Posted on 06/12/2014 7:52:02 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
(Reuters) - It was the shoes that betrayed Corporal Faiz Mohammad's would-be killers.
When 10 Taliban militants attacked Pakistan's busiest airport on Sunday night, sparking a five-hour gun battle that killed at least 34 people, Mohammad and his fellow officers from the Airports Security Force (ASF) were the first line of defense.
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“Karachi airport attack signals tactical shift by Taliban”
Yeah?
We you know you are WINNING, you kinda just go all in.
Anybody think that the Malay airliner will pop up again soon?
Yikes!
A guess: The Sunni Taliban are now forming a new Islamic state to the west of Iran (joining eastern Syrian and NW Iraq) and this attack on the Pakistan airport is the start of forming a similar state to the east with sections of Afghanistan and Pakistan
No, this does not signal a tactical shift. It’s more of the same old plans. They are moving toward the creation of Islamic caliphate run by the Muslim Brotherhood, which would unite Sunnis and Shiites under shariya law meted out by the MB, but first they needed to get one country and kick out the secular government.
First they tried Egypt, then Libya and Syra (Libya was too chaotic). So, now, thanks to Obama, they are about to establish a stronghold in Afghanistan, their old stomping ground, with an expansion team that straddles Syria and Iraq.
Would you post information linking the Moslem Brotherhood to the ISIS? I haven’t read that connection. From what I know of the Islamic world, I think joining (in the sense of peaceful coexistence) the Shite and Sunni would not be acceptable to the majority of Muslims. On the other hand, if by joining you mean attacking Iran, destroying its religious culture and forcing the Shite into dhimmi status as they were in the Turkish Empire - that’s quite conceivable!
Right now, the MB seems to be trying to distance themselves from Ayman Al Zawahir, according to the Huffington Post, who claims that Al Zawahiri is too radical for even Al Qaeda.
If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. The MB needs to distance themselves until the events settle down a bit. If you remember, there was also a claim that the MB was not involved in the Syrian civil war.
The problem is that Al Qaeda is a loose confederation of local militias. that were united under Bin Laden. Al Zawahiri was second to Bin Laden, but was in jail. There was a leadership vacuum which allowed disparate actions by local militias. Right now, there seems to be a bit of a power struggle between the MB and Al Zawahiri. They are both Al Qaeda related.
The MB wants to look reasonable and lawful, although it’s difficult to consider Shariya law to be reasonable. Zawahiri, is not interested in pretending to be reasonable.
Here is an explanation of how the MB was trying to straddle the Sunni/ Shiite divide by beginning in Egypt. When Egypt failed, MB was forced to enter into the battle in Syria, where Iran was already working with Assad.
From the Blaze:
“When I said that we’re looking for a caliphate, all the experts said, Egypt, Egypt? Why would Iran want this with Egypt? They are Sunni in Egypt and Shia and they hate each other. Did you miss the idea that if the misfits of the world stand together, they can thwart any power? Now we’re having a meeting in Iran with Shia and Sunni and 250 other professors or world leaders from 57 countries but that doesn’t signal any plan or attempt to merge a large union of predominately Muslim countries into one unified Muslim world, does it?”
“Anybody think that the Malay airliner will pop up again soon?”
Western China...same bunch holding it.
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