I’m sure this boo boo will calm tempers in the Middle East. The clusterfuck continues.
Afghanistan: Nato air strike ‘kills eight women’ in Laghman
At least eight women have died in a Nato air strike in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Laghman, local officials say.
Nato has conceded that between five and eight civilians died as it targeted insurgents, and offered condolences.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai “strongly condemned” the deaths and has sent officials to the area to investigate.
Earlier on Sunday, four US soldiers with the Nato forces were killed in an attack by suspected Afghan police.
The attack in southern Zabul province brought to 51 the number of Nato troops killed in “insider attacks” this year, and came a day after two UK soldiers were killed at a checkpoint in Helmand by a man in police uniform.
‘Collecting wood’
Local officials in the remote area of Laghman told the BBC at least eight women had died, while provincial council member Gulzar Sangarwal said nine were dead.
Major Adam Wojack, a spokesman for the Isaf international forces, said between five and eight civilians could have been killed, and said an investigation was under way.
He told the BBC that a group of some 45 insurgents had been targeted by an Isaf unit, and many had been killed.
“Unfortunately, we have become aware of possible Isaf-caused civilian casualties as a result of this strike, numbering five-eight Afghans,” he said.
“Isaf offers its sincerest condolences to the affected community and family members, as well as to the Afghan people, concerning this tragic loss of life.”
At least seven women were also reported to have been injured. Provincial health director Latif Qayumi said some of them injured were girls aged as young as 10.
The Laghman governor’s office said a number of civilians had gone to the mountains to collect wood and nuts from a forest in the Noarlam Saib valley, a common practice in the area.
The mountainous, highly forested terrain remote from government control make the area attractive to Taliban and other insurgent groups, correspondents say.
The issue of civilian deaths by international forces has created tensions between the US President Karzai.
In August, UN figures suggested the number of civilians killed and injured in the first half of 2012 had fallen 15% on the same period of 2011.
Analysts said increased sensitivity on both sides about the impact of civilian deaths had led to more carefully targeted attacks.
In his statement, Mr Karzai expressed his “sorrow” over the incident, saying he “strongly condemns the airstrike by Nato forces which resulted in the deaths of eight women”.
Police suspects
Isaf spokesman Lt Col Hagen Messers said the remote base in Zabul province came under attack in the early hours of the morning, AFP reports.
The US troops were scrambled to help the Afghans repel the attack, but four of them were shot dead by Afghans in police unfirm
Officials said it was not yet clear whether the attacker or attackers were genuine police, but one provincial office told AFP that three or four known policemen had since disappeared from the base.
“At the moment, we don’t know where they have gone. We don’t know if they fled fearing arrest or if they are linked to the Taliban,” he said.
Zabul’s deputy police chief Ghulam Gilani told the Associated Press the police could have been forced into attacking the American troops.
“Whether they attacked the Americans willingly we don’t know,” he said.
Meanwhile, more details have also emerged of the scale of damage caused by an insurgent attack on Nato’s heavily fortified Camp Bastion base in Helmand province, in which two US marines were killed.
Militants breached the perimeter of the sprawling base in Helmand province, destroying six US Harrier aircraft and damaging two more, destroying three refuelling stations and damaging six aircraft hangars.
Nato said 14 of the insurgents were killed and one was injured and taken into custody. Nine coalition personnel were wounded.
In a statement, Nato said the attack had been carried out by 15 insurgents dressed in US Army uniforms who “appeared to be well-equipped, trained and rehearsed”.
Ron says:
Thats less baby making threats to the usa.Do you feel safer,i never felt unsafe.
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16th September 2012 at 1:30 pm
President Obama says:
Blow me, Quinn.
You obviously missed my speech from a couple days ago.
“One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.”
R.E.S.P.E.C.T., that’s what me and Aretha are talkin’ about. A few dead women don’t mean shit in the big picture.
You are votin’ for me, right?
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16th September 2012 at 1:42 pm
Steve Hogan says:
Eleven years in that shithole country. What do we have to show for it? The Taliban is more entrenched than ever, our stooge in Kabul is a crook, thousands of innocents killed, American soldiers killed and maimed for nothing.
What a clusterfuck. Only the US government could spend this much money and cause this much destruction for no earthly purpose (beyond enriching Boeing and Lockheed Martin).
