15 civilians, including children, dead, 4 wounded after truck they were traveling on hit roadside bomb – “enemies of Afghanistan” Taliban blamed

From AFP,

The 15 civilians died when the truck they were travelling in from Khair Abad village to Khansheen district in Helmand province was hit by a homemade device late on Friday, provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi told AFP.

"The blast killed 15 civilians and wounded another four," he said, adding that children were among the dead.

Ahmadi said the "barbaric attack" was the work of "enemies of Afghanistan", a term often used to refer to Taliban insurgents.

The number of ordinary Afghans killed in the conflict rose by a third in the first six months of 2010 to 1271, with most deaths caused by insurgent attacks, the UN said in August.

Afghans are set to take over security from the NATO led troops in the country by 2014.


Source: AFP


Comments: Daud Ahmadi wasn't exaggerating when he called the attack “barbaric”. The Taliban have been know to engage in other barbaric behavior, such as ordering the nose and ears of Aisha to be cut off for running away from beatings and abuse by her in-laws.

Terrorists killing civilians, including women and children, is also nothing new. See related stories below for some other examples.

Naive anti-war supporters and Islamists are always concerned, exaggerate and outraged about Muslim civilian casualties in anti-terror or anti-insurgent operations (even when terrorists are responsible for them by hiding among civilians) but are silent when reckless or deliberate attacks by terrorists case civilian deaths. Another double-standards.


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Aishia's father-in-law, Mohammad Sulaiman, involved in cutting her hose and ears for running away from abuse, arrested in Afghanistan

From AP

Under orders from a Taliban commander acting as a judge, she was disfigured [nose and ears were sliced off] last year as punishment for fleeing her husband's home [to escape her in-laws' beatings and abuse], according to Time's story in August and other accounts.

Gen. Juma Gul Himat, provincial police chief of Uruzgan province said ... [Mohammad Sulaiman] … was arrested 12 days ago on charges of of disfiguring Aisha and of being part of a Taliban network in the area, involved in several attacks against the police.

From Daily Mail

Aisha’s father-in-law, Sulaiman, 'pointed a gun at her head while the other men, his sons, sliced off her nose', alleged Brigadier General Juma Gul Himat.

'Sulaiman then took her amputated nose and proudly showed it off around the village.'

Left for dead, she said, she then fled to the safety of a women’s shelter in Kabul run by Women for Afghan Women, which publicised her plight a year later.

Aisha is now living in Brooklyn, New York, while she gets treatment for emotional problems from her ordeal. [Before undergoing reconstructive surgery]

So far, Aisha has been given a prosthetic nose as a temporary measure.

Sources: AP, Daily Mail (U.K.)


Comments: Where are the angry feminists, Women's Rights and Human Rights supporters, and anti-war people now?

Some Muslim extremists and criminals like chopping bits of human body off.

Other bits they chop off includes female genital (FGM or Female Genital Mutilation), hand and foot for theft and robbery, and of course the head by beheading.

Just a few days ago there was a report that some UK weekend Islamic schools used Saudi textbooks that taught them, with pictures, how and where to chop off hand and foot of thieves as sharia punishment.

And its not just Humans. Halal slaughter of animals also involve saying a prayer to "merciful" Muslim god Allah, before slitting the throat of a conscious animal and letting it bleed to death.

If not chopping then they throw acid to the face of women instead.

For example,

There have also been reports since 1979 of women who have had acid thrown in their faces because they have not worn a veil (Jeune Afrique, Ndeg. 1629) [In Algeria] 

Some graphic photos of women who have had their faces disfigured here.

The Daily Mail article cited for this story has some photos of Aisha.

Oh and there is also stoning for women who commit adultery. Since they get their head stoned in the stoning, the face is almost certain to be badly disfigured by being hit with stones in the process. But they would be dead by then to care about it much in this case. 

This from a previous article,

Carol Hunt also criticized in the article those who label people speaking out against such issues as "racist, Islamophobic or sectarian".

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WkikLeaks: US and Karzai say UK 'not up to the task' in Afghanistan and ‘made a mess of things’ according to ‘dismayed’ U.S. General Dan McNeil

Daily Mail reports that,

President Hamid Karzai contemptuously dismissed UK forces as ‘not up to the task’ of securing the Taliban stronghold [of Helmand province], cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed.

And U.S. General Dan McNeil, who led Nato forces in the war zone in 2007-08, claimed to be ‘dismayed’ that Britain had ‘made a mess of things’.

Ian Sadler, of Exmouth, Devon, who lost his son, Trooper Jack Sadler, 21, when his Land Rover hit a mine near Sangin in 2007 said:

‘We weren’t up to doing the job. The soldiers were, but they didn’t have the support of the Government, and they still don’t have the full support.’

Hillary has made an apology for those comments.

