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GORDON DUFF: McCHRYSTAL LOST IN AFGHANISTAN, IS IGNORANCE THE REAL EXCUSE?
SURPRISING THE ARMING OF THE TALIBAN AND THE BUILDING OF A NARCO-REGIME
“SHILLING” FOR AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
As usual, America is in a war for all the wrong reasons, pushed by Israel, bought off by drug money and backed into a corner. At a time when a “new broom” and strong leadership is needed, we respond with “damage control.” Even with the press descending into simple “drum beating” for an Israeli attack in Iran to get at the gas supplies needed for her secret pipeline deals, her “shill” in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal is simply no longer credible.
It all fell apart with the phony Marjah operation, a “joint operation” against a town of 80,000 Taliban fighters that turned out to be a couple of small villages in the middle of poppy fields that McChrystal decided needed protection. Surprise, Surprise.
While Karzai, our disastrous ally, hated by his own people, tried to bully the United States into letting him consolidate control, not over Afghanistan but control over “certain enterprises,” that he has been operating with his partners, India and Israel, McChrystal has been buckling under, “kissing up” to Karzai’s brother, believed by every informed source to be the largest narcotics trafficker in the world.
Now, McChrystal is placing the blame on Iran for financing and arming the Taliban and, at the same time, pointing out that nearly 100,000 “contractors” in Afghanistan, 94% of them armed are “too many.” He could, if he thought about it a second, also point out that most of them are Taliban. In fact, he could also point out that he is paying up to $3000 per truck that comes into Afghanistan, thousands of trucks per month, to the Taliban as ransom.
He could also point out that the years and years he has been training and arming the Afghan army, their utterly ineffective Army, and the Afghan police force, their utterly ineffective police force, the ammunition and weapons they get have been flowing to the Taliban also.
Were he more honest, he could point out that the reason he is trying to negotiate with the Taliban is that, if fact, they really aren’t the Taliban at all. You have a country full of drug lords, the allies that America used in their initial attack against, well, we aren’t so sure anymore. See, we never found Al Qaeda training camps, we never found Osama bin Laden, in fact, we have absolutely no reliable information that bin Laden had anything to do with 9/11.
We do know that thousands of Indian “security personnel” are organizing, arming and financing terrorist operations against Pakistan and that, of the hundreds of European contractors and UN officials in Afghanistan, hundreds are Israeli agents, some of them training terrorists themselves, who have crossed into Iran and have murdered hundreds. All of this is going on under McChrystal’s nose, while Pakistan suffers daily terrorist attacks from groups trained and financed in Afghanistan but stays quiet about it because their very survival depends on US aid. You can’t tell the US the truth.
Lying has become second nature to us.
OUR IRANIAN “GADFLY”
Mahmud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president, knows where our weaknesses are, he knows where the bodies are buried. If you are watching the press, you are seeing “holocaust denialists” being jailed, fined and attacked daily. The emails coming out of Israeli financed sources, many originating from former “Pentagon pundits,” the former officers who lied continually to help justify the disastrous invasion of Iraq, are all warning about attacks on Israel and a new “holocaust,” with Iran building gas chambers, and making soap, lampshades, the whole Hollywood thing that Israel uses to guilt out the Europeans when they need a few billion, when they have blown up a school and haven’t hunted down all the journalists who could report on it yet or, well, there are so many games now.
Ahmadinejad invited the world’s scholars to Iran a bit ago, to study the holocaust. He knew Israel was going to yell “Auschwitz” when they came after Iran’s oil and gas with their massive military forces supplemented by the United States. Now there is a massive move by Israel to build up a frenzy about the holocaust. Since it is against the law to say any more, I have to move on.
