The Taliban Goal Of Global Islamic Domination
BY Herschel Smith
12 years, 6 months ago
From Pakistan Today:
One of the top leaders of the movement of the Taliban in Pakistan said the terror group sought to overthrow the Pakistani government, impose sharia, seize the country’s nuclear weapons, and wage jihad until “the Caliphate is established across the world”.
The statements were made by Omar Khalid al Khurasani, the al Qaeda-linked leader of the Taliban in Pakistan’s branch in the Mohmand Agency, in a video that was released on jihadist web forums.
The video, which also discussed the history and evolution of the Taliban Movement in Pakistan, was released by Umar Studios and has been translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
As we have previously observed, a decade or more of exposure to the transnational religious insurgency has inculcated globalist ideologies and intentions within a group that, whether these intentions existed before, certainly owns them now. The Afghanistan Taliban isn’t far behind, and they swim in the same waters as the Pakistan Taliban.
Mohamed Merah, the French citizen of Algerian origin, perpetrator of the Toulouse shootings, had trained with the Taliban despite French denials of connection. There may be some question whether he was incarcerated in Kandahar, and it appears that it may have been an indigenous Afghan by that same name that escaped in 2008. But his radicalization, or at least part of it, occurred during two trips to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was also on the U.S. no-fly list because he had been in custody in Afghanistan.
As for other potential shooters?
More than 80 French nationals are training with the Pakistan Taliban in the law-less northwest of the country, according to an insurgent commander, raising fears of a renewed campaign against Western targets. A senior commander with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, an al-Qaida-affiliated group that has its stronghold in North Waziristan, said 80 French citizens were training “mostly in North Waziristan but some in South Waziristan.
Perhaps this is just bluster to hide the fact that their reach doesn’t yet match their ambitions. But perhaps not. “French intelligence sources said about 30 French fighters trained by the Taliban were believed to have taken part in attacks on Western forces in Afghanistan.”
At a time when most of America has tired of the global Islamic insurgency, it would appear that “the long war” is just beginning.
On March 26, 2012 at 11:38 am, TS Alfabet said:
The incessant beat of discouraging news in the Long War has me almost wishing that the Islamists would just go ahead and start attacking now and snap us out of our incredible societal death spiral.
I truly think that bin Laden and his ilk had no idea that the 9-11 attacks would engender the kind of violent reaction from the U.S. that occurred. You have to think that they learned a lesson from that mistake: don’t attack the U.S. until you have a knockout punch to throw– some nukes, EMP strike? Otherwise, you risk arousing the sleeping Giant.
Come to think of it, the Kaiser and Tojo/Hitler made the same mistake. We almost blew it in the Cold War but time was not on the Soviets’ side like it is for the Islamists.
With Obama telling Medvedev the other day that he needs the Russians to “give him space” until after the election, I can only imagine the horrors of a 2nd Obama term.