US jihadi: North Waziristan 'bustling' with 'Foreign Mujahideen'

Long War Journal - Threat Matrix ^ | October 27, 2009 8:43 PM | Bill Roggio

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here is an interesting tidbit of information from the charge sheet against David Coleman Headley, the US jihadi indicted for plotting attacks in Denmark. Headley traveled to North Waziristan and afterward offered his view on the number of al Qaeda and other foreign jihadis in the tribal agencies' largest towns (in response to a think tank survey that said a significant number of people in the northwest approved of the Predator attacks against al Qaeda):

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Target-rich environment. Now if only the Pakistanis had the sense to push them over the border into our waiting arms (pun intended).

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That PDF indictment is chock full of interesting trivia...including the text of conversations....

Headley is another immigrant..aka - Daood Gilani

See pg 9...item 21.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That border area is nothing but a training ground for al-Qaeda to prepare individuals for attacks on the West....

[cranked]

This is a Captain Obvious article given the past and recent reports stating the migration of foreign mercs and terrorist-wannabes heading to Afghanistan, just as they did in Iraq. It only lends to the libtard arguments (which are somewhat valid) of conflict zones, such as Iraq and now Afghanistan, being recruiting magnets, as well as extremist and militant magnets.

We might have the tendency to scoff or look on this as a target rish environment, but conversely, for these terrorist-wannabes, militants, and extremists, it is and has become a breeding and training ground.

[usurper]

We might have the tendency to scoff or look on this as a target rish environment, but conversely, for these terrorist-wannabes, militants, and extremists, it is and has become a breeding and training ground.

It’s also become a very large graveyard for many of them. I would rather have them fighting my Marines over there that attacking our schools trains and malls here.

[Grimmy]

A person would be hard pressed to find a single muslim neighborhood or community anywhere on this planet that is not supplying jihadiscum to the effort to remake the caliphate.

[G8 Diplomat]

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[Marine_Uncle]

It would be hard to dispute your statement on the border issue. It could take some ten or more years to literally purge these remote areas of all jihadist of all forms. Assuming Afghanistan starts to prosecute it's side of the GWT and Pakistan follows suite.
Will more Afghans and Paki see hardcore jihad for what it really is and the crap about personal struggle so many portend it to be. We saw wide swaths of Iraq change over time. We saw a lot of Arabs change their ideas as what the west and in particular the USA was about. Freedom of expression, the right to live in safety etc..
Will the remote tribes in A and P, slowly see the western nations as not enemies but in essence their salvation from poverty, and bad rule of law. Will they support their provincial and central governments in the quest to rid their lands of a lot of baddies from anyone's perspective. Who knows.