Last week, Ahmadinejad wrote a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations requesting a couple of things:
- A new and comprehensive 9/11 investigation
- An international commission to address terrorist attacks on Iran that are staged from bases in Afghanistan and Baluchistan
- A plan to address that massive flood of narcotics coming out of Afghanistan
Why has Ahmandinejad chosen 9/11? Since most of the members of the 9/11 Commission have either rescinded their approval of the report they were forced to submit though incomplete, asked for criminal investigation or stated outright that the report is a cover-up and 5 years of new evidence, “leaks” and “cooler heads” has brought informed people around the world to accept the idea that 9/11 may have been conceived in an office and not a cave. The mainstream news in the United States is no longer able to keep it all quiet, what is likely to be the worst crime of the last hundred years.
DRUG MONEY, WHERE DO THE BILLIONS GO?
Recent reports have shown that only some of the money, billions of dollars, coming from the Afghan drug trade has bought the following governments:
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan
What we aren’t saying is that billions in narcotics trafficking money has seriously influenced policy in these other countries:
- United States
- Afghanistan
- Germany
- Israel
- Belgium
- Pakistan
- Switzerland
- Spain
- Poland
- Kazakhstan
- India
- Canada
- Russia
- Italy
- France
Americans remember the flood of narcotics that filled America’s cities during the 1980s. Dozens of movies have been made describing CIA involvement in drug trafficking, it has become a major part of our pop-culture. Every muscle-bound super hero has fought the CIA and their drug importing from Southeast Asia, Columbia or Afghanistan. Now that we have reliable reports and testimony that this is actively going on with full complicity from, not only foreign governments, but multiple US administrations, not just Reagan but continuing on today, we have no excuse for looking away. When FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, broke the story, finally able to testify when her “national security” gag orders were overturned, no network nor major paper would report it. It is still on the record, though.
General Stanley McChrystal knows. He has seen her testimony. He has been told it is reliable. He knows that tons of heroin are flown out of Afghanistan and distributed around the world and he knows that nearly everyone around him is either involved or afraid to speak up. Is he only a puppet himself? This is how things are beginning to look. Compared to the real power of the “narco-billions,” one American general is nothing.
EVERYTHING IN AFGHANSITAN IS A LIE
I have spent dozens of hours meeting with and talking to people who know about Afghanistan, from members of their royal families, to tribal leaders to activists. We all agree on a few things:
- Unless all opium production is immediately eradicated in Afghanistan, any attempt to build an economy or organize the country will fail, overwhelmed by the “gun culture” built to support a massive narcotics operation that is growing by 20% or more a year.
- A massive program of economic realignment supported by powerful military operations will be necessary when the opium crops are destroyed or the country will erupt into full scale civil war. Estimates are that it will take two years for America to accomplish what the Taliban did, eliminating opium production, the biggest threat Afghanistan poses to the world, a thousand times bigger than any imaginary terrorist training areas.
- Karzai is weak, too tied to corruption to be credible, too close to India to be trusted by Pakistan and too unstable to manage even the few miles around Kabul he has “ruled” for all these years. He must go, replaced by a strong ruler with blood ties to a tribal groups across the nation. There are several potential candidates far more qualified than Karzai, who has been abandoned by the Jirga’s and is likely to get another “no confidence” vote in May
- The Afghan army needs to be disbanded, as it is a mercenary army that doesn’t represent the country. Afghanistan has always had universal compulsory military service and has strong military traditions based on that.
- The current concept of a national police force has failed. Until a force based on regional ethnic lines that received broad support from regional/tribal leaders, where such systems are still operating, the current “abomination” must go. It has become little more than a Mafia.
- A substantial region along the Pakistan/Afghanistan border is under the control, not of terrorists but criminal elements, even worse than those ruling the country.
It is entirely possible that, with a real president in Afghanistan, perhaps not in Kabul but Kandahar, and a rational policy to end narcotics production, replacing it with a program that will provide education, medical care and needed local services such as cold storage for food along with solar/wind based power systems, Afghanistan can reach a sustainable level of “disorder” in 24 months, not 10 years. With opium production left as it is, in accordance with McChrystal’s wishes, the chaos will continue indefinitely. Is this the plan? Was it the plan all along?
CLEANING OUT THE RATS NEST
Afghanistan has attracted vermin from around the world. We have half a dozen intelligence agencies training terrorists in Afghanistan, all financing the efforts by taking part in the narcotics trade. Attacks on both Iran and Pakistan are being staged in Afghanistan with full complicity on the part of MI-6, the Indian RAW, the Mossad, the CIA and dozens of contractor groups. All have become so enmeshed in narco-trafficking that nobody can be trusted. Billions of dollars are floating around in an area with no law, no accountability, just mayhem, chaos and brutality. We have created a nightmare.
Every gangster in the world that can get there, is there, working for the UN, passing out bibles or Koran’s or pretending to advise someone on something. Most advice is where to put laundered drug money, the second largest industry in Afghanistan.
GOING IN WAS ALWAYS SUBTERFUGE
If you can judge a policy by its results Afghanistan was invaded to rebuild its drug infrastructure and overthrow the government of Pakistan.
9/11 provided cover, that and the fiction of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, fantasies about terrorists that never existed. It was all made up. When the Bush administration needed to arrest terrorists, they went to the drug lords and had them kidnap people off the streets. This is how we got Dr. Aafia and her children, one of whom may have been released by her kidnappers, American or Pakistani gangsters, we aren’t sure. She had been missing for 7 years and suddenly, dropped off on the street. We still aren’t sure if this is one of Aafia’s missing children.
The White House ordered these kidnappings and covered up their phony “Al Quada” arrests by hiding innocent people in secret prisons, torturing them for years and, eventually releasing 95% of them.
This was our real war on terror, a farce, at least to those who weren’t kidnapped and tortured. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad. Our entire military and intelligence networks were tasked with one thing, to invent a cover story to justify two invasions, invent terrorist groups, capture “suspects” and play along. When the real CIA and military couldn’t do it, we hired foreign gangsters and mercenaries, all for one thing, “cover.”
With the controlled press at home, the phony 9/11 cover-up going full steam and troops in combat, well, you know how it ended up. The criminal gangs responsible are still trying to cover their trail. The GOP is trying to stop financial reforms meant to end the looting or our economy, the “tea baggers” are trying to blame “liberals” for the acts of the Bush criminal dictatorship and AIPAC is working overtime, trying to start a new war while the last two they pushed America into are still going on. Who is AIPAC? Are they American or Israeli?
NASTY OLD HISTORY
I got an email yesterday telling me about how Israel barely survived when all the Arab countries went after them in 1967. This is the story we are still telling but it is a total lie. The 1967 war was planned by Israel to seize land and was a sneak attack, first destroying the entire Egyptian air force on the ground, then wiping out their army, an army with no air cover. Syria was a walkover then. To get away with it, Israel attacked the American spy ship, USS Liberty, bombing, strafing and torpedoing it, murdering 34 Americans.
Anyone who tries to tell you the 1967 war was anything but a “blitzkrieg” by Israel, a sneak attack on her neighbors with no warning, kept secret by the the planned attack on the USS Liberty is a liar.
Israel had tried the same thing, attacking Egypt in1956, with the help of France and Britain. Israel send tanks across the Sinai, just like in 1967, this time backed by air power from France and Britain. This “blitzkrieg” was called Operation Kadesh. Moshe Dyan and Ariel Sharon planned the attack with friends in Paris and London. However, the United States, under President Eisenhower, wouldn’t allow it. The UN Security council drafted a resolution condemning the invasion but Britain and France vetoed it.
Then America threatened to economically destroy France and Britain if they didn’t withdraw troops and end support for Israeli aggression. Eventually this led France to leave NATO, if that is something you wondered about. We call this, “the Suez crisis” but, frankly, we don’t call it anything at all because it makes a good case for Israel’s history of aggression and its capability to get western governments to support its policies of conquering the Middle East.
How has this history worked out? Any patterns appear here? The myth of the 1967 war no longer holds water once we learn it wasn’t their first try, once we accept they learned from being caught during the Suez Crisis, and decided to attack the American ship that would have discovered their lie. Israel invaded Egypt with a sneak attack, 1956 and 1967.
