A BAD WEEK FOR JIHADIS

Moslem terrorists – Jihadis – really took it in the shorts last week. We’ll begin with Iraq.

Iraqi voters, including Sunnis, voting in huge numbers to pass a constitution was a major disaster for the terrorists. Lots of Sunnis voted no – but lots of Sunnis voted yes, which means Zarqawi no longer has any chance of igniting a Sunni-Shia civil war. Too many Sunnis have turned against him and towards democracy.

The reason we have not defeated terrorism in Iraq yet is because we are, as usual, only playing defense – like playing football and only trying to prevent the other team from scoring touchdowns. The way to win is to take the war into the terrorists’ sanctuaries of Iran and Syria.

All guerrilla wars require a sanctuary in a neighbor country. The Contras in Nicaragua had Honduras, the Afghan Mujahaddin had Pakistan – there’s always a sanctuary. The Iraqi guerrillas get their men, arms, supplies, training, money from sanctuaries provided by Assad’s Syria and Amadi Nejad’s Iran. We have not sent in spec-ops (special operations) teams to wipe out these training and supply camps, and to foment a guerrilla insurrection in either place.

But maybe we started to do just that last week – at least in Iran. The mullahs are in a total tizzy over at least two bombs going off in the southwestern city of Ahwaz. Interestingly, the mullahs have chosen to accuse the British and not us for planting the two bombs, and an additional unexploded third.

They have not accused the Great Satan because the GS’ diplomats are desperately trying to curry favor with them, as they are doing so with Syria. The State Department always dreams of great diplomatic coups. The pinstripes’ latest dream is to get Assad to “pull a Kaddafi” and seem to give up his terrorist ways while retaining brutal power. They are always promising that a similar deal with the mullahs is right around the corner.

So the State Department hates the spec-ops teams, especially when they are successful – for it views a military success of the Pentagon as a diplomatic failure. Thus State does everything it can to block any attempt of the Pentagon to go after Iran and Syria.

So Rummy makes an end run and gets the Brits to provide cover for a special operation in Ahwaz. Let’s hope this is just the start of a serious effort to destabilize Iran and its Mullahcracy.

Now let’s go to the main attraction – the single worst disaster Jihadism has possibly ever suffered. Since I wrote The Wrath of Allah a week ago, a lot more is known about the extent of damage and death caused by the October 8 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks in northern Pakistan.

It is a horrible human tragedy, with a death toll now over 80,000 and millions homeless and suffering. Our hearts must go out to these people – while at the same time realize that this area harbored the greatest concentration of Moslem terrorists on earth.

Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist groups like Laskar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Harakat-ul-Mujahaddin, and Mujahaddin Al Badr operated freely throughout the region.

They and a sect of Wahhabi-like Moslem radicals called Deobandis were protected and supplied by the Pakistani Army and Pakistan Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). Saudi Wahhabi money poured into the coffers of these groups to fund mosques and maddresahs (Moslem schools where students are taught only the Koran and hatred of infidels).

These groups were constantly launching terrorist attacks across the border into Indian Kashmir, and waging a relentless campaign of violence, murder, and intimidation upon Pakistani villagers who were fellow Moslems but didn’t agree with Jihadism.

The devastation wrought upon these groups by the earthquake is simply phenomenal. Their headquarters – the town of Muzaffarabad – is total rubble. Their training camps and facilities are destroyed, their supply and ammo depots irretrievably buried. Hundreds of their mosques and maddresahs are in complete ruins. Indian intelligence sources now confirm that many thousands of Jihadis are dead, both the leaders and the cannon fodder.

This earthquake has caused a fantastic setback for radical Islam in Pakistan, and for Al Qaeda’s ability to train Jihadis for attacks in Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Europe, and America.

The Pak Army and ISI are now making every effort to divert the millions in aid flowing into Pakistan to the Jihadis. Already, Pakistani-American groups in California’s Silicon Valley and elsewhere are raising money for “charities” to help the earthquake victims, with many of the charities run by the terrorist groups listed above.

The only way to help the victims is with stuff – donations of blankets and warm clothing for example, and not cash which can end up in Jihadi pockets.

As the world tries to alleviate the vast suffering of the earthquake’s victims, it should also be of grim satisfaction that the Wrath of Allah has descended upon Jihadi terrorism, from which it will not soon recover.