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| Pro-Taliban cleric asks followers to hit official targets |
| 2007-09-22 |
| Pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah asked his followers on Friday to hit official targets, after the government ignored a demand to release his supporters, eyewitnesses and security sources said. Abduction of government officials was part of the targets that the cleric said should be achieved. “I ask you to attack the targets,” he told a council at Iman Dheri outside Mingora city, his headquarters. “Now I will show the government what I can do,” he was quoted as telling the council. The cleric, believed to be in his 30s, is the son-in-law of Tehreek-e-Nifaz Shariah Muhammadi’s jailed leader Sufi Muhammad and enjoys widespread support among the rural people of Swat. Since July, Swat has been experiencing Islamists-linked violence, attacks on police and security forces and bombing of audio and video shops. Meanwhile, local police arrested three persons in connection with the Patham Hotel explosion, and moved them to Peshawar for interrogation. Maulana Fazlullah declared the three arrested persons as his followers and demanded their immediate release but the police had ignored his warning. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 We already are, I suspect. Chuck Simmons has been keeping count of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan as much as can be done, but that doesn't count everywhere else anti-terror forces are operating, nor all those arrested quietly since Al Qaeda got our attention in 2001. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-22 19:22 |
| #3 The United States will not succeed against "terrorism" until we can prove to the people living there that we can be more of a danger to them than the terrorists are. Word, OP. Disproportionate retaliation is the only answer to terrorism. Permit me to elaborate: We can be more of a danger to them than the terrorists are to us. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-22 19:05 |
| #2 Nothing will change in the Muslim world until we show this bunch of rag-tag ragamuffin mullahs just how mean, evil, wicked, bad, nasty, cruel and heartless we can be. Striking a half-dozen targets in the Tribal Areas with a dozen B-52s each, fully armed with a mix of high explosives, napalm, and cluster munitions, would go a long way toward getting that message across. The United States will not succeed against "terrorism" until we can prove to the people living there that we can be more of a danger to them than the terrorists are. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-09-22 17:07 |
| #1 Isn't this where a death squad usually enters the scene? If not, why not? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-22 01:10 |