PESHAWAR: The NWFP government has decided to deal firmly with the elements responsible for creating law and order situation in the province.The decision was made at the meeting of the provincial cabinet held here under the chairmanship of NWFP Chief Minister, Amir Haider Hoti here on Monday.Regarding Baitullah Mehsud's threat to NWFP government, he said [...]
Good news from the Pakistan/Afghanistan border in the mountainous tribal region currently playing host to both the resurgent Taliban and the quasi-defunct Osama bin Laden.
Locals say that a grand Jirga of eleven sub tribes of Orakzai tribe was held Friday at the Dabori area of the agency in which tribal elders and local religious scholars [...]
For once, I'm at one with The Spectator - on Kylie, OBE. They pick the gold hotpants video though (I'm more bassline driven), must be a gay/straight thing ;] Do any straight men not 'fancy' her?I never got the sheer OTT cult for her until I saw her through a, sadly lost, Sydney friend's eyes and off camera. She's a very lovely lady.
In the last two months, Taliban militants have suddenly tightened the noose on the city of Peshawar, establishing bases in surrounding towns and, in daylight, abducting residents for high ransoms. The militants move unchallenged out of the lawless tribal region, just 10 miles away, in convoys of heavily armed, long haired and bearded men. They have turned up at courthouses in nearby towns, orderin
Security forces in Pakistan have begun an operation against pro-Taliban militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan and serving as a major route for trade and supplies to U.S-led foreign forces based there. The offensive has provoked an al-Qaida-linked self-proclaimed commander of the Pakistani Taliban to suspend peace talks with the government. From Islamabad, Ayaz Gul has more details. Of
A report issued late Friday by the Pentagon under Congressional mandate and comments by Defense Secretary Gates indicate the fragility of the security situation in Afghanistan. The "Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan" is the first formal report ever issued by DoD on the status of the security situation there. "The Taliban regrouped after its fall from power and have co
KABUL: Two Afghan soldiers and 27 militants were killed Wednesday during a major operation to drive out Taliban rebels from villages near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.A group of enemies of the people was targeted by NATO air force in Ta-been village in Arghandab (district). Based on information received, 20 local and foreign terrorists [...]
ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan and Canadian forces moved into a series of villages outside of southern Afghanistan’s largest city Wednesday to root out any Taliban militants there, while an explosion elsewhere killed four British soldiers, officials said….
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The NEFA Foundation has obtained an exclusive video-recorded interview with Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, a senior commander of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and an acknowledged deputy of notorious Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud . When asked during the interview whether the TTP would host Usama Bin Laden and fugitive Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar as guests in northwestern Pakistan, Faqir
Days after blasting their way into a major Afghan prison and freeing hundreds of their comrades, the Taliban have moved into areas surrounding the Khandahar area and openly proclaimed their intention of fighting NATO and Afghan forces. They have taken over villages near the city, moved into grape and pomegranate fields, driven thousands away and [...]
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of Taliban fighters invaded villages just outside Afghanistan’s second-largest city Monday, forcing NATO and Afghan troops to rush in while frightened residents fled….
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(post sólo en inglés: es muy largo y no me da tiempo a traducirlo. Quien no entienda inglés, puede traducirlo usando Altavista Babelfish).Jihad Watch: Hundreds of Taliban escape in attack on Kandahar prisonCanadian soldiers joined other ISAF and Afghan national security forces in a sweeping door-to-door hunt for hundreds of escaped prisoners after the Taliban staged a daring mass breakout at Ka
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of Afghans demonstrated Monday in support of President Hamid Karzai’s threat to send troops against Taliban militant leaders in Pakistan, with many protesters saying they were ready to take up arms.
Across the border, Pakistan summoned the Afghan ambassador to lodge a protest, saying it too would defend itself.
Afghan tribesmen, elders [...]
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of Taliban fighters took over several villages in southern Afghanistan on Monday just outside the region’s largest city, and NATO and Afghan forces were redeploying to meet the threat, officials said.
Mohammad Farooq, the government leader in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province, said around 500 Taliban fighters moved into his [...]
Afghan security forces are working to hunt down the almost 400 Taliban militants who escaped from a Kandahar prison in a “daring and well-executed jailbreak” yesterday.
Police sources say the strike freed suicide bombers and cell leaders who had been captured over the past six years.
“It was a planned attack the same as they destroyed the twin [...]
