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Friday, June 11, 2010

Afghanistan: The True Face Of The Taliban, And Their Hatred Of Children

Filed under: Afghanistan,Al Qaeda — Tags: , , , , , — Matt @ 12:37 PM

     I think I will let the articles below speak for themselves.  Using children as suicide bombers or hanging 7 year old kids in public? Pffft. I have no respect for an enemy that uses children like this, and this is Lords Resistance Army material here. –Matt

Edit: 06/12/2010- Oh, and now the Taliban is using poison gas on children.  These guys are pathetic.

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Young Afghan suicide bomber approached wedding guests

‘Everyone immediately tried to escape,’ one guest said. But the boy’s suicide vest detonated, killing more than 40 and wounding at least 80, said a police chief who witnessed the attack.

By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times

June 11, 2010

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan

The boy, dressed in white and thought to be no older than 13, appeared amid the din of a wedding party in a small southern Afghan village and walked up to within 15 feet of a cluster of tables where everyone was eating. As he prepared to detonate his suicide bomb vest, the gathering flew into a panic.”Everyone immediately tried to escape,” said Abdullah Jan, a guest at the wedding. But there was no time.The boy’s suicide vest packed with explosives detonated, killing more than 40 people and wounding at least 80, said Zemarai Khan, a local police chief who was at the wedding and witnessed the attack.Carried out late Wednesday in a small village in Kandahar province, the attack underscored the vulnerability of Afghan society even as President Hamid Karzai pursues negotiations with Taliban insurgents who have waged war with his government and Western forces for nearly nine years.The Taliban has scoffed at Karzai’s peace offer and has carried out a wave of deadly attacks since the Afghan leader convened a national peace conference in Kabul, the capital, last week aimed at establishing a framework for talks with the insurgency.The bombing of the wedding in the village of Nagahan in the Arghandab district was the deadliest of those attacks. The bomber, who witnesses said was 12 or 13, targeted a housing compound where men and young boys were celebrating the wedding, authorities said. Female guests were in a different area. The groom was injured but survived, Jan said. His brother was killed. (more…)

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Funny Stuff: Anwar Al-Awlaki–The Imam Of Prostitution

Filed under: Al Qaeda,Funny Stuff,Photo — Tags: , , , , , , — Matt @ 5:28 PM

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Al Qaeda: Drone Strike Is Said To Kill Number Three AQ Leader

Filed under: Al Qaeda,Pakistan — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 11:36 AM

   Ok, my first thought on this, is that it sucks to be the number three guy in AQ.  It always seems like the number three guy gets killed all the time at all the countries AQ is operating at.  But this is a little different.  This is a big big fish, and we killed him.  But this is where I have a big problem with this strike.

   If we had a fix on AQ’s number three guy, then I think a capture mission would have been in order.  It would have been worth the risk in my view, and we probably could have captured a couple of other fish and documents along with the raid. We are talking about a target that is part of the inner circle of Al Qaeda, and not some junior varsity booger eater.      Of course Pakistan would not approve.  But in this case, that would be a part of the risk, and I think going in would have been extremely profitable for this war.

   That is the downside to all of these drone strikes.  For every big fish we kill, we lose out on a bunch of intelligence on the organization.  That bonanza of intel could completely open up Al Qaeda, and lead to a massacre of that group. His capture could have led to the capture of Bin Laden, and I think the political or tactical risk involved with such a capture mission would have been acceptable in this case. We are at war with a non-state enemy, and yet we continue to allow this group to take advantage of the of a state in places like Pakistan. –Matt

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Strike Is Said to Kill a Top Qaeda Leader

May 31, 2010

By ERIC SCHMITT

WASHINGTON — The operational leader for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was killed in an American missile strike in Pakistan’s tribal areas in the last two weeks, according to a statement the group issued late Monday that American officials believe is correct.

The militant leader, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian, was a top financial chief for Al Qaeda as well as one of the group’s founders, and was considered by American intelligence officials to be the organization’s No. 3 leader, behind Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, another Egyptian.

