That's Weird… Obama Administration Removes Taliban From National Terror List
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 10:18 AM
That’s strange… We’ve been fighting the Taliban for 9 years in Afghanistan but the Obama Administration recently removed them from the list of terrorist organizations.
Could Team O really be this confused?
US State Department List of Terrorist Organizations
The Daily Caller reported:
A new State Department report designating terrorist organizations notably excludes one group: the Taliban. The U.S. has been fighting a war in Afghanistan for almost a decade aimed at “defeating the Taliban,” Taliban members repeatedly have threatened and killed American citizens and lawmakers have increased pressure on State to add the Taliban to the list.
Earlier this summer, a group of congressional Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton urging her to begin the process of categorizing the Taliban as a terrorist group. In June, Sens. Charles Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand of New York and Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez of New Jersey proposed legislation that would immediately add the Taliban to the terrorist list.
Yet the State Department’s report (due on April 30 but released last week), did not include the Taliban with groups such as al-Qaida, Hamas and the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA). To qualify, an organization must meet only three criteria: It must be foreign, it must engage in terrorist activity and its activity must threaten the security of the U.S. or its citizens.
“It is hard to imagine this agency can see fit to issue a report that doesn’t include the Taliban groups,” Fred Gedrich, a foreign policy analyst and former State Department employee, told The Daily Caller. “They have killed more Americans and conducted more terror attacks on innocent civilians during the past 12 months than any other terror group.“
Maybe Team O still believes these guys are moderate.
Did they already forget that these so-called “moderates” planted a car bomb in New York City back in April?
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donovan commented:
Where is Al-Qaeda?
bg commented:
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i do not know what the word for Obama laying the foundation
for the future Ummah States of Allah is, but it is not “Weird”..
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Neo commented:
I was under the impression that the Taliban have never been on the list of terrorist organizations, but that this pas Spring some Congress-critters ask that they be put on the list.
Reaganite Republican commented:
Maybe he already sent them an official surrender- if and when we need to know, Dear Leader will tell us
arnonerik commented:
My guess is that Obama is getting ready to cut a deal with the Taliban. We get a ‘Diplomatic Victory” (read retreat and defeat) and they get Afghanistan.
Elmo commented:
Socialist? Marxist? Fascist? Deranged/corrupt/feloniuous ChiTown douchebag?
Come on peeps, to KSO (Khalid Sheikh Obama) there is only G*d [all huh, one profit (Moe, Ham, and Ed), one ‘religion’ [BRMDC (baby raping moong*d death cult).
http://anechoicroom.blogspot.com/2010/08/march-muthafckas-march.html
(Yeah, been a while …. ).
wow commented:
Prelude to “negotiating” with the “moderate” Taliban.
seven commented:
I agree. They can’t find any Republicans or pro life folks in the Taliban. So it is cleared.
Kevin P commented:
My only guess is Obama was once a member of the Tally Bahn.
MR.ED commented:
What no tea party on the list we may need barney frank and rangle to hold hearings to find out why
jomojava of the Country Class commented:
Perhaps groups that Team O members are affilitaed with were left off the list?
bill-tb commented:
Barrack HUSSEIN Obama.
J commented:
Did obama do it or did the other two, highly-educated, experienced, great thinkers of his organization do it…..holder or clinton?
neomom commented:
I think they consider the Taliban in the same arena as Islam. It’s a society more than a group. Islam has Religious, military and social parts and so does the Taliban. I would designate Islam a terrorist organization and save some paperwork.
squeaky commented:
[But Islamic scholars hope the clock’s influence will stretch far further than the sands of Saudi Arabia, as part of a plan for Mecca to eclipse the Greenwich Observatory as the “true centre of the earth”.] it seems that the saudis are ready to unveil a clock that will eclipse big ben.
strange that the influence they’re aiming for is
located in a city [mecca] that is closed to anyone not islamic. obviously folks such as bloomberg aren’t on the same page as fundamental islam. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/7937123/Giant-Mecca-clock-seeks-to-call-time-on-Greenwich.html
reliapundit commented:
obama is not for peace; he’s on the other side.
obama is not for victory – at least not OURS!
Mary commented:
They were never on the list – not even under W. So they couldn’t have been removed. The Daily Caller explains that later in it’s article.
Brooklyn commented:
WOW !
They just slaughtered some fine American AID RELIEF WORKERS.
The Democratic Party is insane.
They do everything wrong it seems.
The Democratic Party and their dishonest support group, devoted fanatics peddling ugly bigotry, is one massive “Man-made Disaster”.
squeaky commented:
from free republic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDFasT1H-Ts
kate commented:
I don’t see the IDF on the list.
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obie commented:
I don’t see all the tea party affiliates listed.
Mary commented:
I really like coming here but this post is just badly bungled – you link to sistersouljah who’s post is about why hasn’t the Taliban been put on the list and you link to a Daily Caller article which explains the Taliban was not on the list even during George W’s term. I hope you correct this. Obama didn’T remove them when they’ve never been on the list.
Ronnie commented:
Mary
August 11th, 2010 | 11:54 am | #27
RE: “I really like coming here but…”
I just KNEW it! It’s all George Bush’s fault!
ProLifer commented:
Time to pull out of the Afghan cesspool.
Obama will soon have us fighting against ourselves — Oh, he already does.
Noah commented:
Must have been all that Muslim out reach crap they were spewing I guess the Taliban just realized that we are no longer the great Satan and now we’re all going to be BFF’S… Thanks Obama..
can we impeach him yet?
