Despite all the jingoism about Jihad, Ideology, I believe that Economic conditions do play an important part.
Though there are well to do operatives in every terrorist outfit, higher percentage of Field Operatives, meaning who are prepared o die hail from a poor background.
The decision makers are from , mostly, from the affluent sections of the Society.
In general the Terrorists are given free boarding and lodging facilities and Travel and operational expenses are provided by the terrorist outfits.
The organisation also takes care of the Operative’s Family, Children education and in cases of dire emergency pay up medical expenses.
These facilities are decided on a case to case to basis.
There are many terrorist out fits, Palestinians,Intifada,LTTE,IRA,Red Brigade,Baader Meinhof, Spanish terrorists and recently the Al Qaeda.
The Palestinian Authority recently disclosed that it pays $ 50, 00 to those jailed by Israel or by the other countries and a Lifetime pension of $1135 per month,this is calculated on the basis of the Operation they were involved and the number of years they spent in prison.
Hizb ul Mujahideen operatives are paid Rs 10,000 to 12,000 per month from 2011.(Boarding lodging free)
This is fivefold increase from 2001.
Since Al Qaeda funds its affiliates like HUM the salary structure varies depending on the country of operations.
It is safe to assume thy get not less than INR 15 to 20,000 excluding boarding and lodging ,Perks mentioned above.
While in other countries like those in Europe and The US, they might be paid anywhere from 5 t0 10, 000 Dollars a month.
It is a known fact the US was striking targets in Pakistan with Drones in its effort to eradicate terrorism.
And Pakistan, in its efforts to ensure that it is not alienated from the International Community post terrorist attacks on 9/11 and the flushing out of Osama Bin Laden and killing him by the US in Pakistani soil, had agreed for the Drone strikes inside Pakistan.
And another important factor in agreeing to Drone strikes is the dire need of Pakistan for US money followed by the contribution of the West to prop up uts tottering economy.
The US need to strike at the terrorists hide out as it became known that Pakistan was harboring the terrorists , including Osama Bin Laden in its soil and was actively promoting terrorism.
keeping quiet on Pakistan won’t do.
This is the back ground of the Pakistan agreeing to the Drone strikes and I see no reason to condemn Pakistan on this core for any Nation,given the state Pakistan was/is in, would have done this.
When the Drone strike involved the killing of the Civilians, it aroused Public Anger.
The West and in particular the US was supremely indifferent.
Drone attacks can not distinguish Civilians, Terrorists and most importantly the Westerners.
When the Drone strike involved the killing of a UK national, there started a Hue and cry and Human Rights issue.
Ironically these votaries of Human Rights were silent when Pakistani civilians were killed!
Now as the issue has become a Human Rights controversy, the CIA, with the sanction of the White House, is releasing the information that Pakistan was a Party to Drone Strikes.
They could have done this when Pakistani civilians were being killed.
This is how contradictory international policies work out.
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In time, the CIA identified so many suspected al-Qaeda and militant compounds that it gave them coded designations, including MSC 215 for a Miran Shah compound where explosives were manufactured and SC 5 for Spailpan Compound No. 5 in South Waziristan.
The dates and number of strikes generally correspond with public databases assembled by independent groups, indicating that those organizations have reliably tracked drone attacks from media reports, even if the number of civilian casualties has often been a source of dispute…
The documents confirm the deaths of dozens of alleged al-Qaeda operatives, including Rashid Rauf, a British citizen killed in 2008 who “helped coordinate al-Qaeda’s summer 2007 plot to blow up transatlantic flights originating from Great Britain,” one memo said.
But the documents also reveal a major shift in the CIA’s strategy in Pakistan as it broadened the campaign beyond “high-value” al-Qaeda targets and began firing missiles at gatherings of low-level fighters.
The files trace the CIA’s embrace of a controversial practice that came to be known as “signature strikes,” approving targets based on patterns of suspicious behavior detected from drone surveillance cameras and ordering strikes even when the identities of those to be killed weren’t known.
At times, the evidence seemed circumstantial.
On Jan. 14, 2010, a gathering of 17 people at a suspected Taliban training camp was struck after the men were observed conducting “assassination training, sparring, push-ups and running.” The compound was linked “by vehicle” to an al-Qaeda facility hit three years earlier.
On March 23, 2010, the CIA launched missiles at a “person of interest” in a suspected al-Qaeda compound. The man caught the agency’s attention after he had “held two in-car meetings, and swapped vehicles three times along the way.”
Other accounts describe militants targeted because of the extent of “deference” they were shown when arriving at a suspect site. A May 11, 2010, entry noted the likely deaths of 12 men who were “probably” involved in cross-border attacks against the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
Although often uncertain about the identities of its targets, the CIA expresses remarkable confidence in its accuracy, repeatedly ruling out the possibility that any civilians were killed..
There have been 23 strikes in Pakistan this year, far below the peak in 2010, when 117 attacks were recorded. The latest strike occurred Sept. 29, when three alleged fighters with ties to the militant Haqqani network were killed in North Waziristan, according to news media reports.
Several documents refer to a direct Pakistani role in the selection of targets. A 2010 entry, for example, describes hitting a location “at the request of your government.” Another from that year refers to a “network of locations associated with a joint CIA-ISI targeting effort.”
The files also contain fragments of code words — including SYL-MAG, an abbreviation of Sylvan Magnolia — that correspond to covert drone operations. The code word was later changed to Arbor-Hawthorn.
The Navy SEALS had recovered the hard disk of Osama Bin Laden‘s Computer and on analysis it was found to contain Porn, when they killed Osama Bin laden in Abbotabad,Pakistan.
