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Al Qaeda

Former CIA agent’s hunt for bin Laden in Pakistani badlands

Bin Laden releases new tape

Osama bin Laden has released a new audiotape called “An address to the American people by the Lion of Islam Sheikh Osama bin Laden (May Allah Protect Him).” The video is more than 11 minutes long; excerpts from Reuters appear below. In the tape, bin Laden attacks the US for its close ties to Israel […]

Eight killed in North Waziristan airstrike

Several Al Qaeda operatives are believed to have been killed. The attack is the third straight in North Waziristan after previous strikes focused on South Waziristan.

Musharraf admits US aid diverted to nuke program

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has admitted to what many of us have known for some time: Pakistan has diverted US aid – money that was intended to be used to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban – to programs designed to strengthen the military against India. From The Times of India: Musharraf admitted that […]

Swat’s Mullah Fazlullah captured?

Mullah Qari Fazlullah: captured? The Telegraph is reporting that Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah has been captured and the surrender of his forces has been announced: The Taliban has announced its surrender in Swat Valley, one of its major strongholds until a Pakistan Army offensive regained control earlier this summer. Its announcement, made on one […]

Kashmir

Three policemen and a women were killed in a bombing that targeted a police bus outside of the central jail in Srinagar. Police believe that an operative named Rehman, a member of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, was behind the attack.

Rashid Rauf ‘is still alive,’ British say

Rashid Rauf while in Pakistani custody. Click to view. As Bill Roggio has reported previously, there are good reasons to believe that Rashid Rauf, a top al Qaeda planner, survived a November 2008 strike in North Waziristan. Some in the CIA and in the press have claimed that Rauf is dead. But Rauf is “still […]

Al Qaeda

A former Guantanamo detainee named Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali was among 12 foreigners detained in Dera Ghazi Khan. He was one of three Swedes detained. Ghezali was first captured in December 2001 as he fled the battle at the Tora Bora Mountains and attempted to enter Pakistan. He was later released.

500 tribal police quit in Khyber

A flag of the Khyber-based Lashkar-e-Islam painted on a wall in Bara. While the Pakistani military operation in Swat is showing signs of progress, the recently launched Khyber operation against the Lashkar-e-Islam is showing far less promise. Despite the military’s claims of routing the Lashkar-e-Islam (nearly 200 fighters have been reported killed during 10 days […]

Encouraging signs from Swat

Dawn published an encouraging article noting that tribal lashkars, or local militias, are taking a stand in Swat, a region once under the full control of the Taliban until the military launched an operation last spring: When a posse of Taliban fighters entered a mosque in this village during evening prayers last week to demand […]

Media ethics

On Sunday, Billl Roggio reported the kidnapping of New York Times correspondent Stephen Farrell, who was freed today by a NATO operation. Farrell’s driver/interpreter Sultan Munadi was also kidnapped, and lost his life in the raid along with a British soldier. Editors at the Times had been trying to keep the abduction quiet, as they […]

Kashmir

Two terrorists and an Indian Army officer were killed during a clash along the Line of Control in Kashmir. The terrorists were attempting to infiltrate from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Two paramilitary troopers, one policeman, and a civilian were wounded in a grenade attack outside a police station in Sopore.

Chaman border crossing closed to NATO traffic

A dispute between truckers and Pakistani border guards has caused the southern crossing to be closed for the second time in two weeks. The Taliban destroyed eight NATO fuel tankers outside Quetta.

Indonesia

Indonesia’s national police chief said Mohamad Jibril, a top suspect in the July bombings in Jakarta, was trained by Jemaah Islamiyah in camps in Pakistan. “Jibril received military training from several Jemaah Islamiyah activists for about a year, from 1999- 2000,” General Bambang said.

United States

An American who was arrested after he tried to illegally enter Pakistan’s tribal agencies last year failed to show up in court in Charsadda. Jude Kenan Muhammad, a member of the eight-man jihadist cell in North Carolina, is the only member of the cell who has not been detained.

Who killed Afghanistan’s deputy intelligence chief?

Over at the Asia Times, M K Bhadrakumar postulates that Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency was behind this week’s suicide bomb assassination of Dr. Abdullah Laghmani, Afghanistan’s deputy intelligence chief: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been stalking Laghmani for a decade. It is rare for an intelligence agency to single out one individual as its mortal […]

Kashmir

Indian troops killed five terrorists as they attempted to cross the Line of Control in the Gurez region. The fighting took place one day after Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian outposts and killed an Indian soldier.

Swat Taliban to be tried in Islamic courts

Some good news, and some potential bad news from Swat. First the good news, from Dawn: The commander of the operation against militants in the area of Swat, Kanju underlined that 105 militants have laid down their arms during search and clearance operations. During a Press Briefing, Brigadier Suleman said the operation is moving in […]

Iran

President Ahmadinejad will give a speech at the UN meeting on Sept. 23. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei praised the Islamic Republic’s ability to overcome post-election problems. Iran and Pakistan staged a joint anti-drug operation on the AfPak border.

15 policemen killed in Swat suicide attack

The suicide bomber entered the training grounds at the Special Police Training Center in Mingora and detonated his vest. The attack is the latest in a string of attacks targeting Pakistan’s security forces.

Waziristan op out, peace deals in

This should not come as a surprise to readers of The Long War Journal. From TIME: But after initial promises to launch a ground offensive in South Waziristan, the Pakistanis have backed off. A top Pakistani general, Nadeem Ahmed, recently said preparation for such an operation could take up to two months. Now, there will […]