Key observations

Key observations

By Gerald: Internet Anthropologist Think Tank

Dec 30, 2008

Whom has benefited from the Terrorist

Infantry attack on India?

Pakistan deploys troops from tribal areas to the Indian border

December 26, 2008 1:22 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

At least one division of Pakistani troops has been redeployed from the Bajaur-Dir region to the border near Lahore in eastern Pakistan.

Pakistani military continues to withdraw from the tribal areas

December 29, 2008 5:02 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

More troops are being pulled from Bajaur, Mohmand, and the North and South Waziristan tribal agencies. Another division is thought to be leaving the northwest.

Taliban consolidate control in Arakzai tribal agency

December 28, 2008 1:17 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Sharia declared in upper and lower Arakzai; 16 of 21 tribes bow to Taliban law. Taliban welcome Pakistani Army withdrawal in the northwest, negotiations with the government are underway.

Pakistan shuts down NATO supply line through the Khyber Pass

December 30, 2008 2:38 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The military launches an operation in the Jamrud region outside of Peshawar, where the Taliban has taken control. This is the third time the route has been closed since September.

The Taliban and al Qaeda have benefited......SUCKERED
Both Paki and India.

Taliban moving in as Pakistan moves troops east

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What is Iran up to:

FM spokesman in Tehran: Iran begins preparing operations against Israel

DEBKAfile Special Report

December 29, 2008, 9:01 PM (GMT+02:00)

On Monday, Dec. 29, Day 3 of Israel's Gaza operation, the spokesman said Iran had embarked on preparations for operations against Israel in line with the directives laid down by supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khameini in his speech Sunday.

In his speech, Khameini issued a fatwa calling on Muslims to stand up and defend Palestinians against Israel.
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Iran activating its proxies

By Olivier Guitta

Iran is smartly playing its cards, using its main Sunni and Shiite proxy to create havoc in the region and de facto making it stronger. At this point, Iran’s next step is uncertain. But it is quite possible that Hezbollah will decide to open a second front against Israel. Also the destabilization operations against the Sunni regimes in the region hostile to the Islamic Republic are likely to continue unabated. At this point when it comes to terror, all roads lead to Tehran.
I wrote an article for the Middle East Times analyzing the current situation.
You can read it in full here.

Here is an excerpt:
After the six-month truce with Israel expired on Dec. 19, Hamas decided, or perhaps was urged, to resume its attacks on Israel. Thus Hamas went on a rampage campaign, firing rockets at Israel to create terror and death among Israeli civilians.
As could be expected, Israel reacted the way most countries would when attacked, and to protect its population against a group it considers to be a terrorist organization.

A new war in the region is likely to benefit only one country: Iran.

Indeed, following the model of the summer 2006 war against Israel triggered by the capture of two Israeli soldiers by the Lebanese Shiite organization, Hezbollah, Iran would benefit with a new front opening up.

This time Iran is turning to using its Sunni arm, Hamas. Contrary to what a number of experts in the region profess, Sunni extremists and Shiite extremists have no problem joining forces against a common enemy and putting aside their age-old rivalries.

While Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of the Palestinian Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, was still alive, he refused to Iran's advances time and again. Yassin was adamant not to engage the Shiites. After his death, Hamas became much more open to Tehran's advances. Recently, Iran has become Hamas' main bankroller and as such wants to have a say in what Hamas should or should not do.

December 30, 2008 02:32 PM Link

Iran is starting a operation : tied to nuclear announcement?

Is the timing of the attack on India and Hamas attacks on Israel a coincidence?

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• Conflict with India must be avoided, says Pakistani army chief

Paki Intel helping to kill Americans?

