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All Jihadi (holy war) groups, in consultation with Islamic Emirate Afghanistan (shadow Taliban Government in Afghanistan), have decided to set up a committee to set aside differences in their ranks and step up support for war against western forces i
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All Jihadi (holy war) groups, in consultation with Islamic Emirate Afghanistan (shadow Taliban Government in Afghanistan), have decided to set up a committee to set aside differences in their ranks and step up support for war against western forces in Afghanistan, reports Dawn. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Taliban Shura held at an unspecified place on January 2. A statement issued in the form of a pamphlet to the media in Waziristan after the meeting said that “All Mujahideen —local and foreigners —are informed that all jihadi forces, in consultation with Islamic Emirate Afghanistan, have unanimously decided to form a five-member commission. It will be known as Shura-i-Murakbah.” The committee comprises Maulvi Azmatullah, Maulvi Noor Saeed, Maulvi Saeedullah, Maulvi Sadar Hayat and Hafeez Amir Hamza. According to sources, Azmatullah (Taliban commander in Barwan) represents the Waliur Rehman group, Noor Saeed (Taliban commander in Barwan) the Hakeemullah Mehsud group, Saeedullah (from Afghanistan) the Haqqani group, Sadar Hayat (from North Waziristan) the Maulvi Gul Bahadar group and Amir Hamza (from Ahmedzai Wazir tribe) the Mulla Nazir group in Wana subdivision of South Waziristan. Spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Ehsanullah Ehsan confirmed that the meeting had been held and the statement dated December 31 was issued after approval by Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Omar. The sources said the committee had been formed to resolve differences among various militant factions regroup them and investigate killings on spying charges and excesses, if any, committed by the Taliban against local people. “All Mujahideen, local and foreigners, are informed that they should desist from killing and kidnapping for ransom innocent people and cooperate with this committee in curbing crimes. If any Mujahid is found involved in unjustified killings, crimes and other illegal activities he will be answerable to Shura-i-Murakbah and will be punished in accordance with the Shariah law,” the statement says. The sources said the high command of TTP and Afghan Taliban had been trying for two months to reach an agreement on uniting different factions. The first meeting in this regard was held on November 27 in Azam Warsak near Wana in South Waziristan Agency. It was attended by Waliur Rehman Mehsud, Hakeemullah Mehsud, Mulla Nazir, Abu Yehya Al Libi and Abdur Rehman al Saudi of al Qaeda and Sirajuddin Haqqani of the Haqqani network. The second meeting was held on December 11 in Dattakhel area of North Waziristan Agency. It was attended by Sabiullah Mujahid, Maulvi Sangeen and Maulvi Ashfaq from Afghanistan, Yehya al Libi and Abdur Rehman al Saudi of al Qaeda, Hafiz Gul Bahadar and Maulvi Sadiq Noor from North Waziristan and Hakeemullah Mehsud, Waliur Rehman and Mulla Nazir from South Waziristan. Talking to Dawn on phone from an unspecified place, TTP spokesman Ehsanullah said the Mujahideen groups had reposed their confidence in the leadership of Mullah Muhammad Omar and recognised him as the leader of Afghanistan. He said the TTP would send its fighters to Afghanistan after March for waging jihad against “US-led infidel forces”.
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January - 3 
Al Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani militants have held a series of meetings aimed at containing what could soon be open warfare between the two most powerful Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders, reports Dawn. Hakimullah Mehsud, the head
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Al Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani militants have held a series of meetings aimed at containing what could soon be open warfare between the two most powerful Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders, reports Dawn. Hakimullah Mehsud, the head of the TTP and his deputy, Wali-ur-Rehman, were at each other’s throats, the sources said. “You will soon hear that one of them has eliminated the other, though hectic efforts are going on by other commanders and common friends to resolve differences between the two,” one TTP commander under the condition of anonymity said. Any division within the TTP could hinder the Afghan Taliban and al Qaeda’s struggle in Afghanistan against the United States and its allies, making it more difficult to recruit young fighters and disrupting the alleged safe havens in Pakistan. Taliban sources said Wali-ur-Rehman had ordered his fighters to eliminate Hakimullah Mehsud because of his increasing closeness to al Qaeda and its Arab contingent. Wali-ur-Rehman also alleged that the TTP chief received money from India to kill a former Pakistan spy agency official acting as a mediator between the TTP, Afghan militants and the Pakistani Government.
