Somalia’s Al Shabaab Releases Extensive Training Video
The Mujahideen Youth Movement, also known as al-Shabaab, released yesterday an extensive 48-and-a-half minute training video titled, “At Your Service, Osama.” It shows extensive footage from the Commander Abu Suleim Training Camp somewhere in Somalia — likely southern Somalia where the al Shabaab have a stronghold. IntelCenter, which obtained the tape, says the footage is almost identical […]
Dispatches From Afghanistan: No Young Soldiers - FOXNews
Dispatches From Afghanistan: No Young SoldiersFOXNewsMichael Yon, an independent journalist and former Green Beret, is in Afghanistan reporting on the war against Al Qaeda terrorists and the …and more »
Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the ... - Religion Dispatches
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Religion Dispatches The ties to al Qaeda are thin, especially among the Pakistan Taliban. Most of the leaders are warlords and opportunists, and much of their support comes … Report: Pakistan Nuclear Facilities Attacked at Least Three Times … Life, death and the Taliban: Blowback US pressure on Pakistan relents |
Afghans in America
While this post has little to do with the insurgency in Afghanistan, it does reflect the project I’ve been working on for the past 10 weeks or so. In my closing days at Stanford University as a Knight Fellow, I decided to explore the Afghan community in Fremont, Calif., which is the largest in the United States. […]
No Winners in Somalia
Somalia has become the war that nobody can win, at least not right now.
None of the factions — the moderate Islamist government, the radical Shabab militants, the Sufi clerics who control some parts of central Somalia, the clan militias who control others, the autonomous government of Somaliland in the northwest and the semiautonomous government of Puntland […]
Taliban Giving Up? Not Likely.
Hm. This is interesting:
The Taliban on Monday urged civilians to return to the Swat Valley’s main city, promising they would not attack security forces battling for control out of concern for the safety of trapped residents.
The order allegedly comes from Maulana Fazlullah, the Swat Taliban leader, who has ordered his men to stop fighting the Pakistani […]
Pakistan Claims 700 Taliban Dead? Yeah, right.
Color me skeptical, but Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik is claiming Pakistan’s offensive in the NWFP has killed 700 Taliban fighters.
“More than 700 militants have been killed during the last four days. Fifty-two Taliban fighters were killed in Swat in the last 24 hours,” he said. He said the operation would continue till the last Taliban […]
'The more troops they send, the more targets we have'
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on August 15, 2009 at 6:07 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
My friend Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has a crackerjack story in today’s Guardian on the Afghanistan Taliban. Yes, there have been other “Inside the Taliban” stories, but Ghaith is a ballsy guy and managed to hook up with fighters from the Haqqani network. The details of the story stand out, such as this note about how the fighters avoid […]
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