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Pakistan. If you read or see nothing else this week…

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Make it this post. This is the most accurate and detailed documentary done so far on the deteriorating situation in Pakistan concerning Taliban and Al Queda in the Swat valley. This is extremely serious. I will be adding information all night on this but watch the documentary for the love of god, freedom, your wife and children, any Jewish friends you may have, for anything you hold sacred. If you think this isn’t going to happen here, wherever here is, I have news for you. It already is.

Add to this new information about the near total impotence of the civilian government in Pakistan, the army’s likely inability to step in and stabilize the country as it did in the early 90s, and today’s dismissal of the premiere of the largest province in Pakistan the Punjab.

I will be adding more to this post over the next 24 hours. There is a lot of information about Pakistan emerging rapidly but I want this video up now. Everyone simply has to see this.
Special thank you to Muslims against Sharia, a most excellent blog for providing me the embed code and for Australia’s four corners for making this. Sit down, get a drink, and watch.

Mark Steyn: Exceptional essay on Islam, the west, the UK

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From Jewish World Review Feb. 23, 2009 / 29 Shevat 5769

Going wobbly in the West

By Mark Steyn

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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | ‘It is hard to understand this deal,” said Richard Holbrooke, President Obama’s special envoy. And, if the special envoy of the so-called smartest and most impressive administration in living memory can’t understand it, what chance do the rest of us have?

Nevertheless, let’s try. In the Swat Valley, where a young Winston Churchill once served with the Malakand Field Force battling Muslim insurgents, his successors have concluded the game isn’t worth the candle. In return for a temporary ceasefire, the Pakistani government agreed to let the local franchise of the Taliban impose its industrial strength version of sharia across the whole of Malakand Region. If “region” sounds a bit of an imprecise term, Malakand has over five million people, all of whom are now living under a murderous theocracy. Still, peace rallies have broken out all over the Swat Valley, and, at a Swat peace rally, it helps to stand well back: As one headline put it, “Journalist Killed While Covering Peace Rally.”

But don’t worry about Pakistani nukes falling into the hands of “extremists”: The Swat Valley is a good hundred miles from the “nation”‘s capital, Islamabad — or about as far as Northern Vermont is from Southern Vermont. And, of course, Islamabad is safely under the control of the famously moderate Ali Zardari. A few days before the Swat deal, Mr. Zardari marked the dawn of the Obama era by releasing from house arrest A. Q. Khan, the celebrated scientist and one-stop shop for all your Islamic nuclear needs, for whose generosity North Korea and Iran are especially grateful.

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Links for February 18 2009 tennis and Pakistan

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Two stories about Israel and tennis. A match in Dubai where Israeli teams had qualified had to be re worked when the nation of Dubai refused to allow in any Israeli’s despite having signed an agreement to abide by all rules of the world class tennis championships. The Israeli players qualified and where to be allowed to play. Dubai cancelled the visa to let the Isreali’s enter the UAE. I didn’t blog that actually at the time but now that Sweden, while allowing the match to go forward, has banned any spectators from attending for ‘safety reasons’ much like many Scandinavian cities told Jewish kids not to attend school for their own safety and we have something that looks a lot like late 30s Germany despite the thin veneer of a reason. Apparently, so many Muslims in Sweden created such a ‘Fuhrer’ that the authorities felt they had to prevent any attendees at all.

Here is a rather prophetic posted essay from Gates of Vienna dating back to 2004. I think given the events since then especially the response by the Muslim community starting during the defense against attacks from Gaza by Isreal and continuing to this day, its a worthwhile read.

The big story I think of the week so far, (and it’s only Wednesday) is the question of the ‘peace deal’ with the Taliban over the implementation of sharia law in the Swat Valley. I also have not posted a great deal about it because there is just too much wrong with the articles I have read. Firstly, I cannot understand how allowing a  hostile force to implement a reign of terror on the people of Swat is anything other than a surrender. How is it a peace deal or a compromise of any kind? The Taliban has already blown up as many schools for girls as they can. What makes Pakistan think they will stop? This is a large part of sharia law. No education for women except Quoran. Many are fleeing the area mostly women, artists and anyone not wishing to be killed by the flimsiest whims of some Muslim cleric for a seemingly arbitrary breach of this 7th century law. One man was killed for having his pant cuff to low down and he was apparently a good observant Muslim. Also, according to www.stratfor.com some reports seem to show the US very against this deal while other stories show the Obama Administration as supporting it.

