"This was a bloody revolution in Swat. I wouldn’t be surprised if it sweeps the established order of Pakistan." Pakistani official who oversees Swat to the NYTimes.
Open source insurgencies -- an insurgency composed of many small groups without any hierarchical leadership or organizational structure that typifies 20th Century practice -- needs a single plausible promise or vision that binds the groups together to a common purpose. It looks like the insurgency (a number of groups collectively known as the Taliban) in Pakistan's Swat valley may have finally found (mostly likely due to the innovation of the "radio mullah" Maulana Fazlullah) a plausible promise that could ignite an open source insurgency that goes well beyond Pashtuns and into the rest of Pakistan. Simply, a diffuse promise to rectify economic injustice and corruption through the distribution of land and fair (in this case Sharia) courts. It will be interesting to see if Fazlullah's radio foco will the start of an open source insurgency that hollows Pakistan out in the next couple of years. I'm betting that it will. All the West has on its side, is a corrupt system (in collapse due to a a global depression), a mustachioed dictator (to be released as required) and some UAVs.