*** More proof of the failure of Jihadi nutjobs: you have killed more in 2 weeks than NATO has done in two MONTHs. Oh yes, Rasullullah would be so proud! I'm SURE this is what he (SallAllahu alayhi wa sallam) had in mind. Amazing the audacity to think you can get away with this level of killing - something that holds true for all parties to conflict. MS ***
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100917/world/as_pakistan
PARACHINAR, Pakistan - A Pakistani police official says fighting between two tribes near the border with Afghanistan has killed 102 people over the last two weeks.
Jalil Khan says 48 people died Friday in the dispute over access to water in the Kurram region.
There have been frequent bouts of deadly tribal and sectarian fighting in the region over the last few years.
Khan says one tribe consists of minority Shia Muslims while the other is Sunni.
Kurram and other parts of the border region are also home to Sunni Islamist militants and al-Qaida.
Some reports from the remote region have said the militants may have a role in the conflict.
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
PAKISTAN SUICIDE BOMBING OF SUFI SHRINE
*** Sufi's were always known to be both pious as well as law-abiding. They are the total opposite of the barbarians crusading around in the name of Islam. There WAS no Islamic terrorism before the early 1950's - it is a recent scourge that plagues the world through the darkness of its philosophy; to kill, maim and otherwise be mean-faced and scowling.
Sufi's - as they are sometimes termed - have been around for CENTURIES and are among the most loving, kind and peaceful people - so good that people visit their graves LONG, LONG after they've left this earth.
These extremist dogs are just jealous. MS ***
FROM: LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three suicide bombers struck a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and wounding 45, officials said.
A large number of devotees were visiting the shrine of the Persian Sufi saint, Syed Ali Hajwairi, in the heart of the city when the attacks occurred.
"One attack took place at the gate of the shrine and two were in the basement," Sajjad Bhutta, the top city administrator, told Reuters.
The shrine at Data Darbar is one of the most famous in Pakistan, attracting hundreds of devotees every night, with Thursdays being the most popular nights. The complex includes a mosque and a police station in the basement.
Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, has suffered from frequent violence in recent weeks. More than 80 people were killed in twin attacks on the mosques of the minority Ahmadi sect in May.
Sufi's - as they are sometimes termed - have been around for CENTURIES and are among the most loving, kind and peaceful people - so good that people visit their graves LONG, LONG after they've left this earth.
These extremist dogs are just jealous. MS ***
FROM: LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three suicide bombers struck a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and wounding 45, officials said.
A large number of devotees were visiting the shrine of the Persian Sufi saint, Syed Ali Hajwairi, in the heart of the city when the attacks occurred.
"One attack took place at the gate of the shrine and two were in the basement," Sajjad Bhutta, the top city administrator, told Reuters.
The shrine at Data Darbar is one of the most famous in Pakistan, attracting hundreds of devotees every night, with Thursdays being the most popular nights. The complex includes a mosque and a police station in the basement.
Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, has suffered from frequent violence in recent weeks. More than 80 people were killed in twin attacks on the mosques of the minority Ahmadi sect in May.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
GUNMEN KILL PEACE BROKER & MUSLIM SCHOLAR
*** HOW is it possible that this understanding of Islam is that of the Prophet of Allah, Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)? HOW many children and women will you kill in the name of Allah? In the time of Jaahiliya (days of pre-Islamic ignorance) female infants were buried alive - Allah asks us in the Quran, 'for what what sin were you killed'? HOW do you justify taking the lives of Muslims - even the scholars - so easily, I cannot for the life of me, understand. This is has gone way out of the bounds of Shariah, way out of bounds. MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100520/world/international_us_pakistan_violence
Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen killed on Thursday a leading Islamic cleric who helped broker peace deals between the government and Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern South Waziristan region, an aide and officials said.
The cleric, Malik Mirajuddin, was gunned down in a pre-dawn attack in Tank, a volatile town bordering South Waziristan.
"Two men driving on a motorbike sprayed bullets on Maulana Mirajuddin as he was walking to his home after offering prayers in a nearby mosque," Niaz Mohammad Qureshi, an aide to Mirajuddin told Reuters.
A police official in Tank said Mirajuddin sustained serious wounds and died on his way to hospital.
Neither Qureshi nor police official commented on who could be behind Mirajuddin's murder. No one claimed responsibility for the killing.
