Long article here, on the history of Afghan-Paki resistance groups dating back to fighting the Soviets.

Islamic militants are using a recent peace deal with the government to consolidate their hold in northern Pakistan, vastly expanding their training of suicide bombers and other recruits and fortifying alliances with Al Qaeda and foreign fighters, diplomats and intelligence officials from several nations say. [color="Red"]The result, they say, is virtually a Taliban mini-state.

The militants, the officials say, are openly flouting the terms of the September accord in North Waziristan, under which they agreed to end cross-border help for the Taliban insurgency that revived in Afghanistan with new force this year.

The area is becoming a magnet for an influx of foreign fighters, who not only challenge government authority in the area, but are even wresting control from local tribes and spreading their influence to neighboring areas, according to several American and NATO officials and Pakistani and Afghan intelligence officials.

This year more than 100 local leaders, government sympathizers or accused "American spies" have been killed, several of them in beheadings, as the militants have used a reign of terror to impose what President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan calls a creeping "Talibanization." Last year, at least 100 others were also killed.

The Taliban are not going away, as they are the creation of the Pashtun, the world's largest clan with more than 45 million members. They were classified as belonging to the Martial Races by the British. If you know anything about their idea of honor and revenge, you know they will continue to fight the Afghan occupation to avenge their killed sons, brothers, fathers and cousins. Unless you kill all 45 million, the fight will go on until the occupiers go home.

Cooperation with the al-Qaeda network has taught them to use suicide bombings, which didn't occur in Pakistan/Afghanistan before 2001:

The Afghan intelligence service said last week in a statement that it had captured an Afghan suicide bomber wearing a vest filled with explosives. The man reportedly said he had been given the task by the head of a religious school in the Pakistani tribal region of Bajaur, and that [color="Red"]500 to 600 students there were being prepared to fight jihad and be suicide bombers.

So numerous are the recruits that a tribal leader in southern Afghanistan, who did not want to be named because of the threat of suicide bombers, relayed an account of how one would-be suicide bomber was sent home and told to wait his turn because there were many in line ahead of him.

Local non-Pashtun opposition is apparently not very good at negotiating:

Afrasiab Khattak, a local politician and spokesman for the Awami National Party in Peshawar, also criticized the agreement. The militants rather than the traditional tribal leaders have the power now, he said.

[color="Red"]"They have imposed a new elite in Waziristan," he said. "More than 200 tribal chiefs have been killed, and not a single culprit brought to justice."

With the help of al-Qaeda, even Iron Age tribes will slowly adapt to modern propaganda:

The fundamentalists' influence is seeping outward, with propaganda being spread on private radio stations, and through a widening network of religious schools and the distribution of CDs and DVDs.

The moral of the story: unless you intend to kill them all, you don't occupy the Pashtun. They are a nasty and persistent bunch. They will still be there when you are not. Alexander the Great, the Mongols, the Britons and the Russians all left. The ZOG will also leave.