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16th September 2012 at 1:56 pm
Appalachian Trail Deblazer says:
Jim Quinn,
http://www.therightscoop.com/must-watch-kamal-saleem-keynote-at-values-voter-summit-2012/
Please review and post. I feel this mans message (Kamal Saleem) needs its on POST.
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16th September 2012 at 3:06 pm
Llpoh says:
And then people wonder why they don’t love them.
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16th September 2012 at 3:16 pm
Oscar Mannheim says:
Those women must have been overheard hating our freedoms! Now they’re liberated! Hope and change go east!
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16th September 2012 at 3:24 pm
Stucky says:
ATD
I doubt Admin will watch a 25 min video.
I should have stopped when he opened with “To God be the glory.” seven times, while waving a US flag. Or, when he saluted US soldiers as heros.
Once a muslim mindset, always a muslim mindset. He just changed the names of his God, from Allah to Jesus … both enjoy killing infidels.
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16th September 2012 at 3:58 pm
Balzytch says:
It’s amazing really. A nation this is $16 trillion in debt can wage war all over the world. Doesn’t make sense to a sane person. Can’t last.
Obama needs to take a “goodwill” tour of the Middle east. His smooth speeches and teleprompter will surely calm down those ravenous towlheads. They have cash also, he needs more cash. The Obama fall falaphel tour. book it.
We are still in Afghanistan why? So J.P. Morgan can steal billions in gold, and help launder opium money? Blow back is not the same as a blow job.
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16th September 2012 at 4:33 pm
AWD says:
Obama can’t be bothered by events in Afghanistan, the Middle East, or Asia. He can’t be bothered by putting together a budget. He can’t be bothered to read or understand Obamacare. God only knows what he does do, except keep his friend like Corzine out of jail.
Is President Obama ‘Skipping’ Intelligence Briefings?
By Devin Dwyer | ABC News
Conservative critics of President Obama are accusing him of “skipping” daily intelligence briefings throughout his first term and in the days leading up to this week’s deadly attacks on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya.
The anti-Obama super PAC American Crossroads levels the charge in a new Web ad HERE.
Right-leaning bloggers and American Enterprise Institute scholar and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen make the case HERE and HERE .
But the substance of the charge, aimed at undermining Obama’s credibility as commander in chief, appears to be more a matter of semantics than hard fact.
Driving the allegation is a report by the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative research group, that analyzed the number of times a Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) was formally listed on Obama’s schedule since the beginning of his term in 2009.
The group says it examined the publicly available records for the first 1,225 days of the Obama presidency – from Jan. 23, 2009 through March, 31 2012 – and found a PDB on just 536 of those days, or less than half the time.
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16th September 2012 at 7:00 pm
Administrator says:
Six British and US troops killed in latest ‘green on blue’ attacks
The incidents come just two days after an attack on Camp Bastion, which the Taliban claimed was in retaliation for a US-made film which insulted the prophet Mohammed.
The soldiers from 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were shot dead by an Afghan policeman at a checkpoint in Helmand province, moments after they had given him medical treatment following a joint patrol.
They were named as Sergeant Gareth Thursby, 29, a married father-of-two from Skipton, North Yorkshire, and Private Thomas Wroe, 18, from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.
An Afghan security official in Helmand told the Daily Telegraph the killer, Gul Agha, had called over the British soldiers at a checkpoint at around 2pm on Saturday and said his leg needed treatment.
The 25-year-old was a member of the Afghan Local Police programme, a government-backed local defence militia where men are paid and trained to protect their villages against the Taliban. He had joined five months earlier.
As the Britons returned to their vehicles at the checkpoint in Nahr-e Saraj, he drew a pistol and opened fire, killing two and wounding three others, before he was himself shot dead.
Lt Col Richard Parry, spokesman for British forces in Helmand, said: “I can confirm he needed some medical treatment and it was after that when he opened fire.” “We are not talking serious treatment and we don’t know if he was genuinely injured.”
Hours later, four Americans were also shot dead by one or more Afghan policemen in Zabul province, bringing the toll from such shootings to at least 51 in 2012 alone – nearly one-in-six of all Nato deaths in Afghanistan this year.
The American soldiers were shot dead at a remote checkpoint in Zabul’s Mizan district after they had answered distress calls from policemen who were under attack by Taliban fighters.
Ghulam Gilani, the deputy police chief of the province, said it was not clear if some of the Afghan police turned on their American helpers in the middle of the battle with the insurgents, or afterward.
