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A Terrorist Leader is Born
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baitullah_Mehsudhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TehrikiTaliban_Pakistan
c. 1974:
The Group’s first leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is born in the Landi Dhok village in the Bannu District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Though never finishing school, he was taught at a madrassa (a religious school that taught Islam). He was soon involved in helping enforce the Taliban’s implement of Sharia (the moral code and religious law of Islam). -
The Incident that Planted the Group's Roots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan
July 2002:
The Pakistani military began incursions (attacks) on areas where foreign militants of al-Qaeda were hiding. The heads of the villages reluctantly allowed them to come in, but a group of Waziri sub-tribes believed this to be an attempt to subjugate them, and refused, leading to an unintential war between the two forces. -
Mystery bombing of school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenagai_airstrikeOctober 30, 2006:
Missiles are fired at a madrassa in Chenagai village in the Bajaur region of Pakistan run by the Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law and 82 people are killed. Originally, it was believed that Pakistani military carried out the attack, but later, the U.S. was accused of the attacks. It didn’t matter who started it in the eyes of the TTP; by then they hated both the Pakistani military and the U.S. forces equally. -
A New Group of Terror is Born
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/ttp.htm
•23 October, 2007:
A credible Pakistani newspaper discloses that five militant groups joined hands to set up an organization named Tehrik-i-Taliban, under leadership of Baitullah Mehsud, in Mohmand Agency with a goal "to flush out gangs carrying out criminal activities in the name of Taliban." Mehsud soon announced that this was true in December of that year. -
The TTP Must Go!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan25 August 2008:
The Pakistani government calls the TTP a terrorist group. As a result, it bans the group, freezes its bank accounts and assets, and bars it from media appearances. The government also announces that bounties will be placed on prominent leaders of the TTP (namely Mehsud). -
Out of the Terrorist Frying Pan and into the FIre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan5 August 2009:
A U.S. drone plane fires a missile that kills TTP leader, Baitullah Mehsud. The group gets together for a shura (an Islamic meeting to discuss what they will do). They soon choose Hakimullah Mehsud (no relation to the deceased leader) to be their new Amir (Chief) and vow revenge on the U.S. -
Camp Chapman Attacked!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Chapman_attack30 December 2009:
The TTP conducts a suicide bomber attack on the Camp Chapman U.S intelligence base in Khost city, the provincial capital of the eastern Afghan province of Khost, close to the Afghan-Pakistan border. The perpetrator is a turncoat member of the CIA who, after being let in, detonates explosives attached to his body. The blow destroys the facility, kills 7 and seriously wounds 6. -
A Lucky Break
<ahref='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Times_Square_car_bomb_attempt'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Times_Square_car_bomb_attempt</a>1 May 2010:
The TTP sends over a representative to New York to detonate a car bomb in a busy NYC street. Thankfully, though the bomb was ignited, it failed to blow and was deactivated by police after it was reported by a witness. Two days later, federal agents arrested Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old Pakistan-born resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who was trying to leave the country, who admitted that he had been trained by the TTP. -
The TTP is Our Enemy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan
1 September 2010: The U.S. declares the TTP as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali ur-Rehman (Deputy Chief of the TTP) are also identified as "specially designated global terrorists.” This designation made it a crime to provide support, or to do business with the group. The State Department also set a $5 milion dollar bounty for info on the two. -
TTP Keeps Myanmar On Their Toes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_PakistanJuly 8 2012:
The TTP threatens to attack Myanmar in the wake of sectarian violence against Rohingya Muslims in the Arakan state. Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, ordered than Pakistan sever ties with Myanmar and close down the Burmese embassy in Islamabad. This was a rare time that the TTP threatened violence in another country other than their own.
