[Chipotle Mystery] One of the difficulties in studying militant groups in Pakistan is that there aren’t a lot, if any, forums dedicated to these groups that are affiliated with the Taliban. Most Taliban-related information that is available in forums comes through Al-Qaeda clearinghouses like Al-Sahab, though smaller studios occasionally have videos that make it to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan’
Pakistani Taliban Videos Posted On Mainstream News Site
Posted: 27th August 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, Jihadi media, Pakistan, propaganda, RecruitmentTags: Afghanistan, media, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Taliban
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Pakistan Preparing All-Out Confrontation of Militants?
Posted: 25th August 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, AQ Leadership, Conspiracy Theories, Pakistan, ZawahiriTags: Afghanistan, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Counterinsurgency, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Taliban
[Chipotle Mystery] Since late July a number of suicide attacks have struck Pakistan, reminiscent of the spate of violence that ringed in the New Year and witnessed the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The rise in violence comes as the Pakistani military appears to be engaging in a large-scale offensive in Bajaur, one of the seven [...]
Sahab Releases Full Zawahiri Message in English
Posted: 17th August 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Strategy, ZawahiriTags: India, ISI, Kashmir, Kiyani, Musharraf, Pakistan, Zawahiri
A few days ago, ARY (a Pakistani network) ran an extremely truncated version of a lengthy audio tape of Zawahiri addressing Pakistanis in English. Yesterday, Sahab (the media production arm of al-Qaeda) released the full audio recording online (open the .pdf below for links). Here are the interesting bits: Zawahiri says at the beginning that [...]
Map of Recent Strikes on al-Qaeda Leadership in Pakistan
Posted: 12th August 2008 by Will McCants in AQ Leadership, PakistanTags: Abu Khabab, Abu Layth al-Libi, Abu Sulayman al-Jaza'iri, al-Qaeda, leadership, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, Pakistan
Reuters reports, on the authority of a Pakistani security official, that an “Abu Saeed al-Masri” was killed. The official said Masri is “among the top leadership of al Qaeda.” The identity of Masri is unknown, but the news media is claiming that it’s Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a close Egyptian friend of Zawahiri’s from the Sadat [...]
Al-Qaeda Cleric Linked to Chinese Terrorist Group
Posted: 11th August 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, AQ Leadership, China, PakistanTags: China, Islamic Party of Turkistan, Pakistan, Shaykh `Isa, Taliban
In the past week, there have been a spate of terrorist attacks in Xinjiang, the Muslim-majority province in China. On Aug. 4, militants killed 16 police in Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, which is near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. On Sunday, bombers attacked 17 sites in Kuqa, west-central Xianjiang. Although I haven’t seen any claim [...]
Abu Khabab Killed in Missile Strike
Posted: 28th July 2008 by Will McCants in AQ Leadership, Pakistan, UncategorizedTags: al-Qaeda, Pakistan
This morning Reuters reported that U.S. missiles had struck a madrasa in Wana, South Waziristan and killed six people. At that time, the reporters did not know who had been killed. On the forums this afternoon, there were several rumors that Abu Khabab, a senior al-Qaeda bomb maker and chemical weapons expert, had died in [...]