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"Well-Armed" Taliban Tried To Hijack Airplane Leading To Pakistan Airport Shootout

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"The main goal of this attack was to damage the government, including by hijacking planes and destroying state installations," said Shahidullah Shahid, a Taliban spokesman, as Reuters reports a well trained and heavily armed group of Taliban fighters attacked Pakistan's largest airport in an attempt to hijack a plane. 27 people were killed (including 10 militants ) as the Taliban spokesman added ominously, "this was just an example of what we are capable of and there is more to come. The government should be ready for even worse attacks." This attack comes a day after John Kerry's dismissal of threats by some released Taliban prisoners that they will return to the battlefield and kill Americans as "a lot of baloney."

 

As Reuters reports, a squad of highly trained Taliban fighters attacked Pakistan's biggest airport in what they clearly expected to be a protracted siege.

Seven fighters were shot dead by Pakistani forces after five hours of intense gunfire at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport. Three died after detonating their suicide-bomb belts.

 

At least 27 people, including 10 militants, were killed.

 

...

 

Wearing Airport Security Force uniforms and armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, the group shot its way into the airport after arriving at the cargo terminal in two mini-vans.

 

A senior police officer said that the militants then split into two groups, with one attacking a gate called Fokker to create a diversion and the other storming the cargo terminal.

 

Another senior police officer, Raja Umar Khattab, told Reuters that the attackers then broke into groups of two and pressed ahead with the assault.

 

"They operated in pairs. That's why their bodies were found lying in pairs," he said. "It seems there was some ill-planning on their part. They did fire two rockets but they didn't hit their targets."

 

He added: "They wasted 10 men, but couldn't inflict serious damage on the airport. They didn't wear suicide vests, but instead used suicide belts. This is the reason why their faces and upper bodies were not badly mutilated."

The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack in response to air strikes in their strongholds near the Afghan border and that their mission was to hijack a passenger plane.

"The main goal of this attack was to damage the government, including by hijacking planes and destroying state installations," said Shahidullah Shahid, a Taliban spokesman.

 

"This was just an example of what we are capable of and there is more to come. The government should be ready for even worse attacks."

And it could have been much worse...

"It would have been much more disastrous if the militants had reached the main terminal building and taken hostages. There were hundreds of passengers and staff members present at the main terminal at the time," the official said.

But John Kerry's comments are likely regretful now... (via Bloomberg)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s defense of a deal swapping five Taliban prisoners for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl shows no signs of easing concerns on Capitol Hill.

 

The top U.S. diplomat yesterday dismissed threats by some Taliban prisoners that they will return to the battlefield and kill Americans as “a lot of baloney.” The movements of the five former leaders of the Taliban government who were released to Qatar will be closely monitored, he said.

Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican and former Vietnam prisoner of war, criticized the deal on the same program.

The five Taliban prisoners “were evaluated and judged as too great a risk to release,” McCain said.

 

“I’m sad to tell you I’m afraid they’re going to re-enter the fight,” he said.

One wonders whether this latest attack will stymie any more "deals" with terrorists...

The prisoner swap sets a bad precedent that has become “a huge regional and geopolitical problem for the United States,” Rogers said. “Hostages are now currency in this war on terror. That’s always dangerous for both diplomats, aid workers, soldiers on the battlefield.”

 

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Mon, 06/09/2014 - 08:52 | 4836604 Skin666
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More gate fokkers...

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:01 | 4836633 Tabarnaque
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Obozo just freed 5 of these guys...

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:07 | 4836648 Pool Shark
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"this was just an example of what we are capable of and there is more to come. The government should be ready for even worse attacks."

They failed to hijack a plane as intended, and their next attacks are going to be even worse?

These guys are even more incompetent than Obozo...

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:10 | 4836657 Son of Loki
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Have they solved that 'disappearing' malaysian air plane thing yet?

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:11 | 4836661 power steering
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That insolet rodeo clown is still on the loose too!

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:18 | 4836687 BurningFuld
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I see the Drone program in Pakistan has been a complete success!  Go Barack Go! Winning!

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:30 | 4836732 pods
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I'm not a war general or anything, but to me if you go in guns blazing you probably don't need the fake uniforms.

You sort of lose the whole surprise thing.

pods

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:48 | 4836792 SWRichmond
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Let this event serve as a warning to america's farthest border cronies (I almost said allies but allies would be the wrong term)...

 

as the American Empire crumbles you will be subjected to more and more of these events and America's ability to help you will continue to wane... in other words all of you who allied yourself with America will be thrown under the bus.

do you get it now?

