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Category: Terror War

  • The Axis of Ultimate Evil

    Well, you’ve got Hugo Chavez buying weapons from Russia, drilling oil with China (who is, by the way, drilling oil off the coast of Florida in cahoots with Cuba) and forming alliances with Iran and Nicaragua (not to mention Chavez coming out against boob jobs), Syria getting weapons technology from North Korea. And now Gateway Pundit reports that  Ahmadinejad is proposing an alliance with Robert Mugabe – the guy that even Poodle Chirac reprimanded. Given Mugabe’s record on human rights, I wouldn’t think anyone would take his side (Although Parade Magazine only ranks him number 7 in world’s worst dictators this year – down from number 4 in 2006, apparently. He’ll just have to starve more people to catch up to Kim Jong Il, I guess.).

    I’m starting to see a pattern here. This growing alliance is cartoonishly evil – like some kind of alliance of fiends set against the Justice League or Superfriends. Except there isn’t any Justice League or Superfriends – there’s just us. Well, some of us.

    Isn’t there anyone on the Left willing to admit that these people are just evil, that their intentions have to be evil and that maybe there’s just a little more danger in the world than they’ve been able to admit up to this point? Doesn’t anyone on the other side of the aisle see anything bad in all of this?

    Update: Then again, as long as they make “retard” missiles, they can’t be all that dangerous, can they? Photo from Kamangir;

  • The Nuanced Left and Ahmadinejad

    I may have been wrong early in the week when I said that no one on the Left could possibly think that Ahmadinejad had anything of value to offer the public in his scheduled speeches. I wasn’t wrong that he had nothing of value, I was wrong for giving the Left credit for having a bit of common sense. Apparently, they have none.

    While Congress got to work yesterday expanding sanctions against Iran and punishing the corporations that continue to support the 12th Century government, a small crowd of protesters vied for attention in front of the White House calling for a halt to our “planned invasion” of Iran (Washington Post);

    The 25 protesters, most of them from the Troops Out Now Coalition, walked in a circle on the sidewalk north of the White House, chanting “Get out of Iraq! Stay out of Iran!” and holding signs that read: “Don’t Terrorize Iran” and “Don’t Appease Israel.”

    “There’s a hysteria in the media emanating from New York . . . against the president of Iran,” coalition spokesman Larry Holmes said. “We’re here in response to what’s been going on in New York: the Columbia debate, the front pages of the tabloids, the electronic media, demonizing the president. And we know what it’s about.

    “We know that the government is in very advanced stages of planning for a war in Iran. They’ve got a naval armada” in the Persian Gulf, he said. “The Pentagon’s got its plans. And now we see the psychological preparation.”

    Um, maybe there are preparations because Iran would be a very dangerous government if if owned weapons with which they could obliterate entire races of people by pushing a button. And the only hysteria I see runs the other way – hysterical defense of govenment bent on destroying its neighbors and the rest of the civilized world.

    And the only reason that Iran is the target of the world’s ire stems from the fact that they don’t want to follow international protocols (Washington Post);

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Tuesday not to give in to pressure by “arrogant powers” trying to force him to abandon his nation’s uranium-enrichment program and unilaterally declared that as far as he is concerned, “the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed.”

    In a fiery speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Ahmadinejad denounced what he called the “master-servant relationship of the Medieval Age” imposed by the United States and other leading nations through the Security Council. He expressed confidence that God would not allow the Bush administration to launch a military attack against his country and said Iran has “spared no effort to build confidence” that it wants only civilian energy, not nuclear weapons.

    Uh-uh, and that’s why they’re working on long-range missiles that reach Israel. Instead of working with the UN, Iran has sticking it’s finger in the eye of the UN and has so far disregarded no less than three deadlines established by the UN to prove to the world that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons – I wonder why they’d do – unless they’re building nuclear weapons, of course.

    Instead of working towards being a responsible nuclear power, Iran’s President sticks his finger in the eye of the UN, yet again, and makes unilateral declarations (Washington Times);

    “I officially announce that in our opinion the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed and has been turned into an ordinary [regulatory] matter,” Mr. Ahmadinejad said, speaking on the opening day of the U.N. General Assembly debate, hours after President Bush criticized the country’s human rights record.

    So let me guess who the Left is going to blame when Iran eventually becomes a nuclear power and starts firing off missiles at random.

    In an amazingly naive article in the Washington Post’s PostGlobal section, Ali Ettefagh writes “Wake Up, America” which turns out to be nothing but a footnote to Ahmadinejad’s three appearances this week in front of the US media. Claiming that we think Iran is still in the 1970’s, Ettefagh chastizes the US media for asking the Iranian president the same questions over-and-over;

    It was also amazing to see the American Rainman repeat the same questions over and over again. A reporter from CBS’ 60 Minutes asked tough questions in an interview in Tehran, which was broadcast on Sunday and subsequently reported in newspapers and more than 2000 websites. The very next day, the National Press Club members repeated the same questions, and later that day, an academic put the same questions to President Ahmedinejad a third time. Somehow, the CBS reporter, the National Press Club and the professor did not recall that it is their treasure and blood that funds Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and the death and destruction of Iraq. (They are probably too busy congratulating themselves on their massive foreign aid of US$20 per Palestinian!).

    Of course, Ahmadinejad’s apologist never bothers to mention that Ahmadinejad never answered any of the questions in a serious manner – and so the questions needed to be asked three times – to no result. But let’s change the subject of the unanswered questions and mention Abu Gahraib, Guantanamo and the fact that we only partially fund terrorist operations in the West Bank. Cuz it’s all the US’ fault – that’s thrown in for all of the guilt-ridden Leftists to get them slobbering and frothing about their sexual inadequacies and to get them raging at the Judeo-Christian neo-cons (and it works in this case).

    The truly amazing part of the piece, besides the fact that Ettefagh can apparently type while engaged in an air-tight lip-lock with Ahmadinejad, is the Washington Post’s readers comments which generally thank Ali for “thinking outside the box” as one writer, absolutely unafraid of worn cliches, puts it.

    I guess we should over look the fact that the “thinking” in this case, is pure propaganda mouthed by someone comfortably ensconced in Western culture while encouraging a blood-soaked tyrannt to bathe in even more blood while Ettefagh covers for him a half-a world away. And the “box” is nakedly-expressed aggressive intent to wipe out entire races of people so some wizard in a magic well can rise and rule the world. 

    I’m just simply amazed that the American Left can just chuck aside common sense in favor of pure politics, despite the risks to national security. Are universities just sucking the brains out of people these days?

  • Protest at National Press Club tele-luncheon

    A small group of protesters gathered outside of the National Press Club on 14th and F Streets in Washington DC today, a few blocks from the White House, to protest members of the National Press Club lending a forum to Iranian cheif thug Ahmadinejad.

    There were probably two dozen and they were able to attract some minor media attention (outside of the NPC, though, it seems they’d attract more) while members of the National Press Club were listening to the Iranian President’s 45-minute speech. It was supposed to be followed by 30-minutes of questions from the Press Club, but given Ahmadinejad’s responses the night before on 60-minutes, I suspect that each of his “answers” began with the question “Are you a Zionist?”

    Regardless, here are the pictures.

    They were the politest protesters I’ve ever seen in DC – but they still endured some insults from this guy and the guy whose back you see on the otherside of the door. The comments were something about “why don’t they protest Abbas” or some such goalpost movement. When I got my camera out to photo him, the guy who insulted the protesters turned tail and ran inside the Press Club.

    The security guard had a very boring day.

    Here’s a video of some of the press coverage of the protest. I suppose the members of the press club went in through the parking garage because I didn’t see anyone enter at this door or at the other door where I kept my vigil by the ashtray. It was a small protest by very well-behaved protesters – something the media habitually avoids.

    Kesher Talk and Atlas Shrugs have pictures of the protest in New York at Ground Zero. Little Green Footballs discovers that DailyKos diarist thinks Ahmadinejad sounds “entirely too reasonable”. Michele Malkin has the whole “Mahmoudapalooza“. Hot Air on the “no gays in Iraq” comment. Ace of Spades has Republican candidates’ reactions to the Columbia farce.

