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Obama’s Wars, part 2: Obama: ‘We need to make clear to people that the cancer is in Pakistan’

Al Qaeda

US-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn criticized Pakistan’s response to the floods in a videotape released on the Internet. “While the generals, politicians and puppets try to hide their war crimes from public view, they have done little … (for) the suffering of the flood and war-ravaged people they claim to represent and serve,” he […]

United States

US blames ‘communication breakdown™ for attacks

Osama bin Laden’s spokesman freed by Iran

Gaith.jpgIran has freed Osama bin Laden’s spokesman, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, from “house arrest.” Abu Ghaith gained infamy after Sept. 11, 2001, when he promised more attacks on American soil. He recruited the al Qaeda cell responsible for the Oct. 8, 2002, attack on US Marines training on Faylaka Island.

Al Qaeda

Reports from Pakistan indicate that Sheikh Fateh al Masri, al Qaeda’s leader for Pakistan and Afghanistan, was killed in a Sept. 25 Predator strike in Datta Khel in North Waziristan. The report is unconfirmed.

Recent Predator strikes aimed at al Qaeda’s external operations network

For a long time, we here at The Long War Journal have noted that the US Predator air campaign in Pakistan has aimed not only at eliminating al Qaeda and Taliban senior leadership based in Pakistan, but has also focused, as a primary goal, on suppressing al Qaeda’s external operations. This LWJ report, from Sept. […]

Afghanistan

US forces killed 10 Haqqani Network fighters in Khost along the Pakistani border. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network members in Khost, Pakitka, Zabul, Ghazni, and Helmand. The Taliban killed a Polish soldier and denied kidnapping a British woman in Kunar.

NATO

NATO launches airstrikes into Pakistan, 50 dead

US Predators strike again in Datta Khel

Seven “militants” were killed in attacks on a vehicle and a compound in Datta Khel. Ten of the last 18 strikes have hit targets in the Datta Khel area.