“His death will only be a severe curse by his life upon the infidels,” Al Qaeda said in a statement issued to jihadist Web sites and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors statements by jihadists.

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Bounties: How The Taliban And Al Qaeda Use Bounties In The War

Filed under: Afghanistan,Al Qaeda,Iraq — Tags: , , , , , , — Matt @ 10:16 AM

     “We can’t lie to our commanders: they can check to see if there was a fight in that area. We get money if we capture equipment too. A gun can fetch $1,000 [£690],” said a commander from Khost province who controls about 60 fighters.

The money usually reaches commanders via the traditional hawala transfer system found in many Muslim countries. They then share it among their men and sometimes celebrate with a feast.

     “It’s a lot of money for us. We don’t care if we kill foreigners: their blood allows us to feed our families and the more we kill, the more we weaken them. Of course we are going to celebrate this,” said a commander from Ghazni province.

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     This post is about what the enemy is doing to create an industry out of killing us. This is a disgusting topic to go over, but I still think it is important to study what the enemy is doing and learn from it. ‘Know your enemy’ is what I am all about, and this is what I am attempting to do here.

     So let’s talk about this. I guess the big difference between our bounty system, and their bounty system, is that they actually want people to either kill or capture folks and that there are no legal restrictions for that process. It is the purest form of a free market based killing mechanism.

     The west though are the only ones in this fight putting restrictions on how the bounty system is to be used, and in turn making the bounty system ineffective in my opinion. We have a 50 million dollar bounty on Usama Bin Laden’s head, but the only way to collect on it is that you can only give information on his whereabouts. A company or individual could not go after UBL and kill or capture him because the west abhors such things. It infringes on this so-called monopoly on the use of force that the we love to embrace, and meanwhile our enemies are mocking us.

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Maritime Security: The Greater Strategic Threat Of The Jihad Corsairs Of Somalia, By Dr. Walid Phares

Filed under: Al Qaeda,Letter Of Marque,Maritime Security,Somalia,Strategy — Tags: , , , , , , — Matt @ 9:16 AM

     I had actually linked to this article awhile back when I was discussing jihadist privateers, and Dr. Phares had actually written a similar article with a similar theme.  So I just wanted to get this article registered in the database here, for future research.

     The best part of this article to me, was the use of the arabic word for corsair or qursaan.  This is what the middle east press call the Somali pirates, and qursaan has it’s roots in the French word corsair.  So I thought that was kind of cool, but I am not sure if the ME press actually consider the Somali pirate a privateer or practitioner of legalized piracy?  Which leads me to my next point.

     It is difficult to determine if in fact piracy is becoming the tool of jihadists or not. I would think that most pirates at this point are just in it for the money, and would claim an islamist slant to their project if it would help them to get more money or support for their ventures.

     A couple weeks back, I posted some stuff about islamists falsely claiming to take over pirate towns to get rid of piracy. In fact they were just trying to gain control over ports so they can make money off of the secondary businesses related to piracy.  Someone has to tax these pirates, or feed them, or use them for arms and soldier shipments, or provide a place for the wary pirate to sleep.

    But it is hard to determine if these Jihadist are actually investing in piracy ventures, or directing attacks in a strategic sense.  It would not be that much of a stretch for them to do so, and that is why it is important to keep this kind of stuff in the back of our heads when looking at piracy in the modern age.

     The other thing I was thinking about the other day, is what is the Islamic version of the Letter of Marque?  Is it the Fatwa or would you call this Ghazawat? Interesting stuff. –Matt

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The Greater Strategic Threat of the Jihad Corsairs of Somalia

by Walid Phares, Ph.D.Published 21 Apr 09

Most of the media discussion about piracy in the Gulf of Aden has drifted understandably towards the sensational part of the story: how are the Pirates able to roam the Ocean? Is paying them ransom a better option than to engage them militarily? Last but not least, will a military intervention against the Pirates worsen the situation; will it lead to a massive escalation in Somalia and a Vietnam like quagmire for many years to come?

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