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PHOTO CAPTION: "A Uighur terrorist, thought to be Abdul Haq al Turkistani, from a videotape released by the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party in 2008." SNIPPET: "Abdul Haq al Turkistani, a member of al Qaeda's Shura Majlis and the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP), a terror group that seeks to establish an Islamic emirate in western China and Central Asia, was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan in February, US intelligence officials told The Long War Journal. Turkistani was killed in the Feb. 14, 2010, strike on a compound in the village of Zor Babar Aidak near...

MIRAMSHAH: A salvo of missiles fired by US drones killed 11 militants in Pakistan's tribal badlands on Tuesday, the 10th strike targeting the lawless Afghan border area in 11 days, officials said. The Pakistani officials said four missiles hit a militant compound in Bushnarai village in Shawal district of North Waziristan, where Al-Qaeda-linked and Taliban fighters have carved out strongholds beyond government control. A fresh surge in US missile strikes has killed more than 60 militants since September 3 in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt. “Eleven militants were killed in today's drone attack,” a senior Pakistani security official in the area...

MIRAMSHAH: A US missile strike Sunday killed six militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban said Tuesday they would continue to target Pakistani security forces with suicide attacks in revenge for the US drone strikes. “We are targeting Pakistani security forces because the government has allowed America to launch drone attacks on us,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP by telephone. The latest drone attack hit Newey Adda village in the Datta Khel area near Miramshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal district, they said. “A US drone fired...

MIRANSHAH: At least ten people were killed in twin drone attacks in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) capital Miranshah, Geo News reported Wednesday. According to sources, the US surveillance plane attacked on two houses with missiles in border area of North Waziristan’s Dargha Mandi at Ghulam Khan Road area, killing at least six people on the spot and injuring two others. Both the houses were completely destroyed in the attack. The deceased could not be identified as yet. The drone plane’s second attack was in Ambor Shaga on Dattakhel Road, where two missiles were fired at a vehicle, killing four people...

01 September 2010 "MOM, I'M IN JAIL." SNIPPET: "The administrator of the Ansar al-Mujahideen forum (Arabic), Faical Errai, has been arrested in Spain."

Note: Photos included. SNIPPET: "Boys as young as five can barely hold up the machine guns and pistols in their hands as they take aim at imaginary targets in the Pakistan desert. But this is no sick game, it is their first step along the way to becoming al-Qaeda terrorists as they are taught about military combat and how to launch suicide missions. At hidden camps terrorist chiefs also use toys to teach the boys how they can blow up buildings and mount roadside bomb attacks. One chilling image from a video filmed inside one camp shows children, barely old...

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – Missiles fired from a U.S. pilotless drone aircraft killed 13 militants and 7 civilians in Pakistan's North Waziristan on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. They said the missiles were fired at a militant hideout.

PESHAWAR: US missiles hit a compound in Pakistan's tribal belt Sunday, killing four militants in a second drone attack in as many days in the region seen as al-Qaeda headquarters. The missiles fired by a pilotless drone targeted the compound in Shaktoi area in South Waziristan, a Pakistani security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP. “The US drone fired two missiles into a militant compound in Shaktoi and we have reports that four militants have died,” he said. “One missile landed in the compound and another hit a vehicle soon after it entered the premises,” he said, adding...

WANA: At least four people were killed and five others injured in a drone attack by a US surveillance plane in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) area of Shaktoi Algad, Geo News reported Sunday. According to sources, the US spy planes fired at least four missiles on the hideouts of militants in Mehsud area of Shaktoi Algad, where four people were killed and another five injured. The tribes kick-started relief activities after the attack. The flights of drone planes are still afoot in the area.

ESHAWAR: A US drone fired four missiles into a compound reportedly used by terrorists in northwestern tribal belt on Saturday, killing at least 18 militants, security officials said. The missiles targeted the compound in Dwasarak village, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Wana, the main town in South Waziristan district, a senior Pakistani security official who wished to remain anonymous told media. "At least 18 militants have been killed in this attack," he said adding that two US drones fired four missiles. Two intelligence officials, one in Wana and one based in Peshawar, also confirmed the attack and the...

