PAKISTAN

Al Qaeda’s Newest Triggerman

Baitullah Mehsud is being blamed for most of the suicide bombings in Pakistan, including Benazir Bhutto's assassination. The rise of a militant leader.

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  • Posted By: Nath @ 08/11/2009 7:44:04 AM

    Division of Pakistan is an obvious reality facing us all. The people of Baloch , long suppressed and oppressed are now saying it loud on the facebook. As far as Sindh is concerned , it was never really comfortable with Punjabi dominated Government. Al Qaueda cannot be allowed to flourish in Urban areas so the Drones will have to be deployed in Quetta , Peshawar, Islamabad and Karachi especially to protect sensitive targets under risk of the veiled women and scarf wearing children trained by Al Quaeda to be human bombs...which is a part of the 180 million terrorists who live in Pakistan.

  • Posted By: Nath @ 08/10/2009 4:44:13 AM

    Mehdud was clearly very very reluctant to leave this world to meet Allah... he ran around like a coward for several weeks, even tried to have a son on the last evening -as if he was very afraid that he was to die. His martyrdom was also not duly celebrated by the muslims , the Pakistani Army...what else can one say? That they are not so so cornvinced about "heaven" and prefer to live here in hell?

  • Posted By: namatkhan @ 04/28/2009 9:38:53 AM

    In my opinion, what SYED JAMALUDDIN had proposed in his book titled "DIVIDE PAKISTAN TO ELIMINATE TERRORISM" is quite a workable plan of action. As Syed Jamaluddin has suggested, Pakistan should be disintegrated and divided into 5 or 6 parts. The primary objective of such disintegration shall be to dismantle terrorist camps operating on Pakistan´s soil. The disintegration of Pakistan as envisaged by Syed Jamaluddin has nothing to do with Islam or disturbing Muslims of South Asia. The disintegration of Pakistan is needed to crush the terrorist network and all hideouts of Osama bin Laden and people like Baitullah Mehsud. I guess Syed Jamaluddin´s theory of dividing Pakistan is very much practical and workable.

  • Posted By: namatkhan @ 05/29/2008 7:13:41 PM

    PETITION UNDER THE HIGH TREASON (PUNISHMENT) ACT 1973 AGAINST SYED JAMALUDDIN, WRITER OF "DIVIDE PAKISTAN TO ELIMINATE TERRORISM" AND "FORMATION OF REPUBLIC OF JINNAHPUR"
    1. That the Petitioner is a group of patriotic citizens of Islamic Republic of Pakistan living in Pakistan and abroad;
    2. That the Petitioner files this Petition at the honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan under the High Treason (Punishment) Act 1973 against the Respondent, in the best interest of Pakistan's sovereignty and for promoting patriotism among Pakistanis by ridiculing anti-Pakistan sentiments as well as exposing conspiracies to destabilize Pakistan;
    3. That the grievances of the Petitioner against the Respondent are as follows:
    (a) That the Respondent being a socalled, self-styled and self-proclaimed political analyst has committed TREASON by writing two books titled "DIVIDE PAKISTAN TO ELIMINATE TERRORISM" and "FORMATION OF REPUBLIC OF JINNAHPUR" respectively;
    (b) That the Respondent has committed TREASON by tarnishing the image of Pakistan in the whole world by accusing Pakistan as a supporter of terrorism in these two books;
    (c) That the Respondent has committed TREASON by distorting facts and figures about Pakistan's role in elimination of terrorism by making undue suggestions about Pakistan's disintegration in these two books;
    (d) That the Respondent has committed TREASON by disseminating incorrect, baseless, unfounded, ridiculous and inaccurate information about Pakistan and its ideological background in these two books;
    (e) That the Respondent has committed TREASON by accusing in these two books that Pakistan's armed forces and Pakistan's secret agencies (which actually work for the country's security and sovereignty) are involved in supporting terrorism and helping terrorist militant groups operating somewhere in hidden locations inside Pakistan or Afghanistan;
    (f) That the Respondent has committed TREASON by spreading hatred against Pakistan and its peace-loving people by writing these two books which contain objectionable contents about the existence of Pakistan as an Islamic state;

  • Posted By: fallison @ 01/06/2008 12:35:37 PM

    All of this simply re-inforces the great need to track down and KILL Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden, and all of these thugs. Bush is simply not up to the job. We must go after these people NO MATTER WHERE THEY ARE. TO HELL WITH THE FOOT SOLDIERS IN IRAQ.......CUT OFF THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE......

    • Posted By: faminchin @ 01/06/2008 12:42:01 PM

      Nooo...we need to negoitate with Zawahiri and Bin Laden. Have a peace summit with them. After all, they don't mean anybody any harm. They are just mad at Bush. If we destroy Bush, then they will like us. Don't you pay attention to what Pelosi and Reed are saying? Bush is the evil one......Al Qaida is the good guys.... Don't you read the media?

      We need to release the rest of these prisoners we are holding in Cuba so they can help the cause.

      But first, we must find out who destroyed these CIA tapes. We just can't have people protecting the identies of CIA operatives.......unless they are sympathic to the Democratic Montra that is.

      Seriously though....I've watched Democrats undermine our mission and our troops for 6 years now! Makes me want to puke! And how anybody can vote for this party after everything they have said and done..........I just don't get it?

      • Posted By: gromansky @ 01/25/2008 7:12:47 PM

        Faminchin: are you really this dense? In case you hadn't noticed, it's your God of Gods, George Bush, who can't find Mullah Omar or Bin Laden or alZahari. Remember? Your guy. I don't see how you blame it on "democrats" unless you like to forget that the buck stops at the White House. By the say, "montra" isn't a word. Try a spell-check once in awhile.

    • Posted By: leodelaney @ 01/06/2008 1:11:12 PM

      Its not a snake, its a Hydra. Only a really stupid man or a child mind would think that killing any one person in a movement as large as Fundamentalist Islam would have the slightest effect on anything. When one falls, another replaces him. Since the Islamic Republic is the coming political force in the world, it would be far better to sit down with its leaders and seek some accomodation for the inevitable future rather than invade, bomb, kill, destroy and topple governments who oppose us rather than accept our perverted brand of "Democracy."

      We are in our decline which will be hastened by insane military adventurism and the support of an obscenely expensive but largely inneffective military. We can only delay the inevitable a short time, and at great cost in money, life and citizen services, by killing the unkillable. Its time to grow up and stop playing soldier with its overpriced technocrap requirements. A turbaned farmer with a rifle and a homemade bomb is a far more effective force than a fifty million dollar fighter, or a two billion dollar bomber or a ten billion dollar aircraft carrrier; he isn't as pretty though and he doesn't make as much noise. But he gets the job done which is more than we can say for the US military; unless the job is embarrassing the country.

      • Posted By: openeyes3038 @ 01/08/2008 2:21:45 PM

        are you seriously saying the usa military is embarrasing the country say that to the mothers of dead service men say that to my face........ i would take one us marine vs 100 rag head farmers....

  • Posted By: okie_magic @ 01/07/2008 12:29:41 AM

    Posted By: faminchin @ 01/06/2008 12:14:40 PM
    Thank goodness Democrats in congress raised enough of a stink to get this man released from Guantanamo. Otherwise he might not be able to help Al Qaeda carry out terrorist attacks. What a shame it would be if he were still in prison.....right? I think we should release them all, perhaps let them stay in some of these congressmen's homes.

    ------------------------

    Where've you been? Bush and Co. just released a slew of Saudis that were being held at Gitmo. Of course the Saudis promised that these guys did nothing wrong and would be watched closely.

    Bush is just a puppet on a string for the Saudis.

