In April of this year, the Daily Mail reported that Prince Harry told his superiors to either send him to Iraq with his comrades or he would quit the Army:He told senior officers before recently passing out of Sandhurst as a Second Lieutenant: “If I am not allowed to join my unit in a war zone, I will hand in my uniform.” “He will go bananas if he is given special treatment.
And, it’s not even a virtual fence!Pakistan announced today that it would build a wall and lay landmines to keep Taliban fighters from crossing into Afghanistan.Reuters reports:Pakistan said on Tuesday it would fence and mine parts of its border with Afghanistan to try to stop Taliban rebels crossing to wage their growing rebellion.Afghanistan, increasingly critical of Pakistan for not doing enough to stop cross-border incursions, immediately rejected the plan as neither helpful nor practical.”It will be done selectively …
These results from a World Public Opinion poll taken in Afghanistan show that an overwhelming majority of Afghanis are pleased with the job of President Karzai…
The Afghanis were not pleased that Ahmadinejad was interfering with their affairs!Mahmoud thinks that Afghanistan would be better off with the Taliban.
Well, at least the jihadists are happy…Mike Austin may have the best Iraq Study Group analysis:A commander-in-chief who refuses to command.
It is believed that Iran is protecting Saad Bin Laden the son of Osama Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda members who fled Afghanistan in 2001.Iran is working to persuade Al Qaeda to promote Iranian friendly member Saif Al-Adel to a senior position in the terrorist organization.The Telegraph reports:Iran is also suspected of arming insurgent groups in southern Iraq – many of which have links to al-Qa’eda – that have been responsible for many of the roadside bomb attacks against British troops.But intelligence officials have been most alarmed by reports from Iran that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is trying to persuade al-Qa’eda to promote a pro-Iranian activist to a senior position within its leadership.The Iranians want Saif al-Adel, a 46-year-old former colonel in Egypt’s special forces, to be the organisation’s number three.
Please remember those who have served our country and those brave men and women who are currently sacrificing for their country in Iraq and Afghanistan today.Here are a couple shots of the harsh conditions in Iraq:The Strong, Dry Desert Wind Blows Huge Clouds of Sand Creating a Hovering Sandstorm Which Changes the Color of the Entire Area, Including the Sky, Into Surreal Orange Hues, May 5, 2005, Tallil Air Base, Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah – Republic of IraqNo Human Power Can Stop the Dry Desert Winds From Blowing In This Very Powerful, Relentless, Nightfall or Evening Windstorm That’s Bringing Huge Clouds of Sand – a Massive Sandstorm – Rolling Over and Engulfing the Tents, April 27, 2005 Al Asad, Al Anbar Province, Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah – Republic of IraqAnd…
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“I am one of the founding members of Vetsforfreedom.org and we’ve been trying to ferret out guys like the one in the McCaskill ad for a while now.
In 2001 the Taliban destroyed the largest standing Buddhist statues in the world by blasting them from a cliff because of their sinful nature.(YouTube video of the blasts 38 seconds)Afghanistan authorities now believe that Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind this destruction.The Middle East Times reports:At the scene of the crime carried out in 2001 all evidence points to Osama Bin Laden as the mastermind.
The following information did not make it into the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report released last Friday, that claimed Saddam’s government “did not have a relationship, harbor or turn a blind eye toward” al-Qaida operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or his associates.What do you suppose the committee had to say about these documents?Captured Iraqi Document ISGC-2004-019920 Page 6From blogger The Dread Pundit Bluto:ISGZ-2004-0199202002 Iraqi Intelligence Correspondence concerning the presence of al-Qaida Members in Iraq.
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report from 2005, on Friday:The report discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that before the war, Saddam’s government “did not have a relationship, harbor or turn a blind eye toward” al-Qaida operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or his associates.
Video of the SUV rampage in San Francisco at KRON HEREOmeed Aziz Popal- The family is saying that the arranged wedding in Afghanistan last monthmay have stressed him.
