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July - 2 
America’s top military official said on July 2 that he has all the authority he needed for targeting senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to Dawn. "I’m comfortable, as the military leader, that I have all the auth
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America’s top military official said on July 2 that he has all the authority he needed for targeting senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to Dawn. "I’m comfortable, as the military leader, that I have all the authorities I need," said Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, when asked if he had the authority to target key terrorist leaders hiding in the FATA.
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July - 2 
Earlier on the same day, The Washington Times reported that the United States has an agreement with President Pervez Musharraf to launch direct attacks targeting elusive al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistani territory without prior permission
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Earlier on the same day, The Washington Times reported that the United States has an agreement with President Pervez Musharraf to launch direct attacks targeting elusive al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistani territory without prior permission from Islamabad. CIA-operated Predator drones may strike Laden’s hideout without taking permission beforehand from Islamabad if the US locates him in the tribal areas, the newspaper reported quoting a source "close to the arrangement." President Musharraf reportedly granted the right to launch attacks to the US when Pakistan joined the war against terrorism in 2001.
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July - 4 
United States (US) Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said al Qaeda is regrouping in the border areas of Pakistan, according to Daily Times. Talking to BBC on July 4, Chertoff said he feared al Qaeda and other militant organisations cou
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United States (US) Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said al Qaeda is regrouping in the border areas of Pakistan, according to Daily Times. Talking to BBC on July 4, Chertoff said he feared al Qaeda and other militant organisations could resume their activities after turning the Pakistani Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan into their centre. He said Pakistan was so far not a safe haven for al Qaeda as was Afghanistan at one time, but neither the US nor Pakistan should remain indifferent to the problem. "Our biggest apprehension is that Al Qaeda and the likes have the ability to secure such safe havens where not only can they train the recruits but also establish research centres and then use these areas in the attacks against the West," he said. He said the reorganisation of al Qaeda and the similar groups in Pakistan was not only a source of apprehension for the US but also for its European allies, adding that Pakistani authorities must also be concerned.
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July - 9 
United States commandos are prepared to stage raids into Pakistan’s Tribal Areas to stem mounting Taliban attacks against US troops in Afghanistan and to disrupt resurgent al Qaeda operatives’ efforts to map strikes against the US, a report published
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United States commandos are prepared to stage raids into Pakistan’s Tribal Areas to stem mounting Taliban attacks against US troops in Afghanistan and to disrupt resurgent al Qaeda operatives’ efforts to map strikes against the US, a report published in The Houston Chronicle said on July 9, according to Daily Times. Congressmen Gene Green, Michael McCaul and Henry Cuellar, who recently visited Pakistan, told Chronicle in separate interviews that the plans for stepped-up US military operations were a response to Pakistan’s failure to disrupt terrorist training camps and cross-border attacks from the FATA. The Bush administration is recalibrating US operations in the region because of a 40 percent increase in violent attacks against US-led forces in Afghanistan, that have pushed US casualties for the month of June beyond the monthly toll in Iraq, the lawmakers said.
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July - 10 
More foreign fighters, including al Qaeda militants, are operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas than in the past, the top US military officer said during a visit to Kabul on July 10, according to The News. Adm Mike Mullen said militants are flowing int
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More foreign fighters, including al Qaeda militants, are operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas than in the past, the top US military officer said during a visit to Kabul on July 10, according to The News. Adm Mike Mullen said militants are flowing into Afghanistan more freely this year compared with 2007 because Pakistan’s Government and military are not putting enough pressure on the insurgents. “There’s a clear problem on the border,” Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. “There’s clearly not enough pressure being brought to bear, particularly on the Pakistan side of the border. There’s more freedom there,” he said. “There are clearly more foreign fighters in the FATA (Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas) than have been there in the past,” he added.
