The double game continues: if Faisal Abbasi is tried, expect him to become a national hero in Pakistan, a la Aafia Siddiqui. “Pakistan holds government worker in NYC plot,” by Asif Shahzad for AP, September 30: ISLAMABAD — An employee at Pakistan’s state-run Islamic advisory body has been detained for allegedly playing an important role […]
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At least 20 British nationals training for jihad in Pakistan
Meanwhile, Pakistan wants to dictate the terms of a war it won’t fight. We’re simply supposed to join Pakistan in their game of Russian roulette, as one official described it, while Islamabad’s actions serve to protect what has become the country’s number one export: jihadists. “Britons training in Pakistan for UK terror attacks,” by Rob […]
“We will have to see whether we are allies or enemies”: Pakistan cuts NATO supply line
Several years ago, as Pakistan’s double game became increasingly obvious, I began making the point frequently that to give aid to the Pakistani government was essentially to finance the jihad, and that we should stop cutting our own throats and instead cut that aid. In late 2008, when it was confirmed that a great deal […]
Recent strikes on Pakistan driven by newly uncovered jihad plot; Pakistan threatens end of protection of supply lines, military force
Pakistan won’t do what its leaders promised, and is determined to ensure no one else does. Apparently we’re just supposed to sit back, trust duplicitous Pakistan, and get attacked again. It seems Pakistan would like that a great deal, at least until Islamabad is lost to the very jihadists it has collaborated with in the […]
Woodward book: Status of U.S. ties with Pakistan was like a “cold shower” for Obama administration
“Pakistan is living a lie.” Pakistan is “playing Russian roulette.” “We’re living on borrowed time.” All quite true. “Status of US ties with Pak was like a ‘cold shower’ for Obama: Woodward,” from Asia News International, September 27: Well-known author-cum-journalist Bob Woodward has revealed in his latest book “Obama’s Wars that President Barack Obama’s focus […]
Latest jihadist threat tied to German Misunderstanders of Islam training in Pakistan
“Travelers with German passports do not require a visa to enter the United States.” More on this story. “‘Credible But Not Specific’ Threat of New Terrorist Attack,” by Richard Esposito, Rhonda Schwartz, Matthew Cole and Anna Schecter for ABC News, September 28: US and European officials said Tuesday they have detected a plot to carry […]
Fox guarding henhouse: Pakistan becomes chair of IAEA board
The home of the Islamic bomb is now chair of the “U.N. nuclear watchdog’s governing body.” “Nuclear-armed Pakistan becomes chair of IAEA board,” from Reuters, September 27 (thanks to Sr. Soph): Vienna: Pakistan became the new chair of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s governing body on Monday, despite being outside a global anti-nuclear arms pact and […]
Surprise, surprise: Pakistan acquits Danish embassy jihad bombing suspects
This couldn’t have anything to do with sympathy for the jihad of these men at high levels in Pakistan, now, could it? Naaaah. Unthinkable! “Pakistan Danish embassy bombing suspects acquitted,” from Reuters, September 25 (thanks to Mukund): A Pakistani court acquitted on Saturday three men accused of involvement in a 2008 suicide car-bomb attack on […]
Pakistani Islamic supremacist warns that 86-year sentence for jihadist Aafia Siddiqui will intensify hatred of U.S. in Islamic world
Why? I thought that the jihadists were just a Tiny Minority of Extremists. But anyway, the idea that defending ourselves against jihadists will intensify anger against us in the Islamic world shows the hollowness of any argument predicated on the idea that we should change our behavior in any way so as to appease Muslim […]
Taliban blow up two more girls’ schools in Pakistan
The total number of schools that the Taliban has bombed is now approaching 1,000. And despite the singularity of this barbarity, there are still many in the U.S. who dare to label the political opposition, which has never bombed any school or anything else, or even the anti-jihad movement, which is working in defense of […]