Dear Raymond, my broad brush is very specific in its objective, look at this today and you will notice that war on terror has far reaching benefits, it is not against a specific country or ideology but against a cliché of tormentors of mankind..continuing on your theme <You might find the book to be useful in further drilling down into the essentially fractured nature of Islam which you seem to sometimes paint with, IMHO, rather too broad a brushstroke. :) >
I wrote…
<If taking the battle from US streets to far flung areas of the world is not a success what is? These extremists are and will be in constant hibernation. The challenge is to deny them sanctuaries in hinterlands of terror production factories that existed under Global Jihad Inc under the tutelage of countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and others. Even Iran's recent cooperation with the IAEA represents how the threat of big sticks works across the board so comprehensively. Iran is ready today to open up its facilities of enrichment and that is one other success of areas that are benefiting from global containment of terror regimes. >
iranian.com
The reality..;
In the case of Pakistan, just one example would do. Let’s take a look at the Harkat al-Jahad al-Islami, Pakistan’s biggest jihadi militia headquartered in Kandahar before it was scattered by the Americans. The Harkat was one of the militias boasting international linkages. It called itself ‘the second line of defence of all Muslim states’ and was active in Arakan in Burma, and Bangladesh, with well organised seminaries in Karachi, and Chechnya, Sinkiang, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Its fund-raising was largely from Pakistan, but an additional source was its activity of selling weapons to other militias. Its acceptance among the Taliban was owed to its early allegiance to a leader of the Afghan war, Maulvi Nabi Muhammadi and his Harkat Inqilab Islami whose fighters became a part of the Taliban forces in large numbers. The leader of Harkat al-Jahad al-Islami in Uzbekistan was Sheikh Muhammad Tahir al-Farooq. Twenty-seven of its fighters were killed in the battle against the Uzbek president Islam Karimov, as explained in the Islamabad-based journal ‘Al-Irshad’. Starting in 1990, the war against Uzbekistan was bloody and was supported by the Taliban, till in 2001, the commander had to ask the Pakistanis in Uzbekistan to return to base. In Chechnya, the war against the Russians was carried on under the leadership of commander Hidayatullah.
<Excerpts from a national TV debate dailytimes.com.pk;
Why it is so that killers of sailors of USS Cole are being caught now, why the long hands of law and justice were not extended under Democrats, why life of an Ameircan had become the cheapest blood for likes of Osama, will left call this a chance when these killers are being caught..
when I wrote this
‘The war against the civilized world was hatched by the loonies of the world when the icon of 'Democrats' was busy having flings in the sacred office of the White House. After the USS Cole bombing in Yemen, appeasers fired misguided missiles on Sudanese factories and mud rubble in Afghanistan but no consistent policy was followed. The hornets' nest was considered to be far too sensitive. These vandals on the doors need men with resolve; the left with its self serving agenda does not have what it takes to face the criminals. The call of global jihad against the US and her citizens was carried out by the likes of Osama bin Laden under an administration that never took it seriously.’ iranian.com
It was not for disdain of Mr. Clinton or his flings, I rather defended his character on these very same pages and had taken wrath of lot of neocons than for defending Clinton Vis a Vis Lewinsky but let’s give the credit where headhunters now are collecting the right booties making all of us safe from extremists that haunts us...my broad bush takes into account these longstanding accounts that Americans needed to settle, a nation that spends 300 billion plus on defense should take its defense on the forward frontiers of the global empire it is about protecting connectivity and Global Inc that depends on freedom, transparency and democracy..
<“The United States has been exerting pressure on Yemeni authorities to allow them to interrogate Adhal directly, but this has been refused,” the Yemeni official told AFP Saturday on condition of anonymity.
On Friday, the interior ministry confirmed it arrested Tuesday Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, alias Abu Issam al-Maki, whom they believe to be the top figure in the country’s branch of Osama bin Laden’s terror network. Yemeni authorities believe Ahdal replaced Ali Qaed Sunian al-Harithi, alias Abu Ali al-Harithi after the former Al-Qaeda Yemen chief was killed with five others in a November 2002 missile attack by the US Central Intelligence Agency in the desert region of al-Naqaa in Marib province, east of Sanaa.>
dailytimes.com.pk
The result, all this passion I have, has some reasoning behind it, it is not about supporting USA it is about supporting our common heritage of free man, born free but chained like a dog in our part of the world. |
