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Thousands of pro-Taliban tribesmen threatened to send suicide bombers to attack Pakistani forces and execute people found spying for the Americans in a fiery protest Tuesday denouncing the Pakistani air raid the killed 80 people a day earlier.
The rally in Khar, the main town in the tribal Bajur district and close to the village where Monday’s missile attack on a religious school took place, drew 20,000 protesters and was the largest of several demonstrations to denounce the raid held across Pakistan.
A Pakistani security official said the seminary in the Bajur village of Chingai had been frequented in the past by al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, and an Egyptian terrorist who was behind August’s foiled terror plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners. But the pair were not there at the time of the attack.
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Inayatur Rahman, a local pro-Taliban elder, said he had prepared a “squad of suicide bombers” to target Pakistani security forces in the same way that militants are attacking Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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It should be expected if our govts do whatever they want without any strategic planning. Now what would our govt do - kill the whole tribal area.
Things could be much better if govt could have tried to catch the suspects. Resolving the issue in courts like civilized nation - most importantly like a muslim nation is the solution.
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Our public sacrifices everything to provide resources to our army. If we can use them to kill our own people, how come we can't use them to catch them. Aren't they fully trained. And if its impossible for them then whats the point of spending everything on them.
and plz don't say that army is for borders only because we have been using them inside the borders.
By the way, whats about our intelligence services??.
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they are pro taliban, does not make them guilty by association. most likely thier kids were killed in the massacre in the madressas, hence their reaction is understandable. This was expected. it was a stupid thing for the gov. to do. period.
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yeah dude :D, i think some ppl have been watchng too much of mission impossible, Bond, Rambo and miami vice etc
good point, do people really think that the govt would have talken a step that it knew would give fodder to all closet taleban chums, unless it had to?
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They are pro taliban fine.. be pro taliban, but when you start hiding ppl that the govt wants, then you are an accessory. That is what the tribals have been doing, from lies of we dont have anyone here, to we will not let them use our land to plan or initiate attacks from, .. I mean how much more of this can one take.
would you have rather seen the govt land paratroopers there, have some insider schmucks inform the jahil tribals and see them take the paratroopers out before they landed, or to have sincere, patriotic foot soldiers thrown into a situation where they were ambushed, and while they were dealing with fugitives in the madrassa that they were stabbed in the back by these tribals. You really would have liked to see the soldiers being trapped between psychos in the nadrassa on one side and jahil tribals on the other side?
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no but id rather not see children massacred either. how many madressahs are they gonna go around flattening for the sake of these talibans? and how do you know when its a mass killing wether those killed were actually responsible?
They are the army, im sure they are capable of having a better strategic plan than that.
Anyone can see they are shooting themselves in the foot. Not only are they turning previously indifferent people into enemies, they are creating needless resentment within thier nation. something that will carry on for a long time and something the gov. cannot afford to do right now..
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Payback..equals revenge...i wonder how many educated (versus those "jahil tribals") people would want to kill the person(s) who ordered the killing of their children?
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you really think they would not have done something different if they could. Did they need to launch aeral assualts when they captured ppl in the cities? NO..because they were being protected by armed militias that inhabited the area.
The question that is asked is how do you know that there were miltants there, well lets trurn that around, how do you know that they were not there. On one hand you have Pakistan govt and other intelligence sources helping it saying that there were militants there, on the other hand you have tribals sayign there were not.
Govt had given these ppl plenty of chances before, including attempts to have treaties, which were broken, which wer ebeing violated as they were being signed. You know why no one has been able to defeat the ppl in these areas..terrain, just ot suitable for ground offensive.
I have a solution then, tribals who dont want to fight go in a safe zone which will not be touched by the military and tribals (as wel as their afghani and arab guests) who would like to fight bring their best .. gund, rocket launchers whatever. and Pak gets to bring the best that it has, planes, choppers, bombs..and lets have a showdown.
Or thes eppl can do what they are best at, big talk, all false baravado, but then hide like wimps amog civilians.
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I would not let my children go to a place which was being used by extremists.
oh and there will be payback, but it would be blowing up ppl here and there and then justifying it by saying your govt did it so you have to deal with it.
the fact of the matter is these ppl were given many many many chances, too many chances to shape up. They like their afghan and arab pals more than they like their countrymen, and doublecrossed the govt, broke treaties. You want them to have a free reign? would you rather then have Nato and Us forces enter tribal areas and take them out?..or would you then expect pakistan military to stand up to nato and US to protect these morons who are not obeying govt directions to stop sheltering these outsiders
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good point, do people really think that the govt would have talken a step that it knew would give fodder to all closet taleban chums, unless it had to?
You're right. some people are watching all those violant movies so real killings are like movies to them. They don't understand the pain of those whose near & dear ones are murdered only because they were just living in that area and because Bush & Musharraf wanted to show the world that they were doing something and beacuse there was no proof/evidence.
Its good to trust own govt but there are exceptions and with this govt, the exceptions are so many. When did you last hear that Musharraf and Co took some steps to avoid these kind of situations. And yes the majorty of Pakistanis know the real reasons behind all this crap.
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when did i last hear? the govt was trying to have atreaty with this very tribal area. I mean what woukld you do when you are trying to make a treaty and the guys are saying okay to your face while their nefarious activities are going on regardless?
have they or have they not caught or blown up terrorists before? so for me their track record is pretty good. and the tribals track record of doublecrossing and lying is also there for all to see.
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thus the strike today was all tribals responsibility, no one else is to blame
using each other's circular logic, you all know what we will gain (or lose).... people of Pakistan have now so much to lose, their people, their military personnel, properties, dent in economy, dent in society (increasing unrest), dent in whatever of image left for world etc.
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captain, and what would teh situation be if the situaton was left as it was with these guys hiding in tribal areas and planning attacks around the world. I am still amazed at how ppl are absolving these tribals of any responsibility. They were asked by the govt to hand over ppl, to stop them from doing anything etc, but they did not follow orders.
would ppl not be lost had their been attacks launched by plans drawn in pakistan? and there was retaliation, do you really think that US will sit idle if ther eis another 9/11 type attck, this time planned in these tribal areas? what would you then want pak military to do, to defend against us forces attacking the tribals or let them get punded by dasiy cutters? hmmm
would that then have not caused a dent in economy, and dent in society?
and nice image we would have in the world, as a place that could not flush out the terrorists because we dinn want to ruffle the feathers of tribals who could not be reasoned with.
