Category Archives: Afghanistan

Afghanistan. Everybody out of the pool.

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Obama has announced that he is pulling out over 100,000 troops this year. That would mean within the next 6 months and possibly 200,000 by the end of the year total. England today said it would withdraw another 1000 or so troops by the end of 2012.

Poland and other nations are withdrawing troops and other nations like Canada sure as hell are not staying there if the US is leaving. The US is at war on several fronts. In the past few days, several targets in Somalia have been struck clearly by US forces, all belonging to Al Shabab. US forces are operating in Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. There are likely other theaters of operations as well against Islamics.

This leaves me with two questions.

1. What have we accomplished in Afghanistan that warrants such major troop withdrawal. Is it that they are needed somewhere else? (Hopefully Iran)

2. How many fronts can a nation be at war before it is called a ‘World War’. Whats the protocol on that, anyone know?

Eeyore

Teachers reluctant to discuss 9/11

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Islam once again manages to force the rest of the world to change historical, even contemporary historical fact and how it is taught to avoid ‘offending’ them in some way. Here is a thought. If Islam does not wish to be exposed as the ideology behind death, mass murder, destruction and retrograde actions to civilization, just get Muslims to stop doing all those things. Problem solved.

From The Telegraph:

Teachers are reluctant to discuss the September 11 attacks on America because they fear it will provoke racism and Islamaphobia in class, according to a survey.

By Stephen Adams

3:35PM BST 24 Jun 2011

Those in schools with high numbers of Muslim children are particularly concerned about talking about the atrocity – despite it being arguably the defining event of the 21st century so far.

Alison Kitson, faculty director at the Institute of Education at London University, which carried out the survey, said teachers should “grasp the nettle” and tackle the subject. They should credit children with more maturity, she said.

Four in five teachers (81 per cent) said that when teaching the topic, it was a challenge to break “students’ stereotypes and prejudices about other cultures”.

The academics polled almost 200 teachers across the country and also visited eight schools: four in London, and one each in Leeds, Worcestershire, Oxford and Surrey.

At two schools, teachers showed “serious resistance” to raising the subject, while in another there was “some resistance” from staff.

Teachers in schools with higher proportions of children from ethnic minority backgrounds were most against discussing 9/11. Continue Reading →

Obama to pull 10,000 troops from Afghanistan this year. MSNBC

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From MSNBC

Pentagon officials prepared for President Barack Obama to announce Wednesday that as many as 10,000 troops will be pulled from Afghanistan by year’s end, a move that would strike a middle ground between commanders who wanted to keep most of their current resources and lawmakers seeking steeper war savings.

White House and senior officials were tight-lipped Tuesday about the specific details of Obama’s announcement, but defense officials told The Daily Beast they were anticipating a plan to reduce up to two brigades of 5,000 soldiers each this year.

One possibility is that one brigade will be pulled directly from Afghanistan and that a second planned for rotation into the country won’t be sent to achieve the savings, officials said.

The Beast’s Leslie H. Gelb reported a week ago that Obama had already decided that all 30,000 troops added to the Afghan theater beginning in late 2009 as part of a surge to combat a growing insurgency would be withdrawn by the end of 2012. But the question that has lingered is how fast and how many this year.

The president has shown a propensity to split the difference among his inner circle of national security advisers. The 30,000 withdrawal figure was itself a compromise, and would still leave the U.S. at the end of 2012 with the largest military contingent inside Afghanistan at 70,000 troops.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen David Petraeus, commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, gave Obama a range of options. On a farewell tour of U.S. troops in Afghanistan earlier this month, Gates said repeatedly that any drawdown should initially be “modest”.

Gates and Petraeus are believed to have favored a pullout this year of no more than 3,000-5,000 troops, with more to follow in 2012. But defense officials told the Beast that one of the options they had given to Obama did envisage doubling that initial drawdown.

More here at MSNBC

Danish report on treatment of women in Afghanistan today.

