February 02, 2012

Note how he tortures the two officers at the end.

Extremely graphic. This is who we fight. But this video is tame compared to many snuff videos.

(below the fold)

February 01, 2012

You don't say?

The Taliban in Afghanistan depend on Pakistan for support, even though they do not necessarily welcome it, a secret NATO report says, according to a journalist who has read it.

"It is a marriage of convenience," Times of London reporter Jerome Starkey said Wednesday, citing the report. The Taliban see Pakistan as manipulative, but they see no alternative to accepting its support, he said.

The Taliban are absolutely confident of victory, he said the report found, based on 27,000 interviews with over 4,000 detainees ranging from senior Taliban commanders to Afghan civilians.

They also include mid- and low-level Taliban, al Qaeda, and foreign fighters, he said.

The leaked NATO document revives the longstanding accusation that elements in Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency are aiding the insurgency in Afghanistan.

It says the ISI knows the whereabouts of all senior Taliban commanders, Starkey said.

SNAFU.

January 30, 2012

Long War Journal:

A member of the newly elected Egyptian parliament has called for al Qaeda's emir to return to the country "with his head held high and safely."

Aboud al Zomor, who served as the first emir of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and was later imprisoned for his role in President Anwar Sadat's assassination, said that he welcomes Ayman al Zawahiri's return to Egypt and that he would be given safe haven, according to a report published yesterday in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. The report was translated from Arabic by the Foundation For Defense of Democracies.

"When asked if he saw any danger in al Zawahiri's return, al Zomor said that 'he was not a threat to Egypt, the likes of al Zawahiri differed with the previous regime and they were only a danger for this regime and not for Egypt, and now he is liberating Afghanistan and Iraq...'" the report stated. Zomor also lamented that the US would be opposed to Zawahiri's return to Egypt.

Zomor denied having direct contact with members of al Qaeda, and claims to have renounced violence.

"I've distanced myself from that currently because I took the political line and closed the page on the past, as a result of which doors to peaceful action opened for us," he told Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.

Zomor is one of the primary founders of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group that merged with al Qaeda. Zawahiri succeeded Zomor as the group's emir and presided over its merger with bin Laden's terror group in the 1990s.

January 23, 2012

Here's a vidcap from the latest Taliban propaganda video in which they shoot 15 men in the back of the head.

Just a reminder: the Taliban produced this video, it didn't get accidentally leaked.

They're proud when the murder people.

If pissing on dead Taliban offends a certain portion of the Islamic world, then the real problem is in the Islamic world not with the act of pissing on dead terrorists.

And yes, they are terrorists.

Mostly I'm just venting here. I know our soldiers should be better than pissing on some dead bastard. But for chrissake, let's have a little perspective here.

January 19, 2012

I couldn't believe what I was hearing when Ron Paul opened his mouth and absolute nonsense came out of (but I repeat myself) on the Taliban during the last debate. I was going to write something about it, but I got distracted.

Thank God for Andrew McCarthy, who does my job for me and smacks Rep. Paul down here.

To set this up, Paul made a couple of false assertions. Since I've heard him make similar assertions in the past we cannot dismiss his belief about the Taliban as a slip of the tongue or moment of confusion. He actually seems to believe this.

I'll take them in order.

First, Paul believes that the Taliban, "used to be our allies when we were fighting the Russians".

I can't believe the moron believes this. But he does.

McCarthy responds:

while a number of the Taliban’s eventual founders were veterans of the anti-Soviet jihad, the fact is that the Taliban was not established as an organization until 1994. That is five years after the Soviet Union skulked out of Afghanistan and three years after [Afghanistan] collapsed.

A lot of my undergrad students believe this, but they're mostly morons. I usually give the smart ones who believe this a pass since most of them weren't even born when the war in Afghanistan was raging and the country completely fell off the map when the Soviets withdrew.

But Ron Paul was in Congress when that body was voting on giving money to the resistance, and he was an adult when the Taliban took over. He must have been, what, 87 back in the early 1990s? He has no excuse for not understanding the history there.

Second, Paul believes that the Taliban's "main goal is to keep foreigners off their land .... The Taliban just says, “We don’t want foreigners."''

Umm, yeah. That's why they used to publicly whip women who showed too much eyebrow. Because they hate foreigners.

