Category — Al Qaeda

Let me see if I have all of this straight.  Barack Obama, who didn’t support the surge in Iraq and won’t recognize the positive results, supports a surge for Afghanistan.  Pray tell, Messiah, what makes the Afghan surge more likely to yield results than the Iraq one you never supported?

And if that didn’t make your head hurt, Obama promises to end the war in Iraq and will celebrate by starting one in Pakistan:

“Al-Qaida has an expanding base in Pakistan that is probably no farther from their old Afghan sanctuary than a train ride from Washington to Philadelphia.

“We cannot tolerate a terrorist sanctuary, and as president I won’t,” he said.

“We must make it clear that if Pakistan cannot or will not act, we will take out high-level terrorist targets like (Osama) bin Laden if we have them in our sights.”

So Barrack Obama is going to “restore” our standing in the international community by violating the sovereignty of a nuclear armed Pakistan.  I guess you have to believe in his messianic powers to make sense of these plans.

If this is the best he can do with a prepared speech and teleprompter, no wonder he won’t face McCain in town hall meetings.  The debates should be very entertaining when this empty suit won’t have his campaign staffers whispering in his ear.

It’s also interesting to note all these policies were developed prior to his trip overseas where he was suppose to gain some gravitas on international issues.  Of course that dog and pony show is akin to visiting Niagara Falls and claiming you’re now qualified to be ambassador to Canada.

Whattahore, Pakistan July3,2008(Reuters)Taliban Minister of Migration Mohammed Omar warned the United States that if military action against Afghanistan continues, Taliban authorities will cut off America ’s supply of convenience store managers and goat cheese.
If this action does not yield results, sufficient to the Prophet’s (pbuh) desires, we will curtail the supply of cab drivers.

Minister Omar furthermore said, ”The jihad commences in earnest when we discontinue your supply of customer service reps. The final blow will be the loss of Motel 6 and convenience store managers.

This is getting ugly…

The Woodchuck has been remiss in showing his diversity ala the wondrous luminaries named below.

The keffiyeh kerfuffle

By Michelle Malkin • May 28, 2008 09:38 AM

My syndicated column today examines the keffiyeh kerfuffle with Dunkin Donuts and Rachael Ray that I noted on the blog last week. As you’ll recall, I linked to an item by LGF’s Charles Johnson about the scarf she wore in a recent Dunkin’ ad. [snip]

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Spain’s Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, and Hollywood darlings Colin Farrell, Sienna Miller, and Kirsten Dunst, and rapper Kanye West have all been photographed in endless variations on the distinctive hate couture. So has Meghan McCain, daughter of the GOP presidential candidate, who really ought to know better given that her dad positions himself as the candidate best equipped to “confront the transcendent challenge of our time: the threat of radical Islamic terrorism.”

Expressing my solidarity in protest, I give you this…

Upset? Get over it, it’s just an image like the keffiyeh.

Warning: Don’t view during breakfast.

“Fitna” may be viewed here.

Be aware this is a clip not for the faint of heart.

However, a visual of what the Qoran says might clarify how the other side views the war, of which Iraq and Afghanistan are a small part.

Geert Wilders upset the appeasers, perhaps our anti-war readers might have a dose too, if they have the stomach to actually view the other side’s idea of how to fight.

They’re humane, no waterboarding here.

This site has links to the videos

Purported Al Qaeda Video Shows Prisoners Burned Alive

Al Qaeda’s latest display of terror has made its way onto the Internet, showing horrifying images of what appear to be prisoners in Iraq being doused with an inflammatory liquid and then burned alive.

The video, which appears to have been posted first on Google last December in an alleged anti-Al Qaeda Web film, shows five insurgents standing behind three blindfolded prisoners kneeling at the edge of a burning pit. [snip]

According to the summary — in Arabic and German — included in the nearly 15-minute video posted on Google, many of the clips were found in Diyala, Iraq. The makers of the film say that the originals were “passed to us by others.”

These are the nice people we won’t waterboard because it’s unfriendly. You don’t wish them to be upset and change into nasty persons, do you?

Islam explained

Minister warns of ‘inbred’ Muslims

A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects - comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.

Phil Woolas, an environment minister, said the culture of arranged marriages between first cousins was the “elephant in the room”. Woolas, a former race relations minister, said: “If you have a child with your cousin the likelihood is there’ll be a genetic problem.”

The minister, whose views were supported by medical experts this weekend, said: “The issue we need to debate is first cousin marriages, whereby a lot of arranged marriages are with first cousins, and that produces lots of genetic problems in terms of disability [in children].” [snip]

With this in hand, one may see, in full operation, what is a “Planned Parenthood” lab for suicide bombers. Al Qaeda employs(ed) such in Iraq.