Source: Daily Mail (UK)


Comment: Can we trust Hillary's apology? We will have to wait until the next leaks to find out but judging from what was revealed in the current leaks, she probably was just being 'diplomatic'.

Here is a previous comment regarding the British

This is symptomatic, especially of the British among the rest of the wishful thinkers, who in their immature and childish psychology, naively and arrogantly think that being 'nice' will solve everything. (There were reports that British troops were replaced by the Americans in Musa Qala, Helmand province, Afghanistan, after their be 'nice' approach didn't work, with Marine commander Lt. Col. Michael Manning saying, "They didn't pursue the Taliban," "We'll go after them." There were also earlier claims by US General Jack Keane and Col Peter Mansoor that the Brits left in disgrace and defeat from souther Iraq after a similar approach failed and handed the place over to Islamic extremists and as a result, among other things, '45 women were killed by the militia for "un-Islamic" behaviour'. So being nice to terrorists is not nice to their victims. The French intelligence even claimed their own capital has been taken over by the Islamists and called it 'Londonistan'. The British are only hard on other British and non-British who speaks out against Islamic extremism as the recent example of 'anti-terror' police John Larkin shows.)


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6 US soldiers training Afghan police killed by a trainee, Azat Gul or Izzatullah - several similar attacks have happened before

US troops training Afghan police in Nangarhar province have been attacked by one of the trainees named Azat Gul, who opened fired killing six of them before being killed himself.

Taliban spokesman name the attacker as Izzatullah but APF added that 

The Taliban have made unsubstantiated claims of attacks on NATO forces.

Some past attacks or suspected attacks include

The killing of two coalition troops in the town of Sangin in Helmand province, under investigation as whether an Afghan soldier was responsible.

The July killing of two American contractors by an Afghan soldier inside a military base in north Afghanistan.

The killing of three British Gurkha soldiers by an Afghan soldier a week later in north Afghanistan

And the 2009 killing of five British soldiers by an Afghan policeman.


Sources: AFP


Comment: Sound very much like Fort Hood shooting by Major Nidal Malik Hasan.


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The two men were arrested in late May and early July, after footage of them reciting Christian prayers in Farsi and being baptized were broadcast by a local television station.

Norwegian Church Aid and Church World Service of the US were later suspended by the Afghan government after the television program reported that they were proselytizing, which is also illegal in Afghanistan.

AFP reports that

Several Afghan MPs have expressed their anger over the case, with one from western Herat even calling for the men to be dragged from their homes and publicly executed.

Source: AFP


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UK's MI6 'intelligence' conned by impostor claiming to be Taliban's Mullah Mansour – “naive” Westerners “excited so quickly” about peace talks

"My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time [emphasis added]. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds." - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain just before World War Two (From Wikipedia) 

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An imposter who managed to fool Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency into believing that he was senior Taliban commander Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour^1,4 has now vanished after being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to engage in peace talks.^1,2,3

The man was flown on British C130 transport aircraft a number of times for “secret peace talks”,⁴ described as a "historic breakthrough",⁴ and participated in three sensitive meetings between Taliban and the Afghan government.³ He allegedly even met Afghan president Hamid Karzai once³ after being flown to Kabul, although this has been denied by Karzai.^1,2,4 

The Americans - believed to have helped the British check him using signal intelligence¹ – now say they had been skeptical¹ of the identity of “the Brits' guy”, judging him a few inches shorter than the real Mansour.³

The man, now thought to have been either a shopkeeper in Quetta,^2,3,4 a low level Taliban commander, a conman^3,4  or a Pakistain spy,³ disappeared after an Afghan official who had met the real Mansour pointed out it was not him.^1,2,3

Michael Scheuer, who until 2004 was the CIA's point man for the hunt for Osama bin Laden suggested a reason for the debacle saying²

the Taliban's strength and the U.S. administration's stated goals of getting out of Afghanistan has created desperation for successes.²

A senior Afghan official said¹

"British intelligence was naive and there was wishful thinking on our part."^1,2,4 [Something which this site has been warning about since the beginning!]

Mr Karzai's chief of staff, Mohammad Umer Daudzai warned³

"The last lesson we draw from this: International partners should not get excited so quickly with those kind of things,"³

Sources: 1. AFP, 2. AP, 3. BBC, 4. Reuters


Comments: This must be the result of politically correct censorship that makes it an 'Islamophobic' blasphemy (Geert Wilders, Thilo Sarrazin) punishable by death or imprisonment for life in some places (Asia Bibi, Walid Husayin) any questioning or criticism of Islam or Muslims.

If anyone expresses even the slightest of doubt, based on sound evidence, about Islam or Muslims, they are branded bigots and 'Islamophobic'. Everyone is instead brainwashed into believing fairy tales and swallowing whole the politically correct version of events.

So it would not be surprising if MI6 agents didn't dare doubt what a Muslim said in this case. They would probably be branded bigots and disciplined and given corrective cultural lessons if they did. (There were concerns about Major Nidal Malik Hasan before his shootings but nothing was done.)

