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PAKISTAN: Critical & Catastrophic Scenarios - International Terrorism Monitor: Paper No. 307 By B. Raman Pakistan has been in a state of unstable equilibrium due to the erratic decisions and actions of President Pervez Musharraf since March, 2007, and his inaction against pro-Al Qaeda jihadi terrorist elements in the tribal areas, which has led to the emergence of a de facto jihadi state in the South and North Waziristan areas of the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and in the Swat Valley of the Provincially-Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). 2. The Mehsud tribe, headed by Baitullah...

The Saudi Press Agency reported on June 18, 2002 the arrests of 11 Saudis, an Iraqi and a Sudanese. All were described as belonging to the Al Qaeda. The Sudanese was reported to have told the authorities he had fired a surface-to-air missile at a United States military plane taking off from a Saudi airbase. The agency said the arrested persons were targeting a number of vital installations and were planning to use explosives and surface-to-air missiles. In Washington DC, an unnamed US official identified the Sudanese man as Abu Huzifa, who was suspected as an Al Qaeda cell leader...