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Pakistani jihadi videos thrive on execution scenes

Tuesday, May 02 2006
Pakistan Terrorism

Arshad Sharif - Reuters

The movie salesman was selling jihad to the converted. The buyers thronging his stall on the sidelines of a late-night rally in the Pakistani capital belonged to a crowd organised by a sectarian Sunni Muslim group. "This is the latest video of the beheadings," he told his customers, as they pored over titles including "Slaughter of Americans in Iraq", "Slaughter of Traitors in Afghanistan" and "Taliban Celebrations".

In Pakistan, compelled to join a U.S.-led global war on terrorism after al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the United States, anger has risen over what many see as an attempt by the West to suppress Muslims around the world. But that is only part of the story. Pakistan is also locked in a long struggle with its own demons, particularly sectarian violence that has killed thousands. Three weeks ago, a suicide bomber killed at least 57 people at a prayer meeting in Karachi celebrating the birth of the Prophet Mohammad. At the other end of the country, in the Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan, the toll from weeks of fighting between security forces and pro-Taliban and al Qaeda tribesmen pushed towards 300.

The video seller didn't have the latest action from the conflict on the Afghan border, but he had something just as gruesome. "This one is about the activities of mujahideen in Waziristan and Afghanistan," the seller said. Dated in December, and supposedly shot in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, it had footage of hangings ordered by influential militant clerics. The bodies of the hanged men, described as criminals and bandits, were then dragged through the streets by pick-up trucks, in a grisly demonstration of rough justice in an area where the civil administration has, according to tribesmen, collapsed.

HEAVENLY VIRGINS
"The commentary in them makes no bones about who is producing them -- they are Pakistani Talibs," said Samina Ahmed, the Islamabad-based director of the International Crisis Group's South Asia project. For less than a dollar apiece, some VCDs glorify the exploits of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, promise 72 heavenly virgins for prospective suicide bombers and prescribe beheadings for informers. There are also training films on how to run a guerrilla war, based on Islamist militants fighting the Russian army in Chechnya. Messages in the films put Presidents George W. Bush, Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the top of a hit list for would-be assassins in a war against what are described as the American "crusader forces". Musharraf has banned several militant organisations since 2002, and just last year he launched yet another campaign against groups stirring sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shi'ites. But some, such as Sipah-e-Sahaba (Soldiers of Companions of the Prophet), keep bouncing back, although they seem to be getting less space to put their message across. The group organised the recent late-night rally in Islamabad but under another name.

BAD FOR BUSINESS
Irfan Ali runs an Islamic bookshop in Karachi and says Musharraf's policies since Sept. 11, 2001, have definitely been bad for business. "The fact is our business was doing very well when we were selling jihadi literature," Ali lamented. "Now our sales have come down drastically." The owner of another bookshop in Karachi said such material could always be arranged for trusted customers. "Jihadi literature, cassettes and VCDs are still available but you will not find it openly. This business has gone underground. It is only sold to known acquaintances or reliable people," he said. That said, it is not too hard to find the leader of one of the most feared militant groups in Pakistan. His message of radical Islam can be heard outside a number of well-known mosques.

By Anonymous on Sunday, August 13, 2006 - 05:30 am:

