Posted by Christopher Allbritton on October 5, 2009 at 6:11 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
The bomb that blasted through the World Food Program’s lobby at its heavily fortified office in Islamabad on Monday, killing at least three five, and wounding at least six five, was a stark reminder that the Pakistani Taliban are still a force to be reckoned with.
The explosion occurred at approximately 12:15 p.m., on a leafy street in one of […]
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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 8, 2009 at 9:12 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
Al Jazeera English is reporting ebbing public support for the Pakistani Army’s offensive against the Taliban in Swat, Buner and Dir. This fits with what happens with you turn an Army into a wrecking crew. Pakistan doesn’t really do population-centric operations.
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 22, 2009 at 11:33 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
A Pakistani Army spokesman said the peace agreement between the militants and the government had given Taliban fighters a chance to regroup — as predicted here. This also follows on the heels of the announcement this weekend by the leader of Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM), Maulana Sufi Muhammad, in which he denounced Pakistan’s government, Supreme Court, constitution and parliament as un-Islamic and called for sharia to be implemented throughout Pakistan.
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 13, 2009 at 1:08 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
Wow, mad props to the Navy SEALS who took out those three pirates holding Capt. Richard Phillips. Seriously, that was some James Bond kind of shooting.
But even so, some may find it hard to believe a band of rag-tag, sandal-wearing, AK-toting malcontents can hold off and frustrate the might and fury of the U.S. Navy, but […]
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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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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 7, 2009 at 6:02 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
This is getting ridiculous. Somali pirates have captured five ships in the last 48 hours right under the noses of the navies of 20 countries — including the United States.
On Saturday, a German freighter was hijacked about 400 miles offshore, between Kenya and the Seychelles, [said Andrew Mwangura, head of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Program in Mombasa, […]
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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