Posted on 01/02/2010 3:51:06 PM PST by GOP_Lady
KABUL -- A senior commander connected to the Afghan Taliban and involved with the attack against the CIA that left eight people dead said Saturday that the bombing was retaliation for U.S. drone strikes in the Afghan-Pakistan border region.
"We attacked this base because the team there was organizing drone strikes in Loya Paktia and surrounding area," the commander said, referring to the area around Khost, the city where the U.S. facility was attacked. The commander, a prominent member of the Afghan insurgency, spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The suicide attack, which dealt the biggest loss to the agency in more than 25 years, killed a woman who was the station chief along with six other CIA officers and one private security contractor.
We attacked on that particular day because we knew the woman who was leading the team" was there, the commander said.
The claims could not be independently verified late Saturday night and the CIA was not available for comment.
Both the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attacks. The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for attacks in the past that Western officials have later rejected.
Some drone strikes had been coordinated from the base, Western officials said. The strikes were to target senior leaders of al Qaeda, the Pakistani Taliban and an Afghan group called the Haqqani Network. The CIA operatives located on Forward Operating Base Chapman, which is near the Pakistani border, were involved in cultivating informants to target insurgent leaders using ground raids and drone strikes.
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The ballerinas, pompom girls and drag queens were all busy.
FSB reports circulating in the Kremlin today state that United States President Barack Obama was rushed from a golf course in Hawaii to a secure bunker yesterday after a US Air Force AWACS surveillance plane signaled a warning to American Secret Service agents that a private jetliner owned by the Hunt Oil Company appeared ready to enter the restricted air zone set up to protect the vacationing American leader and sparking fears that a terrorist attack was about to take place.
Western news sources confirm that Obama was suddenly and dramatically rushed from the golf course by US Secret Service agents who then sped their way to the protective bunker designed to protect him. Later (of course) the White House reported that this most bizarre of incidents was related to a child of a friend of Obamas being injured, but not requiring medical attention, an explanation that defies the imagination over how the most powerful man in the World, and those protecting him, dont know in an instant anything that happens, anywhere.
According to these FSB reports, however, the rush to protect Obama from this Hunt Oil Company Bombardier jetliner was indeed justified after its identity was established as having the registration number N46F which had been previously linked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and as we can read:
Between November 27 and November 28, 2006, a civil aircraft registered to Hunt Oil’s holding company, Hunt Consolidated, Inc., made two visits to the CIA’s Camp Peary training facility. Prior to flying into Camp Peary it made an overnight stop at Washington Dulles airport. It also made a briefer stop at Washington Dulles at the end of its visit. The aircraft’s registration number is N46F. This is not the company’s only connection to the espionage community: CEO Ray L. Hunt is a member of the [former] President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
These reports further state this latest CIA threat to Obama clearly shows that his increasingly tenuous grip on this most powerful of spy nests may be about to completely fail, even after his having signed a secret order this past month that maintains the CIA’s status as the nation’s lead spy service on covert missions and thus thwarting Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blairs attempt to rein in this rouge agency.
Making these faction wars currently ongoing in the United States between those forces loyal, and opposed, to Obama even more volatile for our entire World is the Middle Eastern Nation of Yemen going into play and becoming the latest piece in the Great Game after a new, and grim, report released by the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace organization warning that Sanaa, Yemens capital, may become the first capital city in the world to run out of water.
No doubt the Taliban or whomever completely caught the CIA by surprise. The revealation of one of the slain as a “mother of three” reveals just how stunned the CIA was on the attack.
The problem I see for the Obama administration is that if they want Holder to prosecute CIA officers for torture at Gitmo they’re going crush the morale of this agency.
I have to question why a mother of three was sent by the CIA to lead the team.
The hard truth is that it is a part of the job. Had it been a father of three it would have still stunk. When you work in that field, it is an occupational hazard - one accepted by anyone who takes the job, be they male or female. This is war and the correct response is "get mad, then get even." Triple the drone strikes and wipe out any and all credible targets.
*snort* I'm trying to interpret your thinking.
Well, yeah, no doubt the IA was completely taken by surprise and that’s regrettable. They’re in a war zone, for crying out loud.
I don’t think Holder and Obama give a damn about the CIA’s morale, do you?
RochesterFan, I think you missed my point, which I likely didn't clearly explain. I question the CIA's decision to send a "mother of three" (read woman) to lead a CIA team in a war zone. Unlike fathers, mothers tend to worry more about their children, and perhaps they worry more when they're far away from home. Was she the toughest and most qualified member of the agency? IMO, some jobs are best left to men, and this was one of those jobs.
No, I did understand your point. The problem is that this is the necessary consequence of “equal opportunity.” She had to take her chances like any other employee of the CIA. In a free society, she got to make that decision for herself - and accept the consequences for her family. She could have chosen another career path. What gives others the standing to make that choice for her?
Thanks for elaborating on what happened in Hawaii. I heard today that water is being brought to some hotels by trucks in Yemen. I still wonder if the report is true that Karzai demanded the CIA camp be destroyed because the drones they commanded killed several small children. The CIA may want revenge.
I agree with Onyx, you miss the point. We are in a bare-knuckles, back-stabbing, throat-slitting theater of war in that terrorist haven. “Mommy’s” are not the folks to lead that effort! You need former combat Marines, SEALs and Green Berets, not MOMMY’S for crying out loud!
You might as well have one NFL team go off the deep end and proclaim that henceforth, their players should “accurately reflect” the gender of their city.
How would that team half composed of MOMMYS fare against the Steelers or Colts? It sounds absurd, but it’s not as absurd as MOMMYS leading a CIA team in a muslim terrorist combat zone, due to PC-uber-alles mania!
It’s called “REALITY!”
bflr
Nope, we can't send in former SEALs. They might pop the Talibunnies in the mouth, for Heaven's Sake. /s
Thanks, Travis McGee. You’ve always had a way with words.
Maybe that’s why you’re such a brilliant writer!!
Yeah, we couldn’t have that!
Which is why “revenge” talk is a joke. We can’t even waterboard terrorists in a war zone, and we’re talking about “revenge?”
Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbB_fhC8Ppk
Even the French recognize what a pathetic eunuch Obama is. To refresh you memory of the French perspective see segment 3:20 - 3:53. if true, France knows how bad it is....
We are in deep $hiT.
And with the closing of the Yemen Embassy Al Qeada must be laughing their arses off at the spineless leadership the West has cursed itself with.
I don’t think so. While comrades in arms follow the quote “cover my back and I’ll cover yours”, I think the Obama/Holder quote is “cover my back while I throw you under the bus”.
I’d like to know why it wasn’t Valerie Plame.
You’ve got that right. Holder and Obama are not serious about prosecuting the war. They won’t even call them “war criminals.”
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