Terrorist strike puts Pakistan on the spot

Thursday, July 13 2006

Bruce Loudon
TO a senior Indian analyst these are "difficult and dangerous days", and who, in the aftermath of the devastation and carnage wrought by terrorist bombers attacking the suburban train system in Mumbai, the country's teeming business and commercial metropolis, can doubt the accuracy of his assertion? In the days since the attack, what has become clear is that the world's largest democracy is under assault by the same evil forces of terrorism that are threatening so much of the rest of the world. And how the Government of the scholarly and erudite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh handles this attack is going to profoundly affect India's stellar performance as a growing economic powerhouse that is attracting investment from across the world. Mumbai's bombs, in themselves, were bad enough. Two hundred people killed, another 800 injured. The terrorists, assumed to be from the militant Islamic terrorist movement Lashkar-e-Toiba, aligned to al-Qa'ida and working with the Students Islamic Movement of India, could hardly have attacked a city with a higher profile, the hub of the nation's economy as well as the base of its globally popular Bollywood film industry. But the concern must be that, as with terrorism everywhere, there may be more to come. India, with its overwhelming Hindu majority, is being increasingly identified in al-Qa'ida propaganda as a target for jihadists loyal to the murderous madness espoused by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Previously al-Qa'ida had a "crusader/Zionist" enemy in its sights. Now, it seems, what it is targeting is a "crusader/Zionist/Hindu" enemy. And for a country as vast and diverse as India, that is a salutary new aspect to al-Qa'ida's tactics. To add to the concern, there are reports claiming that, for the first time, al-Qa'ida is launching itself directly into the conflict in Kashmir. The influential New Delhi newspaper The Asian Age has said that in messages since the bombing to media outlets in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, a spokesman for an organisation identified as "al-Qa'ida Jammu and Kashmir" has called on Indian Muslims to take up jihad, saying the jihadists are "encouraged by the success" of the Mumbai atrocity. The spokesman is reported to have justified the terrorism as "a reaction to what is happening to minorities, especially Muslims, in India", a reference to the fact that India has a Muslim population of 140 million, the largest in any country outside Indonesia. There is little doubt that the claim of direct involvement by al-Qa'ida will worry those who believe India and its Hindu majority are increasingly in the sights of bin Laden. Until now it has been Lashkar-e-Toiba and a range of other jihadist organisations that have been fighting in Kashmir, operating as surrogates within the context of al-Qa'ida's global campaign of Islamic terrorism. Intelligence sources believe, however, that al-Qa'ida may now be seeking to intensify pressure on India.

Perhaps significantly, the claims of heightened al-Qa'ida involvement came on what is observed in the state as martyrs' day, the anniversary of the day in 1931 when 22 Muslims were gunned down outside Srinagar central jail. In itself, the reported moves by al-Qa'ida and its surrogates are portentous. In the context of always fragile relations with neighbouring Pakistan, they are even more so for, as always, the Indian suspicion is that its neighbour is, by design or default, complicit in any terrorist act within Indian territory. A longstanding plan for high-level talks aimed at ironing out differences between India and Pakistan has been put on indefinite hold. The talks were due to take place next week, but in the present tense atmosphere they seem unlikely to go ahead, according to New Delhi television news reports. Predictably, the Indian media is in full flight with accusations of Pakistani involvement in the attack, and one of the country's leading newspapers, the Hindustan Times, has accused Islamabad's all-pervasive security agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, of having masterminded the Mumbai attacks. "A senior intelligence officer said the synchronised explosions had the hallmark of an ISI operation," the Hindustan Times reported. And it quoted him as adding: "A lot of planning went into the blasts. This is typical of an ISI operation."

Complete article from The Australian.

By Vidhu on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 12:21 pm:

To : Anonymous (67.96.172.102) on Monday, June 16, 2003
Thts true,look at the grammar of the friend who lives in America,I suggest you buy wren and martin and have a close look.

By Anonymous (67.96.172.102) on Monday, June 16, 2003 - 02:56 pm:

if u think u can hear me then listen!!!!!!!!!!1

iam Pakistani American and every thing is in this site u have writen is wrong and false. i dont know way u to make a such propaganda why idont know .This shows the ignorances of such indian people. that they do not know any thing about this world or pakistan this show u r uneducated need to do some learning. i know u going to delet my massage because its a turth . pakistan zindaabad forever!!! we pakistanis are not going to be a started of war thats what our religion told us to do never gona be. but after such attack we know how to defence our self. thats ALL I WANT SAY "WE HAVE TO LIVE IN PEACE"

By simsam (210.210.68.5) on Saturday, March 08, 2003 - 03:43 pm:

Please stop these abominable cruel acts of revulsion. Expressing your profanities for other religion is a disgraceful attitude. This only shows your rotten mindset and your fake conviction and loyalty towards your own religion. One religion, be it Islamic or Hindu, never counsels anyone to mistreat a being of a different religion. And if any fanatic thinks that his religion is superior to another than he is the biggest loser.
Be a little concerned about humanity and show reverence towards a different religion. Don’t make yourself look like a fool. You are defeating yourself, your conscience and your own RELIGION.
Please don’t be so APATHETIC. Be a good Human Being, Be a Good and true Muslim or Hindu. Don’t belittle true meaning and values of your religion.

Simsam

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