Posted on 12/03/2008 8:45:44 PM PST by gandalftb
ISLAMABAD: Maulvi Fazlullah, leader of a banned outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, has been killed, Interior Ministry said here Wednesday.
However, spokesman of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has denied the government’s claim.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenews.com.pk ...
You must be thinking of her, “invade them, convert them to Christianity or kill them” kinda remark. Can’t recall exact words.
I hear ya on the propaganda angle..
This is from earlier today - Rediff.com India
Pakistan Taliban pledges to fight against India
December 03, 2008 18:08 IST
http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/03mumterror-pakistan-taliban-pledges-to-fight-against-india.htm
Pakistani Taliban [Images] commanders have stepped up anti-India rhetoric in the wake of tension between the two countries and offered their men and suicide bombers to fight alongside the armed forces in the event of hostilities on the eastern frontier.
Militant commanders have called on Pakistan’s security establishment to end military operations against the Taliban in the tribal areas, following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. The Taliban leaders have issued statements saying they are not ‘anti-state and are ready to die for the motherland’.
“We are fighting the Pakistan Army [Images] because it has launched operations in our tribal areas but we cannot allow India or any other power to invade our country,” Qari Hussain, a top commander of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan based in South Waziristan, said in a statement.
Hussain, known for training suicide bombers, claimed an Indian attack on Pakistan would help the cause of the Taliban as it could force the army to stop military action in the tribal areas and the Swat valley of North West Frontier Province. However, the Taliban have “no intention of exploiting such a situation because our priority would be to fight India”, he said.
Another group of Pakistani Taliban headed by Maulvi Nazeer, who is based in South Waziristan, issued a statement that said, “We would raise a force of 15,000 tribal Taliban to fight on the side of Pakistan’s armed forces. We would infiltrate 500 suicide bombers into India to cause havoc there.”
Nazeer’s spokesman also said the militants “may have a dispute with the Pakistan government but we would set aside our differences if our homeland was threatened by outside powers.” He asked “Pakistan’s political and religious forces to unite in the face of the Indian threat”.
Maulana Faqir Mohammad, the deputy leader of the Pakistani Taliban who is leading militants against Pakistani security forces in the restive Bajaur tribal region, was the first commander to issue an anti-India statement.
“India has hatched a conspiracy to blame Pakistan and the mujahideen for the Mumbai attacks. India’s discriminatory attitude toward its Muslim population was the reason for these attacks,” he said.
“We are warning India not to invade Pakistan as any aggression would be resisted jointly by Pakistan’s armed forces and the mujahideen.”
The outlawed militant group Lashkar-e-Islam, which is based in Khyber Agency, too issued an anti-India statement. It said: “We have the history of our tribal forefathers before us. They offered sacrifices for Pakistan and defended its borders. It is our religious and moral duty to stop those wanting to invade and capture our territory.”
The groups called on tribal elders and youth “to be ready to lay down their lives for saving our motherland”.
The strongly worded anti-India statements by militant groups operating in the NWFP and adjoining tribal areas showed they “are out to prove their patriotism” in the wake of the tensions between India and Pakistan, the pro-establishment The News daily reported.
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I bet Musharraf is going whew about now.
It does suck all the help the Pakistani’s did in the 1980s with the Soviets in Afghanistan
We should have worked with Iran instead
Dadullah? Dead.
Baitullah? Dead.
Fazlullah? Dead.
What a job—helluva!
Yeah, I know it was bad...
I hope Pakistan’s terrorist sympathizers understand we are sick and darned tired of jerks who have been covering for effing terrorists since 9/11/01. India is NOT covering up for terrorists, they are fighting them. Pakistan is pussyfooting with terrorists.
Fazlullah means “Generosity of Allah.” *Smirk*
A sucky name indeed....
Ok guys, help me out here. I have been on this site for awhile (but not as long as many) but I need one thing explained to me here. A few months back, well longer, there were a couple of post about Ted Kennedy having brain cancer. I commented and said good, pay back for Mary Kopechne and all the wrong doings he has done to our great country. Then a couple of minutes later my comment was yanked. Now we have this, which believe me, it is very good news, but some are saying the same thing I said. I consider Kennedy a bigger threat, because throughout history, it has always been the “enemy within” that has weakened a country and taken away the will to fight or even function against the country’s enemies. I hold the Democratic party in contempt and believe they are ruining our Country one election at a time. With this being said, how come these comments are not being yanked, but mine were when I had an opinion?
Absolutely right. The enemy in your own foxhole is far more dangerous than the one across the battlefield.
Groundhog Day
We need months of sustained bombing of the tribal areas in Waziristan. Moabs, bunker busters and other new technology tryouts to rid that area of terrorists and their camps. There are only dirtbag terrorists in that area and they need to be wiped off the face of the earth.
Fine with me.
I've always believed they were the two covers on the same book....
Both need their asses kicked.
To hell with winning their damned "hearts and minds"...
Kick their asses hard enough and their hearts and minds will follow.
[With this being said, how come these comments are not being yanked, but mine were when I had an opinion?]
Use some common sense. Wishing an American dead, even one as offensive as Teddy, can be viewed as a death threat. Nothing to be sneezed at, especially regarding a Senator.
We only have about 6 weeks left of "America". After that we become the ObamaNation.
Organize their community. Atom by atom.
When is Sheik Dunglullah going to get his turn at those virgins?
I never did wish death upon him, I put down exactly what I wrote. Which everyone knows we ultimately die anyways, even Senators. I am just making the point we have bigger enemies within our Country and we do nothing but B!tch and moan about it.
The #3 guy again?
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