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Suicide bomber kills four in Peshawar
The attack took place near a police station and leveled a mosque. Another political leader was assassinated in the northwest.
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Pakistan – Peshawar blast kills 4
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Pakistan – Police return to former Taliban haven
Irish jihadi operates in Swat and Rawalpindi
The Sunday Times has an interesting and disturbing story of an Irishman who converted to Islam while in a Saudi jail and has left the UK to become a jihadi. Khalid Kelly, as he is now known, is of course training in Pakistan. Interestingly enough, he’s in the Swat Valley: After a period underground, Kelly […]
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Irishman wants to kill for Islam
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Biometric tests to identify rebels in Afghanistan
Pakistan
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Swat and five more in South Waziristan; seven fighters also surrendered in in Swat. The Taliban assassinated a tribal leader in Bajaur; three Taliban fighters were killed while attempting to assassinate a tribal leader in Peshawar. Police detained eight suspected terrorists in Peshawar.
Taliban kill Bajaur opposition leader, target Peshawar leader
The Taliban continue their campaign to weaken the tribal opposition in Pakistan’s northwest.
Pakistan
CIA says it gets its money’s worth from Pakistani spy agency
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US using drones after host states™ consent: Petraeus
Pakistan
The Taliban took credit for the suicide attack against a police checkpoint in Peshawar that killed 12 people. The military killed 15 Taliban fighters in Swat and Malakand, 12 in Arakzai, seven in South Waziristan, and two more in Mohmand.
Attacks will increase in Pakistan: Qari Hussain
Scores of children train to become suicide bombers at a camp run by Qair Hussain in Spinkai, South Waziristan. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. Qari Hussain Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban commander and trainer of child suicide bombers, has threatened to step up attacks throughout the country if the military did not end operations in South […]
Suicide bomber kills 10 at Peshawar checkpoint
Peshawar has been hit hard in the Taliban offensive; one-third of the major Taliban attacks have taken place in the northwestern province. Clashes were reported throughout the northwest.
Pakistan
Two journalists held after helping media probe Mumbai attacker™s background
Pakistani generals linked to US terror suspects
Ajmal Kasab, the lone Lashkar-e-Taiba operative captured after the Mumbai assault, outside of the train station. Mohawat Hussain Rana, one of two US-based terror suspects involved in plots to attack a Danish newspaper as well as targets in India, has two brothers serving in senior positions in the Pakistani Army. Rediff News reported that Rana […]
Pakistan
Suicide bombers killed 10 Pakistanis in an attack on an intelligence headquarters and killed seven more in an attack on a police station in Bannu. Twelve soldiers and six Taliban fighters were killed in fighting in South Waziristan. Nine missing soldiers in Mohmand have returned to base. The Taliban torched five NATO fuel tankers in […]
‘Lashkar-e-Taiba is a member of al Qaeda’
Osama bin Laden escorted by the Black Guard. Jean-Louis Bruguiere, a former French investigative magistrate who specialized on al Qaeda and investigated the terror group in Pakistan, has more damning information on al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the groups’ ties to each other and the Pakistani state. From Reuters: In an interview, Bruguiere said he was […]
Suicide bomber targets Pakistani intelligence headquarters in Peshawar
Ten Pakistanis have been reported killed and more than 35 wounded in an attack that targeted the headquarters of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency in the provincial capital. A second suicide attack killed seven at a police station in Bannu.
Pakistan
Twenty-two Taliban fighters and five soldiers were killed in South Waziristan. A Spanish court said the “Pakistani Taliban ordered attacks in Barcelona.” Police detained seven Taliban fighters in Karachi. One child was killed in an explosion at a mullah’s home in Hangu.
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Pakistan rock rails against the West, not the Taliban
Pakistan
The Taliban killed 10 Frontier Corps troops and captured eight more in two separate attacks in Mohmand. The military killed 10 Taliban fighters in Mohmand and seven more in South Waziristan. Police detained 36 Afghans and 70 suspected extremists during a sweep in Peshawar.
10 Pakistani troops killed, 8 missing in Mohmand
Ten Pakistani paramilitary troops and 10 Taliban fighters were killed during clashes in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency.
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Pakistan – No more homecomings
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A suicide bomber killed 24 Pakistanis in an attack at a market in Charsadda. The military killed nine Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. Four Turks were arrested in Zhob. The Taliban bombed CD shops in Dir Bala.
Suicide attack kills 24 in Pakistan’s northwest
The bombing in Charsadda is the third suicide attack in the northwest in three days. Some Pakistanis refuse to believe the Taliban would carry out such attacks.
Pakistan
Pak to try brothel owners under Anti-Terrorism Act
Pakistan
Four Iraqis were killed in a suicide attack in Peshawar. A police sniper killed a suicide bomber in Islamabad. Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters in South Waziristan and eight more in Kurram. The Taliban killed four soldiers in South Waziristan.
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Pakistan – Terror training camps harder to target
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban lashkar leader and 12 others outside of Peshawar. The military killed 20 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. Police killed a suicide bomber in Islamabad before he could detonate. The World Food Program has resumed operations in Bajaur.