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July - 10 
US intelligence officials said there has been an increase in foreign fighters traveling to Pakistan to join up with al Qaeda-linked militants in the country’s tribal areas, the New York Times reported on July 10. US intelligence and military sources
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US intelligence officials said there has been an increase in foreign fighters traveling to Pakistan to join up with al Qaeda-linked militants in the country’s tribal areas, the New York Times reported on July 10. US intelligence and military sources told the newspaper that dozens or more Uzbeks, North Africans and Arabs from Gulf states have moved into Pakistan in recent months, shoring up the al Qaeda forces which are backing the Taliban in Afghanistan. A US military spokesman in Baghdad told the New York Times that there has been a corresponding drop in the number of foreign fighters entering Iraq, now less than 40 a month compared to up to 110 a month one year ago. “The flow may reflect a change that is making Pakistan, not Iraq, the preferred destination for some Sunni extremists from the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia who are seeking to take up arms against the West,” the newspaper wrote, citing the officials. General David McKiernan, the new NATO commander in Afghanistan, said the situation in Pakistan’s northwestern border areas, where al Qaeda and other militants are allegedly based, has worsened. “The porous border has allowed militant groups a greater freedom of movement across that border, as well as a greater freedom to resupply, to allow leadership to sustain stronger sanctuaries, and to provide fighters across that border,” McKiernan told the New York Times.
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July - 14 
Security agencies arrested a top al Qaeda operative late on July 14 along with his two accomplices in Punjab’s southern city of Multan, Daily Times reported. Tanzanian national Muhammad Al Misri, Anwar Muawiya and Muhammad Shahid were arrested from a
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Security agencies arrested a top al Qaeda operative late on July 14 along with his two accomplices in Punjab’s southern city of Multan, Daily Times reported. Tanzanian national Muhammad Al Misri, Anwar Muawiya and Muhammad Shahid were arrested from a shutdown ‘Neel Wali Factory’ located on the Abdali Road. Unnamed officials said that Al Misri is closely linked with al Qaeda’s top hierarchy and is also suspected to be behind the series of suicide attacks in Pakistan following the crackdown on the Lal Masjid (Red mosque). Anwar, a resident of Abbotabad, belongs to the banned Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), the sources said, adding Shahid, another LeJ activist, is a local of Multan.
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July - 19 
Senior al Qaeda leaders might be diverting fighters from the war in Iraq to the Afghan frontier area, the top American commander in Iraq told The Associated Press on July 19, according to Dawn. General David Petraeus said his information about a poss
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Senior al Qaeda leaders might be diverting fighters from the war in Iraq to the Afghan frontier area, the top American commander in Iraq told The Associated Press on July 19, according to Dawn. General David Petraeus said his information about a possible shift in al Qaeda resources away from Iraq was based on human intelligence. "There are unsubstantiated rumors and reflections that perhaps some foreign fighters originally intended for Iraq may have gone to the Fata," he said. The general also said al Qaeda might be reconsidering Iraq as its highest priority war front. "There is some intelligence that has picked this up," he said in an interview.
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July - 21 
Malak Shahjehan Khan, a prominent pro-government tribal leader and chief of the Mamond tribe, was killed and three other people were injured in an ambush near Shandi More, about one kilometer from Khar, headquarters of the Bajaur Agency in FATA, on J
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Malak Shahjehan Khan, a prominent pro-government tribal leader and chief of the Mamond tribe, was killed and three other people were injured in an ambush near Shandi More, about one kilometer from Khar, headquarters of the Bajaur Agency in FATA, on July 21, Dawn reported. Malak Shahjehan and tribal leader Malak Mohammad Ayaz were reportedly going to Peshawar to attend a meeting with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani. Malak Shahjehan escaped five attempts on his life over the past two years. He was against the presence of foreign militants in the Bajaur Agency and openly supported the political administration. He had also opposed the Government’s plan to abolish or amend the British-era Frontier Crime Regulation and extension of the political parties act to the tribal areas. He was the first tribal elder in the FATA who raised a Lashkar (tribal force) and took action against al Qaeda-backed tribal militants in Bajaur, according to The News.
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July - 21 
Mustafa Ahmad Abu Yazeed alias Sheikh Saeed, al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan and a close aide of Osama bin Laden, said on July 21 that a Saudi member of al Qaeda carried out the suicide attack on Danish embassy in Islamabad on June 2, Daily Times r
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Mustafa Ahmad Abu Yazeed alias Sheikh Saeed, al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan and a close aide of Osama bin Laden, said on July 21 that a Saudi member of al Qaeda carried out the suicide attack on Danish embassy in Islamabad on June 2, Daily Times reported. In an interview to Geo News, Saeed said there was no Muslim present at the Danish embassy at the time of the attack.
