I'm putting up this story from DAWN to illustrate this important point - the Pakistanis continue to flush out jihadists from South Waziristan, yes, but the major conclusion of this all is that the country is now lousy with foreign jihadists and that number is still growing. In this latest raid, the Pakistanis raided a hospital in South Waziristan and every single dead body of the terrorists is that of a foreigner. From the article:
This is the draw of jihad. The battle between good and evil, between freedom and islamic tyranny draws in these jihadis from all over the world like a slice of fresh bread on the kitchen floor draws in cockroaches. We see Arabs and Sudanese and Bangladeshi being drawn to Pakistan, we see a Nigerian drawn to the U.S., we see the Chechens and Uzbeks drawn to Afghanistan...and until the powers to be in this world realize that the War on Terror is a war on islamic jihad throughout the entire world, we won't see anything resembling an end to it all.
I liken this to the professional anarchist in America. Imagine an 18 yr old misfit male in America who has no job, doesn't go to school but sits by his cell phone each and every day waiting for a text message that sends him to a protest at a government center, or sends him trotting off to a rock throwing spree at a train station or sends him to a bridge overpass where he drops bricks onto the traffice below. That is what the jihadis are about....they sit in Jordan, Somalia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, and the Philippines and simply wait for the call to jihad.
It was just two years ago or so that al Qaeda leadership called for all of their members to migrate to Yemen...to fight the battle in Yemen and now, what do we have in Yemen? We have a new "Afghanistan" in that country with al Qaeda training camps and bases. The point of defense here is that you do not put out the bread on the floor of the kitchen in hopes of stomping on the cockroaches as they scurry out from the cracks and crevices of the kitchen - you hire a professional who goes into the roaches' homes behind the stove, behind the refrigerator, inside the cracks of the wall and destroys their nests.
Destroy the nest, destroy jihad.
Security forces raided a private hospital before dawn in a Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan on Thursday, killing four foreign militants and a woman, officials said. 27 others were also arrested.
The dead foreigners include two Arabs and a Bangladeshi.
This is the draw of jihad. The battle between good and evil, between freedom and islamic tyranny draws in these jihadis from all over the world like a slice of fresh bread on the kitchen floor draws in cockroaches. We see Arabs and Sudanese and Bangladeshi being drawn to Pakistan, we see a Nigerian drawn to the U.S., we see the Chechens and Uzbeks drawn to Afghanistan...and until the powers to be in this world realize that the War on Terror is a war on islamic jihad throughout the entire world, we won't see anything resembling an end to it all.
I liken this to the professional anarchist in America. Imagine an 18 yr old misfit male in America who has no job, doesn't go to school but sits by his cell phone each and every day waiting for a text message that sends him to a protest at a government center, or sends him trotting off to a rock throwing spree at a train station or sends him to a bridge overpass where he drops bricks onto the traffice below. That is what the jihadis are about....they sit in Jordan, Somalia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, and the Philippines and simply wait for the call to jihad.
It was just two years ago or so that al Qaeda leadership called for all of their members to migrate to Yemen...to fight the battle in Yemen and now, what do we have in Yemen? We have a new "Afghanistan" in that country with al Qaeda training camps and bases. The point of defense here is that you do not put out the bread on the floor of the kitchen in hopes of stomping on the cockroaches as they scurry out from the cracks and crevices of the kitchen - you hire a professional who goes into the roaches' homes behind the stove, behind the refrigerator, inside the cracks of the wall and destroys their nests.
Destroy the nest, destroy jihad.
Troops kill 'Arab, Sudan fighters' in South Waziristan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan: Security forces raided a private hospital before dawn in a Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan on Thursday, killing four foreign militants and a woman, officials said. 27 others were also arrested.
The dead foreigners include two Arabs and a Bangladeshi.
Troops laid siege to the Hafiz Hospital in Wana, which belonged to a former MNA, at 2:00am (2100 GMT) sparking gun battles until around 7:00am (0200 GMT), local administration and intelligence officials said.
A security official said the raid followed a tip off that wounded militants were brought to the hospital from Sherwangi, a Taliban-dominated area where Pakistan has been pressing a major offensive.
“Commandos and security forces raided the hospital. Militants fired on the troops and in the gunfight, which lasted more than four hours, four militants and a woman were killed, while 27 others were arrested,” said the official.
“One soldier was also injured. The three dead militants appear to be Arabs and one of Sudanese origin,” the official added.
The identity of the woman was not initially clear, the official said.
An intelligence official and a local administrator confirmed the raid and deaths of four foreign militants, but said their identities were not immediately clear. The intelligence official said 27 suspects were arrested.
South Waziristan is part of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border that Washington has branded the most dangerous region in the world and a chief sanctuary of Al-Qaeda plotting attacks on the West.
Last October, Pakistan launched its most ambitious offensive to date in its tribal belt, fighting on three fronts against Tehreek-i-Taliban in its South Waziristan stronghold, where the military says it has killed 663 militants.
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