"Militants have attacked the main prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar with a car bomb and rockets, killing an unspecified number of police officers and setting prisoners free, Afghan officials said Friday. A car bombing outside the prison's gate happened around 10 p.m. local time and killed all police officers in the vicinity." Another example of the failure of the Bush administration i
The Jerusalem Post - More than 600 prisoners escaped during a brazen Taliban bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan that knocked down the front gate and destroyed a two-story police checkpoint, a police official said Saturday. At least nine police were killed.The complex attack late Friday included a truck bombing at the main gate, a suicide bomber who struck a back wall
The truck approached the main gate of the prison in Khandahar without being challenged or halted. The truck loaded with oil and explosives reached the main gate and then the entire area was shaken by a huge blast which killed all the police at the main gate and left a gaping hole. A short while [...]
Yet another imam calling all Christians and Jews enemies. Meanwhile CAIR continues its cultural jihad in the US, and of course the leftist media continues to eat their daily dose of taqqiya like a good dhimmi should.
Islamabad, 11 June (AKI) - The leader of the pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, said on Wednesday that [...]
A new report by the Rand Corporation claims Pakistan intelligence agents and paramilitary forces have not only helped train Taliban insurgents but are providing them with important information about American and Coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan. The study, “Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan,” warned the United States faces “crippling, long term consequences” in Afgha
The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a new communiqué from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban movement) defending the recent peace accord negotiated between the Pakistani government and local Taliban forces. According to the statement, “We consider the peace accord in Pakistan as an internal affair, which pertains to that country alone—yet the occupation forces
The United Nations Al Qaeda/Taliban Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team issued its 8th report earlier this month reviewing the implementation by states of the UN measures against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The report also highlights several problems that continue to reduce the effectiveness of these UN measures. Unlike the previous Monitoring Group on which I served, this team has shie
MISNA30 May 2008
Taliban insurgents captured the Rashidan district in the central Ghazni province, taking hostage eight policemen and the district officials, as reported to the international press by the provincial police chief and a Taliban spokesperson. The Taliban referred that three people were killed in last night’s attack, while all the prisoners are alive. Rashidan, [...]
Something we should’ve done a long time ago. Too bad Robert Gates and Condi keep advising Bush to NOT fight the war on terror he pledged to do after 9-11.
Reuters
KABUL, May 26 (Reuters) - The United States should target militant bases in Pakistan, an Afghan state-controlled paper said on Monday, reacting to a threat [...]
Pakistani Taliban fighters have said that the success of a peace deal signed with the government in the northwestern area depends on the complete enforcement of Islamic law in the region.The agreement, signed on Wednesday, ends months of fighting in the Swat valley between troops and fighters loyal to Maulana Fazlullah, a pro-Taliban commander.The Pakistan government has agreed gradually topull ou
Once again , the Pakistan government signs another deal with the Taliban, while counting on an impotent American government and an uninformed American public to continue to provide them billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars as our "ally". This is becoming an near-annual event in Taliban appeasement by the Pakistan government: the September 2006 North Waziristan Accord, the August 2007 calls by Preside
Al Jazeera reports that despite US concerns, Pakistan's government and Taliban-affiliated militants inside Pakistan have signed a peace agreement:
Pakistan's government has promised to "gradually" pull out troops from the northwestern valley of Swat after signing a peace agreement with Pakistani Taliban fighters.
In return the Taliban is due to shut training camps, hand over foreign fighters and h
PESHAWAR: NWFP government and local Taliban have agreed to a peace agreement under which
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A Taliban spokesman says the house of Taliban leader Maulvi Ubaidullah was targeted in a suspected US missile strike; at least 14 dead.
More reports will come out, I’m sure…
Associated Press
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — Residents say a missile strike on a house in a Pakistan border village has killed about a dozen people.
At [...]
Afghans call them 'night letters' -- notes scattered or pushed under doorways by Taliban militants in the dead of night, threatening villagers' lives if they cooperate with foreign forces and the government.The notes are often poorly written but the message is clear -- have nothing to do with the foreign troops or serve in the government they back, otherwise, your business will be destroyed, your
Afghans call them “night letters,” notes scattered or pushed under doorways by Taliban militants in the dead of night which threaten vilalgers if they cooperate with foreign forces or those of the government. As American troops intensify their efforts in southeastern regions of the country, the mailmen of the night increase their delivery of deadly [...]
