TTP's Mehsud Appears on Tape, Threatens US
03 May 2010
Exclusive: Tapes Show Hakeemullah Mehsud Is Alive and Threatens Attacks in the US [blog], The Long War Journal, 2 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Two tapes were sent today to The Long War Journal by a group identifying itself as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. The same group sent a link earlier today to The Long War Journal to a YouTube video of Qari Hussain Mehsud claiming that the Taliban carried out the...
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Credibility of Taliban's NYC Bomb Claim Questioned
03 May 2010
, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Experts on the Pakistani Taliban are dismissing out of hand the group's claims of responsibility for the car bomb placed Saturday in New York City's Time Square. The group has made false claims in the past and shows no evidence of having international reach. The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have posted two videos...
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Former ISI Agent's Killing Points to Taliban's Lack of Unity
03 May 2010
, The Washington Post, 3 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Shrouded in white, the spy's bullet-riddled body was buried Sunday, and with it clues to a cloak-and-dagger mystery gripping Pakistan. The funeral was for Khalid Khawaja, 58, a former Pakistani intelligence agent who journeyed last month to the militant-controlled borderlands of North Waziristan, only to be killed...
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Women Injured in Acid Attack
03 May 2010
Acid Attack on Pakistani Sisters in Balochistan, BBC News, 30 April 2010
EXCERPT: "Men on a motorbike sprayed acid on three sisters in a southwestern Pakistani town, causing serious burn injuries, police and hospital officials said on Friday. Women have been victims of such assaults in mostly rural Pakistan, where harsh feudal and tribal laws, often discriminatory towards women, are enforced. They are set on fire or sprayed with acid...
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Returnees' Situation Dire amid Volatile Security Situation
03 May 2010
Swat Valley Returnees in Acute Need of Help, VOA News, 30 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The U.N. refugee agency says the intense fighting that erupted nearly one year ago between the Pakistani government and Taliban militants in the Swat Valley triggered one of the largest and fastest developing displacements it has ever seen. While the fighting was particularly fierce, it was short lived. And, on July 13, 2009, the Pakistani government...
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Drone Attacks Get Mixed Response
03 May 2010
US Drone Attacks in Pakistan Get Mixed Response, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2010
EXCERPT: "[...] Drones have transformed combat against Islamic militants in Pakistan's tribal areas, the rugged belt of villages and badlands hugging the border with Afghanistan. Since 2004, analysts say, Predator and Reaper drones operated by the CIA have killed at least 15 senior Al Qaeda commanders, as well as several top Pakistani Taliban leaders...
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