Hans Rustad I Pakistans nordvestlige Waziristan forberedes angrepene over grensen. Propaganda er en viktig del av krigen: DVD’er hvor amerikanere sprenges i lufta spres i basarene. Ikke undervurder radiostasjoner og filmer. Husk hvilken betydning radiostasjonen Mille Collines hadde i Rwanda.
Western diplomats say the videos help to extract funds from wealthy Pakistanis and Middle Eastern conservatives. «We estimate a good portion is Saudi,» said one official, referring to longstanding ties between jihadis and followers of the strict Wahabi sect in Saudi Arabia.
The videos are part of a widening propaganda war that includes Taliban «night letters» – threatening tracts delivered in the dead of night – and hate-radio broadcasts. More than 150 illegal stations are operating in Pakistan’s northern tribal belt, many operated by radical clerics using small FM transmitters.
The videos offer a glimpse of how easily jihadis can train undisturbed in the North and South Waziristan tribal agencies on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.
Det som skjer som ledd i jihad er noe annet enn Rwanda, det er en annen slags pest:
An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said Saturday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks attributed to Islamic extremists.
Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah warning people not to wear shorts, police said.«Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the principals of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the body. Also women should wear the veil,» the leaflets said.
No one claimed responsibility for the slayings, which come amid worries that Islamic extremism is spreading in the war-torn country.
Sunni cleric Eid al-Zoubayi denounced the attack.
«Islamic religion is an easy religion and it allows wearing sport shorts as long as they don’t show the forbidden parts of the body, so the acts that are targeting the sport are criminal,» he said.
It was the second incident involving athletes in just over a week. Fifteen members of a taekwondo team were kidnapped in western Iraq while driving to a training camp in neighboring Jordan on May 17. (AP)
