Posts belonging to Category Afghanistan
Posted by Thanos on July 2, 2009
Obama’s First Six Months: The Fail
Domestic
Even being kind and peering through rose-colored glasses won’t give the appearance that President Obama has succeeded in his major policy initiatives – especially when you look at real data from his first two quarters in office.
The biggest challenge he talked about in the final days of election season was [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Congress, Economy, Hugo Chavez, Iraq, Israel, Military, Obama, Pelosi, Politics, Security |
Tags: abu ghraib, Economy, fail, gitmo, jobs, Obama, taxes | 
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Posted by Thanos on July 1, 2009
Quick Hits
With the withdrawal of US Troops from Iraqi cities negotiated by the Bush administration we see the last major Iraq policy initiative of the previous President. If anything breaks in Iraq after this, it’s on Obama.
In Pakistan the Taliban are still retreating in a hard backwards slog where they are killing their own wounded, [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Iraq, Military, Obama, Pakistan |
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Posted by Thanos on May 22, 2009
Obama’s Open Government: Release Abu Ghraib Photos but No Visibility to Tarp Funds
I would laugh, but it’s not funny. President Obama is still waffling on releasing Abu Ghraib photos five years after the fact, and closing Gitmo, but at the same time the American public has pretty much zero visibility to where Tarp money is [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Economy, Obama, Politics, Tax-cuts |
Tags: abu ghraib, government, Obama, open, tarp, tax, taxes | 2 Comments »
Posted by Thanos on March 29, 2009
Is Worldwide Islamic Terror on the Ebb?
There’s certainly no dearth of terror events to report from Pakistan, the Mid-east, Afghanistan, Thailand, Indonesia, Iraq, etc. in any given week, however there are now single days without a report of Islamic terror anywhere.
For three years I’ve done an almost daily surf of news from all electronic sources [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, Pakistan, Terrorism |
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Posted by Thanos on December 28, 2008
As long as the ruling parties and elites in Pakistan continue to externalize their own problems this death spiral will continue. If they wake up one morning however and say “No, we don’t want to be the next Somalia, we must do something” then there could be some hope, the bird could gain wing and soar again; but in the current contretemps with India over Mumbai I don’t see many signs of that.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Capitalism, Pakistan, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, The Future |
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Posted by Thanos on December 4, 2008
As a followup to yesterday’s story on Hamid Gul, Bill Roggio has made some queries and has a solid report up at The Long War Journal. Well worth your your time to read.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, India, Israel, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism |
Tags: gul, hamid, huji, hum, India, JEM, kashmir, lal, let, masjid, Pakistan, terror, Terrorism, TNSM, TTP, un, us | 1 Comment »
Posted by Thanos on November 23, 2008
In an intercepted letter to Iran, Ayman Al Zawahiri praises Iran for their aid in setting up the terror cells in Yemen responsible for the recent US Embassy attacks there. In the past both Al Qaeda and the Taliban have sheltered in Iran, and without Iran’s logistics and weapons aid it’s doubtful that they can [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Iran, Iraq, Jundullah, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism |
Tags: Afghanistan, al, ayman, cell, embassy, Iran, Pakistan, qaeda, Taliban, terror, Terrorism, Yemen, Zawahiri | Comments Off
Posted by Thanos on November 22, 2008
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A long while back I said something to the effect that we won in Iraq the day we crossed the border, that ultimately victory itself would be defined by how long we needed to stay and by how perfect we want to leave Iraq. There are still some strides to make, some terrorists to kill, [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Freedom, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Military, Muslim Brotherhood |
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Posted by Thanos on November 20, 2008
The post title above is deliberately provocative, but it gets to the point of the matter, for Afghanistan is significantly different than Iraq. Please chew on that a minute before you disagree. I am certainly not saying that we should drag up, the title challenges the embedded assumptions of the armchair followers of the war (those [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Military, Pakistan, War |
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Posted by Thanos on November 19, 2008
Reports from Bill Roggio and AFP both say we might have gotten another member of Al Qaeda’s Shura council. A good way to go into the Thanksgiving holidays.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Military, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, War |
Tags: abdullah, Abdullah Azam al-Saudi, al, azam, bannu, bin, council, laden, Pakistan, qaeda, saudi, shura, terror, Terrorism, Waziristan, Zawahiri | Comments Off
Posted by Thanos on November 19, 2008
In a book being published serially, Sayyid Imam points out the lies and double-dealing of Ayman Al Zawhari, and challenges him to a cursing before God. See here at Jihadica, partial list below:
Zawahiri repeatedly says I wrote the Document [the Tarshid] under the supervision of the U.S. and the Jews. He is a liar and [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Egypt, Fatwa, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Pakistan, Terrorism |
Tags: agent, al, ayman, bin, curse, Egypt, imam, islamic, jihad, jihadica, Jundullah, laden, liar, osama, Pakistan, peshawar, qaeda, qaida, sayid, sayyid, sudan, sudanese, usama, Waziristan, Zawahiri | Comments Off
Posted by Thanos on October 7, 2008
This one’s hard to read, I can tell you where John should have zinged Barack a bit harder, but anyone can see those. As a political junkie I have to say that I don’t know how this will fly with non-political people. Trying to be objective, I would say that of the two John McCain [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Economy, Iran, Iraq, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, John McCain, Jundullah, Military, Obama, Politics, Sarah Palin, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Waziristan |
Tags: Afghanistan, barack, debate, mccain, Obama, Pakistan, presidential | 2 Comments »
Posted by Thanos on October 6, 2008
There’s a lot more than this that could be said, but in campaign commercials you have to keep it simple.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Biden, Congress, Elections, Iraq, Military, Obama, Pakistan, Politics |
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Posted by Thanos on September 26, 2008
First McCain did come off the best in this debate. Both candidates scored important points and talked to their base, however throughout the debate McCain talked to the middle as well and managed to score with all of America again and again.
