JCB.

Posted by: John C at June 30, 2008 8:39 PM

During my time in the Navy there were numerous times in the middle east where small craft would pull up alongside the ship and goods and money would change hands.

In my naivete, I admired those men who would pass up their goods and would trust us to pay for them, it would have been easy for a dishonest person to rip them off, I thought at the time that only an honest person would assume such honesty in others.

When the cole was bombed I suppose that action ruined the reputations of the thousands of Muslims who made a living trading from off boats with american sailors. I would guess that nowadays any small craft that approached one of our warships would be blown out of the water.

I protest the use of the word mastermind in the article, it does not take a master mind to do evil, it takes a mind bereft of a major element that makes people human.

Posted by: stickman at June 30, 2008 9:16 PM

Another exercise in futility?

So far none of these Gitmo creeps has been executed, let alone sentenced. Even if it came to that, the nutroots would go apeshit from Bagdhad to Timbuktu and from Hollywood to Little Rock.

Knowing what we know now, there is no merit in taking prisoners. Those that are released usually reappear back on the battle-field in no time.

If we were to execute them, the whole Muhammedan world would attack every Westerner and everything Western within reach.

But we're running out of time. We need some real CHANGE, and that's not of the Barrack Hussein variety...

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at June 30, 2008 9:59 PM

The real deal, no BHO. Amen, bro.

Posted by: John C at June 30, 2008 10:23 PM

Somebody's letting the cat out of the bag about the Pakistani operation against the Taliban, which I'm would assume is being paid for by US taxpayers...

From http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=15673

we have...

[By Mohammad Malick

PESHAWAR: The so-called grand operation to "protect" Peshawar from the marauding troops of the Lashkar-e-Islami of militant leader Haji Mangal Bagh and others entered its third day today. The government has already claimed victory to the extent of ridding the Khyber Agency of the so -called criminal extremists who ostensibly have been sent scurrying to the farther valley of Tirah.

Security czar Rehman Malik and Prime Minister Gilani are patting themselves on the back for having restored the government's writ. TV audiences are being treated to a steady feed of images of paramilitary convoys whizzing around and security forces blowing up one 'militant hideout' after another.

The government is also crowing about the fact that its measures are so popular with the local tribal population and its power so awesome for the obviously chickened-out militants that not a single bullet has been fired at the security forces. A lot is being made out of the banning of Lashkar-e-Islami (led by Mangal Bagh), Ansar-Ul-Islam (led by Qazi Mehboobul Haq who is Mangal's sworn enemy) and Haji Namdar-led Tanzeem Amar Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munqar. And if Islamabad's version is to be believed then it is only a matter of time before the rest of the tribal region starts toeing their line as well.

And now the truth: It's all hogwash. It's a drama being staged to placate a nervous public, please the cooperative militias by giving them sufficient advance warning, and confuse the Americans who of late have been displaying the audacity to ask for verifiable deliverables against all the money they have been pumping in for the last eight years. A desperate appeasement attempt for the visiting Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Boucher, if you may.]

Read on - it has more interesting tid-bits like...

[The truth is that within minutes of the security forces moving out after blowing out the abandoned and vacated structures, the Lashkar-e-Islami militants could be seem calmly raising their black flags over the damaged structures and casually inspecting the damaged goods. The interesting part is that not a single militant of any group ever seems in a hurry to get away from the scene, or the area, and at least on three occasions I personally saw militant loaded vehicles drive by Levis and others with no reaction from the paramilitary forces. One amazing operation cleanup isn't it?]

And, we fall for this stuff everytime...

Posted by: AJack at June 30, 2008 11:45 PM

I actually had someone from the Pentagon reading from my site the other day. Maybe they are discovering the truth.

Posted by: Exposing Islam at July 1, 2008 2:36 AM

Sheik,

So we have but one alternative: kill them wherever we find them. Let them have their martyrdom. They'll die happy but they'll still die. We won't have to worry about giving them their korans or pointing the way toward Mecca. We won't have to provide room and board for the next fifty years. A coffin is much cheaper.

What I don't get is why an execution isn't seen as dying for Allah. Given that Islam doesn't see any difference between military and civilian, then there should be no distinction between being shot on the battlefield and being executed. Both are deliberate and both are done by your enemy.

Posted by: PMK at July 1, 2008 11:05 AM

I've quoted you and linked to you here: http://consul-at-arms.blogspot.com/2008/07/re-pentagon-charges-mastermind-of-uss.html

Posted by: Consul-At-Arms at July 2, 2008 12:18 AM