Obama Is Right About Pakistan

I haven't said this out loud. In fact, I've let others post their opinions about Obama suggesting that if Musharraf doesn't get busy destroying the Taliban then we might have to. What do I think? I think Obama finally got a foreign policy statement right.

Mike Fumento says what I've been thinking:

But give Obama this, he is the first candidate (that I know of) who has called the Pakistanis to task for allowing al Qaeda and other international Islamist terror groups to operate there with impunity. Western Pakistan today is what Afghanistan was on September 10th. Terrorists currently operate in Afghanistan but there's little evidence they operate out of it. SOMEBODY in some way needs to clear out the Pakistani rat's nest and if Obama stirs debate as to how, all power to him.

The point of Obama's statement, I think, was not to suggest that we must invade Pakistan, but a warning to the Pakistanis that its either them or us. Preferably them, of course, but let's not rule out the option. If they won't wipe out the al Qaeda safe havens in Pakistan, and we don't do it, then who will?

Yes, I know they have nukes. So do we. And, unlike the Pakistanis, we have the means of delivering them on our enemies.

By taking that threat off the table we give Musharraf another reason to try to negotiate his way out of the present conflict with the Taliban. And I'm always for keeping all options on the table.

Clarification: I'm not suggesting that Obama is right on anything else, nor that he's not uninformed about the very real al Qaeda threat in Iraq, just that he's right about this one particular thing: it's time to start threatening Pakistan again.

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Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Video

A security camera caught the yesterday's bridge collapse, John at Powerline has the video up here.

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Even Arabs Won't Employ Women with Veils

So, even Arabs don't want to hire women wearing a face veil? But aren't we told by CAIR and the ISNA that anyone that would require a woman to take her veil off must be motivated by bigotry and hate? Crossroads of Arabia:

The 22-year-old says several potential employers in the United Arab Emirates have turned her down because she wore the niqab, a face veil that usually leaves only the eyes uncovered....

"No one takes women with niqab in the retail sector," said [Aysha] Obeid who unsuccessfully applied for jobs at two retail outlets. She is now looking for back office administrative jobs where she believes she may have more chance of being employed.

Sweet, sweet irony.

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Funny Video: Taliban Graduation Ceremony in English

That's Mullah Mansoor Dadullah above advising students to blow up the French from a much discussed 'graduation' video that made the rounds in June. It's actually part 4 of the video, but it's definitely the funniest.

Seriously, listening to these soon-to-be-dead Taliban suicide shahids 'graduate' is funny. Each new accent is funnier than the last. Even the dude with the Russian accent, Chechen I'm sure. I swear that the guy that makes his appearance at the 4:18 mark is Apu. He even says "Islam is peace", bwahahahahaaaaaaaa!! Thank you, come again! more...

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Top Taliban Commander Killed

I'm having a good day. NATO ISAF:

A senior Taliban leader, Qari Faiz Mohammad, was killed by Afghan National Security Forces and ISAF security operation July 23 in southern Afghanistan.

“The Taliban leadership has suffered another severe setback,” said Lt. Col. Claudia Foss, ISAF spokesperson. “Each successful operation ensures insurgent disruption that gives way for stability operations to take place.”

Who was he?:

ISAF says Qari Faiz Mohammad, a top Taliban commander with close links to supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar ... was one of Afghanistan’s ‘Most Wanted’ Taliban leaders. He acted as Chairman of the Taliban military council and allegedly financed many Taliban operations launched in Helmand province, according to the BBC.

Let's just hope it's the start of a good week.

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Blame Bush: Brits had bin Laden Intel in 1998

Wow, this is outrageous if true. Of course, the Guardian author conveniently leaves out the fact that in 1998-99 it was the Clinton CIA that failed to promise MI6 that Osama bin Laden wouldn't be tortured. Guardian:

Ministers insisted that British secret agents would only be allowed to pass intelligence to the CIA to help it capture Osama bin Laden if the agency promised he would not be tortured, it has emerged.