Militants have killed hundreds of tribal elders and government officials in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt along the Afghan border over recent years. Many were killed on suspicion of spying.
Pakistan's army launched a major offensive in the militant stronghold of South Waziristan last October, killing hundreds of insurgents and destroying their major bases.
Mirajuddin was a former member of parliament and a senior member of a pro-Taliban Islamic group, Jamiat-e-ulema-e-Islam.
He was instrumental in a peace deal between the government and Taliban in 2005. He was also a senior member of a committee of tribal elders that brokered a ceasefire between the government and Baitullah Mehsud, then Pakistani Taliban chief, in 2007. Mehsud was killed in a missile strike by U.S. drone aircraft in South Waziristan last year.
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100520/world/international_us_pakistan_violence
Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen killed on Thursday a leading Islamic cleric who helped broker peace deals between the government and Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern South Waziristan region, an aide and officials said.
The cleric, Malik Mirajuddin, was gunned down in a pre-dawn attack in Tank, a volatile town bordering South Waziristan.
"Two men driving on a motorbike sprayed bullets on Maulana Mirajuddin as he was walking to his home after offering prayers in a nearby mosque," Niaz Mohammad Qureshi, an aide to Mirajuddin told Reuters.
A police official in Tank said Mirajuddin sustained serious wounds and died on his way to hospital.
Neither Qureshi nor police official commented on who could be behind Mirajuddin's murder. No one claimed responsibility for the killing.
Militants have killed hundreds of tribal elders and government officials in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt along the Afghan border over recent years. Many were killed on suspicion of spying.
Pakistan's army launched a major offensive in the militant stronghold of South Waziristan last October, killing hundreds of insurgents and destroying their major bases.
Mirajuddin was a former member of parliament and a senior member of a pro-Taliban Islamic group, Jamiat-e-ulema-e-Islam.
He was instrumental in a peace deal between the government and Taliban in 2005. He was also a senior member of a committee of tribal elders that brokered a ceasefire between the government and Baitullah Mehsud, then Pakistani Taliban chief, in 2007. Mehsud was killed in a missile strike by U.S. drone aircraft in South Waziristan last year.
Monday, May 10, 2010
ALMOST 100 KILLED & OVER 140 INJURED IN IRAQ FROM BOMBINGS
*** Just wonderful. The magical Islam-land that is built on the bloodied bodies of fellow Muslims. And this is the Jihad according to you? WHAT could you possibly say to Allah on the Day of Judgment? MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100510/world/world_iraq_attack_suicide_bombings
Iraq experienced its worst day of violence this year on Monday as 99 people died in a series of bombings and attacks across the country.
A pair of bombings in the southern city of Basra killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The worst attack of the day took play in the Shia city of Hillah, where at least 45 people died in a triple bombing outside a textile factory.
The day's violence began earlier in the day in the capital city of Baghdad, where at least 10 people died in a series of attacks on police and army checkpoints.
In that attack, assailants wearing the uniforms of city-employed cleaners drove by the checkpoints and sprayed them with gunfire from weapons with silencers.
In Hillah, which is about 95 kilometres south of Baghdad, a suicide bomber ignited his explosives in a crowd of people helping victims of two earlier car bombings, said Babil provincial police spokesman Maj. Muthana Khalid.
About 140 people were wounded in the triple bombings.
"Terrified people were running in different directions," said Jassim Znad Abid, a taxi driver.
"I saw dead people, some burned and crying, wounded people on the ground that was covered with pools of blood. Dozens of wounded people asking for help were lying on the ground."
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100510/world/world_iraq_attack_suicide_bombings
Iraq experienced its worst day of violence this year on Monday as 99 people died in a series of bombings and attacks across the country.
A pair of bombings in the southern city of Basra killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The worst attack of the day took play in the Shia city of Hillah, where at least 45 people died in a triple bombing outside a textile factory.
The day's violence began earlier in the day in the capital city of Baghdad, where at least 10 people died in a series of attacks on police and army checkpoints.
In that attack, assailants wearing the uniforms of city-employed cleaners drove by the checkpoints and sprayed them with gunfire from weapons with silencers.
In Hillah, which is about 95 kilometres south of Baghdad, a suicide bomber ignited his explosives in a crowd of people helping victims of two earlier car bombings, said Babil provincial police spokesman Maj. Muthana Khalid.
About 140 people were wounded in the triple bombings.
"Terrified people were running in different directions," said Jassim Znad Abid, a taxi driver.
