Taliban strike in Peshawar, Mohmand
Fifteen Pakistanis were killed and 19 more were wounded, nine critically, in the latest strikes inside Pakistan.
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Iran
A senior Iranian member of parliament cast doubts on the uranium fuel arrangement. The interior minister will meet with officials in Pakistan to discuss the recent attacks by Jundallah.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has posted a message mourning the death of Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, declaring that his loss “is a price chosen by the nation to pay willingly and with open heart in return for the watering of the tree of Islam with what it needs of blood, until it […]
Taliban kill general in Islamabad attack
An emergency personnel checks an army jeep with bullet holes splattered on the windshield after it was attacked by gunmen in Islamabad. A brigadier general was killed in the attack. AP Photo. The Taliban have struck again in Islamabad, and have killed another senior Army officer. The BBC reports: A Pakistani army brigadier and his […]
Al Qaeda commander reported killed in US airstrike
Reports indicate a senior Egyptian operative may have been killed in North Waziristan. One report appears to be confusing Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s top leader in Afghanistan and chief financier, with Abu Musa al Masri, an al Qaeda commander.
Another former Gitmo detainee killed in a shootout
Former Guantanamo detainee Yousef Mohammed al Shihri was killed in an Oct. 13 shootout at a checkpoint along the Saudi-Yemeni border. He was reportedly dressed like a woman and planned to commit a suicide attack. Prior to being transferred from Guantanamo, al Shihri allegedly made it clear that he hated all Americans.
Predators, Taliban, and civilians
Click image to view The Long War Journal’s data related to the US air campaign in Pakistan. Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann have published an analysis for the New America Foundation about US drone strikes in Pakistan. Citing previous analyses of drone strike statistics, including the recent report in The Long War Journal, Bergen and […]
US airstrike targets al Qaeda in North Waziristan
Three jihadis were reported killed in an attack in the Mir Ali region, where al Qaeda is known to maintain bases and training camps.
Why would the Taliban attack an Islamic university?
The Taliban have taken credit for yesterday’s suicide attack at the International Islamic University in Islamabad. As noted in yesterday’s report on the attack, the Taliban have no problems with striking at mosques and other religious institutions and events. I’ve received several questions as to why the Taliban would strike at an Islamic university. Dawn […]
Suicide bombers kill 5 in attack at Islamabad’s Islamic university
The attacks are the first since the government’s offensive was launched in South Waziristan. The military took control of a Taliban stronghold in the tribal agency.
Iran
Iran: Pakistan offers full cooperation in southeast bombing probe
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commander points finger at US, Britain for suicide attack
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps poster. Photo from Trends Magazine. Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, is blaming the US and Britain for yesterday’s suicide attack that killed five senior IRGC commanders, including Brigadier General Nour Ali Shoushtari, the deputy commander for the IRGC’s ground forces, Brigadier Rajab […]
Iran
Tehran claimed US and British involvement in the suicide bombing of IRGC members by Baluchi rebels. The Iranian press urged Pakistan to crack down on Sunni rebels along the shared border. The ‘P5+1’ will meet with Iran today to further talks over sending Iranian uranium abroad for enrichment; Tehran claimed it will continue to enrich […]
Taliban raise funds in Kurram and Arakzai
With the Pakistani military focusing on eliminating the Taliban in South Waziristan, the Taliban are countering by openly raising money in Arakzai, Kurram, Kohat, and Bannu. From Dawn: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has started a fund-raising campaign in the Arakzai Agency and parts of the Kurram Agency and Hangu. Sources said the TTP men were asking tribesmen […]
India
Pakistan’s ISI trying to revive militancy in Indian Punjab
David Rohde: Taliban no longer ‘Al Qaeda lite’
Click to view slide show of the Haqqani Network. Pictured is a composite image of Siraj Haqqani. New York Times reporter David Rohde writes about his kidnapping by the Haqqani Network and seven-month captivity. Rohde tells us three things that longtime readers of The Long War Journal and more recently Threat Matrix already know: 1) […]
Jundallah kills senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders
The anti-Iranian regime resistance group claimed responsibility for killing 29 Iranians, including two brigadier generals in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and tribal leaders in the southeast.
Al Qaeda
Pak troops begin ground offensive in Waziristan
Analysis: What lies ahead in Waziristan
The military is set to take on the Taliban in South Waziristan, where the military has failed four times in the past. The operation will pit the Army and Frontier Corps against the Taliban’s best fighters on terrain the Taliban have owned for years.
United States
Pentagon ramps up direct military aid to Pakistan
Suicide bombers attack police in Peshawar, kill 14
Two suicide bombers, including a female, attacked a police station and an intelligence headquarters in the provincial capital.
Let’s blame India
The body of a government worker at the Federal Investigation Agency killed by a Taliban assault team is carried out by rescue workers.. EPA photo. Before the smoke even cleared from the terror assaults on three police centers in Lahore, a senior police official has pointed the finger at India’s intelligence agency for masterminding the […]
Afghanistan
Pakistan spies stoke violence – Afghan advisor
German al Qaeda leader sanctioned by US Treasury
German national Bekkay Harrach has been designated as a global terrorist for his activities in support of al Qaeda and its external operations network.
Who is Colonel Imam?
Colonel Imam. Photo from the Irish Times. Pakistan’s The News provides a [likely unintentional] humorous rebuttal to Hamid Mir’s report that Ilyas Kashmiri was a member of the Special Services Group, Pakistan’s elite commandos. This is with reference to Hamid Mir’s report (Sept 20) titled “How an ex-commando became a terrorist”. It is total disinformation […]
Terrorists assault three police centers in Lahore
The Pakistani Taliban assault teams attacked the Federal Investigation Agency building, the Manawan police training centre, and the Elite Force Headquarters.
United States
Mustafa Abu Yazid, the chief of al Qaeda in Afghanistan, reportedly had been in contact with Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan who has been arrested for plotting to conduct backpack bomb attacks in the United States. The two communicated through an intermediary. Zazi was recruited by al Qaeda and trained in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
The Taliban
Hakeemullah Mehsud, the new leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, said his fighters would array against India if operations in the tribal areas ended. “We are fighting the Pakistan army, police and the frontier corps, because they are following American orders. If they stop following their orders, we will stop fighting them […]
Al Qaeda
In a videotape released on the Internet, Ayman al Zawahiri said that Pakistan’s Army serves the US and NATO and is attempting to stave off their defeat in Afghanistan. Zawahiri said the Pakistani Army “has completely become a tool for the crusaders against its own public, neighbouring countries and the Islamic world.”
US kills 4 in strike on Haqqani Network in North Waziristan
Four Haqqani Network fighters have been reported killed in an airstrike in Danda Darpa Khel, the base of the Haqqani Network. The town has been hit four times since Aug. 20.