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Posts Tagged war on terror
Darpa proposal: Death-from-Above — on Demand
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Jul/2010 19:01
“Darpa would like to cut out all [the] middle men. Instead, the Pentagon’s R&D arm wants to build an air strike network with exactly two nodes: the air controller on the ground, and the robotic, heavily-armed airplane in the sky.
Darpa calls the project Persistent Close Air Support, or PCAS. Think of it as death-from-above — on demand.”
Taliban Attacks Kill 11 Afghan Policemen
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 11/Jul/2010 15:31
Kochis (Afghan nomads) on their way from their winter settlement in Kunduz province to the Shiva pastures in Badakshan.
The Kunduz Valley, Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, 1975 © Luke Powell
“KABUL, Afghanistan — Eleven police officers and a district governor were killed in three separate attacks by the Taliban in northeast Afghanistan, NATO and local officials said on Sunday.
Two took place in Kunduz Province, and the third was just outside the province. Throughout the early years of the Afghan war, most insurgent activity was focused in the south, with the north remaining relatively calm. But in the past two years, violence in the north has grown dramatically, especially in Kunduz Province.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/world/asia/12afghan.html?_r=1
Soldiers Coming Home – video compilation
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 11/Jul/2010 14:29
Great compilation of videos: soldiers coming home from war and surprising their loved ones.
Five US soldiers killed in Afghanistan attacks – June worst month for casualties since 2001
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 10/Jul/2010 11:57
Five US soldiers have been killed in separate incidents of violence in Afghanistan, Nato has said.
Three died in east Afghanistan and two were killed in separate roadside bombings in the south.
More than 350 Nato soldiers have been killed this year.
In other violence, gunmen killed 11 Pakistani Shia tribesmen in the east and one person was killed by a motorbike bomb in Kandahar.
Also on Saturday, hundreds of Afghans took to the streets of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif in protest at increasing civilian deaths.
Three guilty of bomb plot in airline attacks trial
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 9/Jul/2010 19:44
A composite of undated handout images from the Metropolitan Police shows (L-R Top) Umar Islam, Waheed Zaman, Assad Sarwar, Mohammed Gulzar; (L-R Bottom) Arafat Khan, Abdullah Ibrahim Savant, Abdullah Ahmed Ali, and Tanvir Hussain. File photo, The Province
“Britain’s longest terrorist investigation ended on Thursday when three Muslims were convicted of conspiring to become suicide bombers in a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners.
Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan, and Waheed Zaman made vitriolic suicide videos in which they blamed the West for their actions.
The three men were the “front-line troops” in “a deadly and co-ordinated campaign against the general public”, said Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, during the case.”
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Three+linked+airline+plot+targeting+flights/3250659/story.html
Hezbollah using Mexican nationals to establish a network in South America
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Threat Watch on 7/Jul/2010 22:00
“Mexico foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to establish a network in South America, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Hezbollah operatives employed Mexican nationals with family ties to Lebanon to set up the network, designed to target Israel and the West, the Al-Seyassah daily said.
Mexican police mounted a surveillance operation on the group’s leader, Jameel Nasr, who traveled frequently to Lebanon to receive information and instructions from Hezbollah commanders there.
Nasr was living in Tijuana, Mexico at the time of his arrest, the report said.
The report follows warnings from the United States that Hezbollah and its backer Iran are stepping up operations in the region.”
The 30-Year War in Afghanistan
Posted by Brian in Opinion, Threat Watch on 1/Jul/2010 15:24
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
By George Friedman
The Afghan War is the longest war in U.S. history. It began in 1980 and continues to rage. It began under Democrats but has been fought under both Republican and Democratic administrations, making it truly a bipartisan war. The conflict is an odd obsession of U.S. foreign policy, one that never goes away and never seems to end. As the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal reminds us, the Afghan War is now in its fourth phase.
