Al Qaeda’s New Manifesto Admits Defeat

Posted by Thanos on July 1, 2008

Updated: [Last night I put down my initial thougthts and today I'm expanding a few sentences with some analysis.]
I’ve said for a long time that AQ and the Taliban pretend to be world Islamists looking for Kalipha as a recruiting tool, but that they are really collective gangs of regional thugs set on temporal power [...]

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Pakistan Update

Posted by Thanos on July 1, 2008

There are a few good articles with many details on the destabilizing conditions inside Pakistan right now as their civil war continues.
From Time Reporter Aryn Baker in Islamabad comes this report, detailing not only the war fronts, but also the politcal instability due to infighting between PPP (Zardari) and PML-N (Sharif) continues over non-essential matters. [...]

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