Certainly makes the inexplicable, explicated. Invariably, this also explains what happened to the Left in Britain the U.S. and the world.

Dubya: “Family values don’t stop at the border”. Maybe not, but when you don’t know who’s coming here, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS!

Los Angeles - In a murderous quest aimed at cleansing their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, member of one of Los Angeles’ County’s most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.

I’m shocked. Gangs connected to the Mexican Mafia aren’t motivated by simple avarice and a desire for a better life? You mean they’re bad people, racists, in the only way a lefty can understand “bad”?

Then there’s THIS BUNCH…Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13.

In the United States the gang’s strongholds have been in Washington, DC, Miami and Souther California and Northern Virginia…

Illegal immigration and human smuggling

According to The Washington Times, MS-13 is “thought to have established a major smuggling center” in Mexico. There were reports that MS-13 members were ordered to Arizona to target border guards and Minuteman Project volunteers…

But don’t worry, because….

FBI agent Robert Clifford said that the US intelligence community and governments of several Central American countries found there is no basis to believe that MS-13 is connected to Al Qaeda or other Islamic radicals although he did visit Central America to discuss the issue.

The FBI and the “US intelligence community” are below The Keystone Cops on the competency scale. There are an estimated 10,000 MS-13 members in the US, out of 100,000 worldwide.

Get this straight. 10,000 Central American gang members are in the US, up and down the Eastern Seaboard, and the buffoon Robert Clifford visits Central America to discuss an issue related to MS-13 for which “there is no basis”. Clifford expects you to believe twelve impossible things before breakfast.

Illegal immigration will define the Bush Administration a generation from now. Not Iraq

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From NER to all our readers.

PLUS, for the Islamotards,

Republicans probably don’t deserve another chance to run Congress after botching it so badly, but it looks like Democrats are determined to open the door for them:

The U.S. House voted along party lines Tuesday to send a resolution calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney to the House Judiciary Committee, where it likely won’t see daylight any time soon. 

The impeachment resolution, sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, accuses Cheney of violating his pledge to protect the U.S. Constitution. It says that Cheney misled the public about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s regime, as well as by making threats against Iran “absent any real threat to the United States.”

They’re rejoicing at the Democratic Underground and the Daily Kos, but impeaching the vice president wasn’t a huge priority in most voters’ minds last November.  And they know this issue won’t move their mid 20ish approval ratings, which is why they voted to table it.   However, I do agree with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.:

“I am surprised that Republicans would treat an issue as important as the potential impeachment of a vice president of the United States as a petty political game,” he said. “It is beneath the dignity of this institution.”

Yes, it is a serious charge.  That’s why you should explain to the American people why you brought it and present your evidence.  But tabling it told every intelligent voter all they need to know about the substance behind these charges.

Sept 11 “not that terrible” says Doris Lessing    

(From the UK Telegraph Online for October 23, 2007. By Iain Gray & Agencies)

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize winning British author, has called the attacks on New York on Sept 11, 2001, “not that terrible” compared to the campaign of terror waged by the IRA in the UK.

“September 11th was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible”, she told Spanish newspaper El Pais.

“Some Americans will think I’m crazy.  Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor extradordinary as they think.  They’re a very naive people, or pretend to be” she said of the Americans.

“Do you know what people forget?  That the IRA attacked with bombs against our government”.

Nearly 3000 people were killed in the Sept 11 attacks of 2001.  More than 3500 died and thousands more were injured in more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.

Lessing, the author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, also poured scorn on Tony Blair and George W Bush.

“I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning, she said,  “Many of us hated Tony Blair.  I think he’s been a disaster for Britain and we have suffered him for many years.  I said it when he was elected, ‘This man is a little showman who is going to cause us problems’”, and he did.

“As for Bush, he’s a world calamity.  Everyone is tired of this man.  Either he is stupid, or he is very clever, although you have to remember that he is a member of a social class that has profited from wars”.

Lessing is 87.  Her life has spanned the beginning of the end of the British Empire to the wars against radical Islamism.  She’s written some perceptive stuff, like “The Good Terrorist”,  but like all lefties, reformed or unreformed Communists, she has enormous, destructive blind spots.  It’s her “social class” that has run Britain from Great Britain to inhabitated, North Atlantic chalk deposit, and her own”social class”, the uppers, suffered more deaths per capita in Britain’s wars than any other.  Be honest, Doris.  She doesn’t like Blair because he’s New rather than Old, Labor.