History is against any peace deals with the Taliban. At least three such initiatives (so called ‘peace deals’) had been signed with the Taliban in the past, only to be collapsed soon after. When Rehman Malik, adviser to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on internal affairs welcomed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud‘s latest offer for truce and peace talks, many observers (including me) thought that the newly crowned civilian government in Pakistan shouldn’t...(read more)
Numbers of civilians killed by Taliban increasing: NATO
Here is further proof of terrorists intentionally TARGETING CIVILIANS. Something terrorists do because they know they cannot win a fight against an actual military. So being the cowards they are, they target the unarmed. There is a special place in Hell reserved for these pieces of excrement.
NATO-led [...]
WASHINGTON: The Taliban in Afghanistan -- whose government was toppled by U.S.-led forces after the September 11, 2001, attacks -- has strengthened its military and technical capabilities even while suffering heavy combat losses, says a State Department report.The Taliban-led insurgency remained a capable, determined, and resilient threat to stability and to the expansion of government authority, particularly in the Pashtun south and east," according to the "Country Reports on Terrorism 2007."The report’s release the other day coincided with multiple attacks. A blast targeting a NATO patrol south of Kabul killed an alliance soldier and wounded four others, The Associated Press cited NATO as saying.The Taliban’s information operations have become "increasingly aggressive and sophisticat
We know that the Republican presidential nominee does not know the difference between Sunni and Shi'a. Does the State Department? And do they - given that their recently issued Country Reports on Terrorism assert that (Shi'ite) Iran is providing weapons to the (Sunni) Taliban - really have evidence of such a connection? After all, given the history of antagonism between Iran and the Taliban, one might be forgiven for showing a little shock to hear that old enemies may have become friendly.
The report reads:
Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism. Elements of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were directly involved in the planning and support of terrorist acts throughout the region and continued to support a variety of groups in their use of terrorism to adv
A serious beatdown is about to occur in Afghanistan:
Times Online
US Marines went into action today, pouring into a lawless town in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the first time that a sizeable American force has fought in the largely British sector of Afghanistan for several years.
Some 2,400 marines, many of them veterans of the war [...]
It is close to seven years since American forces led an invasion of Afghanistan that threw out Taliban leadership, but President Karzai’s attempt to preside over a ceremony resulted in attacks by suspected Taliban militants which forced him to flee for his life. The president was at a pageants that marked the sixteenth anniversary of [...]
Rferl - Pakistan's new government is close to signing a peace accord with pro-Taliban militants as part of a softer counterterrorism policy from Islamabad that deemphasizes military strikes and calls for U.S. forces to show more restraint in the area.Britain has expressed reservations about the strategy, and Washington has said it wants Pakistani forces to continue fighting insurgents in the tribal regions near the border with Afghanistan.Under the proposed deal, pro-Taliban militants would order their fighters to stop using violence and stop sheltering or giving support to foreign Al-Qaeda fighters. In return, Pakistani government troops would be gradually withdrawn from the region.The orders to the militants were reportedly issued in pamphlets on April 23 by Baitullah Mehsud, the head of
Source: guardian.co.uk.
We should be well aware in this country that the relationship between the Taliban,United States and Nato Forces has not always been that of enemies. At one time United States...
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It appears that Pakistan’s ambasador to Afghanistan has been a c aptive of the Taliban for neaerly two months according to a new video released today. Ambassador Tariq Azizzuddin is shown sitting on the ground amid green brush in front of three masked men wearing traditional robes and holding automatic weapons. The ambassador tells [...]
The confusing swirling world of the Afghan war took another twist of irony when a NATO helicopter by mistake dropped supplies of food, water and arms o Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan. Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from the helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province. The helicopter apparently missed the [...]
The sick Islamists in Pakistan are up to their usual savage ways…
Foxnews
A couple found guilty of adultery by an Islamic “qazi” court was stoned to death by Taliban militants in Pakistan’s northwest border region, according to a report in Dawn, Pakistan’s English-language newspaper.
The execution, which reportedly took place Monday, is the first by stoning [...]
You Might Be Taliban if.....
1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes.
3. You have more wives than teeth.
4. You wipe your butt with your bare left hand, but consider bacon "unclean."
5. You think [...]
Anke Engelke nervt sich über Simpons-Fans
Seit fast zwei Jahren ist Anke Engelke die neue Synchronstimme von Marge Simpson. In einem Interview gibt sie sich aber ernüchternd und genervt über die deutschen Simpsons-Fans.
Quelle, ganzer Text und Bilder, hier:
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Anke Engelke ist Marge Simpson.
