2001 we took out the Taliban and crushed al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. In 2003 we determined Saddam was non-compliant with international requirements on disclosing his WMDs (please, no one try and claim this is not true – even the UN agreed this was true) and because of communications he had had with al-Qaeda over the years […]

I have not been watching the news much the last few days but I did see that Scotland Yard investigators, who went to Pakistan to give an independent assessment of who killed Bhutto, have concluded the evidence does point to al-Qaeda: BRITISH officials have revealed that evidence amassed by Scotland Yard detectives points towards Al-Qaeda […]

It seems Pakistan locals are ready to start hunting down al-Qaeda in the tribal areas where al-Qaeda is supposedly holed up – resembling the change in support local Sunni Iraqis had regarding al-Qaeda in the now infamous Anbar Province of Iraq: Members of a Pakistani ethnic Pashtun tribe vowed on Thursday to raise a militia […]

I found this interesting site with statistics on the violence in Pakistan related to terrorists. It shows an ever increasing level in violence, one that almost mirrors the decline in violence in Iraq: As seen at the linked site the death toll has risen all year, but the violence is localized to some degree: There […]

More things to watch as allied forces zero in on Bin Laden and the suspected al-Qaeda sanctuary in the Waziristan area of Pakistan. First is the arrest of a Bin Laden body guard, which I assume is becoming quite familiar with the mechanics of water-boarding: The alleged security coordinator and bodyguard for Al Qaeda terror […]

It is becoming clear that al-Qaeda is fighting for its very life because all of its big targets are Muslims – not Americans. This happened in Anbar when Iraqis began to turn on al-Qaeda as well. al-Qaeda started bombing mercilessly to attempt to cower the Sunnis there back into submission. The result was even more […]

In what should be shocking news the UK authorities investigating Benazir Bhutto’s killing have confirmed the intercept of a phone call, in which an extremist leader in Pakistan admits his people did the deed, is authentic. The government is sticking to its assertion that the assassination was ordered by Baitullah Mehsud, an Islamic militant with […]

Benazir Bhutto’s assassination is not only reverberating against Musharraf and the United States. There is a rising backlash in the country against extremists and their bloody and deadly methods. More voices are coming out against the terrorist nature of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, there are calls to eject the Afghan refugees who fled the US […]

Oh pullleeease: “Controversy surrounding the assassination intensified yesterday amid reports that crucial records had been removed from the Rawalpindi General Hospital where Bhutto was taken, and claims she was killed using laser-beam technology. “The Nation on its front page said the gunfire and bomb blasts at Bhutto’s election rally “were a decoy to hide the […]

I have been saying for months the final operations against al-Qaeda will take place in the tribal regions of Northern Pakistan along the border with Afghanistan. This is the birth place of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and it is their last large sanctuary on Earth now that they are being pushed out of Iraq, Lebanon, […]