AP EXCLUSIVE: Afghans scuttle US-Taliban talks!

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By KATHY GANNON and ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press / Aug 29, 7:28 AM EDT.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Infuriated that Washington met secretly at least three times with a personal emissary of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Afghan government intentionally leaked details of the clandestine meetings, scuttling the talks and sending the Taliban intermediary into hiding, The Associated Press has learned.

In a series of interviews with diplomats, current and former Taliban, Afghan government officials and a close childhood friend of the intermediary, Tayyab Aga, the AP learned Aga is hiding in Europe, and is afraid to return to Pakistan because of fears of reprisals. The United States has had no direct contact with him for months.

A senior U.S. official acknowledged that the talks imploded because of the leak and that Aga, while alive, had disappeared. The United States will continue to pursue talks, the official said. Current and former U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the talks.

The United States acknowledged the talks after Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who apparently fears being sidelined by U.S.-Taliban talks, confirmed published accounts about them in June, but has never publicly detailed the content, format or participants. The first was held in late 2010 followed by at least two other meetings in early spring of this year, the former U.S. official said. The sessions were held in Germany and Qatar, he said.

A childhood friend of Aga's who spoke to the AP on condition he not be identified because he feared retaliation, said Aga was in Germany. A diplomat in the region said Aga fled to a European country after his contacts with the United States were revealed.

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AFGHAN BOILER: 19 dead in attack on Charikar Provincial Governor's compound!

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Associated Press / ibnlive.in.com / Posted on Aug 14, 2011 at 04:41pm IST.

Kabul: A team of six suicide bombers launched a coordinated assault on a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 19 people in the latest high-profile attack to target prominent Afghan government officials, authorities said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the Parwan provincial capital of Charikar, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Kabul.

Afghan police said the assault began with a car bomb outside the front gate. The blast blew open a hole in the wall, allowing five insurgents wearing suicide vests and carrying automatic weapons to rush into the compound.

Afghan police said they killed three of the attackers as they approached the governor's house.

The attack appeared to target a meeting of top provincial security officials that was taking place in the compound. Afghan National Police General Abdul Jalil Rahimi said he was at the meeting, along with Parwan Governor Abdul Basir Salangi, top provincial Afghan army and police officials, and several NATO officers.

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AFGHAN BOILER: SEALs were going after Taliban leader when helicopter shot down, officials say!

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http://news.blogs.cnn.com / August 7th, 2011, 12:02 PM ET.

The 22 Navy SEALs killed when their helicopter was shot down in Wardak province were part of a mission to go after a known Taliban leader directly responsible for attacks against American troops, two U.S. military officials have told CNN.

Get up to date on the incident that happened Saturday in Afghanistan – VIDIO.

According to new information CNN's Barbara Starr obtained, the SEALs who were killed had been called in to assist another unit on the ground pinned down in a firefight. The officials did not know if the Taliban leader had been killed. They declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of ongoing operations in the crash area.

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35 Pakistani Taliban killed in US air strikes in Afghanistan!

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http://www.dnaindia.com / Published: Tuesday, Jul 26, 2011, 22:25 IST / Place: ISLAMABAD | Agency: PTI.

At least 35 Pakistani Taliban fighters have been killed in United States air strikes in Afghanistan after they attacked a convoy of foreign troops, reports from the Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan said on Tuesday.

The reports said that a group of 100 Pakistani Taliban militants fired missiles and rockets at a convoy of foreign forces in Paktiya on Friday.

US ground forces sought air cover and NATO fighter jets targeted the Pakistani militants, killing 35.

Over a dozen rebels were injured. They were brought to hospitals in North Waziristan Agency, the reports said.

Those killed included militants from Pakistani Taliban groups led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur and Mullah Nazir.

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INTERNATIONAL TERROR NETWORK: Taliban, Hezbollah Agents Nabbed in Drugs, Arms Stings: Feds!

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 By RICHARD ESPOSITO, July 26, 2011.

Siavosh Henareh has been named as a defendant in a case that investigators say concretely links the Taliban and Hezbollah in a weapons for drugs scheme. (U.S. Department of Justice).

Four men involved in two drugs-for-weapons rings that allegedly intended to supply Stinger missiles, AK-47 automatic rifles and U.S. carbines to the Taliban and material support to Hezbollah were arrested following a pair of Drug Enforcement Administration sting operations, officials in New York said today.

At least two of those men, Lebanese national Bachar Wehbe and Afghani national Tazar Gul Alizai, are in the U.S. and slated to appear before a federal court in Manhattan, according to federal law enforcement sources.

Investigators said that Gul Aliza, an alleged Taliban member, was busted selling assault rifles and large amounts of heroin to an undercover DEA agent in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, Bachar Wehbe, a Lebanese alleged member of Hezbollah, and two other suspected Hezbollah associates were also busted by federal DEA agents posing as high grade weapons dealers. These three were planning to use money from the heroin sales to buy Stinger surface-to-air missiles, AK-47 rifles and M-4 rifles, investigators said. Wehbe's alleged confederates, Siavosh Henareh and Cetin Aksu, are in custody in Romania and awaiting extradition to the U.S.

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PAK CAULDRON: Taliban execute Pakistani policemen on video!!

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Associated Press, NDTV / Updated: July 18, 2011 14:15 IST.

Islamabad:  Pakistan's army says the Taliban has released a video showing fighters executing 16 Pakistani policemen captured in a raid in the northwest.

The video shows the policemen lined up on a hillside, their hands tied behind their backs, standing in front of armed Taliban fighters wearing scarves to hide their faces.

One of the fighters accused the men of executing six children. The fighters opened fire on the policemen and then systematically fired a shot in the head.

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BIBI AISHA: Is a Reminder of What We Owe Afghanistan, and What It Owes to Itself!

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Posted by Aryn Baker Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 2:02 p / blogs.time.com.
Aisha Bibi, left, in Los Angeles, October 8, 2010 and on the cover of TIME Magazine, August 9, 2010. (Photo: Left; Arun Nevader - Getty Images: Jodi Bieber for TIME).

The revelation that the only man ever arrested in connection to the brutal maiming of Afghan teen Bibi Aisha has been set free a mere six months after being taken into custody should not come as a surprise. Dismay and frustration, to be sure. But given the current state of justice in Afghanistan, not to mention official disregard for women's rights (or human rights, for that matter), it's a wonder anyone was picked up in the first place.

Aisha's father-in-law, Suleiman, was accused of participating in the horrific act that saw Aisha's husband and brother-in-law cut off her nose and ears in retaliation for running away from her abusive in-laws.  After initially confessing his role to the local police, he has now recanted, according to the Uruzgan Provincial Attorney Ghulam Farouq, as reported Monday in theNew York Times. Farouq gave two reasons for the release, one that Suleiman did not cut off her nose himself (he just held her down, by her account) and that there was no one in Afghanistan to press the case, since Aisha is now in the United States awaiting reconstructive surgery.

Neither of these reasons bear any weight—Afghanistan is, after all, a signatory to international judicial conventions, and according to Esther Hyneman, New York based head of Women for Afghan Women, the NGO that is currently taking care of Aisha as she awaits surgery, Aisha could have easily have provided testimony in a deposition from New York.

More than anything it is an indication of the parlous state of the Afghan justice system. "It's a pattern,” Manizha Naderi, the Kabul-based director of Women for Afghan Women told my colleague in Kabul.  “Corruption is rife. Anyone can bribe their way out of prison. It happens very often and it sends a bad message, not just for women's rights but for the whole justice system."

For Hyneman, Suleiman's release symbolizes a “setback for women's rights in Afghanistan. Although we are making a lot of progress at the grassroots level—women are winning cases in courts, they come to shelters on their own steam, they know they can say no to abuse—these gains are fragile. And the government has proved again and again that women's rights are expendable when it comes to bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table.”

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WAR-ON-TERROR: Pak troops advance on Taliban strongholds in tribal region!

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July 4, 2011 / PTI,  Islamabad / DC.

Pakistani soldiers stand guard on the first day of the three-day 'Genesis and Causes of Radicalization in Pakistan' seminar in Saidu Sharif town in Swat valley – AFP.

Thousands of Pakistani troops, backed by helicopter gunships and fighter jets, advanced on Taliban strongholds in Kurram tribal region and consolidated their positions on Monday even as hundreds of families fled the conflict zone.

Pakistani soldiers and paramilitary troops were attacking militant hideouts in Kurram Agency to eliminate and expel the rebels, the local media quoted military sources as saying.

"Taliban militants did not show any resistance," an unnamed military officer said.

The security forces advanced in mountainous areas, including Mushat, Masozai and Ali Sherzaoi, all former strongholds of the Pakistani Taliban. The troops consolidated their positions and established check posts atop mountains overlooking key roads to monitor the movement of militants.

Most of the militants had already fled their hideouts ahead of the operation, reports said. The government had notified 80 sq km in Kurram Agency as a conflict zone a fortnight ago.

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Pak Cauldron: Four soldiers, 25 Taliban killed in Pak military operation!

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Four soldiers and 25 Taliban fighters were on Sunday killed in clashes in the restive Mohmand tribal region, where the Pakistani security forces carried out a ground and air offensive to capture a mountain occupied by the rebels.

The Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps and the Pakistan Air Force launched a joint operation on Saturday to evict terrorists from their stronghold of Walidad in Mohmand Agency, the military said.

After intense fighting, the troops secured Walidad Top, a strategic mountain, and surrounding areas after killing 25 terrorists.

Four soldiers were killed and eight more injured in the clashes, the military said.

The remaining militants in the area “fled across the border”, the military said.

Once, USA quits Afghanistan in favour of Taliban, the situation could be even worse!

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Pak Cauldron: Eight soldiers, 10 Taliban dead in Pakistan raid: officials!

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• June 9, 2011 
• AFP 
• Peshawar / Deccan Chronicle.

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• Pakistani tribesmen walk toward vehicles transporting them to their homes in South Waziristan - AFP.

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• Eight soldiers and at least 10 Taliban were killed after the militants attacked a Pakistani security checkpost in the lawless tribal belt before dawn on Thursday, local security officials said.
  More than 100 Taliban armed with rocket launchers and other sophisticated weapons raided the post in South Waziristan, along the Afghan border, triggering a firefight, which lasted for more than three hours.
  "Eight soldiers were killed and 10 were wounded in the attack. More than 10 Taliban were also killed in the retaliatory firing," a security official in Peshawar, the main town in northwest Pakistan, told the media.
  More than 4,400 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and other Islamist extremist networks based in the tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
  When will this mindless mayhem ends?

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Pak Cauldron: Pakistan Taliban claims cross-border raid, adopts new strategy!

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By Sahibzada Bahauddin / KHAR, Pakistan | Fri Jun 3, 2011 8:23am EDT.

(Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Friday for a cross-border attack on a security checkpost that appeared to signal that the group was adopting a new strategy of carrying out large-scale attacks on government and army targets.

In the pre-dawn raid on Wednesday in Dir region, up to 400 militants crossed over from Afghanistan in the raid which triggered more than 24 hours of clashes, the government said.

Twenty-seven Pakistani forces were killed and 45 militants died in the clashes in the northwest, security officials said. There were contradictory accounts of casualties and how many militants took part.

"Up to 40 to 50 of our fighters took part in the operation," Ehsanullah Ashen, spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Taliban Movement of Pakistan), told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location. "None of our fighters were killed."

Pak Security Planners are not showing true leadership and the rank and file are facing the brunt!

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Pak Cauldron: 25 Pak security personnel killed in Taliban attack!

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PTI / The Hindu / Islamabad / June 02, 2011.

At least 25 security personnel were killed in fierce skirmishes that erupted after hundreds of Taliban fighters from Afghanistan crossed into north-west Pakistan and attacked a remote security check post, officials said on Thursday.

The heavily armed militants attacked the check post at Shalotal in Upper Dir district of Khyber—Pakhtunkhwa province early yesterday and gun battles between the militants and troops continued for over 24 hours.

Officials said 25 security personnel had died so far and efforts were underway to evacuate the bodies.

It seems these terrorists are more in numbers, more motivated and superiorly equipped!  Pak doesn't have advance intelligence on this invasion from across the border.

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Pak Cauldron: Taliban wants take over Pakistan along with its Nuclear weapons!

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• May 28, 2011 
• PTI 
• Washington

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The Taliban has said they have no plans to attack Pakistan's nuclear arsenal as it is the only Muslim state to possess such weapons, amid global concerns over the possibility of atomic weapons falling into the hands of terrorists.

Taliban has stepped-up a violent campaign in Pakistan to avenge Osama bin Laden's killing and has renewed fears that the country's warheads could be vulnerable.

Declaring that ‘Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear power state,’ Taliban Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said that his group had no intention of changing the fact, ‘The Wall Street Journal’ reported. The Taliban, after all, aim to take over Pakistan and its weapons, the paper said.

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5 minutes to nuclear Jihad?

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• May 29, 2011 
• By Bharat Karnad

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• "Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear power state.  Isn't it a shame for us to have the Islamic bomb, and even then we are bowing down to the pressures of America?" - Ehsanullah Ehsan, Taliban Spokesman.

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• It is a wonder that in 26/11, the jihadis after successfully breaching three layers of Indian maritime defence, inactive in all but name - the outer zone manned by the Indian Navy, the coastal zone patrolled by the Coast Guard, and the inner-most defensive line policed by Harbour patrols — merely shot up a couple of hotels when they could have done something really spectacular — a “Pearl Harbour” by sinking a good part of the Western Fleet anchored at the time in the Mumbai naval base, only a few hundred meters from where they landed.
  That the raiding team did not have expert frogmen capable of attaching limpet mines to warships below the waterline to sink them; and, instead, the AK-47-toting yahoos (like Ajmal Kasab) were given license to raise hell on Mumbai streets and in hotels, suggested that while the Pakistan Army was quite happy to show off its ISI-managed terrorist-operational prowess and, its flipside, India's vulnerability, it was simply not prepared to risk instigating action — such as the destruction of the Indian naval strike fleet that was well within its capacity to prosecute — that would have triggered total war, ending in Pakistan's extinction. In other words, for all its risk-taking propensity, Pakistan Army understands that it cannot afford to provide India provocation so outré as to push Delhi into a justifiable ratcheting up of violence to the strategic level.
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