The pornography recovered in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad,Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The officials said they were not yet sure precisely where in the compound the pornography was discovered or who had been viewing it. Specifically, the officials said they did not know if bin Laden himself had acquired or viewed the materials.
Reports from Abbottabad have said that bin Laden’s compound was cut off from the Internet or other hard-wired communications networks. It is unclear how compound residents would have acquired the pornography.
But a video released by the Obama administration confiscated from the compound showed bin Laden watching pictures of himself on a TV screen, indicating that the compound was equipped with video playback equipment.
Materials carted away from the compound by the U.S. commandos included digital thumb drives, which U.S. officials believe may have been a principal means by which couriers carried electronic messages to and from the late al Qaeda leader.
The man who is giving nightmares to US Security forces is Al-Asiri,the specialist for Al Qaeda in Bomb making .
Here is the profile.
Ibrahim Hassan Al-Siri. Image. The Herald..
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Al-Asiri, a drop-out chemistry student from Saudi Arabia who was radicalized after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, has proved uniquely adept at devising bombs that can elude even the most sophisticated forms of detection. He rose to prominence in 2009 after a suicide bomber nearly succeeded in killing Saudi prince Muhammed Bin Nayef. Al-Asiri had devised the bomb used in the assassination attempt. The attacker was his own brother. Early reports indicated that the bomb was implanted in the younger al-Asiri’s rectum, but it turned out that it had been sewn into his underwear. Al-Asiri absorbed most of the blast, which killed him instantly. Bin Nayef managed to escape with only minor injuries. Still, the fact that an al Qaeda operative was able to penetrate Saudi security and come some close to killing one of the kingdom’s top counterterrorism officials spooked American officials. A few days later, John Brennan traveled to Saudi Arabia to learn about the attack and the innovative bomb that had been used.
Only four months later, AQAP struck again—this time with a new version of the same kind of bomb. A Nigerian AQAP recruit came perilously close to blowing up a commercial airliner over Detroit. The device was traced back to al-Asiri. In 2010, AQAP managed to place bombs in two U.S. cargo planes. The explosive material was ingeniously placed in printer ink cartridges where the ink powder normally goes. It was, once again, the devilish handiwork of al-Asiri. A Saudi tipster helped foil the plot.
For U.S. intelligence officials, there was nothing reassuring about the fact that al-Asiri had yet to successfully pull off any major attacks. They attributed it to pure luck. “We felt like we were cheating fate,” says one U.S. intelligence official. “The question was: would we get him before he got us?” Al-Asiri would soon move to the top of the Obama administration’s kill or capture list.
Few things chilled U.S. officials more than the belief that al-Asiri has succeeded in developing a new kind of bomb that can be surgically implanted inside the human body. The military refers to such a weapon as a “surgically implanted improvised explosive device,” or SIIED. In 2011, U.S. intelligence learned that al-Asiri was working closely with AQAP-affiliated doctors who had tested the bomb on dogs and other animals. Like his previous bombs, it contained no metal and so could pass through conventional detectors.
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The undercover agent successfully penetrated the AQAP, a major intelligence coup, though he was never able to meet directly with al-Asiri. Another AQAP operative gave the mole a new, more sophisticated, version of the underwear bomb along with instructions to get on a plane from a safe airport. Instead, the agent was able to give the bomb to his Saudi handler in Yemen who spirited it out of the country on his private plane.
A few days later, an Associated Press story reported that Western intelligence agencies had foiled an AQAP plot. The article indicated that the CIA had obtained the explosive device, thereby revealing that a spy had likely penetrated AQAP.
Some U.S. officials have suggested that the leak to the AP might have disrupted the best chance the U.S. had to take out al-Asiri, though it is unclear how the operation would have been pulled off once the mole had left the country on a supposed suicide mission.
Now we know why The Pakistani ISI Chief and The Military are demanding that General Musharraf be treated respectfully in confinement.
Missing Children for Baluchistan, Pakistan.
“LONDON Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that most of the `missing persons` went `missing` on their own.
`They had joined various factions of jihadi outfits including Taliban without informing their families. Many had gone into Indian Kashmir to participate in Jihad and many went to Afghanistan to fight on the side of Taliban. Most were brainwashed.`
The former chief of the Pakistani Army, General Musharraf while participating in Aljazeera`s David Frost Show on Friday night rejected the perception that the Army and the ISI were somehow involved in making people disappear and said that Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry would finally come up with nothing in the case.
Answering a question on how he felt about the current situation in Pakistan he said he felt sad, despondent at whatever is happening in Pakistan today, `Pakistan is suffering.`
He, however, said Pakistan had the potential to fight back and all that is needed is for the government to win the confidence of the people in its ability to face terrorism and extremism and also in its ability to put the economy back on the rails.
In reply to another question he said he did not think there were more than 300-400 al Qaeda fighters holed up in the mountains of Pakistan`s tribal areas.
He said between the Taliban and al Qaeda he considered the former to be a more serious threat to Pakistan `because they are from among the population while the latter are foreigners and the local people are known to have supported the government in fighting them.`
He, however, said the Taliban could never overthrow the government in Islamabad, `Unless we commit a blunder. They should not be given any political space. If we keep giving them space they would keep gaining ground.`
“The judicial commission constituted for the recovery of the missing persons on Wednesday submitted it report in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, stating it has traced 378 missing persons cases while 633 are pending.
An apex court bench headed by the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry continued the hearing of missing persons’ case.
In report submitted by before the bench, the commission said that 24 cases were completed in Sindh while 100 are still pending.”
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