Mullah Nazeer Confirms Taliban Alliance, Threatens Islamabad
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 9, 2009 at 6:13 am +0000 · 2 Comments
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 […]
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American Member of Somalia's Mujahideen Youth Movement
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on March 31, 2009 at 2:09 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
Somalia’s Mujajideen Youth Movement, an apparent offshoot of the as-Shabab group, has released a video (obtained by IntelCenter) featuring a figure who appears to be an American member. The guy in the video speaks American English and goes by the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor al-Amriki. The video is entitled “Ambush at Bardal,” but it’s unclear what […]
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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