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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan Taliban threaten death to all talking peace |
| 2010-11-07 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Scribbled notes from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar have surfaced in mosques all over Afghanistan's ethnic Pashtun heartland, threatening death to anyone who takes up a government offer to negotiate for peace, according to a longtime Taliban member. Trying to quash rumors of a break in their ranks, the Taliban also have vehemently denied reports, including one that representatives of the terrorist group were involved in negotiations with the Afghan government. The leadership could be worried that commanders might strike separate deals that would threaten to undermine the insurgency and cripple the morale of their rank-and-file fighters. President Hamid Karzai has made reconciliation a top priority and recently formed a 70 member High Peace Council to find a political solution to the insurgency. At the same time, the US-led coalition has ramped up its military campaign in an effort to pound Taliban commanders to the negotiating table. There are no signs that either strategy is having much effect on the senior Taliban leadership. A veteran Taliban member who recently visited the powerful shura - or council -- in Quetta That's the one the Paks can't find, that they say doesn't exist... and controlled by Mullah Omar said there was no talk of negotiation among those who control the insurgency. "None of the big Taliban is talking," the Taliban member said on condition of anonymity. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 * DAILY TIMES.PK > EDITORIAL: PAKISTAN ARMY SAVING AFGHAN TALIBAN [for a rainy anti-US = PCorrect-Deniable Day] WHILE COUNTRY BLEEDS FROM MOSQUE ATTACKS. Versus * PDF POSTER [paraph] > D *** NG IT, PAKISTAN HAD BETTER ****** BELIEVE THAT INDIA WILL FIGHT/OPPOSE IT TO THE VERY LAST DROP BLOOD OF EACH + EVERY LAST AMERICAN! Have I said D *** NG IT??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-07 22:09 |
| #5 Get small, cheap and tamper proof nuke power units to market - and past US and Euro regulators - and bury one in concrete for every 20k people or so. Prototypes promise 10 yrs or so of electricity production without any fuel change. Not only will this reduce oil revenues but if they are sold into the Muslim world it will bring down governments and maybe bring about cultural change as a middle class finds they have an investment in education, work and savings. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-11-07 16:55 |
| #4 Not really. It's like a partially deflated balloon. Press down (or nuke) one area, it inflates in another. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-11-07 15:14 |
| #3 Nuking both Quetta and Islamabad would go a long way toward ending most of the problems in that part of the world. Just saying... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-11-07 13:43 |
| #2 ..or till the leather boots are on the ground a few hundred meters from the Reich Chancellery bunker. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-11-07 09:21 |
| #1 There are no signs that either strategy is having much effect on the senior Taliban leadership. A veteran Taliban member who recently visited the powerful shura - or council -- in Quetta "We'll fight to your last drop of blood" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-11-07 08:30 |