Our buddy Bev Perlson emails a link that our old buddy, Adam Kokesh has been dumped from Russia TV;
Supporters of paid Russian agent Adam Kokesh are blaming America’s Survival, Inc. for the termination of his show on Russian TV. His last program was on Tuesday night.
I have no way of knowing why he went off the air.
But I do know that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) received my complaint over Kokesh apparently violating U.S. law by using the Russia Today television facilities to raise money for Ron Paul’s presidential campaign.
The new Secretary of Defense says that the Iraqis have already agreed that US troops should stay there beyond 2011 reports Stars & Stripes;
Six weeks after Panetta became the latest U.S. leader to press Iraq on a formal request, the Pentagon is moving forward, he said, because there is unanimous consent among key Iraqi leaders to address U.S. demands. Those demands include that Iraqis begin negotiating internally what type of U.S. training force they would like, begin a process to select a defense minister, craft a new Status of Forces Agreement and increase operations against Iranian-backed militants.
I guess Code Pink and the Iraq Veterans Against the War won’t be helping the Obama campaign next year. And this kind of makes Dahlia Wasfi’s message empty, too. Exit question to Ward Reilly…is it still an occupation when the host country asks you to extend your presence in their nation?
One of my ninjas sent me these Facebook screenshots from Mike Pysner‘s wall. I guess now that the war in Afghanistan will be winding down, they’re looking for other wars which generate them some income…wars with which none of them have experience, either. Now their struggle is with relevance;
So did they pass the measure? Of course;
So now they can call themselves Veterans Against Any War That ANSWER Tells Us To Be Against. Even if it’s not really a war to both sides. And they pick the side that can’t be negotiated with. See, they started bouncing back from the edge when they took up for wounded veterans, but now they’re slipping back to their old stupid habits.
I’m just sitting here waiting for Army Sergeant’s explanation for this one.
I don’tknow why, exactly, but the media is being especially quiet about this one. Anyway, Abdo was indicted in a Waco courtroom today according to the Washington Times;
Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, 21, was indicted in Waco on charges of possession of an unregistered destructive device, possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition by a fugitive from justice, according to federal prosecutors. He faces up to 10 years in prison on each charge if convicted.
He is being held without bond and has yet to enter a plea. His attorney, Keith Dorsett, did not return a telephone call seeking comment Tuesday.
I’m guessing that Keith Dorsett, his attorney was court-appointed. Mr. Dorsett, a Waco-based attorney, claims to be a former police officer and a prosecutor in my neck of the woods here in eastern West Virginia. I’m disappointed that Branum abandoned his client at the first whiff of terrorist behavior. His other clients should take that as a warning of how much Branum is committed to them. I mean, Branum dumped Abdo on Facebook – what a coward.
IVAW hasn’t had anything to say since Jose Vasquez’ statement on the day of his arrest well, except to Mother Jones bottom boy Adam Weinstein. It’s funny how Vasquez denies that IVAW had little to do with Abdo, but my ninjas tell me that former IVAW members have kept the FBI offices across Texas busy with interviews. I’m pretty sure they’re not telling the agents that the organization had no contact with Abdo. They were lining up as soon as Abdo was arrested as if they wanted to make sure that they didn’t get implicated in something.
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.
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.
After Nasser Abdo was arrested last week, some of the residents of Killeen, Texas are worried that they’ve become a target in the war against terror according to a Houston Chronicle article;
The city’s mayor, however, dismissed that idea, and said he didn’t know why Abdo came here.
“It could happen anywhere,” Timothy Hancock said. “It just happened to be here.”
It didn’t “happen” to be Killeen, Mister Mayor. Abdo came to Killeen because his lawyer, James M. Branum sent him there to take advantage of the hospitality of IVAW and the Under the Hood Cafe. Branum has been leaching off of the town and it’s residents for at least three years. Killeen and Fort Hood are Branum’s main focus of his anti-war operations against the Army and as long as the State of Texas allows him to practice law there, you’re always going to have a hotbed den of radical activists there who attract the Nasser Abdos of the world.
As long as Killeen’s law enforcement community and leaders deny that they know why Abdo just happened to show up there, it will continue. Unless you tar and feather Branum and run him out of town on a rail, and then shutter that Under the Hood shit hole. As long as Killeen tolerates those asswipes, they won’t be safe.
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.
