Pakistan identifies new terror group

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Pakistan identifies new terror group

Police in Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi say they have identified a new terror group, which trained under al-Qaeda fighters near the Afghan border.
Sindh province police chief Kamal Shah said eight of 11 militants rounded up in separate raids at the weekend had formed an outfit called Jund Allah, meaning God's Brigade.
The three other men included the nephew of al-Qaeda terror planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, and two members of an outlawed Sunni Muslim militant gang
The interior ministry says it has linked them to an al-Qaeda training camp being targeted in massive air strikes near the border with Afghanistan.
The minster said the arrested men were behind an assassination attempt on the top army commander in Karachi and other attacks.
Pakistan authorities say they had trained in South Waziristan, near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
A fresh offensive in the region by Pakistani forces against al-Qaeda-linked fighters and their hideouts has claimed 60 lives in just the last three days.
About 300 to 400 mainly Chechen and Uzbek al-Qaeda-linked militants are believed to be hiding in Pakistan regions bordering Afghanistan.

[Pooga]

Where do these guys get such creative names from?

[duck]

Hmmm...

"Ghazal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In poetry (and as the lyrics in songs), the ghazal is a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain. (The word "ghazal" is ****ounced roughly like the English word "guzzle.")

The form is ancient, originating in medieval Persian verse; it spread early into India. Today, ghazal is most prominently a form of Urdu poetry, though English language poets have written in the ghazal form from the early twentieth century. The ghazal is a common song form in India and Pakistan. Strictly speaking, it is not a musical form, but a poetic recitation. Today, however, it is commonly conceived of as an Urdu song, with prime importance given to the lyrics.

The Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali was a proponent of the form, both in English and in other languages; he edited a volume of "real ghazals in English." The Indian Mirza Ghalib is the quintessential ghazal poet.


Details of the form
The second line of each couplet in a ghazal ends with the repetition of a refrain of one or a few words, preceded by a rhyme (though in a less strict ghazal the rhyme does not need to precede the refrain immediately). In the first couplet, which introduces the theme, both lines end in the rhyme and refrain.
There can be no enjambment across the couplets in a strict ghazal; each couplet must be a complete sentence (or several sentences) in itself.
All the couplets, and each line of each couplet, must share the same meter. "

[Angelino]

It's probably an old banned group under a new name. This has been SOP in Pakistan for quite a few years now. The FBI tells them to ban a list of groups, their General Musharaff picks his butt for a while and finally decides to comply. Meanwhile the groups rename themselves and transfer most of their assets to new accounts. The General can then claim that he's following our orders and fighting the war on terror while the groups can continue business as usual.

[Pooga]

The FBI tells them to ban a list of groups, their General Musharaff picks his butt for a while and finally decides to comply.
Heh. woot

[Rebel 7]

It's probably an old banned group under a new name. This has been SOP in Pakistan for quite a few years now. The FBI tells them to ban a list of groups, their General Musharaff picks his butt for a while and finally decides to comply. Meanwhile the groups rename themselves and transfer most of their assets to new accounts. The General can then claim that he's following our orders and fighting the war on terror while the groups can continue business as usual.

This is quite true.