    • Posted By: faminchin @ 01/23/2008 4:12:31 PM

      You want to know what the biggest problem facing this country today is? We have two sides....one side with their head stuck up a donkeys butt, and the other with their head stuck up an elephants butt. Both side incapable of seeing the truth because of all the dung in their eyes and ears!

      One day you may realize....that our politicians, both sides, are living the lifestyle of the rich and famous on our tax dollar, keeping us divided between donkeys and elephants so we won't notice that they are stealing us blind!

      This "Bush Hatred Syndrome" that you and so many others suffer from is just the fuel the donkeys use to keep the fire going.

  • Posted By: faminchin @ 01/06/2008 2:25:19 PM

    So somebody help me to understand why people elected Democrats last election? Help me to understand, after everything our Democrats have said and done during the past 6 years, why they aren't in jail, charged and tried for treason?

    Seriously, if you only had the text and no audio.......you couldn't tell if it was something Pelosi, Reed, Zawahiri, or Bin Laden was saying.

    I've watched Democrats do everything in their power to undermine the mission for 6 years now.......I really believe this whole thing could be over and done with, if it weren't for Democrats providing aid and comfort to our enemies.......and all for the sake of poltical gain.

    I've heard them stand on the steps of congress and call our troops murderers, without having the facts..........and I have yet to hear them have an unkind word to say about our enemy.

    Is it just me or is this just maddness?

    • Posted By: Braes @ 01/22/2008 11:04:31 PM

      Sadly and totally mistaken. Now go vote for Rudy and keep drinking the Kool Aid.

      • Posted By: faminchin @ 01/23/2008 4:07:13 PM

        Is that how you justify your support for them? Just dismiss any opposing viewpoint. If you could pull your head out of that donkey's butt you might be able to comprehend the truth!

    • Posted By: awjonesjr @ 01/22/2008 8:56:43 PM

      It is not just you. Palosi, Reed, Feinsyein, and company, have for years been anti-military, and anti-United States. In their eyes we can do no right. They are not evil, they just believe that we can hide our heads in the sand and ignore everything overseas. If we follow their path, the few hundred lives we lost at the World trade Center, and in operations in Iraq and Afgahnastan will be just a drop in the bucket. Isolationism has been proven to be a stupid political and diplomatic strategy, time and time, again.

    • Posted By: hmmm5 @ 01/15/2008 11:50:54 PM

      It's just you. Idiots like you are all around here.

    • Posted By: dideyeasku @ 01/06/2008 6:09:05 PM

      It's just you; your madness...

    • Posted By: dideyeasku @ 01/06/2008 6:03:29 PM

      It's just you--you're confused.

  • Posted By: faminchin @ 01/06/2008 12:14:40 PM

    "Abdullah Mehsud???a one-legged jihadist who had recently been released from two years of detention in Guant??namo???also seemed to be a rising star."

    Thank goodness Democrats in congress raised enough of a stink to get this man released from Guantanamo. Otherwise he might not be able to help Al Qaeda carry out terrorist attacks. What a shame it would be if he were still in prison.....right? I think we should release them all, perhaps let them stay in some of these congressmen's homes.

    Of course we have nothing to worry about here, it's all just a slogan, there is no real threat from terrorism.........just listen to the Democrats. Bush is just trying to scare people, there is no real threat.

    Last week I read many people's post that believed the CIA was behind this bombing. We always have to blame America first....at least before the facts come out.

    But none of this is important now....now the priority is to find out who destroyed these CIA tapes to protect CIA operatives identies. We had to send Scooter Libby to prison, even though he wasn't the person who leaked Plames name...he is Republican so he deserves to go to prison. So we send a Republican to prison for leaking a CIA operative's name, and now we need to find some more Republicans and send them to prison for protecting the identies of CIA operatives.

    We need to release the rest of these prisoners in Guant??namo so they can rejoin Al Qaeda and carry out more sucide bombings.

