Taliban Uses Mosques as Training Areas in Pakistan -- Human Events
One of the ways al Qaeda and the Taliban has regrouped in Pakistan, while avoiding air strikes, is to plan and train in the hundreds mosques in the country's vast ungoverned tribal areas, military sources say.
A former U.S. officer who worked along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border told HUMAN EVENTS that, after the Taliban was ousted from Kabul in 2001 and fled to Pakistan, they realized that one relatively safe haven was a mosque.
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My Comment: The same tactics were used by the insurgents in Iraq .... mosques were used as supply depots and safe havens for insurgents. But during the battle of Falujah, videos of U.S. soldiers firing at mosques (that were firing at them) passed a very clear message .... enough was enough. After that battle, reports of mosques being used as insurgent havens quickly disappeared.
Will this happen in Pakistan .... I doubt it. The Pakistani government is not well liked in the region, firing at mosques will only inflamed this sentiment .... a sentiment that I am sure the Taliban are well aware of.
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