The Telegraph is reporting that U.S. officials in Islamabad have secretly backed the ‘peace agreement’ between the Pakistani government and the Taliban which ends military operations in Swat in exchange for the implementation of sharia or Islamic law:
But Baitullah Mehsud’s camp has no problem with the peace agreement:
If at this stage of the game U.S. officials, likely from the State Department, think that such an agreement can split the Taliban factions, they are ignoring recent history. Baitullah Mehsud signed off on a similar peace agreement in 2008, and clearly has no problems with the current agreement at this time. The only good news to come of this is that State has finally recognized Baitullah Mehsud’s Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, is part of “the global jihad.” What they fail to realize is that Mullah Fazlullah is Baitullah’s deputy, and Baitullah is signing off on this because Fazlullah has succeeded in humiliating the government into imposing sharia at no cost to the Taliban.