DRUGS, NATURAL GAS AND WORLD CONQUEST
Is there a vast plot out there, one capable of pushing the United States into war, bankrupting the world’s financial system or taking over oil and gas supplies? Do nations like Israel, India, Pakistan, Britain and the United States train terrorists? Was the invasion of Afghanistan really the result of 9/11? History says otherwise.
Was the invasion of Iraq the result of 9/11 or “weapons of mass destruction?” History says otherwise.
Did Bush “make America safe?” Maybe, what’s left of it anyway, depending on what you call safe. Safe from what? I am not entirely sure we are safe from him, even though he is gone. We still have his wars, his drugs, his Supreme Court justices, his trillions in debt and the Bush economic collapse. We still have the controlled press, a divided nation and the reputation around the world as a brutal pawn of Israel and a total economic failure. You don’ t think this is how we look, not just in Africa, Asia and the Middle East but Europe as well?
General Stanley McChrystal is simply, like Karzai is now, like Bush was then, the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time. When we needed leaders, people of vision, we got small men, with small hearts and small brains. They told themselves they were wolves but were driven like sheep. As is often said now, was there never any plan or are things as they are because the plan was chaos and death?
Who won the war? That’s easy. Israel won and will win again. Not the people of Israel but the criminal conspiracy that has taken over that country like Bush and Cheney took over America. This is a rabid gang, backed by the news media, playing decent Jews around the world for fools. Who is going to lose? The people, Israeli, American most of all, but all people will lose. All of this planning, the lying, the total lack of honor and decency won’t buy anything but big homes, fast cars, expensive wine and the ability to live the sexual sickness that so many of our power seekers are driven by.
Today Stanley McChrystal has shown us that he believes his failures, failures of conscience, failures of intellect, failures of duty can be blamed on Iran. As the darling of the press, he may be able to help Israel push America into another war, one we can’t even begin to think about winning. It never was about winning, it was about chaos, it was always about money.
Is it that simple?
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Thank you very muche Mr. Gordon, for your Work. Greetings from Germany with good wishes for you.
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Will be in Germany as soon as the flights clear.
g
Very good article. Glad that you touched on the Holohoax issue, as well. Maybe next you can write about ‘modern art’ and how it is used for drug trafficking – extraordinary prices paid are a cover for the drugs smuggled.
All the best.
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Counsel to the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry’s investigation
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Gordon, Just like you said in a article before, Another ‘Ticket Puncher’.
indeed. without war, there is little advancement in the ranks of the military. common knowledge. karzai is not a threat to any of the crooked shit taking place. as a puppet, he is being well taken care of. having survived and studied the viet nam situation, i see many parallels. the entire thing stinks real bad.
The problem Gordon with establishing a US/European policy that builds mid east and central Asian peace, not controlled by corruption at all levels is that at an intellectual level Americans refuse to think! This is a all levels Gordon. I get the feeling if you talk about peace without including the coming of Jesus you do not have a plan..
Americans at all levels including old friends of mine who claim to be agnostic. Better yet atheist friends think our policy should be based on and supported by the bible. It is bizarre.
If not the bible it should be based of guilt. Guilt because the US stood by and let innocent Jews die. Not sure what we could have done? Even if they feel Israel is guilty and most do that Israel is guilty of ethnic genocide. Yes Gordon even atheists and agnostics become stupid and tune you out thinking war is the only option..
I am deeply sorry to say this, but if I hear some expert on the mid east and our two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan speak with a lower mid west or southern accent, I can bet he/she thinks nothing can be done is worthless to even listen to. Ohh I am sure there are people with southern drawls who think rationally, seeing a good future for planet earth, but so far I have heard very few who feel we should try. This nauseates me to think American have lowered themselves to the stupid level.
our public school system is cranking out more of them every day.
Bill,
As I am directly involved in the process….I find all of this frustrating. The game McChrystal is playing with Iran, yes..ticket punching by kissing up to Israel….is extremely unhealthy for the United States.