    Somebody help me please!!!! It appears the world has gone mad!!!!!

    • Posted By: Braes @ 01/22/2008 11:15:05 PM

      Nope, it's just you.
      The GOP had a 6 year run and failed, that got some D's elected. None of them are the CINC or can do a thing.
      The real Axis of Evil are Monopolists, Religious Bigots, and Constitutional Revisionists.
      Scooter Lied. 18 USC 1001. It's called a law.
      I do not blame America at all. We just haven't got Osama yet.
      No Democrat asked for the release of any specific prisoner from the Bush Gulag system. Other than a few black shops, I doubt anyone other than Cheney has a handle on how many are where.
      You should stop defending the indefensible, and as well stop attacking your fellow Americans.
      Now, tell me, why did we invade Iraq? Maybe to steal the Oil? Sure as heck wasn't about a few hundred pounds of unaccounted for US supplied chemical weapons that were likely already used on his own people was it? Go do some reading.

      • Posted By: faminchin @ 01/23/2008 4:03:03 PM

        You have your head stuck too far up that donkey's butt to see reality. Republicans had 6 years...now Democrats are in charge.....what's changed? The difference between you and I is this....I don't support either one of them! But I can see how Democrats did everything they could, to undermine the mission, for the sole purpose of political gain. Democrats are responsible for more of our troops deaths than our enemies.....and yet this is the donkey you have decided to stick your head in..lol

        Hey moron....if we went into Iraq for the oil.....tell me why all the oil being pumped is still going to the same places it was before we invaded? Iraqi oil supplies, France, Germany, China, and Russia....the very countries that opposed us going into Iraq in the first place.....so if it was about oil....why are they still getting it all?

        Pull your head out of that donkeys butt and take a look around once in awhile instead of just repeating Nancy and Harry's montras. And here I thought we went into Iraq to get rid of Saddam. I thought it was because of Saddam's open invitation to Osama to come and live in Iraq. I thought it was about Saddam's refuseal to cooperate with UN Inspectors. Any of this ringing a bell?

  • Posted By: activedutyGI @ 01/06/2008 2:01:40 PM

    OK, I'm gonna ramble a bit, but here are some thoughts. I have been to both Afghanistan and Iraq and havent gotten all my information from CNN. As you may or may not recall, the U.S. did try to negotiate with Taliban leadership following the World Trade Center attacks, for the turnover of Osama Bin Laden. Negotiating with the fundamentalists got the US nowhere. Ultimately, the US invaded and has been attempting to track down or kill Bin Laden and Al Queda leadership since. Anyone who is a student of history in Afghanistan knows that if the Tribes arent warring against invaders;(Alexander the Great, the British; Russian and now Americans), they are at each others throats. A society like this only understands one thing. violence or the threat of violence. They will not aquiesce to negotiation. The ultimate key is to break the cycle of Madrasa's educating new recruits which continue to funnel into Afghanistan. This can only happen if the economics of that society (pakistan in this case) provide a "way out" for those that are so easily recruited. Fundamentalists are not much different than the Fascist or Nazi party of WWII. Each terrorized the local population until normal people fell in line. If the United States ceases to focus our efforts against radical fundamentalist's and provides thier leaders a respite, they will only grow stronger, will consolidate power and eventually threaten other nations beyond thier own region. One only needs to look at southern Thailand, Southern Phillippines (ASG), and the middle east to see that unless regional Governments or the US keeps these groups in check, that they will bully thier way throughout a population. Democracy isnt perfect, but it is certainly better than Muslim Fundamentalism. I doubt anyone will impeach Achmindinajad (sic),Can anyone show me a Muslim Country that comes close to what Democratic Countries have achieved in the line of Scientific Research, Medicine, Social Welfare in the last 500 years. I Doubt it.
    For any of us that have seen news footage of a fundamentalist being interviewd by Christian Amanpour, its easy to listen to the guile of the intervewee and believe that they dont believe in non-violence as a way to spread thier form of religion. Don't believe it. They want to turn you, or kill you. It's one or the other.
    BTW. For those of you that believe we are too harsh on the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo, answer this question. What about American Prisoners of War in Iraq or Afghanistan. What about them?. Oh yea, there are none. Our enemies don't take prisoners, they torture and execute them. Hence the reason that all our guys dont plan on surrenduring. It's not an option.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 01/22/2008 11:26:13 PM

