Track the Enemy

Posted by johnhouk on Oct 26, 2009
 John R. Houk
© October 26, 2009

Regardless of the notions of President Barak Hussein Obama, America is in a Global War on Terror. The reason is simple (in my book): There are a group of people espousing the exact example of Mohammed and the Theo-political ideology of world domination under a deity known as Allah. Part of that ideology is total intolerance of other religions, creeds or thoughts that are contrary to the way of Mohammed. These people wish the glory of ancient Muslim conquest which includes convert, be a dhimmi or die. These Muslim literalists attacked and murdered Americans on American soil by the thousands with the aim of taking a shot of the American way of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

America is perceived by these cowardly murdering Islamic terrorists as the primary obstacle of a global Caliphate and the protector of the Jewish State of Israel which is a very tiny sliver of land on the coastal outskirts of Dar a-Islam (i.e. Muslim conquered land that slowly became Islamic as the result of people not wishing to be oppressed by their conquerors).

Does it sound like I am a little ticked? Muslims and Leftists would call my attitude a racist Islamophobe. I call it a patriotic Islamophobe though not in the sense of phobia equals fear. Rather I call Islamophobia “… a fear of losing life or liberty to Islamic rule merely because the laws, sacred texts, and modern practices of Islam demand the submission of culture, politics, religion and all social expression. It tends to afflict those most familiar with the religion, while sparing the more gullible.” (TheReligionOfPeace.com)

With my attitude in mind it is important to keep track of what the enemy is doing and the setbacks the enemy experiences. I have found The AfPak Reader to be an excellent source of tracking the enemy by ways you will rarely read in the Mainstream Media (MSM).

Once in awhile Gary H. Johnson, Jr. sends me a snippet of info that he usually elaborate in greater detail later on The AfPak Reader. Here is one such case at SlantRight.com below this minor introduction.

JRH 10/26/09
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Notes from the Pak Frontier
(There is an updated version of this post by Gary H. Johnson, Jr. entitled "Rockets Rock Ramzak" at Red County.)

By Gary H. Johnson, Jr.
Sent: 10/25/09

By September 22nd, the first day of Fall 2009, the Pakistani Frontier Corps had pushed into the Ramzak area of North Waziristan, establishing security outposts in Upper and Lower Kofar. While government helicopter gunships were on the offensive in South Waziristan, killing at least 26 Taliban militants in their hideouts, the Pakistan government's North Waziristan check posts at Ramzak were overran by 600 Taliban fighters. The Pak government claimed 8 militants were killed in the Taliban brigade's assault on the security forces but chose not to release Frontier Corps casualty figures. The new Tehrik-i-Taliban spokesman, Azam Tariq, capitalized on the information vacuum, claiming 45 Pakistani soldiers fell in the battle.

On September 23rd, jihadist Taliban elements gunned down 9 tribesmen in the Bannu district of the NWFP, killing key tribal elders who were raising a lashkar, a local militia resistance force, to aid the Pakistani government in its attempts to claim security over the region. Sean Maroney, reporting from Islamabad on September 24th for Voice of America, noted that "the ambush followed a separate attack that killed two members of another anti-Taliban citizen's group in the Swat Valley." AFP adds: Up to 16 people — seven pro-government elders, two allied tribal militiamen and seven Taliban militants — died in the Bannu violence. Seven elders, including the influential tribal leader Malik Sultan died on the spot.

On September 24th, after a ten day lull in drone strikes, the United States targeted a North Waziristan Taliban compound of the Haqqani network. According to Bill Roggio's Long War Journal piece US airstrike targets Haqqani Network in North Waziristan, "The attack targeted a compound run by Ahmad Haqqani, a son of Jalaluddin, the patriarch of the notorious Haqqani family." Further, remarking on the success of the UAV strikes, Roggio relates that "The US has killed four senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in cross-border strikes in Pakistan since the beginning of August. Ilyas Kashmiri, the operations commander of the Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami and the operations chief of Brigade 313, and Najmuddin Jalolov, the leader of the Islamic Jihad Group, a breakaway faction of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, were killed in a strike on Sept. 14. Mustafa al Jaziri, a senior military commander for al Qaeda who sat on al Qaeda's military shura, was killed in an attack on Sept. 8. And Baitullah Mehsud, the overall leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, was killed in a strike on Aug. 5." By October 13th, Roggio's Long War Journal noted that Ilyas Kashmiri had surfaced, having barely escaped the missile strike.

On September 26th, twenty people died in Peshawar and Bannu in the NWFP at the hands of terror. According to a GEO Pakistan release, "In Peshawar, a car bomb exploded near a private bank situated at Fakhar-e-Alam Road in Saddar area, killing ten and injuring 75 others." Also, "In Bannu, a suicide attacker blew himself up in Mandan police station, killing ten people and injuring dozens others."

The Bannu suicide bombing was the fourth bombing since August 27th in what has amounted to a revenge campaign for the death of Baitullah Mehsud, organized by his replacement Hakimullah Mehsud. Back on August 27th, 22 Pakistani border guards were targeted in their barracks by a teenage suicide bomber at the Torkham crossing, the primary supply line for NATO supplies to Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass. On August 30th, following a Pakistani helicopter strike on a Taliban training camp near Mingora which killed 12 Taliban, 16 special police cadets in the Swat capitol of Mingora were killed by a suicide bomber that penetrated their training center and detonated his suicide vest. Bill Roggio notes that on September 18th, a Lashkar-i-Jhangvi suicide bomber’s jeep, loaded with 300 pounds of explosives, detonated and killed 33 people in a largely Shia Ustarzai market in the Kohat District. According to Bill Roggio, "Lashkar-i-Jhangvi has a strong presence in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Agencies, particularly in South Waziristan and Arakzai. The Lashkar-i-Jhangvi formed alliances with Taliban commanders Baitullah and Hakeemullah Mehsud as well as with Jaish-e-Mohammed and al Qaeda. Elements of these groups formed the Fedayeen-e-Islam. The Fedayeen-e-Islam took credit for the deadly September 2008 suicide attack on the Islamabad Marriott Hotel and the March 2009 storming of a police station in Lahore." With the exception of the sectarian Lashkar-i-Jhangvi strike, suicide bombers primarily focused on hitting Pakistani security personnel.

On September 28th, Bannu was rocked yet again by another suicide blast, targeting Maulana Abdul Hakim, a local tribal chief who had issued a decree against suicide bombing. Hakim and his three body guards were killed, after a suicide bomber rammed Hakim's car with an explosives laden van, detonating a bomb on impact. On the same day, fresh violence broke out at the Ramzak outposts in North Waziristan as Taliban fighters fired over 100 rockets at the Frontier Corps' encampment. Demonstrating strained communications channels with frontline activity, the Daily Times reported the episode in a short paragraph, stating that "At least 12 Taliban were killed in a clash with security forces.... The clash erupted after Taliban fired rockets at the Shawaal Rifles Camp." Kalimullah Mehsud, the younger brother of TTP leader Hakimullah, was killed in the assault near Ramzak. A TTP spokesman, Qari Hussain, vowed to avenge Kalimullah's death with suicide attacks in different parts of Pakistan.
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 Track the Enemy
John R. Houk
© October 26, 2009
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Notes from the Pak Frontier
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