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Obama Administration acknowledges that Taliban is a terrorist organization

Jun 6, 2014 10:17 am By Robert Spencer

obama-finger-“But Tuesday, White House National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden noted that the Taliban was added to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists by executive order in July 2002.” Thus the Obama Administration tacitly acknowledged that it did negotiate with terrorists to secure the release of the traitor and deserter Bowe Bergdahl. Will there be any accountability? Probably not.

“White House: Yes, The Taliban Is a Terrorist Organization,” ABC News, June 5, 2014:

(WASHINGTON) — With the recent release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity after nearly five years — in exchange for five mid-to high-level Afghan Taliban figures — criticism immediately emerged questioning not only how the deal suddenly came about but also whether dealing with the Taliban could set a dangerous precedent for U.S. national security.

“This is a complete change of our national security strategy of not negotiating with terrorists,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, told ABC News on Monday. “I think it sends a terrible national security message — not just to Afghanistan, but to the rest of the world.”

But did President Obama’s White House, through the Qatari government which brokered the deal, negotiate with terrorists, as suggested by Rogers and a number of high-profile Republicans?

When asked Monday if the White House considered the Taliban terrorists, Press Secretary Jay Carney dodged.

“We don’t get to choose our enemies when we go to war,” Carney told reporters. “We regard the Taliban as an enemy combatant in a conflict that has been going on, in which the United States has been involved for more than a decade. In this case — as you know we dealt with the Qataris in order to secure [Bergdahl’s] release — it was absolutely the right thing to do.”

But Tuesday, White House National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden noted that the Taliban was added to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists by executive order in July 2002, even if it is not listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the State Department. Either designation triggers asset freezes, according to the State Department, though they can differ on other restrictions imposed on the target organization.

The U.S. is offering $10 million for information leading to the capture of the Taliban’s leader, Mullah Omar, through the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program, an effort designed to “fight against international terrorism.” The National Counterterrorism Center also lists “Taliban Presence in Afghanistan” on its global map of “Terrorist Groups.”

Though the State Department has not designated the Afghan Taliban as an FTO, it has designated the group’s sister network, the Pakistani Taliban, as well as the Haqqani Network, a group closely associated with the Taliban that was believed to have been actually holding Bergdahl for most of his captivity. Hayden told ABC News the U.S. “did not negotiate with the Haqqanis” for Bergdahl….

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  1. baconlover says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 10:30 am

    Is it just me, or is it every time (almost) I see the douche-bag in a photo he is very cutely resting on his hand and flipping all those in the room the bird? Kids do this in high school for fun and giggles.

    I have so much respect for him, NOT! I did scrape some of his DNA off my shoe the other day. Clown!

  2. Arjay says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 11:05 am

    I had heard of the American POW in Afghani hands, but had not known the details how he ended up there. With other consequences of war- those KIA and veterans with severe physical injuries and mental wounds… I just kept them all in my thoughts and wished them and their families strength over their ordeals. They had served their country and I stood behind them.

    Thankfully, Jihad Watch, pamelageller (formerly Atlas Shrugs), Bare Naked Islam and other sites for getting the facts about this traitor who cost Americans lives- out in the open.

    However, there was still a red flag. Before seeing these sites about Bowe… there was the news broadcast. Obama and the announcement he is standing with the POW’s parents. “Oh, yes! The young man who had been captured, was there a successful rescue?” I had thought.

    The dad’s appearance could have been “rural country” or any number of reasons for the beard. Then I heard the father speak. He spoke fluently. In Pashto… and then I believe I heard what I recognized as Arabic. He was speaking f-ing Arabic to his kid.

    Did anyone see the smile on Obama’s face as the father spoke in Pashto and Arabic? Then I knew why the father looked the way he did. This is a Muslim family.

    Checking JW and other such sites… then eventually, other aspects of the media began to let the truth come out. A man who despised America (just like his father), who voluntarily deserted… obviously giving up secrets that cost American lives. Troop movements mysteriously attacked and of course those soldiers KIA looking for this hater of America. His Muslim father shedding tears not for American lives taken by terrorism, but for the Afghani Muslims who slaughter his son’s colleagues.

    He could have been rescued in a military operation. Obama nixed that. Why? Because he needed an excuse to give those Taliban terrorists their freedom. After all he tried to do the same with Benghazi and WANTED a kidnapped hostage Ambassador Stevens to be in his support terrorism plan.

    Ambassador Stevens serving his country in the diplomatic service. Seriouslyly injured. Terrified realizing his USMC protectors are dead. As he was screaming during the gang rape where he was brutally sodomized by the Muslim monsters… what where his thoughts? Did he still think US soldiers were moments away from rescue? After being violated and the physical assaults against him continued… did he cry out for mercy? His parents? A higher power?

    Then you have Secretary of State HR Clinton- in her expensive clothes just shrugging it all off- “what does it matter” she says. After all she had tossed a film-maker in jail

    This whole Bergdahl thing is simply a different way to get violent Taliban terrorists back into the world… to continue global jihad. Something this administration apparently supports.

    Now, with the Bowe is a traitor thing and the American public up in arms… I mean the home town finds out the truth and even they cancel the Bowe Homecoming. For this to happen with a POW return… you know it has to be bad. People are learning the truth… that he is not a hero but an Islamic Traitor.

    Now, the US Administration acknowledged the Taliban equals terrorism? And obviously doing this to distract from this Bowe mess. Idiots. The American people were clued in when Bergdahl daddy spoke Arabic and Islamic affirmation to his son on national television while praising his son’s service NOT to the USA but Afghanistan…. all while the President of the US smiled.