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:34 | 4836970 disabledvet
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Well, we made it as far as Aleaxander the Great. The British Army was completely annihilated. (One survivor of the hundred thousand.) the Russians lasted from 1979 to 1986...so we've best that record as well.

The withdrawal seems orderly...no carpet bombing on the way out.

"And now time to unleash Secret Plan Babushka."

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:19 | 4837303 Manthong
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Looks like some negotiations are in order.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:50 | 4836801 Citxmech
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I'm sure it confuses the response somewhat.  Imagine if a bunch of homicidal psychos stormed a mall/shcool/airport wearing convincing tactical gear with POLICE on the back and all.  Might allow them to move unimpeded for a while.  Probably also sows distrust among the security forces as well, as they never know when they're going to get shot in the back by one of their own guys.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:36 | 4836977 disabledvet
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I hear the destination was Detroit if they'd had gotten hold the plane. Also known as "Plan Phuck this Shit."

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:00 | 4837253 COSMOS
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Either one of two things Pods,

One of the guys had an itchy trigger finger, the other is by wearing the uniforms they were trying to confuse the regular forces as to who is who, especially say if they are running around trying to move to another area when there is a lull in the fighting.  Yeah if someone is shooting at you and they have your uniform you will fire back.  But if you see someone with your uniform running somewhere you are not going to shoot them down especially with all that confusion.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:50 | 4837021 lakecity55
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So is that Monkey with a Hand Grenade!

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:57 | 4836828 Sean7k
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SOL, yes, hostile takeover by the Rothschilds. Everyone else was just collateral damage.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:10 | 4836658 power steering
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Ketchup and baloney. Yuk!

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 16:44 | 4838457 Monty Burns
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Blowing up the airport and all who work there would be a blow for humanity.  Must be the lousiest airport with the lousiest and most corrupt staff in the world.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 13:16 | 4837020 lakecity55
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"You fools, soon I free them ALL! I will drench the world in Blood, hahahhahahaha!"

"I am a God! Fall to your feet and Worship Me, The One! Hahhahahahaha!"

 

(Hello, Ms Jarrett? He's off his meds again! Offer him a BJ? Do I have to?)

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 08:52 | 4836606 nmewn
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That didn't take long.

Hashtag: SmartDiplomacy.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:04 | 4837260 COSMOS
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Those guys were released for some Syria action.  Also Qatar and Saudi dont have the best relations.  These guys were not sent to Saudi Arabia but to Qatar.  In the future they may be used vs the Saudis if they get out of line.  The whole prisoner swap was an excuse to get by any Saudi objections for freeing these guys.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 08:53 | 4836607 gcjohns1971
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EVERYTHING LURCH SAYS should be taken as a contrarian indicator.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:25 | 4836716 Translational Lift
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John Kerry's dismissal of threats by some released Taliban prisoners that they will return to the battlefield and kill Americans as "a lot of baloney.

This jerk-dilettante was a fuck-up in the Navy and he is a now fuck-up appointed by another know nothing fuck-up in one of the most important jobs in the gov.

Talk about the Peter Principle..........

 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:48 | 4837009 lakecity55
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Lurch Kerry is a traitor to the United States, and has given aid and comfort to the enemy.

 

"Great statuette on your desk, sir? Who is it?"

"My hero, Benedict Arnold."

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 08:54 | 4836610 Quinvarius
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Ever since Obama started arming and training Al Queda in Syria, it seems they have become quite a bit more active.  It is almost like they didn't just stay in their box according to Obama's plan.  Hmmm.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 08:56 | 4836615 nmewn
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Posted this elsewhere...a repeat:

"The Obama administration isn’t only giving the Taliban back its commanders — it’s giving them weapons.

Military records and sources reveal that on July 25, 2012, Taliban fighters in Kunar province successfully targeted a US Army CH-47 helicopter with a new generation Stinger missile.

They thought they had a surefire kill. But instead of bursting into flames, the Chinook just disappeared into the darkness as the American pilot recovered control of the aircraft and brought it to the ground in a hard landing."

"The next day, an explosive ordnance disposal team arrived to pick through the wreckage and found unexploded pieces of a missile casing that could only belong to a Stinger missile.

Lodged in the right nacelle, they found one fragment that contained an entire serial number.

The investigation took time. Arms were twisted, noses put out of joint. But when the results came back, they were stunning: The Stinger tracked back to a lot that had been signed out by the CIA recently, not during the anti-Soviet ­jihad."

http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-us-missiles/

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:00 | 4836631 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Dig deeper and think Petraeus and Benghazi and the recently outed CIA station chief by Omuslim.....

 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:05 | 4836643 nmewn
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Oh yes. We know what Stevens was doing in Benghazi.

