This story from a faction of the Taliban, the Fedayeen-e-Islam, holds some real credence since the capture of a failed suicide bomber recently in Pakistan - that young suicide bomber revealed in his interrogation that he had been in a camp in South Waziristan that held around 350 suicide bomber trainees. Well, the spokesman for the Fedayeen-e-Islam has now announced that they have THREE such camps in South Waziristan combined with North Waziristan and thus they have 1,000 suicide bombers being trained to hit the streets, the checkpoints, the barracks, the markets and the mosques. Think of it. One thousand bombs ready to walk in and kill an average of 30 at a time...that's a potential death toll of 30,000 people.
From the report at The Long War Journal:
Shakirullah Shakir, a spokesman for the Fedayeen-e-Islam, a terrorist group in Pakistan, recently claimed that his group has trained more than 1,000 suicde bombers at camps in North Waziristan. From The Express Tribune:
Pakistani Taliban have claimed that they are running three secret camps in South and North Waziristan tribal regions close to the Afghan border to train potential suicide bombers with their total strength exceeding 1,000.
"We have three facilities exclusively for fidayeen (suicide bombers). Each one has more than 350 men being trained in it," a purported spokesperson for the little-known Fidayeen-e-Islam Group of the Taliban, told The Express Tribune from a secret location in North Waziristan.
The man, who identified himself as Shakirullah Shakir, added that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) led by Hakimullah Mehsud had recently separated the operations of suicide bombers from the overall activities of the group.
"Fidayeen-e-Islam is a part of the overall chain of command of the TTP but it works separately and has its own structures," Shakir said but gave little details of the working relationship between the mainstream Taliban leadership and the group handling suicide bombers.
Shakir confirmed a statement from a would-be child suicide bomber who was captured before he could detonate at a Sufi Shrine in the district of Dera Ghazni Khan in Punjab province. On April 8, the teenage boy claimed he trained at a camp near Mir Ali in North Waziristan.
It's unclear if these suicide jihadis are being trained for missions inside of Pakistan or across the border in Afghanistan or a bit of both but it spells real trouble for both the Pakistani government and NATO in Afghanistan.
And believe me, I'm sure a good bit of this training is being done to incorporate multiple attacks on major targets - we just saw yesterday how a Taliban suicide bomber nearly took out some of the highest Defense officials in Kabul, Afghanistan and also the French Defense minister who was there visiting. Imagine what can be done when a total of 10 or 12 suicide bombers gain access to some targets.
As far as I am concerned, this is reason enough for the Pakistanis to conduct the biggest military operation of their country's history in North and South Waziristan - you might as well take on the Taliban once and for all because when these bombers start pouring out of these camps, all hell is gonna break loose.
Fedayeen-e-Islam boasts 1,000 suicide bombers trained in North Waziristan camps
Shakirullah Shakir, a spokesman for the Fedayeen-e-Islam, a terrorist group in Pakistan, recently claimed that his group has trained more than 1,000 suicde bombers at camps in North Waziristan. From The Express Tribune:
Pakistani Taliban have claimed that they are running three secret camps in South and North Waziristan tribal regions close to the Afghan border to train potential suicide bombers with their total strength exceeding 1,000.
"We have three facilities exclusively for fidayeen (suicide bombers). Each one has more than 350 men being trained in it," a purported spokesperson for the little-known Fidayeen-e-Islam Group of the Taliban, told The Express Tribune from a secret location in North Waziristan.
The man, who identified himself as Shakirullah Shakir, added that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) led by Hakimullah Mehsud had recently separated the operations of suicide bombers from the overall activities of the group.
"Fidayeen-e-Islam is a part of the overall chain of command of the TTP but it works separately and has its own structures," Shakir said but gave little details of the working relationship between the mainstream Taliban leadership and the group handling suicide bombers.
Shakir confirmed a statement from a would-be child suicide bomber who was captured before he could detonate at a Sufi Shrine in the district of Dera Ghazni Khan in Punjab province. On April 8, the teenage boy claimed he trained at a camp near Mir Ali in North Waziristan.
Shakir has emerged once in the past to claim credit for a pair of suicide attacks on Shia worshippers in Lahore and Karachi on Jan. 25.
The Fedayeen-e-Islam is an alliance between the Pakistani Taliban, the anti-Shia Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and Jaish-e-Mohammed. For more on the terror group, see LWJ report, Suicide bombers kill 16 Pakistanis in attacks in Lahore, Karachi. Qari Hussain Mehsud, the so-called trainer of suicide bombers who instructed the failed Times Square bomber, is a top leader of the Fedayeen-e-Islam.
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We seem to want it both ways - defeat the enemy but play by the rules. The enemy isn't playing by the rules. If we aren't willing to do what's necessary to defeat the Taliban then we need to get out of Afghanistan.
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