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Ex-Gitmo detainee reportedly surrenders to Saudi authorities
An ex-Gitmo detainee named Jabir Jubran al Fayfi has reportedly turned himself in to Saudi authorities. Al Fayfi was arrested in Yemen in September and his “surrender” was likely coordinated by the Saudi and Yemeni governments.
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Al Qaeda
Pakistan militant variety tests West security: US
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Pakistan
JUD not a soft underbelly – Musharraf
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Al Qaeda’s #3 misidentified again
An al Qaeda leader named Sheikh Younis al Mauritani has been identified as al Qaeda’s external operations chief and number three in the organization. According to US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal, he is neither.
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Rise in Predator strikes in Pakistan aimed at foiling Mumbai in Europe
According to Sky News, the recent spike in US Predator strike in Pakistan (21 this month) can be attributed to an attempt to foil Mumbai-like terror assaults in major European cities: Intelligence agencies have intercepted a terror plot to launch Mumbai-style attacks on Britain and other European countries, according to Sky News sources. Sky’s foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall said militants based in Pakistan were planning simultaneous strikes on London and major cities in France and Germany. He said the plan was in the advanced but not imminent stage and the plotters had been tracked by spy agencies “for some…
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Al Qaeda Brigade 313 website goes online
The website is linked to the Pakistan-based al Qaeda military formation that is commanded by Ilyas Kashmiri.
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Al Qaeda
Pakistan conflicted over targeting rising extremists in its heartland
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Pakistan
US think-tank says Pakistan hasn™t quit insurgent habit
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Al Qaeda
The growing threat in Pakistan™s Punjab
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Pakistan balks at taking on the Punjabi Taliban
Despite the numerous, heinous terror attacks carried out in Pakistan’s major cities, the Pakistani government is hesitant to take on the myriad of home-grown and supported terror groups known as the Punjabi Taliban. Yesterday, Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Minister of the Interior, stated that “no military operation is planned against banned outfits in Punjab, rather effective action would jointly be taken to eliminate them,” according to a report in the Associated Press of Pakistan. What that “effective action” may be is not yet clear, but one thing that is clear is that there are tens of thousands of trained terrorists in…
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
Official admits militancy™s deep roots in Pakistan
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Top link between al Qaeda and Taliban thought killed in US Predator strike in Khyber
Ebad-ul-Rehman is thought to have been killed in the May 15 attack in the Tirah Valley on May 15. Rehman orchestrated the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Pakistan – Militants fanning sectarianism, says Malik
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
Pakistan – Malik sees terror roots in south Punjab
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Al Qaeda
Jihadis make their way to Pakistan training areas
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
In violent Karachi, insurgency finds a haven and a forge
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
Militant factions with global aims are spreading roots throughout Pakistan
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
Pakistan investigates NY bomb plot Taliban link
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
Pakistani Taliban are said to expand alliances
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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Local Pakistan politicians shelter militants
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
NY bomb suspect had links with Pak Taliban, Kashmir terror group: Pak
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
US to send Pakistan detailed request for help in Times Square bomb probe
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Times Square bombing suspect trained in Pakistan’s North Waziristan
According to the criminal complaint filed today against Faisal Shahzad, he has admitted to having trained in a camp in Waziristan. Other links to Pakistan have also emerged.
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
Pakistani ex-intelligence officer is killed
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Al Qaeda
Confessions of a Pakistani spy
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Al Qaeda
American’s ‘quiet son’ on terrorism charges in Pakistan
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US designates 2 Pakistanis for running al Qaeda and Taliban charitable front groups
The leaders of the Al Akhtar Trust and the Al Rashid Trust continue to support the Taliban using their charitable fronts based in Karachi.
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Name that army
At least one squad of the joint Taliban-al Qaeda Shadow Army operating in Swat. In a London Times article on foreign fighters’ influence in Pakistan’s tribal areas, the author notes that the Punjabi and Arab fighters in the region are quite organized and efficient: The Arabs, regarded by locals as good, quiet tenants, paying up to 20,000 rupees (£160) in rent per month, now reportedly move around chaperoned by another key group of international terrorists: the Punjabi Taleban fighters belonging to Kashmiri militant groups such as LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Harakat-ul-Mujahideen. “The Punjabis are very experienced in IEDs,” a tribal member…
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Al Qaeda
Pakistan – Arabs throw in their lot with ‘global terrorists™ in war against the infidel
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Pakistan
Why Pakistan is ‘boosting Kashmir militants’
