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That’s Weird… Obama Administration Removes Taliban From National Terror List
First Things ^ | August 11, 2010 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 08/11/2010 11:32:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

That’s strange… We’ve been fighting the Taliban for 9 years in Afghanistan but the Obama Administration recently removed them from the list of terrorist organizations.

Could Team O really be this confused?

US State Department List of Terrorist Organizations

(GRAPH AT LINK)

The Daily Caller reported:

A new State Department report designating terrorist organizations notably excludes one group: the Taliban. The U.S. has been fighting a war in Afghanistan for almost a decade aimed at “defeating the Taliban,” Taliban members repeatedly have threatened and killed American citizens and lawmakers have increased pressure on State to add the Taliban to the list.

Earlier this summer, a group of congressional Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton urging her to begin the process of categorizing the Taliban as a terrorist group. In June, Sens. Charles Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand of New York and Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez of New Jersey proposed legislation that would immediately add the Taliban to the terrorist list.

Yet the State Department’s report (due on April 30 but released last week), did not include the Taliban with groups such as al-Qaida, Hamas and the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA). To qualify, an organization must meet only three criteria: It must be foreign, it must engage in terrorist activity and its activity must threaten the security of the U.S. or its citizens.

“It is hard to imagine this agency can see fit to issue a report that doesn’t include the Taliban groups,” Fred Gedrich, a foreign policy analyst and former State Department employee, told The Daily Caller. “They have killed more Americans and conducted more terror attacks on innocent civilians during the past 12 months than any other terror group.“

Maybe Team O still believes these guys are moderate. Did they already forget that these so-called “moderates” planted a car bomb in New York City back in April?


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KEYWORDS: 911; afghanistan; dhimmitude; hillary; islam; jihad; obama; taliban; terrorism; wot
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Can we quit pretending he's not a Muslim now? BTW, what's he & Michelle doing for Ramadan?
1 posted on 08/11/2010 11:32:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I never pretended that.


2 posted on 08/11/2010 11:33:07 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 564 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: null and void

I’m getting to where I consider the Obamaloon group of clowns to be a greater enemy than the Taliban.


3 posted on 08/11/2010 11:33:48 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote
Well, they are on the same team...
4 posted on 08/11/2010 11:34:51 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 564 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought I read here just the other day that - amazingly - they were never on it.


5 posted on 08/11/2010 11:35:00 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Preparations for forthcoming negotiations. Odumbo is going to give up Afghanistan.


6 posted on 08/11/2010 11:35:08 AM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: Da Coyote

If the Taliban isn’t a Terror group then they must be a legitimate military under the protections of the Geneva Convention. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


7 posted on 08/11/2010 11:35:50 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: null and void

They are setting this up to make a deal with these people.


8 posted on 08/11/2010 11:36:07 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My wife and I were talking last night about the disaster that is Obama, and specifically about the inexplicable insanity of his foreign policy, and I swear it just exploded out of me... just what you suggested. Nothing else makes as much sense.


9 posted on 08/11/2010 11:37:35 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, the guy has to make room on the list for constitutionalists, Ron Paul supports, soldiers returning from active duty, etc.


10 posted on 08/11/2010 11:37:39 AM PDT by AmericanHunter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The thirteen hundred year with islamic usurpation is lost.


11 posted on 08/11/2010 11:39:25 AM PDT by x_plus_one (The third sevret of Fatima is that Islam prevails and we are nuked by the Ruskies.....)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Yup, prepare for more of our money to go to funding Pakistan, Iran and the Talieban.

Not only money. Technology. Weapons.

All to aid Barry’s brethren and the downfall of America/ the “West”.


12 posted on 08/11/2010 11:40:21 AM PDT by himno hero
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Its the war that’s lost. Islam has one goal - to eradicate Christianity and to dominate the globe. Americans are too punch drunk and slap happy to read the writing on the wall.


13 posted on 08/11/2010 11:40:35 AM PDT by x_plus_one (The third sevret of Fatima is that Islam prevails and we are nuked by Russia.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s because he’s fighting the Tal-Y-Ban in his RAY BANS (no doubt he thinks they’re Republicans).


14 posted on 08/11/2010 11:40:48 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There was a thread on this yesterday, where the article said that there was a request going back to the Bush Administration State Dept in 2007 to put the Taliban on the terror list, but that it never happened. I think this perhaps points more to incompetence in the State Dept as it does to the treachery of the Moron-in-Chief.


15 posted on 08/11/2010 11:42:36 AM PDT by lonevoice (I can see November from my house!)
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Could Team O really be this confused?

BO/BS isn't confused. Eventually all the other groups will be removed from the list and the Tea Party movement will be added.
16 posted on 08/11/2010 11:42:47 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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I thought I read here just the other day that - amazingly - they were never on it.

You did. I read the same here yesterday, that the Taliban has never been on the State Dept's terror list.

17 posted on 08/11/2010 11:46:01 AM PDT by lonevoice (I can see November from my house!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office. He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

- from "Obama: Man of the World" by By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, The New York Times, March 6, 2007

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=1

18 posted on 08/11/2010 11:47:40 AM PDT by starczar66 (The GOP has Low T)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not really weird.

He’s replaced the list of Moslem terror organizations with a series of clubs and societies the members of which are normal, everyday Americans - mostly Republicans, of course.

Hey, the government payroll has limits, and you can’t watch everybody at once. Even the president has to prioritize.


19 posted on 08/11/2010 11:48:12 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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20 posted on 08/11/2010 11:48:48 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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