Pakistan Refuses to Let Us Go After Bin Laden on Their Turf

That’s where he’s been hiding since he ran for his life at Tora Bora.

Pakistan’s top diplomat said Saturday there are no U.S. or other foreign military personnel on the hunt for Osama bin Laden in his nation, and none will be allowed in to search for the al-Qaida leader.
……Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said his nation’s new government has ruled out such military operations, covert or otherwise, to catch militants.
“Our government’s policy is that our troops, paramilitary forces and our regular forces are deployed in sufficient numbers. They are capable of taking action there. And any foreign intrusion would be counterproductive,” he said Saturday. “People will not accept it. Questions of sovereignty come in.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25654471/

The Pakistani government releases Islamofascist human garbage under the auspices of the “Waziristan Accord”, which stipulates that it will  “release prisoners held in military action and would not arrest them again”.  

Catching Bin Laden isn’t on high their “to do” list.

This sums up their approach to fighting the WOT:

Qureshi described Pakistan’s counterterrorism as a “grassroots” approach.
“Our strategy is that the military option alone is not enough,” he said. “This war has to be fought besides the armies, with the help of the people, by winning hearts and minds.”

Didja get that? This magna-cum-numbnuts thinks that he can ‘win the hearts and minds’ of zealots indoctrinated in a 7th century screed chock full of hate against women, Jews, and Christians. The Koran instructs them to wage war against ‘non-believers’ i.e. non-muslims, but Qureshi thinks that his ‘grassroots’ idea of diplomatic patty-cake will be the catalyst that turns them away from their ‘jihad’.

Yeah, right.

The truth is that Pakistan not only won’t but can’t elliminate terrorist organizations on their soil.
They won’t crack down because they are afraid of a constituency of muslim terrorists who can and would wreak havok across the country.

The Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) has Taliban moles on its payroll, and cells run back across the Afghan border after re-grouping, thanks to the Pakistan regime. Any resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan can be directly attributed to terrorist groups operating carte blanche in Pakistan; abetted by a large portion of the Pakistani government, Army, and ISI.

Add Pakistan to the ‘axis of evil’.

Taliban Tries Ambush, Gets Ass Kicked

More Hadjis get sent to hell.

From Bill Roggio’s Long War Journal:

US and Afghan forces fought a major battle with the Taliban and “inflicted heavy casualties” on the force just miles from the Pakistani border on June 20, Combined Joint Task Force - 101 reported.

More than 55 Taliban fighters, including three senior leaders, were reported killed, 25 were wounded and three were captured by a combined air and ground counterattack after a Taliban force ambushed a patrol in Paktika province. “Patrols in the ambush area continue to report additional enemy casualties,” the US military reported.

The attack occurred in the northeastern corner of Paktika province, close to the Pakistani border on a road between the districts of Zirok and Orgun districts. The US Army maintains Forward Operating Base Orgun-E in the region to interdict Taliban cross border raids.

The region borders the lawless Pakistani tribal agency of North Waziristan, where cross border incidents are on the rise. On June 21, six rockets and mortars were fired from North Waziristan into Paktika province, killing one Afghan woman and three children.

The Pakistani Taliban maintains a stronghold in North Waziristan. The powerful Haqqani family is based in the region. The Haqqani family runs several mosques and madrassa, or religious schools, near Miramshah. The Pakistani government closed down the radical Haqqani-run Manbaul Ulom madrassa after the US commenced Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, but the school was reopened in 2004. The Manbaul Ulom madrassa has been described as a center of jihadi activities, where top Taliban and al Qaeda commanders meet.

Siraj Haqqani, the son of renowned Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, is one of the senior Taliban leaders in North Waziristan. He has close ties to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. He has embraced al Qaeda’s tactics and ideology, and has recruited foreign terrorists to act as suicide bombers and operatives inside Afghanistan. Siraj is believed to be running the Haqqani Network in eastern Afghanistan and has become a focal point of Coalition operations. The US military has put out a $200,000 bounty for Siraj’s arrest. Taliban commanders Hafiz Gul Bahadar and Sadiq Noor also operate in North Waziristan.

This is what appeasement gets you:

……The Pakistani government signed a peace agreement with the Taliban in North Waziristan in February 2008. The prior agreement, signed in September 2006, resulted in the Taliban takeover of the district and an increase in attack inside both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

……an estimated 500 Taliban fighters took over a series of villages in the Arghandab districtjust north of the city of Kandahar. An Afghan battalion and Coalition forces immediately launched an assault and freed the district. An estimated 100 Taliban were reported killed in the fighting.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/06/afghan_us_forces_kil.php

Since the liberal media hates success in the war against Islamic terrorism, you’ll never read about this in the New York Times.