McCarthy responds:

To begin with, the Taliban’s creation was a direct result not of foreign invasion but of Afghanistan’s internecine tribal warfare after the Soviets left and the Americans lost interest. Its unabashed goal was to crush Afghan factions that impeded its establishment of a retrograde sharia state.

Moreover, if the Taliban are just a bunch of xenophobes who's only goal is getting rid of foreigners, then what were they doing hosting Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda -- foreigners, one and all -- prior to the invasion?

Ron Paul is an idiot.

I'm actually quite sympathetic to the argument that we need to disengage from the Islamic world. I'm sympathetic to the argument that maybe we should just let them have at it and not worry about winning hearts and minds. And maybe that would mean re-invading the same country over and over again. But last time I checked, all this nation building isn't paying big dividends and we had almost no casualties in either the Iraq invasion or the build up in Afghanistan.

So, some of the policy suggestions aren't nearly as loony as Paul makes them sound.

But the way he gets there reveals that Paul himself is a crazy idiot. His followers and libertarians in the Republican party would do much better if they found themselves another spokesman. Maybe his son Rand could pick up the banner?

The only comfort I have in the fact that nearly 20% of Republicans support this lunatic can be found in the fact that nearly 80% of Democrats support that other lunatic. You know, Barrack Obama.

January 18, 2012

Why I'll be darned, the Pakistanis are good for something!

AP: Moeed Abdul Salam didn't descend into radical Islam for lack of other options. He grew up in a well-off Texas household, attended a pricey boarding school and graduated from one of the state's most respected universities.

But the most unlikely thing about his recruitment was his family: Two generations had spent years promoting interfaith harmony and combatting Muslim stereotypes in their hometown and even on national television.

Salam rejected his relatives' moderate faith and comfortable life, choosing instead a path that led him to work for al-Qaida. His odyssey ended late last year in a middle-of-the-night explosion in Pakistan. The 37-year-old father of four was dead after paramilitary troops stormed his apartment.

It also stresses the importance that al-Qaeda places on internet propaganda and communications.

He established diffuse Jihadi media groups and trained his brothers who followed the path of the Jihadi media. He administrated many websites and Jihadi forums, and he guided and planned and attacked the enemy masterfully. He led the Jihadi forums and websites of splendor, attacking the strongholds of arrogance and infidelity, weakening the determination of its troops, and sabotaging their great media plans”

In addition, it's nice that he was killed in Pakistan. It saves listening to all that bullshit crap about targeting and killing al-Qaeda members who also happen to be US citizens.

January 12, 2012

...But murdering civilians, stoning women to death, executing missionaries, and hanging children is hunky-dory!

From AJC via Gateway Pundit:

The video was roundly denounced in the U.S. and Afghanistan alike.

Karzai called it "completely inhumane." The Afghan Defense Ministry called it "shocking." And the Taliban issued a statement accusing U.S. forces of committing numerous "indignities" against the Afghan people.

"First they killed the Afghans with mortars, and they then urinated on their bodies," Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said of what is shown in the video. "We strongly condemn this inhumane action by the wild American soldiers."

I think when people like Defense Secretary Leon Panetta publicly condemn our own Troops, accused of minor, distasteful offenses, and at the same time quietly distance themselves from condemning, for fear of offending someone, true atrocities being committed by our enemy, it really borders on treason.

No one has to condone the behavior of the Marines depicted in the video peeing on dead enemy combatants. But how about a little perspective?

Panetta needs to grow some balls. Tell the Taliban to f--k off until they start treating their captives a little more humanely. He should have told the Taliban, "Be grateful it wasn't pig piss, you crazy, little, goat-f--kers."

Maybe a little more tactful. But you get the picture.

January 10, 2012

Heh...

December 28, 2011

Telegraph:

Senators want to stop feeds which boast of insurgent attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan and the casualties they inflict.

Aides for Joe Lieberman, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said the move was part of a wider attempt to eliminate violent Islamist extremist propaganda from the internet and social media.

The Taliban movement has embraced the social network as part of its propaganda effort and regularly tweets about attacks or posts links to its statements.

The information has ranged from highly accurate, up-to-the-minute accounts of unfolding spectacular attacks, to often completely fabricated or wildly exaggerated reports of American and British casualties.Then we find this little tidbit....

Indeed the Taliban are considered a foreign terrorist organization.

Yes The Taliban Are A Specially Designated Terrorist Group

Taliban were declared specially designated terrorist entity by President Bush under executive order 13224, see here via Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control.