JPost - Al-Qaida supporters on the Web have unleashed an unprecedented flood of criticism of Afghanistan's Taliban, once seen by extremists as the model of an Islamic state.Now extremists accuse the Taliban of straying from the path of global jihad after its leader Mullah Omar issued a statement saying he seeks good relations with the world and even sympathizes with Shi'ite Iran."This is the worst statement I have ever read ... the disaster of defending the (Iranian) regime is on par with the Crusaders in Afghanistan and Iraq," wrote poster Miskeen, whose name translates literally as "the wretched" and who is labeled as one of the more influential writers on an al-Qaida linked Web site.
DEBKA - Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, the Turkish chief of staff, said if President Pervez Musharraf lost his grip, Pakistan could fall into Taliban hands and a terrorist organization gain control of nuclear arms for the first time. The general was addressing an international terrorism conference in Ankara Monday, March 10. Sunday, the two parties in opposition to Musharraf forged a power-sharing alliance to govern Pakistan, vowing to evict him from the presidency. Islamist groups have also stepped up their attacks since the Feb. 18 general election.
Editorial ReviewsFrom Publishers WeeklyAfghanistan only uncovers itself with intimacy, and intimacy takes time," writes Chayes, a skilled but increasingly frustrated journalist, whose determination "to grasp the underlying pattern" during and after the toppling of the Taliban in late 2001 chafes against her editors' post-9/11 comfort zone. With keen sympathy for Afghanistan's indomitable people, Chayes eventually swaps NPR and its four-and-a-half-minute slots for an NGO, becoming "field director" of Afghans for Civil Society, spearheaded by Qayum Karzai, the president's brother. ACS's humanitarian work, which includes rebuilding a bombed-out village, brings Chayes into direct conflict with the warlords with whom U.S. policy remains disastrously entangled. This is the point of her engrossin
A suicide bomber killed more than 80 people at a picnic spot in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar yesterday in the most deadly attack since the Taliban was ousted in 2001. The attack will add urgency to a debate about how the United States and Afghanistan's other allies can help stem violence. "This event ... left behind more than 80 killed and 50 wounded," the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The death toll may rise because some of the wounded were critical. The attack happened in a field where a crowd of people, including police, were watching dog fights on the western outskirts of Kandahar city. EnemiesKandahar governor Assadullah Khalid said it was the work of Afghanistan's enemies, a term used by the government to refer to Taliban insurgents. The Taliban could not be c
Well, for those who have argued there is no smoking gun linking the Taliban to opium production, the jig is now up. NATO forces discovered 11 tons of processed opium in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan, meaning the opium was at the stage where it can be converted to heroin on about a one-to-one ratio. In other words, it was almost 11 tons of heroin. The Taliban had an ambivalent relationship with the poppy trade during its reign of terror in Afghanistan, and now appears to have done away with...(read more)
Jones main, it's on. The news has not even made it yet but it appears as if the fragile whatever you call it we put up in Iraq to represent a government has officially dissolved. You see, while most of us up in this camp were sleeping last night, the Turks were sending warplanes over into Iraq to bomb the Kurds. I suspect they were targeting a political group called the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The Turks have outlawed the group, but it seems kind of feculent to outlaw an organization in another country, which operates basically autonomously. The say these raid were some 60 miles into Iraq.Meanwhile on the otherwise of the field (it is football season), all I read about Afghanistan' from this side of the block, is that we are winning the battle, that more and more Taliban fighters are being killed and that each day we work with or favorite Dictator in Pakistan to make progress in terror (that is if progress includes more videos circulating in Pakistan that show 12 year olds beh
Yes, you read the title correctly. Right-wing nutjob Bill O'Reilly actually compared secular progressives to the Taliban (video)! This is the same Taliban which educated persons know to be intent on bringing about an Islamic theocracy. That is, they seek to replace secular law and politics with religious forms. They were known for the "strictest interpretation of Sharia law ever seen in the Muslim world." Either O'Reilly does not know that "secular" means not religious, does not know that Islam is a religion, or is far more disturbed than I realized.Comparing non-Muslims to the Taliban is nothing new. I've done it myself repeatedly. But I've done it in a very specific and limited context to point out similarities between Christian theocrats and Muslim theocrats. Both want to replace secular government with religious government. Both want to replace secular law with scripture. That is, these comparisons actually make sense.Maybe O'Reilly is actually starting to believe the absurd r
you guessed it 'spying for America'.Taliban militants have beheaded an old woman and her grandson accused of spying for the US military, officials said.The shocking executions took place in Uruzgan's Dihrawud district, said provincial police chief, Juma Gul Himat. The militants accused the woman of spying for government and NATO forces.