      And the GOP terrorized us here in the US, with false terror alerts, until we fell in line, then launched an attack into a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. Petraeus is undoing as much of that as he can now. We stopped chasing Bin Laden, and while you were in the field this President said he wasn't worried about where Osama was. Of course that wasn't printed in the Stars and Stripes for you to read, or played on Armed Forces TV. I appreciate what you have done. I do not support what the CINC has done.
      Just because our enemy is barbaric does not mean we stoop to their level. I tend to agree with you on Fundamentalism, of any kind. Like the Falwell/Robertson types for instance. There are plenty of mindless zealots to go around. We aren't going to stomp off and kill them too, or most of Islam.

  • Posted By: TCanuck @ 01/17/2008 4:40:29 PM

    Whoa, whoa, whoa...hold it right there!!!!! How come Canadian's are now the dreaded "infidel" all of a sudden???? Most Canadians are against the war in Afghanistan and we have never stepped foot in Iraq because we knew the U.S. was wrong going there in the first place. Just remember who sends money, food, and other help everytime a 3rd world country has a major disaster.............oh ya......the Canadian infidels!!! Your ignorance is sickening!!!!

    • Posted By: awjonesjr @ 01/22/2008 10:05:35 PM

      To paraphrase John Candy, "It because Canadian beer sucks."

      Just jerking your chain. I like Canada.

  • Posted By: mfenwick @ 01/07/2008 11:44:52 PM

    The U.S. was behind this assassination. It wants to force Pakistan into the so-called war against Muslim extremists. The only way it can do that is to turn the people against Musharraf. Bhutto was a U.S. puppet whose strings were cut. It is all part of a larger plan for the U.S. to take over the world and implement its New World Order, with itself at the head of course. Now I hear that the U.S, is once again meddling in Iranian waters trying to provoke another war. FOLKS WAKE UP!

    • Posted By: awjonesjr @ 01/22/2008 10:01:18 PM

      Yeah, right. We also suppress evidence of UFOs, caused cancer, and assassinated JFK. Nice to see another nut case.

  • Posted By: itwolan @ 01/06/2008 12:28:46 PM

    New triggerman? So what? The Marines will just kill this scumbag too.

  • Posted By: sealpup @ 01/06/2008 1:44:30 PM

    When soldiers are allowed to do their their jobs as trained, and that is engage and kill the enemy, without the press ttrying to crucify them, and go into places where the Taliban hide, without that's countires leader playing games and hindering our efforts, we will all be safer and the troops will be home sooner and we will have less causualties. If you really suppport the troops stop trying to bring us home and let us do our job. God bless America

    • Posted By: faminchin @ 01/06/2008 1:51:53 PM

      Amen dude!!! Most people in the US don't realize that Democrats in congress tied the hands of our troops before they could finish the mission in Iraq. If the Democrats ever start to fight our enemies, the same way they have fought Bush, this could be over quickly.

      But we have a political party that has done everything they can to undermine the mission for the sake of political gain. I hold Democrats responsible for more troops deaths than the terrorist we fight. They took our military and turned them into a police force before the job was done! They express their outrage at our military, calling them murderers, and never have a bad word to say about the terrorist. I just don't get it!

      And how anybody could vote for this party......it's just crazy!

