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I think it's absolutely necessary for people to be informed today because it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
I'm preparing for the worst and hoping for the best.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307764/posts?page=2959#2959
Monday, January 17, 2005
Taleban prepares for huge insurgency operation, spokesman says
by Saeed Zabuli
Source: Pajhwok Afghan News)
KABUL:A spokesman for the Taleban, Lutfullah Hakimi, Monday 17, speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News says heads of the Taleban movement and the Taleban Ulema council, after a week-long meeting vouched to continue their fight against the US-led coalition forces operating on Afghan soil to their last breath, Monday 17.
The announcement comes amidst efforts by the Afghan government and US officials to call for the ousted Taleban movement to lay down their arms and return to normal life.
The governor of southern Paktia province said on Saturday that hundreds of Taleban in southeastern Paktia, Paktika and Khost provinces wanted to return to normal life after mediation by tribal chiefs to encourage Taleban insurgents to take up the opportunity and join the reconciliation program.
Hakimi rejected claims of any Taleban members in these provinces wanting to join the government.
"If anyone talked with the government that's their personal decision, not of the decision of the Emirate or its leadership," Hakimi told Pajhwok in a telephone interview, referring to the title of their rule as Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Hakimi claimed that the slow down of recent operations in the southeastern provinces was due to the cold weather and rain.
He also claimed that the meeting held by members of the Taleban was attended by some provincial tribal elders and they showed a sense of support for the Taleban operations.
On Sunday, nearly 80 Afghan inmates arrested in connection with the Taleban were released from US detentions in Afghanistan and the chief justice in Kabul called the move towards a reconciliation program between the government and the Taleban.
http://www.sabawoon.com/news/miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=20779
We will welcome your input and opinions. We're always looking for fresh insights.......and we are not a bunch of kooks, as some have described us.
P.S. This is NOT a smoke-free zone. (Yes, I read some of your other posts and agree with you on the issue.)
Welcome,
RR
Well, good about it not being a smoke-free zone. hehe!
And thank you for the welcome. I have many many links about Islam. I have been following this issue since Maine brought in over 1,200 Somalia's back in 2000. Maine being such a poor state, and the lawmakers, working with the Catholic Charities had the nerve to bring in more people with their hands out for welfare!
Oh yes, I am not new to this issue. But with so much going on and heating up, I really want to be kept informed. Have you seen my Terror map of the US?
(This map was publised in 2002 and I have been told that more Mosque's have sprung up across the US since. I am trying to get an updated map).
"This is an amazing book. Brilliantly argued and meticulously documented, this book contains a devastating expose of the murderous deceit behind contemporary apologists for militant Islam--in the media, political arena, academia and "mainstream" radical Islamic groups. Read this book to learn why Islamic extremism is dangerously entrenched within the institutional Islamic leadership in Saudi Arabia and the United States." -- Steven Emerson, author of American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us and Director of the Investigative Project.
Welcome to the TM,
Where are you from in Texas? I, too, am Texan by birth and still have lots of family in East Texas. I have to make a couple of trips a year down there to brush up on my accent, and eat "real" barbeque.
I was born and raised in Ft. Stockton in far West Texas, but I've been gone from there for many years.
I don't think I could live out there any more. I need green things around me.
Yes, I've read Emerson's book. I think most of us here have. It is one of the reasons why so many of us are dedicated to this site. I just finished Michael Crichton's "State of Fear". Another "must read", IMHO. He really blows the whole environmental fascists' movement out of the water. It's a personal issue with me. Because of the Sierra Club and like organizations, we were forced to close our sawmill 10 years ago and start bringing in lumber and wood products from eastern Europe, China, and South America. Kinda' sad. But I'll save that discussion for another time.
If you find an updated map of terrorist cells, please share it with us.
I spent a few months in Wichita Falls (while Mr. RR was in basic training) as far west in Texas as I've been. I love visiting my birth state but I could never live there again. I really love the Black Hills of South Dakota.....getting rid of Daschle has really helped, too. Been here 34 years now and I never tire of it.