No matter how you look at it, it is very bad. Add to this the admission that the Mumbai attacks where planned at the top of the Pakistani military machinery and we have a serious question as to the degree to which Pakistan is any kind of ally at all. Not to mention recent revelations about Musharaff’s known collusion’s with Al Queda and the Taliban using US money and materials to aid them.

Some sites are suggesting that the Pakistanis should allow Taliban to have Swat in exchange for peace with Pakistan. This is absurd of course. Anyone following Pakistan would know that just as one example, The Taliban have threatened to blow up any bus playing Music or movies if they did not stop this practice immediately. They did of course. This was just the first victory. Taliban/Al Queda will not stop until Pakistan is another sharia state and similar to the Afghanistan of the Taliban. Not to mention control of the nukes. Given that the ISI Pakistan’s intelligence inter service agency may have planned and trained the Mumbai attackers as well as supplied the attacks on India of serial concurrent bombings of commercial and tourist areas with commercial explosives its insane to think that giving them a state on the doorstep of Pakistan will do anything except accelerate the process of the destruction of Pakistan as a nation state altogether.

Pakistan caught double bluffing the US on the war on terror

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From The Times online UK:

Pervez Musharraf was playing ‘double game’ with US


Outgoing Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf inspects a guard on honor before leaving the presidential house in Islamabad, Pakistan

Mr Musharraf has reacted angrily to the books allegations of double-dealing

Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Editor

Washington sent Special Forces into Pakistan last summer after intercepting a call by the Pakistani army chief referring to a notorious Taleban leader as a “strategic asset,” a new book has claimed.

The intercept was ordered to confirm suspicions that the Pakistani military were still actively supporting the Taleban whilst taking millions of dollars in US military aid to fight them, according to the “The Inheritance,” by the New York Times correspondent David Sanger.

In a transcript passed to Mike McConnell, the Director of National Intelligence in May 2008, General Ashfaq Kayani, the military chief who replaced Pervez Musharraf, was overheard referring to Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani as “a strategic asset”. The remark was the first real evidence of the double game that Washington had long suspected President Musharraf was playing as he continued receiving US military aid while aiding the Taleban.

Mr Haqqani, a veteran of the anti-Soviet mujahidin wars of the nineties, commands a hardline Taleban group based in Waziristan and is credited with introducing suicide bombing into themilitants’ arsenal.

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Washington later intercepted calls from Pakistani military units to Mr Haqqani, warning him of an impending military operation d esigned to prove to the US that Islamabad was tackling the militant threat.

“They must have dialled 1-800-HAQQANI” a source told Mr Sanger. “It was something like, ‘Hey, we’re going to hit your place in a few days, so if anyone important is there, you might want to tell them to scram’.”

The intercept was the clue that led the CIA to uncover evidence of collusion between the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and Mr Haqqani in a plot to carry out a spectacular bombing in Afghanistan. Two weeks later, India’s Embassy in Kabul was bombed, killing fifty-four people and prompting a CIA mission to Islamabad to challenge the government with their evidence.

The first cross-border strike took place in early September without Islamabad’s knowledge after Washington concluded that no one could be trusted with the information.

General Kayani, a former ISI chief, became army chief when Mr Musharraf relinquished that post in 2007, a year before he was forced to quit as president. Worryingly for Washington, General Kayani remains Pakistan’s army chief.

Mr Musharraf reacted angrily to the book’s allegations of double-dealing, which appeared in the Pakistani press for the first time yesterday. “Get your facts correct, I have never double-dealt,” Mr Musharraf told Pakistani television stations.

“There is a big conspiracy being hatched against Pakistan, to weaken the Pakistan army and the ISI to weaken Pakistan.”