MI6 believed it was close to finding the al-Qaida leader in Afghanistan in 1998, and again the next year. The plan was for MI6 to hand the CIA vital information about Bin Laden. Ministers including Robin Cook, the then foreign secretary, gave their approval on condition that the CIA gave assurances he would be treated humanely.

So, who is at fault? George W. Bush, of course, even thought he wasn't President until 3 years later. It's Bush derangement syndrome at its finest.

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Sudan: Jooos Behind Genocide in Darfur

The Joooos made us commit genocide.

Ynet via Prairie Pundit: Sudan's defense minister, Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, has accused "24 Jewish organizations" of "fueling the conflict in Darfur" last week in an interview with a Saudi newspaper.

Hussein was interviewed during an official state-visit to the Saudi kingdom last week.

A journalist from Saudi Arabia's Okaz newspaper asked Hussein: "Some people are talking about the penetration of Jewish organizations in Darfur and that there is no conflict there?"

The answer Prairie Pundit's question, No, No there isn't anything worse.

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Taliban Retard Shot, Not Suicide Bomber

Fred Fry sends me this. LOL:

Taleban commander Abdullah Mehsud was killed by Pakistani soldiers and did not commit suicide, one of the owners of the house in which he died says.

Just remember the "genius" and ex-Gitmo prisoner the Taliban chose as a senior "commander"...... more...

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Science! Taliban Suicide Bombers Suck

I never thought I would actually laugh out loud reading anything from The Jamestown Foundation. Are the Taliban really this inept? Yes, they are. No wonder they have to resort to murdering hostages--they're own suicide bombers can't get it right!

You really have to read these key findings:

An analysis of the attacks carried out in the last two years reveals a curious fact. In 43% of the bombings conducted last year and in 26 of the 57 [=46%] bombings traced in this study up to June 15, the only death caused by the bombing was that of the bomber himself. Astoundingly, approximately 90 suicide bombers in this two year period succeeded in killing only themselves. This number exceeds 100 when you factor in those who succeeded in killing only one person in addition to themselves. There was one period in the spring of 2006 (February 20 to June 21) when a stunning 26 of the 36 suicide bombers in Afghanistan (72%) only killed themselves.....

The cause for the Afghan suicide bombers' underwhelming performance, [Afghan police and soldiers] claimed, lay in the ineptitude of the people the Taliban were recruiting as fedayeen (suicide) bombers. Afghan officials continually told stories of lower class people who had been seduced, bribed, tricked, manipulated or coerced into blowing themselves up as "weapons of God" or "Mullah Omar's missiles." Afghan NDS officials also spoke of apprehended bombers who were deranged, retarded, mentally unstable or on drugs.

In one case, they told of a mentally deranged man who threw his vest at an Afghan patrol, assuming it would explode on its own .... Others, including a Taliban bomber who was arrested while pushing his explosives-laden car toward its target after it ran out of gas, appear to be inept beyond belief ... Coalition troops who have spoken of seeing bombers blow themselves up far from their convoys have characterized it as the act of drugged or mentally unstable bombers.

Also adding to the ineptness of Taliban suicide bombers? more...

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"Martyred" Taliban Commander Was Retarded

An image of Abdullah Mehsud in an interview with reporters in 2004. A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner released after he was found not to be a threat, and who later returned to Pakistan to become an important Taliban leader involved in multiple attacks against US and Afghani forces, died today after blowing himself and several companions up when they were surrounded by Pakistani forces.

Oh, and it appears he was also retarded. Is it just me, or is the Taliban gunman standing next to Mehsud staring at his one slipper and one shoe thinking, "I can't believe they put him in charge."

Hat tip: Stealth

UPDATE: This really calls for a caption contest. So, caption it!

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Good News: No Death Penalty for Muslim Apostates
Bad News: Torturing of Converts Continues Uninterupted

UPDATE 7/24: Did I say there was a caveat, or what? He's now denying it:

"What I actually said is that Islam prohibits a Muslim from changing his religion and that apostasy is a crime, which must be punished," Goma'a said.