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Add this to a few of the recent news reports and articles on Afghanistan and it makes one wonder, exactly what are we fighting for there, what are we paying for, what is the point? I will be uploading a video on the prison break of hundreds of Taliban through a thousand foot tunnel just in time for fighting season. Meanwhile…

Hundreds of Taliban use tunnel to bolt Kandahar jail in security ‘disaster’

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YAHOONEWS… KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Hundreds of Taliban fighters bolted from prison in a daring escape overnight Sunday, prompting a huge hunt for the fugitives and exposing glaring security gaps in efforts to contain the insurgency.

Kandahar Gov. Tooryalai Wesa said Monday that a total of 475 political prisoners had escaped, “including one criminal.”

The insurgents had worked for months digging the tunnel they used to get out, Wesa said.

The tunnel was started in a house located to the north-east of the Sarpoza prison in the city’s Sarfooza area and continued to the entrance of the prison’s political block about 300 metres away.

“Some of the escaped prisoners have been recaptured by the security forces,” Wesa said.

“Huge operations have been launched inside and on the outskirts of Kandahar city for the rest of them.”

A spokesman for the Taliban, Qarii Yousaf Ahmadi, claimed that 541 insurgents escaped overnight after tunnelling underground to avoid security checkpoints. Continue Reading →

Muslim population in Western Europe rising

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IB NEWS… The population of Muslims in Western Europe has been steadily rising in recent decades, largely due to immigration from the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.

In Southeastern Europe, much of which once formed part of the Ottoman Empire, Muslims have been present for many centuries, but they are a relatively new phenomenon in the western part of the continent.

On the whole, Muslim’s represent about 5 percent of the population of the EU 27.

Far-right politicians in Europe have long warned that the Muslim numbers will continue to grow due to higher birth rates. Marine Le Pen, the head of France’s anti-immigrant National Front party, who openly discusses the rising number Muslims in France, could conceivably win next year’s presidential election, according to polls.

While the percentage of Muslims as part of the overall population of western European nations are in single digits, a 2009 study by the Telegraph newspaper in the UK estimated that by 2050, Muslims will account for 20 percent of the European Union’s populace. Long before that, Britain, Spain and The Netherlands will reach and surpass that figure. Continue Reading →

Obama appologises for Koran burning, and is burned himself in effigy in Afghanistan

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Here is an interesting couple of clips. At least Obama took a stand on the issue, albeit a soft one.

Meanwhile, this just in from STRATFOR:

Afghanistan: More Than 100 Dead In Kandahar Riots
April 3, 2011
More than 100 people have died in the fifth district of Kandahar, Afghanistan, where police are reportedly firing automatic weapons into a crowd of rioters trying to storm a U.N. building, witnesses said April 3, RIA Novosti reported. A source within the Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed the death toll. Police said Taliban militants have joined the protesters, who began rioting after a U.S. pastor publicly burned a Quran.

TWO OF THE UN WORKERS MURDERED BY THE AFGHANI MOB WERE BEHEADED

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Koranimals: Mindless drones acting in herd-like fashion in order to protect the honor of a dead warlord who founded a violent, destructive ideology called Islam, and whose followers have the nerve to call it the religion of peace. Being the thin skinned creatures that they are, koranimals are known to be highly supersensitive to any kind of criticism or believed offense, and will take to rioting, plundering and pillaging and other wanton acts of mayhem that can include beatings, rapings and murder, and all at the drop of a koran.

More here.

Many dead, some beheaded in Afghanistan riots at UN building over burned book.

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Here is a CTV clip on the riots with some out of date stats. Stratfor is reporting 20 dead in these riots. Mostly UN workers but some locals as well.

Below, a teaser from CTV news promising to show the story right after a short news break on Libya’s rebels. Five hours later, there is no sign of the story. But the teaser was interesting enough for me to play with a bit…

At Least Seven Killed During Koran Burning Protest at UN Office in Afghanistan

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FOX NEWS

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan official says seven people have been killed at a U.N. office in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif when a Koran burning protest turned violent.

