The battle is now raging in the tribal regions of Pakistan. It was pretty clear Musharraf would wait until after the voting was done regarding his next term as President. And now with that out of the way there is a massive effort to destroy the massing forces of al Qaeda and Militant Taliban. Good […]

As I predicted, now that Musharraf has a landslide win as President (making a judicial branch overturn very improbable) we see the area where al Qaeda and Taliban Islamo Fascists have been swarming in recent months starting to see a lot of action. Since the election of Musharraf the fighting in Pakistan’s tribal regions has […]

It seems there are a lot of people who just play lip service to democratic beliefs. President Musharraf has the votes to win, and they appear to be overwhelmingly in his favor: Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf has won a presidential vote, officials and state television said Saturday, despite a court ruling that the result […]

A lot rides on tomorrow’s election for President in Pakistan. If Musharraf wins then I would expect to see serious action taken against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the norther regions of Pakistan where they terrorists are now massing. Pakistan’s election is not by popular vote, so Musharraf can easily win (or lose). The BBC […]

Check updates below I would love to see the intelligence estimates on al-Qaeda recruitment efforts. My guess is they are way down. There was recent reporting showing a severe drop off in fresh recruits going into Iraq. Much of that is due to stepped up security. But much of it is also due to al-Qaeda’s […]

I have posted for months on the fact there are some interesting happenings going on in the tribal regions of Pakistan which border with Afghanistan. The Frontier Tribal Areas and Waziristan Provinces are the site of a building al-Qaeda presence. Some see this as a sign of a growing and strengthening al-Qaeda. I think it […]

In Pakistans political battle for the next President, former Pak PM Bhutto has made a public statement on whether the US should be allowed to come into Pakistan and deal with Bin Laden (and by extension the leadershop of al-Qaeda): Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Monday that she might allow a U.S. […]

There have been some strange happenings in the northern tribal areas where Bin Laden and al-Qaeda central are supposedly located. My feeling is something is about to burst there because of the strange happenings. Strange happening number 1 – how did 260 Pak troops become prisoners of the Taliban? Pakistan’s army has agreed to a […]

It is becoming almost a foregone conclusion that al-Qaeda’s brain trust us held up in the Waziristan region of Pakistan, based on reporting such as this: AL-QAEDA’S safe haven on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is still almost inpenetrable to NATO forces. And US intelligence chiefs feel the mountain region inhabited by tribes loyal to Osama bin […]

It is clear things are heating up in Pakistan where al-Qaeda seems to be marshalling its forces after the beating they are taking in Iraq. It was clear that as Iraq is purged of the Islamo Fascists they would have to run somewhere. I suspected more would go to Iran (and this still may be […]