Mr Sanger’s book, detailing the foreign policy challenges inherited by the Obama Administration, was published in the US last month. In it, US intelligence officials also speak of their fears that Islamist militants might launch a spectacular attack on Indian soil in the hope of ramping up tensions on the subcontinent, leading Pakistan to deploy its nuclear weapons

Links for Feb 16 2009

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First, some good news. As readers here may know, we have had a continuing thread questioning the value of the Canadian support of the current government in Afghanistan. There have been so many incidents of Islamic sharia implemented under the new more ‘liberal’ government that one wonders if we aren’t just replacing one theocratic brutal regime with ‘Taliban Lite’. Here is a photo shoot and article about a peace march, for once actually wishing for peace as opposed to being for war but on the other side, from of all places, Toronto. Pashtun’s, one of the indigenous tribes of Pakistan and Afghanistan and actually one of the tribes for which the anagram name of Pakistan was forged, are trying to raise awareness of how the Taliban is in fact destroying all attempts to build civilization by the Pashtun, destroying all schools for girls and you can bet changing the curriculum for boys to limit it to Quran, Islamic studies and basic rocketry. This is encouraging. Where is the media? same place as always. Out for a drink and looking through their Rolodex for someone at the CIC or Canadian Arab federation to tell them what they are allowed to print. From Atlas Shrugs. The article itself seems a little hastily written but the facts are solid. The Swat Valley in Pakistan is now a Taliban stronghold so much so that the Taliban, now a solid partner of Al Queda is successfully making demands on Pakistan proper to implement sharia. At least this article makes an excellent counter position to ours at Vlad as to why we should be in Afghanistan. If for nothing else, for the Pashtun.

Im sorry to have to post this one. Obama’s administration is taking the US into Durban II, the anti western and anti Semitic hate fest this one based on the preparatory statements made, seem to show it as being far more virulent than Durban I was. Here is an article which shows the best case scenario. Naivete on the part of the Obama admin. I hope Anne Bayefsky, the author of this article is correct and it is nothing more insidious or opportunistic than merely a deluded sense of what he can accomplish for western liberal democracy by US attendance. Thanks to Fred at Gayandright for sending me this. Sample below:

In a major foreign-policy decision taken over the weekend, President Obama has decided to legitimize the United Nations’s “anti-racism” forum known as Durban II. State Department officials announced in a press release buried on Saturday, that starting today the United States will attend for the first time the preparatory meetings of this controversial U.N. conference. The “Durban Review Conference,” scheduled for April in Geneva, is the progenitor of the anti-semitic hatefest that took place in South Africa in early September 2001.

The searing images of the demonization of America and Jews on the U.N.’s global stage, and the terrorism in New York 72 hours later, should have made joining this revived forum for U.N.-driven hate inconceivable. But President Obama seems intent on learning the lessons of history — and the relationship between hatemongering and violence — the hard way.

Here is a depressing article but well backed up with facts and stats about the use of rape of women by Islamists as a weapon of jihad. Te clip below deals with the issue in Australia but goes into detail about how rape was a central tool of Islamics in India along with links to chapter and verse of hadith explaining the ‘logic’ behind it.

The Sydney gang rapes, committed by groups of Muslim men upon Australian women, are still fresh in memory. The men taunted the women while raping them, saying that the women “deserved it” because they were not covered and staying at home as Islam commands women to do.

Now this phenomenon, already so pronounced with small muslim populations (The 2001 census showed the UK had 1.5 million muslims), evolves into something even more sinister as the muslim population rises. Women are kidnapped (they simply vanish in the vast network of “Islamic centers”), used to commit terrorist acts, and so on. Let us look at some such incidents in India in the past few months. First, a bit of historical and theological background.

The very first accounts of the muslim invasions of India, by Mohammed Bin Qasim in 712AD, talk in some detail about the women captured and sexually enslaved. Indeed, it is described as one of the major accomplishments of the subjugation of the Hindus…

Do go to the link to read the rest it’s crucial that we in the west examine India for a template of what is occurring in western lands now. The article ends with this caveat: “Remember, women are always Islam’s first victims.” I am not personally sure if they are the first, but they are certainly the most numerous.

Below, please find a video discussion from FOX news with Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney, Tarek Fatah and Nonie Darwish Discussing stealth jihad and Islamic Radicals in the United States.





Links February 14 2009

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Here is a series of links to events and essays which I feel are very worthwhile as well as worth the time to read. This being St. Valentine’s its noteworthy that this was a real man in ancient Rome, and he was canonized as a patron St. to lovers. So it suddenly seems quite logical why Islam loathes and despises Valentines day around the world and is acting out in the usual puerile fashion it so often does. Valentines day requires women to be people and have some actual right to their own romantic destiny which is what Valentine represented. Hence the photo below. From Atlas Shrugs:

Roses are red … and unwanted in Saudi Arabia as a Riyadh flower vendor shows how the vice squad crush red roses while enforcing a law banning Valentine’s Day celebrations in the conservative desert kingdom. Islamic law strictly segregates the sexes before marriage, so flowers, chocolates and romantic dinners shared by boyfriend and girlfriend are next to impossible.

