The Taliban located and regrouping in Pakistan’s northern Waziristan Province and the Tribal Regions are waged in a losing battle with Pakistan forces.  The spring offensives have begun as another 40 Taliban are killed, adding to the 16 killed and 19 captured yesterday and the 200 last month: Security forces have killed at least 40 […]

Too funny: A senior lieutenant to Osama bin Laden has told US interrogators that the al-Qa’eda leader’s big mouth was a security liability. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed also complained that the schemes bin Laden approved lacked destructive ambition. … According to Mohammed, bin Laden lacked inspiration and vision. The Saudi failed to understand the basic security […]

Short update on the goings on in Pakistan’s norther Waziristan Province: Security forces have killed 16 miscreants and apprehended 19 others in North Waziristan Agency, says a military statement issued in Peshawar on Wednesday. However, militants have denied the claim of the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) and said four soldiers and five militants had […]

The GWOT is now clearly centered in the Norther regions of Pakistan along the Afghanistan border. That is where confrontation between the moderate and facsist arms of Islam is playing out: Suspected Islamic militants attacked a military base in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, killing one soldier and injuring four others, an intelligence official […]

Iran’s supporters pandering to the US media have created a serious mistep. They say Iran will threaten the US with terrorism if we take out their nuclear weapon processing capability. As tensions increase between the United States and Iran, U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes on […]

RCP was discussing the unbalanced media coverage in Iraq and the fact they may be finally getting a clue. In that post there was a link to a CNN segment from the Situation Room between Wolf Blitzer and Howard Kurtz. While there was some glimmer of realization here and there, Kurtz feels Vietnam is just […]

It appears the document drop of material found in Baghdad and Afghanistan is starting to have the expected affect. Stories on the numerous discussions and joint efforts between Saddam and terrorists are integrating into the American psyche and building the picture which can only be seen as a summation of a lot of smaller pictures. […]

Two plus two folks.  First this: Russia provided intelligence to Iraq’s government on U.S. military movements in the opening days of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, a Pentagon report released on Friday said. The report said an April 2, 2003, document from the Iraqi minister of foreign affairs to President Saddam Hussein stated that Russian […]

Major Kudos to Mark Coffey for bringing attention to this Walter Pincus story in the Washington Post yesterday (how did I miss this with all those google searches???). The story is about an incredibly high placed French spy in Hussein’s government: Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s last foreign minister, Naji Sabri, was a paid spy […]

Laura Ingrahm has become a really good conservative radio personality recently. Her trip to Iraq, to see first hand what was happening there, should be sufficient in anyone’s book for some serious respect. Wednesday morning she was discussing President Bush’s recent challenge to the media to balance their reporting on events in Iraq. Bush has […]