It is, not only dishonest, it is going to bury us.
g
I am from the south and if there are some “experts” that sound rational irregardless of accent I must have overlooked them. Frankly no area of the country right now seems to be a destination of star seed children from my vantage point anyway.
The south has had it’s moments though.
“Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town?”
Mark Twain
A Michael Tsarion piece I ran into lately sums it up better than anything I have encountered in while as far as inability to think. (address to the dead)
http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/weapons_of_mass_destruction_found.htm
My point Mick is not dump on the south as much as give an opinion regional areas in the US seem to support certain things. For instance San Francisco it is not a surprise they support gay marriage. Same with the South and Gay marriage. Another way is you do not find Evangelical snake handlers in North Dakota.
I will have to say when I heard the colleague of Bobby Kennedy on a radio talk show I think is called “Young Turks” speaking with southern Accent I was surprised. Smart insightful guy.
Yes, it is that simple. Israeli greed is their basic need using American assets to weed and seed.
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I have a nephew who was at Tora Bora after 9/11. If that is how you spell it. He blew up caves. I hate to think he is led by someone who’s leadership is based on some personal view of the bible interpreted by some backward wannabe christian prophet. I hate to think his life is handled by people who want to consciously or unconsciously start another war, because it says so in their King James version of the bible. We will be doomed to support corrupt governments.
Until we get rid of these people at the ballot box and screened from having command authority in the military we will be in danger of starting another war. They need to be searched out and Americans need to know how dangerous they are. War and who will start it? Not Iran, not North Korea, but the United States is in danger of starting another war. Until then we will be doomed to support corrupt governments.
That is if we listen to Israel and her supporters on evangelical television.
Well said, Gordon.
However, it was my understanding the McChrystal said just last week that weapons and support were NOT coming from Iran. Am I confused?
I still have confidence that it is the Veterans organisations that will be the only decent political force left in the US allowing for some form of public education of the world situaqtion. You cannot rely on the mainstream press, Jewish controlled and certainly not the government with its traitorous Congress, all of whom should be charged with a crime of supporting a foreign country over their own.
So it may come to a reliance on the credibility that veterans have in the public mind. Certainly, nothing else is getting through to the people, blissfully ignorant of the evils as disclosed in Gordon’s story.
Gordon, I’m a new reader of yours and make it a point to regularly read your columns. I am also an active duty soldier serving in Afghanistan.
You bring up some fascinating points about the war and the players involved. I fully agree that the afghan war has devolved into a regional conflict that no longer is driven by the “war on terror.”
But to make a greater point about your positions, you seem too dismissive of the true evil which exists in the beings of the Taliban/Islamic terrorists. There is absolutely no excuse or rationalization for their murderous actions, most of which target innocent civilians. You can blame saudi madrassah money, or an Israeli-India conspiracy all you want, but the bottom line is that there exists a large group of young muslim men who seek to fight for the sake of fighting, and at the behest of a corrupt “Islamic” leader. I believe that America, with our economic and military power, ought to assume some kind of active role in ridding the world of these people, as well as to free the oppressed.
You can bash Israeli policy all you want. But Israel is still the most civilised, educated, peaceful country in the middle east. They dont train suicide bombers to bomb cafes, and dont brainwash generations of innocent children to hate and become jihadists. For all the bashing of American foreign policy, Iran executes homosexuals, tortures political dissidents, and finances Hizballah and Revolutionary Guard terrorism against innocent people in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, and Afgh.
Dave Israel civilized. This is where you depart from what I call common sense. If they were civilized they would not send over two dozen murderers out in mass to execute a Palestinian leader with forged passports. Civilized nations and cultures do not do this Dave. Forged passports Dave! Who is safe, no one who dares cross Israel from this violence
If Israel was civilized they would look for peace, not every chance they have provoke anger and war on it’s neighbors. If Israel was civilized they would not say one thing and do another in regard to their settlement policy. They act like what American used to call soviet thugs. They make the old KGB look honorable.
