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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • Duff: SEALs murdered to protect Obama’s candidacy

    Gordon Duff, the perpetually nutty senior editor at Veterans Today has seized upon the latest tragedy of the helicopter crash in Afghanistan to posit another conspiracy theory – this one to cover up details of the bin Laden assassination, even though it’s been reported that no one killed in the shoot-down yesterday participated in that raid.

    So what were they “murdered for? To keep them quiet that they murdered bin Laden’s long-dead frozen corpse. And because it’s Duff, you just knew that it had to do with Rupert Murdoch and the Jooos;

    After the bond collapse and credit disaster yesterday, anything threatening President Obama’s reelection is seen, by some, as a threat to America’s financial survival. This debt crisis is a bigger threat to the US than a Japanese invasion in 1942 would have been.

    You may not see it that way and you certainly cant get out your hunting rifle to fix it. (Don’t be a sap, kill a Jap!)

    Someone had gotten to someone. My best guess and this is a guess…an expose’ by the mainstream media, perhaps Murdoch, another guess, conjecture I admit, regarding the farce at Abbottabad, information possibly gotten through spying, bribery and blackmail, threatened to take down Obama.

    With Murdoch’s good friend and “monkeyboy,” Netanyahu ‘on the ropes,” with crowds marching in Israel’s streets demanding his ouster, we have more timing to factor in.

    The bin Laden killing, the third rate drama of capturing an unarmed frozen dead guy and throwing him into the ocean had probably become an albatross around certain high ranking necks.

    Norway was no accident, it was a warning too. It has been containerized, just as the Murdoch espionage issue is now “poor Rupert and the pie thrower.”

    These Americans are casualties in a game, one like 9/11, sacrificial pawns, like Britain’s 7/7, all lies, all theatre, all evil.

    Yeah, as regular readers know, I’m no fan of Obama, but I don’t think he’d murder troops to cover up and deflect attention from his ineptness. But of course, it’s Duff, to whom nothing is as it seems and his trade, such as it is, is in lies and manufactured evidence. he still thinks that Rangers killed Pat Tillman,one of their own in orders from the President.

    Thanks to melony for the link.

  • Dahlia Wasfi, friend of Naser Abdo reacts to helicopter crash

    One of my ninjas sent this screen shot from Dahlia Wasfi, the scary-smart (according to her friends who come here to defend her) anti-war Iraqi;

    Now understand that Dahlia Wasfi is barely Iraqi. Her family fled Saddam Hussein’s regime when she was very young so she’s mostly American as far as her education and pampered life style living in a trendy New York City apartment. She was also a very active friend of Naser Abdo on his Facebook page until he was arrested for plotting to bomb a restaurant near Fort Hood, Texas last week. Need I also add that she was a supporter of Carl Webb when he was being tossed from IVAW for advocating the murder and injuring of US troops in Iraq.

    So Dahlia; Get out of my country and carry your ingrate ass back to rebuild your own. And STFU in the interim.

  • The 64 Thousand Dollar Question.

    Considering all the fammine that is going on in places like Somalia why has there not been aid set there by Code Pink similar to the two failed ‘missions’ to the Gaza Strip. The anwer to that question is this. Real life threating personal risk. Consider the case below.

    Residents of Mogadishu’s largest famine refugee camp accused government soldiers of starting the chaos by trying to steal some of the 290 tons of dry rations that aid workers were trying to distribute there. Then refugees joined in the scramble, prompting soldiers to open fire, the witnesses said.

    “They fired on us as if we were their enemy,” said refugee Abidyo Geddi. “When people started to take the food then the gunfire started and everyone was being shot. We cannot stay here much longer. We don’t get much food and the rare food they bring causes death and torture.”

    You see all that gunpower would just ruin thier stylish outfits and seriously reduce the odd of liveing longer. Plus it was not done by US, NATO or IDF troops so does it really matter.

    Somali soldiers control just part of the capital and are poorly trained.

    “It was carnage. They ruthlessly shot everyone,” said Abdi Awale Nor, who has been living at the camp. “Even dead bodies were left on the ground and other wounded bled to death.”

    Oh and Code Pink continues to ignore how to deal with this problem that many aid groups face.

    Aid workers are puzzling over how to help the starving without helping gunmen who either prey on the refugees, compete for security contracts to guard the food, or steal it and take a share of the profits when it’s sold at market.

    Or how to protect the aid workers without contradicting themselves about the use of weapons for defence.

