longwarjournal.org - 5/24/2009
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Pakistani commandos detained a high level leader in al Qaeda's paramilitary army during a raid last February after prodding from the IS.
Commandos from the Special Services Group stormed an al Qaeda safe house in the southwestern city of Quetta on Feb. 24 and captured Abu Sufyan al-Yemeni ...
mcclatchydc.com - 5/28/2009
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mcclatchydc.com —
ISLAMABAD — The U.S. is embarking on a
$1 billion crash program to expand its diplomatic presence...
in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, another sign that the Obama administration is making a costly, long-term commitment to war-torn South ...
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Iraq redux? Obama seeks funds for Pakistan super-embassy
nytimes.com - 5/19/2009
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nytimes.com —
IN recent days, the Pentagon has made two
major changes in its strategy to defeat the Taliban,...
Al Qaeda and their affiliates in Afghanistan and Pakistan. First came the announcement that Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal would take over as the top ...
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Op-Ed Contributors - Death From Above, Outrage Down Below
nytimes.com - 5/21/2009
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WASHINGTON Until now, the successive American generals
in charge of the war in Afghanistan have argued...
that their responsibilities ended at the border with Pakistan. But the choice of a new and very different breed of general to take over the ...
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Switch Signals New Path for Afghan War
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Bill Roggio: Pakistan detained senior Shadow Army commander
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Sunday, 24 May 2009 Abu Sufyan al Yemeni was a senior officer responsible for facilitating the movement of recruits and operatives into Pakistan's tribal areas and served as conduit for communications to al Qaeda cells worldwide. read ...
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Al Qaeda's paramilitary 'Shadow Army'
longwarjournal.org 2/9/2009 —
At least one squad of the joint Taliban-al Qaeda Shadow Army operating in Swat.
Al Qaeda has reorganized its notorious paramilitary formations that were devastated during the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002. Al ...
US kills five in South Waziristan strike
longwarjournal.org 6/14/2009 — The US conducted its first Predator airstrike inside Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies for the first time in a month.
An unmanned Predator strike aircraft killed at least five "militants" in an attack on a vehicle in the Ladha region ...
Kilcullen: "Afghanistan doesn't worry me. Pakistan does."
newshoggers.com 4/25/2009 — By Steve Hynd
The Sydney Morning Herald has an interview today with Australian COIN-guru Dr. David Kilcullen , formerly part of Petraeus' "dream team" and now a consultant to the Obama White House. It makes for very interesting reading.
Although ...
Pakistan: No Training, Just Send Weapons
weeklystandard.com 5/19/2009 — One of the main reasons large swaths of Pakistan has fallen under Taliban control is that the military has nearly no capacity to fight a counterinsurgency operations. The Pakistani Army is built to battle the Indians on the eastern plains, not the ...
US strikes Taliban, al Qaeda in North Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 5/16/2009 — The US has struck at Taliban and al Qaeda targets inside Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies for the third time this week. Nine Taliban and al Qaeda operatives are reported to have been killed and several more were wounded in an airstrike ...
US strikes in again in South Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 5/12/2009 — The US has conducted another airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. Eight Taliban fighters are said to have been killed in the second strike in South Waziristan in three day.
An unmanned Predator strike ...
US Predator strikes in Pakistan: Observations
longwarjournal.org 7/20/2009 —
Charts on the number of US airstrikes inside Pakistan per yer, the frequency of strikes in 2008 and 2009, the number of deaths in 2008 and 2009, a distribution of strikes by tribal agencies, and the territories targeted. Click image ...
Al Qaeda's Shadow Army commander outlines Afghan strategy
longwarjournal.org 4/13/2009 — The new commander of al Qaeda's paramilitary forces that operate in Pakistan and Afghanistan laid out al Qaeda and the Taliban's strategy to defeat the Coalition and Afghan government.
Abdullah Sa'id, the commander of the Lashkar al Zil, or the ...
The Big "Con": Holbrooke, Taliban, and… "Another 9/11"?
agonist.org 5/12/2009 —
The Big "Con"
Taliban About to Defeat Pakistan ,
Take Control of Nukes, and It's Another 9/11
Michael Collins
A strange feeling of déjà vu arises while listening to the administration sell further U.S. military intervention in ...
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