If Israel was civilized Dave you would not have a marginalized society like the Palestinians who then resort to suicide bombing. Israel is the cause of the effect of it’s policies. Fewer and fewer in the broad world Dave trust Israel.
As for the Taliban. I too am familiar with Afghanistan an Afghanistan in relative peace of 40 years ago. What happened is geo politics politics caught between the US and the old Soviet Union. War has driven out many of the intellectual elite Dave, they now live in other place like Europe, and North America. What was left is those less sophisticated groups running the nation. They are the neoconservative American like republicans of Afghanistan.
What needs to happen is Afghanistan needs balance between it’s government and it’s people. It needs an educated elite. That is not going to happen until an educated elite come home from abroad. That is not going to happen until there is peace with Pakistan, then of course domestic peace.
It is hard to have peace because you have India stirring up problems between Pakistan and Afghanistan, with the help of your not so civilized Israel.
Many things need to happen, but first Israel needs to make peace. Then after that we can disarm and slowly grow peace in Asia.
Dave,
There isn’t any Saudi Madrassah money going anywhere, not anymore. It is all drug money, much of which goes through American hands. As for your statements regarding Israel, they are not reality based. I have some serious issues with Iran, but I also have a familiarity with the region going back decades.
Good to see you onboard, but your ideas are going to have to start being based on what is true, not what you are told.
Mostly, I am trying to get you home, or at least safe and out of there with a feeling of accomplishment. Supporting Karzai and the druglords while arming the Taliban and planning to nuke Iran so Israel can steal their natural gas isn’t going to do it.
I will probaby be over there in a bit…hanging out with the locals….mostly.
g
How do you know there isn’t any Saudi madrassah money going into pak/afghanistan? Money flowed into the region for over 10 years before 9/11 even happened, why would it stop now? My ideas regarding Israel aren’t based in reality? Given Israel’s enormous intellectual capital and democratic institutions, they are the model for what Arab countries (with the exception of Lebanon) ought to strive for. You seem to completely ignore the actions of corrupt Arab rulers who do nothing but pontificate and gripe about Israel, but do NOTHING to help them. Palestinian refugees live far worse in Lebanon than they do in Israel. Saudis do nothing to help them out, other than to use it as a political issue to distract their own people. Israel is the big menace in all of Arabs’ eyes, just like Iran is ours.
I’m sorry G, but I do not believe that Israel is conspiring to take over Iran’s natural gas resources. I dont know what ulterior motives exist in Israel’s apparent determination of bombing Iran’s nuc sites. But if you can’t step back and observe that Israel, with it’s educated people and transparent govt, is a better example than an Iranian theocracy, then I don’t think I can trust your judgement.
As far as why I’m in Afgh, I’m under no illusions that this war has morphed into something that goes well beyond the “global war on terror.” I havent figured it out yet, but certainly every underlying conflict and contention in this region has emerged to fight for its own cause, with coalition forces in the middle. It’s clear that this war has not been conducted in such a way as to be won, if thats even possible. no one at the senior military or executive level is willing to be honest about what’s going on here in the “big picture,” nor are they willing to make the tough political decisions necessary to attack the root causes, much of which is lack of education in these rural areas.
It is fact Palestinians could be called the niggers of the Arab world. I was told by a Lebanese friend told me it is an insult to say your mother is a Palestinian in Lebanon.
The Palestinians have no institutions because Israel does not allow them. Israel has them because Americans paid for them either through taxes or sweet heart banking deals with American own financial institution.
Anytime Palestinians develop they are accused of terror and bombs fall. You could say this about Lebanon. However the last time Israel invaded Lebanon it was not a pleasant walk over like it had been in the past.
The fact is most of the world could not care or give a rip about Israel’s biblical claim to land. Most if not all of the world’s religions lay claim to something or other, but the world is not held hostage to religious propaganda.
I read you every day.
Another terrific piece – truth and tellin’ it like it is.
