This smiling dog turd is no longer among the living

I guess there's nothing like waking up in the morning to the smell of coffee and turning on my MBP to discover another terrorist has been killed, and to my delight, a stick in the eye to the ACLU. 


(you know... his civil rights are being violated)

Update

We won the daily double.

Samir (worm food) Khan

 Was the co-editor of an English-language Al Qaeda web magazine called "Inspire." His magazine promoted attacks against U.S. targets, even running articles on how to put together explosives. One of his featured articles... "MAKE A BOMB IN THE KITCHEN OF YOUR MOM". Khan wrote that he had moved to Yemen and joined Al Qaeda's fighters, pledging to "wage jihad for the rest of our lives."

Instead of investing in Green companies we should invest in companies making drones. At least we would see some tangible results.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born radical Islamic preacher who rose to the highest level of al Qaeda's franchise in Yemen, has been killed.

Al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico, has been linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) attempted bombing of a U.S. passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas day, 2009, and was thought to be a leader of the group.

A U.S. government official confirms to CBS News senior security correspondent David Martin that al-Awlaki was killed. Yemen's Defense Ministry was first to tell CBS News of the strike, but given previous reports which turned out to be erroneous, the relatively rapid U.S. confirmation is crucial, and bolsters witness accounts that it was a U.S. drone strike that killed the al Qaeda figure.

U.S. officials considered al-Awlaki a most-wanted terror suspect, and added his name last year to the kill or capture list - making him a rare American addition to what is effectively a U.S. government hit-list.

Al-Awlaki's father, who still lives in the U.S., filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming his son's civil rights were violated by the U.S. call for his killing.

Dr Nasser al-Awlaki had described his son as an 'all-American boy'


 'All-American boy' that's living in Yemen devising ways to kill Americans!



Awlaki's father Nasser Al-Awlaki asked the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights to challenge the government's placement of his son on a list of U.S. citizens who can be assassinated by U.S. forces and intelligence services for ties to terrorism.

A federal court dismissed Nasser al-Awlaki's suit on Dec. 7, 2010, on the grounds that he had no legal standing to challenge the targeting of his son.

A statement from Yemen's foreign press office said the al Qaeda suspect "was targeted and killed 8 KM (about 5 miles) from the town of Khashef in the Province of Jawf, 140KM (about 80 miles) east of the Capital Sana'a."

Al-Arabiya television network cited local tribal sources as saying suspected U.S. drone aircraft - which are known to operate in Yemen - fired two missiles Friday at a convoy of vehicles believed to be carrying al-Awlaki and his guards.

CBS News' Khaled Wassef says Al-Awlaki was first reported dead following U.S. air strikes on southern Yemen in December 2009, and then again in November 2010. He was also the target of a U.S. drone attack that killed two al Qaeda operatives in southern Yemen on May 5, 2011.

Wassef reports that al-Awlaki last appeared in a video released online in August 2010.

Yemen has risen in recent years to the top of the threat list for U.S. security officials - with AQAP seen as the most active branch of the global terror network in planning attacks against the U.S. homeland.

Al-Awlaki was believed to be a prominent member of the group, taking some role in the planning of actual terror plots, in addition to his role as a religious adviser and powerful recruiting officer. His clear English, American roots, and powerful speaking skills are believed to have attracted many young Muslims from within the U.S. to the cause of jihad.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 19-year-old Nigerian who attempted to blow up the flight to Detroit in 2009, may have met al-Awlaki, and was trained at camps run by the cleric, when he traveled to Yemen just before his attack.

Al-Awlaki's voluminous online preaching, in both video and print form, is also thought to have inspired Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, and Time Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad.

His death will deal AQAP a serious blow, particularly, says CBS News terrorism analyst Juan Zarate, his work to draw young Muslims into the jihadi mindset.

"His role as a propagandist actually will be very difficult to fill," says Zarate.

Ben Venzke, who heads intelligence contracting group IntelCenter in the Washington area, says al-Awlaki's death will not, however, seriously diminish the threat posed by the al Qaeda franchise.

"AQAP remains one of the most dangerous al Qaeda regional arms both in its region and for the direct threat it poses to the U.S. following three recent failed attacks," said Venzke, who monitors jihadi propaganda for myriad U.S. government agencies. "AQAP leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who is responsible for expanding the group's focus to conduct attacks on U.S. soil, remains in charge of the group and further attempts to conduct attacks in the U.S. are expected."

This smiling dog turd is no longer among the living

Pakistan...How long should we keep fooling ourselves?

Bush, two days after 911, gave Pakistan an ultimatum, either you're with us or against us.

Now after giving them billions, while we watch them burn our flag, there is indisputable, irrefutable proof they have been double dealing us all along and I'm not talking just about Bin Laden, who felt quite comfortable living 100 yards away from a Pakistani military base.

The article below is in response to this electrifying video.

Adm. Mike Mullen

Pakistan's PM Warns US to End 'Negative Messaging' on Militancy September 27, 2011

Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani is warning the United States it must end "negative messaging" by accusing Pakistan of supporting militant attacks in Afghanistan. He says such accusations will only strengthen anti-American feelings in his country.

In an interview with the Reuters news agency, Gilani said unilateral U.S. military action to hunt down Haqqani network militants inside Pakistan - similar to the raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in May - would be a violation of his country's sovereignty.

Gilani's statement came a day after the Pakistani military said it would not target the al-Qaida and Taliban-linked Haqqani network because it is already stretched too thin battling militants elsewhere in northwestern Pakistan.

Also Tuesday, hundreds of Pakistanis turned out for anti-American rallies across the country, and a suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles on a compound near Wana in the South Waziristan tribal region, killing at least three alleged militants.

On the final day of the U.N. General Assembly's annual session in New York Tuesday, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said few countries have been as brutally ravaged by terrorism as Pakistan. She told the gathering that 30,000 civilians, police and security forces have been killed since 2002. Khar said Islamabad is determined to eliminate terrorism from its soil, from the region and from the world, and she called for enhanced international cooperation to wipe it out.

Her remarks came as the White House urged the Pakistani government "to take action" to deal with the Haqqani network that Washington says conducts attacks against international forces from its base in Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan tribal region.

But in an online statement Tuesday, the Taliban said that it, not Pakistan, controls the Haqqani network. The group said there are no ties between the Haqqani network and Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI, and that Haqqani fighters do not seek refuge in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, as Washington claims.

The Taliban statement also said attempts to link the Haqqani network's founder, Jalaluddin Haqqani, to the Pakistani government are designed to "give a bad name" to its prominent figures by tying them to foreign intelligence services.

He is warning us? 


1. He's a lying son-of-of-bitch.
or
2. He's not aware of what certain facets of his government are involved in. I suspect the former.

Further evidence:

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Cell phones link Pakistan to U.S. embassy attack (Terrorist called Pakistani intelligence)

The insurgents who attacked the U.S. Embassy in Kabul last week were killed but their cell phones left a trail.

The phones had been used to call Pakistani intelligence operatives before and during the assault. Calls were made to the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) the Pakistani intelligence agency. This evidence lies behind the charge made by Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that the Haqqani network is a "veritable arm" of Pakistani intelligence, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

The attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO's Afghan headquarters resulted in a 22-hour firefight - with American troops pinned down on roof tops.

The Taliban responds:


No rag head is capable of telling the truth, its part of their religion. What would you expect them to say? America is right, we have ties with the Pakistani government?

Taliban Says Haqqani Network Has No Ties To Pakistan

Jalaluddin Haqqani

September 27, 2011

The Taliban has rejected claims that it or any of its allies have ties to the Pakistani government.

The insurgent group said in a statement issued today that it has no bases in Pakistan.

The English-language statement in the name of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -- the Taliban's name for itself -- was posted on its Voice of Jihad website.

The Taliban also rejected U.S. charges that the Haqqani network, one of its key allies, has ties to Pakistan's intelligence service. The statement said Haqqani network founder Jalaluddin Haqqani is a key member of the Taliban leadership.
The top U.S. military officer, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, recently accused Pakistan's intelligence service of supporting the Haqqani network.
The United States has also blamed the Haqqani network over the September 13 attack on its embassy in Kabul, in which 14 people died.

On September 26, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner called for action to be taken against militant safe havens.

"We are very clear in our position on this," Toner said. "We believe that these kind of safe havens are extremely troubling and, indeed, a matter of great concern and a dangerous development for both the United States and for Pakistan. So we want to see action taken against them."
Toner also said the United States is considering placing the Haqqani network on its list of terror groups.

Let Charles put it to rest. As usual he is dead on with his commentary.

1.

On Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen’s testimony that the Haqqani network “acts as a veritable arm” of the ISI, which supported Haqqani’s June truck bombing of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul and attack this month on the U.S. Embassy:



There’s sort of a complete shift in conceptual thinking here. We went into the war in Afghanistan with Pakistan as our ally against the terrorists — al-Qaeda and the Taliban. And under Musharraf — especially in the early years when we said to the Pakistanis, you either are going to be our ally (it was an ultimatum by the Bush Administration) or we’re going to bomb you back into the Stone Age — they were our allies.

Over the decade, those who were pro-American have been weakened within Pakistan. And now the paradox is that Afghanistan is our base for keeping an eye on and attacking our enemies in Pakistan, namely Haqqani and the other terrorists who are in the northwest frontier regions.