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January - 4 
Afghan Taliban's Commander Mullah Mohammad Omar put pressure on militant groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan to form a new grouping which pledged to stop targeting Pakistani Security Forces (SFs) and instead focus attention on United States (US)-led t
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Afghan Taliban's Commander Mullah Mohammad Omar put pressure on militant groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan to form a new grouping which pledged to stop targeting Pakistani Security Forces (SFs) and instead focus attention on United States (US)-led troops in Afghanistan, reported Indian Express. It is reported that the Afghan Taliban and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) formed a joint five-member ‘shura’ or council, named Shura-e-Muraqba, with other Pakistani militant outfits. The new ‘shura’ includes the Haqqani Network and powerful commanders of the groups led by Maulvi Nazir and Hafiz Gul Bahadur who have already signed a peace deal with the Pakistan Army. The new entrants into the shura are the factions of TTP led by Hakimullah Mehsud and Maulana Wali-ur Rahman. The five-member ‘shura’ with other Pakistani militant outfits made a pledge to “stop their fight against their own armed forces and instead focus their attention against the US-led forces in Afghanistan”, The News reported. The council was created after weeks of hectic efforts. A high-level delegation of the Afghan Taliban, sent by Omar, “succeeded in bringing together different Pakistani militant groups on a single platform”, the report added. Prominent al Qaeda members also asked the Pakistani Taliban, in a pair of rare meetings, held on the request of the Afghan Taliban, to set aside their differences and step up support for the battle against US-led forces in Afghanistan, militant commanders said Monday. The meetings were held in Pakistan’s tribal region in November and December. “For God’s sake, forget all your differences and give us fighters to boost the battle against US in Afghanistan,” senior al Qaeda commander Abu Yahya al-Libi told Pakistani militants at a meeting on December 11, 2011.
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January - 8 
A nearly two-month lull in American drone strikes in Pakistan since November 17, has helped embolden al Qaeda and several Pakistani militant factions to regroup, increase attacks on Pakistani Security Forces and threaten intensified strikes against a
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A nearly two-month lull in American drone strikes in Pakistan since November 17, has helped embolden al Qaeda and several Pakistani militant factions to regroup, increase attacks on Pakistani Security Forces and threaten intensified strikes against allied forces in Afghanistan, the New York Times reported on January 8 citing US and Pakistani officials. The insurgents are increasingly taking advantage of tensions raised by an American air strike in November 26 that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in two border outposts in Mohamad Agency, plunging relations between the two countries to new depths. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), hoping to avoid making matters worse while Pakistan completes a wide-ranging review of its security relationship with the United States, has not conducted a drone strike since mid-November, the newspaper said. Over all, drone strikes in Pakistan dropped to 64 last year, compared with 117 in 2010, according to The Long War Journal, a website that monitors the attacks.
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January - 8 
American intelligence agency CIA has failed to eliminate more than four al Qaeda leaders in its highly costly and controversial ‘assassination by drones’ campaign inside Pakistan during 2011, revealed an annual report compiled by Conflict Monitoring
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American intelligence agency CIA has failed to eliminate more than four al Qaeda leaders in its highly costly and controversial ‘assassination by drones’ campaign inside Pakistan during 2011, revealed an annual report compiled by Conflict Monitoring Centre (CMC) on drone attacks, reports Daily Times. CMC, an independent research centre, which regularly monitors drone attacks in Pakistan, has prepared an annual report (2011) on drone attacks inside Pakistani territory. The report notes 43 percent decline in drone attacks during 2011 than 2010. CIA had conducted 132 drone attacks in 2010. The number of fatalities in drone attacks has also dropped by 35 percent. US had carried out 75 drone attacks inside Pakistan during the year 2011 killing 609 people. Among them only three were Arab commanders of al Qaeda; one was UK’s most wanted and just four were senior commanders of different factions of Pakistani militants, the report said, adding that the rest were innocents. American drones fired 242 AGM-114 Hellfire missiles during the year and destroyed 38 houses, 37 vehicles, one camp and a seminary. One such missile costs for $68000 which means the CIA spent $16.456 million or Rs 1.5 billion to kill 609 people. In average, ammunition cost of every single casualty was $27000 or Rs 2.4 million. If other expenses are included the overall cost of killing one suspected militant will further rise. It may become point of concern for American taxpayer that such a huge amount of money was spent just to eliminate four al Qaeda leaders and four Taliban commanders. The report said drone strikes also strained US-Pak relations.
