More deadly consequences of the siege of the Lal Masjid. "Deadly attack on Pakistani troops," from the BBC (thanks to Davida):
Eight soldiers have been killed in a suicide attack on a military convoy in north-western Pakistan, the army says.Fifteen others were hurt when the attacker struck the convoy near the village of Daznary, North Waziristan, with an explosives-laden vehicle.
Thousands of troops have been moved close to the region after the storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque this week.
The army fears militants may be preparing a new "holy war" in response to the assault.
The 36-hour assault on the mosque left 75 people inside the building and 10 soldiers dead, officials say.
In the north-western city of Peshawar on Friday more than 1,000 demonstrators vowed to avenge the death of the mosque's deputy leader, Abdul Rashid Ghazi....
Gen Arshad acknowledged the attack could be linked to the Red Mosque siege.
In a second attack on Saturday, two security officials were hurt in a blast near the town of Bannu in North-West Frontier Province.
Thousands of troops have been moved into the province as President Pervez Musharraf vows to pursue his campaign of rooting out extremists.Although there is no new deployment to Waziristan, militants there say the government has broken peace agreements by setting up checkpoints.
Militant commander Abdullah Farhad told the Agence France-Presse news agency there could be "guerrilla war" if all checkpoints were not removed by Sunday.
Protests against the Red Mosque attack were held across the country on Friday.
Demonstrators in Peshawar were told it was a "genocide" in which "hundreds of innocent women and children died".
In Islamabad, hundreds of demonstrators attended a rally organised by Pakistan's main alliance of radical parties, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal.
"This carnage will prove to be the last nail in the coffin of Musharraf's dictatorial rule in Pakistan," the group's deputy leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Hydri told the gathering.
"Now there will be Red Mosques everywhere in Pakistan."
Maybe they SHOULD be red armories, ooops, I meant mosques, everywhere...red with blood of those terminator units masquerading as humans.
Just don't forget to dip the bullets in pigs blood.
As one great general loved to say:
"Commence firing! Fire at will!"
(George S Patton)
The best mosque is a dead mosque.
Oh, did I say that... how Un-PC of me :) :)
Pakistan’s new Plutonium reactor will create enough fuel for fifty fission bombs annually once it comes on line. Musharraf’s book tour over/under line remains unchanged at 17AUG.
The BBC are reporting 18 dead soldiers. No link yet.
it is imperative to join hands and neutralise islamic republic of pakistan's nuclear capabilities. it is a bigger threat than iran and north korea. there are many generals in the army who want to be martyr to protect the honor of uncle mo.
red looks good at any mosque, that is with the blood on the islmaists hands, the blood they have shed on all non muslims and muslims alike. red should be their colour!
the BBC had a british muslim professor interviewed and she actually claimed that the red mosque siege was the fault of the USA, due to the USA's "intereference" in the North West frontier.
Greetings:
Okay, all you Imams of Peace, get your guns and burqas and high heels and get down to the mosque.
Oh... my God! How boring... Red EVERYWHERE! I mean, don't these people know anything about fashion? It's, like Summer for God's sake! NO ONE "does" Red in Summer. Tch!
Those icky people need a little FASHION RESCUE... HU-LO-OOOOOOH! Send me and my fashion 911 team over there right now and we'll show those people how silly they're being... "Red mosques EVERYWHERE..." Really!
With the hot, dusty, and... sorry, but uh, "been there," smelly climes of Islamabad, we'll need all the help we can get transforming its whole look (and smell) from "Islamabad," to "Itsnotsobad." First of all, a couple more good rain storms to give that petri dish a good scrub. Thennnn... we'll ask you all to change THOSE DIRTY JAMMIES! Puh-leeeez! I mean I'm bringing the Maytag Man with me on this little fashion rescue, 'cause y'all's washing machines must be broken! Besides, it's three o'clock in the afternoon, change into a sun dress or something!
Anyways, after that, let's just take a look at those Mosques. I mean, you seem to spend enough time locked up in them. Why red? Why not go with something that says, "Hi there, it's hot, dusty, icky, and smelly out there where you are. Come on in. I'll make you feel goooooood." And I'm tellin' ya, during the funky smellin' Paki months of Summer, Red ain't it, PEEEEE-PUHLLLLL! We're gonna do some cool, inviting Burkha Blues, just to girlie things up a little. Uh-then, we're gonna splash the minarets with healthy sheen of Deep Juicy Pakistani Peach. Just to tell those soldier boys, "C'mon, take a bite outta me!"
And you can bet they will, 'cause next, we're off to the Salafi Salon to get those beards chopped off! C'mon fellas, beards are like, so 1970's. You all look like Kenny Rogers (except his tan is fake... inside tip). Anyways, let that naturally oily skin shine through. You'll be the Pasha's eunuch in no time. No Paki Soldier I know can pass up a fresh-faced Pashtu! They're gonna go from fighting with you, to fighting OVER you, in like, zero seconds flat!
