Baitullah Mehsud Targets Punjab
More than one month ago we observed that Punjabi militants under the authority of Tehrik-i-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud had begun to target the Punjab province, the most populous province in...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Safe Haven in the Hindu Kush
Rich Lowry with National Review is encouraged at the signs of tribal uprising against the Pakistan Taliban. The Captain’s Journal is far less encouraged. We have pointed out that Baitullah Mehsud...
View ArticleA Strange New Respect for our Afghan Policy?
I’m sorry to steal Paul’s Mirengoff’s thunder (i.e., post title), but it’s too good to pass up. Fareed Zakaria contends that a troop surge is not necessary in Afghanistan because we’re succeeding...
View ArticleThe Connection Between the Taliban and al Qaeda
David Rohde with The New York Times was kidnapped months ago by the Afghan Taliban while attempting to gain an interview with a Taliban commander. He is writing about his first hand experiences in The...
View ArticleTaliban and al Qaeda Ideological Alignments
In Connection Between the Taliban and al Qaeda we discussed the first hand account by David Rohdes of the New York Times after he was kidnapped by the Afghan Taliban, transported to Pakistan, spent...
View ArticleAl Qaeda’s Effect on the Taliban
Poor Katrina vanden Heuvel repeats Captain Matthew Hoh’s arguments for a small footprint in Afghanistan. I briefly answered Hoh’s arguments earlier. Asking the question whether al Qaeda and the...
View ArticleHolding Terrain in Afghanistan: Pakistan’s Games of Duplicity Part III
In response to U.S. Marine Corps Combat Action in Sangin, Old Warrior said: … in my mind, if you go to war, go to war right. They are completely robbing most of these young men of the resources that...
View ArticlePowerline Blog Calls It Quits On Afghanistan
Normally I enjoy reading the posts by John Hinderaker at Powerline, but his recent post is an exception. With a strange bit of melancholy or resignation, John argues that it is time to pack up and...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Makes a Comback in the Pech Valley
From The Wall Street Journal: In late September, U.S. fighter jets streaked over the cedar-studded slopes of Korengal, the so-called Valley of Death, to strike a target that hadn’t been seen for years...
View ArticleAl Qaida Closer to Nukes? Don’t Bother Telling Anyone
Here is a highly disturbing article from February that I would bet most of us never saw featured in any major, U.S. newspaper or given any time on the network news. According to the article: Al-Qaida...
View ArticleBin Laden: Mission Kill or Mission Capture?
A striking contradiction has been present for a long time in the so-called war on terror, but this contradiction is highlighted with the recent death of Osama Bin Laden, the highest of all high value...
View ArticleThe Morphing of the Taliban
Joshua Foust is both a genuinely good guy and an expert on the affairs of Central Asia. I am neither. With that said, I strongly disagree with the theme of his analysis of the question of whether all...
View ArticleThe Taliban And Al Qaeda Are The Same
The National Interest has an important account from the Pashtun areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The money quotes follow. November 11, 2007—Veteran’s Day. I was a veteran waiting to meet the...
View ArticleLosing the Forest for the Trees: Drone Strike Kills al-Libi
Hat tip to Hot Air. The New York Times as well as other media outlets are now confirming, along with the Obama Administration, that Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, has been killed by a...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda In The United States
Just Piper sends an important study our way. We are accustomed to discussing al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, or al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, and so on. It seems rather odd...
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