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How To Fight Al Qaeda Now

An ex-CIA analyst talks about the terrorists' power—and their vulnerabilities

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  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 02/24/2009 9:44:37 AM

    I think Riedel's comments are spot on. We cannot kill our way out of this, although in A-stan it may be the only way to eject them from that country. The real problem is in Pakistan, where elements of gov., army and thier ISI are actively supporting our enemies. He mentioned "caliphate" which is wat AQ is all about. We need to bring more than just our firepower to this fight. It will be long, and it may be a battle of who is more committed.

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 12/19/2008 6:58:44 AM

    Some powers behind the scen are supporting Alqaida,
    by providing weapons , and compesation,
    the powers or elements are those ,
    who dilike attrocities and out rageous,
    if it come to and end Alqaida automatically finished

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 12/19/2008 6:50:40 AM

    20the january,
    the day will see the world scario changed,
    but it will some time,
    not sudden.

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 12/19/2008 6:26:11 AM

    As every one know that
    days of those are numbered
    they are going behind the curtail forever
    hope nevr would appeare on the political screen,
    their role in the picture named ""Bleeding War''has been finished,
    people all around the world as purposless warrior.


    New administration coming fastely replacing
    with changed minds and policies,
    world is hopefull they will bring peace in the aMiddle East,
    Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan,


    It is fact of the day,
    some particular persons are responsible
    for existing bloodletting situation in the world,
    due to millitary occupation ,specifically saying ,muslims countries.


    IN case,
    new superpower adminitration,
    decide that they will remove occupation,
    and withdraw from the places,
    disputed between imperial power and muslims ,
    these bleeding condition may come to an end.
    for bloodletting

  • Posted By: Luqman @ 12/06/2008 12:43:30 PM

    I'M VERY SORRY, WHY DO'NT WE TRY TO NEGOTITE WITH aL qAEDA?
    WHY AL QAEAD willing to kill thousands to achieve his objective ?
    WHY AL QAEAD IS ACTIVE ONLY AT THE TIME OF BUSH ADMINSTRATION?
    ANY WAY I'M VERY SORRY OF WHAT HAPPENING, AND Mr G.W .BUSH WAS BEHIND ALL WHAT HAS HAPPENED, AND I BELIEVE Mr. OBAMA WILL CHENGE THE WAR SITUATION INTI PEACE .

  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 11/27/2008 9:29:02 AM

    NOTHING can be worse than wat we had in the White House the last 8 yrs. The NEO-CON elements and big oil ran US policy for too long. I could care less about Ottis Moss. I care about killing the T-ban/AQ, WHEREVER they are. If that means P-stan, so be it. Gear up, get those rotors spinning and LETS GO. Look at the damage that has been done by Bush&Co...we are on the verge of economic collapse. We CHOSE to go to war in Iraq, in A-stan it was a MUST. We had them on the run, and if it were not for "Rummy" and Cheney, we could have killed OBL&Co at TORA BORA. Why outsource the fighting to Afghan tribes? Why not the Army QRF? Army Rangers in the air within 18 hours...Paratroopers have a "ready" brigade that could have been there in a very short time also. No, that was Dubya's ticket to get re-elected. FEAR. They played that hand over and over. Whose idea was it for less regulation in the financial world? Self will run riot. I would love to see Rumsfeld, Cheney, Gen. R. Myers, Wolfowicz, Rove, and thier Wall St. pals in a FEDERAL PEN. Gen. Myers, how can you betray us? You went along with the program to keep ur seat in the JCS. Your rank over ur troops lives...damn, I hope you never get a good nite's sleep again. Until the Almighty calls you, and those Marines and Soldiers are there to greet you. My guess is they will throw you to the gates of hell, where you will meet those you aided by ur SILENCE.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 5:05:30 PM

    Obama said he denounced and left the radical Trinity United Church but it???s not true!!

    Obama has Trinity United pastor Rev Ottis Moss accompanying him on his campaign!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 4:22:20 PM

    More and more disturbing stuff on Obama's past and his real intentions are just starting to surface.

    As I predicted over a year ago .... Obama is a big fraud and America is being duped !!