The Executive order recognizes the designation of the Taliban as terrorists by the UN resolution 1267 and directs the Dept of Treasury and State to treat them as such.

You can find more security council resolutions about the Taliban here on that mysterious thingy called Google.

Providing business services, even free ones, to the Taliban violates the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in the US. Each IEEPA violation of carries a fine of up to $250,000.

Providing business services to the Taliban also violates the Charter of the United Nations (Anti-terrorism — Persons and Entities) List, under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 of which Canada & the US have recognized as a legally binding resolution.

It also violates UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1267, of which Canada & the US recognize as binding law. "Asset holders are under an obligation to freeze the assets or economic resources of persons involved in terrorism as listed in the Consolidated List", of which the Taliban are listed.

But considering that Obama loves the idea of a Taliban embassy in Qatar. Well I think twitter is basing their stand on the fact that this President is unlikely to enforce any ban.

But still Titter are dicks for giving the Taliban a platform to spew their Islamic supremacist propaganda and ideology. I threw the word supremacist in there because if it were any other brand of supremacist then you know..

December 14, 2011

I love how they throw AIDS in there with other notorious vices, like Christianity. Christianity, the horror!

Taliban website:

No one had heard about a single case of aids ten years ago in Afghanistan and the country was considered as one of the few “shielded from the worst ravages of the AIDS pandemic”. Why is it now that alongside war, AIDS has also been able to spread and it has been noted that thousands of Afghans have been diagnosed with this deadly virus!!? ...

The astonishing part about all this is that there are still a number of such people who observe and admit that the accursed American democracy is the sole reason behind the spreading of Christianity, AIDS, drugs, intoxicants and various obscenities and perversities but even on top of all of that consider the American occupation beneficial for Afghans and openly show their optimism for the establishment of permanent US bases and give it approval for the next ten years.

Brian Fishman makes the case:

So there is a complicated story if it is indeed true that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is the organization that was responsible for these attacks, because it's not plausible that the organization could have done these things on its own. It would have required cooperation with -- at a bare minimum -- Pakistani Taliban groups based in the FATA, but most likely needed some sort of support from the Haqqani network that has demonstrated the ability to reach out across Afghanistan and has conducted major attacks on Kabul before.

Pajamas Media:

Egypt’s pyramids and the Great Sphinx have survived pharaohs and empires, the Greeks and Romans and Napoleon, World War II and the harsh desert weather. They seem to outlive time itself. But they may not survive the Arab Spring, according to hints found in an article by Der Spiegel’s Daniel Steinvorth.

December 07, 2011

Update: Same training video, just better (yet almost equally unbearable) music.

I haven't seen moves like this since the 5th grade.

For added comedic value, do read the comments (linked to original video). I was laughing through the whole thread. :)

December 06, 2011

UPDATE by Rusty: Howie emailed the Taliban spokesman "Dr. Talib Mujahid" asking if it was true that he was denying the Taliban were the ones responsible for the mass murder.

The Taliban spokesman responded in an email to The Jawa Report, "Yes, we will reject it."

Apparently lying is second nature to the Taliban who will now, conveniently, blame the CIA and the Jews.

And yes, the Taliban have email and cell phones. And yes, we have both. I'm guessing there is some kind of strategy in letting "Dr. Mujahid" live. But for the likes of me I just can't figure out what it is?

-----begin original post by Howie----

Yahoo:

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say 48 people have been killed in a suicide bombing targeting Shiite worshippers in Kabul.

The attacker blew himself up Tuesday in the midst of a crowd of men, women and children gathered outside the Abul Fazl shrine to commemorate the seventh century death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein.

Mohammed Zahir, chief of the Kabul Criminal Investigation Department, gave the death toll and said more than 100 people were wounded.

Mohammad Bakir Shaikzada, the top Shiite cleric in Kabul, said he could not remember a similar attack having taken place on such a scale.

"This is a crime against Muslims during the holy day of Ashoura. We Muslims will never forget these attacks. It is the enemy of the Muslims who are carrying them out," he said, declining to place blame.

NPR reported the Taliban issued a denial though I can find no reference to it as of this time. But of course the Taliban mouthpieces in Pakistan would say this. They can hardly claim cold blooded murder although the attacks bear all the hallmarks of their activity.

There was also an explosion yesterday targeting Shia Muslims in Karachi Pakistan. So its very clear who the enemy of Muslims in Afghanistan is.

My sources report that the death toll is now around 60 with 100 to 200 injured.

Video below the fold.

Update: The Taliban say, "Yes, we will reject it." Which translated means lie.

Ironically when the bomb goes off someone calls for Jesus. Yes he is Lord!

December 05, 2011

Khalid Saheed fled Afghanistan because after leaving Islam he has been threatened with death for apostasy.

Our good friend Phyllis Chesler is writing on his behalf.

Letter To The Government of Sweden and Migration Board:

I am writing to you on behalf of Khalid Saeed’s petition to remain in Sweden, a petition which you have denied. I implore you to revisit his case.

His life—and Sweden’s reputation for fairness and morality are both at stake.

Khalid Saeed and his family have been living in Sweden since 2009. Saeed joined the 5% of the Swedish population who are Muslims. However, unlike Muslims who have rioted and/or who have refused to assimilate in Sweden, Khalid is a pro-Western apostate.

This is precisely why he fled Pakistan. Apostasy is a capital crime in Islam, and so is any preference shown to Western ways of thought.

Khalid Saeed was a car dealer in Islamabad, Pakistan. He is married and has three children. Once he made his views known, he was threatened. He fled. In his own words, he claims:

“I have never worshipped Allah nor do I or my wife, Asia, believe in Islam as the only truth for mankind. I have distanced myself from Islam years ago. That is my curse. My wife, the mother to our children, agrees. She will not see her daughter brought up in a society where women are only half humans and neither will I.

"As parents we also do not want to stand (helpless) on the side line and watch our two lovely and open-minded boys being forced into any kind of holy jihad group or society whose only objective is to oppress, threaten, and intimidate others to blindly follow the pitiless words of the profane muslim prophet Mohammad and his followers’ medieval Islamic sharia laws.”

Anyone who sounds like this in Pakistan, or in any Pakistani Muslim community in the world is a dead man.

And yet, you have refused him asylum in Sweden. I strongly disagree with your ruling on his application for asylum.

I assume you are familiar with the fate of apostates: Muslims who convert to Christianity or who describe themselves as “humanists” or “secularists,” or who believe in freedom of religion.

Sweden’s own 2010 Report on Human Rights in Pakistan confirms that religious minorities are severely persecuted in Pakistan as are any people who are in favor of free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought. For example, the governor of the Punjab (in Pakistan) was assassinated when he wanted to pursue reforms against blasphemy laws.

The International Humanist and Ethical Union, which was founded in Amsterdam, spent years campaigning for the life of physician and human rights activist Dr. Younus Sheikh who languished on Death Row in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

We know that many Muslims are not friendly toward any infidel religion, including Christians, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, etc. Christians have been—and still are—being savagely persecuted in Muslim lands. I and many others have written about this often. Author and apostate Nonie Darwish and ex-Muslim secularist Ibn Warraq have both spoken out about this burning issue.

Christians are being savagely persecuted in Egypt and all across the Middle East and Islamic world.

In Pakistan, Christians have literally been crucified, teenaged Christian girls have been kidnapped, raped, then forced to marry their rapists and convert to Islam.

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, do not allow Christians, Jews, or other “infidels” to pray openly or to build any or new houses of worship.

The Arab Muslim Middle East is almost completely “Judenrein,” (free of Jews) since more than 800,000 Arab Jews were exiled or forced to flee their countries between 1948-1968.

In 2010, in Pakistan, a Muslim mob attacked a Christian man and slaughtered him with pick-axes for refusing to convert to Islam.

According to Mina Nevisa, an Iranian Muslim convert to Christianity who wrote a book about her experiences, both she and her female cousin were attending an underground church in Teheran. Nevis fled Iran together with her husband. Her cousin was not so lucky. “She was arrested on charges of Apostasy and taken to Evin prison, where she was raped, tortured, and then killed by a firing squad. The pastor was also killed.”

The situation for Muslim apostates in Europe is also perilous. High profile apostates, such as Egyptian-Italian Magdi Christiano Allam, who was converted to Catholicism by the Pope, lives with six round-the-clock bodyguards. Aayan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-Dutch-American apostate-secularist, also requires a full time security detail. People who do not have public profiles, who are not academics, intellectuals, politicians, or public speakers, also face similar problems.

In 2001, “Sabatina James” (a pseudonym) fled from Austria to Germany and went into hiding to escape being honor-murdered by her family after she converted from Islam to Christianity. Her family had immigrated from Pakistan.

“Sabatina’s” troubles began when she was 15 years old. Because she dared to wear lipstick and blue jeans, she was mercilessly beaten. When she rejected marriage to a cousin, “Sabatina” was sent to a Qur’anic school in Lahore, where she was repeatedly flogged. She finally agreed to the marriage—but only in order to be able to return to Austria. Then, when she was 19 years old, she fled.

In 2009, Iraqi-born Vian Bakir Fatah was stabbed to death by her Iraqi ex-husband in Norway. She had converted to Christianity and had a new boyfriend. Her ex-husband murdered her in the presence of their four children.

In the past, Sweden has presumably been at the forefront of human rights activism and legislation. Now, in this case, it seems that Sweden has failed its own stated ideals.

Given the information that I and others are providing, I strongly urge you to reconsider Khalid Saeed’s case. If not, his blood, and the blood of his wife and children will be on Swedish hands.

Signed: Professor Phyllis Chesler

If the country of Sweden doesn't do the right thing then the least we can do is offer Khalid Saheed a place here where he can be free. Damn crying shame we let Afghanistan keep this sixth century Sharia BS in its constitution to start with.

Also please support Phyllis' writing here.

Nice shot there losers.

A minibus full of Afghan civilians struck a roadside bomb while driving down a road in southern Afghanistan on Monday, setting off an explosion that killed five passengers.

One woman and four children died and another six passengers were wounded, said Fareed Ayal, a spokesman for the Uruzgan provincial police.

Ayal said the vehicle had just left the main market area in Chor district when it hit the buried explosive. He said two brothers and their families were traveling in the minibus.

Civilians are regularly victims of bombs laid by insurgents to target Afghan or international forces.

December 01, 2011

Turkey has arrested dozens and dozens of al Qaeda sympathizers in the last few years. But is it doing anything to stop the flow of Turks into the war zone to fight for the Taliban or other violent Islamists? My guess is the answer is no:

A jihadist media outlet that supports Turkish terrorists fighting along the Afghan-Pakistan border said that 21 of its fighters were killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan, while another fighter was killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan. All of the Turkish fighters who were killed were linked to the Haqqani Network.

November 29, 2011

Your mujahideen & freedom fighters hard at work. Code Pink and Islamists in Pakistan set to take to the streets in 4 ... 3 ... 2 ..... :

Military intelligence officials say that the units essentially act as death squads and that one of them, a large group known as the Khurasan that operates primarily in Pakistan’s tribal areas, has been responsible for at least 250 assassinations and public executions.

Another group, whose name is not known, works mainly in Afghanistan and may be responsible for at least 20 killings in Khost Province over the summer alone, including a mass beheading that came to light only after a video was found in the possession of a captured insurgent. The video shows 10 headless bodies evenly spaced along a paved road, while their heads sit nearby in a semicircle, their faces clearly visible....

the bodies of two men accused of helping the Americans turned up near the village where [a top Haqqani commander] was captured. Scalding iron rods had been shoved through their legs. One victim had been disemboweled, and both had been shot through the head and crushed by boulders.

November 17, 2011

Wired:

Twice in the span of a month, the Taliban has unleashed human waves on one of the U.S. Army’s most isolated Afghan outposts. Twice, the American soldiers guarding the tiny fort have beat back the attackers, killing scores of extremists while suffering no losses of their own.

Once the shooting starts, the Taliban know they probably have only a few minutes before the Apache helicopters and Air Force jet fighters arrive overhead and unleash Hell. “When fighters arrive on station, the insurgents can’t run away fast enough,” said Capt. DeShane Greaser, commander of the Margah troops.

...The air support arrived just in time, Greaser said. “There was a vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device heading to the COP and after the first bombs hit we got reports that the enemy said, ‘We’re turning around, there are jets overhead.”‘

November 15, 2011

Via @switch_d, some Afghan officials claimed that the Taliban's spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid was arrested yesterday. Which would be super awesome news given that he's #1 on the people Rusty would like to see killed list. Alas, news of ZB's demise have been greatly exaggerated:

An Afghan government official there reported that the spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, was among suspects detained during joint coalition and Afghan military operations. A second government official in Paktika confirmed the account. Both spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to release the information.

Reached on his usual cellphone number a few hours later, Mr. Mujahid angrily denied their accounts. “I am talking to you on the phone right now,” he told an Afghan reporter who has frequently interviewed him in the past. “I am safe and sound and living in a safe place.”

November 11, 2011

Remembering all who serve in the cause of freedom.

And also the Armistice of Moudros. Which is really the thing that Muslims Against Crusades dislikes about today.

They have to remember that we have and can still kick their ass.

October 29, 2011

Today CNN is noting the Twitter war between the US and the Taliban (video link).

But note the Taliban's tweets are all to links. I mean that's the primary use for twitter. To share links to websites where the actual propaganda is located.

The tweets link primarily to two websites:

http://alemara1.com/ and http://shahamat-english.com.

A little research into those websites reveal they are both hosted, in violation of UN sanctions, by VADS hosting in Malaysia. See the contact info at the link. I find that the email addresses that VADS lists on its whois records to be pretty much useless. But here they are as well.

vads@vads.com
msobri@tmnet.com.my
syahrul_liza@tmnet.com.my
idc@netmyne.com

For additional feedback to our Malaysian friends here is the link to the Malaysian embassy in Washington DC as well as the Ambassador's email.

malwashdc@kln.gov.my

Express your dissatisfaction with them for aiding those who kill our soldiers in Afghanistan. As always please be polite and to the point but above all please participate.

In addition to hosting there are two other assets in question here. The domain records themselves. Taking down the host is bothersome for the Taliban, but disabling and freezing the DNS records forces the Taliban to buy a new domain name in order to keep publishing their propaganda. An even more effective countermeasure.

http://alemara1.com/

Is registered to one Mostafa Ahmedi mostafa_ahmedi@yahoo.com

Ghazni
kandahar
kabul
kabul
Kandahar,8888
AF
Tel. +93.87878788
Fax. +93.676787, faazal hosting company

Please direct complaints about the DNS records toskatech@skatech.com.my.

SHAHAMAT-ENGLISH.com has the same registrar as above but is registered to the already known Taliban webmaster Adil Watanmal aka adilmadani@yahoo.com

DNS:
alemara10.sksatech.com
alemara11.sksatech.com

Created: 2011-04-25 13:16:18
Expires: 2012-04-25 05:16:18
Last Modified: 2011-04-25 13:16:18

Registrant Contact:
shahamat
shahamat - (adilmadani@yahoo.com)
shahamat
kandahar, kandahar, af 23000
P: +937.34343456 F: +0.0

You know what to do with this information Jawas. May the force be with you.

Previous.

Update: One additional thought, although the registrations appear to be in Afghanistan the Taliban's online communications are known to reside in Pakistan.

Dear Sir/Madame,

You are violating Malaysian and International law by providing business services to "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan", better know as the Taliban.

The following U.N. Security Council Resolutions prohibit any individual or company from doing any business with the Taliban: 1267 (1999), 1333 (2000), 1390 (2002), 1455 (2003), 1526 (2004), 1617 (2005), 1735 (2006) and 1822 (2008). Specifically, the resolutions order member countries to "freeze without delay the funds and other financial assets or economic resources, including funds derived from property owned or controlled directly or indirectly" of the Taliban. Malaysia also has domestic laws implementing the above UN Resolutions.

Again, these are the OFFICIAL website of the Taliban: http://alemara1.com/ and http://shahamat-english.com.

Please cease and desist providing privacy/webhosting services to this internationally outlawed organization.

Thank you,

October 24, 2011

Michael Yon:

The Taliban and other enemies in Afghanistan regularly fire upon and hit our helicopters. In Afghanistan, a red cross means “Shoot me; I’m defenseless.” We’d have a better chance warding off vampires with crucifixes.

October 04, 2011

Awesome if confirmed. More please..

Roggio

The leader of a terrorist group known as the German Taliban Mujahideen is rumored to have been killed in a US airstrike in the Afghan-Pakistan border region.

Gazavat Media, a jihadist propaganda website that caters to Turkish jihadists belonging to the Taifatul Mansura, or the Victorious Sect, posted that Abdul Fettah al Almani, the head of the so-called German Taliban Mujahideen, was killed in a US airstrike. The statement, which was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, did not give the exact date or location of the strike, and was clear the report is unconfirmed.

"Gazavat Media received unconfirmed news that Abdul Fettah al Almani, the leader of the group known as the German Taliban Mujahideen, was martyred. According to the source, the factor that caused the martyrdom of Abdul Fettah Almani was a missile fired from either a helicopter or a drone."[More..]

September 27, 2011

Sweet, keep splodin those bas**rds

From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 27, 2011 – Afghan and coalition forces used a precision airstrike to kill a key Taliban leader in Afghanistan’s Wardak province yesterday, military officials reported.

The combined security force conducted the airstrike in Wardak’s Sayyidabad district, resulting in the death of a man they said was responsible for providing weapons and logistical support to insurgents for ambush and roadside-bomb attacks along the main thoroughfare, Highway 1.

The force called for the airstrike after ensuring no civilians were in the area, officials said, and following the strike, they assessed the area and determined no civilians were harmed.

In other operations around Afghanistan yesterday:[ More...]

September 22, 2011

It won't bring our heroes back but most gratifying to hear this

Roggio

Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed the Taliban commander who led forces in an area in central Wardak where 38 US and Afghan troops, including 17 Navy SEALs, were killed when their helicopter was shot down in early August.

Qari Tahir, who the International Security Assistance Force described as the Taliban's commander in the Tangi Valley in Wardak province, was killed yesterday in an airstrike in the Sayyidabad district. He was killed "after the security force located Tahir and an associate in a dry riverbed," ISAF stated in a press release.More...]

Always nice to hear good news!

h/t hmf..

Michael Yon in the puppy blender reminds viewers that our troops are doing fantastically against the Taliban. But don't tell the media that a failed attack against the US embassy ... is still just a failed attack.

Did I mention FAIL?

September 20, 2011

Cuz, unless the Arab revolutions are for Allah & Shariah then you don't know terrorism in the way of, errr jihad in the way of Allah[MEMRI translated]

Or, you could say it another way, you don't know jacksh*t.

The Taliban also has part of it in English on their website.

Two Taliban walk into the home of the former President and current head of the "Peace Council", no one walks out:

At attack at his home in Kabul has left former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani dead, "two government sources" tell The Associated Press.

Reuters also reports that Rabbani, who most recently was chairman of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, was killed ... The Peace Council has been negotiating with the Taliban in recent years ....

NPR's Quil Lawrence tells the Newscast Desk that officials say two men who said they were Taliban members and wished to turn themselves in came to Rabbani's home, and that one of the men is suspected of having concealed a bomb.

Hey, let's negotiate with these guys update:

Kabul police source tells CNN suicide bomber went to Rabani house under pretense of talks about reconciliation.

OMFG update: Obama Admin reportedly gives thumbs up for Taliban diplomatic office to open up in Qatar.

Maybe we should just save every one the hassle and help the economy at the same time by selling the Taliban the bombs they are going to use to kill our negotiator with?

September 15, 2011

Earlier this week the Taliban announced they had a new twitter channel. They've had twitter accounts before (hello, violation of the law any one?) but this time is different: this time, they're talking to the ISAF. And the ISAF is talking back.

While the twitter fight between the Taliban and the ISAF is interesting, couldn't we just settle this like men and bomb the hell out of Qari Yousef Mohammad and "Dr." Zabihullah Mujahid (the Taliban spokesmen)? Both are known Taliban operatives and at least one of them is in Quetta, Pakistan.

As enemy combatants, killing them is not only legal under the rules of war ... but it just seems like the right thing to do. I mean, we've all wanted to kill someone over the stupid things they've said on twitter. Now is our chance!

As long as I'm harping on the intellectually lazy, let's remember that the vast majority of Islamist terrorism is directed towards Muslims:

A suicide bomber has attacked the funeral service of a Pakistani tribal leader opposed to the Taliban, killing at least 20 people.

September 13, 2011

Followup to Rusty's: Brave Mujahideen Attack School Bus, Kill Four Kids

YouTube supports the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) by allowing videos such as this by youtube.com/user/TauhidFirst1.

You know what to do...

UPDATE: Video above OWND! Thanks everyone, here's another one cheering TTP by www.youtube.com/user/saad97079:[UPDATE II: www.youtube.com/user/saad97079 below OWND!! Thanks everyone!!]

Again, you know what to do..

September 08, 2011

I'm not sure why I got stuck reporting the bad news. But one American and Two German citizens bodies were recovered in and around Kabul this week.

Our prayers for their families and thanks for their service and sacrifice for their nations and the Afghan people.

Remember when we leave they will be the ones bearing the brunt of the bloodthirsty Taliban murderers.

September 07, 2011

Pakistani Taliban claim they did it

Police are investigating whether a twin suicide bomb attack on the home of a top paramilitary official that killed at least 23 people in the southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday is linked to the recent arrest of three top Al Qaeda operatives in the city.

Brigadier Farrukh Shahzad, deputy head of the Frontier Corps paramilitary force for Baluchistan province, survived the morning attack but his wife was killed, Quetta police officials said. More than 50 people were injured in the blasts.

The attack began when a suicide bomber in a sports utility vehicle packed with explosives rammed his car into a convoy of Frontier Corps officers outside Shahzad's house, triggering a massive explosion, police said. Moments later, a second attacker rushed into Shahzad's house, hurling grenades inside before detonating his suicide bomb vest.

Shahzad was seriously injured in the attack, police said. Several senior Frontier Corps officers were killed or injured. Police identified the suicide bomber on foot as Ahmad Gul, a 21-year-old Afghan refugee living in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. His identification card was found amid severed body parts found at the blast site.

September 06, 2011

Stories like these make me glad I coined the term Muslime.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the abduction of 30 teenage boys who were seized from Pakistan's tribal region during an outing last week.

The militant group said it abducted the boys to punish their tribe for forming a pro-government militia to battle the Taliban.

"Everyone who supports the government against Taliban will face the same fate," the Taliban spokesman said.

So far as I know Muslims consider the books of Moses a valid Holy Text. Don't forget Moses says the law of God is that anyone who kidnaps is worthy of the death penalty.

It's high time Muslims implement the law of Allah on the Taliban.

September 03, 2011

Our guys cared for him and the cowardly Taliban kidnap young ones like him for *sport

*A Taliban spokesperson, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said the mass kidnapping had been planned, as the militants had advance knowledge that the boys would be visiting a scenic picnic spot during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holidays.

He said the fate of the boys would be decided by the Taliban Shura (committee) from Bajaur.

The spokesperson denied that many of the hostages were children.

But Waheedullah, an eyewitness who escaped the abduction, told the BBC that most of the boys were below 18, with some as young as 10.

September 02, 2011

The life of a Taliban isn't easy. Long days fighting the infidels, forced marches across lawless borders, and lonely nights without the comfort of a young boy to meet your needs. Well, here's one problem solved:

Taliban militants kidnapped 30 Pakistani boys as they picnicked just over the Afghan border, local officials said.

The boys had either inadvertently wandered across the unmarked border or had been lured over according to reports and were then seized by fugitive militants.

Intelligence officials said the captors were apparently allied with Maulvi Faqir Mohammad the Taliban commander who led insurgents in Pakistan’s Bajaur tribal agency until fleeing to Afghanistan last year.

August 25, 2011

Via Bill Roggio

A videotape of the the Taliban brutally executing an Afghan police commander has been released on the Internet. The Taliban used a heavy weapon to kill the Afghan commander, and then desecrated the man's remains.

The videotape, which was released on the LiveLeak website, is undated. According to the caption, the tape shows the Taliban executing "a police commander in Paktia province after kidnapping him." A US military intelligence official told The Long War Journal that the description accompanying the video "is accurate."[More..]

You diet your way, I'll diet mine.

Video is below the fold, Warning, extremely graphic

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Bast*rds!

August 19, 2011

Not really.

Gerald has an interesting post at Internet Anthropologist about the Taliban being financially motivated, not religiously.

August 17, 2011

MEMRI has an excellent article on how al Qaeda and other jihadis use the San Francisco based Archive.org to store and distribute propaganda videos.

As a follow up to that article, let me just note that the Taliban are now using archive.org as one of their official repositories. Again, this is from the official Taliban sponsored website, not just some fan page or unofficial tribute to the listed foreign terrorist organization.

Here's a screenshot.

And a close up showing the url of the link.

That link takes you here.

And I'm sure none of you will be shocked to learn what other American companies the Taliban are using to distribute their propaganda. YouTube, natch.

I hear a lot of complaints about us giving Islamic extremists in Afghanistan Stinger missiles in the 80s. I get that. But at least that was a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Outside a very small group, though, I don't hear a lot of complaints about giving even worse extremists the technology they need to recruit, raise funds, and even plan terror attacks.

And we're at war with these extremists!

I wonder what FDR would have done if he found out American companies were helping the Germans or Japanese, even unwittingly, during the war? I'm not sure, but I'll bet that this assistance would not have gone on for a decade.