November 1997: Madeleine Albright tells a group of Afghan refugee women in Pakistan, “I will never forget you…
A suicide bomber killed 21 people in a crowded Afghanistan market including children.
The Christians said they were holding a “Peace Conference” in Kabul but after major protests by regional clerics the Korean Christians decided to leave.Dozens of Afghan Muslims have converted to Christianity in recent years and live underground, according to locals.South Korean Christians board buses as they leave the western city of Herat.
Someone, please explain this…Al-Zawahiri wore a gray robe and white turban.
A soldier back from Afghanistan fulfills his promise to deliver a gift to President Bush made by a Kabul rug merchant and native Hazaras man.The Anchoress has this amazing story.
India released the pictures of two bearded suspects, Sayyad Zabiuddin and Zulfeqar Fayyaz, for the train blasts in Mumbai on Tuesday.Image released by Indian Police Thursday July 13 2006 of a man identified as Sayyad Zabiuddin.
Afghanistan holds its first fashion show in decades.A model displays an Afghan burqa designed by riella Ghidoni and Zolaykha Sherzad during Afghanistan’s first fashion show in years, held at a luxury hotel in the capital Kabul on July 8, 2006.
On Wednesday, 7/5/06 Al Qaeda released a video to coincide with the anniversary of the 7/7 tube bombings.
You won’t see this on the front page of the New York Times!Translated documents from Iraq reveal that that an Iraqi manual directed terror operatives in Afghanistan:An Arab regime, possibly Iraq, supplied how-to manuals for Arab operatives working throughout Afghanistan before 9/11, and provided military assistance to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.The document, apparently written before the Sept.
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Just when you thought that the Left could not possibly get any weirder…Three clowns, one a retired priest, the other two Vietnam veterans, break into a North Dakota silo site, hang signs, spill their blood on the lid and spray paint “Disarm” on the top of it.This is an actual picture of the clowns cutting the locks on the gate!(It ought to come in handy in court!)The three, Greg Boertje-Obed, 51, and Michael Walli, 57, both military veterans from Duluth, Minn., and Carl Kabat, 72, a retired priest from St.
** Update: US Soldier’s Bodies Found.
Here’s a reality check for those sourpusses out there.Michael Barone pointed out two weeks ago that we are living in the best of times.
By the look of the mass protests and ethnic violence throughout the country, it doesn’t look like the US will have to!J.T.W.
It is about the readiness of a multi-ethnic nation to explode…
Afghanistan is seeing a surge of returning refugees since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.An Afghan refugee woman climbs onto a truck at a repatriation centre prior to the departure of Afghan refugees to their homeland, on the outskirts of Quetta on May 17, 2006.
Some people are a bit more sensitive about editorial cartoons than others…Al-Qaeda did not forget blasphemous cartoons.
Powerline offered two pieces of free advice to the Bush Administration yesterday on how to regain his approval from the public, both excellent ideas 1.) Hold a news conference on imigration saying how you are now ready to close the borders (Maybe from the Arizona or Texas border?) 2.) Threaten to veto any spending bill that contains a single earmark.Despite constant attacks by the democratic media……George Bush had his groove at his Inauguration in 2005.Here is a third offer of free advice.Let’s put this in perspective: * There are no more mass graves being filled by the Saddam regime in Iraq* Women can work in Afghanistan* There are no longer rapists on the payroll in Iraq* The country has won two wars in very hostile territories in record time with minimal (record) fatalities* You’ve helped set 50 million free from brutal regimes* The Butcher of Baghdad is on trial for the evil massacres of his own people* Libya has given up its clandestime weapons program* The Ali Khan Nuke Sales Network from the 90’s is out of business* Most of Al Qaeda leadership has been captured or killed* Lebanon is on the road to democracy* There have been countless democratic improvements in the Middle East regimes* The world has more democracies now than ever* There have been three successful elections in Iraq* Afghanistan has had elections and successful parliamentary sessions* Sectarian tribal leaders in Iraq are joining, praying, renouncing terror* Al Qaeda in Iraq is desperate and in despair* The Iraqi people are more cooperative than ever with security* There have thankfully been no terrorist attacks in the US since 9-11* Real progress is being made in Iraq* The economy is in a major boom* The stock market is nearing its all-time high, overcoming the Clinton Recession, 9-11, the Bubble Bust, and corporate scandal* Unemployment is lower than it’s average in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s* The US leads industrial nations in GDP* There is record home ownership* House-hold earnings have increased significantly* Tax relief continues for all Americans…* Sadly, the Adminstration has had one person indicted.