The Afghan War’s First Three Phases
The first phase of the Afghan War began with the Soviet invasion in December 1979, when the United States, along with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, organized and sustained Afghan resistance to the Soviets. This resistance was built around mujahideen, fighters motivated by Islam. Washington’s purpose had little to do with Afghanistan and everything to do with U.S.-Soviet competition. The United States wanted to block the Soviets from using Afghanistan as a base for further expansion and wanted to bog the Soviets down in a debilitating guerrilla war. The United States did not so much fight the war as facilitate it. The strategy worked. The Soviets were blocked and bogged down. This phase lasted until 1989, when Soviet troops were withdrawn. Read the rest of this entry »
New Threat to U.S. Troops: Toxic Sand
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jun/2010 22:35
U.S. troops already face plenty of threats in Afghanistan: AK-47–wielding insurgents, improvised bombs, an intransigent and incompetent government. Now add a less familiar challenge to that list of woes: Afghanistan’s toxic sand.
The pulverized turf, it turns out, contains high levels of manganese, silicon, iron, magnesium, aluminum, chromium and other metals that act as neurotoxic agents when ingested.
Task Force 2010 follows the money trail
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jun/2010 22:32
“More good news from Afghanistan: the U.S. military has no idea where the billions it’s spending on warzone contractors is actually ending up. And nine years into the war, the Pentagon has barely started the long, laborious process of figuring it out.”
New Report – Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Opinion, Threat Watch on 22/Jun/2010 23:42
Americans can get a glimpse of the kinds of challenges an ever-growing Muslim population will present to Americans by watching carefully what is happening in the UK and Europe, where Islam is more deeply entrenched.
A new report by the human rights organization, One Law for All, has found Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals to be in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights.
You can download the report, free, here:
Based on an 8 March 2010 Seminar on Sharia Law, research, interviews, and One Law for All case files, the report has identified a number of problem areas with Sharia Law.
The report was released at the time of a 20 June 2010 “One Law for All” rally on the issue of Sharia law.
Below are a few photos of Pro-Sharia counter-demonstrators who showed up at the rally (coming to your streets soon?).
Highlights of the rally:
Human rights activist Gita Sahgal:
“I think it is highly significant that in Britain there has been silence where there should have been condemnation. There is active support for ‘Sharia laws’ precisely because it is limited to denying women rights in the family. No hands are being cut off, so there can’t be a problem.
This campaign stands at the heart of a debate over the future of Britain. It also stands at the heart of global attempts to destroy the most basic rights, to invade liberty and to crush equality and to do this in the name of upholding and promoting human rights. We stand here today facing down forces of racism and fundamentalism as we struggle for secularism.â€
Maryam Namazie:
“The fight against Sharia law is a fight against Islamism not Muslims, immigrants and people living under Sharia here or elsewhere. So it is very apt for the Islamists to hold a counter-demonstration against our rally. This is where the real battleground lies.â€
MC Fariborz Pooya of the Iranian Secular Society:
“The One Law for All Campaign has brought to centre stage an important debate about the kind of society we want to live in whilst defending the rights of everyone irrespective of religion, race, nationality…; this Campaign is truly the voice of the voiceless.â€
Anna Waters of One Law for All’s Legal Team:
“Any reasonable interpretation of the Human Rights Act shows us that there are certain things that it doesn’t allow – and one of the things it doesn’t allow is for a woman to have an inferior or second class status when she stands before a judge in a court of law. This is exactly what is happening…â€
Gerard Phillips of the National Secular Society:
[Sharia Law is] “nothing less than an attack on human rights and on equality…It undermines our democracy. It must be opposed.â€
The rally was held on 20 June to mark the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan at a protest in Tehran last year and link the fight against Sharia in the UK with that in Iran and elsewhere.
The supporters of One Law for All are non-violent warriors, working to protect those who can’t protect themselves – at a very real risk to themselves. I admire their courage. Do you think the threat of Sharia law could never happen in America? It is already happening in the UK, in Europe, and in Canada.
“I want to plead guilty, and I’m going to plead guilty 100 times overâ€
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Opinion, Threat Watch on 22/Jun/2010 21:54
I admire devotion. If you want to submit to Allah, if you want to follow the spiritual guidance of the Koran, that’s fine.
I also admire people who back up their convictions with action – but we Americans need to understand, as a nation, that when we invite Islam into our country, that comes with a risk. The risk that a Muslim will at some point choose to place their loyalty to Islam above their loyalty to America.
We are naive if we think that isn’t possible. Fort Hood was one example, the failed bomb in Times Square was another.
When I say these things, this is not hate mongering. This is not inciting violence – this is voicing a legitimate concern. Anyone who starts shouting objections or getting angry because I say these things is just making my point for me. We need to start seeing that reaction of “you’re racist, you’re a hater” as the manipulative strategy it is: if you don’t like what someone is saying, accuse them of being “hateful and bigoted”.
I don’t hate Islam, don’t hate Muslims – I love America, for all it’s flaws, and I love the freedom we have here of being able to disagree – even to mock ideas we find ridiculous – without having to worry about someone cutting off our heads or hanging our children to punish us.
The cultural diversity crowd would object noisily to this, but I think this is true, if not obvious: Muslims follow the Koran, their loyalty is to Islam first and foremost, and just because they happen to be in the United States does not change that loyalty.
People refer to Islamic extremists. Is it extremism for a Muslim to live their life by their Holy Book, by the Koran? Is that extremism, or is that simply being a devoted Muslim? Of course not all Muslims live this out by planting bombs – but how do we protect ourselves from those who do?
The Koran teaches Muslims to fight against the kuffar (unbelievers) – the ayat and ahadith exhort Muslims to NOT even make friends with the kuffar. This is one of the factors that make it more unlikely that Muslims will assimilate into our society. It’s one of the reasons we read about second generation American Muslims joining a jihad somewhere.
The Koran teaches Muslims to fight against the kuffar. Guess what? We are the kuffar. So we should not be puzzled or shocked when they attack us. And we shouldn’t be stupid enough to think that couldn’t possibly happen.
The recent guilty plea of the failed Times Square bomb illustrates the point. This man expressed no loyalty for the country that generously took him in. People say, “All Muslims are not our enemy.” Maybe that’s true, but by his own words this man certainly seems to see himself as an enemy of the US – and what do we need to do to identify individuals like him before a bomb goes off? Better yet, how do we prevent a person like this from wandering loose across our country, looking for a chance to harm our people? From the New York Times:
“The suspect in the failed Times Square bombing pleaded guilty on Monday, an abrupt and expedited end to a terrorism case that extended to Pakistan and an Islamic militant group there.”
“I want to plead guilty, and I’m going to plead guilty 100 times over,†he said, “because until the hour the U.S. pulls its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and stops the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan, and stops the occupation of Muslim lands, and stops killing the Muslims, and stops reporting the Muslims to its government, we will be attacking U.S., and I plead guilty to that.â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/nyregion/22terror.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Sure, not all Muslims living in the US feel this way or would take this kind of action. But those who buy the particular brand of Islam that Al-Qaeda is selling and that the Wahabis are teaching their children (sometimes here in our country, under the guise of being a “school”) may eventually feel obligated to take action against the US. And that means you and your children. Just because you are not a Marine, your 5 year-old daughter is not a Marine, does not make you any less of a target. In the eyes of our enemies, there are no innocent Americans. I think that was clearly demonstrated on 9/11.
Stopping Bad Guys is not the only mission.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Jun/2010 19:05
Afghan boys reacted as they played a game of marbles with a US officer (not shown) in the village of Damman, Kunar Province on Feb. 16. Oleg Popov/Reuters
“Whatever happens, we just keep doing our jobâ€
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Jun/2010 18:54
A US Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit had a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan, on May 18. The Marine was not injured in the fire fight. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
Politicians squabble and play political game. Soldiers simply keep on doing what they are there to do, and ignore the bull****.
“The top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been recalled to Washington to explain controversial remarks he made about leading Obama administration figures. But those on the front lines of the war say that the political squabble and inevitable fallout to come means little for them or the mission ahead.
But Canadian soldiers stationed in Kandahar Province, the birthplace of the Taliban and currently home to the war’s most intense fighting, mostly shrugged off the political firestorm.
“Whatever happens, we just keep doing our job,†says Canadian Army Master Cpl. Mathieu Jacob of Cap-Pelé, Canada. “Our job is our job.â€