“Whether they attacked the Americans willingly we don’t know,” he said.
The attacks came only two days after the attack on Camp Bastion, where Prince Harry is stationed. The Taliban claimed the attack late on Friday evening on the sprawling base in Helmand was due to the anti-Islamic film which has caused protests across the Middle East, adding that Bastion had been chosen because of Prince Harry’s presence.
Details were also disclosed of the hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of damage caused during the Bastion weekend attack.
Six American AV-8B Harrier jets were destroyed and two badly damaged when around 15 attackers breached the perimeter around the camp’s airfield and began firing rockets and assault rifles at the aircraft. Three refuelling stations were also destroyed and six soft-skin hangars were damaged.
The attackers were “well equipped, trained and rehearsed,” the coalition said and had been wearing US Army uniforms to sow confusion during the attack.
British troops from 5 RAF Force Protection Wing (51 Squadron RAF), the RAF Regiment, were first on the scene and, fighting alongside US Marines, repelled the insurgents in a gun battle lasting more than five hours.
Two US Marines died in the attack and several British airmen were wounded, but none were classed as serious. In all, eight servicemen and a civilian contractor were injured. A total of 14 attackers were killed and one was captured wounded.
Nato meanwhile was accused on Sunday of killing at least eight women in an air strike in Laghman province. that was targeting about 45 insurgents. The US-led International Security Assistance Force later extended its “deepest regrets and sympathies” over the incident.
Separately a soldier killed in a roadside bomb on Friday has been named as Lance Corporal Duane Groom from The Queen’s Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.
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16th September 2012 at 7:46 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
Its so easy.
Pull the troops out. Stop waging war. Just doing those two little things would buy us some damned time.
Oh, and stop printing money too.
WHILE I’M DREAMING CAN I GET A GD PONY?
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16th September 2012 at 7:47 pm
ecliptix543 says:
Did the ARVN guys shoot at us? I don’t remember seeing that in Platoon or Full Metal Jacket…
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16th September 2012 at 9:32 pm
TeresaE says:
11 years?
We’ve been in Afghanistan, both fighting and buying the Taliban, for over 30 years. We just helped to destroy the country, then pulled out, when we were covertly fighting the Ruskies.
Our government simultaneously funds terror, while fighting it, funds drug lords, while taking down street corner dealers, and we wonder why half the world hates us?
Blah. The PTB are determined to lead us to war to cover up their war on currency.
So many ways we’re screwed, so little time before blowback is a way of life.
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16th September 2012 at 12:03 am
SAH says:
Well, that is 8 less women the Taliban will need to pour acid on and stone to death. I don’t think they will really be pissed, other than that we stole their thunder. However, I AM pissed, because the NATO air strikes cost us, the US taxpayers, who knows how much borrowed money (obviously an insane amount, and then interest on the loan ad infinitum) — the Taliban acid attacks and stonings of these women wouldn’t cost us a penny. And someone else would be the bad guy. That’s a win-win, for everyone except the Afghan women (but they were fucked already just through the misfortune of being born there).
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16th September 2012 at 12:25 am
crazyivan says:
SAH,
Has anyone, anytime ever licked your pussy?
Ever?
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16th September 2012 at 12:33 am
SAH says:
No thank you, Ivan. I’m all set, but thanks for volunteering. Try Stucky maybe? He has claimed to have a small penis, if you close your eyes and think happy thoughts I’m sure it will seem like a clit.
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16th September 2012 at 12:54 am
ThePessimisticChemist says:
+1 for SAH
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16th September 2012 at 12:58 am
crazyivan says:
That wasn’t an offer sah.
An offer would have looked more like:
SAH! -For $100,00.00 cash (plus associated medical costs) I, crazyivan will lick your pussy for five minutes.
Now that would be the start of a contract.
Offer.
Acceptance.
Consideration.
None of which happenened.
It’s how business is done.
I was simply, as an amatuer sex therapist trying to establish a base as to why you were such a hateful and self loathing sounding woman.
It is just a hobby for me and perhaps I am in over my head.
My Doc told me to start out slow.
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16th September 2012 at 1:31 am
efarmer says:
You all must have missed the memo that the only reason they hate us is some video that none of us ever heard of.
Don’t you read and listen to the MSM anymore??
EF
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16th September 2012 at 7:14 am
stucky where are you ? says:
Stucky will be along shortly to defend his manhood.
