You’re Gonna Reap Just What You Sow

Musharraf is now perhaps regretting the years he’s spent coddling and supporting Islamist parties and terrorists in Pakistan as the backlash from the storming of the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad earlier this month intensifies. Over 300 people have been killed in suicide bombings and such like in Pakistan since the Red Mosque was stormed.

Now it appears the Taliban are mixing it and expanding their operations from killing U.S. and U.K. forces in Afghanistan to trying to take over Pakistan themselves. This is one seriously screwed up country.

AP - "Rockets kill 10 in northwest Pakistan"

"PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Four rockets crashed into a city in northwest Pakistan Wednesday, killing 10 people, wounding 40 and stoking the confrontation between Islamic militants and the government...

Taliban militants have been expanding their influence into northwestern Pakistan from strongholds in the tribal belt along the Afghan border, and President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is under growing pressure from his key international backer, the United States, to crack down. Since a bloody army siege of Islamabad's radical Red Mosque earlier this month, Pakistan has sent thousands of troops to the northwest, triggering a fierce militant response. More than 300 people who have died in violence across the country this month.

[Also very interesting...] Abdullah Mehsud [pictured above in 2004], a Taliban veteran of Guantanamo Bay who was one of Pakistan's most-wanted rebel leaders, killed himself with a hand grenade Tuesday when cornered by security forces in Zhob, south of his home in South Waziristan. [yup, obviously the Guantanamo Bay inmates are there simply because the U.S. likes locking up Muslims for no reason, let’s just close the whole place down and let some of the most dangerous people on this planet wander off scott free]"