The Pakistani Taliban has friends in high places, what with Pakistan’s spy service, the ISI, being implicated in involvement in the Mumbai jihad attack and other jihad plots. That may be one reason why it can act with increasing impunity. And why does it have friends in high places? Because there are people in the Pakistani government who share its understanding of Islam. But that is one fact that mainstream analysts are determined to ignore.
“More violence erupts near Pakistan’s busiest airport; Taliban vows ‘full-out war’,” by Holly Yan and Sophia Saifi, CNN, June 10, 2014
Karachi, Pakistan (CNN) — For the second time in two days, Pakistan’s largest and busiest airport was forced to shut down after militants launched a brazen attack on airport security forces.
Tuesday’s assault targeted the Airport Security Forces academy near Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, the airport’s manager told CNN’s Saima Mohsin in Karachi.
Security forces told CNN that an unknown number of gunmen attacked the academy’s entrance and were met with an armed response. The attackers fled, and no one was killed in the attack, officials said.
Once again, the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.
“This wave of attacks will be continuing in retaliation for the shelling and atrocities of the government,” spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said by phone Tuesday from an undisclosed location.
Ten militants stormed the same airport’s cargo area late Sunday night, leading to an hours-long siege that left 36 people dead, including the assailants.
The Pakistani Taliban also claimed responsibility for that assault, saying the attack was retaliation for the death of former chief Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in November in North Waziristan.
The militant group, also known as the TTP, had warned of more carnage starting Tuesday.
Shahid said earlier this week that the Pakistani Taliban would engage “in a full-out war with the Pakistani state, starting on June 10.”…
Ashley says
Fuck! (Pardon my French).
UGH!
Islamisdeath says
Thank goodnes senator Speier informed us that they are not terrorists but a part of the fabric of that society. Otherwise this would upset me. Thank you so much Senator!
jewdog says
Maybe Pakistan will become the next Syria. Sure the ISI has jihadist DNA, but Islam is a loosely organized body lacking the discipline of a Vatican, so the ISI could easily be eclipsed by holier terrorists. As Daniel Greenfield likes to point out: big fleas have little fleas that are always trying to bite ’em, and the little flea have littler fleas and so on ad infinitum.
Transmaster says
And all of the while Pakistan has an unknown number of Shaheen-1, and 1A medium range nuclear tipped missiles. Oh how the Jihadists would love to get their hands on them.
umbra says
If one considers ISI to be a jihadist outfit, then it is likely jihadists are footsteps away from the pak nuke trigger. However, the standard run-of-the-mill jihadist would not know how to deploy anything more sophisticated than point-and-shoot weaponry. Therefore, if jihadists wish to launch nukes, they will have to infiltrate pak nuke forces, which may already be underway.
Sunil Shinde says
Pakistan has the nuclear weapons.
Imagine the scenario when TTP will one day seize those nukes…!
umbra says
If and when they do, one could only hope that they are illiterate and press the self-detonate button instead of the launch button.
Anonamustafa says
I hope they can disable those planes before the muslim “militants” get their hands on them.
Transmaster says
forget the planes, it is the missiles your have to worry about.
JS says
The timing of the 5 Taliban prisoners’ release is impeccable!
Islamisdeath says
Imam obama sure fired up those “fabric of society” taliban by handing them a giant win didn’t he?
Salah says
“The Pakistani Taliban has friends in high places…”
The White House?!?!
sidney penny says
“The Pakistani Taliban has friends in high places”
White House (USA) and Qatar
JIMJFOX says
“All-out war” is exactly what Pakistan needs. Identify and flush out the Taliban, encourage it to attack en mass, then annihilate the naive idiots.
JIMJFOX says
On second thought, this is just more Islamist bluster; IF they imagine they have the power to challenge the Pakistani military the west will be forced to intervene to secure the nukes.
These attacks are (in context) no more than pinpricks- they have NO effective heavy arms, no aircraft, no ships and no skills to operate them even if they had them. The Taliban’s chances of victory rest on infiltration; even then the majority of ordinary people want ordinary lives, not 72 virgins.
gravenimage says
What are “ordinary lives” for pious Muslims, Jim?
Devout Mohammedans are only too happy to live in Shari’ah-ridden hell-holes like Somalia, northern Nigeria, and Yemen.
Pakistan is *already* pretty bad—and there is a great deal of sympathy among “ordinary” Pakistani Muslims for making it much, much worse.
JIMJFOX says
Pious muslims don’t fit my perception of ‘ordinary people’ leading ‘ordinary lives’. Ordinary muslims are the ignorant ones who know nothing of the koran, sunnah, etc. Sadly they are the victims of the pious and find out too late just what the shariah does to their ordinary lives.
The war of civilizations may be closer than anyone dare predict; despite the West’s overwhelming technology it’s anyone’s guess who will prevail but SURELY we won’t stand by and allow the savages to take us all back to 7th century Arabia???
JH Laprime says
Merely a dress rehearsal for when the Americans attempt to exit Afghanistan on Barry’s schedule.
Daner says
Very interesting. The I.S.I has been implicated in alot of circumstances.
Including the aid to hide bin laden.
Walter Sieruk says
In at least one of the two Islamic airport jihadist attacks, the jihadists in those attacks were wearing suicide vests. A stated before this Islamic madness is the outcome of the Quranic teaching of a pardise with many virgins in it for Muslim who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31. This mad, irrational. odd, strange, far- fetched bizarre and nonsensical doctrine of such aplace and worse yet such a place for violent and deadly results in much mass murder and mayhem. As the French philosopher ,Voltaire, has written “As long as men continue to believe in absurities they will continue to commit atrocities.”
Margot says
If only Pakistan would stop supporting Israel! (Sarcasm)
gravenimage says
Pakistan: More jihad violence near nation’s busiest airport; Taliban vows “full-out war”
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And where is pious Muslimah Rezali Mehil to assure us that the taking of Pakistan’s largest airport—and ensuing death of twenty-seven people—was no big deal and that Pakistan is once again ‘open of business’?
gravenimage says
That should, of course, be ‘open for business’.