Muslim brotherhood in Pakistan Osama bin Laden’s crucible
Isabel P. Ball
September 11, 2006
Number one enemy of the free world, topping the FBI’s most wanted list, and reportedly, bearing a prize head of cool 50 million dollars, Osama bin Laden, the elusive leader of Al Qaeda, remains that loose in the hinterlands, suspectedly, in the Chitral Province in Pakistan, bordering with Afghanistan.
News reports have not been encouraging either. Reportedly, the intelligence has been pursuing a cold trail to bin Laden’s hideout.
As we are facing a new kind of enemy, Muslim Terrorists, they are bands of Islam followers a religion and culture rolled into one. Archaic and fundamentalist, the Muslims remain in mindset; hence, behaviorally, they are thrusting the world into a chaotic and unstable period of heinous attacks aimed indiscriminately on the mainstream of the worlds with their human bombers.
With such following of dedicated and devoted brethrens, Muslim terrorism of Al Qaeda faction, led and headed by OBL, they are able to sow fear and terror on to the free world without a seeming end to it. America, its number one target, is bleeding with blood and economically, while trying to fight the surge of these infidels, possibly, OBL’s modus operandi. America is fighting Muslim terrorism widespread at home, at their turf in Iraq and Afghanistan, indirectly in Pakistan, Philippines, Sudan, and elsewhere, needless to say, is gargantuan task even for the mightiest nation in the world.
OBL, as a fugitive, at present, is like an individual who has decided to get lost, deliberately. With that advantage, he is truly unconquerable. He is reportedly hiding himself in the hinterlands of Pakistan, within the bosoms of his Muslim brothers, the Pashto’s known for their religiosity, loyalty, and Spartan spirits and habits, having lived in such a mountainous terrain and harsh weather condition. In Lahore, Pakistan a city in the Punjab Province, where I resided once, Pashto men are the preferred chowkidar “security guard” at homes and at hotels. I’ve had one Pashto guard my residence. OBL is in the area where the heinous Talibans were formed, have been hiding, and now regrouping. The area is a remote part of the radical North West Frontier of Pakistan, where the government hardly has any control.
Within that area, bin Laden, reportedly is keeping only 2-3 guards, could be very free to mill about, for everybody in the area are his brethrens. Although the place is harsh, and economic conditions of the people are tenuous, with bin Laden’s wealth and supports, he might be helping the people eke out on their living.
In a report, just the past May 2006, an American diplomatic officer was ousted of the place from an order of an official in the Chitral area, after being suspected of doing an intelligence mission, taking surveys in the area, riding in official vehicle, then later in a private SUV. The official reportedly complied, and did leave the place. The report reminds me of my time while living in a village in Pakistan, and people turned suspicious of my very prolonged stay in the village; they begin to call me a jahsus (Urdu for Agent), hence I was tagged as a KGB, Indian Spy, to being a CIA.
Brotherhood among the Pakistanis, seedbed of Muslim faith, is undoubtedly strong and basic. While in Pakistan, I’ve seen the bond among the Muslims, protective and defensive of their own people regardless of the incident. That objectivity belonged only to the quiet and mute citizens cowed by fear to voice out their side of the incident is more of the realism. These impressions I’ve encountered while involved in some road mishaps. The blaming fingers are outright pointed to me a woman and a foreigner in the country. Such incident happening more than once with me was scary then, let alone under this times, might have been an instantaneous death just being in Pakistan, a foreigner with affinity to America.
Recently, President Musharraff of Pakistan, made a pact with the Talibans in the region, about where bin Laden is suspected of hiding, to spare the Pakistan military from becoming targets for killing, in return for peace in the region. Military have gone back to their barracks, and left the outposts. This equates to Musharraff having snuffed out the light from an American candle, and symbolically, darkening the pathway to bin Laden.
