Posted on 12/15/2017 12:21:43 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Those dudes bet on the wrong horse
"{Washington DC} Judge schedules hearing for American accused of fighting for ISIS"
Militants terminally pacified.
The Iraqis have more fight in them than we do. Their oil enabled them to surive the fierce efforts of the left to sink them.
That is how you deal with terrorists.
In a sane world, that is what foreign ISIS fighters would face where ever they flee.
The contraption they built for that event was an engineering marvel. There were 10 nooses on three sides and four on each side of the stairs on the 4th side leading up to the gallows. The platform collapsed like dominoes when spring.
Yep.
5.56mm
more rope if you want to be a real Judge Roy Bean. ........................... Issac Parker was the “man”.
“I have ever had the single aim of justice in view... ‘Do equal and exact justice,’ is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, ‘Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.’” (And he didn’t!)
-Judge Isaac C. Parker, 1896
No pictures??
Of course, the media would die before admitting that ISIS absolutely flourished and terrorized entire regions when Buttcrack Hussein was president. As soon as Trump came in, they’ve gotten stomped and are completely on the run. Heck of a coincidence, eh?
Coincidence? Obama softened them up for Trump./s
Haha, no doubt! That’s how it goes with those slugs. Bush screwed up the economy for 8 years of Hussein, that’s why things were so bad from 2008-2016. The Trump economic surge was all Obama’s hard work, Trump is now benefitting from the fruits of that fruit’s labors. It’s the media trick that works like a charm on the masses.
Do you know why the majority Muslim countries such as Somalia, Pakistan and Afghanistan serve as religious battlefields, when no majority Arab country has ever been torn apart by similar religion-based conflicts until ISIS appeared on the scene?
It is because Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia pay the wages of the Jihadist on the proviso that all the religious battles are fought elsewhere, away from their countries. (Osama) Bin Laden operated from his Afghan base until his stay in that country became untenable. Then he moved his base to Pakistan.
Where does Somalia fit in? I asked. The analyst claimed that it all began when General Mohamed Farah Aideed met Bin Laden at the latters retreat home in Soba, an ancient Nubian city about 20 kilometres away from Khartoum. In 1997, the leader of Al-Qaeda would later tell two CNN journalists that his men had trained the Somalis in downing Black Hawks by aiming at the tail rotors.
although still modest in comparison to the level reached by funding in later years, at this point external funding (Arab and Pakistani) consisted (according to sources in the Talibans financial structure) of several tens of millions of dollars, allowing for the insurgency to expand inside Afghanistan. In 2005, the size of the Taliban insurgency started expanding at a much greater pace than previously, nearly doubling between 2004 and 2005. The funds that allowed that to happen must have come from somewhere.
These external donors to the Taliban had decided to sponsor the Taliban insurgency and refused to support other groups, such as Hizb-i Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Instead they encouraged elements of Hizb-i Islami to join the Taliban in order to have access to funding.
Why did the Saudis and the Qataris start supporting the Taliban insurgency at this time? In part it was a request of support by the Pakistani authorities, which could not afford to foot the full bill of maintaining an insurgency going inside Afghanistan. Essentially, the Pakistanis offered friendly and allied governments the chance to buy a stake in the Taliban insurgency, according to both the Saudi and the Qatari intelligence sources. But there were at least two other reasons as well. The narrative provided by a Qatari intelligence source highlights one of them:
When they started operations against the Afghan government and Americans, they requested support from us and we accept their request. Because we have relationship with them. At that time there were a lot of people linked to Iran in the Afghan Government so we wanted to weaken them. Simply we were trying to finish this current government and prevent Iranian influence from increasing in Afghanistan.
The Saudi intelligence source also described the basic Saudi aim in Afghanistan as having in power an Islamic government that would entertain good relations with Pakistan and hostile relations with Iran. The perception of a strong Iranian influence within the post-Bonn Afghan government had deep roots in the Gulf monarchies, even though Iranian sources tend to point out how the performance of allies and clients within the Afghan establishment were judged as disappointing in Tehran, from the perspective of pushing Iranian interests in the country.
according to Taliban sources, the Qataris had consistently supported the Quetta Shura from 2006 onwards, even if their level of support varied considerably from year to year. During this period Saudi and Qatari plans also started diverging, as they were doing in the Middle East. No longer content to operate in the shadow, the Qataris decided to raise their diplomatic profile and to use the leverage gained with the Taliban in order to set off a reconciliation process between them and the Kabul government. In doing so, the Qataris also started diverging from Pakistani plans. At least according to a source in the Qatari intelligence, the Qataris did what they could to appease Taliban hardliners and in 2010 they even paid the Miran Shura in order to facilitate their co-optation into the Doha track of the reconciliation process the Haqqanis were holding the American prisoner around whom the first phase of the reconciliation pre-talks rotated. However, other Taliban were upset about not having been consulted initially.
Saudi Arabias plan to cripple Qatar failed.
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/saudi-qatar-diplomatic-dispute-six-months-later/
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