*Headlines suggested by “The Liberal Journalists’ Guide to Reporting The Subconscious (or)  Ten  Rules for Reporting  The Unsaid,  The Un-Meant, and Undisclosed Thoughts”. 1989.   Left Book Club. 

From the American Bashing Channel, a big joke on us!

al-Qaeda gets protection

Will their be a full scale hunt for the leaker? Or will Bush give a pass to the press and the source in the spirit of non-partisanship.

Qaeda Goes Dark After a U.S. Slip

Enemy Vanishes From Its Web Sites

WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda’s Internet communications system has suddenly gone dark to American intelligence after the leak of Osama bin Laden’s September 11 speech inadvertently disclosed the fact that we had penetrated the enemy’s system.

The intelligence blunder started with what appeared at the time as an American intelligence victory, namely that the federal government had intercepted, a full four days before it was to be aired, a video of Osama bin Laden’s first appearance in three years in a video address marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. On the morning of September 7, the Web site of ABC News posted excerpts from the speech.

But the disclosure from ABC and later other news organizations tipped off Qaeda’s internal security division that the organization’s Internet communications system, known among American intelligence analysts as Obelisk, was compromised. [snip]

One intelligence officer who requested anonymity said in an interview last week that the intelligence community watched in real time the shutdown of the Obelisk system. America’s Obelisk watchers even saw the order to shut down the system delivered from Qaeda’s internal security to a team of technical workers in Malaysia. That was the last internal message America’s intelligence community saw. “We saw the whole thing shut down because of this leak,” the official said. “We lost an important keyhole into the enemy.” [snip]

See also: Nick Grace, Rita Katz, National Counterterrorism Center, Michael Leiter, Roger Cressey

Does this sound different from North Vietnam and Victor Charley?

Iran fighting ‘proxy war in Iraq’

Washington - Iran is fighting a “proxy war” through Shi’a militias against the Iraqi state and United States-led forces in the war-torn nation, US war commander General David Petraeus said on Monday.

“It is increasingly apparent to both coalition and Iraqi leaders that Iran, through the use of the Quds force, seeks to turn the Iraqi special groups into a Hezbollah-like force to serve its interests and fight a proxy war against the Iraqi state and coalition forces in Iraq,” Petraeus said.

Petraeus was testifying at a crucial hearing of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees seen as a key moment for US strategy on Iraq.

Samo-samo stuff! Another proxy war, we give sanctuary to opponents where they take R&R. Once more, we’re battling another states cat’s paw. Syria and Iran deserve some serious pain. Any state offering client services and hospitality needs to get an intro course in “War, our way-101” with section 102 available for imbeciles.

Petraeus hearing starts with Democratic criticism

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus appeared before the U.S. Congress on Monday to give testimony in which he was expected to argue against withdrawing the bulk of U.S. forces from Iraq for now.

Appearing with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, Petraeus listened to deep skepticism from the Democrats who seized control of Congress last year largely because of the profound discontent with the war among American voters.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton, a Missouri Democrat, began the hearing by telling Petraeus the Iraq war had left the United States unable to confront other challenges.

“The troops in Iraq are not available for other missions; to go into Afghanistan to pursue Osama bin Laden” whose al Qaeda militant group attacked the United States six years ago on Tuesday, Skelton said. [snip]

I never knew we had so many Congressmen of Flag Grade capable of running a war. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, Donk-CA is now on the tube expounding upon what the country needs to do, to wit: CUT & RUN. She must be a real terror in the card game “War.”
All the antiwar bloviators know is get out. Nothing of the consequences that follow makes any difference. The dhimmi position appeals to them; groveling is their natural state.

MoveOn.org Ad Takes Aim at Petraeus

[snip] In addition to liberal activist groups such as MoveOn.org, Democrats in both the House and Senate have impugned Petraeus’ testimony today…[snip]

Per usual, the moonbats try theater. Since large puppet heads don’t reach enough people, they fall back to the NY Rag, which cheerfully took their money! Killing the messenger does not alter the message.

    DENNIS KUCINICH IN SYRIA, BLESSES EVERYONE BUT AMERICANS

Eligible bachelor, pacifist hunk and Ohio Representative, Dennis Kucinich was in Syria last week cuddling the region-stabilizing Bashar Assad for his open-door policy to Iraqi refugees.   The population-expanding meddling in the Iraq War of the Syrian and Iranian regimes has encouraged Iraqis friendly to both countries to take refuge across their borders.   

