The Taliban jihadis were “disguised as security forces.” In Pakistan, however, you never know: with the ISI, the government’s intelligence service, aiding in jihad activity and sympathy for jihad terrorists in high places elsewhere in the government as well, these attacks could well have been actual security forces.
An update on this story. “27 dead as militants take over Pakistan’s busiest airport,” Reuters, June 8, 2014:
Taliban militants disguised as security forces stormed Pakistan’s busiest airport on Sunday and at least 27 people were killed in a night-long battle at one of the country’s most high-profile targets.
The assault on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan’s sprawling commercial hub of 18 million people, all but destroys prospects for peace talks between the Taliban and the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who came to power last year promising to find a negotiated solution to years of violence.
It also deals a heavy blow to Sharif’s efforts to attract more foreign investors to revive economic growth and raises questions about security at the country’s key installations.
The attack began just before midnight when 10 gunmen wearing military uniforms shot their way into the airport’s old terminal used mainly for charter and executive flights.
Gun battles raged through the night until security forces regained control of the airport at dawn. Passengers were evacuated and all flights were diverted.
The Pakistani Taliban, an alliance of insurgent groups fighting to topple the government and set up a sharia state, claimed responsibility, saying it was in response to army attacks on their strongholds along the Afghan border.
“It is a message to the Pakistan government that we are still alive to react over the killings of innocent people in bomb attacks on their villages,” said Shahidullah Shahid, a Taliban spokesman.
Pakistan’s paramilitary force said that the attackers were ethnic Uzbeks. Pakistani officials often blame foreign militants holed up in lawless areas on the Afghan border for staging attacks alongside the Pakistani Taliban around the country.
“Three militants blew themselves up and seven were killed by security forces,” Rizwan Akhtar, the regional head of the paramilitary Rangers, said in televised remarks. “The militants appear to be Uzbek.”…
But…but…Uzbekistan is full of moderates!!
Jay Boo says
Wonder where they got the money to finance this?
Possibly from a pre-payment on the Bergdahl swap.
Undaunted says
Like I was sayin’…
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2010/11/speculations.html
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2011/06/get-your-shit-in-one-bag.html
Rezali Mehil says
All,
It is good that only a modest 27 people had to “go away”…the Pakistani jawans did a good job getting the airport released and available for international service within one night (unlike the slow India effort on the Taj).
One fuel truck was unluckily on fire other than that …they managed to deal with the poorly trained uzbeks quite well and easily.
You can see that the Airport itself is a world class facility.
How/why did it happen?
They say that the Pakistani Taliban (i.e. the good Taliban) had their leader killed via an American drone attack (which also sadly killed two of his wives and several children) when he went to see them after his day at the office.
Why did the Uzbek’s got involved?
Well rumor is that one of his wives was from Uzbekistan ….learning Urdu and building bridges with the chaps back home. They were incensed to learn of the demise of the sister “who built bridges”.
Does this make Pakistan a failed state?
Certainly not …..Pakistan is open for business…..we have some excellent engineers , capital and foreign investment would show that we are as good or better than Indian engineers.
We have some beautiful ski slopes, fantastic countryside and foreigners are treated almost like royalty ….so once things have settled down….come and see for yourselves.
The food is some of the best in the world.
How do we solve this?
Well Nawaz Sharif..needs to shut down the American drone program….don’t let the Americans drone on as to how good their technology is….that it is women and children agnostic – it is not.
Demand that they put in capital investment instead (once things have quietened down) and rebuild the American-Pakistan relationship.
More Later…..
Rezali
john spielman says
poor Rezali, more excuses for Islam- that doctrine of demons that is tearing Pakistan apart. There can NEVER BE PEACE in Pakistan or any where else where Islam holds its evil sway because it is evil and evil is not and cannot be- UNITED. Thus the 1400 year old war between Sunni and Shia (and every one else) will continue until Jesus the Messiah and only Son of God (not Allah/Satan) returns and destroys all evil including Islam .
More later!
Jay Boo says
We need to cut off investment and send the money to India to fight against the Pakistani Islamist agenda.
We need to publicize Pakistan’s religious based genocide.
We need to boycott made in Pakistan products such as clothing.
Islamisdeath says
Evil one your evil brethern slaughter women and children right and left and you make excuses for them. So STFU with the boohoo women and children are killed. These same women and children would kill us in a heartbeat if we had not gotten them first. The reason they are killed in these attacks is because their husbands and families put them in harms way. Your brethern put them in the drones paths. Your brethern do not care that women and children are killed. Women are redundant and children are easy to make more of.
Truly you represent the pure evil that is islam in a way no other muslim poster can. You give us a look into the demented mind of the muslim.