Well, that's all the time we have for this week's episode of "Fashion Jihad." Buh-Byyyyyye!
Musharraf is getting what he deserved. He pampered the tribal areas and now they see checkpoints as a violation of "peace treaties". Since when did Muslims observe peace treaties?
Wait.....Muslims threaten to lock themselves in Mosques and commit suicide ?
So where's the downside?
KNOW ISLAM - NO PEACE
NO ISLAM - KNOW PEACE
"Now there will be Red Mosques everywhere in Pakistan."
All mosques are Red.
May all their mosques be red with their blood.
Tne naivete of this general is of a piece with that exhibited by General Vines in that famous reading list he had compiled for the troops -- a Muslim apologist's dream, and no wonder, for it was compiled with the "help" of two apologists, the egregious John Esposito, head of the Arab-funded "Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding" that takes (in vain) the name of Georgetown with which it unaccountably is allowed to continue to be associated, and Peter Bechthold, then of the Foreign Policy Institute, that helps "train" - walkies! -- diplomats.
For those who don't remember that farce -- there have been so many, after all -- here is the article, written 2 1/2 years ago, again:
Fitzgerald: The greatest Intelligence Failure of the Iraq War was not about WMD
"The Reading List of General Vines deserves further detailed study. There are two books by Esposito. There is one by Karen Armstrong, whom, one would have thought, is by now regarded as a complete buffoon. There is something about Islam for Dummies. There is a book by the jejune Sandra Mackey on Iraq, when either the Letters of Gertrude Bell (those from Baghdad up to 1927, when she killed herself), or Philip Ireland's book published in 1939 would have helped -- and best of all would have been the essay on Iraq by the native of Baghdad, Elie Kedourie, published in Islam in the Modern World.
Nothing by Lewis. Nothing by Kedourie. Nothing by J. B. Kelly, not even that essay "Of Valuable Oil and Worthless Policies" which, while it dates in the section on the Soviet threat, does not date as a description of the misperception of Saudi Arabia. The spirit of ARAMCO propagandists still lives.
What is good about the Reading List is that it is so bad, so truly bad, that eyebrows should be raised all over Washington. Who compiled this list? Who carefully allowed in, as the single sop, the Naipaul, but left out the Lewis, the Kedourie, the Kelly? Who left out any serious essays on the nature of Islam, on Jihad? How are the Infidel soldiers supposed to comprehend the hostility that is felt towards them, even though they are only there to "rebuild" Iraq? For if they cannot understand that hostility -- which is in every textbook, every mosque, every madrassa, every Arab satellite channel, every Qur'an and volume of the Hadith and every life of Muhammad, they will be eternally confused. And confusion and incomprehension, or miscomprehension, leads to demoralization.
Here is an example of a little colloquy reported by NPR Correspondent Deborah Amos this morning. She was reporting from Basra. She interviewed a man, asking him as follows:
Amos: "Do you want foreign troops to leave?"
Iraqi: "Would you want your country to be occupied?" (Iraqis, she said, and soldiers know, tend to reply to questions cannily, warily, with questions of their own, and almost never give a straight answer to anything).
When Amos then presses him if he wants the Americans to leave, he answers:
"Yes, I do. But not before they fix everything, and stop terrorism."
How nice. I hate you, and I want you to leave. But first you have to "stop terrorism" and, oh by the way, "fix everything."
That kind of attitude will not be understood by reading Karen Armstrong, who describes Muhammad as the man who "brought peace" to the Arabian Peninsula. It will not be understood by reading John Esposito, author of The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? (we know which he chose), a man who in previous editions of his books does not give more than a single mention of the word "Jihad" and has never treated of the dhimmi.
How can American officers figure out why the Christians are being terrorized, if they know nothing about the 1350 year history of Jihad-conquest and of the imposition of dhimmitude? How?
How can American officers understand what is going on if the inculcated hostility toward them is not understood?
The greatest Intelligence Failure of the Iraq War was not about WMD. It was about Islam, its tenets, its nature, the attitudes and atmospherics it engenders. It was an intelligence failure that continues as long as we prate about how everyone wants freedom (nonsense), that "democracy" will lessen the threat in the Middle East (double-nonsense), that the best way to limit a threat based entirely on the classic ideology of Islam is to say nothing, to learn nothing, to hint at nothing, about Islam itself.
Supposedly, the "faculty at Yale" and people at the "Foreign Service Institute" were responsible for this list. Let's find out something more about precisely who was involved in the selection of the final group of eight books. What are their names? What are their own interests?
Note to Hollywood: it is time for movies and television stories, not about Muslim terrorists, but about those who are apologists for Islam, and who are determined to keep certain truths from getting out, in very high places indeed. One need not be of a conspiratorial frame of mind to see that with such a Reading List, something is very amiss -- and very high up.
This has to be thoroughly investigated."
[Posted by Hugh at January 23, 2005]