Here, jihadist warfare imitates Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commando: "I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last." In other words, collaborating with the jihadists has not spared the ISI, but only somewhat delayed their becoming a target.
"Blast 'hits Peshawar security HQ'," from BBC News, November 13:
A bomb has hit Pakistan's intelligence agency in the north-western city of Peshawar, killing at least seven people and injuring 35, officials said.
The blast destroyed much of the three-story building belonging to the Inter-Services Intelligence agency and many cars on the street outside.
Peshawar has been frequently targeted by militants in recent weeks.
Attacks have increased as the army continues its offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan region.
More than 100 people were killed in a blast at a city market more than two weeks ago.
Friday's blast occurred at around 0630 (0130 GMT), Pakistani media said.
Reuters news agency said the attack was carried out by a suicide car-bomber.
Many of the wounded were rushed to local hospitals, while security sources said several more could be trapped under the rubble.
Sahib Zada Anis, the head of Peshawar's local government, said most of the victims were civilians.
Analysts have said that ordinary citizens are increasingly being targeted because the militants are cornered and under great pressure from the military in South Waziristan.
Despite the attacks, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that the government was "fully committed" to completing the Waziristan offensive and "eliminating terrorism completely".
Jihad, on the other hand, they'd just like to move over to Kashmir.
Kashmir? Is it now "Occupied" Kashmir in the press and radio and television,, just like the "Occupied" West Bank -- a phrase that is juridically, historically, and morally both tendentious, and untrue? Or did the representatives of India manage vigilantly to make sure it never went beyond the stage of "disputed" Kashmir?
But but but:
I thought Kashmir was already Islamic? Didn't the soldiers of allah already drive out all the Hindus, Buddhists and Christians? They occupy it already, now what?
Despite the attacks, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that the government was "fully committed" to completing the Waziristan offensive and "eliminating terrorism completely".
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Eliminate away, my man! Just try and do it in a timely fashion, will ya?
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This kind of smacks of something personal between the Taliban and the ISI. The ISI did or did not do something, and whatever it was, the Taliban is expressing its displeasure over it.
Whatever. They created that monster, let them deal with it.
ISI chief Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha can send a "Thank You" card to Lieutenant General Hamid Gul ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Gul ) for conciving, nurturing, raising and unleashing Taliban.
It's bad of me, no doubt. But I can't help enjoying the idea of the Taliban bombing the ISI.
"Analysts have said that ordinary citizens are increasingly being targeted because the militants are cornered and under great pressure from the military in South Waziristan."
Muslims prefer attacking unarmed citizens instead of the armed military....it doesn't seem to matter that the "civilians" probably support their cause...or that they are also "Muslims". Just like a child throwing a temper tantrum Muslims start destroying things when they don't get their way...It's all about total domination ...all must submit "or else"...That's the way it goes with Islam...That is why you must know Islam's plan for you, otherwise the "or else" comes into play....
God, this is getting messy. I can't say I sympathize much with the ISI when the monster it created turns on it (with our support - thank you Zbigniew Brzezinski). But there is a problem: if the nukes fall into the hands of the Taliban, then there will be real trouble. I wonder what contingency plans India has in case this happens?
Analysts also say that Taliban is Pakistan's "haunting" problem: http://pakistanherald.com/Articles/Pakistans-haunting-Taliban-problem-2083
... but Hillary Clinton is sure that Pakistan's nuclear assets are "safe": http://www.apakistannews.com/pakistan-nuke-assets-are-safe-hillary-clinton-146497
By the way, the number of casualties has increased to 16: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33899653/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/
Maybe more US Tax dollars for Islamic Republic of Pakistan?
Yes.........all non-muslims have been killed off or shoved out of their homeland in terrible ethnic cleansing; while the MSM was busy praising the 'religion of peace'.
But jihad in kashmir has to still go on because technically kashmir still belongs to India - a kafir nation and that is a NO - NO.
"I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last."
- "I lied." Hehehe....
Salam,
Please join me is condeming this terrible tragedy...innocent civilians (probably some very intellegent people working for the ISI) have been martyred today.
Pakistan was created in 1947, Israel in 1948 and both are ideological states home to extremist elements.
In Israel they are known as Zion. In Pakistan they are called Militant/Taliban – or their sympathizer and supporters that exist not just in caves but like Zion in every field of life.
Thus, Pakistan is like Israel;
Take out Judaism from Israel and it will collapse like a house of cards.
Take Islam out of Pakistan and make it a secular state; it would collapse. For the past four years we have been trying to bring Islamic values to this country but with violence and this is the wrong way. So what is the right way?
We need more international support to promote/support the "Islam is Peace" mantra, in your own countries such that it reflects back to our home coubntries too.
One way to do this is to allow many more Imams into your countries and support their dawa message, contribute financially and speak up for us when atrocities against muslims are caused the world over, and send them back richer, so that he is peace and can help reflect that peace here too.
Condemn the violence...in this case support a muslim charity so that this building can be rebuilt qucickly but with better security.