    A Columbo-Americana’s Perspective had the NYT Live blog if you missed the whole thing like I did. She also has more pictures of the signs – Kate’s my protest buddy – she keeps me in line and out of jail.

  • Ahmadinejad short and stout

    Yes, it’s all about the Iranian President these days. The US is finding more evidence that we’re already at war with Iran while their head of state can’t summon the courage to admit it;

    Military spokesman Rear Adm. Mark Fox said U.S. troops were continuing to find Iranian-supplied weaponry including the Misagh 1, a portable surface-to-air missile that uses an infrared guidance system.

    Other advanced Iranian weaponry found in Iraq includes the RPG-29 rocket-propelled grenade, 240 mm rockets and armor-piercing roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, Fox said.

    Iran has denied U.S. allegations that it is smuggling weapons to Shiite militias in Iraq, a denial that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired Sunday.

    “We don’t need to do that. We are very much opposed to war and insecurity,” said Ahmadinejad, who arrived in New York Sunday to attend the U.N. General Assembly. “The insecurity in Iraq is detrimental to our interests.”

    We were at war with bin Laden for a decade before anyone recognized it, too. Kat-Missouri at Ace of Spades thinks this is the final confrontation that Ahmadinejad has been hoping for. Boker Tov, Boulder! says NYT banishes Ahmadinejad to the Metro section and quotes Ahmadinejad hatin’ in his own words.

    Meantime, the Iranians have shut down the border between Iran and the Kurds;

    Iran closed major border crossings with northern Iraq on Monday to protest the U.S. detention of an Iranian official the military accused of weapons smuggling, a Kurdish official said.

    At least four border gates have been closed and one remains open, the governor of the Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah, Dana Ahmed Majeed, told The Associated Press. The move threatens the economy of Iraq’s northern region – one of the country’s few success stories.

    In Tehran, the public relations department in Iran’s Interior Ministry said no decision had been taken to shut the border.

    But Kurdish authorities said the Iranians began shutting down the crossing points late Sunday near the border towns of Banjiwin, Haj Omran, Halabja and Khanaqin.

    The closings came four days after U.S. troops arrested an Iranian official during a raid on a hotel in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad.

    The Iranians are so untrustworthy that they can’t even admit when they close the border – something people can see with their own eyes.

    Yesterday I linked up a Columbia students’ plea for Ahmadinejad to speak, but I wonder how those same students feel about the Iranian government closing down an Iranian website critical of the little fella?

    Iran’s judiciary has sealed off the offices of a popular news Web site critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s policies after journalists continued to update it despite official filtering, the Web site said.

    Rights groups and diplomats say there is a broad crackdown on dissenting voices in the Islamic state, which is under growing Western pressure over its disputed nuclear programme. The authorities deny such moves, saying they allow free speech.

    Blocking access to Baztab.com earlier this year was seen as part of the clampdown. Updates to the Web site, which is published in English and Farsi, were still available to Internet users outside Iran until the offices were sealed.

    The last item on the Web site carried the headline: “The wish of the presidential office was realised and Baztab’s offices were sealed off”. The site, when accessed via a link outside Iran, indicated it was last updated on Sept. 23

    Kamangir reports more on Baztab and adds;

     It is quite hillarious to remember Ahmadinejad’s claim that “Complete freedom exists in Iran and all individuals and groups can express their ideas

    He claims a right to speak out against our president and our policies in our own country, but denies his own people the right to do the same. And just as with Chavez, the American left defends behavior from the Iranian government that would send them into hyperdrive if it happened to them here.

    The Washington Times editorial board suggests questions that Columbia University students should ask the Iranian President;

     But in the event that anyone at Columbia seriously decides to challenge him, it would be nice to ask him things like: Why have you called the Holocaust a “myth” and a “sheer historic lie?” Why did you invite “scholars” like former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke to Iran last year for a Holocaust-denial conference? A senior adviser to you and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has talked about a strategy for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization “by means of our suicide operations or by means of missiles.” Is this part of your government’s message of “peace?”