    Since the era of Black Hawk Down, aid groups say they have tried to tighten up their procedures by screening contractors, having independent checks on their operations and requiring truckers to pay a cash bond to ensure the food is delivered. Some say that Somalia is still too volatile to work in: WFP alone has had 14 employees killed in the past three years. Most foreign aid workers pulled out two years ago after a spate of killings and kidnappings

    So what is it going to be Code Pink? Another useless poltically motivated trip to Gaza or are you going to do something meaningful rather then just talk about it.

    UPDATED: Here is a link to the list of groups that are activly working in that area right now. Guess who is not on the list.

  • Abdo in court

    Yesterday, Jason Naser Abdo, the latest non-right wing terrorist at Fort Hood was in a Waco Federal court yesterday laughing and joking his way through the procedures which resulted in a grand jury which may begin as early as next week. According to a local TV station;

    Three FBI special agents testified that Abdo had all the pieces to make a bomb, in accordance with instructions laid out in an article he was found with titled “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom.” The article was taken from an English-language Al Qaeda magazine called “Inspire,” which has published several issues since 2010.

    They also report that Abdo checked into the motel with a Tennessee driver’s license in the name of Asher J. Pluto. I wonder where he got that? I’m pretty sure he wasn’t smart enough or resourceful enough to make a driver’s license.

    Dorsett argued that the evidence used in the hearing was based on hearsay, and that [bomb specialist Michael Brogan of the FBI] did not interview his client or witness any of the investigation firsthand. He also summoned Special Agents James E. Runkel and Steven Hauck, who collaborated to produce the affidavit charged Abdo with unlawful possession of a firearm or destructive device, to testify on the stand.

    Abdo’s lawyer is really making some stretches. The Courier-Journal reports;

    During the hearing, defense attorney Keith Dorsett told the judge that no destructive device was found in Abdo’s motel room and that the charge should be dropped.

    No destructive device…well, except for that bomb-thingie.

  • IVAW’s SF trooper

    StrikeFO found another IVAW member, but this one borders on a phony soldier. Michael Bailey of the 21st Chemical Company of the 7th Special Forces Group – except that the 21st Chemical Co. is part of the 82d Airborne Division, not the 7th SFG. According to Global Security, their mission is to provide “direct smoke and decontamination support to their respective brigades” not what Bailey says about his job;

    Whatever the hell is “Sensitive Site Exploitation Operator, Forensic Chemical Analyst, Exploitation Ananlysis [sic] Cell Technician” yeah, those are allin the MPs’ job description not a chemical operations specialist. In fact according to the Army, Bailey’s job was described thusly;

    Skill Level 1 MOSC 74D1O. Operates and performs operator maintenance on smoke generating equipment, NBC identification/detection and decontamination equipment, performs NBC reconnaissance.

    Nice try, Mikey.

    When my commanders, my senior NCOs, and my team cannot truly define why they are still fighting, I had no choice but to turn to introspection.

    Yeah, that’s what a lot of privates do when they think they’re smarter than their leaders. Usually their answers are vacuous and selfish.

  • More Abdo and IVAW

    My ninjas tell me that ex-IVAW members are flocking to the FBI with information on Under the Hood Cafe in Killeen – the folks I suspect of hiding the AWOL child pornographer Naser Abdo, the latest Islamic terrorist in the Killeen/Ft Hood, TX area. What would former IVAW members have to tell the FBI? I have no idea, but I’ve given them my permission to give the FBI my contact information if the agents ask. By the way, my contact information is in my Facebook profile, if you’re friends with me.

    So here’s some additional reasons that I continue to think that Abdo was being sequestered from law enforcement by Under the Hood. I found this article in the Army Times which quotes James Branum, Abdo’s lawyer and a regular at the Under the Hood cafe;

    “I know that he’s safe, but other than that, that’s all I’m at liberty to share with people,” said Abdo’s attorney, James Branum.

    Branum said Abdo didn’t want him to make public statements in this situation.

    “If and when Abdo goes back, I’ll still be on his side helping him,” Branum said.

    So Branum knew where Abdo was, and surprise, it’s in Branum’s area of operations in Killeen. For those of you who don’t know who Branum is, he’s been using IVAW’s Under the Hood Cafe to recruit clients and to leech off of them. Under the Hood Cafe and James Branum are synonymous. We have a whole category of Branum posts.

    It’s not the first time that IVAW has been involved with sequestering criminals. They kept Matthis from law enforcement at the DC IVAW House on Princeton Place, when Matthis refused to deploy to Iraq in 2008. Here’s the post in which TSO quoted Adam Kokesh when he threatened police who might come looking for Matthis;

    Should any military or law enforcement personnel come here, to MY house, they will not be welcome, nor will they find removing him from the premises to be physically tenable.

