‘Registering with Taliban can save your neck’ Daily Times/ Pakistan

[TexasLawyer]

I hope that our troops sitting in Afghanistan know about this. It sounds like the Taliban is SERIOUSLY regrouping in Pakistan.

Saturday, April 29, 2006

‘Registering with Taliban can save your neck’

By Iqbal Khattak

PESHAWAR: A person can escape being executed by the Taliban through registering for “jihad in Afghanistan” at the militant’s recruiting office in South Waziristan, a senior tribal elder told Daily Times on Friday.

“You have to register yourself if you want to live. It does make a difference when you are enrolled with the Taliban,” said the elder, in Peshawar to attend Wednesday’s jirga with President Pervez Musharraf. He spoke on condition of anonymity to escape reprisals from the Taliban as well as the political administration.

The Taliban think of anyone not with them as against them, so the safest course is to register with them and stay silent, he said. “Registration makes the militants believe you are with them,” said the elder. Military movement is restricted and a weekly convoy brings reinforcement to Wana where elders take a huge risk by visiting the administration, said the elder. “We even fear that the militants might have bugged our phones.”

He added that the government’s peace deal with former militants in late 2004 strengthened the Taliban in South Waziristan. “The Taliban have opened recruiting offices in Wana, Makeen and Barwend areas and are influential because they are providing residents the relief that the political administration denies,” he said. He added that clerics were replacing chieftains in all committees and the government “appears to be happy with changing situation” in South Waziristan.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\04\29\story_29-4-2006_pg1_4

[TexasLawyer]

1. OK, I answered my own question

Not only do our guys know about the Taliban regrouping in Pakistan-- the US appears to be covertly bombing Taliban IN PAKISTAN.

Somewhere I missed the debate on whether the US should be bombing Pakistan.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1057985

[rodeodance]

2. another Effect of going into Iraq!

[TexasLawyer]

4. Just when you thought

the Iraq "tar baby" couldn't get any more massive. Here is is.

[Igel]

7. I don't see the connection.

The Taliban's been active up in there since before 9/11. They've continued to control the madaris in the area since then, so there are 4 more graduating classes of jihadi wannabes.

[TexasLawyer]

3. Zawahiri calls for Pakistani leader to be overthrown

29 April 2006
29/04
13:06 CET

Pakistan
Zawahiri calls for Pakistani leader to be overthrown



Al Qaeda's second-in-command has called for the Pakistani leader to be overthrown, in the third recording from the terrorist group in a week. Ayman Zawahiri, who is thought to be hiding on the Pakistani border, described President Pervez Musharraf as a "treacherous criminal."

Musharraf's forces have captured or killed hundreds of al Qaeda followers since he backed the US-led war on terrorism.

In an interview in Britain's Guardian newspaper, the Pakistani president denied he was anybody's "poodle" and said he was fighting for the good of his own country. Musharraf has been the subject of several failed assassination attempts, including one on Christmas Day 2003.

The video message from Zawahiri appears to be a bid to stir up further anger at the president and at US attacks on suspected terrorist targets in Pakistan.

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http://euronews.net/create_html.php?page=detail_info&article=356563&lng=1

[Igel]

6. Of course Zawahri would call for that.

Musharraf's secular, mostly. The MMA is the party from hell--a grouping of Islamist parties whose powerbase are Deobandi and conservative mosques, fed by the zakat- and government-funded madaris around the country. You know those madaris--the places where you learn that Abraham was Arab, Moses was Arab, Jesus was Arab, and the Jews have no claim to any place ever inhabited by Arabs or Muslims; along with "If Allah wills it, hydrogen and oxygen may combine to form water"; and you get the useful job skill of reciting the Qur'an by memory.

The MMA is the party that also denied al-Qaeda existed, but was defiant when an important AQ guy was arrested, the house guest of a prominent MMA leader.

They're the party that has brown-shirts out defacing bill-boards that shows women's faces, that goes into private houses if they hear music playing to punish the miscreants, have all but set up a parallel religious police force in the NWFP unanswerable to elected officials, and who have basically made many NGOs unable to operate in parts of Pakistan. Who object to having the 'religion' line stricken from the passport. Who object to having the 'jihadi' verses from the Qur'an studied less in the public schools--not 'have them removed from the curriculum', just not be given the required attention as required by Islam.

They're the number 3 party in Pakistan.

AQ, Taliban, MMA ... it's their deviant little Muhammed the Danish cartoonist might well have had in mind when he drew Muhammed as a terrorist.

[Terran1212]

5. My parents from Pakistan

The poverty is so horrible there and the government is spending billions in assisting Bush with his mission in Afghanistan; it would be very easy for extreme elements to take lead there when all Bush and Pervez want to spend money on is militarization. They don't take care of the people, of course the people will go extreme. I've never seen poverty that bad anywhere, and I don't expect any different considering the circumstances.