      • Posted By: leodelaney @ 01/18/2008 6:51:08 PM

        The usual excuse for a complete military failure and one offered by every losing army from the time of Daruius. "It wasn't our fault, other people tied our hands and if we had been allowed to do things the way we wanted we would have won in a few weeks rather than losing in a few months. Its all Jimmy's fault that the other guys took over our sandbox; he let them do it and he kept us from beating them back." The US miltary is obscenely expensive and extremely ineffective and it is because they were asked to do something they could not possibly do, which is to wage war against nations that had no army, no air force and no navy that they lost. They are an outdated 19th and 20th Century mess that is utterly without capability in today's world and they will always lose as long as they remain wedded to their large troop movements and massive amounts of technocrap. Hopefully those who think the Uniterd States military is worth the paper to describe it will someday recognize it is not and will demand that it be changed to something than can protect us rather than something which is doing little more than raiding our Treasury. us.

        • Posted By: awjonesjr @ 01/22/2008 9:35:48 PM

          You are an idiot. If it was not for the men and women of the United States military, your choices in life would be:
          A. a second class British citizen
          B. part of whatever a divided United States would be, and definately not living at the econonomic standard at which you have become accustomed, with a hostile neighbor at your border
          C. Speaking German as your primary language
          D. Speaking German or Japanese as your primary language
          E. Speaking Russian as your primary language
          F. Or, more than likely, you would be dead for expressing any view other than what the established party line or head religious zealot has proclaimed to be acceptable.

          You freaking liberals believe that your freedom had no price. And, furthermore, that there is no price to preserve them. You are the same idiots that tried to appease the Germans in 1939. You accuse the military of killing innocents, but your type of insanity has resulted in the deaths of millions. Now, more than ever, our military has saved lives. If we not overseas, keeping the horde at bay, there would many more deaths here in the United States, and the Middle East. And don't forget Europe and Asia. If it weren't for the fear of having a 500 lb bomb shoved where the sun doesn't shine, these extremist would be openly active everywhere they can reach and accomplishing their goal of conversion or death.

          As for the Democrats, they are scum. They are actively assisting our enemies for polital gain. Their lust for power has divided our country, made us appear weak to our enemies, and prolonged a war that should have been over years ago.

          As for your last point, I do agree that thbe military is a mess. Not because of some analogy about being outdated, but because we have become so modernized that we have taken the fear and loathsomeness of war out of the picture. War should be messy, innocents should be killed, and fear should be rampant. All of the things that make a war something to avoid. Surgical strikes are not scary, but ask the survivors of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bremen, and Berlin if they would like to be at war, again, I think you will find many of a like mind.

      • Posted By: Grim_Reaper_24 @ 01/07/2008 2:05:17 PM

        That is so true. The only reason that the dems are trying to tie our hands is so they can come back and use the failing war as a soap box. "We are going to win....We can't win...Look at what we got into..blah blah blah blah blah" Well untie our hands and see how fast and how many terrorist are killed. Forget humane, they aren't.

  • Posted By: afterglow @ 01/22/2008 8:03:16 PM

    Just nuke Iraq and Afdamland!

  • Posted By: afterglow @ 01/22/2008 8:02:35 PM

    Just nuke Iraq and Afdamaland

  • Posted By: afterglow @ 01/22/2008 8:02:35 PM

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  • Posted By: afterglow @ 01/22/2008 8:02:28 PM

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  • Posted By: afterglow @ 01/22/2008 8:02:01 PM

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  • Posted By: afterglow @ 01/22/2008 8:01:58 PM

    Just nuke Iraq and Afdamaland

  • Posted By: deathtomyenemies @ 01/22/2008 4:22:19 PM

    the real problem lies with you leo delaney go strap on your vest of explosives and forget walking into a market walk into your own home and make sure your family are all present and accounted for and kill them all,as your already sympathetic towards their cause you *** i n g moron,and as for that military that is such a thing of the past they make it so you can live in comfort and come and go from your home with out the fear of being blown up by one of your buddies with a vest just like yopurs

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