Taliban Leader Threatens Obama

From Veterans Today:

Special Report: Taliban Leader Threatens Obama
Posted on November 28, 2009 by higgins


By Bruce Riedel The Daily Beast

Mullah Omar, the elusive leader of the Afghan Taliban, has released a bold message to the White House, warning that any plan to boost troop levels in Afghanistan could lead to "bitterness and pain." The Daily Beast's Bruce Riedel decodes the chilling message.

On the eve of President Barack Hussein Obama’s announcement of troop levels in Afghanistan next week, his enemy Mullah Mohammed Omar has thrown down the gauntlet. In a major message to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al Adha this week, the commander of the Afghan Taliban addressed “the rulers of the White House” about their plans to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan and to pursue “illogical strategies” that he promises will only lead to “bitterness and pain.”

The self-styled "Amir of Believers," meaning the commander of all the faithful in Islam, tells Obama that he and the Afghan people are experts in defeating empires, having destroyed the English and Russian empires before the invasion of the “imperialistic American crusaders.” In short, Omar welcomes the coming fight with a larger NATO army, and he lays down in this message his no-compromise strategy for victory.

A man educated only in the strictest of fundamentalist Islamic schooling, Mullah Omar has developed a more complex understanding of his enemies in the last year.

To give him his due, Mullah Omar has staged one of the most remarkable military comebacks in history in the last decade. Utterly defeated in late 2001, he retreated into the mountains of southern Afghanistan and the borderlands with Pakistan to regroup. Thanks to George W. Bush’s failure to finish the job then, the Taliban recovered and now controls much of the south and east of the country and is attacking deeper into the north and west every day. With the benefit of a sanctuary in Pakistan, Omar now believes the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan will be restored to power in the next couple of years.

He is a remarkably secretive man who has met with less than a handful of non-Muslims in his life and prides himself on his piety and simple life. Badly wounded fighting the Soviets, he practices remarkable operational security. His location is a closely guarded secret; reports recently put him in Karachi to escape CIA drones. Normally taciturn, his Eid message is his longest ever, a reflection of the importance of the moment.

Read more at The Daily Beast

You mean it is not just Buuush they hate? *Gasp*!!!

Veterans Land Grab continued

From Veterans Today:

Special Report: BATTLEFRONT AMERICA, LOSING OUR FREEDOM
Posted on August 31, 2009 by gordonduff

LOS ANGELES POLICE CLOSE IN ON PROTESTING VETS

SHOULD PROTESTS END?

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER

Covering the 2 year protest in Los Angeles has been frustrating. None of it is really about veteran's land. How can land be veterans land if Veterans Affairs with their police force and locked gates run it? Veterans land is being stolen across America. This is one of a hundred things being done to veterans. It isn't about land. The issue is about people.

One question is how could police show up at a protest and harass vets, some WW2 vets in wheel chairs when their cause is so simple and so right? Everyone knows that the Veterans Conservancy Park is a scam to steal all the land, not just part, and give it to businesses, not really for a public park. Any idiot can figure this one out.

Police can threaten and coerce veterans, use ethnic slurs and make total asses of themselves because we let them. The police work, not for veterans or homeless but for the local government controlled by the businesses that would sell billions in veterans land to the Chinese, better yet, North Korea.

Police can act like thugs because the 200,000 veterans in Los Angeles are stuck in front of a TV watching Glen Beck cry over insurance companies or, more accurately, simply don't care. Vets don't care because nobody cares. Stealing is considered a joke, as long as you are stealing enough and not from folks with friends at Fox News. Veterans have no friends at Fox News. We have made ourselves easy targets.

I am not a huge fan of Gordon Duff, and I don't agree with everything he says. However, this veterans land grab issue is one that will not go away, nor should it. Go read the rest of Mr Duff's thoughts here.