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2006-10-05 Terror Networks

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When is the book coming out for WHITNEY HOUSTON vs. Osama's Naked-Breasts-on-the-Internet alleged sex slave-concubine-lover??? * "THE SEXUAL SLAVERY WAS GREAT UNTIL KINDO LEFT THE LINE OF CONTROL, D *** IT"!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-05 00:17|| 2006-10-05 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL Joe.

Posted by RD 2006-10-05 01:23|| 2006-10-05 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Sarah tells it as it is Pakistan has been using militants for years to hold on to any regional power they think they have.

Posted by Cheregum Crelet7867 2006-10-05 05:13|| 2006-10-05 05:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Sarah Chayes, report(s) for the National Public Radio said, "Osama Bin Laden, an Afghanistan-based American journalist and writer believes, "went out through Iran and is probably in Saudi Arabia or Sudan or somewhere like that".

ROFL! Brilliant!

Posted by anon 2006-10-05 12:28|| 2006-10-05 12:28|| Front Page Top

#5 You forget that the Taliban were actually helping the West in the Cold War and that they were kicking the Russians out and trained by the Pakis. But that doesn't mean I support them, never have done because they turned on us instead of sorting out there country. But I think that the West needs to co-operate more with Pakistan or put more pressure on Pakistan to actually kick any terroists out of there own country

Posted by Addis 2006-10-05 13:20|| 2006-10-05 13:20|| Front Page Top

#6 The Taliban didn't exist during the Cold War. The Soviets were fought by the (Dari-speaking for the most part) guys who became the Northern Alliance and by Hekmatyar's and a few others' Pashtuns. The Arabs were mostly aligned with Younis Khalis, a Pashtun warlord based in Jalalabad and with Rasool Sayyaf, who's still around and still, I presume, a Saudi stooge.

Most of the Pak aid went to the Pashtun groups, who spent an inordinate amount of time intriguing against each other -- admittedly an Afghan passtime as well as a Pahstun tribal trait. Hekmatyar was notorious for keeping his feet in both the Pak camp and the KGB camp, using both as required to further his own ambitions. After the Soviets were gone, it was Hek who initiated the Dog-Eat-Dog, rocketing Kabul and paralyzing any kind of effective government. The "Taliban" took advantage of the anarchy to take over most of the country, in about the same manner the Islamic Courts are taking over in Somalia right now.

Posted by Fred 2006-10-05 14:29|| 2006-10-05 14:29|| Front Page Top

#7 1997 article

http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/soldiers_of_islam.htm

Creation of the Taliban

They emerged from anonymity in 1993 and in the span of four years have radically changed the complexion of the Afghan civil war by becoming the notable political elite. Essentially, the Taliban grew out of the turf battle between the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Interior Ministry in Islamabad during Benazir Bhutto's second term. The Establishment had resisted their creation and reportedly criticised Benazir Bhutto for the use of the Taliban for their November 1994 operation in rescuing the trade caravan on its way to Central Asia that had been captured by the local warlord of Kandahar. The ISI which had run the Afghan operations with complete autonomy since the late 1970s, was averse to the Taliban because they had continued to pin faith on the Hizb-i-Islami under Hikmatyar to dislodge the Rabbani government. More importantly, the ISI viewed the Taliban as yet another Benazir Bhutto ploy to reduce its role in Afghan affairs. But Maj. Gen.(Retd) Nasrullah Babar who had assumed a mandate from the Bhutto government to attempt a parallel track, which offered the possibility of opening new options in Afghanistan, relentlessly pursued the Talib option, which initially led to the weakening of the hold of the ISI on the conduct of Islamabad's Afghan policy. Eventually, the remarkable success of the Taliban forced the ISI to co-opt itself into training and guiding the Taliban ranks. Despite persistent denials by the Benazir Bhutto government, there is little doubt that the Taliban have been created, trained and equipped by the ISI and Interior Ministry special forces. According to some estimates, the Taliban require $70 million on a monthly basis to keep the militia in functional order and a 'major part of this money is provided from across the Afghan-Pak border. Recent purchases by the Taliban of tanks, artillery pieces and armoured personnel carriers ( APC ) have come from illegal tax checkpoints that have been raised along the trade routes linking Pakistan to the Central Asian Republics. The Taliban have become a more cohesive force, stocked with adequate weapons, including an Air Force, as a result of the ISI's vigorous assistance. There have also been reports that Pakistani Army personnel are already present in Taliban ranks, taking part in operational and tactical missions. Today the Taliban are over 50,000 strong, with 300 tanks, APCs and a squadron of MiG aircraft.1

Posted by john 2006-10-05 20:03|| 2006-10-05 20:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Note that it was Benazir Bhutto's interior minister Nasrullah Babar that created the Taliban, against ISI advice.

Benazir of course, denies being the mother of the Taliban

Posted by john 2006-10-05 20:06|| 2006-10-05 20:06|| Front Page Top

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