'Children of the Taliban' on Frontline Tonight

The Front­line report, “Chil­dren of the Tal­iban,” looks pretty good, and it’s any­where near Frontline’s usual stan­dards of excel­lence, it will be. From some of the pro­mo­tional lit­er­a­ture: “Have you seen the Tal­iban in your area?” The ques­tion is put to a 10-year-old Pak­istani girl near the start of this Tues­day night’s broad­cast of “Chil­dren of the […]

Mullah Nazeer Confirms Taliban Alliance, Threatens Islamabad

On Tues­day, the media arm of al Qaeda, as-Sahab Media, released an almost hour-long video fea­tur­ing an inter­view with Mul­lah Nazzer Ahmad, aka Maulvi Nazir, who is the emir of South Waziris­tan. This is his first appear­ance in an as-Sahab video, accord­ing to Intel­Cen­ter, and is sig­nif­i­cant in that it ties the Pak­istani Tal­iban leader […]

The Dilemma of Pakistan

At the risk of mak­ing this a site about Ahmed Rashid, he spoke to the Knight fel­low­ship today and he had more inter­est­ing things to dis­cuss. Some was a repeat of what he men­tioned to me at din­ner a cou­ple of nights back, as would be expected, but he got more deeply into the dilemma of Pak­istan. The […]

Taliban Training Tots for Terror Missions

AfPax Insider, a soon-to-be-launched ven­ture from the cre­ator of IraqS­log­ger, has a pre­view of a recruit­ment video aimed at chil­dren in Pak­istan. The video, pur­port­edly filmed by Omar Stu­dio, shows chil­dren as young as 7 receiv­ing instruc­tions in how and why to be a sui­cide bomber against “infi­dels” — pre­sum­ably NATO forces in neigh­bor­ing Afghanistan and other tar­gets in Pak­istan. The video […]