Qari Hussain

April 16, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Taliban Deny Responsibility for Boston Marathon Bombings

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan denied that it executed yesterday's bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon that killed three people, including an 8-year-old boy, and woun...

March 11, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Taliban Execute, Behead Soldiers in South Waziristan

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan released a videotape on the fighting in the Mehsud areas of South Waziristan which includes graphic footage of the mutilation of several Pakistani soldiers...

March 9, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Kill at Least 13 in South Waziristan Strike

Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 13 "militants" in airstrikes in the Miramshah and Mir Ali areas of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan today...

July 5, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Wanted Taliban commander killed in shootout in North Waziristan

Eight South Waziristan Taliban commanders, pictured in a wanted poster: 1. Hakeemullah Mehsud, 2. Waliur Rehman Mehsud, 3. Qari Hussain Mehsud, 4. Azam Tariq, 5. Maulvi Azmatullah,...

June 23, 2010 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Times Square Bomber Discusses Taliban Ties at Plea Hearing

During a plea hearing in New York on Monday, Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square on May 1, pled guilty to all of the charges levied against him and discussed his...

May 26, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Hakeemullah’ s pullout from North Waziristan an ‘excuse’ for Pakistan not to move

The leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has agreed to withdraw his forces along with some allied Punjabi Taliban fighters from North Waziristan in an effort to prevent a Pak...

May 24, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistan hits Taliban in Arakzai

The Pakistani military pounded Taliban positions Sunday during the latest round of fighting in the lawless tribal agency of Arakzai. Pakistani Air Force attack aircraft and Army helicopt...

May 17, 2010 | Long War Journal

The Pakistani Taliban’s top leaders

After the failed car bomb attack in New York City's Times Square, the Pakistani Taliban have suddenly risen to the top of the list of concerns for Western intelligence and law enforcement of...

May 10, 2010 | The Weekly Standard

Don’t Mention the War

Why does the Obama administration find it so hard to utter the words ‘terrorism’ and ‘jihad’ and ‘Islamic extremism’?

May 8, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

US pressures Pakistan to target North Waziristan

The failed Times Square bombing that was hatched in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan has forced the US to ratchet up pressure on Pakistan to take out the terro...

May 7, 2010 | Michael Ledeen Long War Journal

Chinese terrorist leader Abdul Haq al Turkistani is dead: Pakistani interior minister

The top leader of a Chinese terror group with close links to al Qaeda has been killed in Pakistan, according to Pakistan's Interior Minister. The report has not been confirmed. Abdu...

May 6, 2010 | R. James Woolsey Long War Journal

US sees Pakistani Taliban involvement in Times Square attack after downplaying links

Four days after the failed car bombing attack in New York City's Times Square, senior officials in the Obama administration have grudgingly begun to accept that the Pakistani Taliban are lik...

May 4, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Times Square bombing suspect trained in Pakistan’s North Waziristan

The US has linked the main suspect in the failed Times Square car bomb attack to a training camp in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal region of Waziristan. Faisal Shahzad, a natu...

May 4, 2010 | The Weekly Standard

Not A “One-Off” Event

We were lucky Shahzad’s bomb fizzled. Next time we might not be as lucky.

May 4, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

FBI arrests Pakistani-American sought in failed Times Square car bombing

The FBI has detained a Pakistani-American suspect who was wanted for his involvement in the failed May 1 car bomb attack at Times Square in New York City. Authorities arrested Faisal Sha...

May 2, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Exclusive: Tapes show Hakeemullah Mehsud is alive and threaten attacks in the US

Two tapes were sent today to The Long War Journal by a group identifying itself as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. The same group sent a link earlier today...

May 2, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Pakistani Taliban claim credit for failed NYC Times Square car bombing

A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit for yesterday's failed car bomb attack in New York City. Qari Hussain Mehsud, the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pak...

April 29, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Hakeemullah Mehsud: Not dead yet

A senior Pakistani intelligence official claimed yesterday that the top leader of the Pakistani Taliban is still alive, but the Pentagon said today he is no longer in command of his forces....

June 28, 2008 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Pakistan’s inconclusive military operations against the Taliban

 The Pakistani military operation in the tribal agency of Khyber is the latest offensive against the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan since the government assaulted the extremist Red Mosque...