The completely unreported war against the remnants of al-Qaeda and their extreme Taliban cousins has moved into an interesting phase. There have been reports of al-Qaeda and rogue Taliban in many parts of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan which run along the Afghanistan border. One of those areas was Bajaur Agency, which […]

You can tell when a movement is losing popular support – the masses flee from it, don’t even try to defend it. And you can tell when the movement realizes it has lost support as well, the get desperate. In Iraq there was the Awakening which signaled the end of Iraqi Sunni support to al-Qaeda’s […]

Latest Update:  Sounds like we took out over 20 of the enemy and may have hit an al-Qaeda nest: According to details, four missiles fired from Afghanistan hit the compound of the Baghar Camp. There are conflicting reports regarding missile attacks. Some of the tribesmen claimed that the allied forces jet fighters fired these missiles […]

It was only three days ago that I posted all eyes should be on Bajaur Agency, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan along the Afghan border. The push by Pakistani forces against the al-Qaeda remnants hiding out in that region has bagged another top al-Qaeda commander in Bajaur: According to a Pakistani security […]

One key question I have regarding the latest Zawahiri audio tape – his first ever in English – is when was it made and is it authentic. It is clear Pakistan is in a fight for its soul, and there are forces inside the Pakistan Government which want to destabilize the democratic government and replace […]

  The Pakistan Islamo Fascists who are providing the last refuge for al-Qaeda fighters running from their defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq are having their own problems. The Pakistan government, on the urging of the US, has begun to seriously crack down on these militants that infest the NWFP and FATA regions of Pakistan along […]

  For the rest of the month I would keep all eyes on Bajaur Agency in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). That is the region that is supposedly one of the prime hideouts of al-Qaeda’s leadership and command central for militant operations in Afghanistan.   I ran across a good review of the forces […]

Here’s some good news on the fight against terrorists in the Pakistan Tribal Areas: Police have arrested nine suspected suicide bombers and seized bombing jackets and explosives in the eastern city of Lahore, officers said. The suspects from the South Waziristan tribal belt bordering Afghanistan had set off to carry out suicide bombings in Lahore […]

Those of us who have been keeping an eye focused on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and the lawless tribal regions of Pakistan (the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)) have know from sporadic news reports spanning almost year that the CIA and US Special Forces were operating inside Pakistan, along […]

From some discussions with folks who are tied into the intelligence community I have learned that there does exist circumstantial evidence that Ayman al-Zawahiri was injured and/or killed recently, most likely in the July 28th strike in South Waziristan Agency.  Like others with sources into the IC, I am hearing there is a serious lack […]