"I saw dead people, some burned and crying, wounded people on the ground that was covered with pools of blood. Dozens of wounded people asking for help were lying on the ground."
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
3 DEAD KIDS + 70(+) WOUNDED = 3 TROOPS KILLED ?!
*** You kill CHILDREN and you call yourselves Muslims? 3 soldiers are worth hurting over SEVENTY innocent people? This is the Devil's Logic O Taliban, and the devil himself takes credit for this heinous act. MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100203/world/as_pakistan
SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan - A roadside bomb killed 3 U.S. soldiers and flattened a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack that drew attention to a little-publicized American military training mission in the al-Qaida and Taliban heartland.
They were the first known U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions near the Afghan border, and a major victory for militants who have been hit hard by a surge of U.S. missile strikes and a major Pakistani army offensive.
The blast also killed three schoolgirls and a Pakistani soldier who was travelling with the Americans. Two more U.S. soldiers were wounded, along with more than 70 other people, mostly students, officials said.
The attack took place in Lower Dir, which like much of the northwest is home to pockets of militants. The Pakistani army launched a major operation in Lower Dir and the nearby Swat Valley last year that succeeded in pushing the insurgents out, but isolated attacks have continued.
The Americans were travelling with Pakistani security officers in a five-car convoy that was hit by a roadside bomb close to the Koto Girls High School. The blast flattened much of the school, leaving books, bags and pens strewn in the rubble.
"What was the fault of these innocent students?" said Mohammed Dawood, a resident who helped police dig the injured from the debris.
The soldiers were in the region as part of a U.S. mission to train members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, Pakistan's army and the U.S. Embassy said.
They were driving Wednesday to attend the inauguration of a girl's school which had been renovated with U.S. humanitarian assistance, the embassy said in a statement. The school that was badly damaged in the blast was not the one where the convoy was heading, security officials said.
The blast was detonated by remote control, police said. It was not clear whether the attackers knew the convoy was carrying soldiers.
The attack highlights the presence of U.S. troops on Pakistani soil at a time when anti-American sentiment is running high. U.S. and Pakistani authorities rarely talk about the American training program in the northwest out of fear it could generate a backlash.
In a statement, the U.S. Embassy said three American military personnel were killed and two were wounded in the attack.
Two Pakistani reporters travelling in same convoy as the Americans said Pakistani military guides referred to the foreigners travelling with them as journalists. Initial reports of the attack, which proved incorrect, said four foreign journalists had been killed.
Mohammad Israr Khan, who works for Khyber TV, said two of the foreigners were wearing civilian clothes, not uniforms or traditional Pakistani dress.
"When our convoy reached near a school in Shahi Koto, I heard a blast," Express TV reporter Amjad Ali Shah said. "Our driver lost control and something hit me and I fell unconscious."
A small contingent of U.S. troops have been training Pakistan's Frontier Corps since at least 2008, officials from both countries have said. The corps is a major force in the northwest, but they have long been under-equipped and under-trained, making them a feeble front line against militants.
The training program was never officially announced, a sign of the sensitivity for the Pakistani government of allowing U.S. troops on its territory. Frontier Corps officials have said the course includes classroom and field sessions. U.S. officials have said the program is a "train-the-trainer" program, and that the Americans are not carrying out operations.
Despite the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistan does not permit American troops to conduct military operations on its soil.
After the bombing, the bodies of three foreigners and two injured were flown by helicopter to Islamabad and then taken to the city's Al-Shifa hospital, said a doctor there who asked his name not be used citing the sensitivity of the case. One of the injured had minor head wounds and the other had multiple fractures.
Pakistani army and intelligence officers were present and did not allow visitors into the building.
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100203/world/as_pakistan
SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan - A roadside bomb killed 3 U.S. soldiers and flattened a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack that drew attention to a little-publicized American military training mission in the al-Qaida and Taliban heartland.
They were the first known U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions near the Afghan border, and a major victory for militants who have been hit hard by a surge of U.S. missile strikes and a major Pakistani army offensive.
The blast also killed three schoolgirls and a Pakistani soldier who was travelling with the Americans. Two more U.S. soldiers were wounded, along with more than 70 other people, mostly students, officials said.
The attack took place in Lower Dir, which like much of the northwest is home to pockets of militants. The Pakistani army launched a major operation in Lower Dir and the nearby Swat Valley last year that succeeded in pushing the insurgents out, but isolated attacks have continued.
