Also see: The Faces of Terror
"Bail granted to Pakistani cleric held in '07 mosque siege" by Zarar Khan, Associated Press | April 16, 2009
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The nation's Supreme Court ordered the release on bail yesterday of a hard-line cleric who was detained as soldiers stormed his radical Red Mosque in 2007, killing scores of people and energizing the country's Islamist insurgency.
Maulana Abdul Aziz was arrested as he tried to sneak out of the besieged mosque in the capital, Islamabad, dressed in an all-covering burqa worn by some Muslim women. Security forces stormed the mosque days later after scores of heavily armed militants inside refused to surrender. The government says 102 people, including 11 security personnel, were killed in the standoff.
Yeah, I remember that. For six days the government failed to negotiate as reported by the AmeriKan MSM, then on the seventh day they reported that the government had tried to negotiate all week. That was the first real chink in the MSM armor for me, despite the previous lies about Iraq and 9/11.
The siege triggered an increase in suicide bombings and other attacks on the government and security forces. The attacks have continued since then, alarming Pakistan's Western allies, who are concerned about the stability of the nuclear-armed state.
We better invade yesterday, AmeriKa!
Yesterday a suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint, killing six officers and five civilians. Ten others were wounded, some of them critically, said Malik Naveed Khan, provincial police chief. The attack occurred close to Peshawar in the northwest, which borders Afghanistan and is a stronghold of the Taliban and Al Qaeda....
Did I CALL THAT OR WHAT, huh?
Pakistan has a history of failing to successfully prosecute militants, many of whom are believed to have had links with the country's armed forces.
As the blogs have been saying, Pakistan being turned from ally to enemy!!!! For seven years after 9/11 they were our friend and you weren't getting this water-drop every day.
The government stirred fresh international alarm Tuesday when it accepted Islamic law in a large part of North-West Frontier Province to quell the Taliban insurgency there.
So we really better get in there now!
Eighteen months of bloodshed in part of the region, the Swat Valley, prompted the provincial government in February to agree to impose Islamic law to achieve peace. The Taliban agreed to a cease-fire....
By ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!!
The deal covers the Malakand division, a largely conservative region along the Afghan border. The Swat Valley is less than 100 miles from Islamabad and is believed to be largely under Taliban control.
Defenders say the deal will drain public support for extremists who undermined longstanding calls in Swat for reform of Pakistan's snail-paced justice system. But critics are concerned that it rewards hard-liners who have beheaded political opponents and burned scores of schools for girls in the name of Islam. Western allies are particularly concerned that Swat will become a sanctuary for allies of the Al Qaeda terror network.
Yup, there they go flogging the women's issue and dredging up " Al-CIA-Duh TERROR NETWORK!"
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Also see: Zionist MSM Propaganda Reaches Peak on Pakistan
Oh, and before you read this next itm, please consider WHO SIGNED OFF on TALIBAN RULE:
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
Are you sick of half-truths and lies from your jewspapers, America?
Also see: Using Women as War Propaganda
KABUL, Afghanistan - .... About 300 Afghan women, facing an angry throng three times larger than their own, walked the streets of the capital yesterday to demand that Parliament repeal a new law that introduces a range of Taliban-like restrictions on women, and permits, among other things, marital rape.
MSM promoting a protest, huh?
We turn thousands out to protest taxes and they place a disrespecting piece on page A16!
Related: Karzai Kicks Off Afghan Civil War
It was an extraordinary scene. Women are mostly illiterate in this impoverished country, and they do not, generally speaking, enjoy anything near the freedom accorded to men. But there they were, most of them young, many in jeans, defying a threatening crowd and calling out slogans heavy with meaning.
With the Afghan police keeping the mob at bay, the women walked 2 miles to Parliament, where they delivered a petition calling for the law's repeal. "Whenever a man wants sex, we cannot refuse," said Fatima Husseini, 26, one of the marchers. "It means a woman is a kind of property, to be used by the man in any way that he wants."
Didn't you hear?
SEX IS LIBERATION: An X-Rated Boston Globe
The law, approved by both houses of Parliament and signed by President Hamid Karzai, applies to the Shi'ite minority only, essentially giving clerics authority over intimate matters between women and men. Women here and governments and rights groups abroad have protested three parts of the law especially.
One provision makes it illegal for a woman to resist her husband's sexual advances. A second provision requires a husband's permission for a woman to work outside the home or go to school. And a third makes it illegal for a woman to refuse to "make herself up" or "dress up" if that is what her husband wants.
I thought the blood-drinking wife-whippers wanted you in a burqa, ladies?
And I love this next bit:
The passage of the law has amounted to something of a historical irony. Afghan Shi'ites, who make up about 10 percent of the population, suffered horrendously under the Taliban, who regarded them as apostates. Since 2001, the Shi'ites, particularly the Hazara minority, have been enjoying a renaissance.
So don't ever tell me Iran is working with Taliban, 'kay?
That's the U.S. and Saudi's gig!
Karzai, who relies on vast support from the United States and other Western governments to stay in power, has come under intense international criticism for signing the bill into law. Many people here suspect that he did so to gain the favor of the Shi'ite clergy; Karzai is up for reelection this year.
Yeah, good thing our politicians don't throw bones to key constituencies here in AmeriKa to win elections, 'eh? We so much better than those primitive Afghans!
Responding to the outcry, Karzai has begun looking for a way to remove the most controversial parts of the law. In an interview yesterday, his spokesman, Homayun Hamidzada, said that the legislation was not yet law because it had not been published in the government's official register. That, Hamidzada said, meant that it could still be changed. Karzai has asked his justice minister to look it over.
"We have no doubt that whatever comes out of this process will be consistent with the rights provided for in the constitution - equality and the protection of women," Hamidzada said.
The women who protested yesterday began their demonstration with what appeared to be a deliberately provocative act.
I call them AGENT PROVOCATEURS!
They gathered in front of the School of the Last Prophet, a madrassa run by Ayatollah Asif Mohsini, the country's most powerful Shi'ite cleric. He and the scholars around him played an important role in the drafting of the new law.
"We are here to campaign for our rights," one woman said into a loudspeaker. Then the women held their banners aloft and began to chant. The reaction was immediate. Hundreds of students from the madrassa, most but not all of them men, poured into the streets to confront the demonstrators.
Oh, SOME GIRLS were IN the MADRASSA?!!! Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!
"Death to the enemies of Islam!" the counterdemonstrators cried, encircling the women. "We want Islamic law!" The women stared ahead and kept walking....
They mistranslate that again?
Yup, our BRAVE AFGHAN AGENTS of DIVISION used to SELL YOU a WAR!!
We MUST GO SAVE the WOMEN!!!
I used to believe in the women's rights groups, until I found out that CodePink is a CIA Front of Controlled Opposition; that the Feminist Movement was a CIA project of social engineering; and the REAL ROLE of Feminism in the New World Order.
Then I reflect upon the fact that AMERIKA is the BIGGEST DOMESTIC ABUSER on the PLANET, and the will to lecture and moralize to others fades.
