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Pakistani Taliban Resorts to Scare Tactics: 'Al Masri' and Mass Disruption RevisitedBy Animesh Roul
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is reportedly planning to use the age old tactics of mass disruption by poisoning Multan, Karachi and Rawalpindi water supplies with chemicals. According to Pakistan’s intelligence agencies, the Taliban presently cornered in their own strongholds, planning to use ‘cyanide’ and other poisonous chemical substances to the water supply lines in these cities. Media reports quoting official sources indicated that a faxed threat- letter was received by the Pindi Directorate of Military Lands and Cantonment, sometimes in the last couple of weeks. As per the letter and other intel inputs, Taliban has already procured and stockpiled 200 liters of poisonous material that would be used to contaminate water sources and reservoirs under Rawalpindi and Chakla cantonments and perhaps in Karachi. Early this month, Multan adminstration has directed the concern authorities to stop supplying water to the people from storage tanks after receiving inputs about the Taliban's threat. Taliban is not new to this whole war tactics of using weapons of mass disruption, especially chemical and biological weapons. They have Al-Masri’s (who was killed in 2008) training on chemical and biological weapons and the guide book on the CB weapons against targets. The latest threat calls for a recollection of a statement issued by Al Qaeda top leadership. One such statement signed by Mustafa Abu al-Yazeed had warned that al-Masri had "left behind […] a generation of faithful students who will make you suffer the worst torture and avenge him and his brothers." April this year, NWFP police chief Malik Navid told a Pakistan National Assembly’s standing committee about Taliban’s expertise in making chemical and biological weapons. Now Pakistan security agencies can not ignore the water poisoning threat as Taliban’s Afghan counterpart (also al Masri's legacy) has already tested chemical weapons in April-May 2009 targeting girls schools located in north of Kabul (Kapisa, Charikar, Parwan provinces). Nearly three hundred students and teachers were affected in these attacks. In what can be termed as scare tactics, TTP intends to pressurize the Army to stop military operation in Waziristan. Issuing the water poisoning threats to the Rawalpindi and Chakla Cantonment Boards, it seems they aim to spread panic among the Armed forces presently engaged in the war in the tribal region, clearly sending out a message that their family back home is not safe from Taliban’s wrath.
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