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January - 9 
According to the confessional statement of a naval officer, Mohammad Israrul Haq, who was sentenced to 15-year imprisonment on May 6, 2010, for planning a series of attacks on important naval installations, the National Defence University (NDU), and
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According to the confessional statement of a naval officer, Mohammad Israrul Haq, who was sentenced to 15-year imprisonment on May 6, 2010, for planning a series of attacks on important naval installations, the National Defence University (NDU), and for taking hostages, the al Qaeda was planning to hold hostage senior officers at the NDU and use them to negotiate the release of detained militants, besides attacking the Naval Headquarters and targeting other important buildings of the navy, reported Dawn on January 9 (today). In his statement, the accused admitted to meeting al Qaeda members in Makeen area of South Waziristan Agency and Angoor Adda, the border area of South Waziristan Agency and Afghanistan’s Paktika province, where they discussed the locations of important naval installations. He also said that Zafar Iqbal, a son of another former naval officer had introduced him to Azmy, a local al Qaeda leader who was living in Makeen. Azmy planned a series of attacks on naval offices but after he died in a drone attack, Sheikh Ahmed replaced him. The location for the meetings then shifted from Makeen to near Angoor Adda in Afghanistan.
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January - 9 
The Express Tribune reported in January 9 that the al Qaeda continues to preach jihad (holy war) in Pakistan through an Urdu monthly magazine, Hiteen. The 200-page magazine, Hiteen, is delivered by post to not only the Deobandis but also to Ahl-e-Had
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The Express Tribune reported in January 9 that the al Qaeda continues to preach jihad (holy war) in Pakistan through an Urdu monthly magazine, Hiteen. The 200-page magazine, Hiteen, is delivered by post to not only the Deobandis but also to Ahl-e-Hadith and Barelvis to convert them to al Qaeda’s point of view. Hiteen, the battlefield where Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi defeated the Crusaders, was started in June 2011, a month after Osama Bin Laden’s killing. The magazine has stories which preach jihad and praise Bin Laden. The seventh edition which was sent out last month opens with an essay, Matyrdom of Sheikh Osama bin Laden and the International Jihad Movement. The magazine has the ‘sayings’ of Mullah Omar and some al Qaeda leaders. There is also an interview with Sheikh Khalid Bin Abdul Rehman Al Husnain, who was once part of Kuwait’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs, but has now joined al Qaeda. There is a fatwa by Muhammad Waliullah Hussain of the Jama’at-ul-Uloom-ul Islami, which declares that there is no bar on Muslims looting goods from NATO containers. Hiteen does not carry the name of the editor, the only way to send feedback is through two email addresses. An editorial in the magazine says that it is not true that the mission of the ‘mujahedeen’, (holy warrior) has been damaged with Bin Laden’s death. The mujahedeen are still fighting with their full strength. It advises readers not to pay attention to the ‘false reports about mujahedeen from the hypocritical media’ and to continue the struggle. The fight, it says, will continue till the United States (US) is removed from Muslim countries and an Islamic Caliphate is established. An anonymous essay speaks of the need for another Bin Laden who would fight non-Muslims and defend the Muslims. The magazine thanks the many wings of al Qaeda all over the world. A Police Officer of the Counter Terrorism Department, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that they had knowledge of the magazine and that copies of it were in their record and would soon discover who was responsible for publishing and circulating it.
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January - 10 
Abdullah Khorasani, a militant who acted as a senior operations organiser for al Qaeda was targeted and killed in one of the two United States (US) drone strikes launched on January 10 on a compound near the town of Miranshah in the North Waziristan
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Abdullah Khorasani, a militant who acted as a senior operations organiser for al Qaeda was targeted and killed in one of the two United States (US) drone strikes launched on January 10 on a compound near the town of Miranshah in the North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Dawn quoting an unnamed US official reported. US and Pakistani sources told Reuters that the target of the attack was Aslam Awan, a Pakistani national from Abbottabad, the same town where Osama bin Laden was killed last May 1-2, 2011. The sources described Awan, who also was known by the nom-de-guerre Abdullah Khorasani, as a significant figure in the remaining core leadership of al Qaeda. However, Pakistani officials could not confirm that Awan was killed in the drone attack, but the US official said he was.
