Although the main reason I campaign for the release of illegally-imprisoned U.S. Special Forces soldier Jack Idema and his fellow prisoners, Brent Bennett and Ed Caraballo, is to see a gross injustice put right, it really is worth bearing in mind how valuable men like Jack are to our side in the WoT.
A common perception about the fight to rid ourselves of Islamofascism is that the hot-spot right now is Iraq, while hostilities in Afghanistan are, to all intents and purposes, over. Sadly, as the BBC reported yesterday, nothing could be further from the truth:
It is only 200km (125 miles) from Kabul to Khost, but Afghanistan’s capital has little control over this rugged border province.
Government officials in Kabul say well-armed fighters cross regularly from next-door Pakistan, but admit they can do little to stop them.
In remote areas, more than $5,000 (£2,865) in bounty money has been offered to local men to kill senior government workers, one administrator said.
“It is big money. It is al-Qaeda money and it is from the Gulf,” he said, referring to Arab supporters of al-Qaeda.
For anyone paying attention, this is precisely how al-Qaeda infiltrated Afghanistan during the Taliban era, using cash, assassination and foreign fighters to set in place the system that eventually brought about 9/11.
Grasping why history is repeating itself in this way isn’t difficult — All it has taken is for the U.S. State Department to remain stuck in the pre-9/11 mindset of containment and appeasement. Rather than rooting out all the Taliban sympathisers of importance in Afghanistan in 2001, the philosophy that came to govern post-Taliban Afghanistan was, more often than not, one of allowing members of the old regime back into the political life of the country if they agreed to ‘renounce violence’.
Now, granted, the idea of peace and reconciliation, of healing divisions after a war draws to an end, is something any reasonable person would desire. Only, here’s the problem: we are not dealing with reasonable people. Most of us woke up to that fact on the morning of 9/11, but not, it seems, the U.S. State Department or the Karzai interim government. Both have sought to appease a hard core of Islamofascists with promises of power in exchange for agreements to refrain from violence. What we’re beginning to see is just how disastrous a policy this was.
… Though Jack Idema could have told the State Department that back in 2004. We will remember, after all, that Idema and his men were arrested after they captured an ‘ex’-Taliban judge, Sidiq, who was in possession of:
- Photographs of himself with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
- Bomb plans
- Explosive detonators
- al-Qaeda and Hezb-i-Islami documents and recruiting cards
- A letter from Taliban leader Mullah Omar
The State Department and Karzai interim government reacted to this arrest by handing Idema over to the very terrorist elements he’d been hunting. This was done in a desperate, and desperately misguided, bid to smooth ruffled feathers and keep the ‘peace process’ on track.
Two years later, we can see the results of this strategy as entire sections of Afghanistan fall back under the control of Islamofascists, and foreign-funded jihadists pour across the border from Pakistan. If this proves anything, it’s that Idema and the Northern Alliance’s distrust of ‘former’ terrorists was entirely appropriate. Moreover, as the recent shift in power from Karzai to the Northern Alliance shows, ordinary Afghans, too, want the Taliban’s bloody hands removed from the levers of power once and for all.
Here’s Jack, writing just after elections handed power over to the Northern Alliance:
What did you expect? Did you expect Afghan families to vote for the return of the whip and rod? During their brief time in power, the Taliban denied the people all human rights, abolished music and song, televisions and pictures; even personal pictures. All males had to wear turbans and could not cut their beards—violations were met with beatings and executions. Females had no rights except the right to be stoned in public until dead for even a minor infraction. The Taliban closed all schools and medical centers, and established the Ministry of Good and Evil to enforce their belief system on the entire country; everyone had been whipped at least once. To possess any picture, even a gum wrapper with a cartoon on it, meant you violated Islam, and that required a beating. Fly a kite, go to jail. Trim your beard, go to jail. Let your wife go shopping alone, go to jail. Sports were outlawed so they used the Kabul Soccer Stadium to execute women– hey, don’t waste resources. Oh yeah, the Afghan people were going to vote for these psychos again.
It’s high time Idema was released so he can continue working to fulfil the wishes of both the American and Afghan people — To rout the Taliban and make sure they never get close to political power again.
So what can we do? Well, anyone reading this with their own blog can sign up for the weekly Free Jack Idema Blogburst by emailing Cao or Rottweiler Puppy for details. I’d urge everyone to do this, as we’re still terribly short on takers. If you want to know more about the story, Cao’s Blog has a large section devoted to Jack Idema. There’s also a timeline here, and, of course, a huge amount of information is available over at SuperPatriots, without whose work none of us would have learned about Jack’s story.
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U.S. Forces discover large cache in al Anbar province
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq –– More than 3,000 pieces of various types of munitions were discovered Feb. 20 by U.S. Army soldiers conducting a reconnaissance patrol near Al Quratiyah, approximately 350 km northwest of Baghdad.
This cache is among the largest discovered to date in western Al Anbar province.
The soldiers, from the Fort Wainwright, Alaska-based 4th Squadron, 14th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, assigned to Regimental Combat Team-7, were actively seeking out weapons caches. Local citizens provided information regarding the site, where the soldiers discovered two displaced piles of dirt and rocks near a vehicle trail. Upon further investigation, the displaced areas were identified as weapons caches and they were excavated.
(lost a terrorist? Heres ol Osama in the early days below...)
The vehicle path and shallow depth of the rock piles where the caches were discovered indicated that the munitions were easily accessible to terrorists.
“This find means a serious reduction in the IEDs (improvised explosive devices) available for anti-Iraqi forces to use in cowardly attacks,” said Army Maj. Doug W. Merritt, operations officer, 4th Squadron, 14th U.S. Cavalry Regiment.
The cache of munitions ranged from 60 to 125 mm mortars and included various other projectile-type munitions.
The munitions discovered in this cache site are typically used to make roadside bombs that injure and kill Iraqi civilians, coalition forces and Iraqi Army soldiers.
This latest cache is the 118th found by soldiers from 4th Squadron, 14th U.S. Cavalry Regiment. In a similar find last October, soldiers here discovered about 1,000 122 mm artillery rounds, 40,000 armor piercing bullets, 1,000 .50 caliber rounds, detonation cord and various bomb-making materials.
Now its time to lay into the BBC - this piss poor dhimmi company that I and every other tax payer in this nation has to support really does hate every aspect of western society.
Lets take a look at the cartoons - well you wont see them on El Beeb thats for sure. When the story broke, the BBC ran the usual lets have a chat with some local muslims down at the local mosque, oh and get some lefty media type in from the lightweight Guardian to show how "impartial" we are. Here is a good example of how the BBC reports its view on muslim riots:http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/02/islamic-pr-agency.html
Not a peep over the beheading slogans a few weeks back from El Beeb, and lets look at the time they devoted to the attacks on UK troops - lots of spin and bias from 2nd rate hacks like the dhimmi John Simpson. A gutless shit of the first order whos perverse logic can somehow work attacks on UK troops and Club Gitmo into the same article.
Then we have the coverage that El Beeb has devoted of late to the terrorist holiday spot of choice ol Club Gitmo: http://rottypup.com/?p=508 Strange how they fight to free terrorist scum held by the US but have said not a damn thing about Norman Kember of late. They have even taken quotes from the 3 untermenchen terrorist scum - the Tipton Taliban who the bleeding dhimmi hearts at El Beeb devoted lots of time to a few years back until the UK govt was forced to ask the UK for this sacks of worthless shit back. (Quit bitching about the USA guys you got a free holiday in Cuba!)
Anyone wanting to see what a wonderfull pro islamic anti UK broadcaster El Beeb is should check out the brilliant: http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/
Last night on El Beeb we had a small bit on the bombing by terrorist scum of the Golden Mosque, and the reprisal attacks afterwards. Can anyone imagine the time and money El Beeb would have devoted to the story had US or UK troops damaged that whilst trying to take out terrorists? Me thinks it would have been a whole night of programs bashing the US.
Add to all this their total avoidance of any good stories from Iraq(yet to see anything on the rebuilding in Iraq) and you have to ask the question why do we fund the BBC? Oh yes I know the £1000 fine if you dont and the chance of sharing a cell for a while with Abu "Capt Hook" Hamza.
A Jens Byskov award for spreading of jihadist PR and beating on anything the Great Satan tries to do go's to The BBC. The original Dhimmi award to Jens is here
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