Why I joined against the Taliban

This was posted in the Paki Wiki, http://100wk.wetpaint.com/
and I got an ok to share it with you.
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Pakistanis - you can take action against the hirabi extremists!

Why do we work to defeat violent religious extremism?

1. It threatens the Pakistani people.
The Taliban and al Qaeda kill more Pakistanis than Americans these days. They bring their wars and murders into the cities and towns. Whatever they say, they are lawless thugs, with political goals. Their betrayal of the melmastia of the Pashtun, to save their own skins, paints a picture of their true nature.

Militants are waiting in the wings to take advantage of political upheaval in Pakistan. While trying to manipulate public opinion with religious mouthings, they hide among the people, bringing danger, death and dishonor wherever they go.

Then they will force me to grow a beard, take away my music, and surround me with religious police.

2. It threatens Pakistan politically.

Much of the world looks askance upon a nation that harbors mass murderers and criminals. The terrorists want to force Pakistan into enmity with both the West and the East. But Pakistan needs good relations with the world to continue economic growth. We don't need isolation and theatrics, but stability and commerce, to build on the gains we have made.

The best way to keep America out of Pakistan's business is to defeat violent extremism. If you dislike America, that doesn't make the Taliban and al Qaeda good citizens of Pakistan. It is cutting off your own nose to allow your enemy shelter just to spite America. The extremists now threaten Pakistan more than America.

As long as the Taliban and al Qaeda find a safe haven in Pakistan, America will hover around the borders and dabble in Pakistani politics. So far America sends only unmanned weapons into the tribal areas. But in political chaos, this could change.

Think twice when you see or read news media accounts. Militants think us fools to be manipulated. Will the politicians stand up for the dead, or the widows and orphans, who are Pakistanis also? Do you understand American anger at being attacked on 9-11? Our people are being bombed and murdered, parts of our land are controlled by fear - and I feel rage at the killers of Islamabad and Lahore.

It is publicly claimed that 80 to 90% of terror attacks can be traced back to Pakistan. The Pakistani arrested with explosives for an attack on Spain shames me. The 2200 pounds of explosives siezed in Rawalpindi yesterday could have blown my daughter to bits. My son enjoys videos - they blew up a video store in Peshawar. Will the next video store bombing get my son? The people in Mardan simply happened to be near a bakery that supplied the military. If the only choice is to live a timid life to avoid offending the criminals, then though I am no soldier or hero, I will find a way to fight back.
That is why I am here.
I don't know if Gerald can influence the corruption but I am willing to help make it public.
Thank you for this oppurtunity.

ThisPaki

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join Taliban to escape poverty

Afghanistan: Afghan youth join Taliban to escape poverty

Abdul Malik, aged 17, joined Taliban insurgents in the south after two Taliban supporters gave him a mobile phone. A short while later his dead body was brought to his family.

"He was killed in a military operation near Musa Qala District [Helmand Province]," Malik's older brother told IRIN in Lashkargah, the provincial capital of Helmand Province.

"In our district many young guys join Taliban ranks for pocket money, a mobile phone or other financial incentives," said Safiullah, a resident of Sangeen District in Helmand.

Helmand Province has seen considerable insurgency-related violence - hundreds have died in suicide attacks, roadside explosions and military operations over the past few months.

High levels of rural poverty or unemployment are probably helping to drive young people like Malik to join the Taliban.

Due to insecurity in the southern provinces there are no available unemployment figures. However, a report by Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission on the social and economic rights of Afghans estimated that in some parts of the country the unemployment rate was as high as 60 percent.

Another reason why there are so many rural poor is the fact that agriculture, which employs over 60 percent of the estimated 26.6 population, has received only US$300-400 million of the over US$15 billion of international development aid given to Afghanistan since 2002, Oxfam International reported in January.

Senlis Council report

"The government [of Afghanistan] lacks the funds to provide for its citizens and is unable to create sustainable job opportunities for a large proportion of the population. Therefore, the south is a rapidly growing recruitment ground for the Taliban," the Senlis Council, a London-based international policy think tank, said in a report in February 2008.

"Where the government is failing to provide basic services, often the Taliban are filling the gap with more radical alternatives. This means that sought-after trust from the Afghan people is going to the radical militants rather than the elected government," said the report Afghanistan – Decision Point 2008.

"Research undertaken by The Senlis Council since 2005 shows conclusively that aid destined for the south is not reaching the people," the report said.

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#1) How do you stabilize a small town, group of farmers
when there is a heavy weapons squad ( Taliban ) terrorizing the country side, times 500 villiages.

#2) How do you compete with the Taliban wages in a country
where the avg wage is $2 a day?

Gerald

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USA thinking about joining fight against radical Islam

"outlined plans to join the ideological fight against radical Islam"
6 yrs late, but will join the fight soon.


By Walter Pincus
Monday, February 18, 2008; Page A15

Two U.S. intelligence officials, in public appearances last week, outlined plans to join the ideological fight against radical Islam, much as the CIA worked behind the scenes during the Cold War in the battle against the creed of world communism.

"How do we and our allies counter the ideology that supports violent extremism?" asked Michael Leiter, the acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center, in a speech Wednesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

The goal, Leiter said, is "to prevent the next generation of terrorists from emerging," and one approach he suggested is "to show that it is al-Qaeda, not the West, that is truly at war with Islam."

Hours earlier, at a hearing on worldwide threats before the House Armed Services Committee, John A. Kringen, the CIA's deputy director for intelligence, spoke on the same theme, saying that while the United States and its allies have succeeded in "disrupting and dismantling terrorist organizations . . . the supply of people wanting to join those organizations continues and in some areas continues to grow."

There was no mention of any fallout from Iraq. Instead, Kringen said one of the underlying problems leading people to terrorist extremism stems from the alienation some Muslims feel from European and Western culture, which is difficult to control. But Kringen said, as Leiter echoed, there is a need to explain "what al-Qaeda's intent really is" and to use that to discourage people "from wanting to go down those paths."

Kringen then put the current ideological struggle "in the context of what we had to do within the days of the Cold War." Back then, the Soviet leaders set up the Cominform, an organization by which Moscow controlled communist parties throughout the world and, through them, the activities and propaganda of intellectual, artistic, labor and youth organizations that they established.

To meet that challenge, Kringen said the United States and its allies targeted "the soft side" of that conflict. The U.S. approach in the 1950s was to reach out to non-government organizations, including intellectual publications, labor unions and student groups, sometimes providing secret financial support, much as the Cominform did.

"I think over time we're going to need to build that kind of infrastructure," Kringen told the House panel, "because many times, it's not going to be what the U.S. government per se says, but the kind of interactions that they have through other people."

Leiter described the "global ideological engagement, referred to by some as the 'war of ideas,' " as "a key center of gravity in the battle against al-Qaeda, its associates and those that take inspiration from the group."

He described terrorist leaders who "aggressively employ messages related to current events, leverage mass media technologies and use the Internet to engage in a communications war against all who oppose their oppressive and murderous vision," adding: "We must engage them on this front with equal vehemence."

As acting director of the counterterrorism center, Leiter is hardly unconnected to the proposed ideological war. A little-publicized role of the director is to conduct strategic planning for the fight against terrorism for the entire U. S. government, a role in which Leiter reports directly to the president.

As Leiter put it publicly, the law creating the center "mandates that all elements of national power, not just the intelligence or military elements, be leveraged in the fight." President Bush approved the center's first strategic operational plan in June 2006, and though highly classified, it clearly includes a fight for the hearts and minds of Muslims worldwide.

Last week, Leiter would not describe tactics but said the struggle against extremist ideology would be won "not by attacking religious or cultural traditions, but by highlighting the poverty of extremist thought, by working together with mainstream adherents of all faiths . . . and by using all elements of national power -- diplomacy, foreign aid, non-government organizations and the like." ( NO MENTION OF THE INTERNET, NOT A GOOD SIGN G )

National security and intelligence reporter Walter Pincus pores over the speeches, reports, transcripts and other documents that flood Washington and every week uncovers the fine print that rarely makes headlines -- but should. If you have any items that fit the bill, please send them tofineprint@washpost.com.

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Gerald

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Public Intel Wiki

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From our good friends at Wired.
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Army: Wikis Too Risky

By David Axe February 18, 2008 | 11:24:00 AMCategories: Info War

They might not build $150-million F-22 stealth fighters, but in other ways insurgents and terrorists are amazingly tech savvy. For one, they're hip to using grungy, bare-bones websites to spread tactics and ideology across the planet on the cheap, transforming once-isolated local and regional conflicts into genuine threats to global stability. Author John Robb calls this "open-source warfare," and believes it's the most important force shaping the 21st century.

If so, we're screwed. Seven years after the launch of Wikipedia -- the user-edited online encyclopedia that brought the "open source" concept to the masses -- the U.S. Army is still playing catch-up. The Army's idea of harnessing the 'net is to launch isolated websites, put generals in charge and lock everything behind passwords, while banning popular open-source civilian websites. Colonel James Galvin, head of the Army's "Battle Command Knowledge System," openly admits that when it comes to the collaborative internet, the bad guys have a "niche advantage."

It didn't have to be this way. Around four years ago there was a grass-roots explosion of informal web-based tools for soldiers. Four captains at West Point founded companycommand.com as a forum for junior officers to swap battlefield lessons. And the 1st Cavalry Division launched CAVNET to sponge up and spread patrol tactics in Iraq. Both were victims of their own successes. Galvin's office, located at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, was set up to institutionalize these forums and others. To the Army, that meant hiding them all behind the password-protected Army Knowledge Online web portal, and assigning trained moderators and high-ranking "sponsors" to each site. The result is forums that are less accessible, less nimble, less innovative and less effective than their counterparts in the shadowy world of terrorists and insurgents. Oh, and there still aren't any official Army wikis. [For what it's worth, the intelligence community is a little slicker at this. -- ed.]

Besides adhering to strict security standards, Galvin stresses that the Army must also balance "both hierarchy and networking." "If you've got hierarchy, you've got direction -- and if you bring in networking, you've got direction and collaboration." But limiting collaboration to AKO password-holders artificially shrinks the network, and makes the whole process perhaps too insular to be truly innovative. [Ironically, Army officials would actually make the opposite argument -- that AKO isn't secure enough to share truly-sensitive information. -- ed.]

I'm not saying that Army forums should be totally unprotected from insurgent snoopers. But they should be expanded, and loosened, to allow students, academics, journalists and, yes, even members of the general public to participate on some level. That's risky, sure, but worth it.

Galvin advises patience. "Our leaders are getting comfortable working in that [collaborative] environment," he says. And that means Army wikis aren't far off. But even if they arrived tomorrow, they'd still be seven years late.

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JOIN al qaeda, sorry, CAN;T

NOT YOU


YOU LAUGH AT LONG PRISON TERM


YOU WON'T GET CAUGHT, ONLY "THEY", GET CAUGHT

On August 26, Islamist websites posted an item titled "How to Join Al-Qaeda." It is not clear when the item was written; it was produced by the website Al-Thabitoun 'Ala Al-'Ahd, which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda in Egypt and is currently inactive.

The item calls on every Muslim to regard jihad as a personal duty and to take initiative to establish a jihad cell without waiting for recognition from Al-Qaeda.

YES ALL BY YOURSELF....
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE SECURITY FORCES.

It goes on to elaborate on how to form and run the cell, how to raise funds, and how to select a target, "for example, assassinating the American ambassador," which, it states, "takes no more than a gun and a bullet."

The following are excerpts from the item:


"You feel that you want to carry a weapon, fight, and kill the occupiers, and that it is our duty to call for jihad as much as to call for prayer... All that is required is a firm personal decision to fulfill this obligation, and participation in jihad and the resistance...

REMEMBER TO SAY BYE TO YOUR FAMILY, LIFE AND FUTURE.

"Do you really have to meet Osama bin Laden in person in order to become a jihad fighter? Do you have to be recognized by Al-Qaeda as one of its members to become a jihad fighter? If Al-Qaeda commanders should be killed, would the jihad be eliminated? What would you do if Al-Qaeda did not exist today?

THE WORLD WOULD NOT HAVE ALL THESE SMALL WARS, AMERICA WOULD STILL BE IN usa NOT IN THE ME.

How is Osama bin Laden different from you?

HE IS A MILLIONAIRE AND HAS THE "BLACK GUARD" PROTECTING HIM, AND HE IS IN HIDDING
YOU CANNOT JOIN AL QEADA, THEY WANT YOUR HELP BUT DON'T WANT TO ASSOCIATE WITH YOU.

– [yet] he managed to establish the world jihad organization. Who provided training to Osama bin Laden and Abdallah 'Azzam when they went to Afghanistan to become the first Arab jihad fighters?

HIS ACTIONS COST TWO MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES, CAN YOU SCREW UP THAT BAD?

"The answers to these questions are the following: I don't have to meet Osama bin Laden to become a jihad fighter. Moreover, there is no need to meet even one jihad fighter to become one. Neither do I need recognition from Al-Qaeda...

THEY ARE AFRAID OF CONTACT, THEY SIT HIDDEN SAFE.

