Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Hear About Those Saudi Fighters in Iraq?
About 45% of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia;15% are from Syria and Lebanon; and 10% are from North Africa, according to official U.S. military figures made available to The Times by the senior officer. Nearly half of the 135 foreigners in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq are Saudis, he said.
He said 50% of all Saudi fighters in Iraq come here as suicide bombers. In the last six months, such bombings have killed or injured 4,000 Iraqis.
In a non coincidence, George W. Bush tried (quite successfully) to make people believe that the 9/11 hijackers had something to do with Iraq (15 of 19 were Saudis, 0 Iraqis), he is now trying to make people believe that the violence in Iraq is coming from Iran, or from Al Qaeda never specifying that our ally is supplying the terrorists. It's funny how they keep bombing Shia though.We NEVER hear in the press or from the administration the role Saudi Arabia is playing in the destabilization of Iraq. One of the closest friends of the Bush clan is Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who has the nickname "Bandar Bush" due to his close ties to the family. He is right now being accused of taking over £1 billion in bribes for securing Saudi Defense contracts for BAE, a defense firm in the UK. He also has been accused by the Iranians of financially backing the terrorist groups in Iraq, for what it's worth.
Our administration has been screaming at Iran to quit meddling in Iraq. There has been nary a peep about Saudi Arabia from our administration, or our congress. A Joe Liberman resolution escalating our diplomatic stand-off with Iran was introduced and passed in the Senate this week 97-0 because in our blinded eyes, Iran is the problem with our Iraq policy.
Geopolitics procludes the Bush administration from being honest about Saudi Arabia's responsibility for the carnage in Iraq. Will the media and the congress decide to challenge the propaganda, or enable it? It would be a real pity two years from now to be stuck in Iran based on a suicide attack against our troops committed by a Sunni from Bandar Bush land.
Truth and knowledge are our best defenses from this happening.
(H/T Editor & Publisher)
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Terrorism Is A Tactic
The Bush administration are terrorists by that definition. The goal of terrorists is to create terror and fear in the achievement of another aim. The fear isn't the aim, just a means of getting their goal accomplished.
Mushroom Clouds, gut feelings, coming to our shores are all efforts to create fear in order to achieve goals.
Terrorism in other words.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Habeas Corpus survived a long time until Bush thought it was "quaint". There have been Revolutions, Two World Wars, a cold war with enough nuclear weapons to blow up the planet. 3,000 dead from guys with box-cutters was apparently more than our constitutional liberties, the Geneva conventions, and habeas corpus could handle.
What is mystifying is the people in towns like Alliance, Ohio convinced that Osama is targeting their personal destruction. He isn't. Now, the world record ball of aluminum foil there does make an inviting target, and a whimsical tourist locale, and is quite shiny, but they are likely safe.
We could bubble-wrap our kids after buckling them into our cars for an extra level of safety (remember breathing holes moms), but we don't. Our culture has become so risk adverse that we are suffering because of it. America was built on the backs of slaves, but it began growing because of entrepreneurial spirit. Those who risked everything in a gold rush, a new invention, a move out west could be left with nothing, but the rewards were also great. We are a culture that loves to gamble in Vegas on the week-ends, and on the lottery at home.
We have now taken a gamble that our civil liberties are less valuable to us, than the remote chances of the bogey-man pinpointing aluminum foil for destruction.
Monday, April 30, 2007
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people killed by terrorism around the world surged by 40 percent to more than 20,000 last year largely because of greater violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, a U.S. report said on Monday.
Global terrorism fatalities rose to 20,498 in 2006 from 14,618 in 2005 with the vast majority in Iraq, according to the U.S. State Department's annual "Country Reports on Terrorism" publication.
The number killed by terrorism in Iraq rose to 13,340 from 8,262 in 2005, Russ Travers, an official with the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center that compiled the figures for the State Department, told reporters.
Now, isn't this the opposite of what the Bush administration promised when they were doing the lead up to Mess O' Potamia? We needed to go to Iraq to lower the amount of terrorism. It's frightening when your government is evil, intellectually incurious, and incompetent at the same time.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
2,974 people died on 9/11. 24 others are presumed dead. That is just under 3,000 who perished from that horrible act.
Since that terrible day, other bad things have occured as well. Around 42,500 Americans die in traffic accidents annually. Most of these could be prevented. It has been 5 1/2 years since 9/11. Approximately 275,000 Americans therefore have been killed.
In response to 9/11 we passed the Patriot Act, the NSA began spying on our emails, our phone calls. We are going to end up spending over $1,000,000,000,000 in Iraq by the time we are done. Our country has tortured suspects to get information on terrorist attacks, we have suspended habeus corpus for our citizens. We have sent prisoners who haven't been charged with crimes to places like Syria and Iran to get tortured as well. We take off our shoes before flights. We live with terror color codes. We do this in fear of terror. Terror has won.
We could have saved most of those 275,000 traffic victims by re-organizing our society and taking away our freedoms. We could legislate a computer chip in all cars that doesn't allow one to speed. We could install a breathalizer in all cars so drunks can't drive. We could do random drug and urine tests all the time to prevent impaired people from driving. There could be road tests for all drivers every year to make sure people are skilled enough to stay on the road.
We don't do these things though, because we don't want our freedom to drive stripped from us, and 116 deaths a day spread throughout 50 states is easy to ignore. That is 2 deaths per state per day roughly. But it adds up. Almost 100 times as many people have been killed in accidents since 9/11 than that very event.
I would rather be killed by terrorists than live in terror. Live free and die, or we can live in fear and die spiritual deaths afraid of our own shadow. What we have done in response to 9/11 is a much greater tragedy than the actual events that transpired that day.
Those who demand that we live in terror to defeat terror don't seem to grasp the irony of their beliefs. Blow me up if you must radical terrorist, but damned if my government will blow up my constitutional rights in the name of saving them.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Imagine our surprise when a New York businessman who claims to be on a White House advisory committee was indicted today for financing terrorism. It turns out that Abdul Tawala Alishtari is a donor to the Republican party. The 53-year-old self-described “industrialist and philanthropist” is accused of an investment scam that allegedly netted Islamic militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan more than $150,000.
Before he allegedly wired funds to support terrorist training camps and buy recruits gear like night vision goggles, Alishtari gave $15,500 to the National Republican Campaign Committee between 2002 and 2004, according to Federal Election Commission records. That amount includes $13,000 in 2003, a year when he claims to have been named NRCC New York State Businessman of the Year.
Alishtari also claims to be a lifetime member of the National Republican Senate Committee’s Inner Circle, which the NRCC describes as “an impressive cross section of American society -- community leaders, business executives, entrepreneurs, retirees, and sports and entertainment celebrities -- all of whom hold a deep interest in our nation's prosperity and security.”
I will treat this news with the respect and decorum that the Republic(an) Party would use in treating such a development if it turned out that this man had cut five figure checks to the Democratic Party.
Wait for it...
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This just goes to prove once and for all that the Republican Party is in bed with terrorists through out the world. I mean, this guy was probably helping fund Osama Bin Laden, who you may have noticed hasn't been caught, and who tends to try to help the Republican campaigns. Is it a coincidence? I don't think so.
Those businessmen in Saudi Arabia who love Bandar Bush and the rest of his extended family know they have friends in the GOP and that is why they continue to support them. The Republicans probably took this money as a bribe in exchange for our troops not being well equipped so that we wouldn't actually be accomplishing much in this war.
Republicans claim that Bush is not an incompetent hack, but have you seen the results? These direct payments from terrorists lead me to believe that the President's defenders are correct. There is no disaster in the middle east. Our incompetence is actually a secret plan to fail and to grow the terrorist movement paid for with hard cash from Republican financiers like Abdul Tawala Alishtari.
Do the Republicans hate America and want it to be destroyed? Some people are speculating about this. Is it irresponsible to ask such a question? I think it would be irresponsible to not investigate this as a responsibility especially when tens of thousands of dollars have changed hands here.
Sure, we may have put wires to people's genitals, but they were suicide torture victims. For the cause of the Republican party they probably volunteered to have chemical lights placed in their genitals, all for furthering the Republican/Osama cause as the example of Republican financier Abdul Tawala Alishtari shows us.
I quote Abraham Lincoln when I say, "What dicks!", and would like to personally state for the record that the Democratic Party was not receiving checks from Republican financier Abdul Tawala Alishtari.
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