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Victory Caucus -- All Content: Bill Roggio: Waziristan Taliban alliance declares support for Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar
The Jawa Report: Good News! Waziristan Taliban Alliance Declares Support For OBL & Mullah Omar
Gateway Pundit: Days After Peace Deal Taliban Appoint Mullah Omar Leader-- Pledge Allegiance to Osama Bin Laden
Bill Roggio: Waziristan Taliban alliance declares support for Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Monday, 23 February 2009 Baitullah Mehsud, Mullah Nazir, and Hafiz Gul Bahadar have joined forces and created the Council of United Mujahideen to fight against 'infidels' in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the US. read ...
Good News! Waziristan Taliban Alliance Declares Support For OBL & Mullah Omar
The Jawa Report —
February 23, 2009 Good News! Waziristan Taliban Alliance Declares Support For OBL & Mullah Omar Just one big happy jihad now, declared openly. Waz, Omar, & Osam (WOO), err I mean "Council Of United Mujahideen" Bill Roggio The three senior most Taliban leaders in North and South Waziristan joined forces to wage jihad against Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the US at the behest of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar. The new Taliban alliance said it openly supports Omar and bin Laden in its war against the US, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. ...
Days After Peace Deal Taliban Appoint Mullah Omar Leader-- Pledge Allegiance to Osama Bin Laden
Gateway Pundit —
... Bill Roggio adds that the three senior-most Taliban leaders in North and South Waziristan have joined forces to wage jihad against Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the US. ...
US Military Prepares For Hezbollah-like War
Weekly Standard Blog —
... The Taliban, emboldened from their successes in Pakistan and at the urging of Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, are setting their sights on Afghanistan. The Pakistani Taliban has fought in Afghanistan, but the best forces have been held in reserve to secure the local fronts. That may change this year, and the U.S. military is preparing for just that. ...
Terrorism Matters in Afghanistan and Pakistan
democracyarsenal.org —
... and Pakistan have become a unified problem, a problem which strikes me as being so maddeningly complex that it doesn't present any sort of clear options for the U.S. Say the U.S. were to do as Walt recommends and scale back its footprint in Afghanistan, and halt all military involvement in Pakistan (essentially predator strikes and training missions) I’m not sure I see how that option helps matters, particularly in nuclear-armed Pakistan, which faces an insurgency that sympathizes with the aim of driving the U.S. from the region, but quite separately seems bent on ...
We're From the US Government, and We're Here to Help
Obsidian Wings —
... Afghanistan and Pakistan have become a unified problem, a problem which strikes me as being so maddeningly complex that it doesn't present any sort of clear options for the U.S. Say the U.S. were to do as Walt recommends and scale back its footprint in Afghanistan, and halt all military involvement in Pakistan (essentially predator strikes and training missions). I’m not sure I see how that option helps matters, particularly in nuclear-armed Pakistan, which faces an insurgency that sympathizes with the aim of driving the U.S. from the region, but quite separately seems bent ...
Pakistani Militant Leader’s Death A Tactical Victory, But Deeper Network Remains
Wonk Room —
... years, despite sporadic efforts by the Pakistani security services to divide them and target those identified as enemies of the Pakistani state. Some independent local commanders, like Gul Bahadur and South Waziristan’s Maulvi Nazir, reportedly objected to Mehsud’s ties to foreign Uzbek fighters and regular attacks on the Pakistani security services. But these commanders, who continue to endorse attacks on international coalition forces in neighboring Afghanistan, appear to have reconciled their differences with the TTP and have pledged to carry out attacks on Pakistani ...