Mirren10 says
”We have some beautiful ski slopes, fantastic countryside and foreigners are treated almost like royalty ….so once things have settled down….come and see for yourselves”
I see the repulsive rezali has finally given up the pretence he’s a ‘muslimah’ living in the UK.
”come and see for yourselves.”
No thanks, I’d rather stick needles in my eyes.
Pakistan is going to implode. Hope you’re sitting on top of the bomb, rezali.
gravenimage says
The repulsive Rezali Mehil wrote:
All,
It is good that only a modest 27 people had to “go away”
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This appalling Muslimah thinks that having *27 people* killed in an assault on a modern airport is “modest”. And why not? Mass murder in Jihad attacks is no big deal for pious Muslims. *Ugh*.
More:
…the Pakistani jawans did a good job getting the airport released and available for international service within one night (unlike the slow India effort on the Taj).
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Here’s Rezali Mehil slamming the Indians—specifically the Hindus—again. What she will not mention is that in both cases the Jihad attackers were out of Pakistan—the Mumbai attack with backing from Pakistan’s ISI.
And this case? Who knows—certainly, there is the possibility, as Robert Spencer notes, that these really were “security forces”. Pakistan is rife with sympathy and enabling of Jihad at the highest levels. Pakistan *at best* is ambivalent about Jihad. And how could it be otherwise? Pakistan, after all, is the “Land of the Pure”—and what is purer than violent Jihad terrorism?
More:
One fuel truck was unluckily on fire other than that …they managed to deal with the poorly trained uzbeks quite well and easily.
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Once again, Rezali Mehil shows her racist supremacy. But this was not so much an Uzbek attack as a *Jihad attack*—and she can’t have any problems with that as such.
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You can see that the Airport itself is a world class facility.
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Pakistan is a violent, chaotic sh*thole—we can see that.
More:
How/why did it happen?
They say that the Pakistani Taliban (i.e. the good Taliban) had their leader killed via an American drone attack (which also sadly killed two of his wives and several children) when he went to see them after his day at the office.
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The “good Taliban”? Yet another indication that Muslims use words differently than we do…
More:
Why did the Uzbek’s got involved?
Well rumor is that one of his wives was from Uzbekistan ….learning Urdu and building bridges with the chaps back home. They were incensed to learn of the demise of the sister “who built bridges”.
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Ah, yes—Muslims “building bridges” of murder and savagery. Lovely…
Who knows if Rezali Mehil’s ugly revenge fantasy is accurate or not? Certainly, the Taliban has attacked Pakistani targets many times, since even that Shari’ah state is regarded as “insufficiently Islamic” by the truly devout Taliban.
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Does this make Pakistan a failed state?
Certainly not …..Pakistan is open for business…..we have some excellent engineers , capital and foreign investment would show that we are as good or better than Indian engineers.
We have some beautiful ski slopes, fantastic countryside and foreigners are treated almost like royalty ….so once things have settled down….come and see for yourselves.
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Has Rezali Mehil decamped back to Pakistan? Perhaps so—even though she fled to civilized Britain to escape the persecution and threat of her more orthodox Sunni coreligionists.
As for those ski slopes—Maalam Jabba is Pakistan’s only ski resort, in the Karakoram mountains not far from the Swat Valley.
The resort was developed jointly by the Pakistani Tourism Development Corporation and its Austrian counterpart.
Unfortunately, the Taliban had taken over the Swat Valley and adjacent areas, and Pakistan had effectively lost control of the whole region by 2007. They were not able to open for the ski season that year, and the resort was effectively abandoned.
Then the Taliban burned the resort down in 2008, and severely damaged the ski-lifts and other facilities.
Recently the Pakistani army retook parts of the valley, and are supposedly rebuilding the ski slopes. The hotel is still a smoking ruin, though…
In other words, despite what Rezali Mehil would have you believe, you might have to put off that fabulous Pakistani ski vacation…
More:
How do we solve this?
Well Nawaz Sharif..needs to shut down the American drone program….don’t let the Americans drone on as to how good their technology is….that it is women and children agnostic – it is not.
Demand that they put in capital investment instead (once things have quietened down) and rebuild the American-Pakistan relationship.
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In other words, the filthy Kaffir should drop all of their attempts to oppose Jihad—and then fork even more money over to Dar-al-Islam.
But none of this, of course, would solve Pakistan’s problems.
The central problem is that Pakistan is a Shari’ah state—so of course it is a failed, chaotic mess. Further, wherever you have a Shari’ah state, you inevitably have even more pious Islamic Jihadist thugs who have decided that the state is “insufficiently Islamic”—that is the position of the Taliban here.
