You Know Al Qaeda’s Gone When Children Come Outside to Play

Posted by Thanos on March 24, 2008

Michael Totten has a great write up on his visit to Karmah in Iraq,  please go read it.
This one is particularly important — it shows several lessons that the government in Pakistan should learn. When the terrorists are the people’s only security then the army has no hope of combatting the Taliban in the frontiers.
For years frontier police [...]

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Pakistan Frontier Fatwa Declares the Taliban Takfir

Posted by Thanos on March 24, 2008

AJ at Stratasphere has important news that appeared, and then disappeared from The Nation today.  If you follow the link in Google now, you get a different story.
The story said that a cleric in the frontiers had issued an edict declaring the Taliban “un-islamic”. This is a turn of the tables on the Taliban, for [...]

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