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(CNN) — Conflicting reports emerged Sunday about whether Adam Gadahn, a U.S.-born spokesman for al Qaeda, has been arrested in Pakistan.
A senior Pakistani government official told CNN that Gadahn was arrested Sunday in Karachi, but a U.S. intelligence official said there appears to be no validity to reports of Gadahn’s [...]
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — More than two dozen militants were killed Friday in a Pakistani military airstrike that targeted high-value Taliban leaders, a Pakistani military official told CNN on Saturday.
The strike on militant hideouts in the country’s tribal region killed Taliban leader Fateh Mohammad, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Pakistani [...]
Military officials in Pakistan are showing off a mountain that al-Qaida had been using both as a hide-out and as a place to store weapons, currency and look-alike U.S. military uniforms.
By Glenn Greenwald
Joseph Stack deliberately flew an airplane into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, in order to advance the political grievances he outlined in a perfectly cogent suicide-manifesto. Stack’s worldview contained elements of the tea party’s anti-government anger along with substantial populist complaints generally associated [...]
Ahmed Quraishi
How about exchanging Taliban Number Two Abdul Ghani Baradar for terror master Brahamdagh Bugti and the dismantling of the terror network targeting Pakistan’s Balochistan?
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan has agreed to hand over Afghan Taliban’s number 2, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, to Afghanistan. How about asking for Mr. [...]
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has rejected a suggestion that Pakistan arrested a senior Taliban commander and two ‘governors’ to derail US-led efforts to win over the militants.
“I’m not going to speak to their motives. I’m not going to speak to any of the specific operations or these specific captures,” said Geoff Morrell, [...]
Pakistan captured at least five other prominent militants at about the same time as arresting Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban’s second-in-command, in Karachi two weeks ago, Afghan and Pakistani officials have revealed.
The arrests appear to represent an important breakthrough in co-operation between Pakistan and the US, which has [...]
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—US Ambassador to Pakistan Ms. Anne W. Patterson is becoming quite controversial. She has overseen the worst spell in the relationship between Washington and Islamabad in sixty years and many say she is responsible for at least some of it. Ties weren’t this bad even when the United [...]