Demonstrators stormed the U.N. office Friday, opening fire on guards and setting fires inside the compound after reports that a Florida pastor burned a copy of the Muslim holy book.

Gen. Daud Daud, commander of Afghan National Police in several northern provinces, says the dead included five guards working for U.N. and two other people employed at the complex. He says one other person was wounded.

A spokesman for Balkh province, Munir Ahmad Farhad, says several hundred demonstrators were peacefully protesting the purported burning when the gathering suddenly turned violent.

…and what if they blew up a food warehouse, hospital, munitions storage or mosque?

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UNESCO obviously have been taken over my Muslims (OIC) just like most of the UN. We all know that in the near impossible event that Buddhists had blown up a grand mosque in Afghanistan with tons of historical significance that it would be being rebuilt at UN expense before the last bit of dust hit the ground.

From IPS NEWS:

Ancient Buddhas Will Not Be Rebuilt – UNESCO
By Andrea Lunt

The smaller Buddha of Bamiyan before (left picture) and after destruction (right). / Credit:Podzemnik/wikimedia commons
The smaller Buddha of Bamiyan before (left picture) and after destruction (right).

Credit:Podzemnik/wikimedia commons

Another Afghan sentenced to death for converting to Christianity.

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Exactly why are good Canadian men and women fighting, being horribly injured and being killed for this government in Afghanistan please?

The story below is wrong in oh so many ways. But I am sniffing up the trail of one, as I understand it, much much worse than this even and of much more immediate concern to Canadians. Meanwhile, this from the Daily Mail:

One-legged Afghan Red Cross worker set to be hanged after converting to Christianity

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:03 AM on 7th February 2011

An Afghan physiotherapist will be executed within three days for converting to Christianity.

Said Musa, 45, has been held for eight months in a Kabul prison were he claims he has been tortured and sexually abused by inmates and guards.

Mr Musa, who lost his left leg in a landmine explosion in the 1990s, has worked for the Red Cross for 15 years and helps to treat fellow amputees.

Execution: Christians pray during a mass at a church in Kabul (file picture). Said Musa is facing execution unless he converts back to IslamExecution: Christians pray during a mass at a church in Kabul (file picture). Said Musa is facing execution unless he converts back to Islam

He was arrested in May last year as he attempted to seek asylum at the German embassy following a crackdown on Christians within Afghanistan.

He claims he was visited by a judge who told him he would be hanged within days unless he converted back to Islam.

But he remains defiant and said he would be willing to die for his faith.

He told the Sunday Times: ‘My body is theirs to do what they want with.

‘Only God can decide if my spirit goes to hell.’

Defence lawyers have refused to represent him, while others have dropped the case after receiving death threats.

Mr Musa was arrested after a TV station showed western men baptising Afghans during secret ceremonies.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354246/One-legged-Afghan-Red-Cross-worker-hanged-converting-Christianity.html#ixzz1EBcvROFX

And here, on a very similar story, is an excellent reason never to support the red cross again for any reason:

The red cross, abandoning its own employee because he is Christian in Afghanistan. Where is the moral high ground now Red Cross? The time for Canada to stop wasting one more penny or drop of blood in that Taliban Vs. Kharazai, Tweedle Dee Vs. Tweedle Dumb nightmare may be here. I suggest it might be more prudent to defend ourselves from this ideology from infecting us rather than fight to preserve it half way around the world. The barbarians are no longer at the gates. They are building prayer rooms in our schools. And we are paying for them.

Eeyore.

BBC: Stoning in Afganistan today and sharia law

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I wonder how this got by the BBC censors. It actually shows Islam for what it is instead of the party line of, ‘UnIslamic activities’ which is how the English government and the BBC usually soft soap this sort of story.