Posted on 03/02/2003 5:00:19 PM PST by Indy Pendance
'Third big blow'
ISLAMABAD - The capture of Osama bin Laden's key aide Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the third big blow against the al-Qaeda network landed by controversial joint US-Pakistan forces but Islamists here were Sunday furious at US involvement in the manhunt.
Mohammed's arrest follows the capture of al-Qaeda's top operators Abu Zubaydah and Ramzi bin al-Shaiba in Pakistan last year.
"No American agency people should be allowed to conduct operations in Pakistan," Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) party leader Qazi Hussein Ahmed said on hearing of the raid that netted Mohammed, believed to be the key mastermind of the suicide plane attacks that killed more than 3,000 people in the United States on September 11, 2001.
"Our government has sold our sovereignty," he said, demanding an immediate end to the hunt for al-Qaeda operatives.
Ahmed's anger underlines the intense resentment of many Pakistanis, particularly the hardline Islamists, at the involvement of US agents in the manhunt for al-Qaeda fugitives hiding in Pakistan.
Washington and Islamabad officially admit to the presence of 12 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, but insist they only provide expertise in communications intercepts and intelligence gathering.
Since the crushing of the Taliban, who harbored al-Qaeda, in Afghanistan in late 2001, US and Pakistani intelligence agents have been waging a nationwide manhunt for fugitives in this Islamic republic, storming homes and apartments in its crowded cities and remote border regions.
The latest raid in pre-dawn darkness Saturday netted their biggest fish yet: Mohammed, who was on the FBI's list of 22 most wanted terrorists and is credited with masterminding the September 11, 2001 atrocities.
He was found asleep in a house belonging to a JI activist in the northern city of Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad, and was arrested with a Middle Eastern al-Qaeda suspect and a Pakistani JI activist.
A leader of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islami party Sami ul-Haq railed against the arrests during a massive rally in Karachi Sunday against possible war on Iraq.
"These people are our brothers and they have no place to go," he said.
"They are here for the past several years and fought during the war against former Soviet Union. How can they be terrorists? They are mujahedin."
Like I said... The only good Moslem is a @@@@ Moslem.
Maybe we should just rip your sorry-@ss sovereignty from your vold, dead hands.
Maybe we should just rip your sorry-@ss sovereignty from your vold, dead hands.
Maybe we should just rip your sorry-@ss sovereignty from your cold, dead hands.
Tough titty, kitty. Now get back in your corner.
Lump it! Interfere and you'll get burned! We go where we want and we do what we want to bring to justice (or wipe out) all enemies foreign or domestic.
Too bad we're the big boys on the block isn't it. Should have taken that into consideration before you messed with who you have mistaken for the "Great Satan"...we're not the "Great Satan", but we can fight like the devil when out own is attacked.
Those Islamists A-Rab Muslims have a saying: The Arab's proverb, "I and my brothers and my cousins against the stranger; I and my brothers against my cousin; I, against my brothers."
Let's adopt that or perhaps we should make up a proverb that goes something like this:
"The Yankees against the Rebels, the Liberals against the Conservatives, the Hawks against the Doves, but The United States of America against all enemies foreign or domestic"
That means: French, German, Korean, Arabs & Muslims (The Sand People) Pakis included and whoever else threatens our life, liberty and pursuit of our happy way of life.
How's that for a start?
That's exactly the point you eraserheads don't seem to understand. Let's see important things to do before I "jihad"...find a hiding place! LOL!!!
We are locked in a life and death struggle with militant Islam. It truly is a "clash of civilizations."
The will be no second-place winner ( much like a gunfight ) and no third way will resolve it.
March, or die. It is that stark.
Do these people think we regard 9-11 as some kind of love tap? Let me assure them- you got my attention. Telling me that you are really, really, really, mad now doesn't impress me in the least, and I would ask them one little thing-
Do you recall, or even understand, what we did to Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich?
That's your fate... keep pushing, just keep pushing us harder...
He (KSM) was found asleep in a house belonging to a JI activist in the northern city of Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad, and was arrested with a Middle Eastern al-Qaeda suspect and a Pakistani JI activist.
So, KSM was found with a Jamaat-i-Islami activist in a house owned by a Jamaat-i-Islami acitivist and we should listen to this crackhead from Jamaat-i-Islami?
Thank you. I mean it to the core of my being.
What a mouthful!
We're minus two skyscrapers and a boatload of people because of these stupid mujahedin.
No terrorists should be allowed to find refuge in Pakistan.
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