Category Archives: Mission to Afghanistan

Jihad Watch: Not a single Christian church left in Afghanistan

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Jihad Watch:

The last one was torn down in March 2010. Religious freedom has actually declined in Afghanistan in the period during which we have been pouring billions into the country. What Are We Fighting For Update: “Not a Single Christian Church Left in Afghanistan, Says State Department,” by Edwin Mora for CNS News, October 10 (thanks to all who sent this in):

(CNSNews.com) — There is not a single, public Christian church left in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. State Department.This reflects the state of religious freedom in that country ten years after the United States first invaded it and overthrew its Islamist Taliban regime.

In the intervening decade, U.S. taxpayers have spent $440 billion to support Afghanistan’s new government and more than 1,700 U.S. military personnel have died serving in that country.

For the rest please click through to Jihad Watch

Majority of IEDs are traced to Pakistan

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from USA TODAY

(H/T Richard)

WASHINGTON – Pakistan is the source of explosives in the vast majority of makeshift bombs insurgents in Afghanistan planted this summer to attack U.S. troops, according to U.S. military commanders.

  • The U.S. military is working to beef up security against IEDs.By Johannes Eisele, AFP/Getty Images

    The U.S. military is working to beef up security against IEDs.

By Johannes Eisele, AFP/Getty Images

The U.S. military is working to beef up security against IEDs.

From June through August, U.S. troops detected or were hit by 5,088 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the most for any three-month period since the war began in 2001.

Those bombs killed 63 troops and wounded 1,234, Defense Department records show.

More than 80% of the IEDs are homemade explosives using calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer produced in Pakistan, said Navy Capt. Douglas Borrebach, deputy director for resources and requirements at the Pentagon’s Joint IED Defeat Organization.

“The border is a sieve,” Borrebach said. “You can do your checkpoints, but that’s not going to help stem the supply.”

The military is working with the State Department, other U.S. agencies and Pakistan’s government to prevent fertilizer from reaching the insurgents’ bomb factories. Continue Reading →

Islamic inventiveness. The exploding sweat band

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While CERN discovers that neutrinos under some circumstances can travel faster than light Muslims learn how to pack C4 into a white rag on their heads to take advantage of misplaced respect that Westerners have for their savage customs as they confuse it with culture.

That ‘Allah’ guy really loves his blood and explosives.

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This is harsh video. Just be warned. It clearly was taken by the Taliban to show how without mercy and full of savage violence they are, as they speak about their god and sating his lust for blood, Muslim or no. It is interesting to compare the actions of the Taliban with the Canadian rules of engagement, rightly or wrongly, in Afghanistan where enemy terrorists or our own soldiers are triaged the same in our own hospitals there.

£70m of British aid ‘paid to the Taliban’: Cash wasted on bribes and protection money, say campaigners

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From The Daily Mail:

 

By Kirsty Walker

Last updated at 2:28 AM on 13th August 2011

Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money could be ending up in the pockets of Taliban insurgents and corrupt Afghan officials, a damning report has revealed.

The International Crisis Group warned that up to 10 per cent of overseas aid was being paid in bribes and protection money to the Taliban and officials in Kabul.

Over the next four years, the Prime Minister has pledged to give £710million to Afghanistan alone. That could mean up to £70million of British money going to the very people we are fighting.

Taliban fighters: Contractors say their projects and staff may be attacked if they do not pay upTaliban fighters: Contractors say their projects and staff may be attacked if they do not pay up

The Department for International Development spent £102million on aid  to Afghanistan in the last financial year, but this will rise to £178million this year. Of these totals, 16 per cent goes to Helmand province, where British troops operate.

The hard-hitting report found that despite billions being poured into  Afghanistan in aid, the country shows no signs of becoming ‘politically stable or economically viable’.

 

It also warned that there was ‘no possibility’ of the country becoming secure within the next three years, despite the efforts of Britain and other Nato countries.

The report will fuel criticism by some Tory MPs over David Cameron’s promise to increase UK spending on aid to 0.7 per cent of GDP at a time when other Whitehall departments are being hit with swingeing cuts.

Hostile: But anti-western forces often funnel off aid money through Afghanistan's political corruptionHostile: But anti-western forces often funnel off aid money thanks to Afghanistan’s political corruption

A total of £35billion has been given to Afghanistan by the international community since 2001.

The report by the ICG, which campaigns to prevent global conflicts, said: ‘After a decade of major security, development and humanitarian assistance, the international community has failed to achieve a politically stable and economically viable Afghanistan.

‘Despite billions of dollars in aid, state institutions remain fragile and unable to provide good governance, deliver basic services to the majority of the population or guarantee human safety.’

It went on to warn that aid delivery was being ‘undermined by corruption in Kabul and bribes paid to insurgent groups to ensure security for development projects’.

Taliban: £70million of British aid to Afghanistan is set to end up in the wrong handsTaliban: £70million of British aid to Afghanistan will end up in the wrong hands

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Afghan beauty sleep more important than protecting our citizens from IED’s

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This pisses me off a great deal.

From The Sun.UK

 Don’t shoot Taliban..you’ll wake locals

Marine’s diary reveals bizarre order to Brit troops

By ANDREW PARKER

Published: July 18 2011

 SOLDIERS were banned from shooting Taliban fighters planting mines – to avoid waking Afghan locals, a former Royal Marine has revealed.

Craig Smith, 36, said US military chiefs routinely frustrated frontline forces by ordering them to exercise “courageous restraint”.

Troops were even told they could be charged with MURDER if they shot anyone without permission from command.

Dad-of-one Craig lifted the lid on “outrageous” orders issued to troops in a diary of his six-month tour of Afghanistan’s treacherous Helmand province with 40 Commando.

He spoke out after an inquest heard 34-year-old hero Sergeant Peter Rayner was blown up, just days after being told not to fire on insurgents who were seen laying deadly IEDs.

One senior officer stunned troops when he ordered them not to shoot a Taliban fighter because gunfire would “wake up and upset the locals”.

 

Attack ... ex-Marine Craig Smith criticised ban on gunfire

Attack … ex-Marine Craig Smith criticised ban on gunfire

 

Instead they were told they must stand by and WATCH. Continue Reading →

Video shows children of killed Taliban fighters being trained to kill our troops

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I will be looking for this actual video. Any help appreciated. Anyone want to bet when the flotilla will sail to end this kind of apartheid and human rights abuses? Bookies are giving odds of 1000,000:1 for never.

From The Mirror:

Taliban train children as young as three Taliban train children as young as three

Taking aim with AK-47 machine guns – these are children of Taliban “martyrs” being trained to replace their fathers.

The chilling video was shot at an Al Qaeda camp where boys as young as THREE are turned into trained killers ready to wage war on ­British soldiers.

Taliban train children as young as three

It shows how, in the wake of its leader Osama Bin Laden’s death in May, his terror group is brainwashing a new generation of child soldiers. British commanders in Afghanistan say children are increasingly used as suicide bombers and human shields during battles.

In the most ­disturbing sections of the video children appear anxious and unhappy as they are trained with guns. The film also shows a “dentist” pulling a child’s back tooth out with a pair of pliers for an ­initiation ritual. Continue Reading →

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

BCF has the kidnap video of the Canadian held hostage by the Taliban

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This is the video released by the Taliban of Canadian hostage Colin Mackenzie Rutherford. This is the site, it’s the Pashto version of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan site, the english version is here but has no link to the video.

Please click over to Blazing Cat fur to see the video. NOTE: Click and wait 30 seconds for it to load.

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…