The Americans were travelling with Pakistani security officers in a five-car convoy that was hit by a roadside bomb close to the Koto Girls High School. The blast flattened much of the school, leaving books, bags and pens strewn in the rubble.
"What was the fault of these innocent students?" said Mohammed Dawood, a resident who helped police dig the injured from the debris.
The soldiers were in the region as part of a U.S. mission to train members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, Pakistan's army and the U.S. Embassy said.
They were driving Wednesday to attend the inauguration of a girl's school which had been renovated with U.S. humanitarian assistance, the embassy said in a statement. The school that was badly damaged in the blast was not the one where the convoy was heading, security officials said.
The blast was detonated by remote control, police said. It was not clear whether the attackers knew the convoy was carrying soldiers.
The attack highlights the presence of U.S. troops on Pakistani soil at a time when anti-American sentiment is running high. U.S. and Pakistani authorities rarely talk about the American training program in the northwest out of fear it could generate a backlash.
In a statement, the U.S. Embassy said three American military personnel were killed and two were wounded in the attack.
Two Pakistani reporters travelling in same convoy as the Americans said Pakistani military guides referred to the foreigners travelling with them as journalists. Initial reports of the attack, which proved incorrect, said four foreign journalists had been killed.
Mohammad Israr Khan, who works for Khyber TV, said two of the foreigners were wearing civilian clothes, not uniforms or traditional Pakistani dress.
"When our convoy reached near a school in Shahi Koto, I heard a blast," Express TV reporter Amjad Ali Shah said. "Our driver lost control and something hit me and I fell unconscious."
A small contingent of U.S. troops have been training Pakistan's Frontier Corps since at least 2008, officials from both countries have said. The corps is a major force in the northwest, but they have long been under-equipped and under-trained, making them a feeble front line against militants.
The training program was never officially announced, a sign of the sensitivity for the Pakistani government of allowing U.S. troops on its territory. Frontier Corps officials have said the course includes classroom and field sessions. U.S. officials have said the program is a "train-the-trainer" program, and that the Americans are not carrying out operations.
Despite the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistan does not permit American troops to conduct military operations on its soil.
After the bombing, the bodies of three foreigners and two injured were flown by helicopter to Islamabad and then taken to the city's Al-Shifa hospital, said a doctor there who asked his name not be used citing the sensitivity of the case. One of the injured had minor head wounds and the other had multiple fractures.
Pakistani army and intelligence officers were present and did not allow visitors into the building.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
16 INNOCENT PEOPLE TO KILL 2 COPS ?
*** Killing your own Muslim countrymen. More proof that these people are Mujrimeen (criminals) not Mujahideen (holy warriors). Don't worry - no Muslim will be protesting the killings. MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100130/world/as_pakistan
KHAR, Pakistan - A suicide bomber killed 16 people Saturday at a police checkpoint in a northwest Pakistani tribal area where the military declared victory over the Taliban and al-Qaida last year, highlighting the difficulty Islamabad has in holding regions once the battle phase of its army offensives end.
Elsewhere in the lawless tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, suspected U.S. missiles killed nine alleged militants, intelligence officials said.
Fourteen civilians and two police officers died in the suicide attack in the Bajur tribal region, while 20 people were wounded, local government official Bakhat Pacha said. The attacker, on foot, struck a market area in the region's main town, Khar, he said.
Some of the wounded were in critical condition at hospitals, he said.
The attack came a day after officials said security forces had killed 44 militants in three days of battles on the outskirts of Khar.
Pakistan waged a major military offensive against Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents in Bajur in 2008, declaring victory over the militants by February 2009. But in recent weeks, clashes and now this latest suicide attack have signalled a deteriorating security situation in the area.
The violence comes as Pakistan's army has focused on an offensive in South Waziristan tribal region, the primary stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. That military operation is believed to have led many militants to flee to other parts of the tribal belt.
The U.S. has praised the Pakistani operations, but also wants Islamabad to pursue militants in North Waziristan, where many of the insurgent groups are focused on battling Western troops across the border in Afghanistan.
Washington has waged its own fight in Pakistan's tribal territories through its covert CIA-led missile program.
Overnight Saturday, three suspected U.S. missiles hit a compound and a bunker in the Mohammad Khel area of North Waziristan, part of a surge of the drone-fired strikes, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The mountainous area is where a suspected U.S. drone is reported to have crashed on Jan. 24, they added.
