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| Have Taliban turned on al-Quaeda? |
| 2007-09-29 |
| The leader of the Pakistani jihadist groups, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, was notified a few months ago that he was on a Dead Pool style list of people that al Qaeda wanted assassinated. Rahman came to our attention in captured Iraqi documents as the go between for Saddam and the Taliban arranging military and security agreements between the two in 1999. I mentioned before that he had turned over al Qaeda associated terrorists to the Libyan government and this had made him an enemy of al Qaeda. He is probably the most responsible for turning the Taliban &0151; which he had a significant hand in creating &0151; against al Qaeda. Which means, believe it or not, on some level he may be working with the Pakistani government and possibly the US government, since he is purely an opportunist. No doubt he will not advertise that fact to his jihadists buddies. This cannot be overstated: it is the most crucial development since the capture of Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Cutting al Qaeda's support in Pakistan has been a massive coup, of which our media has no clue of right now. It is the exact sort of thing that the Democrats and their media accomplices always complain that we are not doing and then completely ignore when we do it. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #2 NS, you left out an important paragraph immediately succeeding the ones you posted: It bears mentioning that this cutting off of support might not have happened if Saddam had been left in power to flood the Pakistani jihad groups with cash through the Maulana and his associates. Cutting off this funding took the Maulana out of play as a major money raiser for al Qaeda and the Taliban. Without that cash, he became dispensable to al Qaeda, which may not have realized that this man wielded such power among the Taliban that he could turn them against al Qaeda. Yet one more damn good reason for deposing Saddam. Now, go read the whole article. Definitely worth reading. Let's all hope the analysis is correct. As the author notes: This is the kind of stuff we may not hear about in detail for another fifty years. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-29 17:58 |
| #1 a few months back the US government told the Pakistani government that we had the coordinates for twenty-nine terror training bases and in a week we will be destroying them (perhaps on Cheney's visit this summer). The intent was to drive the terrorists from those camps so we could get to them. It worked. That's why those camps emptied out. I recall we discussed this awhile back. IIRC, the general sentiment was how could we be so stupid to tell the Pakis anything. Wheels within wheels, eh? Now, go read the whole article. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-09-29 16:57 |