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 11/03/2008 5:43:22 AM

    In case, they committed such horendous heinous crime,
    they shouldn't did,
    but no acceptable and dependable investigation report came to surface,
    half of the allegation is based on doubt,
    and America looks not ready to give benefit of doubt,


    Iraq,
    Afghanistan,
    has been distroyed,
    but illegitimate prisons are still stand in Cuba,
    torture is to be continued,
    horrible procedure of interogation has been adopted,
    inspite of court order chines innocent are still in cells.


    The way undertaken by the Bush Administration,
    not leading to peace but destruction, more destruction,
    creating revenge, backlash,and counteraction situation,
    which is favoureable to Osama,supporting Osama's stance that,
    America is a dead enemy of muslims,
    and want to destroy the absolutely.


    This impression as i abovementioned,
    must be finishe by paying nice role,
    in this way ,Osama can be supportless,powerless and alone,


    I hope,American people would cast their vote for change,
    change has become essential for changing the world scenario,


    The day of justice,
    is better than hundred years worship.


    Sultan Ahmed, faisalabd, Pakistan.

  • Posted By: SassyFrassy @ 11/02/2008 11:10:14 PM

    TO the present OBAMA holds DUAL CITIZENSHIP for US and for KENYA. SINCE when does this mean he has the best interest of our country in mind? here is what is on his mind and we need to make sure we don't accomodate it. i would say his DUAL CITIZENSHIP is a conflict of interest which highly reveals the nature of his politics.

    Obama, Odinga & Kenyan Jihad
    by Kurt Schulzke on February 25, 2008

    Last night, I reported on Barack Obama???s active support of Kenyan candidate and Obama cousin Raila Odinga. What escaped mention was Odinga???s explicit plan to turn Kenya into an Al Qaeda terrorist incubator. A close analysis of Odinga???s MoU with Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi shows that ??? if Odinga had been elected as Kenyan president in the fall of 2007 ??? he would have made it impossible under Kenyan law for ???any Muslim arrested for or suspected of Terrorism??? to be tried anywhere but Kenya under Kenyan law.

    Kenyan law, in turn, would henceforth be exclusively Shariah law in ???Muslim declared regions??? ??? the ???coast??? and ???North Eastern regions??? of the country ??? see the map, below ??? now visited by hundreds of thousands of western tourists each year. [See Odinga, Abdi & Obama: Which Islamic MoU is real? for an updated, detailed discussion of two competing versions of the agreement.] Obama and Odinga supporters want to label as a ???lie??? the MoU version discussed here. However, the evidence suggests the opposite is true.



    It is no coincidence that this area of Kenya borders Somalia ??? for many years an Al Qaeda stronghold ??? site of the Clinton administration???s Bay of Pigs-redux, in Mogadishu, the event that serves as the basis for the movie Black Hawk Down. Also noteworthy is Kenya???s proximity to Tanzania, focus of much of George Bush???s efforts to save Africa and, arguably, where Bush is today most loved in the world.

    In these ???Muslim declared??? regions, the Odinga-Abdi agreement would outlaw ??? among other things ??? Farmer???s Choice, pork, other ???haram products??? and ???women???s public dressing styles considered immoral or offensive to the Muslim faith??? for all women, not just Muslims. At the same time, Odinga would establish a Sharia law court in every Kenyan ???divisional headquarters.??? One foreseeable result of these machinations is that Al Qaeda would be safe-havened in Kenya, free to foment mahem and terror around the world. Little wonder that Louis Farrakhan has endorsed Obama for president.

    The question every Democrat should be asking is how any American president ??? as Barack Obama seeks to become ??? could support a scheme so obviously designed to further the global jihad? Restated: With Americans like Obama, who needs Al Qaeda?

    Conservative Republicans face a related question: In light of this information, could you in good conscience not vote for John McCain in November if the Dems stupidly choose Obama as their ???daddy????

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 11:09:43 PM

    The Wall Street crisis was planned the night of Obama's meeting at Bill Ayres home to put Obama in The White House. Together they put a beautiful plan into place.