Two missiles in Saturday's attack hit the compound being used by the militants, killing seven of them, the intelligence officials said. The third killed two more insurgents in the bunker, they said.
Another such missile strike early this month targeted a meeting of militant commanders in an apparently unsuccessful attempt to kill Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud.
The Pakistani Taliban are believed to have played a role in the Dec. 30 suicide bombing of a remote CIA base in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province that killed seven of the agency's employees. Analysts suspect the Haqqani network, an al-Qaida-linked Afghan Taliban faction based in North Waziristan, also helped carry out the CIA attack.
Since the CIA was hit, the U.S. has carried out 13 suspected drone strikes in North and South Waziristan, an unprecedented volley of attacks since the missile program began in earnest in Pakistan two years ago.
The three officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to the media.
The U.S. does not usually comment on the strikes or their targets, but officials have said in the past that they have taken out several senior al-Qaida and Taliban leaders. The Pakistani government publicly condemns the strikes as violations of its sovereignty, yet it is thought to have a secret deal with Washington allowing them.
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100130/world/as_pakistan
KHAR, Pakistan - A suicide bomber killed 16 people Saturday at a police checkpoint in a northwest Pakistani tribal area where the military declared victory over the Taliban and al-Qaida last year, highlighting the difficulty Islamabad has in holding regions once the battle phase of its army offensives end.
Elsewhere in the lawless tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, suspected U.S. missiles killed nine alleged militants, intelligence officials said.
Fourteen civilians and two police officers died in the suicide attack in the Bajur tribal region, while 20 people were wounded, local government official Bakhat Pacha said. The attacker, on foot, struck a market area in the region's main town, Khar, he said.
Some of the wounded were in critical condition at hospitals, he said.
The attack came a day after officials said security forces had killed 44 militants in three days of battles on the outskirts of Khar.
Pakistan waged a major military offensive against Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents in Bajur in 2008, declaring victory over the militants by February 2009. But in recent weeks, clashes and now this latest suicide attack have signalled a deteriorating security situation in the area.
The violence comes as Pakistan's army has focused on an offensive in South Waziristan tribal region, the primary stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. That military operation is believed to have led many militants to flee to other parts of the tribal belt.
The U.S. has praised the Pakistani operations, but also wants Islamabad to pursue militants in North Waziristan, where many of the insurgent groups are focused on battling Western troops across the border in Afghanistan.
Washington has waged its own fight in Pakistan's tribal territories through its covert CIA-led missile program.
Overnight Saturday, three suspected U.S. missiles hit a compound and a bunker in the Mohammad Khel area of North Waziristan, part of a surge of the drone-fired strikes, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The mountainous area is where a suspected U.S. drone is reported to have crashed on Jan. 24, they added.
Two missiles in Saturday's attack hit the compound being used by the militants, killing seven of them, the intelligence officials said. The third killed two more insurgents in the bunker, they said.
Another such missile strike early this month targeted a meeting of militant commanders in an apparently unsuccessful attempt to kill Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud.
The Pakistani Taliban are believed to have played a role in the Dec. 30 suicide bombing of a remote CIA base in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province that killed seven of the agency's employees. Analysts suspect the Haqqani network, an al-Qaida-linked Afghan Taliban faction based in North Waziristan, also helped carry out the CIA attack.
Since the CIA was hit, the U.S. has carried out 13 suspected drone strikes in North and South Waziristan, an unprecedented volley of attacks since the missile program began in earnest in Pakistan two years ago.
The three officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to the media.
The U.S. does not usually comment on the strikes or their targets, but officials have said in the past that they have taken out several senior al-Qaida and Taliban leaders. The Pakistani government publicly condemns the strikes as violations of its sovereignty, yet it is thought to have a secret deal with Washington allowing them.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
KILLING MORE MUSLIMS IN PAKISTAN - DECLARING THE CALIPHATE WITH DETONATIONS?!
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091230/world/international_us_pakistan_violence
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 43 people in the commercial capital Karachi, and threatened more attacks on the U.S. ally.
"My group claims responsibility for the Karachi attack and we will carry out more such attacks, within 10 days," said Asmatullah Shaheen, one of the commanders of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, who spoke by telephone to a Reuters reporter in Peshawar.
The prospect of more violence comes at a tricky time for Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, who already faces political heat because corruption charges against some of his aides may be revived.
