I have been hoping for months now that the pressure we have been seeing put on the Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants inside the tribal areas of Pakistan might bear some fruit. Back in January of this year there were reports that a new Taliban leader, Baitullah Meshud, was charting a new and dangerous course by […]

The International Herald Tribune (IHT) ran a reasonable article (for them) recently on the al-Qaeda and Taliban forces who retreated from Afghanistan into the Pakistan area and efforts over the years to deal with them. I want to take some key information from that article to lay out the case that we are seeing the […]

The Senate Dems just threw through their entire liberal, anti-war base under the bus (again – how many times do these people have to get run over before they get a clue?): The United States Senate has approved on Thursday supplementary financial support of $161.8 billion for procedures in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Senate’s 92-6 vote represented a success for President […]

  I’m going to limit the excerpting here because the amount of information in all the news reports coming out, but it looks like the militants in the tribal areas of Pakistan have gone too far even for the new Pak government. These reports span events happening over the last week and show things coming […]

3 days ago the news media was breathlessly reporting that 600 Taliban had taken over some villages in Afghanistan and were threatening the government there. At the time I noted how ridiculous the odds were of the Taliban succeeding: Sorry if I am not impressed. Every time the Taliban seize real estate they are beaten […]

I found an interesting article that tries to claim are success in destroying al-Qaeda has given rise to a new danger. Personally I find this line of reasoning ridiculous. It is the old tall poles challenge. When you attack the tall poles and remove these obstacles barring success to a challenge, you still face the […]

It has long been my contention the last military battle of this War on Terror might happen in the lawless region of the tribal areas of Pakistan, from where Taliban and al-Qaeda militants are raiding the southern regions of Afghanistan.  The number of border incidents have been increasing, culminating in the battle which began in […]

If the fools in Pakistan’s new government actually thought the world would be OK with ‘peace’ treaties with militants on their soil which promised Pakistan would not be attacked but other nations like Afghanistan and the US could be attacked they were bigger fools than I thought.  Either as allies of the terrorists or victims […]

Updates Below I posted on the events that took place this week on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan the involved an hours long fire fight between US forces-Afghan forces and Pakistan-Taliban forces here, here, here, here and here.   To summarize I speculated that the Pak Frontier Corps (FC) outpost that was supposedly attacked […]

Looks like the US-NATO took out another hive of foreign fighters in Afghanistan: Afghan officials say 31 people have died in air strikes in eastern Afghanistan. Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary says most of the 31 people were foreign fighters. But a legislator from Paktika named Khalid Farooqi says at least nine civilians were killed. […]