Major Update: The Iraqis Bin Laden is begging to stop destroying his movement (in Iraq and in the Muslim world in general) as posted below have now publicly challenged Bin Laden to stop murdering Muslims! An Iraqi US-backed tribal council Sunday called on the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network Osama bin Laden to […]

Previously I posted that we would actually be able to measure al-Qaeda’s remaining effectiveness in Iraq because they had called on all elements to step up their attacks in Iraq during the months of December and January: The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, an al Qaeda-linked group forced on the defensive by its […]

I was not a a Benazir Bhutto supporter. I did not know much about her except she had enough dirt against her she was forced into exile. And under her rule the Taliban rose and were nurtured. Good intentions do not equate to good acts. She could have just been overtaken by events, which meant […]

It seems police security in place at Bhutto’s rally left their post prior to the attack on her: Perhaps more shockingly, an attendee at the rally where Bhutto was killed says police charged with protecting her “abandoned their posts,” leaving just a handful of Bhutto’s own bodyguards protecting her. “Police officers had frisked the 3,000 […]

In a prime example of how rumors can run wild it seems there were no bullet wounds to Bhutto, calling into question the news reported in the New York Sun earlier today. The changes in what happened is coming out as details become available from Pakistan: Mystery shrouds the death of former Pakistan prime minister […]

Conflicting News Update Here It would seem the forces in Pakistan spooked by a possible Bhutto win include some elements of the Pakistani military or ISI, given the accounts being presented in the New York Sun today: American and Pakistani military leaders are seeking to account for what may be renegade commando units from the […]

It seems Pakistan has clear evidence of al-Qaeda and Taliban complicity in Bhutto’s assassination: Pakistan’s interior minister says al-Qaida and the Taliban were responsible for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The Pakistani official tells the Associated Press that investigators have resolved the “whole mystery” behind the assassination. He says details will come at a press […]

It seems Muqtada al-Sadr, the fiery Iraqi Shiite cleric with ties to Iran and filled with anti-US denunciations, has been basically de-fanged by the ruling Shiia forces: KARBALA, Iraq – Posted at the door of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s office recently, a flier denounced the arrest of his followers. Up and down the barricaded street, […]

It seems the final stage of the war is on, given the fact al-Qaeda has taken credit for the killing of Benazir Bhutto (and gave information about the bomber only the planners would know): An al-Qaeda leader based in Afghanistan formally claimed responsibility for the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whom he […]

al-Qaeda is on a two month bombing effort to demonstrate to Iraqis they must succumb to al-Qaeda’s will or else. It is a desperate act which will strengthen the Iraqi Muslim opposition to al-Qaeda – reaffirming their status as enemy of Islam, not its future. The brutality and the atrocities committed by al-Qaeda in Iraq […]