Al Qaeda and Taliban Uniting With Pakistani Terrorists Against U.S. in Afghanistan
- Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:52pm by
Buck Sexton
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(The Blaze/AP) — Prominent al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militants in a pair of rare meetings to set aside their differences and step up support for the battle against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, militant commanders said Monday.
The meetings were held in Pakistan‘s tribal region in November and December at the request of the Afghan Taliban’s leadership council. They could indicate the militants are struggling in Afghanistan, or conversely, that they want to make sure they hit U.S. forces hard as the Americans accelerate their withdrawal this year. That could give the Taliban additional leverage in any peace negotiations.
“For God’s sake, forget all your differences and give us fighters to boost the battle against America in Afghanistan,” senior al-Qaida commander Abu Yahya al-Libi told Pakistani fighters at a meeting on Dec. 11, according to a militant who attended.
Pakistani militants have long been split over where they should focus their fighting. The Pakistani Taliban have concentrated on toppling their own government, although they have sent some fighters to Afghanistan. Other Pakistani groups based in the tribal region have almost exclusively directed their attacks against foreign forces in Afghanistan.
The Pakistani Taliban, an umbrella organization set up in 2007 to represent roughly 40 insurgent groups, has also been split by infighting over turf and leadership positions after commanders were killed by the Pakistani military and U.S. drone strikes.
The group has fractured into more than 100 smaller factions, a process that some analysts have suggested would take a toll on militants fighting in Afghanistan by making it increasingly difficult for them to find recruits, as well as restricting territory in Pakistan available to them.
Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud attended the two meetings on Nov. 27 in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, and Dec. 11 in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told The Associated Press.
Other prominent Pakistani militant leaders who attended included Mehsud’s deputy, Waliur Rehman, and two commanders who have focused on fighting in Afghanistan, Maulvi Nazir and Gul Bahadur, Ehsan said. Also there was Sirajuddin Haqqani, an Afghan militant based in North Waziristan who leads one of the most feared groups fighting in Afghanistan.
The Afghan Taliban fighters at the meetings included Zabiullah Mujahid, a well-known spokesman, and Maulvi Sangin, who claims to have custody of U.S. Army Pvt. Bowe R. Bergdahl, captured in Afghanistan in 2009.
The four Pakistani commanders and Haqqani agreed to form a council to resolve differences, said two Pakistani Taliban commanders who attended the meetings. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
A pamphlet handed out in North Waziristan over the past two days announced the formation of the five-member committee, saying it was established in consultation with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the name given to the country by the Taliban. It called on Pakistani militants to coordinate with each other and “avoid unwarranted killings and kidnappings for ransom.”
“If any holy warrior is found involved in an unjustified murder or crime, he will be answerable to the committee and could face Islamic punishment,” said the pamphlet, a copy of which was obtained by the AP.
Al-Libi, the al-Qaida commander, asked the Pakistani militants to provide additional fighters to the Afghan Taliban in March, when the snow melts from the passes connecting Pakistan and Afghanistan and the spring fighting season begins.
Ehsan, the Pakistani Taliban spokesman, said the militants agreed, but that did not mean the group would end its fight against the Pakistani government.
“We will continue our jihad against Pakistani security forces,” Ehsan pledged.
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Comments (99)
Robert-CA
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:15pmoh really ???????????
Report Post »The Obama administration said the talibans were moderates .
Where’s your “reset” button Hillary ?
cosette
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:34pmDidn’t the marvel of intellectual thought Joe Biden, our illustrious vice president, just 12 days ago declare that the Taliban is not our enemy? Could he, purveyor of brilliant commentary, have been (gasp) wrong? Oh my! He is so much brighter and intellectually curious than Sarah Palin! Isn’t that right main stream media? What a joke!
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:37pmhey knuckleheads,,,,you should meet the U.S.A’s militia. You haven’t yet met all the American forces. Hahaha. Ready to go to school???
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:46pmGuess VP Bite-me did not get the memo…
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:30pm“The Taliban is not our enemy, per se.” VPOTUS Joe Biden
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:52pmVote these nut jods out of the WH .
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:57pmThey cant be against, these are our new negotiation partners who hate “Amerika” as much as the people running our country into the DIRT!.
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 8:07pmROBERT-CA, she is also an Alinsky’s expert, and as an active part of the new global organizers of this administration sent them our most advance drone and helicopter technology. Now they can make it with all our enemies which by the way are almost their friends. You can add at your list Iran, the rest of Islamic States and maybe Russia, China and North Korea.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 9:01pmAnd Ron Paul thinks of we just leave them alone, they will all shave their beards, buy leisure suits and sit around drinking pina coladas all day and never bother us again. Can anyone say, “nut job!”
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:47pmI am curious, Does anyone know wether or not we set Billions in aid to Pakistan this year???? They mentioned it for a while than I never heard any follow up on it.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:44pm.
“Al Qaeda and Taliban Uniting With Pakistani Terrorists Against U.S. in Afghanistan”
So, in other words, “Nothing has changed.”
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:10pmMURDERING MUSLUMS CARE NOT FOR NY HUMAN LIFE not even thier own or family memebr or ANYONE ELSE. they are ina CULT of death n HATE the kill in the nake of thier FALSE STONE IDOL ALLAH.. HELL awaits ALL muslums not heaven… no 70 virgins only FLAMES n darkness.. MUSLUMS KILL period fact n trueht nothing GOOD comes out of iran irag n other MUSLUM countries.. only DEATH
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:06pmYeah! “ River Walk ” is nice. Long way from Dallas.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:01pmHow do you tell the difference? Let me see – Taliban on the left, al-Qaida on the right. No, it’s al-Qaida on the right, and Taliban on the left? Dang! It’s confusing. They all look alike!
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:36pmAt this point, I say we pull out of that stupid little s–thole of a region, or, blast them to eternity, one or the other, and stop wasting our time and money! Trying to get them to get them to see that civilisation and loving your fellow man (and woman for their twisted thinking especially) is a lost cause! Call me crazy, but I believe we should get Detroit right first before screwing around with these barbarians! I was born in the USA, and that’s who I took an oath to DEFEND, when I enlisted, not police, and solve everyone else’s problems! Let’s fix US, and become an example first!
Report Post »davetrav
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:00pmI say –CUT OFF ALL MONIES–send this story to OBAMA and BIDEN. Didn’t they just say these people are not our enemies. WHAT losers—and any of you people out there think OBAMA should
Report Post »be reelected–get your head out of your ass.–WAKE UP AMERICA –get these clowns out of office.
TRILO
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:56pmHere we are ten years later and Afghanistan is still a he!! hole and no friend to the USA. Enemies of different faiths and ideologies are putting aside their differences to unite against a common enemy: US. Now we have Afghan Taliban and Al Qaeda members meeting with Pakistan militants. Who would have seen that coming. Our government (including both parties along with the current and past presidents) is so inept that it is absolutely frightening. Every Muslim country we have been involved with whether overtly or covertly over the past ten years in this so called war on terror has turned more radical and they continue to “elect” Islamic fundamentalist governments. That entire region is more destabilized today then when the previous dictators were in power. Was it not just this past October that Karzai said he would assist Pakistan if the US attacked them.
Is it too much to ask why our men and women are still in the god forsaken country of Afghanistan when they continually plot and work against us? So much for the billions of reconstruction dollars that were going to sway the population to give up terrorism and embrace democracy and the USA as their new savior. Iraq sure has turned out real well too. Baghdad is now the most dangerous city in the world.
Yet today, every neocon, every presidential candidate (except one), the mainstream media and the mindless sheeple are calling for continued wars, continued war spending and meddling in the middle east.