    This Strategy was first elucidated in the 1966 issue of 'The Nation' Magazine by a pair of radical Socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

    David Horowitz summarizes it as:

    "The strategy of forcing political change through an orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of Capitalism by overloading the Government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
    unquote

    Obama begin with ACORN by funneling millions into their organization. He then trained ACORN to stage protests in banks to force them to issue risky loans or they would be threatened to face racial charges. ACORN was trained to intimidate financial institutions into giving ???Ninja??? loans to people with NO assets, NO job and NO income, who couldn???t afford these loans.

    That caused the housing bubble two years ago it was by ACORN's actions they were able to destroy our credit system.

    As this played out, D-Barney Frank and D-Chris Dodd were able to cover up the millions of improvident loans to these bad risky house buyers. And Barney Frank and his chums successfully were able to block all of President Bush's attempts to put a rein on this problem.

    So Fannie & Freddie was forced to purchase all these failed subprime mortgages.

    Then both Frank and Dodd denied that there were any problems, and refused the Bush Admin. requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and they were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the 'minute they failed'.

    Democrats then blamed Bush saying it happened on his watch knowing it would hurt the Republican Party in the election setting it up that Barack Obama could use this to his advantage.

    Karl Marx once compared a Revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.

    Barack Obama is that Marxist mole !

  • Posted By: SassyFrassy @ 11/02/2008 11:07:33 PM

    Comment: LET'S TALK ECONOMICS--and what has led to our "meltdown"

    In OUR previous administration after the previous administrations FIRST term and BEFORE their second term the Usa sent our law enforcement to Yeman to arrest Osama bin laden. The Yeman ambassador promptly got into a 'turf battle" with USA law enforcement to claim the USA LAW ENFORCEMENT was "infringing" on YEMAN ambassadors "turf".

    So what happened OUR USA LAW ENFORCEMENTS WERE TOLD by OUR USA PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION--to go home empty handed. Our previous Administration didn't know at the time their irresponsible actions had paved the way for terriorist to make plans and lay groundwork for 911.

    The Wall Street journal at that time printed a small article on it and to the recent it has been discussed but apparantly NOT ENOUGH.



    I submit for your reading NY Times 1999 - MUST READ!

    Well, it???s about time, the mainstream ???brainwashing media??? is finally coming out with the truth on this meltdown???

    I think if they would???ve come out with the truth right away instead of letting obama camp point fingers at the Bush Admin. THE Gallup polls etc would look a whole lot different RIGHT NOW!

    I just hope the ???American People??? Get it ~ before it???s too late!

    Look! The New York Times is catching up to the American people..it???s important for ALL Americans to know who is responsible for this Economic Meltdown we are experiencing???in fact, some of you might remember that I posted the notice from Bill Clinton himself [I posted again, what Bill said at the bottom of this post]

    Who???s administration
    caused the problem??? See below.

    Amazing
    foresight!! Take a gander at this while they try to lay blame for the whole meltdown???

    9 years ago???this one is priceless and worth the read- right out of New York Times

    September 30, 1999

    Fannie Mae
    Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending by steven A Holmes where the DEMOCRATS admitted that faulty lending pracitces along with ACORN activities have brought use to the crossroads our Nation is today.

    If we are looking for ECONOMIC DELIVERENCE-- we must TIE our exit to political progress people. Honestly, how could anyone have MISSED the point??? Tieing our exit to political progress will kick start jump the US and everyone and businesses OUT of RECESSON "MODE" and into re-building phase mode. It will put the Us and everyone and businesses back to work at full capacity.

    Perhaps the catchphrase of this election should be--when will we learn, oh baby, when will we learn and WAKE UP AMERICA THE FREEDOMS YOU SAVE WILL BE YOUR OWN.


  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 10:48:23 PM

    BREAKING NEWS ALERT....

    Obama taped conversation with San Francisco Chronicle states his policies ???will bankrupt coal mining operations that produce gas emissions in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina
    which it will cause energy prices to skyrocket....." .....more info nobody knew until now about what Obama wants to do!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:49:41 PM

    Obama's Links To Radicals Starting To Surface!! www.newsmax.com/timmer

    Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close, Ex-Farrakhan Aide Says

    A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama???s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had ???an open line between them??? to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.

