Bufflehead Cabin

The USA is skilled at creating enemies where stability was once the established rule.

The group that has asserted responsibility for Sunday’s ambush is led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, one of the many militant commanders in Pakistan and Afghanistan who fight — sometimes against each other — under the banner of the Taliban. In early 2008, Bahadur’s group struck a peace deal with the local administration in North Waziristan, a mountainous tribal region along the Afghan border where the Pakistani government exerts little control. But a spokesman for his group announced Monday that because of U.S. drone bombings and Pakistani military activity, that peace has been shattered.