Hence… jihad against flowers, chocolates, and romantic dinners.

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Next, a rather excellent historical essay about Indias harsh and lengthy struggle to survive as a people and a culture under near constant Islamic destruction with numerous quotes by Islamic scholars of the day describing destruction and humiliation of the Hindu’s under various Islamic jihad’s. India knows Islam as an enemy better than anyone. The need for Europe Israel and the west overall to join with India in every way may be central to defeating this, the third Jihad. Remember, the accounts in the above link where written by the Muslim conquerors themselves. Like the Nazis they felt what they did was a great thing and documented it well.

Concerning Australia’s deadly fires, we know four things. 1. There are rumors of jihadi sites suggesting that fires be set to destroy as much as possible as its relatively easy to do in the dry summer of parts of Australia and grandiose 911 style plans haven’t worked well as frankly they get caught. So while this isn’t a very glorious way to wage jihad on the people of Australia who where nice enough to let Muslims in from whatever shit hole nation they came from, it might be an effective one. This is not evidence, but its an interesting coincidence because 2. we do know that the fires are indeed arson. This was made clear. and we also know 3. That a wanted picture of a perp in connection with the fires has been published although no name. We can judge for ourselves what the motive may be and lastly and interestingly 4. we know that Muslims in Australia are gloating about the fires and enjoying the fact like Palestinians on 911 which makes the first three points unimportant. That is to say, even if the fires where not arson, where not set by Muslims as part of Jihad, they are acting as if it was and are gleeful about the misery destruction and death of their adopted countrymen. Repugnant? Doesn’t come close.

Lastly, Pakistan now admits the most recent horrors in Bombay/Mumbai where indeed planned in Pakistan.

Islamabad (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik admitted today, for the first time, that “some part of the conspiracy related to the [November 26] Mumbai attacks was planned in Pakistan.” At least 6 people believed to be involved have been arrested, and 2 more are being sought, but the investigation is ongoing and further developments are not ruled out.

It is said that some of the conspirators could be members of the outlawed extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, including Zia-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarrar Shah, who sent “an e-mail claiming responsibility for the attack.” Shah has been in jail since December.

Those under arrest also include Hamad Amin Sadiq, considered the “main architect” of the plot, who arranged the transfer of money used for the attacks, and Javed Iqbal, an expert in internet technology living in Barcelona. The money came from Spain and Italy, and SIM telephone cards from Austria and India were used. Also in jail is the person who sold the boat engine used by the attackers to reach Mumbai by sea.


Click the link to see the whole story.

Happy Valentines everyone! Now is the time to abandon post modern cynicism, find someone you love and cherish freedom. Enjoy some music, a nice pork tenderloin and a really cold beer.

Brutal torture-murder of white boy in the UK by Muslims.

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Here is a piece from the excellent blog the Opinionator. I wish I could add something to this but I can’t. I suppose we could play the usual game, what of a bunch of white guys did this to a black 15 year old for no reason other than he was black, then how much media would it get and so on. But why bother we allready know this and already know the double standard is in such force it’s hard to believe any newspapers covered it at all let alone major TV and the kind of media frenzy that would happen if it was the other way around.

Another Muslim Race Hate Attack on Kriss Donald’s Street

What could be described one if not THE most despicable race hate crimes in Scotland/Britain was the horrific murder of 15 year old schoolboy, Kriss Donald – who was tortured and killed by muslim gang/men for no other reason than the young lad was white. Even the left leaning oft muslim apologist newspaper, The Guardian, was compelled to report gruesome murder:

“The court had heard that Kriss was jumped on as he walked down a street near his home with a friend. As he was bundled into a car, he screamed: “Why me? I’m only 15.”

His mutilated body was found the next day on a walkway in the east end of the city. The slightly built boy had been beaten, held down and stabbed 13 times, then set on fire while he was still alive. Bleeding to death and burning, he tried to crawl towards the river Clyde but died in a ditch.

A passerby who found his body the following day thought he had stumbled across the carcass of a dead animal. ”  LINK

More grisly details were found in The Independent

“The jury was told that Kriss was probably still alive when he was doused in petrol and set alight. Forensic experts said burns covered more than 70 per cent of his body. He was found on a walkway next to the river Clyde, near Celtic FC’s training ground, the next day.

