June 13, 2008
Afghan Suicide Blast Hits U.S. Troops
Taliban Claim Bomber Killed More Than 10 Soldiers; Coalition Says Only 4 GIs Injured
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A U.S. soldier walks as humvee vehicles are seen in the background in Afghanistan's Kapisa province, north of Kabul, in a September 2007 file photo. A suicide bomber hit a U.S. convoy in northeast Afghanistan Friday, June 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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However, official with the U.S.-led military coalition operating in the area and a diplomat say no Americans were killed in the blast.
Shafiq Hamdam, with the International Security Assistance Force's regional command East told CBS News a suicide bomber in a car did hit a U.S. convoy Friday morning near a market, but only four U.S. soldiers were slightly injured and one vehicle was damaged.
A Western diplomat who knows the area well told CBS News he had contacted the Afghan government's military commander in the area, who confirmed that a man driving a white Toyota Corolla had rammed into a U.S. convoy, but the only death was the suicide bomber. The diplomat spoke to CBS on condition of anonymity.
Sky News's Alex Crawford, reporting from neighboring Pakistan, said the governor of Nangarahar province and other local officials had confirmed a suicide attack on a U.S. convoy near the Marko Bazzar in the volatile border area.
Mullah Shokoor, a Taliban commander who says he is the head of suicide operations for the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, contacted CBS News Friday and said one of his bombers had carried out the attack.
He claimed two U.S. military vehicles were "badly damaged and 14 to 15 soldiers killed." The Taliban often greatly exaggerates its claims referring to attacks on Western troops.
Shokoor said the bomber was an Afghan man from Kunar province. He also said his brigade "has dozens of willing bombers" and promised continued attacks.
A local journalist in the area who visited the scene of the blast also told CBS News that only the bomber appeared to have been killed, and there were no apparent civilian casualties.
A statement found by CBS News on a Taliban Web site referred to an attack on Jalal Abad Torkham highway in Nangarahar province. The location matches the scene of the popular Marko Bazzar.
"Our brother said Allahu Akbar (God is great) and exploded his booby-trapped car at a convoy in which two tanks were destroyed and nine American soldiers in the tanks were killed," the Taliban Internet statement said.
In the statement, the author first referred on two occasions to an "Armenian" contingent being attacked, before claiming that "American soldiers" were killed.
The reference to Armenia was likely a typo, as there are no Armenian soldiers participating in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) - the military coalition operating in Afghanistan.
The Internet statement was attributed to Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman.
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- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry
http://www.quotedb.com/speeches/liberty-or-death - Reply to this comment
- LOOK WHO IS TARGETING CIVILIANS!!!
Qaeda warns of attacks ''worse than 9/11''
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070530102648.wuwa6k96&show_article=1
Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Have Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out ''Martyrdom'' Operations, Fire Missiles on Israeli Civilians From Ayatollah Khomeini
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD154907
Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp
But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.
"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.
Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.
The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml?source=RSSattr=60Minutes_2761108
American Al Qaeda Member Threatens Attack
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/terror/main2865282.shtml - Reply to this comment
- Posted by jowm at 04:36 PM : Jun 14, 2008
hahaha
you believe muslim lies,,, LOL
hahaha - Reply to this comment
- PATTON
General Bradley:
Have you seen the casualty lists?
Patton:
Yes, I''ve seen them.
General Bradley. . .
. . .it''s time to consider how many
casualties we''d have. . .
. . .if we were still crawling on
that ******* road.
it is time to consider how much more it will cost if we do not defeat fascist nazi terrorislam,,, - Reply to this comment
- Mossad Agent Pearlman Releases Phony "Al-Qaeda Tape"
Adam Pearlman, the Jewish Mossad agent who once wrote stinging essays condemning Muslims as "bloodthirsty terrorists", has once again popped up as an "Al-Qaeda spokesman" to frighten the dwindling number of Americans who still believe Al-Qaeda exists outside of U.S. intelligence circles.
"An American member of al-Qaida warned President Bush on Tuesday to end U.S. involvement in all Muslim lands or face an attack worse than the Sept. 11 suicide assault, according to a new videotape."
Who is the mysterious Adam Yehiye Gadahn?
Adam Pearlman is his real name and his grandfather is none other than the late Carl K. Pearlman; a prominent Jewish urologist in Orange County. Carl was also a member of the board of directors of the Anti-Defamation League, which was caught spying on Americans for Israel in 1993. Mike Rivero has the scoop at WhatReallyHappened.com.
