Comments on: Report: Islamabad Blast Target Was FBI’s Pakistan Operations Chief

By: Answering the wrong question « Alternate Seat of TYR

Answering the wrong question « Alternate Seat of TYR — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:56:10 +0000

[...] the Pakistani military dictatorship co-opted the US counter-insurgency. Further, when things like this happen, you’ve got to consider the risk that somebody wants a spiral of intervention, attacks [...]

By: Kalsoom

Kalsoom — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:08:01 +0000

I actually just discussed the evolution of Baitullah Mehsud in my recent post: http://www.changinguppakistan.com.

By: Kalsoom

Kalsoom — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:06:21 +0000

I think it’s not long before we start seeing the diversification in the Taliban targets – in Iraq, we saw insurgents and especially al-Qaeda in Iraq go from targeting Iraqi Security Forces and U.S. soldiers to large-scale attacks to cause systematic unrest and maximum civilian casualties. In Swat, the “Radio Mullah,” in the campaign to take the valley, began using more cruel atrocities like beheadings in order to reach their end state. In the psychology behind their justification of these attacks, what is deemed legitimate becomes much broader as time goes on – in the beginning anyone related to the U.S. or the Musharraf government was a credible target. Eventually, anyone not allied with them is fair game.