A suicide bomber killed 13 Pakistanis in an attack on a Federal Investigation Agency building in Lahore. The Taliban sprang three terrorists from an FIA prison in Multan. The US killed five Haqqani Network fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan.
The attack is the first this month and also the first in 12 days.
Pakistan delivers but doubts remain
The reports of the arrest of al Qaeda’s American-born propagandist in Karachi appear to be a case of mistaken identity.
The Taliban commander was reported killed by Pakistan’s Interior Minister in a strike in Mohmand last week.
The attack leveled a headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency, a law enforcement agency that has targeted the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Earlier today, reports from Pakistan indicated that American turncoat and traitor Adam Gadahn was detained in a Pashtun neighborhood in Karachi. Now, some news outlets are saying this is a case of mistaken identity, and that either a Taliban or an al Qaeda leader named Abu Yahya Mujahdeen al Adam was actually the one captured. […]
Eight Taliban fighters were killed in a Pakistani airstrike in South Waziristan; locals claimed those killed were civilians. A Taliban commander was killed in a shooting in North Waziristan. The Taliban beheaded a pro-government tribal elder in Arakzai.
The American charged with treason for serving as al Qaeda’s mouthpiece is thought to have been detained in a Pashtun region in Karachi. The reports are unconfirmed.
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Faqir Mohammed, the leader of the Taliban in Bajaur and the deputy leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, is certain that al Qaeda military commander Qari Zia Rahman and Bajaur Taliban commander Faqir Mohammed, as well as a mid-level Swat Taliban leader […]
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Unconfirmed reports indicate that Qari Zia Rahman and Faqir Mohammed were among 30 killed today in the tribal agency. Both leaders have been reported killed in the past.
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