Not your ordinary graduation from the elite Sandhurst Academy, the Queen Mum stops in to see her grandson graduate,VIDEO HERE”He will go bananas if he is given special treatment.
The Media…After the CIA frogmarched (definition #2 is best) the $9,500 Democratic donor from the General’s Office last week, the Associated Press was so excited that there was actually a leak story with a leaker and a leak that they felt it only appropriate to publish a picture of Cheney aide Scooter Libby in its coverage of the Democratic donating CIA leaker.(Picture from MM)** Well, we now know that Dana Priest did not get her information from “Hobbyist plane spotters” **From Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War:”Since Sept.
After the CIA frogmarched (I like definition #2) the $9,500 Democratic donor from the General’s Office on Thursday, the Associated Press felt it appropriate to publish……a picture of Cheney aide Scooter Libby in its coverage of the Democratic CIA leaker.Obviously, the Culture of Treason Party is not going down easy like a $5,000 cash donation to the Ohio Democratic Party in the ’04 elections.
The Dalai Lama joins Muslims in San Francisco where the group is hoping to form an “United Nations of Religion”,VIDEO HEREThe Dalai Lama noticed Muslims appear militant to some people.That’s odd.
Before Abu Ghraib was known as a prison of barking dogs, nadedness and pyramiding but was a slaughterhouse where thousands of innocent Iraqis were executed under the Saddam Regime…Before there were democratic elections in Afghanistan and Iraq…Before documents were released showing links between Saddam and Al Qaeda…Before feminists were so Anti-Jew…Before the Butcher of Baghdad was given a smackdown as he was dragged from his spider hole…And, after all of this was accomplished with record low military casualties, civilian casualties and military fatalities……The mainstream media has been after Donald Rumsfeld.For years, even before Abu Ghraib when the US and Allies took Baghdad in three weeks, something they said would never be done with so few civilian casualties or military losses, the media and democrats were after Rumsfeld.”I’m rather old fashioned, I like to engage my brain beforemy mouth.” directed at CNN reporter, Barbara Starr.”If you believe everything you read in Maureen Dowd, you better get a life.”Donald Rumsfeld, March 23, 2006(Reuters picture)And do they hate Donald Rumsfeld!But, putting feelings and unfocused criticism aside, it might be best to look at what the Secretary of Defense has accomplished since 2001.Donald Rumsfeld reorganized the defense stategy for the United States:The department has developed a new defense strategy and replaced the old model for sizing forces with a newer approach more relevant to the 21st century.
Iran issued bold threats against the US on Friday and sadly with the current state of the Democratic Party the statements from the mullacracy are hard to argue:Iran said it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime’s boldest challenges yet to the United States.
Newsweek tried so hard to publish a good ol’ fashioned hero story (the hero being the Afghani) describing the rescue of a downed Navy Seal in Afghanistan……But, sadly the story about Mohammad Gulab turned into another Newsweek bash on America and the military.Alek from Eurojihad sends this story from the April 17, 2006, Newsweek.
“Democrats stand together to ensure unparalleled military strength!”(Snicker…
The dancing Osama Bin Laden doll is making a comeback in Kabul.
** Female Delegate Malalai Joya took on the warlords in the Afghani Parliament.
Before Abu Ghraib was only known as a prison where thousands of innocents were executed under the Saddam Regime…Before there were democratic elections in Afghanistan and Iraq…Before documents were released showing links between Saddam and Al Qaeda…Before feminists were so Anti-Jew…Before the Butcher of Baghdad was given a smackdown as he was dragged from his spider hole…And, after all of this was accomplished with record low military casualties, civilian casualties and military fatalities…There was a bitter mainstream media…And, there was Donald Rumsfeld.”I’m rather old fashioned, I like to engage my brain beforemy mouth.” directed at CNN reporter, Barbara Starr.”If you believe everything you read in Maureen Dowd, you better get a life.”Donald Rumsfeld, March 23, 2006(Reuters picture)September 8, 2003Media questions if Rumsfeld will resign.CNN’s Wolf Blitzer reports (Via Media Research):CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, on Late Edition, asked National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about Liberal Democrat Obey’s demand that Rumsfeld resign.
Blue Crab Boulevard has more thoughts on Yale’s “ignore the issue and it will go away” policy over the admission of Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi of Taliban fame.
President Musharraf thanked the US for assistance in the aftermath of the tragic earthquake back in the fall.
George Bush made a stop at Bagram Air Base in a free Afghanistan.U.S.
The hardline Muslim Clerics were not too pleased with Deeyah’s new music video where the “Muslim Madonna” casts off a burka to reveal a bikini!
Bill OReilly defends the UAE Port deal and says legislation that attempts to prevent the purchase deal sends a terrible message to moderate Muslim countries,VIDEO HEREPresident Bush threatened to use his veto power against legislation that prevents the US port operation purchase by the United Arab Emirates:In a rare threat to use his veto power, President Bush said Tuesday he will stop any legislation that attempts to prevent the purchase by a United Arab Emirates-owned firm of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which runs six major U.S.
“The point of making it [the film] is to remind people about how bizarre it is that somewhere like Guantanamo exists.”Michael WinterbottomDirector, “The Road to Guantanamo” Gee, after that comment, do you suppose the director gave this film a fair shake?A scene from the Anti-Bush Anti-Blair “The Road to Guantanamo””We’re not trying to say Americans are bad…
The Pakistan Tribune reports on US casualties in Afghanistan:More United States troops have died in off-duty motorcycle accidents since the terrorist attacks of 11 September, 2001, than have been killed in combat in Afghanistan over the same period.
BOLLYWOOD STAR SONU NIGAM PLAYS KABUL,VIDEO HERECheck out this historic concert!
The 249-seat Afghanistan House of Representatives, or the Wolesi Jirga, held session this week.
“During 10 years, threats from angry conservative Muslims silenced the Norwegian and Muslim pop singer Deeyah.
While Dick Cheney participated in an emotional, teary-eyed Parliamentary session in Kabul, Afghanistan, George Bush left the Green Zone and entered hostile territory today in Washington (see Michelle Malkin and Lorie Byrd’s -Hell Yes, Baby – Santa has Come Early!- post).
Or Does it Explode has the latest Middle East music news…” Orkideh” like the Go-Go’s but with with light-blue hijabs!
AL QAEDA #3 KILLED IN REMOTE WESTERN PAKISTAN,VIDEO HEREAl Quaeda Number Three is Killed in Pakistan!Pakistani tribesmen are seen on Thursday displaying a piece of a U.S.
RETIRED GENERAL TOMMIE FRANKS WEIGHS IN ON THE MEDIA & MURTHA,VIDEO HEREGeneral Tommie Franks was awarded the Defender of Freedom Award tonight from the Freedom Alliance.
US House to vote on future of Iraq tonight.Iraqi children show humanitarian food rations distributed by the Coalition during an effort to provide food and water to Iraqi citizens in need on April 8, 2003.
Regardless on how the Western media wants to color the Mideast, never has this region seen such an amazing shift towards democracy and human rights in such a very short period of time.