And Zardari has yet to formulate a more effective strategy against the Pakistani Taliban, despite relentless pressure from Washington, which wants his government to root out militants who cross over to attack U.S. and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan and then return to their Pakistan strongholds.
The scale of his troubles were clear on Monday, when a suicide bomber defied heavy security around a Shi'ite procession in Karachi, killing 43 people and triggering riots.
In a sign of mounting frustrations, Karachi religious and political leaders called for a strike for Friday to condemn that attack, one of the worst in the city since 2007.
HUNDREDS KILLED
The bloodshed illustrated how the Taliban, whose strongholds are in the tribal, lawless northwest, have extended their reach to major cities in their drive to topple the government.
More than a dozen factions based in different parts of northwest Pakistan formed the TTP, or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, a loose umbrella group, in late 2007.
Taliban bombings have killed hundreds of people since October, despite a major army offensive against them, and attacks by pilotless U.S. drone aircraft.
Shaheen heads one of the group in the TTP. The government has put a 10 million rupees ($120,000) price on his head.
The Taliban have infuriated many Pakistanis with public hangings and whippings of those who disobey their hardline brand of Islam.
But Zardari's ties with Washington are also deeply unpopular. The Karachi bomb suggested growing violence has raised suspicions of Pakistan's government.
"The organized way that all this is being done clearly shows that the terrorists are being sponsored either by the government itself or some other state that wants to destabilize Pakistan," said Noman Ahmed, who works for a Karachi clearing agency.
Pakistan's all-powerful military sets security policy. So the key gauge of public confidence may be how the army's performance is viewed. In the 1980s, it nurtured militants who fought Soviet occupation troops in Afghanistan. Then the Taliban emerged in the 1990's after a civil war tore apart Afghanistan.
Now Pakistan's army faces brazen homegrown militants. If it does what Washington wants it to -- wipe out militants who operate in Afghanistan -- it may lose what is sees as vital leverage in Afghanistan when U.S. troops pull out.
"I don't buy that foreign hands are involved (in the Karachi attack). They're domestic elements. They're those who were nurtured, trained and protected in late 1990s," said Sajid Ali Naqvi, head of the influential Shi'ites' Islami Tehrik movement.
The bombing was one of the bloodiest in Karachi since an October 2007 attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on her return to the country that killed at least 139 people.
A murky network of Pakistani militants complicates the government's counter-insurgency efforts.
"The fact that they (Taliban) have accepted responsibility doesn't really mean they would have done it," said Mehmood Shah, former security chief in Pakistan's tribal areas.
"There are so many groups which are independent, yet when the Taliban come to know of such incidents, they take responsibility in order to take credit."
(For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan
(Additional reporting by Kamran Haider, Augustine Anthony and Alamgir Bitani; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Alex Richardson)
*** Wonderful, just wonderful O Holiest Warriors of Allah. What would the Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) think about these tactics that have seen more Muslims die by Muslim hands in the name of Islam MUCH MORE than any drone strike or military assault could ever accomplish. MS ***
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 43 people in the commercial capital Karachi, and threatened more attacks on the U.S. ally.
"My group claims responsibility for the Karachi attack and we will carry out more such attacks, within 10 days," said Asmatullah Shaheen, one of the commanders of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, who spoke by telephone to a Reuters reporter in Peshawar.
The prospect of more violence comes at a tricky time for Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, who already faces political heat because corruption charges against some of his aides may be revived.
And Zardari has yet to formulate a more effective strategy against the Pakistani Taliban, despite relentless pressure from Washington, which wants his government to root out militants who cross over to attack U.S. and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan and then return to their Pakistan strongholds.
The scale of his troubles were clear on Monday, when a suicide bomber defied heavy security around a Shi'ite procession in Karachi, killing 43 people and triggering riots.
In a sign of mounting frustrations, Karachi religious and political leaders called for a strike for Friday to condemn that attack, one of the worst in the city since 2007.
HUNDREDS KILLED
The bloodshed illustrated how the Taliban, whose strongholds are in the tribal, lawless northwest, have extended their reach to major cities in their drive to topple the government.
More than a dozen factions based in different parts of northwest Pakistan formed the TTP, or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, a loose umbrella group, in late 2007.
Taliban bombings have killed hundreds of people since October, despite a major army offensive against them, and attacks by pilotless U.S. drone aircraft.