Dave
Sounds like you had better figure out who the terrorists and who the Taliban really is. Your left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing it seems.
http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2010/04/final-solution-frenzy.html
http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2010/04/why-mumbai.html
Training camps in Afghanistan
There were persistent reports that the Americans, through their contractors, were operating at least two training camps, churning out an assortment of terrorists.
It sounds strange that a country supposedly fighting a global war against terrorism would train its own terrorists. Nevertheless, the crux of investigative journalism is that every lead, no matter how ludicrous, should be followed to its logical end if it promises some relevance.
Based on the findings in our previous reports, we started examining the possibility of existence of American terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
Interviews with some knowledgeable persons in Afghanistan and Pakistan suggest that at least one of the training camps run by the American contractors is located in either Ghowr or Uruzgan province of Afghanistan.
“This kind of people started appearing more than a year ago,” said our local man.”
“They are not Muslims,” he said.”
Taliban’ in American Helicopters
After having seen the young men who wanted to look like practicing Muslims without bothering to go through the obligatory ablutions for prayers, our next stop was to meet someone who could tell us about ‘Taliban’ being transported in American helicopters.
We drove on a dirt trail for about thirty minutes and reached another point, still not far from the Afghan border. One of our local contacts in Afghanistan had confirmed earlier that he had spoken to some people who had seen the so-called Taliban being carried in American helicopters. He was waiting for us at a makeshift gasoline station. Border crossing is no big deal in those parts.
Dave
Good luck with those Israeli heroes.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=5648
http://nwoobserver.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/uranium-in-iraq-the-poisonous-legacy-of-the-iraq-wars/
Dave, Besides your duty assignment orders, why do you think you are stationed there?
Dump him…..he looks too stressed to find and hold himself accountable. He reminds me of the cowboy with the hat but no cattle. He is a waste of our support and expectations. How in the hell did he ever become a genral. I know some captains who could have shown better results by now and for that matter, some damned good sergeants also!!!
Thanks “G” for the masterfully presented story of our once-again misplaced confidence in the clownboy without the cattle. I am surprised “they” haven’t tried to get you canned, injured or exiled. Keep on keepin’ on GI.
Bill Smitts, you assume that Israel can unilaterally “make peace.” This is laughable. Hamas has no interest in making peace. You say Israel helps cause its own terrorist problems by its expansion of settlements. Israeli settlements in no way justify suicide-bombings or terrorist actions of Hamas. Look at what happened when the Israeli security forces left the Gaza Strip, the Gaza Strip was hijacked by Hamas and terror leaders and turned into a cesspool without any basic services like electricity or water. It seems like the corrupt Palestinian leadership would rather spend the millions in aid money on themselves or weapons. Most everyday Palestinians actually missed the presence of Israel, because they were better off.
Mick, the articles you posted claiming DU and DIME munitions make no point other than to demonstrate how horrible war is and why we need to end these conflicts. I agree that we need India and Pakistan to make peace with each other. But the TB training camps funded by Americans? Ok, yeah, the US did support muj fighters in the 80s many of whom became seasoned TB commanders, but so what? It was a different time, different circumstances. It’s a tough world we live in, we often have to pick unsavory allies.
Israel with it’s demand. that the world agrees with them Palestine belongs to Jews is mute to all the world Dave, No many people are listening to Israel except those very tiny group of evangelicals in America, and those they control.
They are a very tiny group who control the US, through banking, media and Sunday evangelical Prophets blaring their end of times scenarios.
However these arm chair biblical prophets swing US elections and cause chaos throughout the mid east, just like GW Bush did when he because of his not caring or ignorance/stupidity let neoconservatives take control of American foreign policy in the mid east.
Over the last twenty years our foreign policy eyes have micro focused on Israel. In the mean time North Korea is a threat now and now has the ability to destroy much of the world, starting with South Korea and Japan.
But like a spoiled child Israel has our attention center stage entertaining us. I am so very tired of all of American intellect being on the survival of Israel. We care about them so much we do not care about what happens to the United States of America.
Should we let Israel drift alone. No we should not! But there should be limits on what American’s can and will do.
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