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Al Qaeda
US suspects planned to target Chashma nuclear plant
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Pakistan
Pakistani officials: N.Va. men had contacted radical groups
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Five Muslim men missing from US reportedly arrested in Pakistan
CNN reports on a story that has broken over the past couple of days: Five people arrested in Pakistan had been reported missing in the United States, and police are confident they were planning terrorist acts, a Pakistani police official told CNN. It is too soon to link the men with any terrorist organizations, said Tahir Gujjrar, deputy superintendent of police in Sargodha, Pakistan, but preliminary investigations suggest they had sought to link up with the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat ud Dawa militant organizations. Neither group showed interest, however, Gujjrar said. The five were from Virginia and their families had contacted…
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Pakistan bars foreign reporters in South Punjab
Maulana Masood Azhar, the leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed. From the Department of How You Know You’ve Struck A Nerve, via The Hindu: Pakistani authorities have barred foreign journalists from visiting any seminary or other places in southern Punjab province after the Western media reported on the presence of the Taliban in that area. “All foreign journalists are required to get permission from foreign affairs as well as from interior ministries for visiting any specific place especially in South Punjab,” a senior officer of the Punjab government told PTI. He said in the past foreign journalists had visited different seminaries in…
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Pakistan opens new terror camps after Mumbai assault
Less than a year after the Lashkar-e-Taiba launched the deadly terror assault on Mumbai, jihadi groups are opening more training camps in Pakistan.
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Jihad in Pakistan’s South Punjab
Newsline has a must-read article on the critical role the southern half of Pakistan’s Punjab province plays in the jihadi network. Read the whole thing; I’ve excerpted some interesting portions below: Four major militant outfits, the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), are all comfortably ensconced in South Punjab (see article “Brothers in Arms”). Sources claim that there are about 5,000 to 9,000 youth from South Punjab fighting in Afghanistan and Waziristan. A renowned Pakistani researcher, Hassan Abbas cites a figure of 2,000 youth engaged in Waziristan. The area has become critical to planning, recruitment and…
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Pakistan
Al-Qaeda allies build huge Pakistan base
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Pakistan
Jaish-e-Mohammed on madrasas
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Pakistan
LeT, Jaish helping Taliban™s mission destabilization: Pakistan
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Pakistan
Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed biding time to launch fresh attacks?
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US sanctions Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba and al Qaeda leaders
Four terror leaders are singled out, while Pakistani terror groups in Kashmir and the Northern Areas are thriving.
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
The United Kingdom and China are blocking India’s efforts to place Jaish-e-Mohammad founder Maulana Masood Azhar on the terrorist list. The two countries are also blocking India’s attempt to place Lashkar-e-Taiba operational commander Azam Cheema and ideologue Abdul Rehman Makki on the terrorist list.
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Taliban strike in Peshawar
Eight Pakistanis were killed in three bombings and an ambush in the provincial capital of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province. The Taliban take credit for the Lahore strike and threaten to attack in Pakistan’s major cities.
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Terror assault team targets police and intelligence officials in Lahore
Twenty-three people were killed after gunmen attacked a police headquarters and a building used by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. The attackers set off a car bomb during the street battle.
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US airstrike targets Taliban training camp in South Waziristan
Eight terrorists are reported to have been killed in a Predator attack on a training camp used by the Taliban, al Qaeda, and the Jaish-e-Mohammed.
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Waziristan-based terror group takes credit for Lahore assault
The Fedayeen-e-Islam, a front for the Jaish-e-Mohammed, said it conducted the attack on the Lahore police training center in retaliation for the Pakistan military’s presence in the tribal areas
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Pakistan: Wanted terrorists Azhar, Ibrahim not in country
Interior Advisor Rehman Malik claimed Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar and terror crime boss Dawood Ibrahim are currently not in Pakistan. Azhar was previously under ‘house arrest.’
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Jaish-e-Mohammed
Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Maulana Masood Azhar is sheltering in North Waziristan after the Indians pressured Pakistan to extradite him. Pakistan’s defense minister said Azhar was under house arrest in December 2008. Azhar appointed his younger brother Mufti Abdul Rauf as the acting leader of the group.
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Pakistani intel service behind new terror plot: India
Three Jaish-e-Mohammed operatives detained in Jammu and Kashmir were supported by the Inter-Services Intelligence, according to Indian police. One of the men is a Pakistani soldier.