Taliban fighters hanged a 12-year-old boy from a mulberry tree, claiming he was passing information on Taliban roadside bomb attacks to police and British forces, Afghan police have said.The gruesome murder, which occurred in Sangin, an area held by British forces since driving out the Taliban in April, sparked outrage among politicians, who accused the al-Qaeda-linked militant group of atrocities against villagers. It was the second execution of a child attributed to the Taliban in three months."If this is true and the age is right it is an unforgettable crime," said Haji Mohammed Anwar Khan, the head of Helmand provincial council."If someone is a child their mind is not considered sufficiently mature to be held responsible under Sharia law. This is just a crime and we condemn it."Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, also accused the Taliban of hanging a 15-year-old boy above a gas stove and lighting the flame beneath him, burning him alive, but it was unclear if he was referring to th
From Reuters: Resurgent Taliban closing in on Kabul: report The conflict in Afghanistan has reached "crisis proportions," with the resurgent Taliban present in more than half the country and closing in on Kabul, a report said on Wednesday. If NATO, the lead force operating in Afghanistan, is to have any impact against the insurgency, troop numbers will have to be doubled to at least 80,000, the report said. "The Taliban has shown itself to be a truly resurgent force," the Senlis Council, an independent think-tank with a permanent presence in Afghanistan, wrote in a study entitled "Stumbling into Chaos: Afghanistan on the brink." "Its ability to establish a presence throughout the country is now proven beyond doubt," it said. "The insurgency now controls vast swaths of unchallenged territory including rural areas, some district centers, and important road arteries." Senlis said its research had established that the Taliban, driven out of Afghanistan by the U.S. invasion in late 2001, h
Yes, it's true kids, the Saudi's are a bunch of mysogynistic, reactionary, extremist, stick your head in the sand assholes that are no better than the Taliban.I can say that based on what I have read and heard as well as a first hand account from my wife who spent 4 years in Saudi Arabia.Don't believe me when I say these idiots are stuck in the twelfth century and refuse to join the modern world............................. then just read this.Saudi court punishes rape victim with 200 lashes! (Ruling harsh even by Saudi standards, lawyers argue.)In a ruling decried by Saudi lawyers as too severe, a court in the desert kingdom this week sentenced a female victim of gang rape to six months in prison and 200 lashes for being alone with a man who was not her relative.The 200 lashes included in the sentence, which was reached Wednesday by the Qatif General Court, more than doubled the woman's original punishment of 90 lashes. The court boosted her penalty because of the victim's "attem
An exclusive new report is available for download from the NEFA Foundation website by NEFA Senior Investigator Claudio Franco, titled "A Taliban Resurgence: The Destabilization of Kabul?" Although the defeat of the Taliban regime in 2001 seemed complete and virtually effortless, the initial optimism has long since given way to a security situation which is once again seriously deteriorating. Over the past few years, the Taliban has introduced the sinister tactic of suicide bombing to Afghanistan,...(read more)
Bomb Detonates in Sugar Factory in Northeast Afghanistan as School Children VisitedA bomb went off Tuesday in Baghlan province, Afganistan, at a Sugar Factory where a small group of National Legislators were meeting, along with 59 school children and their teachers for a visit.It's currently unknown if the fatal blast was caused by a suicide bomb or a detonated explosive device. It is the single deadlist terrorist attack in Afganistan since the Taliban's ouster in 2001.I'm personally in awe at this. Nuts! These Islamic Fascist Terrorist arseholes have no regard for anyone's life, not even school children! I mean come on man .. this is bad like Beslan bad. This should be getting more coverage. I know I know.. the target was the legislators, but they could've called it off, someone detonated the device or set it to go at that tme. It's just wrong, unexcusable. Whichever "Mullah" or Terrorist "Sheikh" ordered this one should get strung up and beheaded by his own boys, it's despicab
Al-Qaida's official As-Sahab Media Foundation has released a new video interview with Mullah Mansour Dadullah , who has served as the top military commander of the Taliban since his brother's death in May 2007. When asked whether he intended to persist on with his brother's "tactics of conducting international jihad", Mansour responded, "we have been walking on his footsteps, and following his methods. We are still following his strategy and working to finish what he started." During his interview...(read more)
Army Sgt. Chad Mohr (left) watches rounds land on target as Army Spc. David Hooker fires the MK19 machine gun at a known insurgent position Oct. 24, 2007, during Operation Rock Avalanche. The "Dragon Platoon" soldiers of Destined Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry (Airborne), were occupying a ridgeline between the Pech and Shuryak river valleys in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. U.S. Army photo.