Mary commented:
Ronnie, it’s W’s fault and we’re all a bunch of rascist for thinking the Taliban are terrorists – how intolorent these terrorist list are. After all according to Helen Thomas “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”. Why have any list at all (snark)
donh commented:
Preparing the way for a Nobel Peace Prize for Mullah Mohammed Omar
free` commented:
I noticed that islamic jihad was on the list, they are the militia wing of fatah. fatah is funded by the US and many other countries. So shouldn’t it be against the law to send them aid?
Callipygian1 commented:
“Although the Taliban was omitted from the list, it is worth noting that we did add Fox News, the Tea Party, Republicans and all intelligent non-union Americans to the list of Terrorist Organizations.” said Robert Gibbs, Administration mouthpiece.
burt commented:
When was that list made before or after the Taliban murdered ten aid workers? I guess it doesn’t matter. When does Obama join the ground zero mosque?
Ronnie commented:
Mary
August 11th, 2010 | 12:13 pm | #31
“Ronnie, it’s W’s fault and we’re all a bunch of rascist for thinking…”
Again, I agree! Anyone who thinks is a racist! The same is true for people who use their spell-check….snicker. I’m just thankful for Obama and his friends – the jig is up and the thinkers are going to be arrested.
Freddy commented:
Why is the DNC not on this list? They have been terrorizing millions for years now!
DMartyr commented:
So, 32 out of 42 are ISLAMIC terrorist organizations, and yet we are still being told Islam has no more fanatics than any other religion…
Hmmm…
Not Likely commented:
When was the last time this blog was right about ANYTHING?
Not Likely commented:
Jim Hoft is a know-nothing clown.
jd commented:
i’m more shocked that we have any list with the word “terrorist” on it
Quietwolf commented:
By not placing the Taliban on the terrorist list means he can still send them “aid” which is already being done to Taliban controlled areas in Pakistan and will open the way for more “aid” to them when he reach’s an accommodation that will no doubt include even more “aid”, that will allow him to claim “victory” when he pulls out of Afghanistan, assuming they stay bought and it does not end up like Vietnam, with our troops being sniped as they board helicopters.
bg commented:
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Kabul wants more Taliban off UN ‘blacklist’
[Afghanistan asked the United Nations on Tuesday to remove more Taliban leaders from its sanctions terror list as part of efforts to end a deadly insurgency in the war-hit country. The request by the powerful National Security Council of Afghanistan follows the removal of 10 Taliban and 35 al Qaeda members from the blacklist by the world body earlier this month. After assessments, the National Security Council has recently sent a list comprised of 47 people to the UN to be removed from the blacklist, a statement said. Afghanistan took another step towards implementing the decisions of the peace jirga, the statement said. Individuals on the list are subject to asset freezes, a travel ban and an arms embargo. The Afghan government has offered an olive branch to militants in return for reconciliation.]
aah, it’s the some old, give them an inch
so they can take a yard failed policy..
aka: Paying the Dane-Geld
[IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighbour and to say:
"We invaded you last night - we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you�ve only to pay �em the Dane-geld
And then you�ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we�ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:
"We never pay any one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"]
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Corruptsocialist commented:
Jim Hoft is a know nothing clown
That is ironic coming from someone whose side uses the same old rhetoric about evil tax cut for the rich and how rangel is the victim of a racist witch hunt perpetrated by the party of white people
bg commented:
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U.N. Seeks to Drop Some Taliban From Terror List January 24, 2010
White House: Pakistan Taliban was behind NYC bomb 5/10/2010
Senators want Pakistani Taliban on terror list 5/11/2010
Put Taliban on Terror List, Says Schumer May 11, 2010
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bg commented:
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“This is an old trick to play both ends of the stick and to gain time.”
links @ link..
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AuntieMadder commented:
Russian communists said they’d take down America without firing a shot. Bin Laden said al Queda would take America from within. Appears neither were idle threats.
bg commented:
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New U.S. sanctions aimed at alleged supporters
of Taliban, other terrorist groups 8/04/10
[The United States announced new Iran sanctions Tuesday, targeting
senior officials of three organizations for alleged support of terrorist
groups, including the Taliban in Afghanistan.]
U.S. Report Sees Increase In Number Of
Americans Joining Terrorist Groups
The United Nations Organization has publicly increased pressure on Pakistan on its inability to control its Afghanistan border and not restricting the activities of Taliban leaders who have been designated by the UN as terrorists.
List of Known Terrorist Organizations
State-sponsored terrorism
State-Sponsored Terrorism Afghanistan
[Terrorism profile
Islamic extremists from around the world--including North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Central, South, and Southeast Asia--continue to use Afghanistan as a training ground and base of operations for their worldwide terrorist activities. The Taliban, which controll most Afghan territory, permit the operation of training and indoctrination facilities for non-Afghans and provide logistics support to members of various terrorist organizations and mujahidin, including those waging jihads (holy wars) in Central Asia, Chechnya, and Kashmir.]
more @ link..
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reader25 commented:
Seems to me that al-Qaida is also missing from this list. This Administration is the most inept that I have seen in 50 years. They have no clue on how to govern or fight a war.
There should not be a democrat left in Congress after the midterm elections. This Adminstration has done more harm in 18 months than can be repaired in generations. They don’t care about the future just spend, spend, spend.
free` commented:
al-queda is on the list just not at the top where you would think an alphabetized list would have them.