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Evidence that the jihad is indeed global, and not simply a series of various nationalist insurgent movements. Lal Masjid Update. By Dean Nelson and Ghulam Hasnain in the TimesOnline (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
AL-QAEDA’S leadership secretly directed the Islamic militants whose armed revolt at the Red Mosque in Islamabad ended last week with more than 100 deaths after it was stormed by the Pakistan army.According to senior intelligence officials, the troops who finally took control discovered letters from Osama Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. They were written to Abdul Rashid Ghazi and Abdul Aziz, the brothers who ran the mosque and adjacent madrasah.
Government sources said up to 18 foreign fighters -- including Uzbeks, Egyptians and several Afghans -- had arrived weeks before the final shootout and set up firing ranges to teach students, including children, how to handle weapons.
Al-Qaeda has wanted to open a Pakistan front in its global jihad since President Pervez Musharraf sided with America after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Diplomats were surprised by the speed with which the fugitive Zawahiri condemned the raid and called on Pakistanis to rise up against Musharraf.
The response to his appeal was equally swift. Twenty-seven soldiers were killed when a suicide attacker struck a military convoy in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border yesterday. At least 58 have been killed in bombings and shootings since the Red Mosque crisis began 12 days ago.
This weekend street protests were organised by religious parties as the government dispatched thousands more soldiers to its troubled North West Frontier province.
Posted by Robert at July 14, 2007 6:52 PM
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Greetings:
No letters from Osama?
al-Zawahri warned about high heels and burqas as Al-Qaeda OSHA violations.
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at July 14, 2007 7:03 PM
"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Rizana Nafeek, a 19-year housemaid from Sri Lanka, is on death row because the baby in her care died while she was bottle-feeding him. If her appeal is turned down, she will be taken to a public square to be publicly beheaded."
Our troops should leave Iraq now.
On their way home maybe they can swing by Saudi Arabia and hang all of the Saudi Royals and all of their Imams.
Just a mid afternoon thought.
Posted by: feralcat9 at July 14, 2007 7:24 PM
I just found this at the Jerusalem Post:
US armed forces in Iraq uncovered a field containing 50 Iranian-made rocket launchers, all aimed at a US army base, Israel Radio reported.
Thats all the info it had.
Posted by: Dar al-harb at July 14, 2007 7:27 PM
The violence in Pakistan cannot be blamed on the US occupation, although it is starting to resemble the Iraq and Afghan insurgencies.
It seems paradoxical that the government of an Islamic country would simultaneously claim to protect and promote Islam and at the same time come to fear it and fight against it. What better proof that Islam brings repression and chaos.
at July 14, 2007 7:30 PM
How come that on the one hand,the people who where killed are martyrs who have been chosen by God to enter paradise - then on the other hand the very same islamists who are saying this, also say that it will be bad for Musharraf that these people have been killed?
Posted by: Ken CleanAirSystem at July 14, 2007 7:34 PM
Dar al-harb,
Try this link:
http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/3843/152/
Cheers,
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com
Posted by: Doctor Bulldog at July 14, 2007 7:35 PM
Thanks Doctor Bulldog.That was a bit more info than my iota.
Posted by: Dar al-harb at July 14, 2007 8:03 PM
“Britain’s most senior generals have issued a blunt warning to Downing Street that the military campaign in Afghanistan is facing a catastrophic failure, a development that could lead to an Islamist government seizing power in neighboring Pakistan.
Amid fears that London and Washington are taking their eye off Afghanistan as they grapple with Iraq, the generals have told Number 10 that the collapse of the government in Afghanistan, headed by Hamid Karzai, would present a grave threat to the security of Britain.
‘The situation in Afghanistan is much worse than many people recognize,’ Inge told peers. ‘We need to face up to that issue, the consequence of strategic failure in Afghanistan and what that would mean for NATO… We need to recognize that the situation - in my view, and I have recently been in Afghanistan - is much, much more serious than people want to recognize.’
‘The consequences of failure in Afghanistan are far greater than in Iraq,’ he said. ‘If we fail in Afghanistan then Pakistan goes down. The security problems for Britain would be massively multiplied.
