What is Pakistan's continuing excuse for not being able to execute sovereign authority in FATA (The Islamic Emirate of Waziristan)?Two CIA drone strikes killed eight militants holding German citizenship in north Waziristan Monday, Reuters cites Pakistani intelligence officials. The report goes on to suggest the recent elevated terror warning for Americans traveling in Europe is based on the interrogation of a possibly linked Afghan-German citizen identified as Ahmed Sidiqi being held by the U.S. military at Bagram Air base since July:
The militants were members of a group called Jihad Islami, the Pakistani intelligence officials said without elaborating. There was no independent verification and militants often dismiss official reports of successful operations against them. ...
One security official in Germany said last week word of the plot had probably originated from the interrogation of a German-Afghan suspect in Afghanistan.
The suspect believed to be behind the intelligence was identified by media as Ahmed Sidiqi, a German of Afghan origin. German media said he came from Hamburg and had been held in the U.S. military prison of Bagram in Afghanistan since July.
German counter-terrorism expert Guido Steinberg told Reuters Sidiqi was a member of a cell of militants from Hamburg that was believed to be a central component of the conspiracy.
Steinberg said the cell left for Pakistan in March 2009 and joined Pakistan-based members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Central Asian militant organization.
CNN reported the 11-strong group included a German of Syrian descent and a German of Iranian descent while an associate of the plot was a Frenchman of Algerian origin, it said
Sidiqi divulged new, unverified information every day, CNN reported German intelligence sources as saying. ...More from the New York Times.
That is called understatement comedy."It has been unclear whether all elements of ISI have dropped their support of the Taliban and their extremist allies," Army Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination to be ambassador to Afghanistan.
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