Shaheen heads one of the group in the TTP. The government has put a 10 million rupees ($120,000) price on his head.
The Taliban have infuriated many Pakistanis with public hangings and whippings of those who disobey their hardline brand of Islam.
But Zardari's ties with Washington are also deeply unpopular. The Karachi bomb suggested growing violence has raised suspicions of Pakistan's government.
"The organized way that all this is being done clearly shows that the terrorists are being sponsored either by the government itself or some other state that wants to destabilize Pakistan," said Noman Ahmed, who works for a Karachi clearing agency.
Pakistan's all-powerful military sets security policy. So the key gauge of public confidence may be how the army's performance is viewed. In the 1980s, it nurtured militants who fought Soviet occupation troops in Afghanistan. Then the Taliban emerged in the 1990's after a civil war tore apart Afghanistan.
Now Pakistan's army faces brazen homegrown militants. If it does what Washington wants it to -- wipe out militants who operate in Afghanistan -- it may lose what is sees as vital leverage in Afghanistan when U.S. troops pull out.
"I don't buy that foreign hands are involved (in the Karachi attack). They're domestic elements. They're those who were nurtured, trained and protected in late 1990s," said Sajid Ali Naqvi, head of the influential Shi'ites' Islami Tehrik movement.
The bombing was one of the bloodiest in Karachi since an October 2007 attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on her return to the country that killed at least 139 people.
A murky network of Pakistani militants complicates the government's counter-insurgency efforts.
"The fact that they (Taliban) have accepted responsibility doesn't really mean they would have done it," said Mehmood Shah, former security chief in Pakistan's tribal areas.
"There are so many groups which are independent, yet when the Taliban come to know of such incidents, they take responsibility in order to take credit."
(For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan
(Additional reporting by Kamran Haider, Augustine Anthony and Alamgir Bitani; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Alex Richardson)
*** Wonderful, just wonderful O Holiest Warriors of Allah. What would the Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) think about these tactics that have seen more Muslims die by Muslim hands in the name of Islam MUCH MORE than any drone strike or military assault could ever accomplish. MS ***
Friday, December 11, 2009
HOW MANY MUSLIMS HAVE WE KILLED TODAY?
Al-Qaeda More ‘Indiscriminate’ in Killing Muslims, Report Says
By Ed Johnson
SOURCE: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aoJoQdeJ_TQo
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Al-Qaeda has become “increasingly indiscriminate” in attacks that kill mostly Muslims in countries including Iraq and Pakistan, according to a study released by the U.S. Military Academy’s counterterrorism center.
From 2004 to 2008, 15 percent of al-Qaeda’s victims were Western, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point said in a report. Only 2 percent were from the West between 2006 and 2008.
The network has “limited capability to strike against its Western enemies” and “maintains its relevance by attacking countries with Muslim majorities,” according to the center. “If history provides a glimpse into the future, the group and its associates will pose the greatest threat to fellow Muslims.”
Al-Qaeda has been criticized in the Middle East over bombings that have claimed Muslim lives and in late 2007 the network’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri participated in an online forum in which he defended such attacks. He blamed the West for using Muslims as human shields and said if innocents were killed it was “either an unintentional error, or out of necessity.”
The study used a database maintained by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center to draw up a list of al-Qaeda attacks and then relied on Arabic news reports for details of fatalities so they would be seen through a “non-Western prism.”
To be included in the survey, the attack had to be carried out by al-Qaeda or a group publicly associated with the network and the perpetrators needed to claim responsibility.
During the period 2004 to 2008, there were 3,010 victims of 313 attacks, according to the survey.
London, Madrid
Al-Qaeda was “marginally successful” in attacking Westerners in 2004 and 2005 with the attacks in Madrid and London, according to the report.
Groups inspired by al-Qaeda planted bombs on commuter trains in Madrid in March 2004, three days before an election, killing 191 people. In London, four bombers killed themselves and 52 other people on three subway trains and a bus during morning rush hour in July 2005.
Excluding the Madrid and London attacks, only 4.4 percent of al-Qaeda’s victims during the four-year period were Western, the survey said.
The study also broke down fatalities after excluding attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, acknowledging it could be argued that Muslim casualties there were “unfortunate martyrs or collateral damage” in the wars.
‘Greatest Threat’
“Outside of the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, 99 percent of al-Qaeda’s victims were non-Western in 2007 and 96 percent were non-Western in 2008,” the study said.