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:51pmThe problem is the violence, dictators, death, war lords, tribal killings, civil war, etc….. are what these people only know. Its all they will ever know. No one is going to come in and show them how to be civilized. It does not matter how long we are there. These people have no honor, no morals, etc… You can not rebuild them like we did with Japan after WWII. The people of Japan had honor and pride to be a better people.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:48pmAnd who didn’t know this was going to happen
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:42amApparently, the Turd and Biden didn’t know. But then, the rest of the world isn’t in their universe.
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:38pmWhy sure, obama just sent pakistan some more US taxpayers money
Report Post »to buy guns with.
louise
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:02pmExactly. This is what our foreign aid buys.
Report Post »burke
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:37pmOnce again, Just what the Muslim in the Whitehouse wanted.
Report Post »Joyce D
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:37pmAmerica is the invader and all forces should unite to expel them. The same thing happened in Iraq when Sunni and Shia forces united to fight the foreign invasion. Sooner or later the entire world will unite to expel the usurping occupier in the West Bank too.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:13pm“Usurping occupier in the West Bank”? Who did Israel usurp? Jordan had illegally annexed the region (Israel has not) and Israel drove them out. Then afterwards Israel agreed to recognize and fund the PA (PLO in disguise). In other words, Israel has created an independent government (though a poorly run one) where there wasn’t one before. hmm.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:46pmJOYCE D.. Also hopes to have dinner with the Obama’s..
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:53pmJust as soon as she is done bombing a christian church in Egypt.
Report Post »CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:57pmNOPE – Islam is a plague that hopes to take over the whole earth. Islam has always been and always will be at war with its neighbors. It claims land forever and will not give it up. Islam still believes Spain belongs to them…and probably Obama thinks Islam has a valid claim to the US as well.
Report Post »Flapjack
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:36pmStraight from a buddy of mine currently deployed in Afghanistan with the Army: “We are trying to change a people group that have done things this way for the past 2000 years. The only reason we are here is to keep the war overseas. If we weren’t fighting them in Afghanistan we would be fighting them in our backyards.”
Report Post »eschatologist
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:32pmyes, but the Rules of Engagement are A LOT different in my backyard!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:34pmNa, really. They are joining forces; who would of thunk it. Well that solves having to fly separate drones to different parts of the country. Please, band together, so we can wipe your _________ in one felt swoop.
Report Post »eschatologist
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:33pm…..or those things that came out of the Ark in Raiders……..
Report Post »Heisenberg
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:38pmI found this interview last nite. They have announced ( officially ) of their plans for a new world economy. Please view the interview or read the transcripts. Hopefully someone can find this untrue but it doesn’t look to be that way to me.
http://www.cmn.tv/news/new-world-currency/
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:33pmThe Taliban per se is not our enema
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:37pmbut, but,…….didn’t Joe tell us that they were not our enemies? Wow! I am sure this article must be wrong , surely our VP would not lie to us. RIGHT!
Report Post »CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:52pmBring our troops home and send Obama, Biden, Pelosi and company over there.
Report Post »mac410
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:31pmNot to worry, The Messiah can have a beer party with them and every little thing gonna be alright!
Report Post »justangry
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:28pmAgent orange the poppy fields and gtfo!!
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:41pm2-4-D would do the trick just fine. Its a broad-leaf.
Report Post »Charles
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:28pmThose cave dwelling apes need to be incinerated but with our elite fighters are being told what to do and how to do it by progressive leftist degenerates in Washington so I don’t see that happening.
Report Post »Xpat48
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:25pmand now what? Iraq is gone & now how long before Afghanistan is gone?
All for what?
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:20pmMany of the people of the Middle East are still living in the middle ages. Their loyalty is to their tribe. For centuries, tribes and sects have been fighting each other for power. But, they join together to fight the outsider, us. It is long past time for the USA to bring all of our military home to defend our own citizens against foreign and domestic enemies. Cut off aid to all countries hostile to us. Resign from the UN and tell all the members to go back to their own countries. Then make treaties only with friendly countries, and let the rest of the world take care of itself. We must get the usurper out of our White House this coming election.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:50pmDon’t we have 535 congressmen and 100 Senators? Not one call for impeachment. Lets clean out the pig sty and start over from the Constitution. Gitmo isn’t half full.