Experts here conclude that these population-expanding and stabilizing policies were met with approval by the impish hair-dye tester and apple-doll head model, Dennis Kucinich (D-Emented).  Syria and Iran both seek to redress the population imbalance by sending terrorists to Iraq to stop the sectarian violence by killing Iraqis,  a “fair” policy almost certain to meet with Kucinich’s endorsement.

Assad’s intimidation, murder and assassination policies in nearby Lebanon have enabled the American left’s much-admired and peace-oriented Hezbollah to threaten the destabilizing Israeli state to the south.   This reporter believes that Kucinich endorses murder, assassination, and Islamic totalitarianism as a means to continue the  “peace-process”  slaughter, and to promote stability in the region as long as it is legal.

Experts here also believe that American forces, claimed by liberals to be already short on the necessities of  war, lacked the disinfectant supplies that would be needed after Kucinich hand-shaking.  Legal scholars and compassionate conservatives here believe that Kucinich’s blessing of American forces would almost certainly violate Constitutional restrictions on religious expression, and that Kucinich wished to avoid offending Islamist Al Qaeda beheaders worldwide.

WorldNet Daily Online  (Sep 6, 2007) had this to say:  

After praising Syria following a meeting in Damascus with President Bashar Assad, Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich declared he will not visit troops in Iraq during his Middle East tour because he considers the American military presence in Iraq to be illegal.

“I feel the United States is engaging in an illegal occupation….I don’t want to bless that occupation with my presence“,   Kucinich said in Lebanon according to the Associated Press. “I will not do it”…

It is not known when Representative Kucinich will slither back to Washington, DC.

The unintentionally funny and nearly defunct LA Times reported on July 15th that about “45% of all foreign militants in Iraq……are from Saudi Arabia”.  15% are from Syria and Lebanon, with 10% from North Africa.  The stats came from “US military figures, and were made available to the Times by the senior officer”.   Nearly half of the 135 detainees in US military custody are Saudis. 

What can we deduce from a sample of 135 cage-hangers?  Thousands of troublemakers are in Iraqi custody, many of whom might even lie about their names and country of origin. So the LA Times report is based on a sample of 135 guys, half of whom have Riyadh Planet Hollywood ID cards.  I have information from a reliable participant in the war that Chechens even fall out for morning terrorist formation, and stray Pakistanis, Westerners and lots of others.   Iranians, too, are a small but vocal minority shouting  “HERE!”.

The same enigmatic “US military figure” said that 50% of all  Saudi fighters in Iraq go there as suicide bombers.  An interesting statistic, to say the least. To derive it, one needs to poll all of the free-range “Saudi fighters” about their life plans, and whether they have round-trip tickets.   It’s fair to say they don’t show up for interviews.

But the Times  raised two worthy questions, probably intentionally.  We are “allied” with the Saudis in the inaptly-named War on Terror, and Bush Herbert Walker and Bush George Dubya are unashamedly friendly with figures in the disgusting monarchical House of Saud.  Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the royal’s “national security advisor” is a pal of the House of Bush, as is King Abdullah.   

Then there’s The Carlyle Group, in which Bush Herbert Walker is a  prospering partner.  Those interested can investigate it on their own.  It’s the most powerful ethical missile in the left’s arsenal of accusations about the Bush family’s relationship with the Saudis.   The Carlyle Group has wide access to Saud investment funds.  There’s also Herbie’s lecture tours in Arab lands, paid for by the Saudis, and generous gits to his Presidential Library for scholarships to Andover, Dubya’s prep school.

It is, at this point, obligatory to mention that 15 of 19 hijackers on 911 were Saudis. Bin Laden is a Saudi.  Saudi Arabia has lots of sand and oil (although the oil power might be shaky).  Saudi Arabia is profligate with walking-around money, and has a national strategy of buying off enemies and buying up friends.  There’s a lot more, none of which is particularly damning for the Bush family, but appearances are everything.   The Saudis are low, self-seeking, and devious; relationships are contaminated by their presence in them, and our leaders should know it.

True, the Saudis have been fighting Al Qaeda, but for reasons of personal survival.   The ethical issues associated with advancing Wahabbism by subversion and Madrassa remain.  True, also, that the Saudis are troubled by Dubya’s strategies, worred about their extensive Iraq border and Persian ambitions.  This is a convergence of interests, ours and theirs.   They are not our friends. 

The reality is this:  We are allied with a vicious, reactionary, repressive Arab regime in our pursuit of liberalization of the Middle East.  We should be troubled by the first proposition in that last sentence, because they Saudis are troubled by the second.  The two can’t come together, and Dubya appears not to know it.