These Pushtun are the enemies of the people of the United States. They are not the enemies of the administration. They are not the enemies of Bush. They are not the enemies of Cheney, or the neo cons...these people attacked us here already, and supported the men who became heroes to their ideology who slaughtered and burned our people, at work, on a quiet tuesday morning.
They are the enemies of you and me, and our families.
How the Taliban keep their coffers full
By Syed Saleem ShahzadKARACHI - Just as the Taliban move across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan with impunity, so does the money needed to sustain the Taliban-led insurgency flow unrestricted between the countries.In the wake of September 11, 2001, the financial squeeze instigated by the United States and its allies in the "war on terror" severely disrupted the flow of funds for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, mainly through closer international scrutiny of bank accounts.
However, as the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq testify, the money has certainly not been stopped. The major reason for this is that Washington and its allies made the mistake of looking for and applying high-tech solutions.
Had the focus been more on the "unschooled wisdom" prevalent in the mountains of Afghanistan and in the deserts of Iraq, the US might not be in such a poor position as it is now.
Sorry, Syed, here is my view... the reason these people are collecting this money is not that we have and use satellites, lasers, jdams and optics. The reason these people collect the money is twofold.
They are alive.
They are collecting funds from supporters who are alive.
At the least, THEY should be dead. That they are not is a mistake in the carrying out of warfare.
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There is a report over at Northeast Intelligence that traces of C4 plastic explosive were found in a pallet of provisions being loaded on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in the Port of Miami.
I was on a RC cruise last August (on the Sovereign of the Seas, a different ship), and so was a Muslim family -- parents and 3 boys around 8-12 yoa. I thought it was odd since alcohol is served, there was a pig roast one afternoon on the pool deck, and mama spent the whole time in hijab but there were, of course, bikini-clad infidel women all over the boat.
Just mentioning it.
Also, did anyone hear of reports of bird deaths in connection with the odor incident in NYC the other day? Atlas mentions something about it and also has an article about a larger incident than the Austin one -- this time in Australia and involving hundreds of birds.
Something's up.
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