Folks,
Please post any and every news, tweet, blog post and such on the Khawaja/Col. Imam "kidnapping" saga. Until now I've been of the view that this whole kidnap thing is a drama that both of the fellows cooked up to either put pressure on TSPA to release some guys or alternatively as a sort of "anticipatory bail" i.e. get "kidnapped" to avoid getting into the hands of Unkil etc.
However,
this Asia Times article by our old favorite S.S.S causes my spider sense

to tell me that this may be different. Khawaja's video clips appear to be coerced and it seems that he has had a "Come to Jesus" moment with the people he betrayed.
Note that with Imam's son being a serving Brigadier and Khawaja having two sons in the Army as well, these guys' loyalties clearly appear to be with TSPA, despite their fiery protests and such. In other words, they are sell outs from a betrayed jihadi's viewpoint.
It may very well turn out to be one of the more visible backlash incidents by the formerly good and recently turned "bad" jihadi elements against the people that betrayed them within TSPA. The GHQ attack and the bombing campaign around that time was one of the salvos but if the likes of Khawaja and Imam are killed, then I bet Hamid Gul will be wearing dark brown shalwars soon and even Hafiz Saeed will not be comfy in his safe house.
