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The following is research published today from MEMRI’s Special Dispatch Series, and Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor Project. Article in Pakistani Daily: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan 'Is Currently In Better Position Than Ever' To Fight Pakistan In New Taliban Video, Taliban Suicide Bomber Explains Objective of 'Enforcement of Islamic Shari'a Across the World And the Defeat Of Infidels' Taliban Spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi: 'More Than Half Of... Afghanistan is Under Mujahideen Control; NATO and the U.S. Troops Are Our Captives' Taliban Statement: Kabul Suicide Bombing That Killed U.S. Troops Was Carried Out By 23-year-Old European-Afghan Special Dispatch No. 4249—Pakistan/South Asia Studies Project/Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor/Taliban Article in Pakistani Daily: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan 'Is Currently In Better Position Than Ever' To Fight Pakistan Note to media and government: For a full copy of this report, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email. Maulvi Faqir Muhammad In recent months, some key commanders of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have moved to provinces of the country that border on Afghanistan. Key among these commanders are Maulana Fazlullah, the TTP's Emir for Swat district, and Maulvi Faqir Muhammad, the TTP's Emir for Bajaur Agency. The TTP commanders' relocation is a result of Pakistani military operations in their hideouts in Pakistan. These Taliban commanders were later joined by various Taliban fighters from Waziristan and other tribal areas of Pakistan. The commanders, who enjoyed Pakistani support over the past decade and more, are now launching cross-border raids against Pakistani security forces. In a recent article, titled "TTP's Pakistan Strategy," Pakistani writer Syed Irfan Ashraf, who teaches journalism at the University of Peshawar, warned that the Taliban's relocation to the bordering Afghan provinces poses a serious threat to Pakistan, given their one-point agenda of targeting the country. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5773.htm. Special Dispatch No. 4248—South Asia Studies Project/Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor/Taliban In New Taliban Video, Taliban Suicide Bomber Explains Objective of 'Enforcement of Islamic Shari'a Across the World And the Defeat Of Infidels' Note to media and government: For a full copy of this report, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email. Suicide bomber Khan Mohammad A new video released by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) details how three Taliban suicide bombers from South Waziristan planned and carried out the bombing of a key police center in Karachi on November 11, 2010. Lauding the Taliban militants for keeping the "light of Islam" alive, the video lauds the three militants – Rahmanullah, Farmanullah and Khan Mohammad – for blowing up the headquarters of the Pakistani police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Karachi in November 2010. The narrator says that the CID headquarters was used by Pakistani security forces and their foreign collaborators to detain, interrogate, torture and kill Islamic scholars and the Taliban mujahideen. He says that when their "torture" of Taliban fighters reached a limit, the TTP decided to dispatch the bombers to launch the attack on the CID headquarters, and adds that as part of this plan, several Karachi police officers, such as Chaudhry Aslam, were wanted by the Taliban and were targeted in recent months. The video, which was produced by the Umar Studio, which is the Taliban's media arm, also includes pre-recorded messages from all three suicide bombers, speaking in Pashtu. The following are the translations of these messages: To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5772.htm. Special Dispatch No. 4247—South Asia Studies Project/Afghanistan/Taliban Taliban Spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi: 'More Than Half Of... Afghanistan is Under Mujahideen Control; NATO and the U.S. Troops Are Our Captives' Note to media and government: For a full copy of this report, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email. The Urdu-language website of the Islamic Emirate (the Taliban's shadow government in the country) recently published an interview with Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, in which he claimed that more than half of Afghanistan is under Taliban control. The interview was conducted by the Arabic-language magazine Muheet. In the interview, Ahmadi argued that the U.S. and the Afghan government have tried unsuccessfully to sow division among the Taliban with the lure of talks, but that the Taliban and the U.S. have never negotiated on the future of Afghanistan. Following are excerpts from the interview, as translated from the original Urdu: Question: "In his Id-ul-Fitr message, Emir-ul Momineen [Mullah Omar] has said that the U.S. had declared the year [2011] as the year of success but the Mujahideen have foiled all their efforts. How did you foil the attacks of the occupation forces? Will you tell about your success story to the Arab world, and especially the Egyptian people who are watching your success with keen eyes?" Qari Yousaf Ahmadi: "Of course. The U.S. occupation [forces] had hoped that they would achieve either some military or political success to prove to the world and to the Afghan people that their ten years of occupation was not aimless or fruitless. Militarily, the U.S. used all its brutality and barbarism and used different kinds of tactics and laid undercover networks to catch and kill military commanders and prominent mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate [of Afghanistan]. They continued with air and land espionage activities, took out big campaigns, and continuously raided houses and suspect places. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5771.htm. Special Dispatch No. 4246—Pakistan/South Asia Studies Project/Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor/Taliban Taliban Statement: Kabul Suicide Bombing That Killed U.S. Troops Was Carried Out By 23-year-Old European-Afghan Note to media and government: For a full copy of this report, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email. A statement released by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban's shadow government in the country) notes that the October 29, 2011 suicide bombing which killed more than a dozen U.S. soldiers in Kabul was carried out by a Kabul-born 23-year-old European-Afghan who had recently returned to Afghanistan. The European country is not named. Also according to the statement, an Afghan soldier carried out another suicide bombing on the same day, in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. Following is the text of the statement: "As you might already know, Kabul was once again rocked by a heart-quenching attack on October 29, which left dozens of foreign invaders dead. So in this regard, we would like to provide our readers with a brief biography of the mujahid who carried out the martyrdom operation: "Shaheed Abdur Rahman (Hazarbuz) opened his eyes 23 years ago into this world, and proudly left it the other day for a world that is everlasting, while also sending 25 high-ranking foreign military trainers to the depths of hellfire. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5770.htm. To view these reports, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM). For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.