Emboldened Taliban In Swat Valley Rolls Out The Red Carpet For Osama bin Laden

Well, the head spokesman for the Taliban in the Swat Valley of Pakistan, some cancer named Muslim Khan, has decided to beat his chest a bit now that his Taliban are basically ruling in the Swat Valley and other districts and he's announced that Osama bin Laden and all other terrorist leaders and foot jihadis can come to the Swat Valley and they'll be protected. Isn't that nice of him? You know, I gotta believe there's a few CIA folks behind a screen flying a UAV predator drone right now that would LOVE for good old Osama to take this fool up on the offer. Here's some of the details from the article at Breitbart:

Pakistan was trying to end bloodshed when it let the idyllic Swat Valley fall under Islamic law last week. Instead, it has emboldened the Taliban and prompted an invitation—however improbable—for Osama bin Laden.
The local spokesman for the Taliban, which control the valley, told The Associated Press he'd welcome militants bent on battling U.S. troops and their Arab allies if they want to settle there.

"Osama can come here. Sure, like a brother they can stay anywhere they want," Muslim Khan said in a two-hour interview Friday, his first with a foreign journalist since Islamic law was imposed. "Yes, we will help them and protect them."
Khan spoke in halting English he learned during four years painting houses in the U.S. before returning to Swat in 2002. He averted his eyes as he spoke to a female journalist, in line with his strict understanding of Islam.

So, one might wonder what the government of Pakistan's reaction to this bit of information might be. Let's look:

Pakistan reacted with alarm to his comments, saying it would never let him shelter the likes of bin Laden.
"We would have to go for the military operation. We would have to apply force again," said Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira. "We simply condemn this. We are fighting this war against al-Qaida and the Taliban."

You believe this? The damn Pakistani government CREATED this vacuum in the Swat Valley! They are the ones that signed the damn agreement giving the Taliban this refuge and now they seem surprised that the Taliban will welcome al Qaeda into the area? Are you kidding me?

One last thing. I mentioned how the CIA would relish a chance at spotting an unusually tall jihadi figure approaching this sanctuary in the Swat Valley...what I failed to mention is that before that may or may not happen, those same CIA drone operators outta do their best to send a screaming hellfire up the ass of one Muslim Khan.

Taliban in Pakistani ex-resort: `Welcome, Osama!'

But it is far from clear that the government has the means to do much of anything in the Swat Valley. It agreed to Islamic law in the region—drawing international condemnation—after trying and failing to defeat the Taliban in fighting marked by brutal beheadings that killed more than 850 people over two years.
"We lost the war. We negotiated from a position of weakness," said Afrasiab Khattak, a leader of the Awami National Party, which governs the province that includes Swat. He said the region's police force is too underpaid, undertrained and underequipped to take on the militants.
At the behest of the National Assembly, President Asif Ali Zardari last week signed off on a regulation establishing Islamic law throughout the Malakand Division, a strategic territory bordering Afghanistan, and Pakistan's tribal belt where bin Laden has long been rumored to be hiding. The Swat Valley, where tourists once flocked to enjoy Alpine-like scenery, is part of the area.
Whether Swat someday proves an alluring haven for bin Laden could depend on how threatened he feels in his current location, and how successful the Taliban militants are in keeping state forces at bay there.
U.S. officials said they would work with Pakistan to make sure militants aren't safe anywhere.
"With regard to Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden, this is not a place where they should be welcome. We believe ... that violent extremists need to be confronted," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Monday.
In an interview with Pakistan's Geo TV, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was asked about U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke's concerns over the Swat deal.
"He doesn't need to worry about that," Gilani said. "This is our country. We know the ground realities better than he does. We will continue supporting this deal if peace comes there. I'm seeing peace is coming there."
On Friday, Taliban fighters in pickup trucks with black flags rumbled through the rutted streets of the valley's main city of Mingora, demanding over loudspeakers that shops shutter their windows and prepare for prayers.
In the city center, a district police station lay in ruins, destroyed by a suicide bomber. The only music blaring praised the Taliban and extolled the young to fight holy war.
Aftab Alam, president of the district court lawyers, took a journalist through an open courtyard and closed the door to his office before whispering in a soft, angry voice about the Taliban.
"They are more than beasts. Our government is impotent, stupid and corrupt. We are helpless (facing) this militancy," he said, calling the Taliban "barbaric" and "illiterate."