Oct 5, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
SARAROGHA, Pakistan (AP) - Flanked by heavily armed fighters, the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban sat on a blue blanket, amiable and relaxed as he cracked jokes and mixed in threats of vengeance for deadly U.S. airstrikes. One day later, a suicide bomber attacked a U.N. office in Islamabad. Hakimullah Mehsud met with reporters Sunday for ...
Continue ReadingOct 1, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Washington - Legislation to triple aid to Pakistan and stem the tide of radicalism and anti-Americanism in that Asian nation cleared Congress on Wednesday and moved to President Barack Obama for his signature. The bill, approved by a voice vote in the House, would provide Pakistan with $1.5 billion in aid a year over the ...
Continue ReadingOct 1, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is confronting a split among his closest advisers on Afghanistan, reflecting divisions in his own party over whether to send in thousands more U.S. troops and complicating his efforts to adopt a war policy he can sell to a public grown weary of the 8-year-old conflict. With top military commanders ...
Continue ReadingSep 29, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) - Officials say two suspected U.S. missile strikes in northwest Pakistan have killed 13 militants. The first attack Tuesday killed six militants and wounded six others in South Waziristan. Three intelligence officials and one government official said a second missile later Tuesday hit a house owned by a known Afghan militant in North Waziristan. ...
Continue ReadingSep 25, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
Remember the Jihad warning against Germany? Telegraph: Investigators have discovered a "Jihadi village" of white German al-Qaeda insurgents, including Muslim converts, in Pakistan's tribal areas close to the Afghan border. The village, in Taliban-controlled Waziristan, is run by the notorious al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which plots raids on Nato forces in Afghanistan. A recruitment video presents life ...
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2009 22 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Missouri post at the top of the Featured Stories is a perfect example. ACTIVISTS are travelling all across the country on special operations. We are meeting and planning with resistance leadership throughout the union. We are working behind the scenes in ACTIVE planning for the broader strategy needed for the next ...
Continue ReadingAug 9, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Daily Mail: Squatting next to me is my burka. It looks so innocuous: just a few yards of black fabric. But, my goodness, how oppressive it is, how suffocating, how transforming. Moved by the plight of Lubna Hussein, a Sudanese woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public, I decided to spend a week enveloped ...
Continue ReadingAug 8, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
ISLAMABAD - Senior Taliban commanders denied that their leader, Baitullah Mehsud, had been killed in a CIA missile strike, while conflicting reports emerged late Saturday of a clash between rival Taliban factions during a meeting to chose a successor. Interior Minister Rahman Malik said authorities had received information about a fight breaking out during a meeting, ...
Continue ReadingAug 6, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
RightWingNews: I do believe in foreign aid, free trade, and helping out other nations when it's in America's best interest. However, at a time when our country is running nearly a 2 trillion dollar deficit, I think we need to be asking some very hard questions about why we're borrowing tens of billions of dollars only ...
Continue ReadingAug 5, 2009 11 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two Pakistani intelligence and one army official said Wednesday that a U.S. missile strike in northeastern Pakistan had killed a wife of top Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. Mehsud's associates would not confirm the report, although they did say a woman was killed in the missile strike in South Waziristan, part of ...
Continue ReadingAug 4, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ACTIVE is launching a very important ACTIVE Operation, a permanent fundraising effort for Michael Yon, whose stories from the frontlines have earned him the reputation as the premier independent combat journalist and photographer of his generation. His work has been featured on “Good Morning America,†CNN, ABC, FOX, and in The Wall Street ...
Continue ReadingAug 2, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
As far as Barack Obama goes, if we do jobs, the August will be the last month before The Fall. Enter ACTIVISTS
Continue ReadingJul 22, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: U.S. officials believe Usama bin Laden's son, Saad bin Laden, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan. Sources confirmed to FOX News late Wednesday that officials believe the younger bin Laden was killed by hellfire missiles from a U.S. Predator drone strike earlier this year. The death was first reported by National Public Radio. National Intelligence ...
Continue ReadingJul 20, 2009 17 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NEW DELHI - U.S. officials "firmly believe" that al-Qaida leaders who planned and carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are hiding in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. At a news conference concluding three days of meetings, Clinton said Washington has told the Pakistani ...
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