Pakistani Sentenced to Death for ‘Blasphemy Against Mohammad’

More wonderful things from the ‘religion of peace’:

A Pakistani man has been sentenced to death for blasphemy after he defiled the Muslim holy book and used derogatory language to refer to the Prophet Mohammad, a police official said.

Convictions for blasphemy are fairly common in predominantly Muslim Pakistan, with most cases involving members of religious minorities, but death sentences have never been carried out usually because convictions are thrown out on a lack of evidence.

And just what evidence would that be?

The convicted man, Mohammad Shafeeq, a Muslim in his early 20s, was arrested in 2006 in a village near the eastern city of Sialkot where the trial was held in the court of Justice Shoaib Ahmad Roomi.

“Judge Roomi sentenced him to death for defiling the Holy Koran and using derogatory language against the Prophet,” said Shezada Hassan Ali, a senior official at the jail where Shafeeq has been kept.

“He can appeal the court decision.”

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says blasphemy law is misused against religious minorities such as Christians.
Link: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23887780-401,00.html

The article doesn’t explain just what kind of ‘derogatory language’ he used or how he ‘defiled’ the Koran, but one can only guess he was probably stating his opinion about the 7th Century screed and the despotic ‘prophet’ at the core of its subject matter.

Funny, I can’t recall the last time a Christian or Jew was sentenced to death for disagreement with or disavowing their respective religions/holy books.

The Taliban Offensive That Never Happened

The Islamofascist slugs just can’t catch a break.

Afghan and security forces waited, and waited, for the Taliban Spring Offensive, but it never came. Gun battles with the Taliban were down 50 percent so far, compared to last year. Roadside bomb attacks were about the same. But Taliban casualties were up, as more Afghan and NATO forces went looking for them. Last year, 8,000 people died in Taliban violence. So far this year, the death toll is 1,200, indicating casualties for the year will be about half what they were last year. This year, a higher proportion of the dead are Taliban and al Qaeda, and a lower proportion civilians. While some Taliban commanders have tried to develop new tactics to reduce casualties (smaller units of Taliban, and avoiding contact with police and troops), nothing has worked. The Afghan army is larger (76,000 troops) and better trained than last year, and there are more foreign troops. Worst of all, more tribal leaders have sided with the government this year, meaning tribal militias are also ready to fight Taliban moving through previously pro-Taliban territory.

This year the Taliban switched to terror bombings, and threats against civilians. The suicide bombing campaign has not been very successful. This year’s threats involve demands that civilians limit cell phone use, stop watching TV and shut down schools for girls. None of these demands were very popular, and nothing much happened except in areas where the tribal leaders were too scared to stand up to the Taliban. This depended more on tribal politics than anything else. The Taliban movement has always been about tribal politics, with ambitious, and often religious, tribesmen seeing the movement as a way to work themselves into a tribal leadership position. That meant more money, as well as more power.

……many al Qaeda leaders and technical experts have departed Iraq in the last year. Some have “retired” (gone inactive, and into hiding), but most of those who have disappeared from Iraq have been showing up in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The ones who come to Afghanistan find themselves constantly under attack by Afghan police and foreign troops. In Pakistan, the Taliban is trying to arrange a ceasefire with the government, and negotiate safe havens from which Islamic terrorists can operate against the Afghan government. The Taliban leadership is taking a beating in Afghanistan as well, and also want a safe place to hide out.

Link: http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/afghan/articles/20080514.aspx

The Taliban, upon getting their asses handed to them, fled across into Pakistan and relative safe haven. This is mostly because the Pakistan government is about as useful as tits on a nun, and the Pakistan Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) has Taliban moles on its payroll.

Good luck with the ceasefire.

“Ask al-Zawahiri”

Al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawarhi’s responses to Internet questions submitted by the public will be released soon, probably within the next three days, a terrorism monitoring service said on Wednesday.The questions were solicited in December offer al Qaeda-linked Web sites that carried an interview with Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command.

They covered topics including al Qaeda’s plans for Palestine, opportunities for women in the militant network and whether Muslims should deal in gold instead of dollars.

Al-Qaeda’s as-Sahab media arm announced on Wednesday the impending release of the first round of Zawahri’s answers, the U.S.-based terrorism monitoring service IntelCenter said…..

Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0241432020080402?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Oh please, allow me:

Women in the militant network:  Strapping bombs to their waists underneath their niqab/burqua, wading into a crowd of people at the local market, and blowing themselves up in the name of Mohammad, Allah, etc… That’s the Islamic idea of ‘opportunities’ for women.

The new currency will be Bin Laden dollars…printed on toilet paper.

Al Qaeda’s plan for Palestine: None, because there won’t be any al Qaeda left, and there’s no such thing as a ‘Palestine’.

I’d like to ask the old camel fucker a question: How does it feel to know that your “allah” is running out of virgins?