There are even more grusome details about this killing on the original sites. With great sadness, I ask you to please click over and read the rest of this story. Yes. It is much worse than this. Castration, eye gouging, pure hatred of white people motivated this attack in England by guests in that nation who are Muslim.

Seditious house of lords member threatens the British public with terrorism and demands Israeli’s from IDF be arrested

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From the blog The Opinionator. This article has to be read to be believed. It looks like George Galloway has competition now in the completly outragious and treasonous category of British governance. A sample below…

Britain’s first muslim peer,  Lord Ahmed, recently threatened the House of Lords with violent protests — saying he would flood the streets of London with 10,000 saliva spewing hate filled muslim protesters — if the House proceeded to show Dutch political leader, Geert Wilders, movie “Fitna” his threats caused the initial showing to be cancelled .

Flushed with pride that he cowtowed the House of Lords, the malodorous Lord Ahmed immediately rushed and bragged about his victory to the Pakistani press and declared it a “victory for the muslim community“. Lord Ahmed’s posturing and boasting to the Pakistani press/people clearly shows he places more allegiance and importance on his Pakistan “constituency” than the British people.

Lord Nazir Ahmed

Lord Ahmed’s actions have some people calling for him to be charged with treason.

Just a few days ago came the good news that the House of Lords might have recovered its collective spine and is choosing to ignore Lord Ahmeds threats and will have Geert Wilders come to the House and show his film – Fitna. LINK Let’s hope they do so.

This is the same Lord Ahmed, who along with muslim members of parliament, joined 38 Islamist groups in warning the UK government that they should change their foreign policy or expect to be attacked.

Please click here to read the rest of this article. If the UK does not respond to this, then perhaps North Americans had better start treating England the way the CIA already does. As the number one source of Islamic terrorists world wide.

Video of largest gun bazaar on earth in Kyber pass.

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Anyone at all who thinks about the war in Afghanistan should at least consider the information in this video before rendering an opinion.

Thanks Nick for sending me this.

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Stratfor: On continued efforts in Afghanistan and the cost of the goals there.

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Another great article By George Friedman of Strtfor

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The Devolution of Al Qaeda

Washington’s attention is now zeroing in on Afghanistan. There is talk of doubling U.S. forces there, and preparations are being made for another supply line into Afghanistan — this one running through the former Soviet Union — as an alternative or a supplement to the current Pakistani route. To free up more resources for Afghanistan, the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq probably will be accelerated. And there is discussion about whether the Karzai government serves the purposes of the war in Afghanistan. In short, U.S. President Barack Obama’s campaign promise to focus on Afghanistan seems to be taking shape.

We have discussed many aspects of the Afghan war in the past; it is now time to focus on the central issue. What are the strategic goals of the United States in Afghanistan? What resources will be devoted to this mission? What are the intentions and capabilities of the Taliban and others fighting the United States and its NATO allies? Most important, what is the relationship between the war against the Taliban and the war against al Qaeda? If the United States encounters difficulties in the war against the Taliban, will it still be able to contain not only al Qaeda but other terrorist groups? Does the United States need to succeed against the Taliban to be successful against transnational Islamist terrorists? And assuming that U.S. forces are built up in Afghanistan and that the supply problem through Pakistan is solved, are the defeat of Taliban and the disruption of al Qaeda likely?

Al Qaeda and U.S. Goals Post-9/11
The overarching goal of the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, has been to prevent further attacks by al Qaeda in the United States. Washington has used two means toward this end. One was defensive, aimed at increasing the difficulty of al Qaeda operatives to penetrate and operate within the United States. The second was to attack and destroy al Qaeda prime, the group around Osama bin Laden that organized and executed 9/11 and other attacks in Europe. It is this group — not other groups that call themselves al Qaeda but only are able to operate in the countries where they were formed — that was the target of the United States, because this was the group that had demonstrated the ability to launch intercontinental strikes.

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Stratfor: Obama’s first real challenge. really really good read.

