Pakistan—Al-Qaida militant killed in Pakistan
Ilyas Kashemiri
His followers
A man described by US officials, blind of one eye and missing finger, was killed by a missile that landed next to his house in DERA ISMAL KHAN, Pakistan. He was a top al-Qaida commander and al-Qaida’s military operations chief in Pakistan, He was 47-year-old Pakistani going by the name Ilyas Kashmiri was one of five most-wanted militant leaders in the country, accused of a string of bloody attacks in South Asia, He had to his credit many of bad and plenty plots, including the 2008 Mumbai massacre, as well as aiding plots in the West. If he were a Christian he would have known what Jesus said, ”You live by the sword, by the sword you shall die”. Therefore the arriving of his death should not have been a surprise to him. I personally have no remorse in my heart for him. The question before the house is: did he have any remorse for all the people he had killed and wounded during his visit here on earth. If death had come to him slowly, would he take the time to repent? The answer to these two question in no. Repentance comes after remorse. There is no killer in this world who has any remorse, because killers have favorable mind of rationalizing. They feel in their own minds that the killing was right and proper. There are many reasons for rationalizing. Self-survivor, honor, revenge and teaching a lesson to the victim and the victim’s surviving friends and relatives. According to Jesus’ statement. “If you live by the sword, by the sword you shall die.” By making that statement Jesus has accepted the death penalty. Therefore the death penalty is religiously permitted. .
His death was not confirmed publicly by the United States or Pakistani, because it was reported before that he was killed but the reports have turned out to be wrong in the past.. The Pakistani official also said Kashmiri was among nine militants killed in the strike. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with his agency’s policy. On Friday night, officials said several missiles hit a compound. The official Saturday said the men were meeting in an apple orchard near the house when the missiles hit.
The one-eye bad man Terror act
But a fax from the militant group he was heading — Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islami’s feared “313 Brigade” — confirmed Kashmiri was “martyred” in the strike at 11:15 p.m. Friday in South Waziristan tribal region. It was sent to journalists in Peshawar.
“God willing, America, which is the ‘pharaoh’ of this, will soon see a revenge attack, and our real target is America,” it said. The statement was handwritten written on a white page bearing name of the group, which has not previously communicated with the media.
He fought with jihadi fighters in Afghanistan and in Indian-held Kashmir in the 1990s and was so close to al-Qaida’s central command that he had been mentioned as a contender for replacing bin Laden, though many analysts thought the fact that he was not an Arab meant he was unlikely to get the post.
Kashmiri was one of the country’s most accomplished — and vicious — militants. Indian officials have alleged he was involved in the 2008 Mumbai siege that killed more than 160 people. He has also been named a defendant in an American court over a planned attack on a Danish newspaper that published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005
Even though I come from a long line of priests and I was taught to believe that everybody is entitled to a eulogy after death, I don’t think I would take the time to perform one for him , I will simply step back and allow his followers of his class to bless him and brand him a “martyred”.
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