Pakistan’s Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended hearings on the release of Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed. The government was challenging the Lahore High Court’s decision to release Saeed from a loose house arrest after the November 2008 Mumbai terror assault.
Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party and a member of al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis, threatened to attack Chinese embassies worldwide and also interests within China.
India said it has turned over enough evidence to Pakistan to allow it to proceed with the prosecution of Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and leader Hafiz Saeed for his involvement in the November 2008 terror assault on Mumbai. “The evidence provided in three dossiers is, in our view, sufficient to investigate role of Hafiz Saeed,” Indian Home […]
The Taliban also targeted security forces in Peshawar, Mohmand, Swat, and Khyber. Four more security personnel were beheaded and three more were seriously wounded in Pakistan’s violent northwest.
The FBI arrested six US citizens and one Kosovar in North Carolina for plotting acts of terrorism in Israel. All seven “are charged with conspiring to provide support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons abroad.” One suspect, Daniel Boyd, “is a veteran of terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.”
Pakistan’s foreign minister said the government will no longer provide sanctuary to Mullah Omar and the Taliban’s Quetta shura. “They’ve created havoc, made our environment insecure, and wherever they are, we’ll take them on,” Shah Mehmud Qureshi said. “Absolutely, we’ll be taking them on.”
Seven Haqqani Network fighters were killed during a coordinated assault in Khost City.
Shah Doran, Fazlullah’s deputy, has been reported killed. Muslim Khan, the spokesman for Fazlullah, said the Taliban are prepared to retake Swat.
Bryant Neal Vinas, the American-born al Qaeda operative caught in Pakistan, provided intelligence that allowed the US to target al Qaeda leaders and training camps in Pakistan’s tribal areas as well as information on a possible attack on a Long Island railway. In January 2009 he pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder US nationals, providing […]
US citizen captured in Pakistan gives window into Al Qaeda’s world
Sa’ad bin Laden is believed to have been killed in a US Predator airstrike in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The report has not been confirmed.
The Abdullah Mehsud group has been reorganized under the command of Ikhlas Khan.
The Haqqani Network and the Tora Bora Front launched suicide assaults in Paktia and Nangarhar provinces. Eight Taliban fighters and six Afghan security officials were killed in the failed attacks.
Taliban commander Mullah Fazlullah returned to the airwaves, casting further doubts he is near death.
2 Pakistani students held in UK terror raids to be freed
Police detained Mufty Obaidullah, a senior operative in the India-based Asif Reza Commando Force. The group is a criminal-terrorist organization with close ties to Harkat-ul-Jihadi-e-Islami, the Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency. Obaidullah was attempting to expand the network in Bangladesh.
US and Afghan forces raided a large base run by the Haqqanis in a remote mountainous region that straddles the Khost-Gardez Pass.
Today’s strike killed five Taliban fighters. The attack is the first to take place outside South Waziristan since May 16.
The Haqqani Network commander has been a major target of US forces. The US has launched attacks against him in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The notorious Taliban commander trains children to serve as suicide bombers at his camps in South Waziristan.
Hakeemullah is one of the Pakistani Taliban’s most able and effective commanders and is a rising star in movement.
Mullah Sangeen, a senior commander in the Haqqani Network, threatened to kill a captured US soldier unless Coalition forces end operations in two districts in Paktika and Ghazni provinces in eastern Afghanistan.
Seven locations in the state of Maharashtra have been placed under high alert after intelligence detained a Pakistani terrorist in Kashmir. The detainee had photographs of seven locations in his possession, including a bank and train stations in Mumbai. Officials believe another attack might be launched by sea as was the November 2008 strike in […]
Ayman al Zawahiri again urged Pakistanis to fight against the United States and the Pakistani government for backing the “Crusade” and asked Muslims to donate to al Qaeda. “The current ruling class in Pakistan is lining up under the cross of the modern Crusade and competing for American bribes,” Zawahiri said. “Hence, the actual ruler […]
The Pakistani military is attempting to isolate and destroy Baitullah Mehsud, and does not intend to conduct a counterinsurgency in South Waziristan.
A court convicted Pakistan-born Aleem Nasir of financing and recruiting for al Qaeda in Europe. Nasir also provided binoculars, night-vision goggles, laser range-finders, digital compasses, and radios to al Qaeda fighters overseas.
The US said it would not pursue talks with the Taliban until the group denounces al Qaeda and lays down its weapons. “The Taliban and al Qaeda are linked like this,” US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said. “And, unless the Taliban repudiates al-Qaeda publicly, this is a nonstarter.”
Spokesman Mullah Omar claimed the Swat Taliban’s leaders are safe and said they went underground at the onset of the Malakand operation.
A military spokesman denied a report by CNN that Major General Abbas said the Pakistan government can broker a deal between the US and the Taliban. Maulana Abdul Aziz called for the imposition of sharia law and warned of a “bloody revolution” if the government refused to implement it.