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Obama Enters the Great Game www.stratfor.com

January 19, 2009 | 1942 GMT


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By George Friedman

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will be sworn in on Tuesday as president of the United States. Candidate Obama said much about what he would do as president; now we will see what President Obama actually does. The most important issue Obama will face will be the economy, something he did not anticipate through most of his campaign. The first hundred days of his presidency thus will revolve around getting a stimulus package passed. But Obama also is now in the great game of global competition — and in that game, presidents rarely get to set the agenda.

The major challenge he faces is not Gaza; the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is not one any U.S. president intervenes in unless he wants to experience pain. As we have explained, that is an intractable conflict to which there is no real solution. Certainly, Obama will fight being drawn into mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during his first hundred days in office. He undoubtedly will send the obligatory Middle East envoy, who will spend time with all the parties, make suitable speeches and extract meaningless concessions from all sides. This envoy will establish some sort of process to which everyone will cynically commit, knowing it will go nowhere. Such a mission is not involvement — it is the alternative to involvement, and the reason presidents appoint Middle East envoys. Obama can avoid the Gaza crisis, and he will do so.

Obama’s Two Unavoidable Crises

The two crises that cannot be avoided are Afghanistan and Russia. First, the situation in Afghanistan is tenuous for a number of reasons, and it is not a crisis that Obama can avoid decisions on. Obama has said publicly that he will decrease his commitments in Iraq and increase them in Afghanistan. He thus will have more troops fighting in Afghanistan. The second crisis emerged from a decision by Russia to cut off natural gas to Ukraine, and the resulting decline in natural gas deliveries to Europe. This one obviously does not affect the United States directly, but even after flows are restored, it affects the Europeans greatly. Obama therefore comes into office with three interlocking issues: Afghanistan, Russia and Europe. In one sense, this is a single issue — and it is not one that will wait.

Obama clearly intends to follow Gen. David Petraeus’ lead in Afghanistan. The intention is to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan, thereby intensifying pressure on the Taliban and opening the door for negotiations with the militant group or one of its factions. Ultimately, this would see the inclusion of the Taliban or Taliban elements in a coalition government. Petraeus pursued this strategy in Iraq with Sunni insurgents, and it is the likely strategy in Afghanistan.

But the situation in Afghanistan has been complicated by the situation in Pakistan. Roughly three-quarters of U.S. and NATO supplies bound for Afghanistan are delivered to the Pakistani port of Karachi and trucked over the border to Afghanistan. Most fuel used by Western forces in Afghanistan is refined in Pakistan and delivered via the same route. There are two crossing points, one near Afghanistan’s Kandahar province at Chaman, Pakistan, and the other through the Khyber Pass. The Taliban have attacked Western supply depots and convoys, and Pakistan itself closed the routes for several days, citing government operations against radical Islamist forces.

Meanwhile, the situation in Pakistan has been complicated by tensions with India. The Indians have said that the individuals who carried out the Nov. 26 Mumbai attack were Pakistanis supported by elements in the Pakistani government. After Mumbai, India made demands of the Pakistanis. While the situation appears to have calmed, the future of Indo-Pakistani relations remains far from clear; anything from a change of policy in New Delhi to new terrorist attacks could see the situation escalate. The Pakistanis have made it clear that a heightened threat from India requires them to shift troops away from the Afghan border and toward the east; a small number of troops already has been shifted.

Apart from the direct impact this kind of Pakistani troop withdrawal would have on cross-border operations by the Taliban, such a move also would dramatically increase the vulnerability of NATO supply lines through Pakistan. Some supplies could be shipped in by aircraft, but the vast bulk of supplies — petroleum, ammunition, etc. — must come in via surface transit, either by truck, rail or ship. Western operations in Afghanistan simply cannot be supplied from the air alone. A cutoff of the supply lines across Pakistan would thus leave U.S. troops in Afghanistan in crisis. Because Washington can’t predict or control the future actions of Pakistan, of India or of terrorists, the United States must find an alternative to the routes through Pakistan.

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Taliban threatens homicide attacks on Pakistani buses which play music

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In keeping with a theme here on Vlad I post this article on Taliban threats against Pakistan buses which play music or show movies. I feel its crucial that people especially on the left and or in the artistic community understand with whom they are allied. Orthodox Islam does not tolerate arts or artistic expression, one of the things the left holds sacred as should we all. I believe (the facts are posted here on another article on Vladtepesblog) that playing music is in the top 10 of ‘haram’ or forbidden things according to Mohamed.

