Pakistani Taliban grows bolder, taking fight to doorstep of frontier city
By Tim Johnson and Jonathan S. Landay McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Islamic militants known as the Pakistani Taliban have extended their reach across all seven of Pakistan's frontier tribal regions and have infiltrated Peshawar, the provincial capital, heightening U.S. concerns that an insurrection may be broadening in the nuclear-armed nation.
A disparate group of tribal armed militant groups, some of them linked to al Qaida, announced the formation of an alliance last month called The Taliban Movement of Pakistan. The 40-man leadership is from seven tribal agencies and eight bordering districts, underscoring the movement's reach. The group is thought to have 5,000 to 10,000 fighters and is growing steadily as it gains momentum.
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Good post, putting the lie among others to eg AJ Strata's Pakistan prediction of five months ago. Of course he never retracts errors, including his 2005-6 "war not even worth being called a war, resistance about shot," Cheney-like laugher.
And when you point out the errors he accuses you of taking joy in troop casualties.
Escobar outlines 2008-9 12-branch Sunni/Sadr plans to strengthen the insurgency against a puppet government and American occupation,after he details the ongoing chaos America loosed long-term on Iraq.
When that insurgence occasions itself, as in the past, Strata will call it all "al Qaeda," wrongly claim bin Laden is guiding it,warn we must fight it there so we don't have to fight it in Virginia-- and bray about all the freedom and progress American occupation has brought to Iraq which only a few, mostly foreign dead-enders dislike.
His readers will never be introduced to polls which consistently have shown over half of all Iraqis approve of insurgent attacks on Americans. Doesn't fit with the Bush line.
Strata and those like him are political sociopaths,incapable of recognizing their own evil lies,evil because they damage both Iraq and the hapless occupiers whose no-win task is prolonged by falsely optimistic propaganda.
Ken,
Thanx a lot for the link and the comment.
Steve J.
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