Re: Troops guard Swat schools, clashes kill eight militants
^ The problem is all about the Taliban/Al Qaeda groups and their tactics. They fool people with impressions of being religious and standing up for people's rights, which allows them to infiltrate. What you're seeing in Swat now, is their true colors coming out - but they've been infiltrating for some time now.
Just take a look at the interviews given to Dawn by people escaping from Bajaur, and what they have to say - they describe what it was like when the Taliban were first entering their villages - and its nothing short of scary how deep the ignorance among village people truly goes - they sincerely thought that the Taliban were harmless and were only there to help if nothing else, and their actions initially were not like what we're seeing now in Swat - i.e. burning schools, and spreading a fascist hatred for shalwaars below the ankle and clearly mental stuff of that sort.
So when the muslims welcomed them into their mosque, they were well fooled.
What is scary is - how much of that is going on currently in urban areas with the mosques right now?