Maybe someone needs to break the sad news to Ali Eteraz?------ more...

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Hezbollah Child Abuse

Hezbollah youth celebrating 'victory' over Israel in last summer's war. You'll really want to see this. more...

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Islamic Rage Boy on NPR

It turns out Islamic Rage Boy's job is to protest. A guy getting paid to be pissed off at the West full time.....are you sure his name isn't Michael Moore?

UPDATE: A guy getting paid to be pissed off at the West full time.....quick, somebody give him tenure in a Liberal Arts department.

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Videoblogging Afghanistan

Matt Sanchez reports from Afghanistan. more...

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Video: Saudi Girls Gone Wild!

I've seen a number of these videos posted by "Iraqi Translator Marines" over at Liveleak. He seems to be an Arab himself, and he always addresses his videos to the "jihadis", mocking their hypocritical puritanism.

To be honest, I've hesitated posting them because I'd hate to be the one that brought the Saudi Ministry of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice to their houses for a questioning the would lead to a lashing or worse-- beheading. But since these are fairly popular videos in Saudi Arabia anyway, I thought it only proper to spread them to the infidel viewing public.

Consider this agitrop against the fanatical Salafs and Wahabs. For every terrorist shipped off to Iraq or Afghanistan to fight the kuffar, they leave behind 20 more young Arabs who may claim they hate the West, but in secret they mimick some the worst parts of our culture. You know, the Jerry Springer and MTV America.

So, without further ado, Girls Gone Wild: Saudi Arabia Style! Warning: Some of the vids not exactly SFW. Okay, they're all SFW (I didn't embed the naughtier ones), but they're definetely NSFW if you're in Saudi Arabia! more...

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Fatah: Hamas Worse than Israelis

What did you expect from a group of terrorists pledged to the enactment of sharia law? MEMRI:

Fatah Central Committee member Zakariya Al-Agha has called the deeds of Hamas members "barbaric, to say the least," and stated that the torture that Hamas is using against Fatah, as seen in the past two days, is worse than the torture used by the occupation.

Me? I'm feeling conflicted.

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Is it On in Pakistan?

With all the attacks in Pakistan, is it safe to say that it's on? If it is, then can Mushareff win? Or will taking on the Taliban leave us with one less "ally" in the region and a nuclear armed Taliban?

Photos of today's attack here.

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Zawihiri Close to Capture?

This is what DEBKA is claiming:

Until the middle of last week, Zuwahiri sheltered with the local Pashtun tribes in Bannu, a town in the northwest Pakistan tribal federation of North Waziristan. The approach of Pakistani and US intelligence and special forces caused him to switch hiding places and move to Tank or Tang, a town 120 km south of Bannu.

On Saturday, two soldiers were injured by a bomb explosion in that town, having just missed their quarry.

Since the report also claims that the search for Zawahiri has put them on the trail of Osama bin Laden, then color me skeptical. After last week's "new" Osama bin Laden video, I also have a pretty good guess where he is: hell.

Hat tip: Rocketsbrain

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Sleeping With the Enemy: AP in Bed with Terrorists

I hate to admit it, but I certainly like the terrorists in the al Aqsa martyr's brigades better than the terrorists in Hamas or al Qaeda in Palestine. Apparently, so does the AP.

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Video: Adul Rashid Ghazi Dead

A video of the slain leader of the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Pakistan, Adul Rashid Ghazi. No tears, this guy was a supporter of al Qaeda and wanted to bring Taliban style government to Pakistan. Good riddance.

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al Qaeda Video: Zawahiri on the Red Mosque

For the third time in a week, al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri has released a video through his as Sahab media arm. The four minute video features Zawahiri speaking on the conflict between the Pakistani government and the leaders of the Red Mosque.

In it, he castigates Pakistanis for failure to support the extremists in the mosque and for not taking violent action against the President Pervez Musharraf.