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January - 10 
The death of a senior al Qaeda leader in a US drone strike in the out skirts of Miranshah in the North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on January 10, the first strike in almost two months, signalled that the US-Pakista
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The death of a senior al Qaeda leader in a US drone strike in the out skirts of Miranshah in the North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on January 10, the first strike in almost two months, signalled that the US-Pakistan intelligence partnership is still in operation despite political tensions, reports Dawn. The January 10 strike — and its follow-up two days later — were joint operations, a Pakistani security source based in the tribal areas said. They made use of Pakistani “spotters” on the ground and demonstrated a level of coordination that both sides have sought to downplay since tensions first erupted in January 2011 with the killing of two Pakistanis by a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Raymond Davis in Lahore. “Our working relationship is a bit different from our political relationship,” the source said. “It’s more productive.”
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January - 12 
the Commission blamed various ‘belligerents’ involved in the war on terror for his murder. But it didn’t single out any person or organisation, which could have killed him, leaving the room open for further probe, adds Dawn. In its set of recommendat
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the Commission blamed various ‘belligerents’ involved in the war on terror for his murder. But it didn’t single out any person or organisation, which could have killed him, leaving the room open for further probe, adds Dawn. In its set of recommendations, the most important was to rein in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) and make them accountable within their organisations and to the parliamentary committees concerned. The commission said that the ISI and IB be made more law-abiding through a legislation, carefully outlining their respective mandates and role; that their interaction with the media be carefully streamlined institutionally and regularly documented. According to the summary of the commission, “Salim’s writings probably did, and certainly could have drawn the ire of various belligerents in the war on terror which included the Pakistani state and non-state actors such as the Taliban and al Qaeda and foreign actors. “Any of these could have had the motive to commit the crime, as clearly, he was also in close contact with all of these,” said the report.
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January - 13 
CID team raided a place along the National Highway near Abbot Factory and arrested two alleged TTP militants namely Azeem Ahmad Sheikh alias Anees and Zubair Alam alias Munna, reports Daily Times. The raid was conducted on a tip-off and CID also clai
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CID team raided a place along the National Highway near Abbot Factory and arrested two alleged TTP militants namely Azeem Ahmad Sheikh alias Anees and Zubair Alam alias Munna, reports Daily Times. The raid was conducted on a tip-off and CID also claimed to have recovered five rockets, two triple-2 rifles and several rounds from their possession. SSP Mashwani said that the accused, Sheikh, hailed from Hyderabad District of Sindh. He joined al Qaeda on the directives of Tahir alias Saeen and Talat alias Hyderabadwala in 2009 and was an expert in making a remote controlled bomb.
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January - 19 
Peace talks between Government and al Qaeda-linked Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants have made little progress, a Senior Security Official told Reuters on January 19, reports Daily Times. The official said the group, seen as the biggest secu
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Peace talks between Government and al Qaeda-linked Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants have made little progress, a Senior Security Official told Reuters on January 19, reports Daily Times. The official said the group, seen as the biggest security threat to the strategic United States (US) ally, had flatly rejected a demand that it works through tribal elders to reach a deal whereby fighters approach authorities and lay down their arms. “They felt it would be humiliating,” the official said.
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January - 23 
Pakistan’s fledgling democratic Government, under increasing pressure from the military, appeased extremist groups, ignored army abuses, and failed to hold those responsible for serious abuses accountable in 2011, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its
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Pakistan’s fledgling democratic Government, under increasing pressure from the military, appeased extremist groups, ignored army abuses, and failed to hold those responsible for serious abuses accountable in 2011, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its World Report 2012, on January 23, reports Daily Times. Targeted killings and other attacks on civilians by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and sectarian and ethnic militant groups, as well as killings of journalists, were commonplace during the year, it said. The Rights group said security deteriorated dramatically throughout the country as the result of suicide bombings by the TTP and affiliated groups, which targeted civilians and public spaces, including marketplaces and religious processions. There was a dramatic increase in targeted killings in Balochistan, while 800 people were killed in often politically motivated violence in Karachi, the report added. Relations between Pakistan and the United States (US) deteriorated markedly in 2011. Factors fuelling the diplomatic crisis included the killing of two men by a Central Investigation Agency (CIA) contractor at a Lahore traffic junction; the withholding of USD 800 million in military aid to Pakistan; Pakistan’s alleged support for militants from the “Haqqani Network”; the alleged harbouring by Pakistan of Osama bin Laden and his killing by the US; and the November 26, 2011 Mohmand Agency strike by NATO that killed 24 Pakistani troops. The US carried out about 75 aerial drone strikes during 2011 on suspected al Qaeda and TTP members. These strikes resulted in claims of large numbers of civilian casualties, but lack of access to the conflict areas has prevented independent verification.
