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al Qaeda attacks the Taliban

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 (Islamabad)
Several people were feared killed on Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the office of an Islamic group in Pakistan's restive Khyber Agency, officials said.

The suicide bomber targeted the office of the ''Amar bil maroof wa nahee aanelmunkar'' (promotion of virtue and prevention of vice force), the religious police of a group led by Haji Namdar at Bara, the main town of the northwestern Khyber Agency.

A spokesman for Haji Namdar said the head of the suicide bomber has been found.

Official sources said Haji Namdar ( Taliban ) was the actual target of the attack though he escaped unhurt. He is a rival of Mangal Bagh Afridi, another radical leader who heads the Lashkar-e-Islam group.

Haji Namdar at Bara
Haji Namdar has time and again announced his support to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and even invited the Afghan Taliban to his area through his illegal FM radio station, while the invitation, some believe, was accepted

http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=14442





Official sources said Haji Namdar was the actual target of the attack though he escaped unhurt. He is a rival of Mangal Bagh Afridi, ( al Quada ) another radical leader who heads the Lashkar-e-Islam group.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080048492


And all the while, the Army of Islam, under the leadership of Mangal Bagh Afridi, a former driver, grew more powerful and more militant.

http://www.pakspectator.com/profile-of-mangal-bagh/

Wikipedia

Army of Islam (Arabic: جَيش الإسلام‎ Jaysh al-Islām), also known as Tawhid and Jihad Brigades,^[1] is the name used by the Dughmush-sometimes rendered "doghmush"- Hamula (clan) for their militant and takfiri activities.^[2] It is located at the Tzabra neighborhood in the center of the Gaza Strip bordered by Israel and Egypt.

Notorious for their kidnapping of BBC reporter Alan Johnston and capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Army of Islam, which appears to draw inspiration from, or is linked to al-Qaeda


Summary by
Gerald
Anthropologist ad Magnum

Deep Background our confidential source told us of an ealier
attack on the Taliban, seems aQ didn't like the talks between the Paki Gov and Taliban.
It was a serious attack and was reported, just that it has not yet been revealed it was al Qaeda vs Taliban.

But under the Pashtun code, the guest has obligations, too: to obey the national law and not to do something than endangers his host ( like attack the host ). Whatever bin Laden's motivations for being in Afghanistan, his presence has turned into a catastrophe for the Afghan people. The extremist Wahabi strain of Islamic fundamentalism that he preaches is popular in Saudi Arabia and Yemen but foreign to most Afghans, even to some members of the Taliban."

So we are keeping the details quiet, I don't understand the underlying paradigm, yet. G

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