Like the video from two days ago, this video is really just an audio of Zawahiri superimposed over an image of him. However, unlike that video, this one is subtitled in English.

Laura Mansfield has a complete transcript and a download of the video here. Here's a taste:

Muslims of Pakistan: your salvation is only through Jihad. Rigged elections will not save you, politics will not save you, and bargaining, bootlicking, negotiations with the criminals and political maneuvers will not save you.

Your salvation is only through Jihad, so you must now back the Mujahideen in Afghanistan with your persons, wealth, opinion and expertise, because the Jihad in Afghanistan is the door to salvation for Afghanistan, Pakistan and the rest of the region. Die honorably in the fields of Jihad, and don't live like women with moustaches and beards. Aren't there any honorable ones in Pakistan? Aren't there any jealous ones? Isn't there anyone who prefers the hereafter to the life of this world?

Is it just me, or is Zawahiri sounding desperate to you?

UPDATE: Breitbart has the video up now.

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Secret to Better Grades Discovered: Carry an M-16 Rifle to Exams

One caveat: only seems to work in Palestinian territories.

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Al Qaeda #2 Condemns Knighting of Salmon Rushdie

Ah, and now we know what this "big announcement" was supposed to be. We knew it would only be a matter of time before Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda's #2 man, spoke out against the British Knighting of Salmon Rushdie. This is the second time as Sahab, al Qaeda's production arm, has released a statement from Zawahiri this week. The Jawa Report has a copy of the statement, courtesy of Laura Mansfield's Strategic Translations.

The video--which is really just a still photo of Zawahiri accompanied by audio--is called "Malicious Britain and its Indian Slaves". SITE:

In response, Zawahiri threatens that a “very precise response” is in the stages of preparation, and addresses current Prime Minister Gordon Brown, stating: “The policy of your predecessor has brought tragedy and defeat upon you, not only in Afghanistan and Iraq but also in the center of London. And if you did not understand, listen, we are ready to repeat it for you, with the permission of Allah. We are sure that you have quite understood it.”

Word on the streets is that the planned action in Britain is supposed to be "bigger than 9/11". But isn't that what they're always saying?

Zawahiri goes on to praise the bombing of U.N. Peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon, and calls for jihad in Pakistan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

Big words from a guy in a cave..........

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Liberal Blogger/Porn Editor Wants Uncle Ted Dead

Hart Williams, Via WND (cause I won't link Hart): Whoever wants Ted Nugent is welcome to him, but I would prefer that you would call it now, so as to conserve on ammunition. We will need to manage it prudently. But when the day comes that they have finally set brother against brother, and sister against sister in the name of their pocketbooks, I won't approach exterminating them with anything approaching remorse. They've already told me what they think of me, of my friends and of my peers. Now, I'm returning the favor. Put that in your pipe and have the WSJ editorial staff show you how to smoke it, Nugent. Courage."

Typical liberal wuss! He can't stand up to Ted man to man, because Ted would rip his head off and crap down his neck, so his solution is to shoot dear old Uncle Ted. And for writing an article, oh my god, where are all those free speech liberals now?

Sneaking up on Ted Nugent's Ranch with a gun? Errrr....uh...good luck with that?! It appears Ted should be able to defend himself quite well. more...

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Wookiee After Nookie

He made his failed advance by placing the target of his affections hand on his massive schlong.

Via CBS2: (CBS) HOLLYWOOD, Calif. A Chewbacca impersonator sexually assaulted a Marilyn Monroe impersonator in front of the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood in June. The wookie then evaded arrest, police said.

According to an officer with the LAPD, Chewbacca allegedly took the platinum-coiffed actress's hand and placed it on his private parts as the characters performed for tips from tourists.

Wookiees are verbally challenged, most Marilyn Monroe look-a-likes don't speak Shyriiwook. How is he supposed to let her know he's interested?

I'd give the wookiee a break for his language barrier, except this is not the first time Chewy has been overly aggressive in seeking a little attention from human females.

Once you go wookiee......

Hat Tip: Liz. more...

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