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TTP Leader Hakimullah Mehsud Declares: 'From Now On, the Main Targets of Our Fidaeen [Suicide Bombers] Are American Cities' The first, which the YouTube page titled "Hakeemullah Mehsud is Alive and Healthy and Delivering news about Attacks on USA," is 2:17 long, and shows a still satellite image of North America with a still image of Hakimullah Mehsud. Speaking in Urdu, he states that the date is April 19, 2010 and threatens bombings in U.S. "states & cities"; as he speaks, explosions are shown taking place across the map. (To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2463.htm. NOTE: You...

In Kashmir, in November 2000, the author was detained by Jihadi militants for one terrifying -- and instructive -- night. THEY BREATHE LIKE us, eat like us, sleep like us, perhaps dream like us as well. The only difference is that they know exactly when they will stop living. In the mysterious world of Fidayeens, where young men shun their names, their past lives, even the urge to live, death is not uncertain; it is planned.

QUETTA, 3 April 2003 — Tens of thousands of Pakistanis called yesterday for a holy war against Washington and its allies as they protested the US-led military action on Iraq. The turnout in the rally in the southwestern city of Quetta was between 60,000 and 100,000 — lower than in some other recent protests in the country, even though the right-wing religious parties that called it are in the regional government. The protesters gathered in a central square and jammed surrounding roads in the Balochistan provincial capital. They gathered in response to calls from the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) alliance and...

JAMMU: At least seven people were killed when a group of militants opened indiscriminate firing on a bus coming from Himachal and also stormed into a nearby Army camp at Kaluchak, about 10 km from here this morning, official sources said. The attack, suspected to be carried out by a suicide squad, took place between 5.30 am and 6.00 am on Jammu-Pathankot highway, they said. Sources said the casualty figure is likely to go up. Most of those injured have been shifted to the Jammu Medical College hospital. The encounter is still going on and the entire area has been...