MIRANSHAH: US missiles destroyed a compound used by militants in Pakistan’s tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least 10 militants in the first such attack for two weeks, officials said. A US drone fired at least two missiles into the compound in the village of Sheerani Mada Khel in the district of North Waziristan, a Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked stronghold heavily targeted in a covert US drone war this year. “At least 10 militants were killed,” a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. “Most of the dead militants are said to be foreigners,” he added, but said that...

WANA: At least seven alleged militants have been killed in two US drone strikes in Karikot village in North Waziristan on Tuesday morning, Geo news reported. According to sources, two missiles were fired on a compound, resulting in killings of a total of seven alleged extremists whereas the compound was left completely shattered. Local residents have kicked off rescue efforts on their own following deadly missiles onslaught, sources said. The latest death toll will be ascertained following completion of rescue activities as the rubble is being cleared off the attack site. Meanwhile, drone’s flights are still underway over the area,...

MIR ALI: A suspected US missile strike killed 13 people Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region where several militant outfits are bent on attacking Western troops across the Afghan border, officials said. The missile, apparently fired from an unmanned drone, struck a house in Haider Khel village near North Waziristan's Mir Ali town, said two intelligence officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media on the record. Local government official Noor Mohammad said at least 13 people had been killed, while the intelligence officials said some foreigners were among the dead. Their...

Terror suspect Faisal Shahzad, who is accused of attempting to bomb New York’s Times Square, was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York on 10 terror-related counts, local media reported. Shahzad was originally charged with five counts but now he’s facing 10 terror-related counts, including a new weapons charge, WNBC-TV reported.

The US struck Taliban targets in two separate villages in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency late Thursday night and Friday. The US has carried out three airstrikes in Pakistan in the past 24 hours. Unmanned Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired missiles at Taliban safe houses in the villages of Bahadar Khel and Khaddi, killing 14 terrorists. Eleven were killed in the attack on Bahadar Khel and three more in the strike in Khaddi, according to a report published in Dawn. Three "foreigners," a term used by Pakistani officials to describe Arab or Central Asian al Qaeda fighters, were killed...

Al-Fajr Media Centre announced that top Al Qaeda operative Osama bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Damjan Al-Dawsari had been killed in a drone attack in Nezai Narray near Angoor Adda in South Waziristan.They had earlier reported the death of Al Qaeda’s third-ranking leader Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid.Dawsari was killed when meeting in the house of Omar Khaitab, a close associate of militant commander Maulvi Nazir.

Note: Video included. SNIPPET: "In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Mustafa Abul-Yazeed, al-Qaeda's third in command, gives a rare insight into the group's campaign. He even said al-Qaeda would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons against the US should his group get hold of them."

US officials tell ABC News that al Qaeda’s No. 3 -- Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid, known as Shaikh Sa’id al-Masri and Mustafa Abu al-Yazid – has been killed. Al Qaeda released a eulogy of Shaikh Sa’id tonight, officials said. "Word is spreading in extremist circles of the death of Sheikh Sa'id al-Masri, widely viewed as the number three figure in al-Qaeda,” a US official told ABC News. “We have strong reason to believe that's true, and that al-Masri was killed recently in Pakistan's tribal areas. In terms of counterterrorism, this would be a big victory.” US officials believed...

MIRANSHAH: US drones fired a barrage of 11 missiles at a house and a vehicle in the Datakhel Tehsil of North Waziristan, killing six people and injuring three others on Tuesday, officials said. “The drones targeted a compound and vehicles parked outside the house,” one senior Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. “We fear the death toll may rise,” the official added. On Sunday, a suspected US drone strike in the Inzar Kala area of Tehsil Datakhel, killed nine people and injured five more, reported DawnNews.

PARACHINAR, Pakistan – Two intelligence officials say suspected U.S. missiles struck vehicles in a tribal region near Afghanistan, killing at least three people. The identities of those killed in the attack early Tuesday in the Doga area of North Waziristan were not immediately known. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. North Waziristan has been the target of nearly all of the some 30 other American attacks this year. ..