By Ed Timperlake
American Thinker, January 30, 2010
In typical British understatement, Arthur Conolly, an intelligence officer with the Sixth Bengal Light Cavalry in the early part of the nineteenth century, called the fighting along with military and diplomatic maneuvering between England and Russia for supremacy in Afghanistan “the great game.” The Nobel Laureate Rudyard Kipling made the phrase popular, but also left a warning about the cost. Continue reading »
By Barry Rubin
Rubin Reports, January 14, 2010
Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, gave a very interesting interview to the alumni magazine of his old college, Columbia University. I analyze some of the points made not to criticize Leiter but to point out some basic ideas held by the people responsible for protecting America and Americans from terrorist attacks.
We might as well begin by the statement I found most disturbing:
“I’m often asked if it’s a coincidence that we haven’t been attacked since 9/11, and the answer is flatly no.” Continue reading »
Americans arrested in Pakistan
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By Pamela Constable and Shaiq Hussein
January 4, 2010
The Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Five Northern Virginia men accused of possible terrorist ties told a Pakistani court Monday that they had neither sought nor established any contact with Islamic extremist groups, according to their Pakistani attorney, and had traveled to the region only “to help the helpless Muslims.” Continue reading »
By JANE PERLEZ, SALMAN MASOOD and WAQAR GILLANI, 12/11/09
New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Investigators from the F.B.I. continued Friday to question five Muslim American men who were arrested in Pakistan earlier this week, but it remained unclear whether the men would be deported to the United States, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.
“It all depends on the investigations, and things will be clear in a day or two,” said the spokesman, Rashid Mazari.
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Yid with Lid blog
December 10. 2009
Yesterday, the Investigative Project on Terrorism led with the story of five DC Area students who disappeared and were believed to be heading for terrorist training.
December 8: Federal investigators are searching for a Howard University dental student and four other missing Muslim men reported missing from the Washington, D.C. area, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned. There is concern they may have been sent abroad to train for jihad. The five were last seen November 29.The identities of two of the missing men, Howard student Ramy Zamzam and Waqar Khan, have been mentioned in online postings, including a Facebook page that was set up Monday for friends to offer their support. Some of those pages, however, appear restricted to friends and associates. Continue reading »
October 29, 2009 Posted by John at 2:06 PM
Isn’t a diplomat supposed to be–you know–diplomatic? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn’t seem to think so. On her current visit to Pakistan, she managed to insult both her own government and Pakistan’s in the space of a few minutes. Continue reading »
Taliban believed behind series of coordinated strikes in nation’s heartland
The Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistan – Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore and car bombs hit two other cities Thursday, killing a total of 39 people in an escalating wave of anti-government violence.
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The fact that the Taliban is now in control of Pakistan’s army headquarters is not a risk to the country’s atomic arsenal? Well, that might depend on what you define as a risk to the atomic arsenal. Maybe the question should have been, ‘is it a threat to the non-Islamic world?’. Pakistan has been a very fragile ally with nukes, barely keeping the strong Taliban element within the government and military in check and now the moderates’ grip on power is slipping even further. This is not a non-story.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday the Taliban siege of Pakistan’s army headquarters showed extremists are a growing threat in the nuclear-armed American ally, but she contended they don’t pose a risk to the country’s atomic arsenal.
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