Israel''''s Mossad intelligence agency was caught in 2002 creating a phony Al-Qaeda group to justify attacks on Palestinians.
http://www.prisonplan
et.com/articles/may2007/300507phonytape.
htm
Posted by kretos
thats what i guessed - Reply to this comment
- Posted by kretos at 01:45 PM : Jun 14, 2008
hahaha hey shill for inbred retarded radical fascist nazi terrorislamic jihadists muslim slavers, murderers and rapists
are these two members of massad??? LOL
Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem
a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden
Qaeda warns of attacks ''worse than 9/11''
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070530102648.wuwa6k96&show_article=1
Adam Yahiye Gadahn is an American-born English-speaking senior operative, cultural interpreter, spokesman and media advisor for the Islamist terrorist group Al Qaeda.
From 2004 to 2006 he appeared in a number of Al Qaeda videos produced by the organization as "Azzam the American" He is felt to have inspired bin Laden''s September 2007 video.
In 2004, he was added to the FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list.[3] On October 11, 2006 he was removed from that list, and placed on the Bureau of Diplomatic Security Rewards For Justice Program list of wanted criminals.[4] On the same day, Gadahn was indicted based on the testimony of the FBI case agent E.J. Hilbert II, in the Southern Division of the United States District Court for the Central District of California by a federal grand jury for the capital crime of treason for aiding an enemy of the United States (i.e. Al Qaeda). Gadahn is the first American charged with treason since 1952.[5] - Reply to this comment
- American Al Qaeda Member Threatens Attack
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2
007/05/29/terror/main2865282.shtml
Posted by terrorislami
Mossad Agent Pearlman Releases Phony "Al-Qaeda Tape"
Adam Pearlman, the Jewish Mossad agent who once wrote stinging essays condemning Muslims as "bloodthirsty terrorists", has once again popped up as an "Al-Qaeda spokesman" to frighten the dwindling number of Americans who still believe Al-Qaeda exists outside of U.S. intelligence circles.
"An American member of al-Qaida warned President Bush on Tuesday to end U.S. involvement in all Muslim lands or face an attack worse than the Sept. 11 suicide assault, according to a new videotape."
Who is the mysterious Adam Yehiye Gadahn?
Adam Pearlman is his real name and his grandfather is none other than the late Carl K. Pearlman; a prominent Jewish urologist in Orange County. Carl was also a member of the board of directors of the Anti-Defamation League, which was caught spying on Americans for Israel in 1993. Mike Rivero has the scoop at WhatReallyHappened.com.
Israel''s Mossad intelligence agency was caught in 2002 creating a phony Al-Qaeda group to justify attacks on Palestinians.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/300507phonytape.htm - Reply to this comment
- Posted by jowm at 09:12 AM : Jun 14, 2008
idiot,,, here are the terrorists,,, fascist nazi terrorislam,,,
LOOK WHO IS TARGETING CIVILIANS!!!
Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Have Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out ''Martyrdom'' Operations, Fire Missiles on Israeli Civilians From Ayatollah Khomeini
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD154907
Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp
But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.
"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.
Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.
The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml?source=RSSattr=60Minutes_2761108
American Al Qaeda Member Threatens Attack
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/terror/main2865282.shtml - Reply to this comment
- Posted by FeelFree4U
Posted by kretos at 09:18 AM : Jun 14, 2008
idiot left wingnut koolaid drinking barking moonbat conspiracy nuts,,, - Reply to this comment
- Several people that I respect are of the opinion that the invasion and destruction of Afghanistan is somehow justified, as they view this invasion as being a righteous effort aimed at holding those responsible for the attacks to account.
I don''''''''t believe that Osama, or any sophisticated foreign "TERRA" network (other than maybe the Pakistani ISI and the Israeli Mossad) had anything to do with the events of 9/11/01, so there is no valid justification for us being there, in my opinion.
We invaded Afghanistan to:
A. Further destabilize that country
B. Revive global opium production (which was negligible under Taliban rule
C. Establish a military launch point for a campaign of aggression in the region (see Iraq)
D. Provide an overseas location to develop U.S. torture programs and secret prisons
E. Install a U.S. corporate-friendly puppet-ruler to plunder the resources of the region (see former Unocal executive and "Mayor of Kabul", Hamid Karzai)
F. Create a state of never-ending and unwinnable "war", for profit
Based on these criteria, much of the "Mission" has been "Accomplished".
Best of luck to the people of Afghanistan to unaccomplish it.
www.zeitgeistmovie.com
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exactly !!!!! - Reply to this comment
Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
