Comments on: Al-Qa’ida Publicy Cements Ties to the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan https://www.jihadica.com/al-qa%e2%80%99ida-publicy-cements-ties-to-the-tehrik-e-taliban-pakistan/ documenting the global jihad Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:25:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.19 By: Vahid Brown https://www.jihadica.com/al-qa%e2%80%99ida-publicy-cements-ties-to-the-tehrik-e-taliban-pakistan/#comment-1435 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:37:02 +0000 https://www.jihadica.com/?p=770#comment-1435 Chipotle Mystery,
I refer to the Nazir interview in this post: “Prior to these developments, the closest that al-Qa’ida came to officially signaling its ties to the TTP was in the release of an al-Sahab interview with Mullah Nazir shortly after he and Gul Bahadur joined Baitullah Mehsud to form the Shura Ittihad ul-Mujahidin this February.” The SIM was formed in late Feb, and the video came out in the first week of April. But yes, there was an al-Sahab interview with a “military commander of the Tehrik-e Taliban Swat” (Ustad Fateh) released on July 11, and I should have mentioned that – thanks for the reminder.

]]> By: Chipotle Mystery https://www.jihadica.com/al-qa%e2%80%99ida-publicy-cements-ties-to-the-tehrik-e-taliban-pakistan/#comment-1427 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:53:19 +0000 https://www.jihadica.com/?p=770#comment-1427 Actually Vahid, Al-Sahab released a video back in April interviewing Maulana Nazir. While his exact status within the TTP isn’t clear, he is clearly a Pakistani Taliban commander, and releasing an interview with him was notable. A few months later, in July I believe, they released an interview with another lower-level Pakistani Taliban commander.

]]> By: Maulana Dan Monday https://www.jihadica.com/al-qa%e2%80%99ida-publicy-cements-ties-to-the-tehrik-e-taliban-pakistan/#comment-1426 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:04:22 +0000 https://www.jihadica.com/?p=770#comment-1426 Vahid,
i am currently at IU-Bloomington as a PhD student. we have mutual colleagues whom i will not reveal at this juncture. but i have a few questions that I would like to pick your brain about. these are serious questions, not meant to be facetious: a) do you really think OBL and zawahari have operational control over things?; b) depending on your answer to that question, is there really such a thing as AQ anymore?; and, c) how much do they really interact with mullah omar and his ilk anymore? if they are all in quetta then i can see a strategic alliance. if they are geographically separated or if most of them are dead, well then, i suspect there isn’t much to their leadership anymore. just my opinion.

moreover, i am not convinced that there is such thing as a “Pakistani Taliban,” in the sense that these groups are not a monolith and that they ally for convenience. baitullah and, subsequently, hakeemullah have their own axes to grind. simply because AQ puts out a video on al Sahab hardly means AQ was complicit in the planning…it’s using it as ex post propaganda, in my humble opinion. of course, i could be proven tragically wrong. inshallah, i will never have to decide the fate of human lives on my paltry intellect. but, i would love to hear your feedback.

]]> By: alle https://www.jihadica.com/al-qa%e2%80%99ida-publicy-cements-ties-to-the-tehrik-e-taliban-pakistan/#comment-1419 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:58:29 +0000 https://www.jihadica.com/?p=770#comment-1419 could it have something to do with the expected pakistani gov offensive?

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