Allah is always closer than the uniform of the corrupt government. But hey, none of this has anything to do with Islam…

These guys must have been fooled by greasy Islamophobes who somehow convinced them to ignore all the peaceful teachings of the Koran. “Soldiers turning rogue Pak’s new terror headache,” by Chidanand Rajghatta in the Times of India, October 13 (thanks to JW):

Story beneath the fold, other news first:

• Paki Taliban leader: “We want an Islamic state. If we get that, then we will go to the borders and help fight the Indians”
• Jihadists ambush Pakistani police, kill 39
• Recruiting the children of terror
• Al-Qaeda’s second banana lashes out against “apostate” Pakistani military

French troops were killed after Italy hushed up ‘bribes’ to Taleban

• Andrew Bolt: Italians bribe the killers they should be fighting

Taleban insurgents involved in the ambush that killed ten French soldiers in 2008 show off some of the weapons and uniforms that were stripped from mutilated bodies

When ten French soldiers were killed last year in an ambush by Afghan insurgents in what had seemed a relatively peaceful area, the French public were horrified.

Their revulsion increased with the news that many of the dead soldiers had been mutilated — and with the publication of photographs showing the militants triumphantly sporting their victims’ flak jackets and weapons. The French had been in charge of the Sarobi area, east of Kabul, for only a month, taking over from the Italians; it was one of the biggest single losses of life by Nato forces in Afghanistan. More here>>

• Gunmen storm Pakistan police buildings
• Six more face death for Xinjiang riots
• Italy hid Taliban bribes from France

WASHINGTON: A prominent Pakistani military commando-turned-terrorist mastermind who was reported killed in a US Predator strike apparently survived the attack and has re-surfaced even as American attention has turned to the growing number of jihadis and extremists from Pakistan’s armed forces.

Ilyas Kashmiri, a former Pakistan Special Services Group commando and a veteran of the Islamabad-backed separatist movement in Kashmir, has promised retribution against the ”U.S and its proxies,” an American terrorism watchdog reported Tuesday, after the armyman-turned-jihadi gave an interview to a Pakistani journalist to show that he was alive and ticking.

Kashmiri is very likely to be directly linked to last weekend’s terror assault on Pakistan’s Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi masterminded by ”Dr Usman” (who is also from the Pakistani military), according to Bill Roggio of the Long War Journal, a publication which tracks terrorism in the region.

The story puts the focus on several emerging aspects of Pakistan’s existential association and struggle with terrorism: The growing number of Pakistani military personnel who are turning rogue; and their ethnic origins, mostly form Punjab province.

Also of concern to intelligence analysts is Pakistan’s revolving door policy that frees or cuts loose terrorists — as had happened with Mumbai massacre mastermind Hafeez Mohammed Saeed this week — who eventually return to bite the Pakistani establishment in the back.

It transpires now that Dr Usman, aka Mohammed Aqeel, the leader of the fedayeen attack on Pakistan’s military headquarters last weekend, was in police custody last year for his involvement in the Marriott hotel bomb attack but was released by authorities under unclear circumstances. Ditto for Kashmiri, who was also in custody before he was released….

Maybe they were released because the “Pakistani establishment” wasn’t really all that much troubled by what they were doing.