Emeth
30-08-2009, 20:43
Het is helemaal de verkeerde kant aan het opgaan met deze leeuwen van de islam... hun Jihaad tegen het westen valt in het water. Steeds vaker hoor je ze zeuren over de Islamitische landen waar ze zich schuilhouden.
Het westen is niet meer de top prioriteit..... Ze zoeken nu oorlog onder elkaar. De pakistaanse moslims zijn nu de vijand. Je ziet t een kat in het nauw maakt rare sprongen.
Al-Qaeda leader: Pakistan is the main battleground
Published: 5:16PM BST 28 Aug 2009
Osama bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri has ordered his fighters to target Pakistan amid growing signs that its army and US drones are closing in on al-Qaeda.
Military analysts and retired senior army chiefs said his call reflected growing disarray in the militant ranks following the death of Pakistan's feared Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud earlier this month and the brutal leadership battle it has provoked.
Mehsud is one of several "high-value" Taliban and al-Qaeda figures killed by Predator drones in the tribal areas close to its border with Afghanistan, while their allies in Swat Valley, where the charismatic Maulana Fazlullah, known as "Maulana Radio" for his popular fundamentalist radio broadcasts, have been driven out by a Pakistan army offensive.
American raids inside Pakistan could provoke terror attacks in London, says top official
The Taliban was finally forced to confirm Mehsud's death earlier this week after insisting he was merely ill. Analysts said they had wanted to confirm his successor before admitting their most effective leader to date had been killed.
Since his death a number of Pakistani Taliban commanders have surrendered or announced ceasefire amid shifting alliances in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
The intervention of al-Qaeda's deputy leader is an attempt to shore up the new Taliban leadership, prevent further defections, and inspire a new offensive to stop Pakistani and American forces from getting closer to their "safe haven" along the border, analysts said.
In a video recording released to a militant website, Zawahiri said the battle against American and Pakistani armies in the region is the battle against "crusader" forces. "The war in the tribal areas and Swat is an inseparable part of the Crusaders' assault on the Muslims the length and breadth of the Islamic world," he said.
"This is the battle, briefly and plainly; and this is why anyone who supports the Americans and Pakistan army, under any pretext, ploy or lie, is in fact standing with, backing and supporting the Crusaders against Islam and Muslims."
The video message, which was part of a 22 minute and 30 second documentary entitled Path of Doom was an indication that increased co-operation between American and Pakistani military forces had put the militants on the defensive, said Lieutenant-General Talat Masood, a retired senior Pakistan army chief.
"What it signifies is that they want to give full support to the new leadership of the Taliban because they know it is in disarray. They have suffered huge setbacks and now we can see this desperation," he said.
He said the militants were now hitting soft targets to reassert their authority. On Thursday a suicide bomber struck at a police checkpoint at the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan, killing 22 guards as they broke their Ramadan fast at dusk.
The bomber struck hours after an American drone attack killed another four Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, where Pakistan intelligence chiefs are trying to sow dissension and engineer splits between rival commanders.
Lt-Gen Masood said the Pakistan Taliban was now split between supporters of its wealthiest and most powerful commander Wali ur Rehman, who heads its strongest force in South Waziristan, and Hakimullah, the younger commander backed by al-Qaeda as Baitullah Mehsud's successor.
Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik told the BBC earlier this week that army operations in Swat and Waziristan had "broken the back of the country's insurgency" and that foreign al-Qaeda fighters were now leaving to fight in Somalia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6106380/Al-Qaeda-leader-Pakistan-is-the-main-battleground.html
Het westen is niet meer de top prioriteit..... Ze zoeken nu oorlog onder elkaar. De pakistaanse moslims zijn nu de vijand. Je ziet t een kat in het nauw maakt rare sprongen.
Al-Qaeda leader: Pakistan is the main battleground
Published: 5:16PM BST 28 Aug 2009
Osama bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri has ordered his fighters to target Pakistan amid growing signs that its army and US drones are closing in on al-Qaeda.
Military analysts and retired senior army chiefs said his call reflected growing disarray in the militant ranks following the death of Pakistan's feared Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud earlier this month and the brutal leadership battle it has provoked.
Mehsud is one of several "high-value" Taliban and al-Qaeda figures killed by Predator drones in the tribal areas close to its border with Afghanistan, while their allies in Swat Valley, where the charismatic Maulana Fazlullah, known as "Maulana Radio" for his popular fundamentalist radio broadcasts, have been driven out by a Pakistan army offensive.
American raids inside Pakistan could provoke terror attacks in London, says top official
The Taliban was finally forced to confirm Mehsud's death earlier this week after insisting he was merely ill. Analysts said they had wanted to confirm his successor before admitting their most effective leader to date had been killed.
Since his death a number of Pakistani Taliban commanders have surrendered or announced ceasefire amid shifting alliances in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
The intervention of al-Qaeda's deputy leader is an attempt to shore up the new Taliban leadership, prevent further defections, and inspire a new offensive to stop Pakistani and American forces from getting closer to their "safe haven" along the border, analysts said.
In a video recording released to a militant website, Zawahiri said the battle against American and Pakistani armies in the region is the battle against "crusader" forces. "The war in the tribal areas and Swat is an inseparable part of the Crusaders' assault on the Muslims the length and breadth of the Islamic world," he said.
"This is the battle, briefly and plainly; and this is why anyone who supports the Americans and Pakistan army, under any pretext, ploy or lie, is in fact standing with, backing and supporting the Crusaders against Islam and Muslims."
The video message, which was part of a 22 minute and 30 second documentary entitled Path of Doom was an indication that increased co-operation between American and Pakistani military forces had put the militants on the defensive, said Lieutenant-General Talat Masood, a retired senior Pakistan army chief.
"What it signifies is that they want to give full support to the new leadership of the Taliban because they know it is in disarray. They have suffered huge setbacks and now we can see this desperation," he said.
He said the militants were now hitting soft targets to reassert their authority. On Thursday a suicide bomber struck at a police checkpoint at the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan, killing 22 guards as they broke their Ramadan fast at dusk.
The bomber struck hours after an American drone attack killed another four Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, where Pakistan intelligence chiefs are trying to sow dissension and engineer splits between rival commanders.
Lt-Gen Masood said the Pakistan Taliban was now split between supporters of its wealthiest and most powerful commander Wali ur Rehman, who heads its strongest force in South Waziristan, and Hakimullah, the younger commander backed by al-Qaeda as Baitullah Mehsud's successor.
Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik told the BBC earlier this week that army operations in Swat and Waziristan had "broken the back of the country's insurgency" and that foreign al-Qaeda fighters were now leaving to fight in Somalia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6106380/Al-Qaeda-leader-Pakistan-is-the-main-battleground.html