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Pakistan busts gang of website hackers: official
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Indictments reveal coordinated NYC and London plots
An indictment unsealed today by the Dept. of Justice reveals that the foiled 2009 NYC subway terrorist attack uncovered in the Najibullah Zazi investigation was a much more ambitious plot than previously known. The NYC plot was planned to coincide with a similar suicide attack on the London transit system and was coordinated by senior […]
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Pakistani ambassador: Groups that create militias are not acceptable to Pakistan
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US: NYC subway bomb plot linked to British cell
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Is Yemen the next Afghanistan?
India
Indian Army deployed to calm unrest in Kashmir
Al Qaeda appoints new commander for Afghanistan
Sheikh Fateh al Masri, an Egyptian, has been named al Qaeda’s emir for Afghanistan. He replaced Mustafa Abu Yazid, who was killed in a US Predator strike in North Waziristan in May.
United States
US – War zone drone crashes add up
Pakistan
Security forces detained a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who served as a Taliban leader in Bannu. The military claimed 80 percent of Kurram has been cleared of the Taliban. The Taliban destroyed three schools in Peshawar and Bajaur.
Former Gitmo detainee arrested in Pakistan
Issa Khan, who had been detained at Guantanamo for nearly three years, has been arrested in the Bannu district of northwestern Pakistan. Khan reportedly rejoined the Taliban after his release and became a Pakistani Taliban commander.
Pakistan
59 journalists killed this year
United States
CIA and Pakistan locked in aggressive spy battles
Pakistan
Pakistan – Inquiry into attacks on Ahmedis pulls off vanishing act
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Pakistan – Govt makes conditional talks offer to Taliban
Pakistan
Security forces killed a senior Taliban commander in North Waziristan and 10 fighters in Arakzai. Four Taliban fighters and a soldier were killed in a clash in Dir. Punjab has banned 23 terror groups. The US will send a delegation to Pakistan to convince the government to strike at al Qaeda.
Pakistan
Pakistan clerics accuse Punjab leaders of Taliban link
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Analysis: Militant interaction poses new threats
Iran’s PressTV continues to distort LWJ’s coverage of US strikes in Pakistan
Iran’s PressTV continues to distort The Long War Journal‘s data on the US air campaign against al Qaeda and the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan. According to PressTV, LWJ‘s data shows that mostly civilians are killed in the covert air campaign in Pakistan: Washington claims its airstrikes target militant hideouts though most of the attacks have […]
Wanted Taliban commander killed in shootout in North Waziristan
Ameerullah Mehsud was number nine on the list of most-wanted members of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. His death highlights the continued presence of the terror group in North Waziristan.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Haqqani militants present new threat in border region
Afghanistan
Afghan minister cracks down on illegal mining
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Pakistan Army finds Taliban tough to root out
Pakistan
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained 12 terror suspects in Lahore and five “Afghan militants” in Bajaur. The Taliban killed two people in an IED attack in Kohat and wounded 12 more in a suicide attack in Dir.
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‘Root of Afghan challenges; outside Afghan borders’ – Saleh
Pakistan
Pakistan – Search for soul
Pakistani troops ignore al Qaeda in South Waziristan
South Waziristan Taliban leader Mullah Nazir. Click to view. Al Qaeda and the Punjabi Taliban are sheltering in “good Taliban” leader Mullah Nazir’s tribal areas in South Waziristan, tribal leaders told Dawn yesterday. And Pakistani troops are ignoring them: Malik Sungeen, an elder of the Ahmadzai Wazir, said that outsiders were coming through checkposts being […]
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Taliban™s al Qaeda ties obstacle to Afghan peace
Pakistan
Terrorists™ trainers based in Punjab: Mian Iftikhar
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Shrine blast: Pakistan rages against Taliban
Pakistan
Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban is setting up a “media regulatory authority” to monitor the news for state “propaganda.” The Wazir tribes failed to agree on the government’s demand to expel al Qaeda and the Punjabi Taliban.