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16th September 2012 at 7:38 am
Stucky says:
There is no need to defend my manhood.
I am a defender of the weak, the downtrodden, and the lonely. Little Stucky is none of these things.
Recently I was in the woods and I need to build a shelter, but I had no hammer. So I just had naughty thoughts of SAH’s clit, got a massive Boner, and used it as a hammer. Later when I went home I had to move the piano. I stood next to the piano, thought of SAH getting her pussy licked, and poof, the piano was 18 inches off the ground.
I am also honored that SAH can’t stop thinking about Little Stucky …. the little feller is really on her mind. Next step … to be in her mouth.
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16th September 2012 at 9:30 am
Administrator says:
Full Summary Of The Latest In Anti-American Sentiment
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/17/2012 09:53 -0400
Having trouble keeping track of how many countries have now officially rebelled against Pax Americana in the past week? Here is your handy one-stop resource to keep you abreast of all the latest in the embassy storming fad.
PAKISTAN
Hundreds of protesters demonstrating against the film torched a press club and a government building in the northwestern town of Wari, setting of clashes with police that killed one demonstrator and wounded several others.
Hundreds also clashed with police for a second day in the southern city of Karachi as they tried to reach the U.S. Consulate there. Police lobbed tear gas and fired in the air to disperse the protesters who were from the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami party. Police arrested 40 students, but no injuries were reported.
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AFGHANISTAN
Demonstrations turned violent outside a U.S. military base in Kabul, where about 800 protesters burned cars and threw rocks at Camp Phoenix. Many in the crowd shouted “Death to America!” and “Death to those people who have made a film and insulted our Prophet.”
Police fired into the air to hold back about crowd and to prevent it from pushing toward government buildings downtown. More than 20 police officers were slightly injured, most of them hit by rocks. Protests also broke out along the main thoroughfare into Kabul, where demonstrators burned shipping containers and tires. The crowd torched at least one police vehicle before finally dispersing.
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INDONESIA
Hundreds clashed with police outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, hurling rocks and firebombs and setting tires alight. It was the first violence seen in the world’s most populous Muslim country since international outrage over the film exploded last week. Eleven policemen were rushed to the hospital after being pelted with rocks and attacked with bamboo sticks, while four protesters were arrested and one was hospitalized.
Demonstrators burned a picture of President Barack Obama and tried to ignite a fire truck parked outside the embassy after ripping a water hose off the vehicle and torching it, sending black smoke billowing into the sky. Police used water cannons and tear gas to try to disperse the crowd as the protesters shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or God is great, and burned a U.S. flag. Demonstrations were also held in the cities of Medan and Bandung.
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IRAN
Iran’s top leader urged the West to show it respects Muslims by blocking the film. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Western leaders must prove they are not “accomplices” in a “big crime.” Khamenei was quoted on state TV as noting that some nations place restrictions on expression, such as banning Nazi-related sites.
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EGYPT
An al-Qaida-linked Egyptian jihadist, Ahmed Ashoush, issued a religious edict, or fatwa, saying it is justified to kill anyone who took part in the making of the prophet film.
Ashoush, who was believed close to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida’s current No. 1, Ayman al-Zawahri, heads the relatively obscure “Jihad Group.” His edict, posted on a militant website, says the blood of the participants in the movie “should be shed, including the producer, the director and the actors” and that “their killing is a duty of every capable Muslim.”
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WEST BANK
Several hundred Palestinians held a peaceful protest in the city of Ramallah against the film. Men stood on one side, chanting, “We will sacrifice for you, oh Muhammad.” Women wearing headscarves stood on the other side, holding up large posters in Arabic, including one that read: “The Prophet is more important than my family.”
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
The country’s telecommunication regulator said it has blocked access to the video and urged users to report any existing links to the country’s Internet providers. Internet users in the Emirates searching by name for the film on YouTube, for example, now get a standard page used for other censored sites in the country saying “this website is not accessible in the UAE.” There are loopholes, though, since YouTube itself is not blocked and it is still possible to view the film by clicking recently posted links found within the site.
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16th September 2012 at 10:06 am
DaveL says:
“This accidental NATO bombing was brought on as a result of NATO forces spending too much time playing war video games. We are looking into the prosecution of Atari.”…Hillary Clinton
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16th September 2012 at 4:57 pm