Want to know how we ended up with terrorism? We did not hold people to account for using terror to obtain their political aims. It is happening again this week in Pakistan, as some long time warlord who has used terror against the government is lionized by a media (here and here) that cannot understand […]

Jed Babbin has joined the ranks of the arm-chair instant experts today by declaring the ME is closer to Syrian and Iranian visions of the future than that of our efforts to forge peaceful democracies. He could not be more wrong: From the latter, Iran’s Amadinejad and Syria’s Assad have both announced the birth of […]

The world has to face some harsh realities in the war on terror, and so do some of our allies. Just like the Arab Muslim nations finally had to start cracking down on their radical elements fomenting death and destruction, so too does Pakistan have to deal with the Northern Terroritories and Waziristan Province. The […]

I have been saying for months the region to watch this summer in the War on Terror is the northern Pakistan region where supposedly OBL, Zawahiri and Omar are hiding out. More news is out today on successful efforts in that unruly area of Pakistan: The Pakistan Army on Sunday raised the number of militants […]

The hottest battlefront in the GWOT has been in northern Pakistan, in the once unruly Tribal Regions. Apparently Musharraf has been able to take control of that reqion. The Pakistan Army is in full control in the troubled tribal region of Waziristan, where 324 militants have been killed in operations over the past nine months, […]

The unseen front on the GWOT has been Pakistan’s northern tribal regions along the Afghan border. Unseen because the US press doesn’t report on it. There were moments of media attention when Al Qaeda bigs were killed in attacks, but other than that very little reporting. Well Pakistan’s President Musharraf is claiming his country is […]

The Global War On Terror is focused on the norther western regions of Pakistan, across the border from where Coalition forces are executing a major offensive on Taliban strongholds. As any corner animal will do, the Taliban are attempting to strike back: Taliban forces have so far killed 150 pro-government tribal Maliks in the North […]

As I have been saying, watch Pakistan and Afghanistan for this summer’s hot spot in the Global War On Terror (GWOT)

I am amazed after weeks of activity in Northern Pakistan and Southern Afghansistan the US media is still ignoring the most heated fighting in the Global War On Terror. Suffice to to say activities are progressing on both sides of the border, basically herding the terrorists into a pincer action: US and Afghan troops launched […]

The last few weeks have seen hundreds of Taliban fighters killed in the norther provinces (the tribal areas) of Pakistan. I have been posting on those activities here. Well, today we add another 41 to the list of Taliban on their way to meet Allah, now in Southern Afghanistan across the border from the Pakistani […]