Good for Pakistan if true.
Al Qaeda militants moving from Pakistan to set up in Syria: NYT - DAWN.COM
Re: Alqaeda militants move to Syria from Pakistan
not much difference if factories aren't all shut down.
Al Qaeda militants moving from Pakistan to set up in Syria: NYT
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Al Qaeda militants moving from Pakistan to set up in Syria: NYT
WASHINGTON — Dozens of seasoned militant fighters, including some midlevel planners, have traveled to Syria from Pakistan in recent months in what American intelligence and counterterrorism officials fear is an effort to lay the foundation for future strikes against Europe and the United States.
“We are concerned about the use of Syrian territory by the Al Qaeda organization to recruit individuals and develop the capability to be able not just to carry out attacks inside of Syria, but also to use Syria as a launching pad,” John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, told a House panel recently.
The extremists who concern Mr. Brennan are part of a group of Qaeda operatives in Pakistan that has been severely depleted in recent years by a decade of American drone strikes. But the fighters still bring a wide range of skills to the battlefield, such as bomb-building, small-arms tactics, logistics, religious indoctrination and planning, though they are not believed to have experience in launching attacks in the West.
New classified intelligence assessments based on information from electronic intercepts, informers and social media posts conclude that Al Qaeda’s senior leadership in Pakistan, including Ayman al-Zawahri, is developing a much more systematic, long-term plan than was previously known to create specific cells in Syria that would identify, recruit and train these Westerners.
Full Report:
http://nyti.ms/1g0XBtA
Syria seems to be on is way to become another Pakistan by playing a battleground for regional and international players. The way money and weapons are being invested to fuel the insurgency, the future of the country seems terribly unstable.
For Pakistan, the relief is that some of the non-state actors, both foreigners and locals, are leaving to take up new assignments abroad.
Re: Al Qaeda militants moving from Pakistan to set up in Syria: NYT
This doesn't mean they have stopped recruiting in Pakistan. Ever since that cyber bill came out there are more jihadi pages on FB.
ISIS Pakistan becoming famous on FB. Few pages on FB are showing Pakistanis in Syria for Jihad.
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And hope they get wiped out and never return.. And I am sure they will especially if Putin is pissed at the west.
Re: Al Qaeda militants moving from Pakistan to set up in Syria: NYT
This doesn't mean they have stopped recruiting in Pakistan. Ever since that cyber bill came out there are more jihadi pages on FB. ISIS Pakistan becoming famous on FB. Few pages on FB are showing Pakistanis in Syria for Jihad.
Recruiting and training would continue in Pakistan until the state (not States) takes over the entire madrasa system in the country. Governance in Pakistan generally appears absent from religious sphere which means open ground for miscreants to impose themselves on the society.