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How the Taliban lost its swagger
Tag Archives: Pakistan
Al Qaeda
A military juggling act in Pakistan
Pakistan
The Taliban destroyed two NATO fuel tankers in Mangocher. Police arrested a US security contractor for visa violations. The ISI asked the CIA for information about its operatives in Pakistan.
Afghan intel links Jalalabad bank attack, other suicide attacks to Pakistan
The Taliban fighters involved in the Jalalabad bank attack spoke to their handlers over the phone during the operation.The NDS linked that and other suicide attacks to the Taliban in Pakistan.
Afghanistan
Low pay, big risks for fuel haulers in Afghan war
Afghanistan
Afghan defence minister sees better Pakistan cooperation
Pakistan
Pakistan – CIA chief phones ISI head; discusses Davis issue
Afghanistan
Taliban bet on fear over brawn as tactic
Afghanistan
Tensions rise between US, Pakistan spy agencies
US begins withdrawing forces from Kunar’s Pech Valley
The New York Times reports that the US Army has begun withdrawing from combat outposts in the Pech River Valley in Kunar province: The withdrawal from the Pech Valley, a remote region in Kunar Province, formally began on Feb. 15. The military projects that it will last about two months, part of a shift of […]
Taliban torch NATO tankers, kill 4 drivers in Peshawar
More than 20 Taliban fighters attacked a convoy carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
With eye on strike missions, US plans to realign troops in remote Afghan valley
Hizb-i-Islami
US pulling back in Afghan valley it called vital to war
Afghanistan
Music and mafia: life under Afghanistan’s neo-Taliban
US Predators kill 6 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan strike
The strike hit a car and a compound in the Datta Khel area, a known haven for al Qaeda and allied terrorist groups.
Pakistan
US Predators killed six “militants” in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed five security personnel during an attack on a military outpost in Khyber and torched two NATO fuel tankers
Bahrain
Experts say Gaddafi relying on paramilitary forces, foreign mercenaries to crush protests
Pakistan
Security forces killed 10 “terrorists” in attacks on hideouts in Kurram. Police arrested 35 “miscreants” during a series of raids in Rawalpindi. Five “criminals,” including a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi operative, were arrested in Karachi.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s intelligence ready to split with CIA
India
State actors in Pakistan involved with terror outfits: India
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Pakistan – Artists, students can’t leave country without clearance: Malik
Judge finds Gitmo detainee was no ‘Gucci jihadist’
In an opinion released on Feb. 18, a DC district judge denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo detainee Mashour Abdullah Muqbel al Sabri; the decision contradicts earlier district court rulings in important ways. Al Sabri’s career demonstrates that there was extensive overlap between Taliban and al Qaeda operations prior to Sept. 11, 2001.
Pakistan
CIA drones may be avoiding Pakistani civilians
Afghanistan
Pakistan – What next?
Afghanistan
Midlevel Taliban admit to a rift with top leaders
Pakistan
Pakistan says American’s CIA link has no bearing on murder trial
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Analysis: Why Arab spring could be al Qaeda’s fall
Pakistan
US Predators killed nine “militants” in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Abu Zaid al Iraqi, al Qaeda’s financier in Pakistan, and several Punjabis are thought to have been killed in yesterday’s Predator strike in South Waziristan. A US consular official in Pakistani custody for killing two gunmen is a CIA officer.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: Colonel Imam was killed last month for spying
Al Qaeda operative, ‘Punjabis’ thought killed in South Waziristan Predator strike
Pakistani officials claimed that Abu Zaid al Iraqi, al Qaeda’s financier in Pakistan, and “Punjabi” terrorists were killed in yesterday’s Predator strike in South Waziristan.