Osama on Shi'ites hit list - yes, tis true

[donsu]

the Shi'ites want Osama more then smirk does

http://www.atimes.com/

Osama and his Shi'ite nemesis

The Shi'ites of Pakistan and Afghanistan have a long memory for the insults and brutalities inflicted against them. It now appears they're on the hunt for their sworn enemies, and Osama bin Laden is among them.

That might be because they haven't forgotten what he did to them in 1988. It was then that hundreds of Shi'ites of the Northern Areas (NA - Gilgit and Baltistan) of Pakistan, known before 1947 as the Northern Areas of Jammu and Kashmir, were massacred after a demand raised by them for the creation of an autonomous Shi'ite state called Karakoram, consisting of the Shi'ite majority areas of the NA, Punjab and the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). Military ruler General Zia-ul-Haq called in bin Laden, then living in Peshawar, and his Sunni tribal hordes to carry out the massacre.

-snip- (the snip tells of other reasons)

Since the beginning of 2003, there have been indications that sections of the Shi'ite community have been doing their own hunt for bin Laden and his No 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri. It was reported that the arrest at Rawalpindi, Pakistan in March 2003 of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who had allegedly orchestrated the September 11 terrorist strikes in the United States, was made possible by intelligence provided by some Shi'ites in Quetta, Balochistan province, where Khalid was living before fleeing to Rawalpindi.

After hearing these reports, the SSP and the LEJ, both members of bin Laden's International Islamic Front, retaliated by massacring a large number of Hazara Shi'ites in the Quetta area in July 2003. This was followed by many anti-Shi'ite incidents in Karachi and other parts of Pakistan.

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the article ends by saying:

If bin Laden is still alive, don't be surprised if his greatest nemesis proves to be the Shi'ites of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[Wilber_Stool]

1. Wouldn't that be a

Sh'it list.

[xultar]

2. Well, they will never get him cuz * has OBL all cooped up in a Hilton

some where.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Tribes. It all boils down to tribes and clans.

In that part of the world, more than other places, loyalty to the tribe or clan supersedes everything else, even a nation or a religion.
There is also a question of blood honor. That concept is rampant out there.

:evilfrown: