Taliban Release Video of Doctor & Al-Qaeda Blogger Before CIA Suicide Bombing
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, January 9, 2010, 11:21 AM
Taliban Blames Drone Attacks – Not Gitmo – For CIA Suicide Bombing
The Taliban released a video today of the Jordanian doctor and Al-Qaeda blogger before he killed 7 CIA officers in a suicide bombing. In the video Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says the attack will be the first of revenge operations against the Americans and their drone teams outside the Pakistani border.
The CIA bomber also says in the video that he can not be bought off by the West before his suicide attack:
The Taliban said that the attack was a revenge operation for drone attacks in the Pakistani border regions ordered by President Obama.
…But weren’t we told they hated us because of Gitmo?
The BBC reported on the video:
The Jordanian “double agent” who killed himself and seven American Central Intelligence Agency officials in Afghanistan’s Khost province last month must have been very sure of the success of his mission.
“This… attack will be the first of revenge operations against the Americans and their drone teams outside the Pakistani border, after they killed the Amir [chief] of Tehrik Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baitullah Mehsud, may God’s beneficence be upon him,” he apparently said in a video broadcast released on Saturday.
The video shows the purported Jordanian suicide bomber sitting next to Baitullah Mehsud’s successor and the new Pakistani Taliban, or TTP, chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, and reading from written text.
“We [the Jordanian himself and the Taliban, whom he describes as Mujahideen or the holy warriors] arranged together this attack to let the Americans understand that our belief in Allah… cannot be exchanged for all the wealth in the world,” he says.
It would appear that he had already set the trap for the CIA agents at the time he made the video.
…The father of the accused Jordanian has said that the man who appears on the video is definitely his son.
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the Khost attack, alongside similar claims by the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda.
All of them said that the attack was planned to avenge the 6 August 2009 killing of Baitullah Mehsud in a drone strike.
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Jayne on the left coast commented:
Janet Nappy will be stunned I tell you stunned that one lone terrorist could do such carnage.
gus commented:
Oh dear, they are using DRONES as a RECRUITING tool.
I thought it was GITMO that was making them so darned angry.
BigAlSouth commented:
Don’t worry your pretty little turbans, Al Qaeda! Code Pink is on the case and is using all of its hysterical resources to put an end to the summary executions of your innocent little friends via warrantless drone attacks.
Dell commented:
“…But weren’t we told they hated us because of Gitmo?”
Absolutely correct!
Rest assured that about one in a thousand AQ or Taliban even knows WHERE or WHAT Gitmo is. This is nothing more than partisan political rhetoric – spewed by Liberals – who still think Iraq was “blood for oil”.
To quote a well known political figure, “Let me be perfectly clear” – the far left wing of the Democrat Party, via George Soros and MoveOn.org, are calling the shots and putting the words in Obama’s mouth to do NOTHING more than advance a political agenda.
Soros bought and paid for the Obama Presidency and he’s going to have the first and last “say” in everything this administration says and does. And this point in time, Soros owns America.
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Joanne commented:
These guys don’t need any specific reason to kill Americans; they hate America because at least up to lately, America was Great, and they despise her and are intent on killing as many Americans as possible.
As for Gitmo, does anyone really think that al Queda gives a darn what happens to those Muslims held there – everyone, including Muslims, are expendable to them. In Malaysia, churches are being destroyed because of disputes over whether or not Christians can use the name Allah. Good Grief. These people just like to kill and destroy – they are arrogant, pompous twits.
OCBill commented:
Just a bad break, really, since Leon Panetta says they were JUST ABOUT to search the guy. What is it with these people. They were going to interview the panty bomber AFTER he arrived in Detroit, and in this case, they were going to search this guy AFTER he’d been allowed in a room with all these CIA people. I’m not an intelligence professional or anything, but maybe they should do these BEFORE the terrorists are in a position to do so much damage.
kate commented:
This is just like Israel now. Israel hits back to defend itself and then the Palestinians strike retribution for the defensive attack. It never ends. It’s a slapping contest. The only way to win is to bring out the big guns and end it decisively. (well that ain’t gonna happen under President B+)
bg commented:
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It’s time to root out political Islam
For almost a decade, American Muslims have seen a growing debate in their communities about the radicalization of Muslims in America and
how to combat it.
Since its inception in 2003, the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) has been one of the lone voices publicly waging a contest of ideas with Islamist organizations in the U.S.
The crux of our mission is that the ideology of political Islam (Islamism) is the root cause of extremism that threatens Americans’ security as well as the faith of American Muslims. Most major American – Muslim organizations hatched from the Muslim Brotherhood are advocates of political Islam and will always refuse to acknowledge the need to separate mosque and state.
The recent Christmas Day airliner attack, the earlier December arrests of American Muslims in Pakistan, and the Fort Hood massacre moved that debate into a new phase. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and the Muslim American Society (MAS) have begun to acknowledge for the first time that Muslim communities are facing a “radicalization” problem.
These organizations recently announced they are pursuing “anti – radicalization” programs. This is certainly an important change in
their rhetoric, but sadly, window – dressing.
These Islamist groups have simply recognized that their post – 9/11 apologetic messaging is not resonating with the general public. To solve the problem, they co – opted the rhetoric of curbing radicalization. But absent real, honest reform against political Islam, their rhetoric is vacuous.
The question that begs to be asked of any Muslim group touting these programs is: What will be the structure and substance of your campaign, and will you confront, renounce and reform the ideology of political Islam?
CAIR and MPAC have typically renounced the use of terror and violence, but they have never taken a position against the ideology of political Islam. They have also been constant antagonists to efforts by law enforcement to understand and mitigate the real stages of radicalization of Muslims in America. Just recently these groups called for government to naively “decouple religion from terror.”
If the root cause of Muslim radicalization is Islamism, what good is any counterterrorism effort that decouples religion from terror? How can law enforcement effectively counter terrorism in our country without recognizing the slippery slope of political Islam and its separatist narrative is the core ideology that drives the mindset of the extremists as they radicalize?
Pragmatically, and I say this with tough love for my co – religionists, many American Muslims need a 12 – step program to recognize the driving separatism of political Islam.
So many American Muslims have gone down that slippery slope of
political Islam to radicalization that the connection cannot be denied.
Until the majority of American Muslims can reform their theo – political ideas against the growing global power of the Islamist movement, home – grown terror will only increase as it has. There must be a public war of ideas within the Islamic consciousness promoting liberty over Islamism, freedom over theocracy and secular law over Sharia law.
more here and here..
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Joanne commented:
“There must be a public war of ideas within the Islamic consciousness promoting liberty over Islamism, freedom over theocracy and secular law over Sharia law.”
Good luck with that – I can’t see it happening until the west stands up unified and makes it happen, and I mean with force. Has freedom ever been gained without bloodshed? Even Christ shed his own blood for our salvation.
Ripped commented:
And you all called Ron Paul a nut case because he said it’s our meddling in these foreign countries that causes the blowback. Looks like RP was right again.
gus commented:
Ripped looks like you have your head up your a$$.
Osama Bin Laden was not even welcome in his own country. What country were we “meddling” with when Bin Laden decided to kill 3000 of us.
Ripped run along your mama is calling you.
TaSS commented:
Ripped,
READ your history.
Isolationism has NOT worked.
Like it or not, we are a global community and you can no longer ignore what is happening in a God forsaken country like Afghanistan anymore then you can keep a dictator confined by some imaginary border in Iraq.
Fight them there or fight them here but the choices are not always ours.
Al Qaeda declared war against us in 1998. We didn’t join the fight till 2001 but that did not prevent them from killing Americans.
Militant Conservative commented:
Ripped, read history, Carter did not support the Shaw of Iran. What ensued next is chaos. Democrats leave thier friends high and dry. This time it is the israelis.
prepare for some real fireworks now. Israel WILL NOT go without a fight. The fight over in the middle east will go on till judgment day. All goes back to Abraham and his sons. One created Islam the other Israel.
Israel is favored of GOD this makes Islam mad so family fued. Good understands that Evil must be fought. If you run from Evil, it is not overcome and it comes back again with renewed strentgh. Our world is governed by the agressive use of force.
Dell commented:
Quite honestly, it doesn’t matter one iota what Ron Paul thinks. He’s gone as far as he’ll ever go politically…perhaps farther than he should have gone. The man supports a couple of good idea…and several very bad ones. He’s much like his fellow Texan, Ross Perot Sr. – an also ran.
Of this I’m certain; if we ignore the radical islamist threat, we’re TOAST.
Is the Second Amendment still in force???
bg commented:
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Ripped @ 1:13 pm #10
heh, same rhetoric via different name, yawn..
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bg commented:
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It’s not over until it’s over
[According to John Brennan, head of the White House's homeland security office, the war on terrorism is over. From now on, the administration will never use terms like "jihadists" and "global war" because doing so, as Mr. Brennan said, "risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve." He insisted that the U.S. is at "war with al Qaeda" ("U.S. no longer at war with 'terrorism' ," Page 1, Friday).
Could we be more blind? Acts of terror are rooted in the aspirations
of Islamists to create an Islamic state and impose their version of Shariah law.]
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bg commented:
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Weakening Islamism is Vital to Improve US Image in the Muslim world
[In addition, after President Obama came to office in 2009, the number of home-grown Islamist terror plots inside the US has risen dramatically compared to the previous years. The Year of 2009 represents the highest level of domestic home-grown Islamic radicalism in the US since 2001.
We must question why President Obama's approach with the Muslim world has not succeeded yet in at least having a more positive effect in improving the US image in several Muslim countries or in decreasing the rate of home-grown Islamic radicalism on the home front. One of the main reasons for this lack of success is that US strategic communications with the Muslim world was largely based on the assumption that the problem of Islamic Radicalism and hatred to America is primarily because of the US foreign policy with the Muslim world and thus changing this policy will change the latter. This can only work if the main problem was in the US approach; however, if the main problem was in the Muslim world, such an approach cannot succeed as it will be like trying to change the keys to open a room while the problem is in the rusty lock! In the latter situation, changing the lock - or in other words changing the Muslim world itself - is crucial to solving the problem.
Improving the image of the US in the Muslim world before the proliferation of the phenomenon of Islamism was a very different task compared to trying to improve its image after the phenomenon has proliferated. While traditional approaches of diplomatic, economic and social engagement had the possibility of working with the earlier situation, non-traditional ways to weaken Islamism are now needed for today's situation.
Islamism, or the broad collection of movements to impose intolerant forms of Islamic teachings and practices, has made many in the Muslim world unable to be satisfied with any political system that does not implement Sharia law in some form or fashion. Any Un-Islamic system is seen as an enemy to Islam that must be opposed through violent or even non-violent means. Dr. Al-Zawaherri (second in command of Al-Queda) was clear is his offer for the US to convert to Islam in order to stop terrorism against it.]
more @ link..
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bg commented:
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“The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama”
['He talks too much," a Saudi academic in Jeddah, who had once been smitten with Barack Obama, recently observed to me of America's 44th president. He has wearied of Mr. Obama and now does not bother with the Obama oratory.
He is hardly alone, this academic. In the endless chatter of this region, and in the commentaries offered by the press, the theme is one of disappointment. In the Arab-Islamic world, Barack Obama has come down to earth.
He has not made the world anew, history did not bend to his will, the Indians and Pakistanis have been told that the matter of Kashmir is theirs to resolve, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the same intractable clash of two irreconcilable nationalisms, and the theocrats in Iran have not "unclenched their fist," nor have they abandoned their nuclear quest.]
more @ link..
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gus commented:
Liberals love evil. They support all kinds of it.
Because libs are misfits, they always fight against goodness.
bg commented:
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On the Job Training
[It is sad that President Obama and his team are still going through on-the-job training a year into their administration. Despite the fact that Janet Napolitano, our homeland-security secretary, bizarrely tried to nix the use of the term terrorism and despite the fact that his own White House dubiously dubbed this global conflict "an overseas contingency operation," the president has finally learned to use the most obvious term - terror- this week. Mr. President, if you are listening, here are a few more thoughts from a concerned Muslim.
You cannot just stay hunkered down at your "beachhead" in Hawaii after another virulent byproduct of global political Islam attacked on our homeland. While no one was really hurt, you don't exactly look like you are taking the issue seriously when your photo of the day captures a romp on the beach. It was not a coincidence that this was attempted on Christmas day, yet you ignore the religious struggles in this conflict. It is time that our commander-in-chief and the leader of the free world come to terms with the reality that this is the greatest conflict of the century and a battle of ideas between western liberal secular democracies and political Islam.
While you and your colleagues are stymied by the question of whether to even use the term "terror," the ideology of al-Qaeda (violent political Islam) is spreading exponentially. Your systematic failure to advance American security against ideologies that threaten us may turn catastrophic. In fact the Christmas bomber said so himself, telling an investigator that "there are more just like me who will strike soon." By all means, Mr. President, fix the holes in our security that we know are there - but terrorists who are suicidal religious zealots and very creative will sadly very likely strike again soon. This year certainly proves that.
Our nation is clearly becoming more and more anxious and concerned over the rash of radicalized Muslims. Is it not time for you to acknowledge that terror is a simply a symptom of a more profound deeper underlying disease? That disease is political Islam.
Hopefully you will realize that we can only defeat an enemy we can name, describe, and understand. As Thomas Friedman and others have recently reminded us, the only answer to jihadists, Salafists, and Islamists is a narrative from within America, and most important from within Islam, that counters the global supremacism of political Islam. Until you say exactly that, we will continue to flail in this conflict.
I hope after Nidal Hasan, after the American jihadis in Pakistan, and now after the Christmas bomber radicalized in London, that you see our need for clear leadership against political Islam and its ubiquitous permeating militant manifestations. We need a leader who recognizes that this conflict is most significantly within Muslim communities as we Muslims struggle with the conflict between theocracy and democracy, sharia and liberty, Islamism and freedom, and salafism and modernity. The longer you squander your leadership and stay silent on this, the more vulnerable we will be.]
by M. Zuhdi Jasser
bg commented:
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gus @ 2:28 pm #19
“what the fascist left have been aiming for is to “equate” good with evil.. that’s the only way they can appease their conscience in the face of the harsh reality they are trying to escape from because it does not fit in with their ideological utopian matrix.. if there is no good vs evil, then all is good even if [the] all is evil..” – bg
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gus commented:
Yes if we call them what they are, we’ll give them some legitimacy.
Let’s review what LIBTARDS call conservatives.
TEA BAGGERS,
HATERS,
NAZI’S
RACISTS,
HOMOPHOBES,
on and on and on and on. It seems libs love to call people names, unless the peeps are MUZZTARD EXTREMISTS.
Then we can’t use true words.
gus commented:
Mr Jasser. LIBTARDS don’t believe ISLAMOFASCISTS/JIHADI’S are the enemy.
Successful entrepreneurs and Conservatives are the enemy. In fact LIBTARDS think much like their JIHADI brethren. All is bad that is good.
Jihadists are from failed cultures so are LIBTARDS. Jihadi’s believe that doing evil will bring them good. Abortion loving Libtards do to. Libtards hate the very people that provide jobs and sustenance for those LIBTARDS PURPORT to care about. To conclude. Libtards like Jihadist want to FORCE their way of life and their backward FAILED PHILOSOPHIES on those who live peacably and honorably.
bg commented:
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A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy
No despot fears the president, and no demonstrator
in Tehran expects him to ride to the rescue.
[It was easy, that delirium with Mr. Obama: It made no moral demands on those eager to partake of it. It was also false, in many lands.
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What a difference three or four years make. The despots have waited out that burst of American power and optimism. No despot fears Mr. Obama, and no blogger in Cairo or Damascus or Tehran, no demonstrator in those cruel Iranian streets, expects Mr. Obama to ride to the rescue. To be sure, it was in the past understood that we can’t bear all burdens abroad, or come to the defense of everyone braving tyranny. But there was always that American assertion that when things are in the balance we would always be on freedom’s side.
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It is different today, there is a cold-bloodedness to American foreign policy. “Ideology is so yesterday,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed not long ago, giving voice to the new sentiment.
History and its furies have their logic, and they have not bent to Mr. Obama’s will. He had declared a unilateral end to the “war on terror,”
but the jihadists and their mentors are yet to call their war to a halt.
From Yemen to Fort Hood and Detroit, the terror continues.
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Under Mr. Obama, we have pulled back from the foreign world. We’re smaller for accepting that false choice between burdens at home and burdens abroad, and the world beyond our shores is more hazardous
and cynical for our retrenchment and our self-flagellation.]
more @ link, and..
WHERE IS HILLARY??
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gus commented:
Hillary who? She’s useless.
Boogy commented:
It’s all Obummer’s fault. That’s it.
befuddled commented:
i feel bad for obama. instead of implementing his strategic, and carefully designed plan for combating terrorism from pro-lifers, illegals from canada, tea baggers,racist white police officers, veterans, conservative radio hosts, and fox news, he actually has to pay lip service to the media about moving spy resources from global warming to terrorism.
Eric commented:
Militant Conservative @13
Just one thing, Islam is not a descendant of Abraham, or at least Muhammed wasn’t, and Israel was around about 5000 years before Islam reared it’s uggur-ly head.