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Gems, Timber and Jiziya: Pakistan’s Taliban Harness Resources to Fund Jihad
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Afghan forces kill senior Taliban commander in Helmand
Mullah Salam Noorzai, a longtime senior Taliban military leader, is the latest Taliban commander killed in Helmand province. Noorzai served as the Herat IV Corps commander during the Taliban government prior to its ouster.
Taliban on the offensive in Swat
One soldier was killed in an ambush on a convoy; two policemen have been wounded and 46 security personnel are surrounded as the Taliban besiege a power grid station in Mingora.
Malakand Accord ‘practically stands dissolved’ – Taliban spokesman
Muslim Khan said the Swat Taliban are retaliating against security forces and government officials, and will conduct attacks nationwide.
Swat Taliban reject Islamic courts, refuse to disarm
Muslim Khan said weapons “are ornaments of Muslims” as the Taliban beheads two government officials in Swat.
Taliban attack outpost in Mohmand
The military claimed the attack was repelled; the Taliban claimed it overran the outpost.
Two months ago, the military announced that Mohmand had been cleared of the Taliban.
Afghanistan
Report: Terror attacks up in Pakistan, Afghanistan
Taliban storm paramilitary outpost in Dir
Ten Levies troops were captured but then released after the Taliban overran their headquarters in the town of Dir. Al Qaeda urges Pakistanis to rebel.
Taliban still in control in Dir
The government claimed the Dir operation dislodged the Taliban after just one day of fighting, but the Taliban still control much of the northern district.
US strike kills 10 Taliban in South Waziristan
The attack targeted a safe house and a vehicle in Kanigoram; al Qaeda fighters have been reported killed. Today’s strike is the fifth this month and the sixteenth this year.
Taliban advance on Mansehra
More than 100 Taliban fighters have entered the district from Buner to the west and have established a base and training camp near the vital Karakoram Highway that links Pakistan to China.
Taliban capture 70 security personnel in Buner
A joint Frontier Constabulary and police force was captured after the Taliban surrounded a police station. A leaked report indicated the Army will deploy two brigades in Buner. The Taliban dispute casualties in Dir.
Somalia
Dozens of terrorists are moving from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and into Somalia. President Sharif said African Union forces should stay in Somalia. Shabaab freed three journalists and reopened their radio station.
United Kingdom
The Kingston Crown Court found three Muslim men not guilty of conspiring with the 7/7 London Tubes bombers. All three men admitted to knowing the bombers. Two of the men were found guilty of plotting to attend a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.
China
The Pakistani government has deported nine Chinese Uighurs to China after detaining them in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The nine Uighurs conducted attacks on Pakistani security forces. Uighurs train and fight alongside al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan.
Rangers deployed to secure Islamabad outskirts
Islamabad officials have moved paramilitary forces to block a potential Taliban advance into the nation’s capital. Taliban stop government forces in Buner. US officials question Pakistan’s ability to halt the Taliban.
Islamic State of Iraq leader reported captured
Unconfirmed reports from the Iraqi Army said Abu Omar al Baghdadi was captured in eastern Baghdad. The US military has not confirmed the report. More than 60 Iraqis have been killed in two suicide bombings in Baghdad and Diyala.
Taliban advance eastward, threaten Islamabad
The Taliban are said to have entered the districts of Mansehra and Haripur, two regions until now largely spared from the Taliban insurgency. The districts are on the outskirts of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, as well as two crucial nuclear weapons facilities.
United Kingdom
The 11 Pakistani men and one British man detained in raids after a senior police official was photographed with classified material have been released without charge. The government will attempt to deport the Pakistanis “on grounds of national security,” according to a statement by the Home Office.
Taliban flex muscles in Malakand Division
Spokesman invites Osama bin Laden to shelter in Swat; Taliban are manning checkpoints in Swat and Buner and on the border of neighboring districts, and occupy a hospital in Shangla.
Iran
The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps has deployed to the eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan to counter an unnamed “enemy conspiracy.” Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are two of four US banks seeking to open branches in Tehran, according to a report.
The Uighurs, in their own words
The US Treasury Department and the UN have designated Abdul Haq as a terrorist with ties to al Qaeda and the Taliban. The designation may complicate the Obama administration’s efforts to relocate seventeen Uighur detainees currently held at Gitmo. Some of the Uighur detainees have openly admitted their ties to Abdul Haq.
The Taliban
Muslim Khan, the spokesman for the Swat Taliban, invited Osama bin Laden and other terrorists to shelter in Swat and admitted to an alliance with other international and Pakistani terror groups. “Osama can come here. Sure, like a brother they can stay anywhere they want,” Khan told The Associated Press. “Yes, we will help them […]
US airstrike targets Taliban training camp in South Waziristan
Eight terrorists are reported to have been killed in a Predator attack on a training camp used by the Taliban, al Qaeda, and the Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Afghanistan
The US is attempting to jam unlicensed radio stations and Internet websites in Pakistan. ISAF soldiers killed one insurgent and detained two others in Khost after a UAV spotted the trio planting an IED. Coalition and Afghan forces killed three Taliban fighters in Logar province and killed “an unknown number” in Kandahar province. Two Afghan […]
Red Mosque leader preaches jihad after release
Maulana Abdullah Aziz, the leader of the insurrection in Islamabad in 2007, urged followers to wage jihad and called for sharia to be imposed nationwide.
Taliban moving on Mardan
The Taliban murdered two women, an aid worker and a councilor, in the latest attacks in a region being eyed for takeover.
Spain
Judge Baltasar Garzon of Spain is inquiring with the US, Britain, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, and Spain on the whereabouts of Mustafa Setmarian Nasar (AKA Abu Musab al Suri), an al Qaeda strategist and writer who was detained by Pakistan in 2005. Nasar is believed to be involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Maulana Aziz returns to Islamabad in triumph
The man behind the 2007 insurrection in Islamabad has been released from custody and will preach this Friday’s sermon at the scene of his rebellion.
Terrorists rally in Swat, march through region
The Malakand Accord has boosted the Taliban and al Qaeda in the Swat Valley and beyond. New training camps are being established and recruitment is up as the Taliban flaunts its power.