The Taliban killed one soldier in an attack on a security checkpoint in Mohmand. General Pasha, the chief of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), said Afghan soil was being used for attacks against Pakistan. The former chief of the ISI, Hamid Gul, said the government should end operations and negotiate with the Taliban.
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Mansur al Shami was an al Qaeda ideologue and a bodyguard for al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan. His death was reported on jihadist forums.
Eight Taliban fighters and one soldier were killed in fighting in South Waziristan. Security forces detained a “key” Taliban operative behind the recent suicide attack in Lakki Marwat, a Taliban commander in Karachi, and 30 fighters in Kohat.
Forty-six people were killed in targeted killings in Karachi over the past four days. The Taliban killed two tribal elders in Mohmand and attacked a NATO supply truck in Khuzdar. A politician escaped an assassination attempt in Peshawar.
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The US killed four Taliban fighters in a strike in North Waziristan. Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Arakzai and detained 50 more in Kohat and Darra Adam Khel. The Taliban wounded seven policemen in a suicide attack in Peshawar.
The strike targeted a training center in a region run by Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar. Today’s strike is the fifth this year and the sixth in 10 days.
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The Jordanian who attacked a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan, Humam Khalil Muhammed Abu Mulal al Balawi, is seen on a martyrdom tape with Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
The US killed five Taliban fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. A Lashkar-i-Islam suicide bomber killed six members of the rival Ansar-ul-Islam in Khyber. Eight people were killed in a blast at a Taliban safe house in Karachi. The military killed six Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The Taliban killed a soldier in Tank.
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The latest strike is the fifth in nine days. A safe house run by Hafiz Gul Bahadar was hit.
Abdullah Said al Libi may have been killed in the swarm attack in Datta Khel in North Waziristan that also killed Zuhaib al Zahibi.
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Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Swat and detained 23 Lashkar-i-Islam fighters in Khyber. Five Taliban were killed in a premature detonation of an IED in Kurram. The Taliban bombed three schools in Bajaur, Mohmand, and Landi Kotal. Police arrested a Taliban leader in Islamabad.
The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press news agency has published an e-mail interview with the second-in-command of Afghanistan’s Taliban, Mullah Baradar Akhund (a hat tip to Juan Cole at the Informed Comment blog for sharing the US Government’s Open Source Center’s translation of the story). In addition to the usual “we’re winning, we’re going to keep […]
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Mafia and terror kingpin Dawood Ibrahim. The Congressional Research Service has issued a solid report on the nexus between criminal syndicates and terrorist groups. Entitled “International Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Security Threats, U.S. Policy, and Considerations for Congress,” the report has a section devoted to Dawood Ibrahim, the criminal don of South Asia. The report […]
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