    • Judi says

      Jun 6, 2014 at 11:50 am

      Great post Arjay.

  3. Arjay says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 11:22 am

    Hey JW this is just FYI and off topic.

    Jeff Dunham, the ventriloquist entertainer and comedian is known for his cutting edge humor and NOT being politically correct. He has been on a world tour which included dates not just in ISRAEL, but other Arab Muslim nations. He did not censor himself and received standing ovations. Even in his Islamic state appearances.

    Booked in advance with the financial investment in each “gig”- the nations he performed in KNEW AHEAD OF TIME ABOUT one routine… in particular and the most popular. “Achmedd the Dead Terrorist.” His signature character line being… “I keeeeeeeel you.” Which usually brings massive audience applause.

    Anyway. Muslim nations KNEW about this routine. He was booked and performed in Muslim states and with his Israel gig… a lot of Muslims in the audience.

    So, he is in Malaysia… preparing for the performance; when the sharia compliant Malaysians come down rather hard on him with some serious threats. Drop or change the Achmedd routine… which is basically the main part of his act.

    I guess Dunham thought he had “free reign” as he had (surprisingly) with the other Islamic states. WRONG. Fearful of reprisals and the financial loss if he simply cancelled the show- he was apparently wary of his ability to exit Malaysia if he simply cancelled. He gave in and did a furious re-write for that performance.

    Welcome to a sharia compliant Islamic controlled state. See how entertainment and the arts are affected. Especially, those arts that have a political overtone which Dunham’s has at times.

    Whether he was naïve or stupid or “serves him right” or whatever for going to a Moslem nation as a performer… he is just another example of what happens when Islam meets Civilization. AND once again another shining example of why in the world does the Entertainment and Arts worlds NOT stand up to Islam in mass when they see this stuff happening all of the time to one of their own?

    Oh, yea. That because when an entertainer, artist, Medieval poetess, actress on a red carpet, African DJ, feminist performance artists, Mali Singers, or Danish cartoonists… encounter a terrorist that says… “I Keeeeeel YOU!!!” It isn’t being said by a cloth, cardboard and plastic puppet.

  4. Paleologos says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    Robert,

    I am going to optimistically (somewhat) disagree with you here …

    … Thus the Obama Administration tacitly acknowledged that it did negotiate with terrorists to secure the release of the traitor and deserter Bowe Bergdahl. Will there be any accountability? Probably not. …

    Releasing those five vermin will very probably have future islamic terrorist results well before obama finishes his final term.

    Every time that happens, … MANY, not all, of course, but many newsmen, worldwide, will ask themselves “Did any of those Gitmo 5 that obama released have anything to do with that islamic terrorist act?”

    Just one affirmative to the above scenario/question could start the ball rolling for accountability that our muslim turd in chief so richly deserves.

    R/

    Paleologos

    • Salah says

      Jun 6, 2014 at 1:28 pm

      “Just one affirmative to the above scenario/question could start the ball rolling for accountability that our muslim turd in chief so richly deserves.”

      I disagree, Obama, his gang, AND the MSM, are explicitly ALLIED with islam.

      “Obama used the known deserter/traitor/musloid convert Bergdahl for the release of the top five most valuable Gitmo detainees because the entire former American government, now fronted by the imbecile-puppet Obama, along with the Clinton machine, and a massive contingent of bureaucrat operatives loyal to the megabanks saturating all three branches and the military, has been overthrown and is explicitly allied with islam.”
      http://www.barnhardt.biz/2014/06/03/why-im-considering-quitting/

      • Paleologos says

        Jun 7, 2014 at 9:56 am

        Salah,

        “I disagree, Obama, his gang, AND the MSM, are explicitly ALLIED with islam.”

        I won’t take issue with your statement here.

        But, although the islamic infiltration within the federal government is real, the structure has not been toppled yet. obama has inserted his islamocrats at the tops, but a lot of loyal, career federal employees, as well as U.S. military, know obama for the rat shit muslim he is. They also know that obama leads a bunch of democrats who just can’t kiss enough muslim ass.

        All of obama’s military advisers were against this swap.

        I stand by my statement. As soon as these 5 “super muslim turds,” that were released, start carrying out their terror plans, people will ask themselves, “Was that terrorist act hatched by one of the fab 5?” The entire worldwide MSM will not go completely asleep on this, and the dots won’t be that hard to connect.

        I know this is couched in optimism, but I don’t believe we are lost … yet.

        911, Fort Hood, etc., all should have been a wake up call.

        But the democrat lust for power at any price, and the liberal/progressive/democrat/government giveaway program to the masses, even illegals, and others not putting into the system, coupled with 17.5 $Trillion in debt … all this is not sustainable.

        No doubt democrats have sold their souls to the evil that is islam. In addition to our muslim turd in chief, barry hussein, there are 2 declared muslim democrats in congress. We may be at a tipping point where, historically, other democracies/republics fail.

        I continue to believe it’s not too late.

        R/

        Paleologos

  5. John C. Barile says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 3:41 pm

    Sure enough, President B. H. Obama has again flashed his raised middle finger to freedom-loving people everywhere.

  6. Champ says

    Jun 6, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    Wow another picture of obama flippin’ the bird! …jeez one could fill an entire photo album of his disrespect to the presidency.

    And we have two traitors and deserters: bergdahl and obama

    • EYESOPEN says

      Jun 6, 2014 at 8:46 pm

      Well Champ, the Usurper-in-Chief can take comfort in the fact that there are many in this country who feel exactly the same way about him.

      Greetings to you; and I hope you are well. :o)

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