But what difference does it make? ;-)

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:23 | 4836672 power steering
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My sources in the US Special Operations community believe the Stinger fired against the Chinook was part of the same lot the CIA turned over to the ­Qataris in early 2011, weapons Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department intended for anti-Khadafy forces in Libya.

They believe the Qataris delivered between 50 and 60 of those same Stingers to the Taliban in early 2012, and an additional 200 SA-24 Igla-S surface-to-air missiles.

Qatar now is expected to hold five Taliban commanders released from Guantanamo for a year before allowing them to go to Afghanistan.

But if we can’t trust the Qataris not to give our weapons to the Taliban, how can we trust them with this?

http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-u...

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:47 | 4836788 Translational Lift
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You ask too damn many questions.....What difference does it make.........

/sarc

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:19 | 4837111 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/they-lied-during-benghazi/

Recently released emails have proven what many people already suspected, that the White House lied about what happened in Benghazi from the very beginning, for political reasons.

It has been revealed that the Obama administration was in contact with the owners of YouTube while the attack was still ongoing, working out the details of the lie that pinned blame for the attack on a little seen video.

Although the White House pushed that lie for weeks and months, even unto this day, few people ever really believed it, particularly those in the military with knowledge of what actually happened.

House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa is demanding Secretary of State John Kerry turn over full, unredacted and unclassified versions of some emails showing that White House staff were already crafting a cover story on Benghazi before the attack was even finished.

...

But what difference does it make? ;-) ;-)

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:03 | 4836637 overmedicatedun...
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seems some people do take action when they think they are getting the shitty end of the stick..IN USSA, not so much. all hail TSA, HLS, and our freedom guarding courts and Leo's, excuse us they say while strip  searching that 2 year old at a friendly TSA security check point

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:06 | 4836645 Tabarnaque
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Brillant! It just shows how pure eveil these fuckers are in wdc.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:17 | 4836680 yellowsub
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CIA trained the Taliban and this is surprising?

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:31 | 4836733 nmewn
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No...and its not surprising that "the most transparent administration evah!" would attempt to hide its complicity in the murder of its own.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cia-employee-who-refused-to-sign-non-disclosure-on-benghazi-suspended/

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:24 | 4836933 joe90
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To them it doesn't matter whether a specific act is "controlled" or not.  Two dogs in a pit each fighting for survival are uable to turn on those that put them there.  The question for me is, "As the evidence of material support for the "bad guys" in just about every theatre build up (you name it; Ukraine, Syria, Lybia etc.) at what point does the hyprocrisy become evident to everyone".

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:51 | 4837221 kchrisc
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We fight ourselves, and the banksters take the spoils.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 13:20 | 4837513 ThisIsBob
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Fast and Furious, indeed.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:44 | 4836783 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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And you know the response is going to be. We need moar war cowbell. So the same people running MIC weapon racket and such can make even moar money.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:40 | 4836995 lakecity55
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Uh, no, they did exactly what Bath House hoped they would do. Kill.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:28 | 4837134 alexcojones
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+1 Quin

“We must do everything in our power to keep firearms out of the hands of those who pose a serious risk of harm to themselves or to others,” Senator Feinstein added. “I’m pleased to work with Senator Boxer on this bill, which creates a new grant program to encourage states to allow family members and others to seek court orders to temporarily prohibit dangerous individuals from possessing a firearm..."

Start with your own .Gov, skanks

Feinstein and Boxer Introduce Bill to Rat Out a Family Member with a Firearm

 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 08:59 | 4836627 SheepDog-One
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The whole prisoner swap stinks like an open cesspool....but then what doesn't these days.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:17 | 4836679 ejmoosa
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We still have not had enough to demand en masse that he resign.

What will it take?

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:56 | 4836821 bigkahuna
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I have been beating this drum to my congressman for years now - his office's reponse is consistantly, we are doing all we can. Then they extoll the praises of the congressman. Then they argue with me whan i tell them that they have done nothing to shine the light on the illegality and dangerousness of what is going on. 

 

F&F

IRS

Benghazi

now hostage o rama - or whatever it is gonna be called,

are the main ones that come to mind, then there are many others - too many to immediately recall. I believe we are screwed, there is no opposition.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:08 | 4836870 Eyeroller
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It will take the complete collapse of the stock market.

That would show what the results of Keynesian policies do.

That's why the Ponzi Munchkin will do all she can to prop up the house of cards as long as Teflon Barry is in office.

They don't care about anything else.

