Pakistanis Leave for War Against US in Afghanistan

AP ^ | October 27, 2001- 8:57 a.m. ET | Associated Press

[Sabertooth]

The call for holy war came this week from Sufi Mohammad, an outspoken Muslim cleric who runs a madrassa, or religious school, in nearby Madyan. He exhorted ``true Muslims'' to mass and prepare to go to Afghanistan -- to repel any U.S. ground incursions.

How they will get there, and what they will do upon arrival, is uncertain. Their way station before entering Afghanistan is Bajur, a borderland tribal village where volunteers from different area will come together this weekend.

And the cleric's message -- that, despite its insistence to the contrary, the United States is waging war on Islam itself -- hits home.

``This is a strange occasion of world history,'' Mohammad said Friday. ``For the first time, all the anti-Islamic forces are united against Islam.''

All part of bin Laden's possible strategy behind 9/11.

Afghanistan has special significance to the world of militant Islam. It was once called Khurasan, along with parts of Iran and Pakistan. Muhammad said: "If you see the black flags coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice, for that is the army of the Imam al-Mahdi and no one can stop that army until it reaches Jerusalem." That is one reason Osama bin Laden chose it as his base, or al-Qaida.

Mohammed's Prophecies
of the Imam Mahdi

Will Osama Appear In Pakistan?

Keeps your eyes peeled for jihadin carrying black flags.

[Fulbright]

The Coalition's current strategy and tactics do not work for me.

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[Travis McGee]

The Coalition's current strategy and tactics do not work for me.

I will inform Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell at once!

[patent]

Can you let them know I wanted one of those new Joint Strike Fighters too? As long as were at it. I promise to vote for Bush if they send one.

patent

[XA-3Whaler]

"Potential terrorist please stand up and be counted!" LOL!

[Liberal Bob]

We better start fighting for real and stop bombing them with sheetcakes and canned peas.

I think we should start dropping body bags.

[Ranger]

Watch, I'll bet we don't bomb this caravan of 'civilians' coming to fight us in a holy war. We're fighting this whole thing with a thumb up our behind. If we were really serious, this column would be wiped out from the air today. But watch, it won't. The Pakistani government will let the column in though their 'closed' border, we'll let it drive on unmolested. Then two days from now the Pentagon will say that they didn't attack the column because they didn't get orders in time or some other BS.

[Fulbright]

Thanks. Copy McCain on it also while you're at it.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Bump!

[thecanuck]

Everything is unfolding according to plan. The rats are coming out of their holes to fight a "weak" US response. Is that the whites of their eyes we are seeing? Sweet.

[StormEye]

"``I'm going. My mother sent me to fight for our faith,'' said Farooq Shah, 21, a student from Buner, 50 miles away. When she told him to go, he had no Kalashnikov. So she went out, sold her jewelry and bought him one."

Just try to get a machine gun in America. It seems that Pakis have a lot more freedom concerning gun ownership than we do here in America. Look at the forms and BS people have to go through just to carry a concealed handgun for protection. It seems to me the US government doesn't trust its own citizens.

[NYpeanut]

In his hands Saturday morning, he carried a French rifle from about 1920

Omar Klampett declares jihad. The mental picture is just too funny. I wonder if he thinks he's getting virgins, too.