The area was a staging post for Muslim guerrillas, including bin Laden, battling Soviet forces in Afghanistan during the 1980s and a string of religious schools was built with Pakistani and Saudi support to churn out recruits. Semi-autonomous tribal lands on the Afghan border where radical Islam has for generations been a rallying cry in the fight against outsiders. The Pakistani Taliban are predominantly ethnic Pashtuns from “The threat is that al Qaeda uses these local militants. “The problem is not al Qadea, the problem is the Taliban,” said a senior Arab diplomat in Islamabad. While Pakistan has at times supported militants fighting in Afghanistan and the Indian part of disputed Kashmir, the Taliban are the sworn enemies of the security forces. Al Qaeda, Taliban, including all mujahedeen (holy warriors), will avenge the death of Osama bin Laden,” Ehsan said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
“We were united before, we share the same goals and we have the same enemies. TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said this week that ties between the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan were unshaken and revenge would be exacted for bin Laden’s death at the hand of U.S. In the decade that the world’s most-wanted man was underground, al Qaeda established deep ties with militants in the Pashtun tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, including the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Pakistani Taliban, who claimed allegiance to bin Laden. Osama bin Laden is shown in this video frame grab released by the U.S.
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