As long as there is a crash after 2016 then it can be blamed on others.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:37 | 4836980 lakecity55
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Bath House could be seen at high noon on Capitol Hill fucking a little boy in the ass with a heroin needle in his arm, smoking a joint and drinking MD2020 and still get a pass.

Heck, he might get a promotion to the UN!

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:17 | 4836681 The Carbonator
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Hey this can't be.

 

They used unregistered assault weapons! 

 

FUAC!

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:22 | 4836692 bigkahuna
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That dickhead gave the tallywhackers incentive to take hostages. They just went for a whole plane full of hostages.

 

The "terror threat level" just went up - you know, the one that replaced the color codes...

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:25 | 4836710 power steering
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Think about the locals that trusted us to take care of these assholes. 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:30 | 4836734 bigkahuna
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Unfortunately they are finding out the hard way - as many of us here in the the US will - trusting leviathan can be bad for one's health.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:22 | 4836698 _ConanTheLibert...
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I'm all for damaging of governments. But the problem is the tax payer will pay the bill sooner or later.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:23 | 4836700 Infinite QE
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So what's the difference, if any, between Taliban and AlKidya? Some sort of franchise thing? One more controlled by the zionists?

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:35 | 4836724 Max Cynical
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Obama to free Gitmo terrorist ‘because he took up yoga’

http://nypost.com/2014/06/07/no-reform-too-absurd-for-obama-to-spring-gi...

One al Qaeda suspect captured in Afghanistan is considered reformed because he took up yoga and read a biography of the Dalai Lama.

Another is eligible for release because of his “positive attitude.”

And one longtime detainee, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, is now harmless because he’s going to start a “milk and honey farm.”

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:20 | 4836917 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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This what pyschopaths do when they don't get their way. Unless everyone has had their head's firmly planted up their ass for the past 7 years Omuslim and his handlers get real loopy when they feel threatened.

 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:34 | 4836969 lakecity55
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Backdoor Barry: World Terrorist #1

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:52 | 4837014 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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They always seem to go to the same playbook of creating bigger distractions that at the same time antagonize the groups/people they feel threatened by.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:53 | 4837229 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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And right on schedule the sycophants and and his right hand douche in to follow up in the antagonizing department.

http://twitchy.com/2014/06/08/la-times-columnist-suggests-tahmooressi-wa...

LA Times columnist Robin Abcarian thinks we should be happy that ex-Marine Andrew Tahmooressi is locked up in Mexico because he took a wrong turn.

...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/06/obama-immigration...

The Obama administration is set to take another step to help young children caught crossing the southwest border without their parents, creating a program to provide them with lawyers as they make their way through immigration court.

The Department of Justice, working with the federal Corporation for National and Community Service, will announce a new program Friday that provides $2 million to entice attorneys and paralegals to represent those young, undocumented immigrants as they navigate the complicated web of immigration courts.

Unlike legal residents or citizens, undocumented immigrants are not guaranteed legal assistance in court, so the task is currently done by attorneys working for non-profit organizations or working pro bono. But with the country seeing a drastic rise in the number of very young undocumented immigrants crossing the border — without their parents, usually led by a smuggler — officials say those groups can no longer handle the flood of cases.

...

And lest us not forget the Justice Department is setting up a taskforce to investigate domestic terrorists while all this is happening....

 

 

 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:31 | 4836726 power steering
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Let's hope Cheney had an GPS/RFID inserted into each of their gizzards and we can drone strike them at will. Thats gonna take more balls that president Jarret's got though.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:57 | 4836728 Bastiat
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Meanwhile the cop shooters are said to have draped the bodies of the cops in Gadsen flags (often associated with the tea party).  I don't suppose those could be false flags?

[edited to correct to "Gadsen"]

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:29 | 4836729 Atomizer
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Poking bullet holes into series 7070 aluminum at 29,000 ft. Not a well thought out plan. I smell more bullshit behind this story. Kenyan driven.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:29 | 4836730 orangegeek
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sell the Taliban some aluminum siding

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BxuPJy2mlc

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:03 | 4836850 Atomizer
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Taliban – Obama Style

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:36 | 4836750 asscannon101
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Authorities are searching for the ringleader, pictured here [IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/209r9g6.jpg[/IMG]

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:30 | 4836957 lakecity55
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+10!!

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:52 | 4836809 NoWayJose
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You must be kidding....  Ten to 15 years of harsh treatment, torture, and interrogations at Gitmo - does anyone think they won't be looking for revenge?  Gitmo is not a reform school....

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 09:55 | 4836819 Sean7k
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Why does anyone care?

Do you have to join the military?

Do you have to vote?

Do you have to travel to Pakistan?