During the online forum, several questions out of the 90 Zawahiri selected to answer challenged him over attacks that killed Muslim women and children, according to IntelCenter, a U.S.-based group that monitors terrorist communications on the Internet.
One participant, identified as an Algerian medical student, challenged Zawahiri over the Dec. 11, 2007, suicide bombings in Algiers, IntelCenter reported in April last year when al-Qaeda’s media production unit released an audio file of him answering the written questions.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the attacks on the United Nations office and the Constitutional Council building that killed more than 60 people, including 17 UN workers.
Those killed were “not from the innocents,” said Zawahiri. “They are from the crusader unbelievers and the government troops who defend them.”
***MS*** Tell me again, O wannabe-jihadi, how this is what Allah ordains? Tell me again what your proof is to slaughter children in Mosques, or on trains, planes and marketplaces - of Muslims and non alike?
Tell me especially, how much closer you are to your imaginary magical Muslim state where every one is a perfect Muslim? In order to be a half-decent Muslim, you need to be a half-decent human being but alas, you cannot even get that right.
"And Allah is swift in His Judgment" remember?
By Ed Johnson
SOURCE: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aoJoQdeJ_TQo
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Al-Qaeda has become “increasingly indiscriminate” in attacks that kill mostly Muslims in countries including Iraq and Pakistan, according to a study released by the U.S. Military Academy’s counterterrorism center.
From 2004 to 2008, 15 percent of al-Qaeda’s victims were Western, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point said in a report. Only 2 percent were from the West between 2006 and 2008.
The network has “limited capability to strike against its Western enemies” and “maintains its relevance by attacking countries with Muslim majorities,” according to the center. “If history provides a glimpse into the future, the group and its associates will pose the greatest threat to fellow Muslims.”
Al-Qaeda has been criticized in the Middle East over bombings that have claimed Muslim lives and in late 2007 the network’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri participated in an online forum in which he defended such attacks. He blamed the West for using Muslims as human shields and said if innocents were killed it was “either an unintentional error, or out of necessity.”
The study used a database maintained by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center to draw up a list of al-Qaeda attacks and then relied on Arabic news reports for details of fatalities so they would be seen through a “non-Western prism.”
To be included in the survey, the attack had to be carried out by al-Qaeda or a group publicly associated with the network and the perpetrators needed to claim responsibility.
During the period 2004 to 2008, there were 3,010 victims of 313 attacks, according to the survey.
London, Madrid
Al-Qaeda was “marginally successful” in attacking Westerners in 2004 and 2005 with the attacks in Madrid and London, according to the report.
Groups inspired by al-Qaeda planted bombs on commuter trains in Madrid in March 2004, three days before an election, killing 191 people. In London, four bombers killed themselves and 52 other people on three subway trains and a bus during morning rush hour in July 2005.
Excluding the Madrid and London attacks, only 4.4 percent of al-Qaeda’s victims during the four-year period were Western, the survey said.
The study also broke down fatalities after excluding attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, acknowledging it could be argued that Muslim casualties there were “unfortunate martyrs or collateral damage” in the wars.
‘Greatest Threat’
“Outside of the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, 99 percent of al-Qaeda’s victims were non-Western in 2007 and 96 percent were non-Western in 2008,” the study said.
During the online forum, several questions out of the 90 Zawahiri selected to answer challenged him over attacks that killed Muslim women and children, according to IntelCenter, a U.S.-based group that monitors terrorist communications on the Internet.
One participant, identified as an Algerian medical student, challenged Zawahiri over the Dec. 11, 2007, suicide bombings in Algiers, IntelCenter reported in April last year when al-Qaeda’s media production unit released an audio file of him answering the written questions.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the attacks on the United Nations office and the Constitutional Council building that killed more than 60 people, including 17 UN workers.
Those killed were “not from the innocents,” said Zawahiri. “They are from the crusader unbelievers and the government troops who defend them.”
***MS*** Tell me again, O wannabe-jihadi, how this is what Allah ordains? Tell me again what your proof is to slaughter children in Mosques, or on trains, planes and marketplaces - of Muslims and non alike?
Tell me especially, how much closer you are to your imaginary magical Muslim state where every one is a perfect Muslim? In order to be a half-decent Muslim, you need to be a half-decent human being but alas, you cannot even get that right.
"And Allah is swift in His Judgment" remember?
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