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=IA20205
January 18, 2005
No.202
"?Iraqi Elections (III): The Islamist and Terrorist Threats"
By Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli*
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MEMRI.org - "JIHAD AND TERRORISM STUDIES PROJECT"
http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
How dare they!
This is NOT a smoke-free zone
To go with your smoke. As my 87 year old Mom says "it's 5:00pm somewhere". Mind if I join you?
If you do find an updated map will you please post it here?
Thanks.
Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20050117-1987.html
U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release
On the Web:
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20050117-1987.html
Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131
Public contact:
http://www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html
or +1 (703) 428-0711
No. 046-05
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 17, 2005
Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita on Latest Seymour Hersh Article
The Iranian regime’s apparent nuclear ambitions and its demonstrated support for terrorist organizations is a global challenge that deserves much more serious treatment than Seymour Hersh provides in the New Yorker article titled “The Coming Wars.”
Mr. Hersh’s article is so riddled with errors of fundamental fact that the credibility of his entire piece is destroyed.
Mr. Hersh’s source(s) feed him with rumor, innuendo, and assertions about meetings that never happened, programs that do not exist, and statements by officials that were never made.
A sampling from this article alone includes:
The post-election meeting he describes between the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not happen.
The only civilians in the chain-of-command are the President and the Secretary of Defense, despite Mr. Hersh’s confident assertion that the chain of command now includes two Department policy officials. His assertion is outrageous, and constitutionally specious.
Arrangements Mr. Hersh alleges between Under Secretary Douglas Feith and Israel, government or non-government, do not exist. Here, Mr. Hersh is building on links created by the soft bigotry of some conspiracy theorists. This reflects poorly on Mr. Hersh and the New Yorker.
Mr. Hersh cannot even keep track of his own wanderings. At one point in his article, he makes the outlandish assertion that the military operations he describes are so secret that the operations are being kept secret even from U.S. military Combatant Commanders. Mr. Hersh later states, though, that the locus of this super-secret activity is at the U.S. Central Command headquarters, evidently without the knowledge of the commander if Mr. Hersh is to be believed.
By his own admission, Mr. Hersh evidently is working on an “alternative history” novel. He is well along in that work, given the high quality of “alternative present” that he has developed in several recent articles.
Mr. Hersh’s preference for single, anonymous, unofficial sources for his most fantastic claims makes it difficult to parse his discussion of Defense Department operations.
Finally, the views and policies Mr. Hersh ascribes to Secretary Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz, Under Secretary Feith, and other Department of Defense officials do not reflect their public or private comments or administration policy.
I'm preparing for the worst and hoping for the best.
America needs more folks with your attitude.
Well that's interesting. Thanks.
Yes it is.
That's funny. My 81 yr. old mother had angioplasty and a stent implanted last week. First thing she wanted after I got her home from the hospital was a cigarette and a glass of wine. At her age, I will deny her nothing. She is not an alcoholic, but every evening, she has one glass of white wine and one glass of red wine, "for balance". LOL! The cardiologist wondered how she "fell through the cracks" with all her "bad habits". He also agreed that, at her age, she should enjoy what time she has left.
You bet.
Someone informed me yesterday that there is one in Portland, Oregan now as well.
And there is one in Boston too, that isn't on this map. There are several more scattered around that are new.
Someone wrote the following:
Oh, you forgot Memphis. With its Islamic Center in the eastern part of the city and the noticeable, gold-domed mosque smack-dab in Downtown near the Mississippi River and the Pyramid. Also, you forgot the bowtied Nation of Islam (Farrakhan) evangelists that stand on the side of Elvis Presley Boulevard and hand out fruit and Nation of Islam newsletters to willing passersby. They have another location for passing out their propaganda in Memphis too. I think it's on Winchester Road.
Another one:
Scary map. Why? Because I live in Columbia, Missouri. The town is only 84,000, but has it's own mosque. Of course funded by the Saudis.
I figure when one reaches a certain age they must be doing something right despite the "bad habits". My Mom is out with the girls tonight. Dinner and wine. Go Mom!
Stay safe ad.
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