Useless eaters killing useless eaters with weapons provided by the killers of all useless eaters at the expense of the taxpayer through debt payments for the life of us, our children and grandchildren. 

It will never stop until we decide to stop participating in the machinations of the Elites.

Educate your kids. Find a peaceful place and dropout. Produce and save. Create minimal State dependence in all your daily dealings. Minimize consumption, maximize production. 

 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:08 | 4836837 rwe2late
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 Kerry is correct

in that the addition of 5 men, even embittered by 10 years at Gitmo, makes no real difference.

 

The Taliban/Afghan/ Pashtun/Iraqi resistance will continue so long as the US

militarily occupies their countries, and supports the corrupt puppet governments

in those countries. The US, of course, breeds terrorism by its own terrorism (drones, assassinations, etc.), and its protection of nations (e.g. Saudis and Israel) that teach and incite extremism.

The fearful and  jingoist contention that 'terrorist' resistance depends whether a few Gitmo prisoners are released is all too conveniently ignorant and misguided.

 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:11 | 4836884 NoWayJose
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I agree with your premise that these five are not the cause of terrorism, but by releasiing these five we have shown that there is value to taking American hostages, and that even if the US catches you there is no need to talk because you can regain your frredom.  We also have released five men who are not just soldiers, but were leaders and planners - and they are not going to go hoome and get a job at a local bank - their only job will be to plan further attacks - something that they were very good at because that is how they ended up in Gitmo!

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:22 | 4836926 Sean7k
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And who supplies the weapons and the targets? Therefore, our leaders are training and supplying the people they use to kill us. If you want to stop the process, cut out the cause of the problem. 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:49 | 4836982 rwe2late
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NoWayJose

Your assertions about the prisoners and their capture is mistaken.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/06/08/taliban-prisoner-swap-a-fa...

Of course, a 'no prisoner swap' policy also has drawbacks, particularly that it promotes a 'taking no prisoner' policy by both sides (and no surrender).

 

But most importantly, the entire controversy is misplaced because it begs the question of bad policies which have led to the unnecessary and unsatisfactory choices inevitable when conducting warfare,

choices that are now narrowly and falsely presented as the only options available.

"To swap or not to swap" is hardly the question to debate when the official context and premises are so deceitful and fabricated.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:37 | 4837172 thamnosma
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You ignore the morale boosting factor completely.  It ain't "the 5" that's important, it's the symbolic victory and making the "great empire" look weak, which is actually the intention of Obam/Kerry and their cabal.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:08 | 4837267 rwe2late
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 Do you speak for the Taliban,

or is this based on an opinion poll,

or is this just your opinion based on your own experiences?

Whether the Taliban is "boosted" by negotiating with the global terrorist empire,

or whether they are deflated and made more amenable to further negotiate,

is the kind of pointless and hubristic conjecture which

abounds when nativist emotions are being stirred.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:03 | 4836847 NoWayJose
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By better arming the terrorists, we have decreased the ability of Congress and the people to restrict NSA activities.  Brilliant!

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:04 | 4836854 Eyeroller
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Lap dog press ignoring, or hiding this story inside a list of others.  No main headline attention.

Goes against Teflon Barry and Ketchup Kerry's claim that Taliban 5 will do no harm.

BALONEY

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:28 | 4836953 lakecity55
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5 Taliban Generals for 1 NCO is a great trade (if you side with the Taliban)!

The attack foiled at this point will make it more difficult to attack in the near future.

They will have to hit another Target.

So, do Backdoor Barry and Lurch have secret Taliban code names?

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:36 | 4836978 Colonel Klink
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I believe you just mentioned their codenames.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:35 | 4837162 thamnosma
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Not surprising but it really is one HUGE story.  How Obama media is playing it down is just more confirmation of just how pro the whores have become.  Not that we needed any further confirmation.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:36 | 4836975 Colonel Klink
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I dismiss everything that comes out of lurch's and Obama's cocksucker as baloney.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:57 | 4837045 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/ethics-charges-corruption-dem-senators/

BREAKING: Ethics Charges Filed for Multiple Democrat Senators for Corruption

Thanks to some intrepid journalism and numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, we have learned a great deal about the IRS targeting of conservative groups.

One thing in particular that has been learned is that the IRS targeting occurred at the behest of several Democrat Senators, and that the IRS broke the law by providing tax information to these Senators and their allies in order to help the Democrat Party mitigate their losses in the 2010 and 2012 elections.

It all stems from President Obama and the Democrats frustration over the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that cleared the way for conservative and libertarian political groups to get more involved in the political process.

But the pressure that Democrats exerted on the IRS to go after and target conservative and Tea Party groups has now resulted in charges of corruption and ethics violations against several top Democrat Senators, according to The Blaze.

