Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:

Demonstrations, political maneuvering follows the attack on the Taliban and al-Qaeda training camp in the Chingai madrassa

The aftermath of the destruction of the Taliban madrassa in the town of Chingai in Bajaur agency, Pakistan was predictable. Local tribesmen and Islamist Pakistani politicians are in an uproar over the earlier strike that killed 80 over Taliban. The strike occurred just hours prior to the signing of the ‘Bajaur Accord,’ an agreement between the local Taliban and the Pakistani government, modeled after the surrender of the Pakistani government in North Waziristan.

The Associated Press describes one such rally, and encapsulates the situation in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province and the tribal agencies. The Taliban hav eno fear of openly threatening the Pakistani government or Army. Despite claims the madrassa was just a school, the threats emanating from the region are boilerplate jihadist responses.

Inayatur Rahman, a local pro-Taliban elder, said he had prepared a “squad of suicide bombers” to target Pakistani security forces in the same way that militants are attacking Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq. “We will carry out these suicide attacks soon,” he said, asking the crowd if they approved the idea. The angry mob yelled back in unison, “Yes!”

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