    Of course, I won’t be holding my breath waiting for the answers – nor will I wait for anyone allowed into the “forum” to summon the testicular fortitude to ask the questions. The Wall Street Journal even reports that some low-profile Democrats are miffed at Columbia University offering the forum to the little terrorist;

    But critics like Christine Quinn, Democratic speaker of the New York City Council, counter that the prestige of the institution offers the Iranian leader too high a perch. “He can say whatever he wants on any street corner — but should not be given center stage at one of New York’s most prestigious centers of higher education,” Ms. Quinn wrote Mr. Bollinger in a letter last week.

    Some lawmakers bemoan that Mr. Ahmadinejad and his delegation were even granted a visa to come to New York, a step the U.S., as host to the U.N., is essentially obliged to take.

    And the Republican New York Speaker of the Assembly threatened to cut off Columbia from the state teat;

    In an interview with The New York Sun, the speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, said lawmakers, outraged over Columbia’s insistence on allowing the Iranian president to speak at its World Leaders Forum, would consider reducing capital aid and other financial assistance to the school.

    Israel Matzav responds to the CU Alumni Association. Judith at Kesher Talk has the scivvy on today’s protests and a couple of photos of some of Ahmadinejad’s supporters here. Gateway Pundit reports that anti-Ahmadinejad ads don’t get the same discount rate at the NY Times as anti-Petraeus ads.

    Well, I’ll be in front of the National Press Club this morning where there’s supposed to be a protest against Ahmadinejad’s tele-luncheon (I’m guessing it’ll be in the club’s First Amendment Room on the top floor – if that’s not enough irony for you). The NPC website says their conference will start at noon- Ahmadinejad will speak for a half hour and take 45 minutes of questions from the assemblage. I can only imagine what those questions will be. Sort of like the 60 Minutes interview last night (I couldn’t watch the interview – the Giants were busy holding back the ‘Skins at the two yard line);

    Wallace tried to ask him about Hezbollah’s use of missiles, rockets furnished by Iran, but he wanted to talk about Israel’s attacks with American bombs.

    “The laser-guided bombs that have been given to the Zionists and they’re targeting the shelter of defenseless children and women,” the president said.

    “Who supports Hezbollah?” Wallace asked. “Who has given Hezbollah hundreds of millions of dollars for years? Who has given Hezbollah Iranian-made missiles and rockets that is making — that are making all kinds …” he continued as he was interrupted.

    “Are you the representative of the Zionist regime? Or a journalist?” Ahmadinejad asked Wallace.

    “I’m a journalist. I am a journalist,” Wallace replied.

    “This is not journalism, sir. Hezbollah is a popular organization in Lebanon, and they are defending their land,” the president said. “They are defending their own houses. And, according to the charter of the United Nations, every person has the right to defend his house.

    “What I’m saying is that the killing of innocents is reprehensible. And making this — the displacement of people and making them refugees, again, is reprehensible,”

    Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has more on the ’60 Minutes’ interview. 

    Because I’m not a member of the NPC nor an “accedited” member of the press, I’ll just be standing on the corner taking pictures and reporting back to ya’all. Ya know, like the accedited media should be doing. I expect I should have pictures up by about 2PM today if anyone is interested.

  • It’s nice to have friends again

    The Washington Times reports that France is preparing to join the US in tougher sanctions against Iran;

    France and the U.S. are in strong agreement on the need for more sanctions against Iran if it does not halt its drive to obtain nuclear weapons, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday.

    Miss Rice and visiting French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said they would keep pushing the U.N. Security Council to approve a third round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programs, and Mr. Kouchner said this week he also favored new European Union action against Tehran.

    “I think that there is essentially no difference [between the U.S. and France] in the way that we see the situation in Iran and what the international community must do,” Miss Rice said after a working lunch at the State Department with her French counterpart.

    But that’s not all;

    Bloomberg News reported yesterday that Germany may soon follow France’s lead in backing tougher U.N. action if Iran fails to cooperate.

    Ruprecht Polenz, head of the German parliament’s foreign-affairs committee and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, told the news service in an interview “it now seems legitimate to consider raising the stakes” for Iran.

