Sigh. I'm so sick of MSM and BG BULLS***.
I seem to be typing that a lot lately.
"US girds for more violence in Kabul; Shifting troops could imperil military progress" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | March 26, 2010
WASHINGTON — Insurgents are preparing a campaign of suicide bombings and other high-profile attacks in the bustling but poorly protected Afghan capital of Kabul this summer, posing a new threat to the fragile Afghan government and the recent military gains of the American-led counterinsurgency, according to several US officials and advisers briefed on recent intelligence reports.
The prospect of an Iraq-style spate of bombings in Afghanistan’s most populous city, which so far has been spared much of the violence, could draw forces away from the main effort to beat back the Taliban in the south of the country, where most US reinforcements have been dispatched this year, the officials said.
Which means we will just need MORE TROOPS and FORCES, right?
This FRONT-PAGE PIECE of PROPAGANDA is STINKING ALREADY!
The warnings are prompting commanders to step up intelligence-gathering efforts on possible sanctuaries in both Afghanistan and Pakistan to monitor the supply lines for moving bombers and explosives into the capital, though the officials said they fear the Afghan government and its coalition partners are ill-prepared.
Why?
"Senior Obama administration officials say some of [money] may be going to the Taliban, as part of a protection racket in which insurgents and local warlords are paid to allow the trucks unimpeded passage.... “willful blindness’’ on the part of a US military that “likes having its trucks showing up and doesn’t want to get into the details of how they got there.’’"
What a CROCK of BG SHIT, 'eh, world?
Another massive dump:
One top US defense official, who spoke on the condition he not be named when discussing sensitive security matters, described new “intelligence streams’’ that are pointing to one particular insurgent group allied with both the Taliban and Al Qaeda: the Haqqani Network, which operates out of Pakistan and has already been tied to a series of high-profile attacks, including a citywide assault in Kabul earlier this year using foreign recruits wielding small arms and an ambulance rigged with explosives.
Ah, yes, the Haqqani network, yes:
"Haqqani.... credited with introducing suicide bombing to the region.... cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work.... He may have had a role in expediting the escape of Osama Bin Laden.... In July 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistan officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Haqqani. Haqqani has been accused of involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul...."
And LOOK who they TALK TO for analysis!
“There is a real, serious danger that they will try to escalate these spectacular attacks,’’ said Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who has advised the top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley A. McChrystal. “I think it would undermine confidence in the [Afghan] government. The Afghan government has to do a lot more to harden Kabul like what was done in Baghdad.’’
Yeah, you need CEMENT BLAST WALLS SEGREGATING COMMUNITIES!
Go ask the Iraqis how they liked their prisons of liberation.
Odd how they managed to get by without them all those years under Saddam, huh?
Kabul, with an estimated 3 million people, is defended mostly by Afghan security forces and a small contingent of Italian, Spanish, and other NATO troops and is considered a “soft target’’ due to minimal fortifications around key government buildings and a limited network of checkpoints along approaches to the city. Still, to date it has enjoyed relative security as the Taliban insurgency has gained strength in the south and east of the country....
So WHEN is the BIG BLAST of an INSIDE JOB coming, 'eh, CIA?
Some officials doubt that insurgents could inflict anywhere near the level of violence in 2006 that seized Baghdad, which suffered thousands of casualties from suicide bombings attributed to the group Al Qaeda in Iraq, the destructive power of the bombings in Afghanistan is on the rise....
I have just about had enough of "Al-CIA-Duh," 'kay?
So which "Al-CIA-Duh" would that be, huh?
The made-up "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Or the "Al-CIA-Duh" CREATION for the COURTROOM!?
Related:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
"Al-CIA-Duh" School in Somalia
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Specialists believe Kabul is already becoming a more appealing target for the Haqqani Network, so named for its leader, Jalaluddin Haqqani, and considered one of the most sophisticated of Afghanistan’s insurgent groups.
The group dates to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and has strong links with the Al Qaeda terrorist leadership and its pool of young foreign recruits.
Yeah, it has STRONG LINKS to "Al-CIA-Duh," huh?
Oh, please, tell us more, MSM!
From its radical religious schools and training camps in North Waziristan in Pakistan’s lawless tribal region it has recruited Afghans, Pakistanis, Arabs, and others to carry out a series of attacks in the past two years, including the simultaneous bombings of government buildings in the city of Khost, a suicide attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul, and an attempt to bomb the motorcade of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai....
Uh-huh.
Is that who the U.S. is going to use to rub out Karzai?
The United States has stepped up operations against the group; in late February, a suspected US drone strike reportedly killed Muhammad Haqqani, the son of the group’s founder, in Pakistan.
Killed another one of their cut-outs, did they?
So when does he rise from the grave?
But with the bulk of US and Afghan forces targeting Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, it remains capable of operating relatively freely in large swaths of Afghanistan, according to a recent research paper published by the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank.
All this after we have been told we are winning, progress is being made, blah, blah, blah.
Military and intelligence officials and outside specialists say a stepped-up campaign in Kabul could have a variety of consequences. It would draw scarce resources away from the primary focus on insurgents elsewhere in the country, including Khandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city and the traditional homeland of the Taliban. US forces say they will launch a major offensive there in the coming months.
Then I don't expect anything to happen in Kabul.
Just another bloody shirt being waved by the Boston Globe.
Or is it a warning to Karzai to get back in line?
And they didn't call it the spiritual birthplace this time.
The attempt could also backfire on the militants, however, by alienating the Afghan people and further increasing support for the government and US-led military forces.
And if it does, cui bono, 'eh?
Related:
"Now stop and think here for a moment. All revolutions depend on public support. Revolutionaries try to first win the people before they take on the government. So, no revolutionary goes out and murders civilians in cold blood. Did Washington and his men just mow down a marketplace of their fellow colonials for the heck of it? No, they did not. Washington and the Founding Fathers knew that their revolution to build a new country needed the support of those who would live in that country. This is true for every revolution in history. Therefore, these acts of terror being blamed on the insurgency must all be fakes, committed by intelligence agencies working for the governments to be blamed on the insurgents in order to destroy public support for the revolution." -- Wake the Flock Up
Yup, that is the FIRST THOUGHT that enters my mind now.“Suicide bombing kills huge numbers of civilians. The greatest risk to them is that they will destroy any public support they might have had,’’ said Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who also advises McChrystal on military strategy.
Look ANOTHER CFR flak -- one that is DEVISING the STRATEGY!!
Biddle and others believe insurgents are willing to take such a risk if they can pull it off. “They may feel like they have nothing to lose anyway,’’ Biddle said.
When they are WINNING?
Matthew Dupee, an Afghan security specialist at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., for his part, believes such a Kabul offensive could crumble the US-led coalition, including leading some NATO countries to pull out of the war.
“Any type of high casualty rate among Italian or Spanish forces could prompt massive scale downs or withdrawals,’’ he said.
Then the CIA won't send its dogs there.
Related:
[The Brits are no longer part of the Big Picture in Afghanistan, since the govt. failed to hold British courts accountable to American CIA whims. British troops will be relegated to the "clean-up crew," filling Canada's former role. SEE: It’s over: MPs say the special relationship with US is dead; UK releases 'US torture evidence'] -- British forces to withdraw from Helmand under new US plan for Afghanistan
Maybe Italy and Spain should follow them out.
Related: Italy Intimidated Out Afghanistan
Hey, what is one more government and MSM lie, anyway?