He scored great points with his tough talk on economics and cutting spending while [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Congress, Corruption, Economy, Elections, Energy, Freedom, Iran, Iraq, Israel, John McCain, Military, Nuclear, Obama, Pakistan, Politics, Security, Taliban, Terrorism, The Future, Waziristan, environment |
Tags: Afghanistan, barack, debate, debates, economics, foreign, Iraq, john, mccain, Obama, Pakistan, policy, president, presidential | 4 Comments »
Posted by Thanos on September 9, 2008
Another predator missile attack occurred at the main Haqqani madrassa in Pakistan today, the previous is detailed here.
This appears to be a new strategy, with strikes coming non stop and that should keep the leaders moving. Since Pakistan suspended the FRC’s perhaps Nato intends to apply them as needed in the frontiers. The old [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Military, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, Waziristan |
Tags: al, attack, bin, haqqani, laden, lahore, madrassah, main, missile, peshawar, predator, qaeda, quetta, Taliban, Terrorism, TTP, Zawahiri | Comments Off
Posted by Thanos on September 8, 2008
A new missile strike in Pakistan has killed 16 Taliban at a madrassah complex belonging to a friend of Osama Bin Laden’s, Jalaluddin Haqqani. Haqqqani and his son, Sirajuddin, are the leaders of the Taliban in Afghanistan post-Daddullah, and they have been behind this year’s campaign of targetted bombings, kidnappings, and ambushes.
The refinement of tactics we’ve seen [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Military, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism, War, Waziristan |
Tags: Afghanistan, dande, darpa, drone, jalaluddin, khel, madrassa, missile, nato, north, Pakistan, predator, sirajuddin, Taliban, village, Waziristan | 3 Comments »
Posted by Thanos on September 7, 2008
Pakistan shut down the border crossing at Torkham to NATO fuel supplies after a series of raids by the US in Pakistan aimed at taking out the leadership of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. They reoppened the crossing today, and it demonstrates the power Pakistan has over Nato supply lines at the moment. The only [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Military, Pakistan, Politics, Taliban, Terrorism |
Tags: abu, al, ayman, baitullah, bin, border, crossing, karachi, laden, line, masri, mehsud, osama, Pakistan, predator, qaeda, strikes, supply, torkham, War, Waziristan, yazid, Zawahiri | Comments Off
Posted by Thanos on September 4, 2008
New Al Qaeda video is out showing the preparation for bombing the Danish Embassey in Pakistan, and it has footage of Abu Yazid “Saeed” Al Masri. The video is undated, but seems to purport that he is alive. Story here.
There’s also been another missile strike, and unconfirmed reports of a US helicopter raid into Pakistan. [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Terrorism |
Tags: abu, al, masri, qaeda, yazid | Comments Off
Posted by Thanos on September 1, 2008
The place this is most evident is in their ongoing war against Pakistan; with Musharraf gone and the fighting still going and reinforced by the most recent Al Zawahiri tape, it’s evident that the war isn’t against the US. It’s a war to achieve temporal power for the Neo-takfirist extremists who compose these groups.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Politics, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism, War, Waziristan |
Tags: aftab, ahmed, al, aq, bajaur, court, Elections, fazl, haq, judges, jui-f, jui-s, justices, missile, musharraf, north, offensive, ppp-s, president, qaeda, retired, sami, sherpao, south, strike, switzerland, Taliban, TTP, ul, Waziristan, zardari | 2 Comments »
Posted by Thanos on August 20, 2008
As Sahab, Al Qaeda’s media outlet, has released eulogies for two recently killed commanders, but Abu Yazid was not among them and he signed the message. This confirms that the August 12th reports of his demise from unamed Pakistani officials were false reports and leaves Saeed Al Masri on the high value target list.
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism |
Tags: abu, al, bajaur, masri, missile, qaeda, qaida, saeed, strike, Waziristan, yazid, Zawahiri | Comments Off
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