    Germany has recently tightened controls on some sensitive military and high-tech exports to Iran.

    So, apparently, President Bush is a visionary and a man ahead of his time – Old Europe is just catching up to him. That must really torque off the Left – well, as soon as they figure out what this week’s events mean. 

    Oh, and the other day, Saudi Arabia joined the UN’s IAEA board;

     Saudi Arabia and other US allies were among 11 countries named to the UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation board of governors on Thursday.
     
    US allies like Ireland and the Philippines were among the incoming 11 while US adversaries Cuba and Syria were among the outgoing states, part of a regular rotation of board members.

    This could make things easier for the United States on the IAEA board, which rules on Iranian compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), diplomats said.

    So, I guess this why Ahmadinejad wants to make a spectacle of himself in New York next week, to show the world how the US persecutes his barborous ass.

  • Caving, Democrat-style

    The other day when half of the Democrats in the Senate failed to condemn the MoveOn.org ad disparaging General Petraeus, the President condemned those weak-kneed idiots;

    “That leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org — are more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military,” [President Bush] said.

    Susan Ferrichio of the Washington Examiner reports the three failures of Democrats to push troop withdrawal that would have been acceptable to MoveOn.org Democrats;

    Senate Democrats, who hold a one-vote majority over Republicans, have little choice but to compromise with the GOP if they ever hope to pass a bill that aims to bring an end to the war.

    The failure of the Levin amendment Friday marked the third time this week that Republicans blocked harder anti-war legislation. On Thursday, the Senate defeated 70-28 an amendment by Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., that would have required troops to be sent home by June 2008, at which time funding for the war would be cut off. Earlier in the week, senators narrowly rejected an amendment by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., that would have lengthened rest times for troops.

    Well, in a rush to prove the President wrong, Senate Democrats tried, and failed to put a bill through requiring that the troops be pulled out of Iraq in 9 months – certain to anger the anti-war crowd who want the troops pulled out yesterday. So, just to pass something, anything about the war, the Democrats are working on a watered down version (Washington Post);

    “We didn’t make it today, but we’re going to keep trying,” Levin said. “The stakes are just simply too high to stop what we’re doing, which is putting pressure on President Bush to change course and on [Iraqi] Prime Minister [Nouri al-]Maliki to change course.”

    From S.A.Miller of the Washington Times;

    [Levin] said he would begin this weekend to court Republican support for a bill setting a goal rather than a deadline to complete a pullout. That tactic was abandoned recently by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, because it risked alienating the party’s antiwar base.

    Even Lamar Alexander can see that it’s been a useless exercise without the Democrats making room at the table for Republicans (Miller/Times);

    Republicans criticized Mr. Reid for staging repeated votes for a pullout knowing the measures would fail.

    This week the Senate already rejected Democratic bills that would have limited troop-deployment schedules and that would have cut off funding for combat in Iraq.

    “Instead of posturing for political gain, it’s time for the Senate’s leaders to sit down with those of us trying to find a consensus,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican.

    And Harry Reid regrets the dead trees (Post);

    “Countless words, reams of paper, and oh-so-much ink have been spent on the Iraq debate here in the Senate,” Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said on the Senate floor before the vote, as he urged Republicans to cross over. “This amendment is a reasonable and responsible way forward.”

    But Alexander doesn’t get it either (Miller/Times);

    “The fact is, Senator Reid spent last week talking to many Republicans about ways to force a change in administration policy,” he said. “Unfortunately, in the end Republican senators decided they would rather protect the president than do what is right for the country and the troops, and that is bring them home as quickly as possible.”

    What’s right for the country, Mr. Alexander, you boneheaded old coot, is to bring our troops home when the job is done – the job’ll be done if Congress get muster it’s dusty ass behind the troops instead of trying to convince our enemies that they still can win.

    The Washington Times’ Miller reports that Lindsey Graham found his huevos;

    “To substitute the Congress’ judgment for Gen. [David] Petraeus’ judgment is ill advised,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, referring to the U.S. military commander in Iraq.