It is just the same in other Shari’ah hell-holes like Somalia, northern Nigeria, and Yemen. *Ugh*.
Ashley says
Hey graven!
I had hoped you would have addressed this gem from Rezali’s appalling comment. In my opinion, it stands alone in deserving what I have come to coin as “the gravenimage-comment-parsing-process.”
“The food is some of the best in the world.”
Rezail is essentially saying “yesterday was unfortunate. But Pakistan makes a damn decent corn dog. So lets move on…”
Mirren10 says
“The food is some of the best in the world.”
”Rezail is essentially saying “yesterday was unfortunate. But Pakistan makes a damn decent corn dog. So lets move on…”
🙂 🙂
gravenimage says
Thanks, Ashley.
Rezali Mehil—along with other Muslim posters here—offer a valuable if hideous glimpse into the Mohammedan mindset—ugly but quite valuable.
Mirren is really good at addressing Rezali’s vicious tripe, as well—and as a result often comes in for this evil Muslimah’s abuse—luckily, she can handle it!
As for Pakistani food—it *is* good. It is also virtually identical to northern Indian food—Pakistan really has little or no distinct cuisine of its own.
But as you note, this is irrelevant, in any case. There’s no cuisine on the face of the earth so good that it would make dealing with the horror of violent Jihad worthwhile.
Good to see you posting again recently—hope you’re doing well, Ashley.
Ashley says
Thank you, graven. I feel comfortable flying just under your wing as I re-enter the JW waters… Hope you don’t mind.
I’m not familiar with Pakistani cuisine, but I can tell you that giving it a whirl isn’t high on my bucket list.
Even IF Pakistan is world-renowned for serving up the finest goat pudding, I fail to see the relevance.
This was a barbaric terrorist attack at the Jannah International Airport. I found Razail’s attempt to make light of it highly offensive.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Ashley—Rezali Mehil was just trying to distract from the horror of Islam—and doing a pretty ham-fisted job of it.
Lakshmanan says
Is money a problem in Afghanistan?. Ruthless destruction of poppy plants( by aerial spray) is the only way to weaken all the violence emanating from Afghanistan. I believe British suggested it but U.S. did not agree. So, this will linger on for long, may be till Islam loses its grip on this side of the planet
Rezali Mehil says
Ehhhh!…is that some Indian making a suggestion?
Hello …HELLO….where are the rest of you caste ridden owners of little masters from which condoms slip?
If India thinks ruining poppy plants (which provides food for the Afghani family) is a solution …why don’t YOU do it …why wait for the Americans or the British?
Go back and hide under your little rock Hindoo….let the grownups talk…
More Later ….
Rezali
john spielman says
Dear Rezali: Insulting others seems to come naturally to you doesn’t it. Why not address the problem, which is ISLAM, nothing more nothing less. Islam is responsible for most terror attacks in the name of religion across the world. The violence by Hindus and Buddhists against mulims is negligible and Christians against muslims, nonexistent while ISLAM AND ISLAM alone claims killing and being killed in battle against unbelievers is the only guarantee of islamic paradise ( as debased as it is)>
Islamisdeath says
When i read your posts i feel like i am reading a message directly from satan himself. May the true God of Moses touch your evil heart and bring you out of darkness and into the light. How very evil you are.
Oliver says
i would rather a bullet pierce Mihel, and his or her fellow Islamic creatures–who kill or applaud killings of innocents.
On another matter–7 of the attackers-it seems died; were the other 20 also Muslims?
Rezali Mehil says
Don’t be such a dramas queen…are you an actor by profession?
BTW…how was the Islamic prayers at the Vatican (today?)
I’d love for the pontiff to take off that silly hat of his and wear an Islamic prayer out of respect.
More Later…
Rezali
gravenimage says
I’d love for the pontiff to take off that silly hat of his and wear an Islamic prayer out of respect.
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For Rezali Mehil and her thuggish supremacist coreligionists, “respect” means cringing capitulation. *Ugh*.
Champ says
When i read your posts i feel like i am reading a message directly from satan himself. May the true God of Moses touch your evil heart and bring you out of darkness and into the light. How very evil you are.
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I completely agree with you, Islamisdeath …yes, “rezali mehil” has a very dark and evil heart; and anything is possible by the power of prayer through Jesus Christ and a willing heart.
But as things stand, “rezali mehil” is just another lost cause serving an evil cause: islam.
Islamisdeath says
Rezali
I am Protestant and the Pope is just a man to me so your bullet missed. Btw drama is not plural there is no s on the end. I woll pray for the darkness within you to be lifted.
gravenimage says
The vile Rezali Mehil is insulting decent Hindu posters again—*Ugh*.