In Iran, it was the unwitting left and artistic community that assisted the theocratic Islamic regime to depose the Shaw and install the obscene Islamic regime they have now. Remember, Persians where a very enlightened people. They where secular for the most part and liberal. The left and artists felt that post Shaw Iran would be a more free and liberal place much as Canadians feel if the NDP replaced the conservatives and as Americans feel with Obama over Bush. The difference is, the Ayatollah created a living hell hole for Iranians and Obama won’t make any difference at all.

If anyone reading this has friends who are artists and seem to be sympathetic to the cause of Islamification of the west I would ask that you send this link to them as well as any of the others on Vladtepesblog which are in the category of ‘War on the arts’. Wherever Islam gains any authority, artistic expression is not just crushed, those who produce art are butchered.

In Iran, this was over one hundred thousand people.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Bus drivers in northwest Pakistan have begun removing audio and video equipment from their vehicles after Taliban militants threatened suicide attacks against those who played music or movies for their passengers, an industry official said Tuesday.

Transport workers in Mardan town received letters this week from militants saying that buses offering such entertainment were guilty of spreading “vulgarity and obscenity,” Walid Mir, general secretary of the town’s transport union, told The Associated Press.

The militants said they would check the buses and that suicide attacks would be carried out against vehicles that still had audio and video equipment — prompting union members to act quickly, Mir said.

The Taliban letter complained that traveling in buses that provide audiovisual entertainment was a “source of mental agony for pious people,” according to a text obtained by AP.

“It is obligatory on us to stop such violations. We request you to remove the vulgar systems … otherwise suicide bombers are ready,” the letter said.

Mardan lies in the Northwest Frontier Province just outside Pakistan’s volatile tribal belt where extremists among the Taliban, al-Qaida and local groups are waging a violent campaign against authorities in a bid to impose their strict interpretation of Islam.

Elsewhere in northwest Pakistan, extremists have targeted girls’ schools, police posts and other symbols of authority.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime that was forced from power in late 2001 banned art, secular music and television, vandalized the national museum and destroyed artwork or statues deemed idolatrous or anti-Muslim.

Local police said they had no knowledge of the threat.

“Certainly, we can look into it if we receive a complaint,” Mardan police chief Syed Akhtar Ali Shah said.

Mir said the transport companies had no plans to make a report.

“We did not report it to police because it is a matter of human lives. What can the police can do? It involves the lives of hundreds of passengers, and we do not want to put them in danger,” Mir said.

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Associated Press reporters Asif Shahzad and Christopher Bodeen contributed to this report from Islamabad.

Pakistani schools mirror UNRWA ones. Go figure!

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For Pak kids, ‘J’ is for jihad Times of India

(This article may be worth reading in the context of the recent post, UNRWA now 99% terror free!)

ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Pakistani schoolgoing children are growing up learning that the Urdu equivalent of the letter A stands for Allah, B for
‘bandook’ (gun) and J for jihad.

Though not officially prescribed for pre-schoolers, books printed by Iqra Publishers are being used in several regular schools and madrassas across Pakistan.

The three examples of Allah, ‘bandook’ and jihad are not the only ones which sound like a “blueprint for a religious fascist state”. The Urdu letter for the T sound stands for ‘takrao’ (collide), K for ‘khunjar’ (dagger), H for ‘hijab’ (veil) and Z for ‘zunoob’ (sins) – which includes watching television, playing musical instruments
and flying kites.

According to the National Bureau of Curriculum and Textbooks, Class 5 children are expected to “acknowledge and identify forces that may be working against Pakistan”, “make speeches on jihad and shahadat (martyrdom)”, “understand Hindu-Muslim differences and the resultant need for Pakistan”, “India’s evil designs about Pakistan” and “demonstrate by actions a belief in the fear of Allah”, said a report in Newsline magazine.

India Israel, Hindu’s and jews join to oppose common enemy.

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As we saw in a previous post here on Vlad linking to an article from The Ottawa Citizen the Muslim terrorists who attacked Mumbai and made special efforts to target Jewish people and institutions in India where trying to sour relations between Israel and India.

From a phone call to the terrorists who attacked the Jewish center..

The caller went on: “If the hostages are killed, it will spoil relations between India and Israel.”

Fortunately their logic is poor. The fastest way to unite a people is to attack them. So I was delighted to see this report from Pajama’s media about a planned rally of Hindu’s and Jews and other victims of Islamic terrorism for Washington DC Jan. 20th.

