Friend and Ally Update. "Afghanistan 'holds Pakistani spy'," from the BBC:
Afghanistan says it has arrested a Pakistani intelligence agent who acted as a key link with al-Qaeda leaders.
Presidential spokesman Karim Rahimi said the agent had been detained in eastern Kunar province carrying documents which proved his guilt.
The news came a day after intelligence officials said an Afghan general had been arrested for spying for Pakistan.
Afghanistan has long blamed Pakistan for cross-border attacks by the Taleban. Islamabad denies the charges.
'Bin Laden escort'
Mr Karimi named the man arrested as Sayed Akbar, who he said worked for Pakistan's controversial Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
"Some evidence and documents have been seized with him proving his destructive activities in Afghanistan," Mr Karimi told a news conference in the capital, Kabul.
Sayed Akbar comes from the Chitral region of northern Pakistan bordering the Afghan province of Nuristan, the spokesman said.
The BBC's Payenda Sargand in Kabul says, according to the Afghan authorities, Mr Akbar was in charge of relations between the ISI and al-Qaeda leaders.
Officials say he has confessed to his "illegal activities" in Afghanistan. These are said to include escorting Osama Bin Laden last year from Nuristan to Chitral.
On Monday, intelligence officials in Kabul said they had arrested an Afghan army general, Khair Mohammed, on charges of selling secrets to the ISI.
Mr Rahimi told the news conference: "National security officials arrested a defence ministry general committing national treason, spying for foreigners, and he is under investigation."
Correspondents say it is not clear if the two arrests are linked. The defence ministry issued a statement saying that Khair Mohammed had not worked for it for almost four years.
There has so far been no response from Pakistan to news of either arrest.
Worsening row
Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan have been tense for years, but have worsened during 2006 as violence in Afghanistan has soared.
Last week, President Hamid Karzai publicly accused the Pakistani government of backing the Taleban and said it wanted to turn Afghans into "slaves".
And of course we turned a blind eye to these creeps while they built the bomb and helped our enemies do the same thing.
Why do I get the feeling we're all being played? I mean all of us. Militant Islamists included.
Lies, lies, lies. Islam is full of Lies and Liars. I don't know how anyone can trust a Muslim ? Even a Muslim can't trust a Muslim. Truly a wretched Religion.
"nuristan"?
No. The correct name for that geographic area is Kafiristan, as it was known prior to the Jihad and ethnic cleansing accomplished by the afghans in the 1890s and 1900s. Suppression and subjugation of the non-muslim Kafirs in Chitral province of pakistan is incomplete but continuing.
I prefer Michael Reagans term: Jihadistan
It covers all the bases, lol
The poster above who notes that this very area, now one of the most dangerously and fanatically Muslim, was at the end of the 19th century still known as Kafiristan because its population had not yet been sufficiently islamized, tells us something about the rapid transformaton of a place. Kafiristan in the wild border regions of Afghanistan, one century, much of Western Europe about a sesquicentury later.
A state's officials liaising with and escorting Osama bin Laden should be treated as a casus belli by the US against Pakistan. As it is the whole business will most likely be quietly buried.
Hugh/
'sesquicentury'? An eighth harmonic aspect. A minor hard aspect, separating distance by 135°, its influence is a frictional hundreth- or, perhaps in this case, fictional?!
I sense a Lewis Carrol moment - perhaps! Even a malefic moment - or do you believe that 'Nos numerus et fruges consumere nati' (if I have my Horace correctly).
Dominic.
"Kafiristan" (land of the infidels) is indeed the historical name for the area now called Nuristan. After the "Religion of Peace" moved in, their leader; Amir, Abdur Rahman Khan was infamous for his savagery, especially for massacring 60% population of the Hazara and Nuristani ethnic groups who wouldn't submit to the "peaceful" new regime. http://hazara.net/hazara/History/history.html
Ignore this history at your own peril.
pukistans time will be up.
alliances are changing after 50 wasted years
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26074
Testing 123
Posted by: Mother Ecclesiastica
No more testing necessary Mother.
