It does seem that the Pakistan Tribal Awakening is taking root and spreading in the tribal regions of Pakistan known as the FATA and the NWFP. I noted in one post yesterday how tribes in one area of the NWFP province had set up security details and hunted down Taliban militants in their region.   […]

Some brief updates in the war raging in Pakistan’s Tribal Regions. It seems the main city of Kahr in the Bajaur Agency has been mostly cleansed of the terrorists since the government is asking people to return and take up residence in their homes so they cannot be used by terrorists: As security forces continued […]

On July 28th what appears to have been a CIA/Special Forces Predator Strike on a compound in South Waziristan took out 4 key al-Qaeda leaders using 3 missiles. On August 13th another probable Predator strike hit South Waziristan using four missiles. To date no details have ever been reported on who was killed out of […]

    In my previous posts this morning I noted how local Pakistan Tribes had taken up arms and started hunting down Taliban and their al-Qaeda cousins in their districts of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). It appears now that the local tribes in the Kurram Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) […]

As a follow up to previous posts on the Pakistan effort to take on the al-Qaeda hornets nests in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) there is some interesting news coming out of Bajaur Agency today (see previous posts Exodus In Mohmand Agency Might Indicate al-Qaeda Presence, Taliban Use Human Shields To Protect Them In Bajaur Agency, Pakistan […]

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 […]

  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 […]