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| Pak hard boys starting to free-lance |
| 2002-03-20 |
Could have seen this one coming, couldn't they? It's been building up to it for a long time. Many of these dissident groups were associated with militant groups at the time of the US-led war in Afghanistan. Once the war ended with the rout of the Taliban, Pakistani intelligence agencies shifted the assignments of these groups to the separatist struggle in Indian Kashmir. However, many members of militant organizations, including those from the Harkat ul Mujahadin, maintained close relations with different Afghan warlords or Arab fighters. These dissidents became disillusioned in the months after September 11 as their leaders, many of whom were said to be on the payroll of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), did not respond to events as the dissidents would have liked - such as pushing for widespread anti-US demonstrations. A source inside Harkat claimed that the majority of religious leaders were not sincere in the Islamic cause and that they were hand-in-glove with the military establishment. Y'mean even the cannon fodder started to notice? Not very subtle of them when even the rubes catch on. Harkat is one of the gunny arms of Jamaat-i-Islami, which is run by Qazi Hussein Ahmed. Qazi claims not to be a nut case, but he has visions of world domination and he used to drink camel whiz until it gave him kidney stones. "They formed the Sepah-i-Sahabah and motivated thousands of youths to kill Shi'ite Muslims. When Shi'ite-Sunni riots started in Pakistan, the military establishment pressurized them, so they [the leaders] adopted a softer policy without caring for the sacrifices that thousands of youths had made in destroying their careers through the rhetoric of the leaders." Well, the sunk costs were only a few hundred gunnies. What the hell? They're cheap. You can always find more. The powers that be are trying to keep things just under a full boil, wo when the wholesale slaughters start up they'll choke them back. Retail snuffs they don't mind. The Lashkar-i-Jhangvi is an extremist version of the Sepah-i-Sahabah. It has a loose organizational structure and its office bearers are not known. Whenever it carries out killings, it sends messages to the media claiming responsibility. However, since the police don't have a clue about the organization, they instead arrest Sepah-i-Sahabah office bearers and activists. "The Lashkar-i-Jhangvi is a silent revenge against the hypocritical leaders of the Sepah-i-Sahabah. Now, when the Lashkar activists carry out killings, the Sepah-i-Sahabah suffers the consequences. This will continue until the Sepah-i-Sahabah is left with no choice but to surrender or return to their hardline, anti-Shi'ite cause," the banned militant told Asia Times several months ago. Y'mean they're deliberately setting the Bigs up to take the heat? Har-har-har! "The same strategy has been earmarked for the so-called leaders of the militant groups who collected millions of rupees on the name of jihad, but when the real test came and the US attacked Afghanistan and Musharraf supported the attacks, they requested that the government detain them at their residences so that they would not be pressurized into taking action on their calls for jihad." That's a new wrinkle, and it's not in the least unlikely. House arrest can be pretty comfortable when you're a rich mullah like Samiul Haq or Fazlur Rehman or Qazi Ahmed Hussain. The banned militant vowed during the interview, "You will see in a couple of months that we will carry out such actions that the militant groups will be under fire and they will be left with no choice - either a complete surrender or they must return to the cause they promised us when we joined them." That sounds like a good recipe for anarchy and/or civil war in Pakistan. If it doesn't end with the dissolution of the country, it'll end with the military cracking down to bring the fundos back under control - but they'll try to do it without eliminating them because they've been useful in the past. If they make that mistake, they'll be back again. Best bet, make sure each of the Ernst Stavro Blofelds ends up with a neck a yard long and go secular. As dozens of other countries have shown, you can collect graft in a secular state, too. Dang, Fred, this blog is just a "Social Register" of the terrorist elite! How do you keep up with all the comings and goings of this whirlwind waltz of personalities and facts? It's the repetition. Day in, day out, the same old thing, the same old names... I'm thinking of quitting this and starting a Britney Spears fanblog. There's more variety. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |