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Amid the continuing deadlock between the United States and Pakistan over the Pakistani blockade of U.S./NATO supplies to international troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani terrorist organization Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) has stressed the importance of using an economic blockade to defeat the infidels, as practiced during the times of the Prophet Muhammad.
In the article, titled "Ulema And Jihad - Cut The Enemy's Economic Jugular," radical militant cleric Maulana Mohammad Zahid, writing in the JeM's Urdu-language weekly magazine Haftroza Al-Qalam, cited a number of examples of economic ambush and blockades used by military leaders during the early Islamic era. The JeM operates out of its headquarters in the Pakistani city of Bahawalpur.
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