The Center for Competitive Politics, which opposes campaign finance restrictions and other limits on political speech, filed a complaint with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics against nine Democratic senators, most notably Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin of Illinois and Carl Levin of Michigan, for repeated lobbying of the IRS to probe conservative groups.

It also specifically cites Charles Schumer of New York, who was the lead author of letters to the IRS signed by Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire; Tom Udall of New Mexico; Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island; Al Franken of Minnesota; Michael Bennet of Colorado; and Jeff Merkley of Oregon.

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Chuck the Shmuck who doesn't know who authored the Bill of Rights but wants a Constitutional amendment to control who and how campaign financing is done by the government itself....

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 10:59 | 4837049 Snoopy the Economist
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That's it - cancel my vacation to Pakistan. I think I'll go hiking in N Korea instead.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:19 | 4837302 COSMOS
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YOu will be a lot safer from terrorists there than any other place in the world lol

Nobody messes with them Koreans, it's a hornest's nest, and they didn't even have the jungles of Vietnam to use to keep the Chinese, Japanese, and Mongols at bay.

When the Koreans get pissed off be very afraid.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:00 | 4837054 Incubus
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jesus christ, I'm sick of all of this abrahamic bullshit.

 

As soon as I'm able to, I'm catching a shuttle for mars.  You maniacs can have earth.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 13:34 | 4837574 83_vf_1100_c
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"As soon as I'm able to, I'm catching a shuttle for mars.  You maniacs can have earth."

 

Nice fantasy but it's been done. White flight from the cities. They will just follow you. The .gov will ship them to your neighborhood and give them section 8 assistance in order to integrate your new hood.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:21 | 4837060 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/cash-to-terrorists/

BREAKING: Top Intel Official Says Obama Sent CASH to Terrorists

As the details of the White House orchestrated prisoner exchange become a little less murky, more and more about it seems to not make sense.

One thing that is clear though, is that President Obama violated the law when he made the swap, first by not notifying Congress as required, and second by providing “material support” to the Taliban, by releasing dangerous personnel to a known terrorist organization.

A few experts in the know are raising another question regarding “material support” for terrorists, which is, were cash payments involved in the deal?

This question has been raised by a few people that understand the unique differences between the characters involved in the Bergdahl/Taliban prisoner swap, namely that the Taliban is an ideologically-driven terrorist group, while the Haqqani Network, partial allies of the Taliban who were the captors of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, are more like a mafia or cartel type criminal organization. (H/T Washington Free Beacon)

Reported details of the high-profile prisoner swap that freed Bowe Bergdahl over the weekend are not telling the full story, according to a high-level intelligence official involved in efforts to find and rescue the Army sergeant.

The official, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press, speculated that a cash ransom was paid to the Haqqani Network to get the group to free the prisoner.

The Obama administration reportedly considered offering cash for his release as late as December 2013. The State Department has repeatedly refused to say whether the deal that released Bergdahl involved any cash payment.

Supposedly the ransom plan was discarded, but the official insists that money most likely changed hands in the deal.

“The Haqqanis could give a rat’s ass about prisoners,” the official said, referring to the Haqqani Network, a designated terrorist group in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were freed in exchange for Bergdahl’s release.

“The people that are holding Bergdahl want[ed] cash and someone paid it to them,” he said.

Again, the distinction is made between the Taliban and the Haqqani, with the Haqqani caring little about furthering Islamic ideology and focusing more on financial and political gains.

Four of the five prisoners released from Guantanamo were top Taliban commanders. One western diplomat said their release was “like moving the whole Quetta Shura (Afghan Taliban) to Qatar.”

Only one of the freed terrorists, Nabi Omari, was part of the Haqqani Network. But the presence of other more senior Haqqani prisoners at Guantanamo has observers wondering whether the network’s goal in the exchange was actually the release of Gitmo prisoners.

“One of these things doesn’t belong,” the intelligence official said. “If you were to put one of these [freed Taliban prisoners] with Haqqani in a room together, they’d beat the shit out of each other.”

Haqqani, he said, “benefits zero from the prisoner exchange. … Based on 10 years of working with those guys, the only thing that would make them move Bergdahl is money.”

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And if anyone still thinks Omuslim didn't shiv Pappy Bush, Cheney and the NWO boys in the back took control of their operation this should seal the deal considering who it is.

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Oliver North, infamous for his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair, which traded arms for hostages held by Iran, also thinks that a cash payment was involved in the prisoner swap.

