http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/11/fighting_intensifies_3.php
“Fighting intensifies in northwestern Taliban strongholds”
By BILL ROGGIO
November 27, 2009 10:26 AM
SNIPPET: “Fighting has intensified in a region in northwestern Pakistan where the Taliban and al Qaeda fighters dodging the South Waziristan operation have regrouped.
Limited military operations, consisting largely of air and artillery strikes backed by the paramilitary Frontier Corps, are concentrating on Taliban strongholds in a region that borders the Arakzai, Kurram, and Khyber tribal agencies.
Meanwhile, the Taliban are continuing their campaign against pro-government tribal leaders. One leader was assassinated in Bajaur and another was kidnapped in Mohmand.”
Note: Photo included.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/11/pakistan_captures_wa.php
“Pakistan captures wanted South Waziristan Taliban commander”
By BILL ROGGIO
November 27, 2009 12:15 AM
SNIPPET: “Pakistani security forces recently detained a mid-level Taliban commander who was wanted by the government.
Abdullah Shah Mehsud, who was number 17 on the list of 20 most-wanted Taliban commanders from South Waziristan, was captured by Pakistani forces in the district of Tank. He is an “active member of Hakeemullah Mehsud Group from Shaktoi village near Razmak” in North Waziristan, the Pakistani military said in a press release. The military paid “head money,” a sum of about $120,000, to the informer who turned Abdullah Shah in.”