The Taliban executed seven “US spies” in North Waziristan. The Taliban also claimed to have shot down a Predator aircraft in North Waziristan. The Lashar-e-Islam killed a Frontier Corps soldier in Khyber. A Taliban commander and three fighters, and a soldier were killed during clashes in Swat.
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A suicide bomber killed three civilians and a policeman in Tank. Twenty-two Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed in clashes in Kurram and Arakzai. The Taliban destroyed a NATO fuel tanker in Peshawar.
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Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Swat, three in South Waziristan, and two more in North Waziristan, and detained nine Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in Khyber. The Taliban warned the Mehsud tribes not to return to their homes in South Waziristan as fighting is still ongoing.
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During his current visit to Pakistan, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates offered to supply its military with 12 RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, often referred to as drones). The Shadow is unarmed. From the American Forces Press Service: Gates declined to discuss drone activities directly, but offered, “I will say that these unmanned […]
The Army said it would not launch any new offensives against the Taliban this year. The US may have killed a wanted Abu Sayyaf operative in an airstrike on Jan. 14 in North Waziristan. The military killed eight Taliban fighters in Mohmand. The Taliban killed three tribal elders in Bajaur.
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The US has a $1 million bounty on Abdul Basit Usman for conducting attacks that murdered civilians. He is thought to have been killed in a strike on Jan. 14.
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“We are not going to conduct any major new operations against the militants over the next 12 months” as the military is “overstretched,” the top Pakistani military spokesman said. The government has also agreed to a peace deal with the Mehsud tribes in South Waziristan.
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Hakeemullah Mehsud, left. AFP photo. Be sure to take the customary mega-dose of salt that is required when reading about reports of “peace agreements” in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The Mehsud tribe has agreed, at the deadline, to a seven-point list of demands thrust upon it by the government. According to the Press Trust of India […]
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A tribal militia killed a Taliban commander and four fighters in Mohmand. The Taliban wounded a member of the provincial parliament and four others in a bombing in Peshawar. Two flights from Karachi received bomb threats.
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Siraj Haqqani, the son of famed mujahedeen leader Jalaluddin, the military commander of the Haqqani Network, and a member of al Qaeda’s military shura. Image from an interview with Al Jazeera. The media is finally coming to recognize that the Haqqani Network is a powerful entity on both sides of the Durand Line. The Wall […]
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A US strike in North Waziristan killed six Taliban fighters. Ten Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed in fighting in North Waziristan; four more Taliban fighters were killed in Swat. Pakistani officials claimed five Taliban leaders were killed in US strikes on Jan. 15 and 17 in North Waziristan.
The strike hit a compound in the Datta Khel region, a region that hosts a headquarters for al Qaeda’s Shadow Army.
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