Posted by Christopher Allbritton on August 7, 2009 at 2:59 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
From Stratfor:
Pakistani Intelligence sources have confirmed Baitullah Mehsud’s death, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Aug. 7, Dawn News reported. Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) insurgent group, along with one of his wives and six bodyguards were killed in a missile attack Aug. 5. Reuters reported that the TTP leadership called […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on August 7, 2009 at 12:26 pm +0000 · 1 Comment
ISLAMABAD — If confirmed, this would be a huge victory in the fight against takfiri militants in Pakistan:
U.S. and Pakistani authorities were investigating whether Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who has led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against Pakistan’s government, was killed in a CIA missile strike.
A Pakistani official said Friday that reports of the militant […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on May 6, 2009 at 10:32 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
I’m on deadline for a project today, so the blogging will be light. In the meantime, don’t miss these stories:
Pakistani Army Poised for New Push Into Swat — New York Times: PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Residents flooded out of the Swat Valley by the thousands on Tuesday as the government prepared to mount a new military campaign against Taliban […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on May 5, 2009 at 8:29 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
How not to conduct an effective counter-insurgency (COIN) campaign:
ISLAMABAD — Thousands of panicked residents on foot and crammed in buses, vans and trucks fled Swat valley north of Pakistan’s capital Tuesday following the breakdown of a fragile truce between government forces and the Taliban.
Authorities lifted a curfew for a few hours to allow residents to evacuate as the […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on May 4, 2009 at 2:04 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
“Afghanistan has been an ‘economy-of-force’ operation for far too long,” Adm. Mike Mullen said. “The Taliban, aided by al-Qaida and other extremists and safe havens across the border, are recruiting through intimidation, controlling through fear and advancing an unwelcome ideology through thuggery.”
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on March 9, 2009 at 2:36 am +0000 · 2 Comments
I had the pleasure and privilege of having dinner with Ahmed Rashid tonight and Azim Nanji. Rashid is the go-to journalist and author on all things Taliban, having authored two best-selling books on the subject: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, and Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building […]
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Interview with the Taliban
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on May 5, 2009 at 5:45 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
The New York Times has a fascinating story today. It’s an interview with a Taliban logistics tactician the Times has been working on for six months. He finally spills the beans on the Taliban plans for Pakistan and Afghanistan, the strategies they will use and what they fear.
He was clued into the Petraeus doctrine, used to good effect […]
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