    He may have been wrong about stuff before, but he got that one exactly right. If the Democrats want to salvage their reputations, if they want to win in 2008, they’d better figure out where the American people are instead of just listening to their echo chamber crowd. Check the latest Gallup poll (Post);

    GOP Senate offices circulated the results of a Gallup poll released this week that showed 54 percent of those surveyed think Petraeus’s plan for removing troops is the right pace, or even too quick. One-third of those surveyed viewed the withdrawal as moving too slowly.

  • Head jihadist at Columbia U. – finally we’ll hear him speak

    Yesterday I wrote that Ahmadinejad scrapped plans to visit Ground Zero and that now instead, he’ll poison young minds at Columbia University. First, I should warn him that it’s not a target-rich environment – for young minds, that is.

    Watching the evening news, I heard comments from CU students like “I think it’s cool!” I’m sure the young airhead’s parents were excited to hear such an analysis coming from the mouth attached to the brain that they’re spending tens-of-thousands of dollars to fertilize.

    Michele Malkin tells us that there’s a protest planned for the little buckethead at CU. Bill Kristol recommends a boycott.

    But the protesters needn’t worry – apparently the university president has promised that he’ll ask the Iranian president hard-hitting questions and not allow him a free rein of the ideas in the room.

    I’m sure we’ll hear the answer to all of the questions we’ve been wondering – like “Does your beard ever get real itchy?” and “I’ll bet you’re real comfortable not having to wear a tie like we infidels must, aren’t you?”

  • So how’s that appeasement working out for you, Zapatero?

    With a hat tip to Lady Vorzheva, the Spanish Pundit, I see Spain has terrorist problems despite the fact that El Presidente Zapatero won his election by promising to appease al Qaeda and leave Iraq (AP);

    Spanish police and the FBI arrested two Pakistani nationals in a joint operation in Madrid and Barcelona on suspicion of being involved in financing international terrorism, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.
     
    The men, identified as Anar Muhammad Shan and Preces Mehmood Sandhu, were also held on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization, a ministry statement said.

    But, according to the AP story, this isn’t the first time;

    Eleven Pakistanis were acquitted in May of plotting to blow up buildings in Barcelona, although five were found guilty of lesser charges.

    The 11 were arrested in September 2004 and prosecutors maintained the defendants had been planning to attack high-rise buildings and a shopping center in Barcelona. The National Court acquitted them for lack of evidence, but convicted three of sending sent money to Muslim extremists and two of forging documents.

    Lady V asks;

    Zapatero says that “the menacing message from Al-Qaeda is not new“. Yeah, that’s true. But you assured every Spanish citizen that Al-Qaeda was interested in attacking Spain because we were in Iraq. Now we aren’t. So what are we going to do now? What and who are we going to cave in this time….

    She also quotes from an anonomous Frenchman in le Figaro;

    Till now, the menaces were adressed mainly to the Americans. How can we explain that Al-Qaida targets now the Franch and Spanish in the Maghreb?

    How indeed?

    The arrests in Spain seem to have been coordinated with the US, according to this AP article in the Washington Times that announced there were 39 arrests worldwide;

    Raids were conducted yesterday in Maryland, the District, New Jersey and Spain, authorities said.

    Thirty-two of the 39 indicted had been arrested as of yesterday afternoon, said Marc Raimondi, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The U.S. District Court clerk’s office said it did not have records of lawyers being assigned to the defendants.

    Maybe Spain should take a lesson from Pakistan;

    Osama bin Laden on Thursday called on Pakistanis to wage holy war on their President, saying in a new recording that it was their religious duty to overthrow General Pervez Musharraf for his alliance with the US against Islamic militants.

    But Pakistan dismissed the same, taking a vow instead to cleanse its soil of extremists and terrorists like the al-Qaeda.

    “If someone is hurling threats at us, that is their view. The whole nation is behind us and the Pakistan army is a national institution,” Pakistan military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said.

    ”We are already committed to fighting extremists and terrorists — there is no change in our policy,” he added.

    They’re coming anyway, ya might as well go down fighting. Emiliano Zapata said “It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”.