The warnings from Ashdown and the generals on Afghanistan will be echoed in a report this week by the all-party Commons defense select committee. MPs will say that the combination of civilian casualties, war damage and US-led efforts to eradicate lucrative poppy crops risk turning ordinary people towards the Taliban.
Adam Holloway, a Tory member of the committee who is a former Grenadier Guards officer, said: ‘We are getting to the point where it will be irretrievable. That’s where we are now. We are in danger of a second strategic failure [after Iraq], which we cannot afford.’”
Inge’s remarks reflect the fears of serving generals that the government is so overwhelmed by Iraq that it is in danger of losing sight of the threat of failure in Afghanistan.
at July 14, 2007 8:14 PM
"The war on terror is just a bumper sticker"...the words of an idiot or a traitor?
Posted by: Alaskan at July 14, 2007 8:45 PM
Mad Mullah’s vs Squirrels: Squirrels are winning!
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/07/15/mad-mullahs-vs-squirrels-squirrels-are-winning/
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at July 14, 2007 8:48 PM
huh, according to some muslim pakistani professor at oxford, as interviewed by the BBC (why?), it's all the fault of America's involvement and interference in Pakistan's North West Frontier.
Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at July 14, 2007 8:50 PM
I deem it karaoke night at jihadwatch. Sing along. Progressive, you already know the words. :-)
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1285
at July 14, 2007 9:11 PM
Bin laden ?
To what extent do Mohammad's teaching have on Bin laden's actions? Anyone asking that?
Bueller?
at July 14, 2007 9:41 PM
Mo would be proud of OBL.
Posted by: Elric66 at July 14, 2007 9:42 PM
Just a bit OT I've been trying to find out what Bin Laden and Al Quaeda (possibly) had to do with the massacres in Rwadnda (tribal hatreds and slaughters (early 90's) Hutsu and Tutsi?!) Heard there are AlQ connections but from having searched the www, not much coming up maybe I'm not going about my search the right way, I'm not particularly web-savvy. If anyone has any info in this regard, please advise.
Posted by: j_not_a at July 15, 2007 12:32 AM
j_not_a-
From what I've read about Rwanda (after the gruesome Hutu on Tutsi massacres), the Muslims were a minority who weren't targeted by either side, even though they included both Hutus and Tutsis, and some sheltered Tutusis and moderate Hutus from the chaos and carnage, winning their admiration.
And now, some Hutus are converting to Islam after the grotesque example of their btrayal by some Christian churches in Rwanda (although many priests died in the slaughter, several priests who betrayed their flocks have been sentenced to death, and this bad example is making more of a living and bad impression than the fading memory of the valient martyred priests).
Saudi money is moving in to try to add a Whabbi influence to the local, less-radical Muslim scene.
A disaster made worse.
Posted by: profitsbeard at July 15, 2007 1:31 AM
Elric66, karaoke night was fun for the first few bars of an old favorite, My Cherie Amour. But it didn't last, perhaps because my singing was little flat. Actually, I think it was the new lyrics.
Posted by: Last is First at July 15, 2007 1:50 AM
...the Red Mosque was a Red Herring...Al-Qaeda sacrificed its own supporters to further their hate agenda....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at July 16, 2007 5:42 AM
It IS a red herring...they were set up to die to allow Zawahiri the opportunity to say, "See? Musharraf is bad! Rise up against this evil government!"
EVERYTHING is a red herring with these people.
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This is why I don't think it matters whether or not we're in Iraq or Afghanistan or Germany, for that matter.
No matter where we are or what we do, we are the Great Satan.
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I commented at work last week that I'd start with anyone who has nuclear weapons or will have 'em within 18 months, take 'em to task (so to speak), then stand with my fists on my hips and ask "Who's next to be our enemy? Line up!"
The guy I was talking to asked me if I'd run for President. :))
I told him that I'm just too direct & honest for politics today.
Posted by: Miss_Anthrope at July 16, 2007 9:18 AM
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