Yom -
Isreal is NOT like Pakistan. Isreal's existence has been threatened since its inception by Muslim thugs. It is on the defensive.
Pakistan is the one who created and released the Taliban monster on the world; they simply never dreamed that these "good Muslims" would come home to roost and do to them what they hoped the Taliban would do to infidels.
Isreal is a well-tended, modern country. Pakistan is a s--thole. Pakistan would not be missed one bit, and I for one would love to see it crumble.
Yommie sez - "Take Islam out of Pakistan and make it a secular state; it would collapse."
Yommie, the reason Pakistan is close to collapse is because it IS an Islamic state.
By the by, aren't members of the ummah not supposed to wage war on their Muslim brothers? Maybe Islam is dangerous to Muslims as well.
I don't want to drive you into one of your strange mental fits, but ...................... why are all the secular countries more moral than Islamic "Republics"?
Example - In Pakistan, an angry mob murdered and dismembered an abandoned child. The local iman urged them on, maintaining that the child was an offspring of a prostitute.
They kill more of their brothers and sisters than anyone
else,yet make a fuss about defending Muslims.One of their
propaganda tools for fomenting anti-western hatred is to
show images of dead women and children killed by Israel and
the west on on the web,while not presenting the resulting
carnage of suicide bombings,premature explosions and wayward
rockets.Another tactic is to blame others for their own
misdeeds.
You reap what you sow.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that the government was "fully committed" to completing the Waziristan offensive and "eliminating terrorism completely".
Jihad, on the other hand, they'd just like to move over to Kashmir.
Exactly. The Pakistani government just wants to eliminate competing terrorisms -- those directed against it -- while remaining free to pursue their own terrorism campaign -- against India.
"It's bad of me, no doubt. But I can't help enjoying the idea of the Taliban bombing the ISI."
Yes, it is a pleasant thought. But the idea of the Pakistani government blasting the Taliban is also nice. It's difficult to decide which side to root for.
I recommend cheering on the Shia and the Sunni on alternative weeks. Confusion on one's enemies.
'We need more international support to promote/support the "Islam is Peace" mantra, in your own countries such that it reflects back to our home coubntries too.
'One way to do this is to allow many more Imams into your countries and support their dawa message, contribute financially and speak up for us when atrocities against muslims are caused the world over, and send them back richer, so that he is peace and can help reflect that peace here too."' -- Yom_al_Juma
You guys have been pushing that for a long time, and there are many useful idiots in the West working on your behalf to implement just what you recommend, Yom. But the "Islam is Peace" mantra keeps getting drowned out by the racket created by all the suicide bombings, and the commotion caused by churches being desecrated by Muslims, your own mosques being blown up by your own kind, reports of children being murdered by their own families in places dominated by Islam...the list is long. Do you think that more Azans blaring from loudspeakers in the West will somehow drown out all of this?
And allow more Imams into our countries and support for their dawa message? You have got to be kidding! A better idea is stop bringing Imams into the West completely, revoke the immigration status of those who are already here for inciting violence, and send them home.
As others here have pointed out, Pakistan is in the sorry state it is in precisely because it is Islamic. Your analogy of it's being equivalent to Israel is ridiculous on too many levels for them to be listed here.
A couple of question for you, Yom: What caused you to leave Pakistan and come to the West, what exactly is your immigration status, and what is your means of suppport? And why do you even post here? It takes time and effort to read these stories and to compose comments like you do, even if they are little more than affirmations of your Islamic beliefs. By now you know with virtual certainty that your lapses in logic will be called out, and unless you get some kind of perverse pleasure from this it can't be pleasant. I wonder, do you do this on your own initiative, are is it on assignment by way of some da'wa committee in your local mosque? I'm curious.
Yom_mullah's gem (only a retarded green slime can say this): "Thus, Pakistan is like Israel". Barf, barf... Let us see now. Israel contributes so much to innovation and humanity. It even treats the avowed enemy (Palestinians) in its hospitals when specialist treatment cannot be provided by the "great" muslim states. [Same is true in my country where countless Porkistanis have been given specialist treatment, often free of charge]. Israel has given us the cell phone which Porkistanis and other muslim must not use because it is a Jewish invention. Israel has given us advances in medicine, data compression, avionics, and so on...
The list is long. Jews as an ethnic group have produced more Nobel winners than any other community and some of these Jews are based in Israel. Israel is a CIVILIZED society even though it is a Jewish state, and rightly so. Israelis don't go around and indulge in suicide bombings or kill others because they (others) are not Jews. Porkistan is the cesspool and epicentre of terrorism; Israel is a beacon of democracy and decency. If Porkistan is like Israel, then pigs can fly.
One thing Yom is right about in a bizarre way - take Islam out of Pakistan, and it will collapse. Politically. Just as taking Communism away from East Germany removed its only reason from being a separate country from West Germany, similarly, if Pakistan ceases to be Muslim, it loses its rationale for being a country separate from India.