Why should they? They’re pressing on to final victory over a confused and demoralized foe that has announced that it doesn’t want to fight them, and doesn’t consider them the enemy. “Taliban rejects US” call to lay down arms,” from The Hindu, January 19 (thanks to Jerk Chicken): The Afghan Taliban on Sunday rejected a […]
Afghanistan: Islamic jihadists murder 21 in restaurant blast, including IMF head and two UN staffers
Good thing these people are not the enemy; if they were, imagine how many more people would have been murdered. “Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior White House officials, generals, and intelligence […]
Pakistan: Six men found with throats cut near Sufi shrine; note left saying, “Stop visiting shrines — from the Pakistani Taliban”
Visiting shrines: a grave sin in Sunni Islam. Murdering people who visit shrines: pleasing to Allah. “6 men found with throats cut at Pakistan shrine,” from AFP, January 7 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The bodies of six men with their throats slit have been found near a shrine on the outskirts of Pakistan’s […]
Afghanistan: Over 500 Taliban prisoners released from jails
Why not? They’re not the enemy: “Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior White House officials, generals, and intelligence officials, the national security adviser met with me. He told me: ‘The Taliban are […]
Two Taliban rockets land in U.S. embassy compound in Kabul
Merry Christmas from the people whom Obama says are not the enemy. “Two rockets land in US embassy compound in Kabul, no injuries: US,” from AFP, December 25: KABUL: Two Taliban rockets landed inside the US embassy compound in Kabul early on Wednesday, causing no casualties but underlining Afghanistan’s continuing security problems as many foreigners […]
Taliban hit NATO fuel trucks, kill 1 Afghan police
“Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior White House officials, generals, and intelligence officials, the national security adviser met with me. He told me: ‘The Taliban are not our enemies and we don’t […]
Afghanistan’s Karzai says he no longer trusts the U.S. and is in talks with Taliban
Great. The U.S. should pull all of its troops out and end all aid to Afghanistan — which for over a decade now has been an absolute, total waste of American blood and treasure for no purpose and no goal. “Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he no longer trusts the U.S.,” from Agence France-Presse, December […]
Taliban magazine hails Fort Hood jihad mass murderer Nidal Hasan as “our hero”
“Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior White House officials, generals, and intelligence officials, the national security adviser met with me. He told me: ‘The Taliban are not our enemies and we don’t […]
Taliban magazine urges jihad – and profiles the Honda 125 as a “steed of war”
“Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the enemies of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom you may not know, but whom Allah knows.” — Qur’an 8:60 “Taliban magazine urges jihad – and profiles the Honda 125,” by Rob Crilly […]
Taliban prisoners released as a gesture of good will in Pakistan and Afghanistan return to jihad
“Jails, torture and suffering won’t change our jihadist commitment.” Shocker! “Freed Taliban Prisoners in Pakistan and Afghanistan Return to Jihad,” by Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai for the Daily Beast, December 6 Pakistan and Afghanistan have released waves of Taliban prisoners in a goodwill gesture””but instead of returning home as promised, the radicals are flocking […]