Taming The Pakistan Taliban
"[Saddam Jan] was responsible for facilitating the massacre at the Army Public School & College. He was the mastermind of several attacks carried out throughout the country. We had credible reports that he facilitated the Peshawar school attack."
"He was killed by security forces in Jamrud Tehsil late on Thursday night."
Shahab Ali Shah, Peshawar government official
"Saddam, a commander of the Darra Adam Khel chapter of the TTP [Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan alliance] was a significant man because he had been fighting the security forces at a time when most Taliban have gone into hibernation."
"Taliban are on the run and losing important commanders is a sign that they are getting weaker and weaker."
retired Brig. Mahmood Shah
The Pakistani Army has stepped up its
efforts to eradicate the Taliban in the wake of what was one of the
worst acts of terrorism in the country's modern history. Pictured is an
army soldier standing guard
A many-headed monster which, when each head is cut off in an effort to destroy its devastating attacks on battlefields, simply transforms each severed head into yet another fearsome monster to continue destroying and wreaking carnage and death wherever it ventures. They are all metaphors for a religious fervor of anti-humanity, one that passionately believes that any human who will not worship Islam has no right to life.
The man now listed as having been killed by the Pakistan military was held to be one of the TTP's few remaining commanders mounting attacks on a regular basis against the government and its military. The December 16 massacre which resulted in the deaths of 132 schoolchildren, with an overall death toll of 148, horrified and invigorated the government to task its military with mounting a counter-offensive with teeth.
Again. As though such counter-offensives haven't before been mounted. And in the doing produced thousands of refugees fleeing the carnage that resulted from the territories under the control of the tribal militias in the ungoverned tribal areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Targeting children to produce an electrifying effect of revulsion among Pakistanis, on the other hand, might be held to be a formula for self-defeat.
Particularly since it has been reported that Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders denounced the attack by the seven Taliban gunmen slaughtering the innocents without hesitation or remorse, as "un-Islamic". Given the past exploits of both groups that sounds more than a tad sanctimonious. But it did spur the government of Pakistan to action. Six convicted terrorists have since been executed with the reinstatement of capital punishment.
A more telling solution to a never-ending problem, however, was the step to place curbs on madrassa seminaries, infamous for inciting students to reverence of jihad, and directing them to join such terrorist groups. Such Wahhabist madrassas underwritten courtesy of Saudi Arabia. Umar Mansoor acting on behalf of the TTP's top leader, Maulana Fazlullah, is said to have ordered the Peshawar school massacre. While Saddam Jan is held to have planned the operation.
And to have spurred the attacks against health workers attempting to immunize children in the tribal areas against poliomyelitis, where 11 security personnel safeguarding workers were killed along with eight government paramilitary Scouts, several tribal elders, and health workers themselves. Saving Pakistani children from the dreadful health effects of a dread disease was an obvious Western plot to destroy Pakistani tradition.
One vital benchmark was passed, however, in the fight against the Taliban, when local people decided to no longer support the Taliban after the massacre of the schoolchildren in Peshawar. "The TTP's attack on the Army Public School has enraged and saddened the people due to which they do not want to provide sanctuaries to the TTP's men", ventured Talat Khan, a local security analyst.
Labels: Atrocities, Conflict, Islamism, Pakistan, Taliban
posted by Pieface @ Monday, December 29, 2014
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