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July - 25 
Up to 40 commanders of al Qaeda were arrested during military operations in Hangu and Bara, while 17 security force personnel had been killed, Adviser to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik, said on July 25, Daily Times reported. He said
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Up to 40 commanders of al Qaeda were arrested during military operations in Hangu and Bara, while 17 security force personnel had been killed, Adviser to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik, said on July 25, Daily Times reported. He said that suicide attacks had come to "zero level" in the Punjab and Sindh provinces, adding that such attacks were down by 80 percent in the NWFP. The adviser said the operation in the Hangu district had been carried out successfully and desired objectives had been achieved with the minimum use of force. Rehman said the Government had employed the "three-Ds" (dialogue, development and deterrence) and "three-Ps" (prevent, protect and pursue) policy to contain terrorism in the country. He also said the Government would prefer negotiations to sort out problems in the FATA, but warned that stern action would be taken if the peace deals between the NWFP Government and the tribal militants failed.
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July - 26 
PM Gilani, who is on his first official visit to the United States, said that Pakistan is fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban in its own. “Extremism and terrorism are our own problems. This is our own fight. My priority is to maintain law and order in
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PM Gilani, who is on his first official visit to the United States, said that Pakistan is fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban in its own. “Extremism and terrorism are our own problems. This is our own fight. My priority is to maintain law and order in the country ... and that’s why it is in our own interest that extremism and terrorism is contained,” he said. Further, the President Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan is committed to fight the war on terror and it is in Pakistan’s interest to root out extremism, according to a Foreign Ministry press release issued on July 26.
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July - 28 
A missile apparently fired from a Predator drone killed at least six persons on July 28 in a compound in South Waziristan near the Afghan border, Dawn reported. An unnamed security official said the strike might have killed a senior al Qaeda trainer
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A missile apparently fired from a Predator drone killed at least six persons on July 28 in a compound in South Waziristan near the Afghan border, Dawn reported. An unnamed security official said the strike might have killed a senior al Qaeda trainer known for his expertise in explosives and chemicals. The official put the death toll at 12. "Our report suggests that the missile strike might have killed Abu Khabab Al Misri, an Egyptian. But it remains unconfirmed," the official said. A resident of Wana said two missiles struck a seminary and an adjoining compound in the Zyara Leetha area of Azam Warsak early in the morning, killing six people and wounding a woman and her two children. A local militant commander, Maulvi Nazir, said the strike killed left seven persons, including the head of a seminary and students. However, military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said "There is a problem at the local level. We have not received a detailed report. No one has been able to reach there and get details of the information. Therefore, I cannot really make a comment". The 55-year-old Midhat Mursi As-Sayid Umar alias Abu Khabab was earlier reported to have been killed in a US missile strike in the Damadola area of Bajaur Agency in the FATA in Jan 2006. However, later reports showed that he was not among those killed. He was a trainer at an al Qaeda facility in Darunta near Jalalabad in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. A graduate in science from an Egyptian university, Abu Khabab was considered to be an expert in conventional explosives and some western media reports said he headed a project named Al Zabadi, or ‘curdled milk’, for making chemical and biological weapons. The US had offered a $5 million reward on information leading to his capture.
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July - 30 
A senior Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official visited Pakistan earlier in July 2008 and confronted Pakistani officials with evidence of ties between the country’s intelligence service and militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Th
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A senior Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official visited Pakistan earlier in July 2008 and confronted Pakistani officials with evidence of ties between the country’s intelligence service and militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, The New York Times reported on July 30, according to Daily Times. Citing defence and intelligence sources, New York Times said that the trip by CIA Deputy Director Stephen Kappes demonstrated a harder line being taken against Pakistani ties to those responsible for the surge of violence in Afghanistan, including militant Jalauddin Haqqani. A US official said there was no evidence of official Pakistani support for Al Qaeda, but there was "genuine and longstanding concerns about Pakistan’s ties to the Haqqani network, which of course has ties to Al Qaeda." The CIA spokesperson Marie Harf, however, refused to comment on the New York Times report.
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