Word: taliban
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...Taliban Trouble Re Peter Bergen's article on al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden [July 14]: The U.S. and Europe should not assume bin Laden is irrelevant or that al-Qaeda is no longer active. It is true that al-Qaeda has not managed to carry out any attacks in the West in the last few years. It is also a fact that it carried out more than 50 suicide bombings in Pakistan in 2007. Al-Qaeda is taking full advantage of the weakness of Pakistan's new government to recruit, train and arm more jihadis. This will boost...
...nothing of the sort, but his promise to "take out" Pakistan's militants somehow got twisted, as often happens with messianic sects. But the point is, right now, an Obama victory was going to do nothing to endear the United States to at least this lady, and probably the Taliban...
...also be fair to Pakistan. If its army moved into the Northwest Frontier Province in force, the odds are good the army as well as the country would crack. All across Pakistan there is grudging sympathy for Pakistan's Taliban, al-Qaeda's host, rebels willing to stand up to the United States. It was not a coincidence that the 9/11 plotters had taken refuge in Pakistan's largest cities, Rawalpindi and Karachi...
...same question about Obama to Pakistan's legendary Colonel Imam. The colonel is on French leave from Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency. But he knows the Taliban - he organized it in the mid-nineties. And that's not to mention that he all but invented the Afghan resistance in the early eighties...
...days after his awkward TV appearance, Gilani traveled to Peshawar, where he sought to enlist the support of tribal elders from South Waziristan, the mountainous base of Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud. "I ask you people to tell me how to deal with elements bent upon militancy," he pleaded, an elaborate turban on his head. The use of military force, he told them, will only be a last resort. Many fear that it may be resorted to only when it is too late...