Prominent al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militants in a pair of rare meetings to set aside their differences and step up support for the battle against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, militant commanders said Monday.
The meetings were held in Pakistan‘s tribal region in November and December at the request of the Afghan Taliban’s leadership council. They could indicate the militants are struggling in Afghanistan, or conversely, that they want to make sure they hit U.S. forces hard as the Americans accelerate their withdrawal this year. That could give the Taliban additional leverage in any peace negotiations.
“For God’s sake, forget all your differences and give us fighters to boost the battle against America in Afghanistan,” senior al-Qaida commander Abu Yahya al-Libi told Pakistani fighters at a meeting on Dec. 11, according to a militant who attended.
Pakistani militants have long been split over where they should focus their fighting. The Pakistani Taliban have concentrated on toppling their own government, although they have sent some fighters to Afghanistan. Other Pakistani groups based in the tribal region have almost exclusively directed their attacks against foreign forces in Afghanistan.
And why shouldn’t they?
Look what the taliban has been handed without even much of a fight:
Obama wants to run for re-election in November bragging that he “ended two wars.” The INTENDED consequences of re-installing the Taliban in Afghanistan will not appear until long after the next election campaign, which is all that Obama cares about.
Obama has discovered how to end any war quickly: just surrender.
So, next time we will face the taliban, al Qaeda, Iran’s Republican Guard, Hamas, Hezb’allah, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Pakistanis ….but it will all wait until O’s 2nd term……when he will surrender for all of us.
Does Obama aspire to some high spot in the world-wide Caliphate?
#Even though the Taliban and Hamid Karzai’s government are supposedly deadly, sworn enemies.