The men come from an array of militant groups that take shelter in Waziristan and nearby, including Al Qaeda and the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban.
Fourteen years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Taliban remains the largest of an array of militant groups operating in Afghanistan and just over the border in Pakistan's tribal areas.
He reiterated that the U.S. focus in Syria is "not to solve the entire Syria situation," in which fractious, U.S.-backed rebel forces are fighting against President Bashar al-Assad's regime and an array of militant groups.
The violence shook the newly formed government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is trying to revive Pakistan's foundering economy while grappling with an array of militant violence.
South Waziristan, a rugged region of thick forests and steep mountains, is home to an array of militant groups, including the Pakistani Taliban, who have been responsible for dozens of suicide bombings since 2007, as well as Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban fighters who cross into Afghanistan to attack American and allied troops.
Musharraf faces serious threats to his life from an array of dangerous militants, and he deserves adequate protection.
They entrust their lives to smuggling gangs that have set up along a 230-mile stretch of coast in western Libya, which is largely controlled by an array of rival militant groups.
Involving low-tech weapons and a spontaneity aimed at foiling pre-emptive discovery, they have been propagated in recent years by an array of Islamic militant Web sites that Western security experts have linked to Al Qaeda.
Among the more than two dozen American personnel evacuated from the city after the assault on the American mission and a nearby annex were about a dozen C.I.A. operatives and contractors, who played a crucial role in conducting surveillance and collecting information on an array of armed militant groups in and around the city.
In fact, just prior to that attack, according to the New York Times, the CIA was tracking "an array of armed militant groups in and around" that one city alone.