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January - 25 
The United States (US) has termed as "untrue" sentiments inside Pakistan that it was being sidelined by the Barrack Obama Administration in peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, reports Indian Express. "Absolutely untrue", State Department spokesperso
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The United States (US) has termed as "untrue" sentiments inside Pakistan that it was being sidelined by the Barrack Obama Administration in peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, reports Indian Express. "Absolutely untrue", State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said, when asked there was a feeling inside Pakistan that they are being sidelined in these talks with Afghan Taliban. "We have at every opportunity been clear that we think that Pakistan has a very important role to play in supporting this reconciliation process. The Secretary (Hillary Clinton) talked about it quite extensively when she was there," she said. Despite the killings of Osama bin Laden and radical US-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, al Qaeda remains a “real threat to the United States” US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said in a TV interview late on January 25. CBS News released excerpts of an interview with Panetta scheduled to run on January 29, in which Pentagon discusses US strategy to disband al Qaeda’s global networks. “We’re going after al Qaeda, wherever they’re at,” Panetta told CBS in the interview excerpt. “And clearly, we’re confronting al Qaeda in Pakistan. We’re confronting the nodes of al Qaeda in Yemen, in Somalia, in North Africa. ... And obviously whatever al Qaeda links are involved in Afghanistan,” he said.
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January - 28 
United States (US) Defence Secretary Leon Panetta on January 28 acknowledged publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the US in advance of the Navy SEAL’s assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad on M
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United States (US) Defence Secretary Leon Panetta on January 28 acknowledged publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the US in advance of the Navy SEAL’s assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad on May 1, 2011, reported Daily Times. Panetta acknowledged that Dr Shakeel Afridi had in fact been working for the US intelligence, collecting DNA to verify the 9/11 mastermind’s presence. The doctor has now been arrested and charged with treason by the Pakistani Government, he said.
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January - 30 
An Oslo court on January 30 sentenced two suspects to prison for planning to bomb the Danish Newspaper that published drawings of the Prophet Mohammed in Norway’s first-ever guilty verdict for “plotting to commit a terrorist act,” reported Express Tr
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An Oslo court on January 30 sentenced two suspects to prison for planning to bomb the Danish Newspaper that published drawings of the Prophet Mohammed in Norway’s first-ever guilty verdict for “plotting to commit a terrorist act,” reported Express Tribune. According to Norway’s Intelligence Service, Police Security Service (PST), Davud, a short, bearded man received training in making and using explosives from al Qaeda members and sympathizers in Pakistan’s region of Waziristan between November 2008 and July 2010. Norwegian national Mikael Davud (40), a member of China’s Uighur minority considered the mastermind behind the plot against the Jyllands-Posten Daily, was sentenced to seven years behind bars. Meanwhile, Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd residing in Norway received a three-and-a-half-year prison term. According to the prosecution, the two men had in liaison with al Qaeda planned to use explosives against the offices of the Danish Newspaper and to murder Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist behind the most controversial of the 12 drawings of the Prophet published in September 2005. “There is no doubt that it was Davud who took the initiative in the preparations for a terrorist act and that he was the central character,” the three judges said in their ruling. “The court also believes that it was he himself who would have carried out the terrorist attack since he has explained that he planned to lay out the explosives himself,” they added.
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January - 30 
United States (US) President Barack Obama on January 30 officially acknowledged and confirmed that the US drone aircraft have struck Taliban and al Qaeda targets within Pakistan, reported Dawn. When asked about the use of drones by his administration
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United States (US) President Barack Obama on January 30 officially acknowledged and confirmed that the US drone aircraft have struck Taliban and al Qaeda targets within Pakistan, reported Dawn. When asked about the use of drones by his administration in a chat with web users on Google+ and YouTube, Obama said, “A lot of these strikes have been in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). For the most part, they’ve been very precise precision strikes against al Qaeda and their affiliates, and we’re very careful in terms of how it’s been applied.” “This is a targeted focused effort at people who are on a list of active terrorists, who are trying to go in and harm Americans, hit American facilities, American bases, and so on,” he added. Explaining that many strikes were carried out “on Al-Qaeda operatives in places where the capacities of that military in that country may not be able to get them,” Obama confirmed that Pakistan’s lawless tribal zone was a target. “So, obviously, a lot of these strikes have been in the FATA, and going after Al Qaeda suspects who are up in very tough terrain along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he said, adding, “For us to be able to get them in another way would involve probably a lot more intrusive military action than the ones we’re already engaging in.”
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