"As the first step, imagine that Al-Qaeda does not exist and that you are interested [in waging] jihad – what would you do in this case?...

MAYBE SPEND YOU LIFE IN THE STUDY OF THE KORAN AND WORKING TOWARDS SOLUTIONS, HELPING THE UMMAH?

If you know any young people – whether one, two, or more – in your area, mosque, or university who are as dedicated and enthusiastic about jihad as you are, come to an understanding with them, and together form a cell whose objective is to help Islam and only Islam...

YES THEY ARE EASILY INFLUENCED AND TALK MUCH THEY MAY NEED THE REWARD FOR TURNING YOU IN.

"At first, your cell should have no more than five members, all absolutely trustworthy... The cell must have a commander and a shura council... The commander must clearly realize that he is Osama bin Laden to the cell members...

YES THE NEW LEADER IS THE NEW IMAN FOLLOW HIM BLINDLY, AND YOUR SHURA COUNCIL MUST BE COMPOSED OF RADICALS OR THEY WILL ADVISE YOU AGAINST THIS.

"Each cell should have a source of funding... When you have several members, you will [surely] find the funds for your cell...

YES YOU CAN FORCE MONEY OUT OF YOUR MEMBERS, REMEMBER THE LEADER IS THE NEW BOSS.

Then you should buy weapons, make plans, brainstorm, plot your plans, monitor your enemy's important objectives, and study its moves.

YES NOBODY WILL NOTICE YOU DOING THESE THINGS, WILL THEY.

Set a goal; for example, assassinating the American ambassador – is it so difficult?

THERE ARE REWARDS FOR ANYONE TURNING IN THIS PLAN, AS SOON AS IT IS MADE THE REWARD IS AVAIABLE.


Is it [indeed] difficult for someone who has already crushed America in his home?

"What is the difference between you and the hero of the New York attack, Muhammad Atta,

YEARS OF TRAINING, MEETINGS WITH BIN LADEN, EXPERTS TO ASSIST HIM, AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, OF COURSE YOU NEED NONE OF THIS.

who planned an action which even today shakes the world every time it is mentioned?

YES REMEMBER THE LONDON DOCTORS, THE BOMBINGS WHERE THEY ONLY BURNED THEMSELVES.
YOU ALSO NEED NO HELP OR AT LEAST WON'T GET IT FROM aq.

Assassinating the ambassador takes no more than a gun and a bullet. One could disguise oneself as a peddler in order to tail [the target], which shouldn't cost a lot of money...

YES JUST FPOLLOW HIM AROUND FOR day OR WEEK, IT SHOULD BE EASY.

"The cells must maintain contact among themselves, but by no means in a direct or conventional way. The contact must be spiritual:

I GUESS THEY MEAN TO MEET IN THE MOSQUES.

What will unite you is the love of Islam and the motto "There is no God but Allah." Even if the contact between [your] cell and the rest is indirect, it will be close... You must meet once a month... You must not meet in the same place twice... Personal meetings with a small number of people [must take place] once a week...

OK MEETINGS ONCE A WEEK AND ONCE A MONTH, NEVER IN THE SAME PLACE.


"From the moment the cell is established, its members must be divided – into secret members, members who do not [act] openly and are not wanted by the authorities, and members who are wanted (who have been arrested in the past or on whom the intelligence apparatuses have a file)...

The secret members must perform intelligence tasks,

FOLLOWING AROUND THE AMBASSADOR, THE LEADER NEED NOT DO THIS AS IT IS TOO DANGEROUS.

collect information, raise funds,

THE MEMBERS WILL GIVE YOU MONEY TO LIVE SO YOU CAN PLAN THIS, YOU MAYBE ABLE TO STRETCH OUT FOR YEARS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORK.

recruit [new members], and assist in [actual operations].
Those who act in the open must perform the primary military operations, such as assassinations, firing at enemy facilities, etc.

OF COURSE AS THE LEADER YOU ARE NOT ACTING IN THE OPEN, TOO RISKY.

"You must be aware that you have brothers everywhere,

WATCHING YOU. THEY ARE ALL TRUSTWORTHY

and that they are expecting the actions of you and your friends

YES SOME ONE IS EXPECTING YOUR ACTIONS...

even if they don't know you in person or by name...

AL qAEDA NEEDS CANNON FODDER.

THEY ARE CLOSING GITMO, SO YOU WON'T BE GOING THERE AT LEAST.

.GERALD

http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD170207

http://tinyurl.com/34pvhu

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