Saturday, May 07, 2011

radicals quiet as a church mouse...,

WaPo | As details and rumors about the killing of Osama bin Laden coursed this week through Pakistan’s streets, there was near-total quiet from an unexpected quarter.

In a nation that is home to an alphabet soup of militant organizations subscribing to the late al-Qaeda leader’s violent ideology, retaliatory bombs did not explode. The cities did not fill with banned organizations’ foot soldiers vowing revenge. A top religious party drummed up a few hundred demonstrators Friday afternoon, but their stated agenda — to protest the bin Laden killing — barely seemed to register, and instead they fell back on familiar anti-government, anti-American slogans.

The subdued reaction from Pakistan’s most radical groups — at least for now — may reflect the eroded resonance of bin Laden’s message and the disarray of Pakistani militant groups, whose attacks have slowed in recent months, analysts said.

In interviews, members of Pakistani extremist organizations also seemed to express confusion: Some said they did not believe bin Laden had died. More said they did, but that they were still in mourning — and calculating their response.

“Everybody in the organization is in a state of shock,” said one 27-year-old member of a banned militant group. “Nothing will be done in haste.”

Despite the muted response, security officials said it was hardly time to relax. An online posting attributed to al-Qaeda on Friday confirmed bin Laden’s death and vowed retaliation. It also called specifically upon Pakistanis to “rise up and revolt to cleanse this shame that has been attached to them by a clique of traitors and thieves.”

Several of Pakistan’s prominent militant groups, including the Pakistani Taliban and various sectarian organizations, have long-standing ties to al-Qaeda. Intelligence officials said the Pakistani army had pointedly distanced itself from the U.S. raid this week in part to discourage an insurgent backlash.

A senior police official in Lahore, the capital of a province that is the base of several banned jihadist outfits, said authorities expected strikes within two weeks.

“They are wise enough to just hold on,” the police official said. “Then they will respond, once all the security apparatus becomes complacent.”

That is what the groups have warned. The day of the killing, the Pakistani Taliban, which focuses its attacks on the Pakistani state, threatened that it would soon lash out.

A pro-Taliban weekly newspaper, published in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, asserted that bin Laden’s followers had restricted their attacks to “protect” their leader, but that “now they are free with full revenge.”

“This is the beginning. We will take the revenge from both Pakistan and the United States,” one Taliban fighter said by telephone from North Waziristan, a mountainous border area where a stewpot of militant groups, including al-Qaeda, have bases. On Friday, a suspected CIA drone strike hit North Waziristan, killing 13, Pakistani media reported.

‘We are all Osama’

2 comments:

Gee Chee Vision said...

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"Nothing will be done in
haste”

“This is the beginning. We will
take the revenge from both Pakistan and the United States”





"We are all Osama"

I wonder if that’s how these people
really speak; if they make use of tropes in this way? A fascinating project for a linguist since it's coming from the cats that made a fake Black Panther coloring book then mass mailing it across America to demonize Huey and ‘em.



“You can kill the person, but you
cannot kill his mind-set”

Wow, bares a stunning resemblance to Fred Hampton.

Basically what that US military
official was saying why they are putting in work for the next two generations. I assume for the next two generations they'll have more radical
militants to quote. Perhaps in the future they'll just so happen to sound like MLK quotes.



Any more Pentagon trickle down
Sasquatch photos to come I wonder?



Unfalsifiable
tabloid tripe. If only J. Edgar Hoover was here, he'd be in propaganda
paradise.

arnach said...

OTOH, it may be more a case of:
1. "I/we see how you did that ('Holy-shit, , did you read about the dogs?')," and
2. "I wonder if I/we are on that hard drive."
-driven "time to lay low..." with a healthy dose of "...or maybe disappear."

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