PRESS STATEMENT (PR08027)

This is the reward of feeding milk to a Snake like America!

On the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, cowardly Americans bombed Mohmand Agency in the Tribal belt martyring 47 Muslims including 12 army personnel.

The humiliating fact is that the American planes continued to patrol the skies, with complete immunity, whilst the Pakistani helicopters didn't even get permission to recover the dead bodies until the following morning let alone retaliate to this act of aggression. According to the media reports 100 thousand Pakistani troops deployed on the Pak-Afghan boarder areas didn't see it befitting to take any military action against this attack.

Instead of dealing a jaw-breaking blow to the Americans, the timid and cowardly reaction of the Pakistani government has caused every Pakistani Muslim to bow his head in shame. If poorly armed Mujahideen can subdue the American forces then how is it possible that a fully armed, hundred thousand troops of Pakistan could not even defend themselves?

Today the people are forced to swallow disgrace and loss of life just because of this incapable and inept leadership, who considers America to be almost as powerful as God Almighty. People who used the slogan of "Pakistan First" must know by now the consequence of extending support to the Americans, through neglecting the orders of Allah (SWT) and allowing her to dig a trench in our backyard. The result of feeding the American snake is that it is now biting our own Army.

The purpose of targeting Pakistani Army is to pressurize her to resume military operations in the tribal belt and abandon the recently concluded peace pact. The Pakistani military should reject American pressure to fight its own people and undertake practical steps to protect Pakistan from American acts of aggression. In this case she will find the masses on her side whole heartedly.

Furthermore a Pak soldier prefers the death of a martyr while fighting the Americans, a thousand times more than being killed while fighting his own Muslim brethren. The Ummah demands from its rulers to target the American military base in Bagram with its cruise missiles, rather than sitting like an imbecile, doing nothing against American attack.

Furthermore, America's war on Islam must be abandoned by cutting the supply of oil, food and military hardware to the American forces in Afghanistan. The way to teach America a lesson is not through pleading or appeasement, rather a rock should be a response to each stone. And this is how the Khilafah will respond to such a flagrant act of aggression.

Naveed Butt
The Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan

9th Jamadi al-Akar 1429 AH
12th Jun 2008 CE