Peshawar FRONTIER POST letter to ed 6/19/09

[Singleton]

Today is:
Friday , June 19, 2009, Jamadi-us-Sani 24, 1430 A.H.
(The Lahore offices of the FRONTIER POST were blown up two Lahore bombings back, a month ago, when the Pakistan Police Academy was bombed there, FP offices being next door to the police academy. FYI.)


Duck is a duck
George L. Singleton
USA

The Taliban is a Sunni Islamist Pashtun fundamentalist religious and political movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 when its leaders were removed from power by Northern Alliance and NATO forces.

An extremist insurgency movement fighting a guerrilla war against the current government of Afghanistan, Pakistan, allied NATO forces participating in Operation Enduring Freedom and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, it operates in Afghanistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.

Like Wahhabis and other Deobandis, the Taliban do not consider Shias to be Muslims. The Taliban also declared the Hazara ethnic group, which totalled almost 10% of Afghanistan’s population, “not Muslims”.

The Taliban regime, or “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”, gained diplomatic recognition from only three states: the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia all of whom also provided aid. Most states in the world, including Russia, Iran, India, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and the USA, opposed the Taliban and aided their enemy the Northern Alliance, defeating and driving out the Taliban regime in 2001.

Today, in 2009, with the help of the terrorist thugs of al-Qaeda, along with one fellow, Mr. Khurshid Anwer in Lahore who hates the PPP and current democratic President of Pakistan, and who does not understand the need to pay Pakistani retirees, the military, and the civil service of Pakistan a living wage, the Taliban are now despised and unwelcome by the vast majority of innocent Sunnis and Shiias who do not share the Taliban’s heretical corrupt Wahabist murderous opinions.

Islam means peace but the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and Mr. Anwer cannot grasp that concept.

[Tatara]

It is hard to guess who might be funding Jundallah. Pakistan's secret service as well as the Saudis have a motive to do so. Washington's interest is to strengthen the coalition against the Pashtun-speaking Taliban, which means keeping several ethnic minorities allied against the Taliban with the Punjabi core of Pakistan's armed forces. These include the Dari-speaking Kabuli Pashtuns, the Tajiks and the mainly Shi'ite Hazara, a Turkic tribe whom the Iranians tend to deprecate. That is where Washington looks for help from Teheran.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF16Ak01.html

[Tatara]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EI17Df07.html

Pakistan's dubious al-Qaeda suspect
By B Raman

Time magazine of the United States (August 31) carried a commentary on a book written by Gerald Posner, titled Why America Slept.

The commentary says, "Most of his new book is a lean, lucid retelling of how the CIA, FBI and US leaders missed a decade's worth of clues and opportunities that, if heeded, Posner argues, might have forestalled the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Posner is an old hand at revisiting conspiracy theories. He wrote controversial assessments dismissing those surrounding the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr assassinations. And the Berkeley-educated lawyer is adept at marshaling an unwieldy mass of information - most of his sources are other books and news stories - into a pattern made tidy and linear by hindsight.

"His indictment of US intelligence and law-enforcement agencies covers well-trodden ground, though sometimes the might-have-beens and could-have-beens ....

[Tatara]

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archiv...umbai_atta.php

Captured Mumbai attacker implicates Pakistani military, intel
By Bill RoggioNovember 30, 2008 4:23 PM
The only member of the jihadi assault team captured during the Mumbai attacks has fingered several Pakistani organizations as providing support to the group, according to reports in the Indian press.

Ajmal Amir Kasab, also known as Azam Amir Kasav, was captured by police after a shootout near the docks in southern Mumbai. He was wounded and feigned death but was picked up by police after he was seen breathing.

The siege in Mumbai lasted 62 hours and claimed more than 195 lives. Terror assault teams held the city hostage as they fanned out through the city and attacked policemen, five-star hotels



Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archiv...xzz0J1w26lIY&C