“The oldest traditions of the world, Hinduism and Judaism, are facing the biggest threat of our times in the form of Radical Islam. Today this problem threatens humanity itself. The brain washing of Islamic children with intolerant ideologies, is being funded by countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran. There is an urgent need to control the use of enormous oil revenues directed at efforts to Islamize the whole world.”

Israel and the Jewish people as well as India and the Hindu’s could of course educate the western world, most of who’s inhabitants often feel that history begins at the renaissance , as to how well Islam has acted as a neighbor and more often as oppressor. Nice to see India’s relations with Israel strengthened by the attacks even though that was entirely predictable.

After the attacks on Bombay in 2001 it took a year before tensions escalated between India and Pakistan before the US and Bush administration had to step in and defuse a nuclear Mexican stand off. It has only been a couple of months since the Mumbai attacks by the same actors, renegade perhaps but state actors for Pakistan. It is worth paying close attention to India as well as how the Obama Admin. will deal with it. The US of course will have to try and defuse the situation but the same method, getting Pakistan more onside with the war on terror, simply can’t work this time. Pakistan is both the source of regional terrorism and it’s greatest victim.

If anyone is aware of a historical situation similar to this one, please write about it in the comments section. Certainly Indian action against Pakistan would be as in the situation with Israel, a lose lose. Indian inaction also like Israel, means death by a thousand cuts.

Ottawa Citizen: Mumbai attackers ordered by phone to kill: Documents

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From the Ottawa Citizen Jan 7 09

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MUMBAI – Militants who attacked Mumbai were urged to kill their hostages in cold blood and fight to the death in the name of Islam, according to transcripts of intercepted telephone calls made public Wednesday.

In one exchange, one of the two attackers who stormed the luxury Oberoi-Trident hotel was told to “inflict the maximum damage” and to “kill all hostages, except the two Muslims” they were holding.

“We have three foreigners, including women,” the attacker identified as Fahadullah said.

“Kill them. Keep your phone switched on so that we can hear the gunfire,” he was told.

The transcript then said the two attackers were heard to tell the two Muslims to step aside and order the hostages to stand in a line. Gunfire was heard then cheering.

Details of the attackers’ conversations, allegedly with their six “Pakistan-based handlers”, are contained in a dossier of evidence that India says “unmistakenly” points to elements in Pakistan being behind the attacks.

The document, obtained by The Hindu English-language newspaper, puts the official death toll at 165 civilians and security personnel – two more than previously – plus nine of the 10 attackers.

It also lists items recovered after the attacks, including Pakistan-made weapons and global positioning systems with co-ordinates of a sea route from off southeast Pakistan, as well as Pakistani washing powder and shaving cream.

As well as Pakistan-made weapons and global positioning systems with coordinates of a sea route from off southeast Pakistan, it includes items such as pickle, washing powder and shaving cream manufactured across the border.

Much of the detail has emerged piecemeal since the 60-hour siege ended on November 29, including claims that the banned Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba trained, equipped and financed the operation.

Islamabad has angrily rejected allegations from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the attacks had the support of some “official agencies” and that Pakistan was using terrorism as an “instrument of state policy”.

The head of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, countered strongly, telling Der Spiegel magazine in an interview that it was fighting terrorism, not India.

“We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds. We know full well that terror is our enemy, not India,” he was quoted as saying in the German publication’s online edition.

He also rejected claims that ISI-sponsored Pakistani groups were behind the attacks, accusing India of giving them “nothing, no names, no numbers, no connections”.

The dossier – a 13-page summary and 50 pages of supporting documents – contains phone numbers and email addresses allegedly linked to LeT commanders.

According to the transcript, one of the two attackers at the Nariman House Jewish cultural centre was told: “Brother, you have to fight. This is a matter of prestige of Islam.

“Fight so that your fight becomes a shining example. Be strong in the name of Allah… Brother, you have to fight for the victory of Islam. Be strong.”

A separate call added: “Keep in mind that the hostages are of use only as long as you do not come under fire because of their safety.

“If you are still threatened, then don’t saddle yourself with the burden of the hostages, immediately kill them.”

The caller went on: “If the hostages are killed, it will spoil relations between India and Israel.”

An attacker replied: “So be it, God willing.”

Five hostages, including a rabbi and his wife, were later found dead with the two militants.