Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Holger Asks Why #18: Throwing Good Money After ....
Holger Asks Why...
Why is it that every single solution that Barack Hussein Obama has for a problem costs money?
Continuing his administration’s intense focus on the redemptive power of education, President Obama Monday announced a $900 million federal investment in states and schools systems that take dramatic steps to address the lowest performing schools and improve graduation rates.
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Pakistani Security Forces Bag A Senior Taliban Commander In Shootout In Swat
Great news! The Pakistani security forces in Swat received a tip and surrounded a house and lo and behold, the two jihadis in the house decided to try and fight their way out and didn't do such a good job of it with both being shot to pieces. The excellent news is that one of the two in the house was senior Taliban commander, Mohammad Alam Binouri. Bye Bye Binouri.
The word has to be spreading across NW Pakistan that if you are a Taliban commander of any rank, you are on a multitude of wanted lists and quite frankly, there are plenty of forces out to get you...from U.S. predator drone hellfires to Pakistani security forces to Pakistani air support strikes to Pakistani military operations. Can you imagine the chatter going on about now between Taliban commanders in the field as to where in the sam hell they can find a safe place to even rest for a few days? Hahahaha. I love it. Good luck finding those promised virgins in Hell, Binouri...just don't look inside door #2 because that's where they keep the flesh eating worms that will feed on you for all of eternity.
Here's the story from DAWN.
The word has to be spreading across NW Pakistan that if you are a Taliban commander of any rank, you are on a multitude of wanted lists and quite frankly, there are plenty of forces out to get you...from U.S. predator drone hellfires to Pakistani security forces to Pakistani air support strikes to Pakistani military operations. Can you imagine the chatter going on about now between Taliban commanders in the field as to where in the sam hell they can find a safe place to even rest for a few days? Hahahaha. I love it. Good luck finding those promised virgins in Hell, Binouri...just don't look inside door #2 because that's where they keep the flesh eating worms that will feed on you for all of eternity.
Here's the story from DAWN.
Senior Taliban commander killed in Swat clash
PESHAWAR: A senior Taliban commander has been killed in a clash with security forces in Pakistan's Swat valley, where the military claims to have quelled an uprising, officials said Monday.
Mohammad Alam Binouri, who had a 10-million-rupee (117,000-dollar) reward on his head, was killed with another militant in the gun battle in the town of Madyan in the mountainous northwestern region late Sunday, local police officer Islam Jan said.
Army and paramilitary soldiers acting on a tip-off surrounded a house in the town, but the men resisted and Binouri was killed in an exchange of fire, a military official speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP.
“The bodies of the insurgents were placed in the main bazaar of Madyan, where the residents identified the pair,” said the police officer, Jan. He said Binouri was a close aide of fugitive Swat Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah.
Binouri was killed along with fellow-commander Shankoo Mullah, while three other wounded militants were captured alive, the military official said.
The bodies were taken to Swat's main town Mingora, where the wounded insurgents are being interrogated.
Fazlullah, who has a 50-million-rupee bounty on his head, remains at large.
Video From al Qaeda Suicide Bomber Of CIA Targets In Afghanistan Reveals How He Did It, Calls Dead CIA A "gift from Allah"
A videotape has surfaced with an interview of the suicide bomber that took out the CIA agents and his Jordanian intelligence contact at Khost, Afghanistan a few months ago - the video reveals for the first time just how Abu Dujanah al Khurasani was able to get to the point where he was welcomed onto that base in Khost and kill all those CIA. From the article at The Long War Journal:
At the same time, you can now understand why the CIA unleashed the hellish rain of hellfires down on al Qaeda and Taliban targets in NW Pakistan after the deadly attack on their counterparts. Sure, the CIA was getting some revenge but at the same time, these UAV attacks were meant to remind al Qaeda that the CIA still had quality intel and the drive to continue the hunt.
Khurasani, who is also known as Humam Khalil Muhammed Abu Mulal al Balawi, carried out the suicide attack against the CIA at Combat Outpost Chapman in Khost province. Khurasani enticed the CIA with promises of being able to produce Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in command.You can see from this just how sinister the plot was and just how brilliant at the same time. And it also shows just how much danger the CIA puts themselves into each and every day. Most importantly, we now know why the CIA allowed this guy to get in so close - the fact that he had those "bootlegged" videos of an actual al Qaeda council meeting had to have quelled any doubts of this informant for certainly, only a true turncoat would reveal those images and identities, right?
Khurasani stated that initially his target was Abu Zaid, his Jordanian intelligence contact. Khurasani initially planned to kidnap Zaid in Peshawar, but he and al Qaeda leaders realized that they had an opportunity to spring a bigger trap. Al Qaeda established a council to specifically exploit the opportunity to draw in what described as "prey."
"I cut off ties for four months in order for Jordanian intelligence to stew in its own juices thinking that this guy had abandoned it, so that if he came back to them and told them that conditions were difficult, they would buy his story quickly," Khurasani said. "I cut ties for four months, then came back to them with some videos taken with leaders of the Mujahideen, so that they would think that I was leaking videos and betraying the Mujahideen. All praise is due to Allah, the bait fell in the right spot and they went head over heels with excitement. The videos I sent were actually taken with the Mujahideen’s own camera for this very purpose."
"But the amazing thing is that Abu Zaid was able to convince an entire CIA team responsible for spy drones to come to Golamkhan [the base in Khost]," he said. "So glory be to Allah: we planned for something but got a bigger gift, a gift from Allah."
At the same time, you can now understand why the CIA unleashed the hellish rain of hellfires down on al Qaeda and Taliban targets in NW Pakistan after the deadly attack on their counterparts. Sure, the CIA was getting some revenge but at the same time, these UAV attacks were meant to remind al Qaeda that the CIA still had quality intel and the drive to continue the hunt.
CIA agents killed in suicide attack 'a gift from Allah'
In a videotape produced just before his death, an al Qaeda operative thought to have been turned by Jordanian intelligence to spy on the terror group said the CIA officers targeted and killed in a Dec. 30, 2009 suicide attack were "a gift from Allah."
As Sahab released a posthumous videotape of Abu Dujanah al Khurasani, a longtime internet jihadi who was recruited by Jordanian intelligence to provide targeting information for the US' covert air campaign against al Qaeda's leaders and operations in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Khurasani, who is also known as Humam Khalil Muhammed Abu Mulal al Balawi, carried out the suicide attack against the CIA at Combat Outpost Chapman in Khost province. Khurasani enticed the CIA with promises of being able to produce Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in command.
The videotape, produced by As Sahab, al Qaeda's propaganda outlet, shows Khurasani being questioned by an interviewer. Khurasani explained how he was recruited by Jordanian intelligence after being arrested, and was provide the means to travel to Pakistan's tribal areas. [See Threat Matrix report "Transcript of interview with Jordanian suicide bomber Khurasani" for the full transcript]
Khurasani stated that initially his target was Abu Zaid, his Jordanian intelligence contact. Khurasani initially planned to kidnap Zaid in Peshawar, but he and al Qaeda leaders realized that they had an opportunity to spring a bigger trap. Al Qaeda established a council to specifically exploit the opportunity to draw in what described as "prey."
"And this is what the Mujahideen here in the Land of Khorasan realized, and that’s why their first action was to form a mini Shura council for this operation," Khuransani said. "Every single step taken had the goal of luring Jordanian intelligence to this land to arrest or kill them and give them a message written in blood that the Mujahideen will not fail to use the same tactics the intelligence services use."
To continue to entice his Jordanian handler, Khurasani broke contact with him for four months, then reestablished contact, explaining conditions were difficult to allow him to remain in touch while producing evidence that he met with senior al Qaeda leaders.
"I cut off ties for four months in order for Jordanian intelligence to stew in its own juices thinking that this guy had abandoned it, so that if he came back to them and told them that conditions were difficult, they would buy his story quickly," Khurasani said. "I cut ties for four months, then came back to them with some videos taken with leaders of the Mujahideen, so that they would think that I was leaking videos and betraying the Mujahideen. All praise is due to Allah, the bait fell in the right spot and they went head over heels with excitement. The videos I sent were actually taken with the Mujahideen’s own camera for this very purpose."
Khurasani's leads, which included false targeting information for the US strikes, ultimately led CIA officials from Kabul to Khost.
"But the amazing thing is that Abu Zaid was able to convince an entire CIA team responsible for spy drones to come to Golamkhan [the base in Khost]," he said. "So glory be to Allah: we planned for something but got a bigger gift, a gift from Allah."
Khurasani spoke with contempt for Jordanian intelligence, which he described as "hired dogs" of the US. He repeatedly described his Jordanian handlers as "imbeciles," "idiots," and "corrupt." He urge jihadists to kill intelligence officials, and even drivers and cooks working for the agency, in any way possible. He called on Jordanian jihadists to "[mobilize] to the land of Jihad [the Afghanistan-Pakistani border region] to learn the arts of war and train in them, then return to Jordan and begin operations."
Khurasani also claimed that Jordanian intelligence was behind the assassination of three top leaders in Jihad: Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden's mentor and co-founder of al Qaeda, in 1989; Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, in 2006; and Imad Mugniyah, the military commander of Hezbollah, in 2008.
As Sahab had previously released a videotape of Khurasani just before his death. He was shown in a short clip seated with Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda's leader in Afghanistan, released a tape praising Khurasani after his death and said the attack was carried out to avenge the deaths of Saleh al Somali, the former external operations chief; Baitullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Pakistani Taliban, and Abdullah Said al Libi, the leader of al Qaeda's military wing, the Lashkar al Zil.
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