longwarjournal.org - 11/29/2008
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Map of the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts (the military said Shangla was under Taliban control in October); purple districts are under de facto Taliban control; yellow regions are under ...
longwarjournal.org - 11/28/2008
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Almost two days after terrorists attacked the Indian
financial hub of Mumbai, the military is still working...
to root out the remnants of the assault teams at two hotels and a Jewish center. More than 125 people, including six foreigners, have been ...
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Analysis: Mumbai attack differs from past terror strikes
longwarjournal.org - 11/30/2008
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The only member of the jihadi assault team
captured during the Mumbai attacks has fingered several Pakistani...
organizations as providing support to the group, according to reports in the Indian press. Ajmal Amir Kasab (or Azam Amir Kasav) was ...
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Captured Mumbai attacker implicates Pakistani military, ...
satp.org - 11/27/2008
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'Army of the Pure' Formation Formed in 1990
in the Kunar province of Afghanistan, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (also...
known as Jama'at-ud-Da'awa) is based in Muridke near Lahore in Pakistan and is headed by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Its first presence in Jammu and ...
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Lashkar-e-Toiba
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Bill Roggio: US strike in North Waziristan kills 3
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Saturday, 29 November 2008 The latest attack hit a safe house just north of Miramshah, an area where the Haqqani Network holds sway. read ...
The Courage Of Our Enemy….Or Not
Flopping Aces —
... Meanwhile our predator attacks against al-Qaeda in Pakistan continue. The Long War Journal updates on the progress we have made killing the leaders in the tribal areas of Waziristan: ...
Taliban are ‘patriots,’ says Pakistani Army official
Flopping Aces —
... -The US has been pre-emptively, unilaterally, bombing Al Queda leaders in the allegedly-sovereign tribal areas of Pakistan (a sovereign area is one where the government’s rule of law exists, but there is no Pakistani control over these areas=no real sovereignty beyond a line on a map.) ...
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South Waziristan Taliban leader Mullah Nazir. Click to view.
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