“Whether the Qataris paid it, or some big oil sheik, or somebody used our petrodollars, there was a ransom paid in cash for each one of them, my guess somewhere in the round numbers of $5 or 6 million to get Bergdahl freed,” North told Newsmax.

“The groups do have links, but if Bergdahl was held by Haqqani and we released Quetta Shura, it seems Bergdahl’s captors were seeking something other than the Taliban prisoners, got paid off, and Obama simply used the trade as an excuse to release master terrorists from Gitmo,” Rubin (scholar with the American Enterprise Institute) said.

“We just funded them for the next 10 years is my guess,” he said.

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Unless they are that fucking stupid and paid the cash directly, which they probably were then it is going to be hard to tie a specific payment from the State Department through an intermediary like Qatar to this.

Don't think the military all of a sudden got all patriotic herre are finally going after Omuslim now for altruistic reasons. Pyschopaths tend to forget you can only kick a dog so many times before it turns and attacks you.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:08 | 4837083 SMC
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Lock any ZH regular up for a decade on suspicion and see what happens when he or she is released.

Through lies, corruption, sub 100 IQ propaganda, and thuggery; the US has lost any moral and ethical "high ground" that it may have once had.

For decades, we were the "Great Satan" - only recently has the American public realized that was a correct assessment.

Today we are somewhere between being the "Great Satan" and "Bozo the Clown".

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:12 | 4837089 MrBoompi
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As long as there is a US puppet in charge of Afghanistan, there will be armed resistance.  The five people released from GITMO won't make a goddamn bit of difference.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:33 | 4837156 thamnosma
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Apparently Afghanistan will have "armed resistance" even when there's no puppet government -- i.e. Taliban versus other warlords.  Before that they had a Russian puppet government.   It's a place best left to stir in its own juices. 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:55 | 4837238 Canadian Dirtlump
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Note that in all MSM ( mongoloid stream media ) they are typically exacting in their efforts to say " the talban in pakistan are a separate group than those in Afghanistan " when in reality the theoretical constructs of new age borders are an abstraction to people like that.

 

I don't know if it will end up being a tranparent lie in order to eventually see direct military action there, or it is used to justify drone bombing wedding receptions there, or if it is done to try to put a wall between them and the afghans to make a "recoliciliation" with the afghan taliban - which is most assuredly coming, more palatable.

 

Beyond that speaking of the russian "puppet" it is extraordinary that the Russians got head faked into a war which broke them, only outmatched by a government who, after head faking russia into a war, fell for it themselves, and have bankrupted themselves far worse.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:15 | 4837097 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/obamas-government/ Obama: “MY Government” Didn’t Need to Ask Congress to Release Terrorists [VIDEO]

Many people suspect that President Obama is something of a narcissist, a self-centered individual with a sense of entitlement, who believes that everything revolves around him and is at his beck and call.  In short, he acts like an egotistical emperor.

The imperial attitude is clearly on display when he takes one of his numerous expensive vacations or when he is out golfing while most people are having to cut costs and live within their means, and can’t afford to take a day off of work, much less go golfing or on a vacation.

Obama seems to think that the rules don’t apply to him, that he is special and somehow transcends the law that everyone else must abide by.  This is evident in the way he has repeatedly bypassed Congress to change laws or not enforce laws he doesn’t like.

Recently, Obama sat down with NBC’s Brian Williams and let his narcissism show.  He was asked about his unilateral decision to ignore Congress and release the five Taliban prisoners in exchange for Sgt. Bergdahl, which Obama says he doesn’t regret, completely oblivious to the widespread outrage at the illegal prisoner swap. (H/T Fox Nation)

“We saw an opportunity and we took it.  I make no apologies for it.”

“It was a unanimous decision among my principles in my government.”

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Narcist is just a lower form of pyschopath, he is more than a narcist.

I suggest people take some time and read this.

http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htm

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:17 | 4837105 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Just what we need more committees investigating things that go nowhere.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/bowe-bergdahl-deal-paul-ryan-house...

 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:27 | 4837129 bahaar
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the 5 Islamists released from Gitmo were members of (afghan) Taliban.  They were trained and controlled by Pakistan's military intelligence ISI who in turn were trained by CIA.  Originally they fought against the Soviets on behalf of the US.  But once Soviet Union fell and US withdrew, they were maintained by ISI to control Afghanistan and to wage an insurgency In India's Kashmir. 

