Quiet Triumph

Don't miss this post by Ray Robison in The American Thinker on the splintering of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, very interesting.

It is likely that the Asian al Qaeda fighters who turned against the central al Qaeda Arab leaders as referenced in this study were also under the Maulana's control. I also noted in an earlier article on the jihad fracture that the Maulana had helped the Libyan government to capture some al Qaeda affiliated Libyan oppositional terrorists (he helped Libya because Qadaffi was also a sponsor of the Maulana along with the Saddam regime). As noted in Quiet Triumph, Rahman who strongly supported al Qaeda was recently placed on an al Qaeda hit list. It is clear that Asian al Qaeda affiliates influenced by the Maulana have angered the Arab al Qaeda leaders; thus he is now an al Qaeda enemy.


This is important because it shows not only a splitting of al Qaeda itself but a split with a large part of the Taliban. As the man who is known as the father of the Taliban, the Maulana still holds great sway over them. The Taliban is essentially just the militant, Afghanistan based extension of the Pakistani jihad groups he controls. As he goes, most of the Taliban will go with him.