GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Taliban Aim For The Top

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Strategy Page

30March2011 10:56amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: In Pakistan, the Taliban are having increasing problems with Pushtun tribes that want nothing to do with the Taliban movement.

Naturally, the Taliban call these tribes heretics and traitors. But that's not enough. These other tribes form militias (often supported with government supplied cash and weapons) to keep the Taliban out of tribal territory. Rather than go to war with these militias, the Taliban use the terror tactics they learned from al Qaeda, and send death squads and suicide bombers after the tribal leaders, especially the ones in charge of the militia. (read full report)

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