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Never missing an opportunity to use the “torture card” to gain sympathy, Taliban members captured by Canadian troops and handed over to Afghan authorities say they have been tortured. (NO! Say it isn’t so!!!)
Three prisoners are claiming they were beaten with bricks and cables, given electric shocks, deprived of sleep and had their nails torn out.
The three said they had been captured by Canadian troops, given a document that said torture was no longer used in Afghanistan and then transferred to the Afghan secret police.
“The people from the secret service tore it (the document) up and threw it in my face. They tortured me for 20 hours. I protested and said the Canadians had promised that nothing would happen to me.”
“They replied: ‘We’re not in Canada, we’re at home. The Canadians are dogs!’” he said.
I know this is the time when we’re supposed to get misty eyed, demand answers, and condemn torture. But I’m
Thirteen people have been executed by followers of pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah in the Swat valley in northwestern Pakistan, following on the earlier attack on Fazlullah's stronghold. A spokesthing for the cleric claimed that the deed was done by villagers who "only want enforcement of Islamic laws":
The men, including six security personnel and seven civilians, were captured by militants at a roadblock they had set up on the outskirts of Swat district, said Home Secretary Badshah Gul Wazir, the top civilian security official of the North West Frontier Province where Swat is located.
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A witness said he had seen six of the bodies with notes attached accusing them of being American agents.
A spokesman for the pro-Taliban cleric, Maulana Fazlullah, claimed the killings were carried out by local residents who back the militants' aims — although there was no other indication that villagers were responsible for the deaths.
"It was done by common people, who support us bec
The mullah’s call to prayer broke Kabul’s eerie silence. It was my first morning in Afghanistan and I squinted to see the time on my watch, it was 4:30. My body shivered under the sleeping bag shrugging off March’s chill. Like most Kabul neighborhoods, the electricity was cut off during the night and the generator ran out of fuel. The innkeepers scurried in the morning darkness lighting a fire in the woodstove. I tried to return to sleep but the reality of being in Afghanistan for my 10-day vacation kept me awake. “What am I doing here?” I asked myself.
Terror. Tourism. The latter isn’t typically associated with Afghanistan but I chose to spend my vacation in Kabul with a human rights organization, walking the streets, meeting with people and seeing how the war-torn country is surviving. I never imagined I’d be eye-to-eye with the enemy having a civil conversation but on my first full day in Kabul, that’s exactly what happened.
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The Taliban are attacking President Pervez Musharraf's hold on political and military power in Pakistan. The Taliban is also working to weaken the resolve of the police, military, and civilians in the Northwest Frontier Province and beyond. The Taliban and al Qaeda have struck Pakistani military bases in Dargai, Kharian, Dera Ismail Khan, Hangu, and North and South Waziristan. Military convoys have been repeatedly hit by suicide attacks, improvised explosive devices, and ambushes throughout the Northwest Frontier Province. The Bannu suicide attack is the latest in series of Taliban suicide strikes at civilian, police, military, and governmental targets inside Pakistan.The tribal agencies have long been recognized as the nexus for al Qaeda and the Taliban's suicide campaigns in Pakistan, Afghanistan and beyond. The Pakistani Ministry of the Interior has repeatedly accused the powerful South Waziristan Taliban leaders Baituallah and Abdullah Mehsud of carrying out the suicide campaigns
Afghan president Hamid Karzai got the reply he deserved to the offer he made to the Taliban yesterday (giving government positions to the terrorists):
Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, repeated an earlier position by saying that it would never negotiate with the Afghan government in the "presence of foreign forces."
"Even if Karzai gives up his presidency, it's not possible that Mullah Omar would agree to negotiations," Ahmadi told The Associated Press. "The foreign forces don't have the authority to talk about Afghanistan."
Here are some more details about the suicide attack that killed 30 people:
Saturday's explosion - the second deadliest since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 - ripped off the roof of the bus and tore out its sides in Kabul, leaving a charred hull of burnt metal. It was reminiscent of the deadliest attack since the U.S.-led invasion, when a bomber boarded a police academy bus at Kabul's busiest transportation hub in June, killing 35 people.
Police and sol
Today Afghan President Hamiz Karzai announced his intention to meet with the leader of the Taliban - Mullah Mohammad Omar - and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister and warlord who has admitted to helping Osama bin Laden escape from the Tora Bora mountains in 2001, to discuss peace. Karzai will reportedly offer the men and their followers positions in the government.If Mr. Karzai seeks to end the years of turmoil beginning with Mohammed Daoud Khan's coup in 1973 and the Soviet invasion of 1979, making peace with the Taliban is not the solution. From 1995-2001, their rule was one of the most repressive in the world, and curtailed economic growth in one of the world's poorest countries. It is not so hard to understand why Mr. Karzai is seeking to make peace with these militant leaders. His own government is weak, and the Afghan military is a pitiful force; even with the 30,000 NATO troops the country is divided into private fiefdoms ruled by warlords funded by the heroin trade.
Once again, another national leader of an American "ally" in the "war on terror" has offered to help the Taliban regain political power. AP has reported that Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai offered "to meet personally with Taliban leader Mullah Omar for peace talks and give the militants a high position in a government ministry as a way to end the rising insurgency in Afghanistan." AP reports that Karzai stated: "If a group of Taliban or a number of Taliban come to me and say, 'President, we...(read more)
A Taliban constitution for Afghanistan made public recently would ban "un-Islamic thought" and require women to be fully covered.The 23-page shadow constitution, which would allow education for women only within the limits of Sharia, has been offered as an alternative to the government of President Hamid Karzai, Britain’s Telegraph reported. The newspaper said the Constitution of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, written in Pashto and Dari languages, says, “Every Afghan has the right to express his feelings through his views, writings or through other means in accordance with the law,” but also warns violators of Islamic thought “will be punished according to Sharia.”"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan wishes good working relations with all the neighboring countries and specially those who have supported the Afghan nation during jihad," the document says. More...
A suicide bomber blew himself to bloody, quivering pieces in Kabul today, taking 30 people in a military bus with him. Things are not going well, as usual, and what is president Hamid Karzai's great and ingenious solution? He offered to meet personally with Mullah Omar and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar for "peace talks," the aims of which would be to give the bearded ones a position in government. In other words, complete and utter capitulation, once again.
A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform set off a huge explosion Saturday while trying to board a military bus in the capital, killing 30 people, most of them soldiers, officials said. Hours later, the Afghan president offered to meet personally with the Taliban leader for peace talks and give the militants a position in government.
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"If I find their address, there is no need for them to come to me, I'll personally go there and get in touch with them," Karzai said. "Esteemed Mullah, sir, and esteemed Hekmatyar, sir, why
Fighting continues in Afghanistan as coalition and Afghan forces clash with elements of the Taliban. Yesterday, in two separate fights, Coalition and Afghan forces called in air strikes which resulted in the death of 165 “supposed members of the Taliban.” We use quotation marks because most of the people killed who coalition forces claimed were members of the Taliban were killed by bombs dropped by planes. Karim Khan, who lived in one of the villages in which the Taliban were killed, claimed coalition and Afghan forces entered the village and “arrested innocent villagers from three homes and called them Taliban.”The Vietnam War taught many Americans how difficult it was to identify people killed by high flying bombers. A plane traveling hundreds of miles an hour drops bombs on individuals who someone on the ground identifies as the enemy. Of course, the Taliban frequently place themselves within a village to confuse coalition and Afghan forces. There is little
Despite aggressive tactics in policy and fund-raising being pursued by her opponents, Hillary Clinton is leading the democratic hopefuls.
The Bush Administration is requesting an additional $50 billion dollars for the military, bringing the total amount requested for military funding in the 2008 fiscal year to nearly $200 billion.
The UN is looking to step up its presence in Iraq.
In other UN-related news, the Taliban have agreed to allow 10,000 international health workers to administer polio vaccines to 1.3 million children in Afghanistan during a week-long campaign.
Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori has returned to Peru after being extradited from Chile. He faces charges of human rights abuse and corruption.
Education in Pakistan is suffering, following heavy monsoon-related flooding in late June. According to a UNICEF report, over 1,400 schools have been affected by the flooding, which also displaced nearly 400,000 people.
IRIN also reports that some Karachi
Away from the glare of the media, in the most remote and dangerous parts of Afghanistan, U.S. marines are on a mission to hunt down the Taliban. But in many places their security sweeps are proving counterproductive.