And her crude sneering at the supposed shortcomings of Hindu manhood is not only ludicrous and repulsive, it also makes absolutely no sense—unless she believes that conversion to Islam “adds inches”, since most Pakistani and Indian Muslims have Hindu ancestors.
And her implication that poppy growing is an innocent pursuit to provide food for the Afghani family is full of crap.
The opium trade *funds violent Jihad*—as she no doubt well knows—and approves.
Islamisdeath says
Muslim men turn everything back to sex in some twisted way. Rezali is almost definitely not a woman and likely an imam or person who considers themselves a teacher of some sort. A vessel for evil that is “rezali”
bicky says
To dear Rezali Mehil,
With tons and tons of love, and a very warm hug
“Certainly not …..Pakistan is open for business…..we have some excellent engineers , capital and foreign investment would show that we are as good or better than Indian engineers.”
hmmm, excellent engineers , maybe doctors as well eh,
i have not heard of any. The NUCLEAR SCIENTIST , A Q Khan was working at some nuclear installation in Belgium from where he took advantage of the naivety of the host kuffars and managed to run away with some classified knowhow.i have not heard of any technical wonder from pakistan except their ingenuity in carry suicide belts, some times in their arse, some time small children etc.
I have not seen the case of any successful paki engineers in the west, but have heard lots about chinese, Indian , korean, taiwanese, japs etc.
Pakis love to be taxi drivers, (where they get an opportunity to prey on kuffar women), plumbers , and they make excellent butchers, (in this they are born with raw talent )
One pakistani did win a Nobel for physics , but remember he was a heretic Ahmediya.
Now coming to doctors,
Most of the affluent go abroad for treatment, they even come to India, there was a recent case of a small girl who had a heart complication,she was successfully operated in Bangalore.
Keep dreaming , nothing wrong in day dreaming………………….
umbra says
Pakistan is truly a hole. It is repressive, technologically, socially and economically backwards. Because of its strategic location (adjacent to CIS, China and India), US is pumping it with funds. It would be much cheaper and efficient if the US ditch pakistan and get cosy with India. The Indians are far more reliable, cooperative, stronger (economically, technologically, militarily, politically, morally), stable and capable.
Makaveli X says
Filthy white devils staging terror attacks & blaming Muslims.
gravenimage says
The ludicrously self-styled “Makaveli X” wrote:
Filthy white devils staging terror attacks & blaming Muslims.
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Really? All 23,140 Jihad terror attacks all over the world since 9/11 were pulled off by “filthy white devils”?
And what of all the Jihadists—the greater majority of them bearing no resemblance whatsoever to “white devils”—who appear on video screaming “Allah Akbar” and advocating violent Jihad? This just shows how absurd this claim is.
And “Makaveli X”is almost certainly a Black Muslim. Orthodox Muslims consider Black Muslims to be heretics and abds—slaves.
Don’t expect any of these facts to change what passes for “Makaveli X’s” mind, though—pious Muslims in general have no use for reason.
Makaveli X says
Filthy white devils are responsible for the wars in the world
Oliver says
Why is it, if ” white devils” are responsible for “the wars in the world’–MUSLIMS ARE INVOLVED IN ALMOST ALL?
WHERE ARE THE ‘WHITE DEVILS” IN NIGERIA?’
CHINA?
YET MUSLIMS IN ALL OF THESE, AND MOST –IF NOT ALL-OF THE OTHERS.
get a life and get real or do the world a favor and killm yourself (and yoru followers) and go to the 72 virgins.
Carmichael says
Hi Everybody,
Is it a stretch to think that the latest activity is by an emboldened group of people who feel victorious and strong as a result of the 5 Taliban members being set free from Gitmo?
Thank you for allowing to comment, JW.
Walter Sieruk says
Many of these militant jihadists for Islam were wearing suicide vests in their murderous Islamic quest. Thye do this because they are so very much deluded into believing the “promise’ made by the Quran of some kind of paradise with many virgins in it for them if they dies for the cause of Islam, Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. The belief in this irrational ,oddn far-fetched, nonsensical Quranic doctrine has inspired many jihadist to engage in mass murders and also create much mayhem. The French philosopher ,Voltaire, had written “As long as men continue to believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”
Oliver says
PLEASE DO NOT CALL THEM SUICIDE VESTS. I BELIEVE ( BUT AM NOT SURE) THAT IT WAS FOX WHO GAVE IT THE PROPER NAME.
HOMICIDE VESTS; HOMICIDE BOMBINGS.
one can commit suicide without taking innocent people with them.