Archive for the ‘Afghanistan’ Category

The people the Obama administration would welcome talks with..

ISLAMABAD – Taliban militants flog two men and a teenage boy in a video that has emerged from Pakistan’s tribal belt along the Afghan border, showing the hold of insurgents in at least one area there despite army offensives and intensified U.S. missile strikes in the region.

The video was shot on a mobile phone on Feb. 3 and passed to a local journalist who occasionally provides video to Associated Press Television News. The man who provided the clip said it was taken in the Mamozai area of the Orakzai tribal region, though there was no way of verifying that because travel there is dangerous for outsiders. The tribal elder requested anonymity out of fear for his life. Read the rest of this entry »

Question what you hear: it isn't 'the West' that is 'killing innocent Muslims'

This piece from the Washington Times confirms a belief that we’ve always maintained on this blog – that in spite of the the constant, emotive whining from leftists and Islamists, claims that “the West is killing hundreds of thousands of inncocent Muslims” are nonsense. The biggest killers of Muslims in the world today are… other Muslims:

Taliban suicide bombings and other attacks caused Afghan civilian deaths to soar last year to the highest annual level in the war, the United States said Wednesday, while deaths attributed to allied forces dropped nearly 30 percent – a key U.S. goal for winning over the Afghan people.

Insurgent attacks mainly were aimed at government or international military forces but often were carried out in crowded areas, the U.N. said in a report. Read the rest of this entry »

'No black-eyed virgins for you, Saiful - better luck next time'. No, er, wait..

It seems that 14 Taliban in Kunduz didn’t read their ‘Blowing Up The Kuffar’ manual properly last night:

Fourteen militants died in Afghanistan’s increasingly war-torn North, when explosives detonated prematurely in a minibus bomb being rigged by Taliban fighters, police said.

“Fourteen Taliban placing explosives into a minivan for terrorist activities were killed yesterday evening when the bomb went off,” said Abdul Rizaq Yaqubi, police chief of northern Kunduz province.

“The bomb exploded while they were working to build a car bomb.”

The incident happened near Kunduz city in the north, where Taliban-linked violence has increased steadily as Afghanistan’s insurgency reaches an eight-year high.

We admit it – we do love a good old fashioned work accident, but naturally, our sympathies lie primarily with the luscious, black-eyed virgin houris that will now be left without their lusty shaheeds.

Ah well,  girls – not to worry. There’ll be another 14 brain-donors-for-Allah along soon enough. Boom.

[Source: AFP]

Taliban Leader Baitullah Mehsud always insisted on anonymity in interviews

It now appears increasingly certain that the thoroughly nasty Taliban Chief, Baitullah Mehsud, has been killed by a missile from a U.S. drone in South Waziristan, along the Afghan/Pakistan border:

There are growing indications that Pakistan’s most wanted man, Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, has been killed by a US missile.

A Mehsud aide reportedly confirmed that he had died when a drone attacked the house where he was staying. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Quresh said the government was seeking “ground verification”. Read the rest of this entry »

We don't make this up: children train as homicide bombers at S. Waziristan camp

Pakistan’s top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say.

A Pakistani official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said the going price for child bombers was $7,000 to $14,000 – huge sums in Pakistan, where per-capita income is about $2,600 a year. Read the rest of this entry »