This is hilarious. Ok, I thought I’m done with Namewee but this is so comical, I just have to share it with you all.
To me, the dudes in the video did a very bad impersonation of their fearsome counterpart hiding somewhere in Afghanistan.
And for those who quickly jump on the conclusion that Islam breed [...]
Provisional Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran Ayatollah Mohammad Kashani sermonizing before a standing room only congregation said: "US administration is propagating a certain version of Christianity that is not based on Jesus Christ (PBUH) teachings, but after securing Zionists' interests. Based on this mentality, the Jews must gather in Palestine and then in the course of a revolution two thirds of them to get killed, and the remainder should see the reappearance of Jesus (PBUH). Therefore, they are after gathering the entire Jews of the world in Palestine, which is definitely a move with political and Satanic roots, but the idea is put forth in the framework of an idea behind the hope for reappearance of Messiah. US President George W. Bush is the standard bearer of that mentality. That man is loathed to an extent in the United States today that the mentality he supports, too, has very limited number of supporters." They have Satanic interactions with the Zionists, b
UPDATE: The troops had not been kidnapped after all:
The militants had claimed they had seized 300 men in south Waziristan.
But the military said the soldiers in the convoy which had lost contact were sheltering in a valley during a storm and would return to base on Friday.
"There is no suggestion of kidnapping or fighting," Major General Waheed Arshad told the AFP news agency.
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This is going really well...
In an audacious display of force, Taliban fighters on Thursday ambushed a convoy of military vehicles in a remote tribal area and took more than 100 Pakistani troops hostage, local officials said.
The convoy of more than a dozen vehicles was traveling between two towns in the South Waziristan area, near the Afghan border, when it was overtaken by fighters, officials said.
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Across the border in Afghanistan, meanwhile, the Taliban turned over the last of the South Korean church volunteers seized by the group in mid-July. The release of the seven
According to The Korea Herald:"The Taliban will set free all 19 South Koreans taken hostage in Afghanistan since mid-July."The gist of the deal?"The agreement was reached on conditions that South Korea withdraw its troops stationed in Afghanistan by the year's end and impose a ban on its Christian nationals' missionary activities in the Southwest Asian country."Someone must think this is better than trading Taliban prisoners/fighters for the missionary hostages. Back on July 26th Chief Presidential Secretary for Security Policy Baek Jong-chun, following the slaying of one of the hostages said:'"The Korean government clearly states that the organization responsible for the abduction will be held accountable for taking the life of a Korean citizen. The killing of an innocent citizen cannot be justified under any circumstance or for any reason, and any such inhumane act can not be tolerated.'"Now that the abductors have been held "accountable," we can see how a nation refuses to tole
South Korea has concluded an agreement with the Taliban to have the hostages released in exchange for a promise all South Korean soldiers will leave Afghanistan before the end of the year. Actually, South Korea had already planned on this withdrawal of its 200 soldiers. South Korea also promised to cease missionary activity in Afghanistan. [...]
:: CNN's 'GOD'S WARRIORS' Equates Christian Activists with Taliban in the CNN´s Tuesday-Thursday mini-series, hosted by Christiane Amanpour. CNN Yesterday: Jewish, Today: Muslim, Tomorrrow: Christian Warriors from 9 to 11 pm EDT. A preview of "God's Christian Warriors" is about pastor Falwell and his much-publicized connection of the 9/11 and about abortion clinics and pro-life and a "fundamentalist Christian group" called BattleCry. -- READ about the CNN mini-series R E F L E C T I O N CNN offers US (also Europe and Sweden) a secular propagandistic program. The Christians become as fundamentalist as the Islamistic groups, perhaps more hard lined. Church and Christianity have to pray for grace and love versus the attacks. Technorati tags: Christiane Amanpour CNN CNN Christians Taliban Christians Taliban -- Andra bloggar om: Christiane Amanpour, CNN 'God´s Warriors', CNN, kristna talibane, sekulär propaganda Christiane Amanpour, CNN &#
Good News! Please continue to pray for the release of the others - 14 women and 5 men are still being held. 2 others have been executed. The kidnapping of the 23 Korean Christians was the largest abduction of foreigners in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
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It is most fortunate that two of the South Korean Christians who were taken hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan have now been freed (via Michelle Malkin). However, there are still more who haven't been. And the really worrisome thing is: will Korea perform appeasement to get them freed as well?Others on the subject include Macsmind, Shyspeak, Korean Military and Society.