Paki Intel helping to kill Americans?, Taliban says YES.G

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By Carol Grisanti, NBC News Producer, Pakistan
A prominent Taliban commander boasted to NBC News in an interview that Afghan officials are aiding his forces in fighting U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

In the interview, wanted Taliban commander Sirajuddin Haqqani said that the corrupted Afghan officials are a key to the Taliban's military success. “There are some people with government portfolios who are supporting us because they are worried about their own security,” Haqqani said. “They inform us of the movements of U.S. and NATO troops. There have even been some instances where they have assisted us in carrying out attacks,” he added.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, 28, controls the Taliban in the Afghan border areas with Pakistan, and in the area surrounding Kabul. Under tight security, he consented to an interview with NBC News’ Mushtaq Yusufzai in a safe house in Khost, the Afghan province that borders Pakistan.

An NBC producer interviews Taliban commander Sirajuddin Haqqani (whose back faces the camera). Haqqani would not reveal his face.
SOURCE: MSNBC
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Sirajuddin Haqqani was accused by the CIA of working with ISI agents.
CIA confronts the Paki gov.

Gerald
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Paki the NEW Iraq?

Image via WikipediaSituation in Pakistan spinning out of control: Stratfor

* Intelligence service claims Musharraf's regime has been replaced by a civil-military hybrid
* Country is being torn apart by extremism

By Khalid Hasan

WASHINGTON: The use of suicide bombings has allowed religiously radical forces to reach beyond their NWFP strongholds and strike with impunity at the core of Pakistan, including urban centres, and as it is, things are spinning out of control, according to a commentary released on Monday by Stratfor.

The Texas-based news intelligence service notes that along with the rapidly deteriorating security situation, political instability has only grown after the elections, which failed to quell the political unrest that severely weakened not only President Pervez Musharraf's hold on power but also that of the army.

Civil-military hybrid: "Musharraf's regime has been replaced by a civil-military hybrid which lacks the willingness and/or the ability to take on the threat posed by extremism and militancy. The fact is that the civilian government and the country's military establishment appear to be losing control of the situation," the analysis maintains.


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Will the Paki's allow Pakistan to deteroriate into an Iraq, circa 2004?
I don't expect the new Paki government to react or ask for help untill
they experience sever pain, and their pain threshold is higher than I expected.

Gerald

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We are forming a NEW Paki Company "D".

Paki Co D.

Pakistanis,
Fight terrorism and corruption: So American's can go home.
We keep all information about members a strict secret.
We can report information to the US Government anomalously.
We have the contacts, to get things done.

Support Pakistan and fight corruption.

Looking for Paki civilians or military to help fight corruption and terrorism.
So Americans can go home.

Join the Wiki now, it will go black at 20 members.
Complete secrecy.STOP CORRUPTION AND TERRORISM

Take a look Paki Co D. wiki.

Gerald
Internet Anthropologist

See company "C".
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Another Taliban leader bites the dust

Image via WikipediaSuspected US missile kills 7 in Pakistan: Taliban

Posted May 15, 2008 07:19:00

At least one missile suspected to have been fired by a US drone hit a house in north-west Pakistan near the Afghan border overnight, a Pakistani security official said.

The missile, which hit a house near the village of Damadola in the Bajaur tribal region, where Islamist militants have been known to operate, killed seven people including three children, a Taliban spokesman said.

"One or two missiles were fired from a drone. We don't have any details," said the security official, who declined to be identified.

In January 2006, a CIA-operated drone Predator aircraft fired missiles at a house in Damadola in the belief Al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman Al-Zawahri was visiting.

He was not there and at least 18 people died in the strike, several of them believed to have been Al Qaeda members.

This year, US-controlled Predator aircraft have struck at least three sites used by Al Qaeda operatives in north-west Pakistan, killing dozens of suspected militants.

A spokesman for Taliban militants in Pakistan, Maulvi Omar, said the house that was hit belonged to an ethnic Pashtun tribesman and four Taliban militants and three children had been killed in the attack.

Six people had been wounded, he said, adding all of the casualties were Pakistanis.

A Pakistani military spokesman said he had no information about any missile strike.

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