China's dictator supports the Taliban

The Chinese communists have just revealed they embrace the Taliban in Afghanistan, and want everyone else to do so as well:

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping praised the “sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity” of Afghanistan in a message to a foreign ministers’ meeting featuring a Taliban representative on Thursday, encouraging neighboring countries to “do their best” to support the “Afghan people.”

China is currently hosting a two-day summit in Anhui province of regional leaders to discuss the future of Afghanistan. Taliban “Foreign Minister” Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived on Wednesday and is participating in conversations with China and other top diplomats.

This is definitely bad news. Commies of modern times are definitely taking this world in the direction of darkness and barbarism if this is type of movements China's government is embracing.

TALIBAN JUSTICE-SHARIA STYLE

Hat Tip: The Jawa Report

The "Religion of Peace" shows its true color, once again!!!

How many times do we need to see prima facie evidence that demonstrates that the cult of Muhammad is inherently misogynist and fascistic???

RUSSIAN VIEW OF PAKI TINDERBOX

Hat Tip: Bare Naked Islam

OBAMA'S "MODERATE" TALIBAN FRIENDS

Hat Tip: Atlas Shrugs

All the Obama Administration is saying is give Sharia a chance!!!

OBAMA'S TALIBAN FRIENDS

Hat Tip: Bare Naked Islam

Another demonstration of B. Hussein Obama's "moderate" Taliban buddies, carrying out the legal code of the "Religion of Peace" !!!

TALIBAN ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE KARZAI

• NEWS HERE.
• IMHO: THE TALIBAN ARE EMBOLDENED BY THEIR NEW ALLIES IN CONTROL OF PAKISTAN.
• EXIT QUESTION: HOW LONG BEFORE AN ALLY OF THE TALIBAN'S IN THE PAK ARMY GIVES THEM A NUKE TO USE?

SEVEN YEARS AGO THE TALIBAN BEGAN DESTROYING THE BUDDHAS OF BAMIYAN

WIKI:

The statues were destroyed by dynamite over several weeks, starting in early March, carried out in different stages.

Initially, the statues were fired at for several days using anti-aircraft guns and artillery. This damaged them but did not obliterate them.

Then the Taliban placed anti-tank mines at the bottom of the niches, so that when chunks of rock broke off from artillery fire, the statues would fall and be blown up again.

In the end, the Taliban tied ropes around some local Hazara men, lowered them down the cliff face, and forced them to place explosives into holes in the Buddhas.^[9]

On March 6, 2001 The Times quoted Mullah Mohammed Omar as stating, "Muslims should be proud of smashing idols. It has given praise to God that we have destroyed them."

He had clearly changed his position from being in favor of the statues to being against them.

During a March 13 interview for Japan's Mainichi Shimbun, Afghan Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Mutawakel stated that the destruction was anything but a retaliation against the international community for economic sanctions:

"We are destroying the Buddha statues in accordance with Islamic law and it is purely a religious issue".

[THEY WERE FINALLY DYNAMITED ON 3/21/01.]

• GLOBAL JIHAD IS PURELY A PROACTIVE RELIGIOUS EFFORT.
  
• AND REMEMBER, THESE BUDDHAS WERE DESTROYED BEFORE 9/11.
• THEIR DESTRUCTION WAS NOT A REACTION TO WESTERN HEGEMONY.
• IT WAS NOT TIT-FOR-TAT THEN AND IT ISN'T NOW, EITHER. NOT IN MARCH 2001 IN AFGHANISTAN AND NOT MARCH 2008 IN JERUSALEM.
  
• IN FACT; ISLAM IS THE FOREIGN INVADER IN AFGHANISTAN: THE BUDDHAS PREDATED ISLAM'S ENTRANCE INTO AFGHANISTAN BY CENTURIES.
  

WHEN CONFRONTING THE EVIL PEOPLE AND EVIL IDEOLOGY WHICH CARRIED OUT THESE DASTARDLY ACTS, WE HAVE TWO CHOICES:

• FIGHT OR SURRENDER.
• COUNTER-ATTACK OR SUBMIT.
• LEFT OR RIGHT.
• DOVE OR HAWK.
  
• DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN.
  

THE CHOICE IS OURS.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

BHUTTO'S PARTY READY TO SURRENDER TO TALIBAN - of course they call it "dialogue" and "autonomy"

CNN:

The Pakistan People's Party, which swept the parliamentary elections last week on Sunday called for an end to military operations in the southwestern Pakistani province where intelligence officials believe Taliban leaders may be holed up.

In a resolution issued Sunday after a meeting of top leaders, the PPP called on the army to immediately stop its operation in Balochistan, a province near the Afghan border.

The party also asked that all prisoners, be released and said it would work toward giving "maximum provincial autonomy" to the area.

• THIS IS TANTAMOUNT TO SURRENDER.

• THIS IS NEARLY EXACTLY WHAT THE DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE US DO IN IRAQ.

• IT IS APPEASEMENT AT BEST, CAPITULATION AT WORST.

MERELY PUTTING IT ON THE TABLE GIVES AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY.

*******UPDATE: THE TALIBAN ARE ALREADY FLEXING THEIR MUSCLES AT THE PROSPECT OF A NEW ACCOMMODATIONIST REGIME:

Pakistan militants linked to Al-Qaeda warned any incoming civilian government on Sunday that they would strike even more viciously if President Pervez Musharraf's war on terror was continued in tribal areas.

Following last week's inconclusive election, several political parties are in talks to form a coalition big enough for a ruling majority in the National Assembly. How they deal with the militants will be one of their most pressing challenges.

In northwest Pakistan on Sunday, militants attacked a security post and killed a policeman and two paramilitary servicemen and wounded six others, officials said.

THESE ARE THE FRUITS OF APPEASEMENT.

PAKISTANI NUCLEAR STAFF GO MISSING

Two members of Pakistan's atomic energy agency have been abducted (from the BBC):

The technicians went missing on the same day as Pakistan's ambassador to
Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, was reportedly abducted in the same region.

Mr Azizuddin had been going overland from the city of Peshawar to Kabul.

Pakistan's north-west has witnessed fierce fighting between Islamist militants and government troops.

The pro-Taleban guerrillas declared a unilateral ceasefire last week after months of clashes with troops garrisoned there.

The workers from Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission were on a mission to map mineral deposits in the mountains when they were kidnapped, police say.

"The technicians were going for some geological survey in the area when they were kidnapped at gunpoint along with their driver," Romail Akram, a senior police official, told Reuters news agency.

Their vehicle was intercepted by masked gunmen in the Dera Ismail Khan district, a stronghold of local militants.

"We don't know if the abductors were militants or members of some criminal gang," a local police chief, Akbar Nasir, told the AFP news agency. He said efforts to locate the missing men had yet to yield any results.

RELIAPUNDIT ASKS: REALLY ABDUCTED?? WHY?? WHAT DO THE TERRORISTS WANT THEM FOR!?

OR, WERE THESE STAGED ABDUCTIONS?

MULLAH OMAR FIRES MEHSUD

PAKISTAN LINK:

Mullah Omar sacks Baitullah for fighting against Pak Army

* Maulvi Faqir refuses to be new TTP chief

LAHORE: Taliban chief Mullah Omar has sacked Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud for fighting against the Pakistan Army instead of with NATO forces, Asia Times Online reported on Friday.

The news website quoted Mullah Omar as telling other Taliban commanders to turn their focus on NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan.

The sacking comes at a time when President Pervez Musharraf has launched an intense military operation against Baitullah in South Waziristan.

Mullah Omar appointed Baitullah as TTP chief, according to the website. Baitullah has been sacked at a time when the Taliban’s spring offensive is just months away. “The Afghan front is quiet because the Taliban and Al Qaeda militants are heavily engaged in fighting Pakistani security forces in Waziristan.

Therefore, Mullah Omar has put his foot down to reset goals for the Taliban: struggle in Afghanistan and not against Pakistan, as was being done by Baitullah Mehsud,” the website reported.

Faqir refuses:

It also quoted intelligence sources as saying that Omar appointed Maulvi Faqir Muhammad as TTP chief but Faqir refused to accept the designation after which the local Taliban were holding meetings to find Baitullah’s replacement. Sources told Asia Times that with Baitullah replaced, Omar would use all Taliban resources in the Tribal Areas to dislodge NATO troops from Afghanistan. However, this leaves Baitullah and his loyalists completely isolated to fight Pakistani forces, according to the report. Baitullah is already named by the government as the main suspect behind Benazir Bhutto’s killing.

THESE DIVISION'S REVEAL THAT THE ENEMY IS BEING SMASHED UNDER THE HAMMER AND ANVIL OF NATO AND THE PAKISTAN ARMY.

IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE KILL ALL THE BIGGIES IN THE REGION - OMAR, INCLUDED.

TALIBAN: BIN LADEN SHUTTLES BETWEEN CHINA-TAJIK BORDER AND AFGHANI-PAKISTANI BORDER

AKI:

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was hiding in the remote mountains on the Afghani-Pakistani border and moving constantly to avoid detection by intelligence agencies, according to a Taliban sympathiser.

Ahmad Farooq, a Pakistani Pashtun has told the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, that bin Laden had been moving from village to village in the area from Chitral to the "corridor of Waqan", [alternately Wakhan] the mountainous Hindu Kush region of Pakistan bordering Tajikstan and China. [Area marked with red typeface in the map.]

... "There are always 20 armed men with him, free from satellite telephones so that they did not risk detection by the Americans," he told the newspaper.

"Not far from him there are two other similar groups that move in parallel. Osama passes from one to the other often many times in a week. No-one knows which group he is with at any time."

Farooq said bin Laden had also managed to hide in the Pakistan-China border area of Karakorum, an uninhabited remote area, because it is guarded by Chinese troops.

"He lives like a monk," Farooq said. "His health is not good. He is 50 years old. But he looks much older. He relies continutally on medicine for his weak kidneys and has a breathing apparatus. "He almost died a few years ago from bronchitis that developed into pneumonia."

Farooq conducted the interview in Imam Dheray, in the Swat Valley where there has been widespread bloody conflict between the Pakistani security forces and the fugitive rebel leader and radical cleric, Mullah Fazlullah, and his supporters in recent weeks.

... Farooq gave many details about where bin Laden had been since September 11 2001 - hiding in the Afghan province of Khost until it became too dangerous for him. Then, he said, the al-Qaeda leader moved to the Chitral region, in northern Pakistan.

"I saw him for the last time on 17 September 2003 not far from Dir, my village, " he said. "His caravan was moving slowly. They told me he was not well. They didn't seem worried about being detected by the Americans. "Instead, they were looking for medicines and a warm place for the night. In that area winter arrives early. With the first snow fall the passes are closed at more than 4,000 metres and you have to wait for spring.

"I think they only went to China in summer, when the paths are clear."

A senior official from NATO's security services told the Italian daily's magazine such an account of bin Laden's activities was "quite possible".

He said "We believe he remained in the mountains in the zones of Chitral and Swat. The detail about China was however new."

A FEW SMALL NUKES SHOULD DO THE TRICK.

Death From Above - Afghanistan

This is an AC-130 gunship - first used in Vietnam - taking out a terrorist base. It gives you a much different view of the war than you get from newspapers or even TV news.

If you would like to watch an enlarged version here is the YouTube address: Targeting the Taliban in Afghanistan.

I have had the honor of working to a very limited extent on some of our earlier infrared targeting pods. The video uses a FLIR camera to take the images. In many ways this is not dissimilar to stomping on ants. For the most part the ants do not have a chance.

I like Patton's version of how to treat the enemy.

"We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts."

Here is George C. Scott doing the Patton speech with most of Patton's most colorful language censored. Here is an updated version with Iraq as the theme.

HT Joe Katzman at Winds of Change

Cross Posted at Classical Values