    ???Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn???t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,??? said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
    White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
    White said Obama was ???part of the Chicago scene??? where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other???s events and support each other???s causes.
    ???Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn???t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,??? White told Newsmax.
    The Anti-Defamation League has denounced Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a ???hate group.???
    Farrakhan has called Jews ???bloodsuckers,??? ???satanic??? and accused them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as ???degenerates.??? In a 2006 speech, the ADL again condemned Farrakhan when he said: ???These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. ??? It's the wicked Jews the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!"

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:16:49 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:16:35 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 5:02:16 PM

    WELL SAID BILL COSBY !!

    'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
    I can't even talk the way these people talk:
    Why you ain't,
    Where you is,
    What he drive,
    Where he stay,
    Where he work,
    Who you be...

    And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

    And then I heard the father talk.

    Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.
    You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

    In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

    People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now
    We've got these knuckleheads walking around.

    The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.

    These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.

    $500 sneakers for what?

    And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

    I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.

    Where were you when he was 2?

    Where were you when he was 12?

    Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?

    And where is the father? Or who is his father?

    People putting their clothes on backward:
    Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

    People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?

    Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

    What part of Africa did this come from??

    We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa ...

    I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.

    I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !

    With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap .....And all of them are in jail.

    Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

    We have got to take the neighborhood back.

    People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

    We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

    We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.

    Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

    We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

    " We cannot blame the white people any longer."
    Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 1:53:29 PM

    Two central issues in the election Barack Obama is wrong and misleading:

    1) No tax increases to those earning $250,000 or less promised by Obama, then he
    lowered this figure to $200,000, then the "Gift that keeps on Giving" Joe Biden says
    the number is $150,000 and just yesterday Gov. Bill Richardson says the figure is
    $120,000 ...and now a videotape is disclosed where it shows Obama recently stated
    that in the interest of fairness with taxes is around $80,000.00!!
    Sounds like good old fashion Democratic ???reverse auction ???tax policy they implement
    after they break their campaign promise to the American people.

    2) On national security ...Obama???s own VP running mate Joe Biden ... ???mark my words,
    this guy Obama is going to be tested by a generated international crisis within 6
    months of his Presidency..I guarantee it??? Obama will meet with USA's enemies with
    no pre-conditions!
    John McCain???s surge strategy in Iraq is working and its saving the lives of young
    American men and women in uniform serving there...Obama won't admit to this day
    the surge is working and he voted to cut funding for these military forces !!

    John McCain is Commander-In-Chief material ....Obama is just a cardboard "cut-out"
    candidate of the DNC.

  • Posted By: wahabi right path @ 10/31/2008 5:08:28 PM

    fatjoey i must admit you are right "where ever there is misery you will find a muslim" that is because they are meek and the bible says ..... the meek shall inherit the earth so it shows where you stand , no offence and please forgive me if i have offended you my brother goodbye and peace to all and i pray for guidance for all

  • Posted By: Omaar @ 10/30/2008 11:11:28 PM

    For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news...

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html

    McCain Financially supporterd Khalidi and is now trying to tie Obama to Khalidi, though McCain himself was Closely tied to the Palestenian and backed him withover 400,000 $$$
    ------------------------------------


    The McCain camp gambit comes after conservative writers have repeatedly pressed for media outlets to write about the rather tenuous connections between Obama and Khalidi, an outspoken advocate for Palestinian rights.

    Specifically, National Review writers want much more attention paid to the association, given that the LA Times has reported that Khalidi lavished praise on Obama at a farewell party in Chicago at which Bill Ayers was also present. (Other writers have accused Khalidi of being an aide to Yasser Arafat, a claim which Marc Ambinder and Ari Berman have suggested is not credible.)

    In regards to Khalidi, however, the guilt-by-association game burns John McCain as well.

    During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

    Big Note: A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)

    The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."

    Of course, there's seemingly nothing objectionable with McCain's organization helping a Palestinian group conduct research in the West Bank or Gaza. But it does suggest that McCain could have some of his own explaining to do as he tries to make hay out of Khalidi's ties to Obama.

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