Let 'er rip.
We have definitely lost a lot of Crusader-posters.
Posted by: Mother Ecclesiastica
LOL :)
Man, you guys...err girls are sooo funny.
We have definitely lost a lot of Crusader-posters.
Posted by: Mother Ecclesiastica
Hands up everyone who has noticed someone disappearing from the world's gene pool because the someone who disappeared happppened to mention Russia and Islam in the same sentence.
*me*
ok, I'm doomed.
damn
but, on the bright side I'm save in the hereafter.
woohoo
Afghanistan says it has arrested a Pakistani intelligence agent who acted as a key link with al-Qaeda leaders.
Presidential spokesman Karim Rahimi said the agent had been detained in eastern Kunar province carrying documents which proved his guilt.
.........I would like to thing these "documents" would prove to be of some value in locating key leaders locations. Locations which could be exploited for the purposes of extermination of key vermin.
Officials say he has confessed to his "illegal activities"
Man anybody I know would deny, deny, deny!
It seems like anytime these jihadists are caught they confess. No matter how many there are or what country they are caught in. What is it a Badge of Courage?
Or maybe this a good way out of becoming a suicide bomber? Three meals a day and a koran.
The ones in charge lie and the little guy confesses.
Well at least we know what they are planning. It's so easy to see through the lies.
Want to call the area something (that's not obscene anyway)-try "Talibanistan". That will be the new name of the combined Afghanistan and Pakistan once mule-ah Omar's boys take over both places. Mushy Raff will probably be dead soon enough thanks to playing all sides against each other and trying to deprive the men of their Illah given right to rape with impunity. Once that happens, look out.
The body parts of Pakistan are coming off.
If the status quo works against you, one has a vested interest in chaos in the enemy camp.
Small victories in the lead up to the biggie.
".... if we are ever to come to terms with why so many young men have given and continue to give their lives to jihad in what the British knew as the North-West Frontier, and why so many cling to the belief that this same region is a dar-ul-Islam or "domain of the faith" second only to Mecca and Medina, then we have to understand what Wahhabism accomplished there, not only in the 1980s and 1990s but a full century and a half earlier." - Charles Allen: The Hidden roots of Wahhabism in British India.
A major difference between Wahhabism and the related form it took in what is now Pakistan is the Naqshbandi Sufic element. This allows for a remarkable degree of transmission from master to pupil in a way resembling that a secret society down the generations. Something similar has gone on in Chechnya. The establishment of a jihadist centre on the Afghan frontier, supplied with money and personnel by a secret network across northern India, known by the Urdu word for warehouse or base (translated into Arabic as al-Quaeda)has gone on since 1826. It was then that a camp for militant exiled Muslims determined to regain India for dar a Islam was established on the Mahabun Mountain. Jihad could only be declared from dar ul sallam so these fanatics had to be based outside the dar ul harab i.e. Afghanistan. The British never quite put two and two together and attributed the perrenial jihads originating in the area to various 'mad mullahs'. This movement was also responsible for various assassinations that took place in british India throughout the 19th century. It's existence and essentially religious nature has been obscured by the pe-occupation of historians with the liberation from colonialism movement.
see:
http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/articles/wpj05-2/allen.html
OK, we have a smoking gun. Absolute evidence of involvement.
An Act of War.
Now lets sit back and see how long it will take the U.S. State Department to piss this away by negotiating with Afghanistan and Pakistan. They will move favours around.
India has said for years that this has been going on in India and Kashmir. Of course Pakistan denies it, they are in a covert war. But our own State Department has stated they need evidence.
Ok, State Department you got your evidence. Now supress it and make it go away, and by doing so Pakistan will owe you a favour. Diplomacy at it's best. I would rather see Statesmenship.
I have to wonder how often this happens not just in Iraq, where we find people with Iranian or Syrian goverment sponsorship documentation.....but even here in America.