Inside his fortress and bastion of Muslim brotherhood, bin Laden is safe, unreachable, and free to continue to plan, design, and remotely control his heinous schemes to bring down America to its knees. Historically and biblically, man has its known weakness. The time that America discovers that whether it is a lock of hair like Samson, or Mark Anthony’s and Julius Cesar’s weakness for Cleopatra would be America’s challenge to find out, and hopefully, soonest.
News reports have not been encouraging either. Reportedly, the intelligence has been pursuing a cold trail to bin Laden’s hideout.
As we are facing a new kind of enemy, Muslim Terrorists, they are bands of Islam followers a religion and culture rolled into one. Archaic and fundamentalist, the Muslims remain in mindset; hence, behaviorally, they are thrusting the world into a chaotic and unstable period of heinous attacks aimed indiscriminately on the mainstream of the worlds with their human bombers.
With such following of dedicated and devoted brethrens, Muslim terrorism of Al Qaeda faction, led and headed by OBL, they are able to sow fear and terror on to the free world without a seeming end to it. America, its number one target, is bleeding with blood and economically, while trying to fight the surge of these infidels, possibly, OBL’s modus operandi. America is fighting Muslim terrorism widespread at home, at their turf in Iraq and Afghanistan, indirectly in Pakistan, Philippines, Sudan, and elsewhere, needless to say, is gargantuan task even for the mightiest nation in the world.
OBL, as a fugitive, at present, is like an individual who has decided to get lost, deliberately. With that advantage, he is truly unconquerable. He is reportedly hiding himself in the hinterlands of Pakistan, within the bosoms of his Muslim brothers, the Pashto’s known for their religiosity, loyalty, and Spartan spirits and habits, having lived in such a mountainous terrain and harsh weather condition. In Lahore, Pakistan a city in the Punjab Province, where I resided once, Pashto men are the preferred chowkidar “security guard” at homes and at hotels. I’ve had one Pashto guard my residence. OBL is in the area where the heinous Talibans were formed, have been hiding, and now regrouping. The area is a remote part of the radical North West Frontier of Pakistan, where the government hardly has any control.
Within that area, bin Laden, reportedly is keeping only 2-3 guards, could be very free to mill about, for everybody in the area are his brethrens. Although the place is harsh, and economic conditions of the people are tenuous, with bin Laden’s wealth and supports, he might be helping the people eke out on their living.
In a report, just the past May 2006, an American diplomatic officer was ousted of the place from an order of an official in the Chitral area, after being suspected of doing an intelligence mission, taking surveys in the area, riding in official vehicle, then later in a private SUV. The official reportedly complied, and did leave the place. The report reminds me of my time while living in a village in Pakistan, and people turned suspicious of my very prolonged stay in the village; they begin to call me a jahsus (Urdu for Agent), hence I was tagged as a KGB, Indian Spy, to being a CIA.
Brotherhood among the Pakistanis, seedbed of Muslim faith, is undoubtedly strong and basic. While in Pakistan, I’ve seen the bond among the Muslims, protective and defensive of their own people regardless of the incident. That objectivity belonged only to the quiet and mute citizens cowed by fear to voice out their side of the incident is more of the realism. These impressions I’ve encountered while involved in some road mishaps. The blaming fingers are outright pointed to me a woman and a foreigner in the country. Such incident happening more than once with me was scary then, let alone under this times, might have been an instantaneous death just being in Pakistan, a foreigner with affinity to America.
Recently, President Musharraff of Pakistan, made a pact with the Talibans in the region, about where bin Laden is suspected of hiding, to spare the Pakistan military from becoming targets for killing, in return for peace in the region. Military have gone back to their barracks, and left the outposts. This equates to Musharraff having snuffed out the light from an American candle, and symbolically, darkening the pathway to bin Laden.
Inside his fortress and bastion of Muslim brotherhood, bin Laden is safe, unreachable, and free to continue to plan, design, and remotely control his heinous schemes to bring down America to its knees. Historically and biblically, man has its known weakness. The time that America discovers that whether it is a lock of hair like Samson, or Mark Anthony’s and Julius Cesar’s weakness for Cleopatra would be America’s challenge to find out, and hopefully, soonest.
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