This is symptomatic, especially of the British among the rest of the wishful thinkers, who in their immature and childish psychology, naively and arrogantly think that being 'nice' will solve everything. (There were reports that British troops were replaced by the Americans in Musa Qala, Helmand province, Afghanistan, after their be 'nice' approach didn't work, with Marine commander Lt. Col. Michael Manning saying, "They didn't pursue the Taliban," "We'll go after them." There were also earlier claims by US General Jack Keane and Col Peter Mansoor that the Brits left in disgrace and defeat from souther Iraq after a similar approach failed and handed the place over to Islamic extremists and as a result, among other things, '45 women were killed by the militia for "un-Islamic" behaviour'. So being nice to terrorists is not nice to their victims. The French intelligence even claimed their own capital has been taken over by the Islamists and called it 'Londonistan'. The British are only hard on other British and non-British who speaks out against Islamic extremism as the recent example of 'anti-terror' police John Larkin shows.)

 The case of New York city 'human rights' commissioner Omar T. Mohammedi, recently reported here, has been claimed by some to have happened as a result of similar problems.

This from the World Net Daily report

Debra Burlingame, sister of the pilot killed in the hijacked 9/11 flight that hit the Pentagon, says it's possible that Bloomberg was not aware of Mohammedi's background when he named him to the commission.

"That happens, unfortunately, as local governments cast about for someone to partner with in the Muslim community," she said. "CAIR and other similar groups have capitalized on the government's desire to engage."

And as for lessons, don't bet that they will learn anything. Dodo's never do.

There is a possibility that this conman was a double agent for the Pakistanis trying to sabotage Afghan peace talks. As reported earlier on this site here and here, Pakistan supports the Taliban with the aim of using them as their proxies in Afghanistan once foreign troops leave. But he could also be a Taliban double agent as well.

Finally, remember words such as "naive", "peace", "historic", "excited" and "desperation". They are words always heard before some tragedy or farce. 


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In a boost for Nato and Afghan forces the spiritual leader of the Taliban appealed to Muslims around the world for funding for the war - a hint that the Nato and Afghan forces are beginning to hurt the Taliban.

 From Washington Post²

Under Petraeus and his predecessor, such [capture-and-kill] raids by U.S. Special Operations troops have increased sharply, to about 200 a month, or six times the number being carried out 18 months ago

These operations capture or kill their target 50 to 60 percent of the time

the nighttime strike missions are a crucial weapon to capture Taliban commanders, disrupt bomb-making networks and weaken the 30,000-man insurgency 

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Obama and anti-war defeatists blamed for emboldening terrorists in Afghanistan where minorities want US to stay

 Obama's previous talks of early withdrawal from Afghanistan, urged on by Dodo-like anti-war defeatists and naive pacifists, and attempts by Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who is from the majority Pashtun ethnic group, to make peace with the mostly Pashtun Taliban, have lead to fears among minorities there of being abandoned. Obama has since pushed back the start of major withdrawals to 2014 but this has not stopped some from seeking to re-arm, in case the situation returns to what it was before the U.S. arrival.

Abbas Noian, an ethnic Hazara legislator said

"It is very bad, America announcing they will leave Afghanistan. It has given more power to the militants, more energy. Already we minorities are afraid. We want peace but we are afraid of a strong Taliban,"

 The Associated Press reports,

Abdullah Abdullah, a close associate of the assassinated Massoud and loser to Karzai in the fraud-ridden 2009 presidential election, blamed the U.S. He said its talk of withdrawal emboldened the Taliban.

"People are rearming in some parts of the country," he said. "Who is going to protect them against the Taliban? NATO? Karzai?"

[ Despite this, those opposed to the war on terror will continue to do so as their opposition is based on blind ideology and not on facts.

 Even when it is proven that things they claim to care for such as freedom, human rights and democracy are opposed by the Islamofascists, they will continue to support terrorists, both overt and covert, against the U.S., just as the earlier generation supported the theofascist ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.

 This also shows that contrary to claim by terrorists supporter that the U.S. is an unwanted invader, there are those there who prefer the U.S. over the Taliban.] 

Source: AP 

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 Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the attack was targeted at foreigners and claimed 14 were killed and 9 injured.

 The Associated Press (AP) writer RAHIM FAIEZ explained the discrepancy saying,

the Taliban regularly exaggerate casualties caused by their attacks

[Could add, minimize their losses and blame attacks, deliberate or accidental, that kill scores of innocent civilians on their opponents. Just another psychological feature or behavioral pattern associated with some Muslim cultures. Typical.]

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 According to eruonews, the death toll was 13, with 5 children, 5 women and 3 men killed, with the bride among the dead.

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UN say Afghan insurgents mostly responsible for death of over 1,000 civilians in first half of 2010

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