Best News Ever About Pakistan...
Don't let Jack Layton hear this...he'll be disappointed they're using force instead of negotiating...
Villagers in northwest Pakistan have attacked Taliban militants killing seven of them in revenge for a bomb attack on a mosque that killed at least 40 people, a top government official and residents said on Sunday.
It was the latest in a series of instances of people turning their guns on the Taliban in recent weeks and trying to force them out of their areas and will encourage the Pakistani government which needs public support to defeat the militants.
The United States, which needs sustained Pakistani action to help defeat al Qaeda and cut off militant support for the insurgency in Afghanistan, will also be heartened by the move.
The Pakistani military has been battling Taliban in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, for more than a month after the militants took advantage of a peace pact to gain new ground.
The army offensive has broad public support even though many in Pakistan are ambivalent about the Taliban and are wary of the government's close alliance with the United States.
Taliban militants have also launched a string of bomb attacks in response to the military offensive and are suspected of being behind a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the Upper Dir region, near Swat, that killed about 40 people on Friday.
After the blast, enraged villagers formed a militia, known as a lashkar, of about 500 men to expel the militants from the area, said the top government official in the region.
"They are standing up against the militants themselves as they consider them troublemakers," the government administrator, Atif-ur-Rehman, told Reuters by telephone.
posted by GayandRight @ 5:55 PM
3 Comments:
You can't win an insurgency with just military power. You show your ignornace about counter-insurgency. But parkaying your ignorance into an arrogant and uniformed cheapshot against Layton makes you ridiculous.
I'm no Layton fan but your silly post is embarrassing.
Meanwhile Canada's fledgling police training force in Afstan restated their long standing position that civilians should not take the law into their own hands. "Our Afstan training program will follow the models developed in Canada where citizens are arrested and charged for the type of criminal behavior exhibited by Pakistani villagers following the recent bombing of mosque by Taliban forces" said Manny Airhead, general advisor to the RCMP detachment currently in station in Afghanistan. (sic)
stephen p
Reference:
Mountie takes command of Canadian police trainers in Afghanistan
Posted: May 04, 2009, 3:09 PM by Shane Dingman
Afghanistan, Canada
Canwest News Service
Villagers taking on the Taliban is perhaps the best counter-insurgency method going, they know the terrain, the enemy, and more importantly they definitely have a dog in the fight.
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