U.S. Cannot Infiltrate Militant Training Camps

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All the military attacks and diplomacy of the past nine years has not ended the war. Time is running out for America, and these militant camps are pushed against the wall.



By Müfit Yılmaz Gökmen
Translated By Gokhan Mucahit
16 May 2010
Edited by Amy Wong

Faisal Shahzad, who unsuccessfully attempted a bomb attack on Times Square in New York, was trained in Pakistan. After this was found out, everyone turned their attention to the Taliban, al Qaida and their militant camps.

Pakistan and Afghanistan, which suffer the most from the clashes in the Middle East, share borders that are home to radical Muslim terrorists. The Christian Science Monitor discovered one of these camps, Sabila, in 2003.

The camp is 15 kilometers away from the Pakistan border, and the locals describe it as a little village where “(t)here are no children, no women, no relatives to celebrate Eid (the Islamic feast day) with.” Camp Sabila housed 300 militants for al Qaida in 2003, with high walls surrounding the village.

The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is 2,400 kilometers long, and both governments cannot control this region. The United States cannot launch attacks into this area, the aftermath of which could cause a lot of trouble for American, Afghan and Pakistani armies.

In recent years, radical Islamist camps were known as a training ground to prepare militants to bomb places around the world. Nowadays, they don’t just train militants to bomb; they have developed a more sophisticated system for militants to follow. Foreign Policy magazine stated that al Qaida is passing control of the camps over to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Lashkar-e-Taiba, who were behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks.