Friday, January 18th, 2008
the taliban are coming!
the past few days have seen militants launch frontal attacks on forts in south waziristan agency. on late tuesday/early wednesday, a fort fell in sararogha. it’s since been regained by the pakistani army. there were also reports that a fort in siplatoi fell to militants on wednesday night. the army confirmed the attack, but denied that the fort fell.
various taliban factions in pakistan are now presenting a united front as the tehreek-i-taliban, under the leadership of baitullah mehsud, allegedly the mind behind benazir bhutto’s murder.
put this all together with this extremely saddening review of the situation in peshawar, and what we have is clearly no longer a case of creeping talibanisation.
this, ladies and gentlemen, is civil war.
January 19th, 2008 at 8:45 am
An_Unsuitable_Boy said:
Couldn’t find an appropriate segue in my last post so I thought I’d ad the first comment.
Couple of questions. Is having a Maulvi figurehead prime minister the only way to stop this? I’m not sure because I think you have to have a political situation. Full fledged civil war will probably only lead to more radicalization.
January 19th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
al-tahafut said:
i started a comment in response, but it sort of snowballed, so i’m putting it up as another post.
January 19th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
three cheers for our side at jumabazaar.org said:
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