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Posts Tagged Pakistan
Pakistan Navy trained terrorists that attacked Mumbai. Provided boat for attack.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 15/Aug/2010 21:48
“NEW DELHI: In yet another indication of the involvement of Pakistani establishment in the 26/11 Mumbai attack, LeT operativeDavid Headley has corroborated the statement of lone captured terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab that the terrorists got training from Pakistan Navy.
During his interrogation, Kasab confessed that the ten terrorists, including himself, who attacked Mumbai received training of swimming and underwater diving from the Pakistan Navy’s frogmen.
Headley has also told his interrogators that the Pakistani intelligence agency had paid Rs 25 lakh to LeT to purchase a boat which terrorists used to travel from Karachi to the Pakistani maritime boundary, where they hijacked an Indian fishing boat ‘Kuber’ to reach Mumbai.”
Alleged US missiles kill 12 in Pakistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 14/Aug/2010 16:05
MIR ALI, Pakistan – Suspected U.S. missiles killed 12 people Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region filled with Islamist insurgents bent on pushing Western troops out of neighboring Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100814/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan;_ylt=AjAxzVvP5XaFyvyqDx0IZQ50fNdF
Pakistan Flood Relief
U.S. Army Sgt. Kristopher Perkins, a Chinook crew chief with Company B, Task Force Raptor, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, TF Falcon, holds a child in his lap after picking up 114 Pakistan victims during flood relief missions, Aug. 11, 2010, out of the Swat valley, Pakistan. Photo by Sgt. Monica K. Smith
WikiLeaks and the Afghan War
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 5/Aug/2010 16:48
“This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR”
July 27, 2010 | 0856 GMT
By George Friedman
On Sunday, The New York Times and two other newspapers published summaries and excerpts of tens of thousands of documents leaked to a website known as WikiLeaks. The documents comprise a vast array of material concerning the war in Afghanistan. They range from tactical reports from small unit operations to broader strategic analyses of politico-military relations between the United States and Pakistan. It appears to be an extraordinary collection.
Tactical intelligence on firefights is intermingled with reports on confrontations between senior U.S. and Pakistani officials in which lists of Pakistani operatives in Afghanistan are handed over to the Pakistanis. Reports on the use of surface-to-air missiles by militants in Afghanistan are intermingled with reports on the activities of former Pakistani intelligence chief Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, who reportedly continues to liaise with the Afghan Taliban in an informal capacity. Read the rest of this entry »
Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Pakistanis view US as enemy
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 29/Jul/2010 17:41
by ROBERT BURNS
Despite billions in aid from Washington and a shared threat from extremists, Pakistanis have an overwhelmingly negative view of the United States, according to results of a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday.
Most Pakistanis want improved relations with the United States, according to the poll. But most view the U.S. with suspicion, support for American involvement in the fight against extremists has declined, and nearly two-thirds want U.S. troops out of neighboring Afghanistan.
Nearly six in 10 Pakistanis polled described the U.S. as an enemy and only one in 10 called it a partner.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/AP/Search/World/Default.aspx?id=1105790
Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Leaked Reports Assert
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 26/Jul/2010 00:41
Nadeem Khan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, center, the former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, was arrested during a 2007 demonstration.
“Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports made public Sunday.
The reports suggest that the Pakistani military has acted as both ally and enemy, as its spy agency runs what American officials have long suspected is a double game — appeasing certain American demands for cooperation while angling to exert influence in Afghanistan through many of the same insurgent networks that the Americans are fighting to eliminate.
Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul ran the ISI from 1987 to 1989, a time when Pakistani spies and the C.I.A. joined forces to run guns and money to Afghan militias who were battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan. After the fighting stopped, he maintained his contacts with the former mujahedeen, who would eventually transform themselves into the Taliban.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/asia/26isi.html?_r=1
U.S. missiles kill 16 suspected militants in northwest Pakistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 24/Jul/2010 19:28
A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile is seen on the tarmac. A US drone on Saturday fired four missiles into a compound used by Islamist fighters in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt
“ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.S. missiles hit a suspected militant hide-out, killing 16 insurgents in a troubled Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border before dawn Saturday, intelligence officials said.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-07-24-missile-strike-pakistan_N.htm?csp=34
Taliban using children to plant IEDs
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Jul/2010 00:48
“In mid-May, a 9-year-old boy and his 4-year-old spotter died when an IED they were laying blew up, Kidnie said. And on June 6, two Afghan kids, aged 11 and 8, were caught in the act of planting an IED. Their hands tested positive for explosive residue, Brown added.”