 

The present attack on the other hand was carried out by Tehrik-e-Taliban.  Which is waging a war against Pakistani state and the upper echelons of Pakistani military/ISI.  It's aided and abetted by 'rogue elements' in ISI.  In other words, Tehrik-e-Taliban is an enemy of Taliban.  Basically,  Pakistani military/ISI have lost control of their creation just like CIA lost control of it's protege (ISI) in the '90s.  The militant groups have become a greateer threat to Islamic countries than to the West.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:06 | 4837270 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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4. The fifth one was Haqqani.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:31 | 4837145 thamnosma
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If the Taliban were really good they'd time one of these when John Kerry was on the tarmac.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:35 | 4837164 Canadian Dirtlump
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These savages were apparently radicalized by following bowe bergdahl's dad's youtube account.

 

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWY5to3oMQRcc9XZrpmSY5g

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:47 | 4837209 kchrisc
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They should have had the TSA guarding their airport.

 

                                 /s

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:57 | 4837245 Canadian Dirtlump
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The sad thing is, the TSA has a vip line for terrorists, as the following document showing that a muslim brotherhood delegation got special treatment shows:

 

http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/778.pdf

 

It's really a sad state of affairs... you can only shake your head.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 11:58 | 4837248 thamnosma
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Believe me, you didn't need the sarc tag.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:00 | 4837254 ChargingHandle
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The detainees loved their tropical club med getaway in Cuba so much that they have no intention of getting revenge for the decade of time they had to wear an orange jumpsuit. Of course they will pick up an AK again. To not do so would be dishonorable in their eyes.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:50 | 4837405 Canadian Dirtlump
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The grotesque thing is, Gitmo is as much a training facililty for terrorists as it is a prison. You have a dichotomy of guys sitting there getting rail roaded, then a bunch of guys who are in some sort of criminal statis / penalty box.

 

One of the guys they let go was responsible apparently for wiping out at least 1 village, killing literally thousands of people. Again how they can't justify killing him when they are happy to bomb a petting zoo in libya and a wedding reception in tunisia is beyond me.

 

It does show that this whole thing is a prick job of the highest order and there isn't any difference between a high level "terrorist" and someone calling the shots in our government's "deep state" or shadow government. They all play for the same team.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:51 | 4837411 Grumbleduke
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See, the war on terror in AFG is winding down. What are you to do, if you're all in the opium/heroin business (you know those three letter agency)?

Somehow, the alternative growing areas in Central Africa are not producing as planned (Kony2012).

The answer: You install your puppet to take over the opium trade for you.

Let me introduce you to Khair Ulla Said Wali Khairkhwa, "... He is described as one of the "major opium drug lords in western Afghanistan" and a "friend" of Karzai. He was arrested in Pakistan and was transferred to Guantanamo in May 2002..."

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/31/us/bergdahl-transferred-guantanamo-det...

 

The other four flunkies are placed there to distract you. And by judging your comments, it works just fine.

 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 13:22 | 4837520 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Not necessarily.

Mohammad Nabi Omari

Omari was a minor Taliban official in Khost Province. According to the first administrative review in 2004, he was a member of the Taliban and associated with both al Qaeda and another militant group Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin. He was the Taliban's chief of communications and helped al Qaeda members escape from Afghanistan to Pakistan. Omari acknowledged during hearings that he had worked for the Taliban but denied connections with militant groups. He also said that he had worked with a U.S. operative named Mark to try to track down Taliban leader Mullah Omar.

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And also has STRONG ties to Al-Qaida and the Haqqani Network.

http://wikileaks.org/gitmo/prisoner/832.html

http://wikileaks.org/gitmo/pdf/af/us9af-000832dp.pdf

As a reminder

http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm

Al Qaida and Haqqani Network are listed as terrorist organizations and Bowe also happened to be held by the Haqqani Network not the Taliban Afghan or Pakistan wing.

 

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 13:33 | 4837566 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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If people want to read the files on the other guys.

http://wikileaks.org/gitmo/name.html

CNN btw sourced those profiles in that story from these wikileaks files.....

Khair Ulla Said Wali Khairkhwa name is mispelled either by accident or purpose by CNN. He is listed under the name Khirullah Saud Wali Khairkhwa when you look through the directory.

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 14:27 | 4837841 shovelhead
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Oh dear,

Does that Saud in there mean what I think it means?

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 12:56 | 4837430 SystemOfaDrown
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Do you want rye, white or wheat bread with your baloney Mr. Kerry?

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 13:15 | 4837487 Jethro
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Kerry needs to stick with ketchup, as he doesn't appear to know "baloney"

Mon, 06/09/2014 - 14:16 | 4837733 shovelhead
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"...Aaand this is your horse-face DJ... Johnny K on Radio OBAM...

Where the hits just keep on coming."

"Let's crank up the Wayback machine to 1959 and listen to the #2 hit byyyyy ....Elvis Presley."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bApVF0pQN58&feature=kp

 

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