    So, it’s not new that IVAW hides fugitives from the police. And as we’ve reported in the past countless IVAW members were friends with him on Facebook, so they knew of the child porn charges and that he was AWOL. Here’s his last FB entry (thanks to Stable Hand at The Jawa Report who sent the screenshot when I asked for it yesterday)

    A little over a week later, Abdo was AWOL and a few weeks after that, Abdo was arrested in Killeen for building bombs. It took Branum minutes after his arrest to wash his hands of Abdo;

    If this isn’t proof that Branum needs to be stripped of his law license, nothing is. He helped Abdo abscond from Fort Campbell, steered Abdo towards Killeen and Under the Hood Cafe and got him monetary support which enabled Abdo to buy the stuff he needed to formulate his attack on a civilian target and US soldiers.

    From a soldier who knew Abdo in basic training;

    It couldn’t have been a surprise to anyone who knew Abdo that he had the potential for this. That’s what puts the IVAW in the forefront of this investigation.

  • Afghan villagers help to make Marjah peaceful

    Matt Millham of Stars & Stripes writes that an awakening of sorts is happening in Marjah which is encouraging. He tells the story of Ali Mohammad who begged the Taliban to stop planting IEDs around his house. When they refused on countless occasions, he decided to take matters into his own hands;

    Mohammad is among more than 300 men who have joined a local defense force known as the ISCI, or Interim Security for Critical Infrastructure, in northern Marjah. The temporary program, funded by the U.S. but commanded by the local police chief, pays individuals $150 per month to keep the Taliban out and coalition forces informed of threats to security.

    The ISCI, which are separate from a national local defense force program with a similar function known as the Afghan Local Police, started taking shape in November as a stopgap to cover a shortage of Afghan forces. The International Security Assistance Force, which oversees all coalition operations in Afghanistan, didn’t authorize the Afghan-led ALP program for Marjah until March.

    Hastikhan, one of the first ISCI leaders in northern Marjah, signed up along with two of his brothers, he said, because the Marines and elders in his village asked him.

    “The Marines, [Afghan Uniformed Police and Afghan National Army] don’t know who is from the area, who is a Talib,” he said through an interpreter. “Because of that, we decided to join ISCI and make a Marjah a secure place.”

    It’s unfortunate for dicksmith that he decided to complain today at VetVoice that we weren’t making any progress;

    Killing the enemy is only half the battle, and we’ve been very good at that half. The other half is convincing the population to transfer its support for the insurgency to the government of Afghanistan. Killing more insurgents than any other year doesn’t exactly help when they are immediately replaced with more insurgents that raise the attack rate by 51%.

    Not only is it beginning to work, but blather from dicksmith doesn’t help win the war. The only reason that the Taliban have held out this long is because they think they can beat us and the only reason that they think they can beat us is because knee-jerk know-nothings on the Left give them hope every time the Left makes the case for immediate withdrawal for purely political reasons.

    And conversely, the Afghan villagers are reluctant to make an investment in their own future when the Left is constantly making noise about abandoning them to the Taliban at a moment’s notice and on a whim.

    VoteVets, MoveOn, Spencer Ackerman, etc…are all worried that we might beat the Taliban and make Afghanistan a civil place to live because it wasn’t their side that began our involvement there. All they’ve done is drag out our involvement under the guise of having only our best interests in their hearts.

    It’s intellectually vacant to declare that a peaceful Afghanistan isn’t in our interest or worth our efforts at this point, after this investment.

  • Duff: Rupert Murdoch behind 9-11

    Yeah, Gordon Duff, the senior editor and head crackpot at Veterans Today, is trying to pile on Murdoch while he’s being investigated for his role in the Brit hacking scandal;

    Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has played a significant role in the elections of three U.S. presidents, as well as some of the events that have happened during their administrations including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the economic meltdown, says Gordon Duff, senior editor and writer for Veterans Today.

    Yes, you read that correctly – he’s mentioning himself in the third person as a source for his own article. Journalism at it’s finest. he even shows a screen shot of his article at another publication as irrefutable proof that Murdoch brought down the twin towers. Journalism at it’s whackiest – Duff quotes himself in the other publication’s article;

    “Murdoch is a close associate of a significant criminal conspiracy of industrialists, bankers and others. He is the front man for them… the person who gives them control of governments through bribery and blackmail,” Duff told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Thursday.

    Actually, it was Payton Manning who was behind the Mossad plot to bring down the World Trade Center and as soon as TSO writes the blog post, I’ll link to it so you’ll have no doubt.