Poll: Bin Laden popularity fading in Pakistan

[RamboLiberal]

Source: MSNBC/AP

Sympathy for al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and the Taliban has dropped sharply in Pakistan amid a wave of deadly violence, according to the results of a recent opinion poll.

The survey, conducted last month for the U.S.-based Terror Free Tomorrow organization, also identified the party of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as the country's most popular ahead of Feb. 18 elections, and said most Pakistanis want President Pervez Musharraf to quit.

The poll suggests Pakistanis are looking to peaceful opposition groups after months of political turmoil and a wave of suicide attacks.

In the latest bloodshed, a bomber blew himself up at an opposition rally in the northwestern town of Charsadda on Saturday, killing 27 people and injuring 50.

According to the poll results only 24 percent of Pakistanis approved of bin Laden when the survey was conducted last month, compared with 46 percent during a similar survey in August.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23094334/

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Who will have the lowest popularity - it's a race to the bottom between Bush and bin Laden!

[ima_sinnic]

1. it's like a "celebrity death match" for the 29 percenters

whose team is gonna win in the matchup between bushco and BinLaden™?

I picture knuckle-draggers on both sides of the globe grunting out cheers--it's all a big football game to them.

[Ian David]

2. Breaking News: Bin Laden to issue a stimulus package of 6 extra virgins in the afterlife! n/t

[0007]

6. LOL!! Great ...

[flashl]

3. I simply can't imagine that the people we are accidentally bombing and who are living in turmoil

want to respond to or care about our polls. :shrug:

[Amonester]

4. maybe they want both us and them (al-CIAda) to stop bombin'

them for greed, and they'll try anything peaceful...

[ohio2007]

5. With every 'suicide' bomber blast, OBL base support shrinks by one.....

and those left alive after the blast tend to be blown off the fence......away from the AQ camp.
As claims glorious responsibility for killing those at opposition political rallies, the #'s should fade. Afterall, it's no suprise they can only afford to attack in their own shrinking backyard

[dantyrant]

7. He *was* starting to get rather pungent. n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. Battle of the 20 somethings!

How about we set up a giant field and just send in those 20 something percenters from the US that still want to burn some 'raghead' and the 20 something percenters from all the Muslim countries that are left supporting Bin Laden and let them have it out!

[daleo]

9. Maybe yes, maybe no

But I don't know how much to trust a poll of this sort. It could be propaganda ("U.S.-based Terror Free Tomorrow organization"). Even if it were a legitimate poll, people in Pakistan might not feel free to tell pollsters what they think, for obvious reasons.

[fujiyama]

10. Well isn't that interesting

They like bin Laden when he's killing people in other countries, but when the shit comes home...

[ohio2007]

11. Al-Qaeda leaders admit: 'We are in crisis. There is panic and fear'

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....I am Abu-Tariq, emir of the al-Layin and al-Mashahdah sector,” the author begins. He goes on to describe how his force of 600 shrank to fewer than 20.

Children 'taught to kill at al-Qaeda camp'

“We were mistreated, cheated and betrayed by some of our brothers,” he says. “Those people were nothing but hypocrites, liars and traitors and were waiting for the right moment to switch sides with whoever pays them most.”

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The Anbar letter conceded that the “crusaders” — Americans — had gained the upper hand by persuading ordinary Sunnis that al-Qaeda was responsible for their suffering and by exploiting their poverty to entice them into the security forces. Al-Qaeda's “Islamic State of Iraq is faced with an extraordinary crisis, especially in al-Anbar”, the unnamed emir admitted.

In an apparent reference to al-Qaeda's brutal tactics, he said of the Americans and their Sunni allies: “We helped them to unite against us . . . The Americans and the apostates launched their campaigns against us and we found ourselves in a circle not being able to move, organise or conduct our operations.”

He said of the loss of Anbar province: “This created weakness and psychological defeat. This also created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight. The morale of the fighters went down . . . There was a total collapse in the security structure of the organisation.” The emir complained that the supply of foreign fighters had dwindled and that they found it increasingly hard to operate inside Iraq because they could not blend in.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3346386.ece

they overstayed theri welcome with their sunni brothers. Now they kill their sunni brothers for not being their submissive servants !

go figger