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| Terror Networks |
| Paks say al-Qaeda might be involved in hotel attack. Duh. |
| 2002-05-09 |
| The government has not ruled out the possibility of Al Qaeda's involvement in Wednesday's suicide attack in Karachi. "The attack has all the markings of a well-trained international terrorist organization," Federal Interior Secretary Tasnim Noorani said, adding that "this kind of operation is not carried out by the terrorist organizations operating within the country." Izzat so? Just a month ago, Hizbul Mujahideen was bragging about how they "know the art of becoming human bombs." Intelligence reports, senior interior ministry officials said, had warned that some 300 suicide bombers with Al Qaeda and Taliban links would be unleashed in May in a new offensive against the US interests and its allies around the world. And this is the start of it? Could be. Could also be part of a campaign against Pak interests that they haven't quite noticed yet... Sources said most of the terrorist cells of the Taliban and Al Qaeda network had the capability to be activated at short notice and most of them had spread their tentacles away from the main theatre of war in Afghanistan. Meaning they've been chased out... The threat of Al Qaeda activists to infiltrate into target countries and conduct suicide attacks against Western targets and critical infrastructure was grave, they said, adding that Pakistan was a target country for being a partner in the US-led war against terrorism. Now we're starting to get down to it... Suspecting that the attack might have a Taliban or Al Qaeda link, Federal Information Minister Nisar Memon said at a news conference that the government had decided to strengthen the country's western border with Afghanistan to reinforce vigilance against any infiltrations from across the border. But, having screwed around for the past six months, it'll be late coming. The head cheeses and lots of trained gunnies are already comfortably ensconced in Pakland. Even worse, in the coming confrontation between Perv and the fundos, they're on the fundos' side. By this point, Binny, assuming he still lives, and the Learned Elders of Islam behind him, have probably written off Afghanistan as a do-able. But Providence has presented them with a perfectly good substitute in either all of Pakistan, with its nuclear weapons, or Greater Pashtunistan, if they can't grab the whole thing. Toilet paper consumption at the Pak general staff must be at an all-time high, as they notice that 1.)they can't depend on ISI, a significant part of which is allied with the fundos; 2.)they've allowed potential threats to grow up on both their eastern and western borders - al-Qaeda/Talibs in the west, their home-grown Harkats and Hizbs in the east, reinforced by the mercenaries in Lashkar and Jaish. The probability of civil war is probably better than 80%, and rather than being prepared for it, these single-cheeked "generals" have been aiding and abetting the other side. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |