Alarmingly, some Taliban clerics reportedly boasted of converting ordinary persons into suicide-bombers “in six hours flat”.

“From the 26 suicide attacks where we recovered a head in 2007, we made a startling discovery… The vast majority [of suicide bombers] came from just one tribe, the Mehsuds of central Waziristan, all boys aged 16 to 20,” an analyst at the elite Special Investigation Group (SIG) told The Guardian. Qari Hussain, also known as Ustad-e-Fidaeen (teacher of suicide cadres), a Mehsud tribesman in his early 30s, is identified as the ‘commander’ who manages Baitullah Mehsud-led Taliban suicide bombing training centres and is directly responsible for indoctrinating youth for suicide missions. One of the training centres was discovered at a Government-run school in the Kotkai area of South Waziristan by the Army. GOC-14 Division Major General Tariq Khan told reporters in Dera Ismail Khan on May 18, 2008: “It was like a factory that had been recruiting nine to 12-year-old boys, and turning them into suicide bombers.” The computers, other equipment and literature seized from the centre give graphic details of the suicide training. There were videos of young boys carrying out executions, a classroom where 10- to 12-year olds are sitting in formation, with “white band of Quranic verses wrapped around their forehead, and there are training videos to show how improvised explosive devices are made and detonated.” .

“Pakistan is now a one-stop shop,” says Tariq Pervez who recently retired as the Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency. He told The Guardian in an interview, “ideas, logistics, cash from the Gulf. Arab guys, mainly Egyptians and Saudis, are on hand to provide the chemistry. Veteran Punjabi extremists plot the attacks, while the Pakistan Taliban provide the martyrs. And it all came together in the Marriott case.”

In fact, so pervasive is the phenomenon of suicide attacks that suicide bombers are also now available for a price to settle personal scores. This was revealed during Police investigations into a suicide attack in Bhakkar on October 6, 2008, in which 25 persons were killed and 60 wounded. According to Crime Investigation Department of the Lahore Police, accused Waqas Hussain and his four accomplices had hired a suicide bomber and explosives expert from Wana in South Waziristan to kill a former friend with whom they had a monetary dispute.

In case it has been missed, the Mehsuds have joined forces with multiple other groups to form the Shadow Army inside Pakistan, the ones that have now moved terrorism into the heartland of the country. The Mehsuds are just a part of a much larger organization that has a few nominal leaders in Mullah Omar, bin Laden, and Gulbudden Hekmatyar, along with other Mullahs and local tribal leaders of Lashkars.

Considering that over 90% of our supplies go through Pakistan to get to Afghanistan, we really should have another supply route open… and don’t. The reason they haven’t been closed off is that the Shadow Army now sees the big prize coming at hand: Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. That will take care of a lot of problems for the various factions in the Shadow Army. I’m not expecting a serious attack on America until after Pakistan is thoroughly destabilized… then there will be hell to pay.

fogw on July 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM

LOL… Now that I like!!

No islam…Know Peace…Know islam…throw up.

What is a child going to do with all of those virgins?

Where do you think those virgins come from?

Really? Aren’t they the ones doing the selling?

Grabbin’ some snacks and finding a good seat for this fight)

Jeff from WI on July 2, 2009 at 12:37 PM

Won’t be much to see…

ladyingray on July 2, 2009 at 1:05 PM

LOL..I know, but I tried to pretend it’d be somewhat competitive

(Grabbin’ some snacks and finding a good seat for this fight)

Jeff from WI on July 2, 2009 at 12:37 PM

Won’t be much to see…

Flay the inhuman scum that are doing this. It’s all they deserve.

Women and children are not particularly valued, so this story really didn’t surprise me.

AnninCA on July 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM

And your outrage about it, empathy for the victims, desire to do anything to stop it, efforts to stop it … Where is any of that? You claim to be a “classical liberal.” But when it comes to the victims of Islamic tyranny, you seem completely indifferent, unlike the passionate support you have for socialized health care.

Loxodonta on July 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM

WOA!..Nice left hook

Women and children are not particularly valued, so this story really didn’t surprise me.

AnninCA on July 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM

And your outrage about it, empathy for the victims, desire to do anything to stop it, efforts to stop it … Where is any of that? You claim to be a “classical liberal.” But when it comes to the victims of Islamic tyranny, you seem completely indifferent, unlike the passionate support you have for socialized health care.

I have 535 child-like individuals residing in the nation’s Capitol that I’d be please to contribute to this noble cause. Gratis.

guntotinglibertarian on July 2, 2009 at 12:12 PM

They’d have to be Gratis. Most have very high miles on them. Lots of rust too.

Women and children are not particularly valued, so this story really didn’t surprise me.

AnninCA on July 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM

WTF? This is stupid, even for you…

Abby Adams made my day!

TouchingTophet on July 2, 2009 at 11:07 AM

Glad I could be of service. :-)