Would a Surrendercrat be so bold as to attack Bin Laden’s thugs hiding out in Pakistan as we did last January? In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone’s operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA […]

I found two insightful pieces today – and one that is so hypocritical and ironic you would think it was a spoof. First to the ‘must reads’ for the day. Secretary of State Condi Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates outline an objective assessment of where we all need to go now in Iraq […]

Wild speculation alert! I could not help but note something in a Washington Post article on a recently captured Taliban Leader: A top Taliban commander in Afghanistan who claimed close ties to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was captured Monday in southwestern Pakistan, according to a Pakistani military official. … Last year, Dadullah took command […]

Time again for another round of “Is Bin Laden Dead”? U.S. intelligence agencies are beginning to suspect that Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden is dead after all, despite a recent audio tape exhorting Al Qaida terrorists in Iraq. … The new analysis of Bin Laden follows the death of No. 3 Al Qaida leader […]

It would seem the Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan are not all that secure, indicated by how another, newly-minted Taliban has been captured: Pakistani security forces wounded and captured a prominent Taliban commander on Monday near the border area with Afghanistan, Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said. Mullah Mansour Dadullah took over as commander of Taliban forces […]

Some interesting news out of Pakistan this week. The focus of these activities are the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) which contain the Waziristan Provinces, and the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) which contains the Swat area where the terrorists tried to take control last fall, and failed. It seems more and more likely that […]

One of the key events in the War On Terror was the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. She was beginning to turn the country from the fight with Islamists to some other future and therefore represented a huge risk to al-Qaeda and Bin Laden. If you think Americans are fatigued by 7 years of the war […]

OK, why would the Taliban announce a unilateral and unconditional ceasefire in the tribal areas of Pakistan? A Taliban spokesman declared on Wednesday a unilateral ceasefire from South Waziristan to Swat, saying no security forces would be targeted. “We will not attack any security person, be it in Waziristan or in Swat (district),” Taliban spokesman […]

It looks like al-Qaeda is finally realizing their war against Iraqi Muslims is making them an enemy of Islam (at least in Iraq) and not positioning them to be the future of Islam. Apparently al-Qaeda forces are leaving Iraq to be trained in Pakistan and then deploy elsewhere in the world: The US intelligence chief […]

Well it appears someone got a high level al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan, though I was hoping for someone nearer to the top (but was not expecting it): A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, senior Western counter-terrorism officials say. News of Libi’s death first emerged on a website used by […]