So, rather than thinking of Pakistan as an ally against Afghanistan, Afghanistan, for all of [its] instability and the hostility that America has to face there, is the base of operations from which we keep eye on the bad guys in the region. It’s an interesting and almost a paradoxical reason for continuing our presence in Afghanistan.

2.

On how to pressure Pakistan:

Well, there’s one other step that we can do, and it would be a parallel to the Pakistanis ostentatiously asking the Chinese to make a visit. I would … [involve] the Indians. I think we ought to be sending a high-level delegation to India to discuss regional issues. That will scare the Pakistanis. That’s the one enemy they worry about above all. Showing the beginning of a new kind of alliance between America and India, I think would probably make the Pakistanis think twice about opposing us, and [pursuing] a tight alliance with China.

This just came in as I was about to post.

Pakistan frees Osama bin Laden bodyguard

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20113195-503543.html

One final thought.
Did al -Qaeda assassinate Benazir Bhutto or was it something even more disturbing?

Pakistan...How long should we keep fooling ourselves?

CNN plays the wrong music and apologizes

On a tip from my brother Gary.

If it was FOX it would have been on the front page of the NYT's.

(Watch to the end because the rap music may make you reach for Excedrin)

Video 11 


Click link if it won't play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d5xe6FxbWU

CNN plays the wrong music and apologizes

Andy Rooney leaving "60 minutes" after 33 years

I must admit I haven't watched 60 minutes in quite some time. But when I did I always enjoyed Andy Rooney's common sense commentaries.

After reading this article I'm not entirely sure of the reason for his departure. Is he leaving voluntarily or being pushed out?

 

Andy Rooney, whose folksy and often curmudgeonly essays have been a staple of "60 Minutes" for more than three decades, will end his regular weekly appearances on the program, CBS said Tuesday.

Mr. Rooney, 92, has delivered 1,096 commentaries to the newsmagazine since becoming a regular contributor in 1978, according to CBS. He will formally announce his reduced role in essay No. 1,097 on Sunday night.

His essay will be "preceded by a segment in which Rooney looks back on his career in an interview with Morley Safer," the network said in a statement.

"It's harder for him to do it every week, but he will always have the ability to speak his mind on '60 Minutes' when the urge hits him," said Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News and executive producer of the show.

But people close to Mr. Rooney said it was unlikely that he would make many appearances, if any, in the future. The people, who did not want to be identified, said the plan for him to step away from the program had been in the works for some time. Because of the honored place he has occupied on the show, Mr. Rooney's move is not being characterized in terms of a formal retirement, they said.

"There's nobody like Andy and there never will be," Mr. Fager's statement said. "He'll hate hearing this, but he's an American original."

Through CBS, Mr. Rooney declined to comment.

Mr. Rooney was noticeably absent when the newsmagazine started a new season on Sunday night, and he was not quoted in the announcement by CBS.

The change was first reported by TVNewser. In an interview with that Web site last year, Mr. Rooney said that he planned to work for "60 Minutes" until he "dropped dead," and he added, "Until somebody tells me different, I'm not going to quit."

For many viewers, Mr. Rooney's weekly observations on the foibles of life, commerce and politics became a favorite feature of the program, which was for years the most watched on television. But even as his popularity soared, he occasionally ran afoul of some groups, including Hispanics, American Indians and gays and lesbians, because of his comments.

A war correspondent during World War II, Mr. Rooney joined the network in 1949 as a writer for a show called "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts." In the 1960s he wrote and produced television essays for the correspondent Harry Reasoner, and when CBS established "60 Minutes" in 1968, he produced some of Mr. Reasoner's segments for the program. Ten years later he became a regular commentator.

"60 Minutes" remains by far the most popular newsmagazine on American television. The show has weathered any number of changes over the years, including the death of the correspondent Ed Bradley in 2006. Another veteran correspondent, Mike Wallace, retired from full-time work that year.

Andy Rooney leaving "60 minutes" after 33 years

Liberal Double Whammy

Obama raps the knuckles of the CBC.

Shut you face and vote for me.. just like last time...

Don't waste time thinking about my record. I'm Black, your Black, that's all you need to know!

He lectures them:

"Quit complaining and crying???" 

This kills me.

He's been blaming Bush for everything ever since he took office!

Noticed the calculated, put-on, phraseology when speaking before the CBC is quite a bit different from the one used to address the general population, dispelling any notion we are all one nation.

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Maxine doesn't know who the Messiah was talking to? "Curious" she said. Not surprising since she's made a career of walking around in the dark with her mouth open.  Since the backdrop of the above video states Congressional Black Caucus, which Waters attended, shouldn't that be a clue. She should thank God for her district, Waters couldn't get elected dogcatcher in any other.

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Liberal Double Whammy