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"Well-Armed" Taliban Tried To Hijack Airplane Leading To Pakistan Airport Shootout
"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.
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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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More gate fokkers...
Obozo just freed 5 of these guys...
"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...
Have they solved that 'disappearing' malaysian air plane thing yet?
That insolet rodeo clown is still on the loose too!
I see the Drone program in Pakistan has been a complete success! Go Barack Go! Winning!
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
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?
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."
Looks like some negotiations are in order.
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.
I hear the destination was Detroit if they'd had gotten hold the plane. Also known as "Plan Phuck this Shit."
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.
So is that Monkey with a Hand Grenade!
SOL, yes, hostile takeover by the Rothschilds. Everyone else was just collateral damage.
Ketchup and baloney. Yuk!
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.
"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?)
That didn't take long.
Hashtag: SmartDiplomacy.
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.
EVERYTHING LURCH SAYS should be taken as a contrarian indicator.
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..........
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."
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.
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/
Dig deeper and think Petraeus and Benghazi and the recently outed CIA station chief by Omuslim.....
Oh yes. We know what Stevens was doing in Benghazi.
But what difference does it make? ;-)
http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-u...
You ask too damn many questions.....What difference does it make.........
/sarc
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.
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But what difference does it make? ;-) ;-)
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
Brillant! It just shows how pure eveil these fuckers are in wdc.
CIA trained the Taliban and this is surprising?
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/
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".
We fight ourselves, and the banksters take the spoils.
Fast and Furious, indeed.
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.
Uh, no, they did exactly what Bath House hoped they would do. Kill.
+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 FirearmThe whole prisoner swap stinks like an open cesspool....but then what doesn't these days.
We still have not had enough to demand en masse that he resign.
What will it take?
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.
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.
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!
Hey this can't be.
They used unregistered assault weapons!
FUAC!
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...
Think about the locals that trusted us to take care of these assholes.
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.
I'm all for damaging of governments. But the problem is the tax payer will pay the bill sooner or later.
So what's the difference, if any, between Taliban and AlKidya? Some sort of franchise thing? One more controlled by the zionists?
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.”
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.
Backdoor Barry: World Terrorist #1
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.
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.
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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.
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And lest us not forget the Justice Department is setting up a taskforce to investigate domestic terrorists while all this is happening....
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.
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"]
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.
sell the Taliban some aluminum siding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BxuPJy2mlc
Taliban – Obama Style
Authorities are searching for the ringleader, pictured here [IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/209r9g6.jpg[/IMG]
+10!!
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....
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
By better arming the terrorists, we have decreased the ability of Congress and the people to restrict NSA activities. Brilliant!
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
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?
I believe you just mentioned their codenames.
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.
I dismiss everything that comes out of lurch's and Obama's cocksucker as baloney.
http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/ethics-charges-corruption-dem-senators/
BREAKING: Ethics Charges Filed for Multiple Democrat Senators for CorruptionThanks 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.
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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....
That's it - cancel my vacation to Pakistan. I think I'll go hiking in N Korea instead.
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.
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.
"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.
http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/cash-to-terrorists/
BREAKING: Top Intel Official Says Obama Sent CASH to TerroristsAs 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)
Supposedly the ransom plan was discarded, but the official insists that money most likely changed hands in the deal.
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.
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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.
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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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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)
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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
Just what we need more committees investigating things that go nowhere.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/bowe-bergdahl-deal-paul-ryan-house...
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.
4. The fifth one was Haqqani.
If the Taliban were really good they'd time one of these when John Kerry was on the tarmac.
These savages were apparently radicalized by following bowe bergdahl's dad's youtube account.
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWY5to3oMQRcc9XZrpmSY5g
They should have had the TSA guarding their airport.
/s
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.
Believe me, you didn't need the sarc tag.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh dear,
Does that Saud in there mean what I think it means?
Do you want rye, white or wheat bread with your baloney Mr. Kerry?
Kerry needs to stick with ketchup, as he doesn't appear to know "baloney"
"...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