Family of Pakistani Christian murdered by Muslim mob: “the community did not want ‘scum’ in it.”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 12/Jul/2010 20:12
Jhelum, Punjab Province
Pakistan (MNN) ― A Pakistani Christian mourns the loss of his family after a Muslim mob murdered his wife and four children, according to Compass Direct News.
Jamshed Masih, a police officer, moved his family to Mustafa Colony after he was transferred from Gujrat to Jhelum, Punjab Province.
When the predominantly-Muslim community learned of the family’s faith, Maulana Mahfooz Khan, a Muslim religious leader, approached Masih and told him and his family to leave, saying the community did not want “scum” in it. He said no non-Muslims had ever been able to live there and the residents feared the family would be a bad influence on their children.
A short time later, a Muslim mob, led by Khan, arrived at the house, accusing him of blasphemy against Muhammad.
Before police or Masih arrived, the family was murdered.
Now, local authorities refuse to press charges against Khan and his mob because they fear what he will do to them.”
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Missions/Default.aspx?id=1085220
Another expression of tolerance from the Religion of Peace.
Note a key phrase in this article: “predominantly-Muslim community”. That is significant. There are neighborhoods in the UK that even the police hesitate to enter. Yes, you guessed it: the “predominantly-Lutheran community”. No. For some strange reason we don’t have a lot of trouble with the Lutherans and the Baptists and the Catholics – at least not here in the US.
Most Americans have no idea of how disruptive to a culture a “predominantly-Muslim community” can be. They know in the Netherlands. They know in the UK. They know in Dearborn, Michigan. But until there is a sort of critical mass, until the numbers get high enough, you don’t see stories of angry mobs killing women and children, burning churches.
Maybe we’ll be fine. Maybe our “predominantly-Muslim communities” here in the United States will be as friendly and open and kind and generous and reasonable as the “predominantly-Buddhist communities”. They don’t have a very good track record, though, which makes me nervous.
Muslim Protesters in Europe.
The 30-Year War in Afghanistan
Posted by Brian in Opinion, Threat Watch on 1/Jul/2010 15:24
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
By George Friedman
The Afghan War is the longest war in U.S. history. It began in 1980 and continues to rage. It began under Democrats but has been fought under both Republican and Democratic administrations, making it truly a bipartisan war. The conflict is an odd obsession of U.S. foreign policy, one that never goes away and never seems to end. As the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal reminds us, the Afghan War is now in its fourth phase.
The Afghan War’s First Three Phases
The first phase of the Afghan War began with the Soviet invasion in December 1979, when the United States, along with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, organized and sustained Afghan resistance to the Soviets. This resistance was built around mujahideen, fighters motivated by Islam. Washington’s purpose had little to do with Afghanistan and everything to do with U.S.-Soviet competition. The United States wanted to block the Soviets from using Afghanistan as a base for further expansion and wanted to bog the Soviets down in a debilitating guerrilla war. The United States did not so much fight the war as facilitate it. The strategy worked. The Soviets were blocked and bogged down. This phase lasted until 1989, when Soviet troops were withdrawn. Read the rest of this entry »
“Jihadi tourists: stay away.” 5 American Muslim men convicted of terrorism by Pakistani court
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Jun/2010 02:25
“KABUL, Afghanistan — A Pakistani court convicted five young American Muslim men of terrorism charges Thursday and sentenced each to 10 years in jail…
The case spotlighted the radicalization of American Muslims and Pakistan’s drawing power to would-be jihadists from around the world. The convictions amounted to an official warning to jihadi tourists to stay away.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/25/1699500/5-americans-convicted-of-terrorism.html
Iranian Dissident Arrested
Posted by Gary in Threat Watch on 24/Feb/2010 14:23
From: Stratfor
In Iran, a ‘Most Wanted’ Arrest
Iranian authorities have announced the arrest of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of Balochi dissident group Jundallah. Analyst Kamran Bokhari explores theories about the circumstances of his arrest, which might have occurred in Pakistan.
Terrorist Trial
A Pakistani woman, accused of attacking Americans in Afghanistan, was thrown out of her own trial.