Report Post »CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:48pmThere is no way to win this war by conventional means. It is a spiritual war. It will take the Sword of the Lord to defeat this enemy. (Isaiah 31:8-9)
We need to bring our troops home and protect our borders and defend our country from infiltrators.
We also need to recognize that Islam is the enemy and that GW Bush straight out lied about it being a religion of peace.
Report Post »beebacksoon
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:07pmOkay, didn’t the current president/leader of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, say he was going to have meetings with the Taliban and did not want the west (US) to be included? So, could Afghanistan (gladly pocketing our funding, of course!) be partering with the Taliban AND Al Qaeda in Pakistan to really fight the US (Afghanistan not included), and will that possibly mean the US may be forced to fight in parts of Pakistan? OBAMA…GET OUR TROOPS OUT, AND NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! They no longer are fighting for a country…they are fighting for their own lives!
Report Post »GardenoftheGods
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:02pmI agree, time to bring our troops home and let these Muslim a-holes fight each other. They have NO desire to come out of the dark ages…in fact, they want to bring the west into THEIR stone age. No thanks, bring our heroes HOME!
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:04pmYou make darn good sense! You have to be in Colorado with a handle like that! {:
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:08pmI wonder if people are aware that when God fights for the righteous, that it is that God turns the enemies of the righteous against each other? I don’t think people know that, but it’s in the Bible.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:02pmOh but according to the latest: the Taliban isn’t the enemy.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:12pmGreat point, E!
Report Post »singleparent
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:58pmBring the troop’s home or go into pakistan and do what we went there for no rules full out war or leave… bring all troop‘s home screw the world it suck’s deffend are home land….
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:08pmIf we were not there, this would not happen. Bring our boys home, defend the Homeland and kick the dogcrap out of anyone that would screw with us. Simple. First we have to remove the Military’s rules of engagement. they were written by liberals that have no clue as to what the Military is used for.
Staunch DEFENSE with a military that will kick as when we are screwed with. That is where we need to be. Stop the nation building!
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:57pmDid not someone high up in this current administration say that the Taliban is not our enemy? I thought this administration was in negotiations with the Taliban? Why would people this administration consider friends turn against us?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:02pmJoe “Bite Me” Biden said that. Of course, he is seldom wrong.
Report Post »Realist4U
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:06pmOver to you Barry…
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:20pmThe accurate answer to your question. The enemy of my enemy is not my enemy. I feel better now the people over there are learning to work together. (sarc/off). And we expected what?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:38pmWhat you gonna do now Barry ???
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 4:54pmOur war with Islam will not end untill all of Zechariah chapter 14 is fulfilled.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:03pmYes, 100 percent, yes. We know who wins but getting there is hardship, I suppose. But it will happen. Great to know what happens in the end/beginning! Very comforting.
Report Post »eschatologist
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:31pm12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Sounds like a nuke to me.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:12pmActually, every word of all the Prophets has to be fulfilled.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:14pmAnd, God destroys them Personally.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:52pmA Nuetron bomb will be used from the sound of that verse in Zechariah,they are low yield and are good against hoards of people. They will melt flesh and the like and not leave radiation.
Report Post »CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 7:11pm“The voice of the LORD will shatter Assyria; with his scepter he will strike them down. [...]
Assyria will fall by a sword that is not of man; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them.
They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor.
Their stronghold will fall because of terror at the sight of the battle standard, their commanders will panic declares the LORD whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 30:31, 31:8-9
This war can’t be won with conventional weapons. It will take spiritual weapons to defeat this Goliath. Our first enemy is our own sin and repentance is the first spiritual weapon.
Report Post »II Chronicles 7:14, 20:12