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Afghan soldiers missing from Joint Base Cape Cod found near Canadian border

Sep 22, 2014 2:26 pm By Robert Spencer

Noorullah AminyarWhy did they go AWOL? We don’t know. What do they think about the Taliban? We don’t know. It is politically incorrect to ask such questions. What do they think about the United States? We don’t know. It is politically incorrect to ask such questions. What do they think about Islam? We don’t know. It is politically incorrect to ask such questions. What do they think about jihad against Infidels? We don’t know. It is politically incorrect to ask such questions. “All we’re worried about right now is for their safety.” Their safety. What about the safety of Americans they might have killed, had they been so inclined? Shut up, you greasy Islamophobe. You could jeopardize diversity.

Even if these guys were just out joyriding or sightseeing, the next Afghan officers to go AWOL could be up to something more nefarious. All these programs to train Afghan soldiers here should be ended.

An update on this story. “Sources: Missing Afghan Soldiers Found Near Canadian Border,” by Lara Salahi, Boston.com, September 21, 2014 (thanks to Brendan):

Three Afghanistan National Army soldiers who went missing Saturday night from a Regional Cooperation training exercise at Camp Edwards in Sandwich have been found on near the Canadian border, multiple sources close to the investigation confirmed to Boston.com.

It is unclear where exactly the men were found, as well as whether they’ll return to Joint Base Cape Cod.

The three men are senior military officers from Afghanistan and were cleared by the US State Department to participate in the exercise, according to Massachusetts National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. James Sahady. They were identified as Maj. Jan Mohammad Arash, Capt. Mohammad Nasir Askarzada and Capt. Noorullah Aminyar.

US Central Command, who led the investigation, notified The Massachusetts National Guard along with state and local law enforcement of the missing soldiers. However, state and local agencies were not involved in an active search, Maj. Andrew Aranda, a spokesperson for US Central Command, told Boston.com.

The three men, who speak English, were last seen Saturday while chaperoned to the Cape Cod Mall in Hyannis. The Department of Defense has not officially released photos to the public of the missing soldiers. State and local officials have also not been provided with official photos and it’s unclear whether they will given any to work with, Aranda said.

Although the soldiers are considered by military standards as Absent Without Official Leave, they are legally allowed to be in the US under documentation similar to a tourist visa.

“We invited them to the country, they’re allowed to be here,” Aranda said. “Right now, tips will be share with all of the appropriate agencies.”

There are 200 people from six nations participating in the exercise, including 15 officers and senior enlisted personnel from Afghanistan, said Sahady. The two-week annual exercise, sponsored this year by US Central Command, is designed to strengthen relationships between the US and participating nations. The soldiers arrived at Joint Base Cape Cod on Sept. 11.

Non-US soldiers underwent a thorough security tracking and vetting process—known as “Leahy vetting”—before being granted approval to participate.

“Not all 200 people are locked down on base,” Sahady told Boston.com. At some points during their stay, participants are cleared to leave for dinner or to participate in activities off base without restrictions, he said.

Federal and military officials said the men are not considered a threat to the public.

“All we’re worried about right now is for their safety,” Aranda said.

This is not the first reported case of Afghan nationals who have gone missing while undergoing a training program in the US. Two Afghan policemen who were taking part in an intensive DEA training program in Quantico, Va., went missing while on a sightseeing trip last Thursday. They were found in Buffalo, NY, on Friday.

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  1. jewdog says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    Trying to figure out the difference between a moderate and radical Muslim is very challenging, especially for a government that refuses to even use the word Islamic as an adjective modifying “terrorism”. One can trust the government to sort mail, but not Muslims.

    • SallyA says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 7:55 pm

      @ Jewdog – LOL on sorting! Whenever I think my schedule is too intense to allow for reading or commenting at JW, something nudges me back, like the humor.

    • JamesonRocks says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 9:42 pm

      Perhaps the answer is in the size of the knife. Any blade six inches or longer, carried by a Muslim, designates one as radical.

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Sep 23, 2014 at 2:02 am

      Excellent point jewdog.

      We can no more distinguish a “moderate Muslim” from a “radical Muslim” than our grandfathers could segregate the non-Nazi Germans from the Nazi-Germans. So our grandfathers killed them all until they surrendered.

      Are we smarter than our grandparents, or did the just have much larger balls and stronger stomachs than our generation has today?

    • Michael Copeland says

      Sep 23, 2014 at 4:17 am

      Extremist and moderate: pictures:
      https://www.facebook.com/LibertyGBParty/photos/pb.376566465793805.-2207520000.1411425662./613750525408730/?type=1&theater

    • Shane says

      Sep 23, 2014 at 10:33 am

      “All we’re worried about right now is for their safety,” Aranda said. This is the problem of the Obama administration. They care more for the Muslim terrorist rights than they do about the survival of innocent Americans. Our counter-terrorism people should assume that all young Muslim men are jihadists or supporters of jihad.

    • truthfulguy says

      Sep 23, 2014 at 5:42 pm

      It’s easy:
      A moderate Muslim is the one that holds you.
      The radical Muslim is the one that cuts your throat.
      Hope this helps.

  2. mortimer says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 3:45 pm

    Muslims terrorists consciously hide any sign of their jihadism by wearing silk shirts, gold chains and other clothing and hair styles that hide their hostile intentions. This is taqiyya.

    The 9-11 jihadists disguised their intentions in a disciplined way. So , no, it is impossible to know for sure who is a jihadist and who is ‘moderate’.

    The conclusion is that to be safe, we must suspect every single Muslim of being a sleeper jihadist.

  3. Rainman says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    No ‘senior military officers’ go AWOL. Period. They are intelligent and if they wanted to asylum they would have gone to an embassy or to the state dept.. They weren’t ‘lost’. Boston is a long way from the Canadian border. The only thing that makes sense here is Jihad. Period.
    Rainman…..

    • mortimer says

      Sep 22, 2014 at 4:36 pm

      Excellent points. They will have to answer many questions. This puts a further chill in relations. They should be punished more than a slap on the wrist. No doubt they will be shipped out quickly. Likely, they were charged with an intelligence mission and went to check something out or meet agents living in Buffalo visiting Niagara Falls at the same time perhaps.

      • Ashley says

        Sep 22, 2014 at 5:21 pm

        I’m still puzzled why Noorullah Aminyar states he is a Captain (United States) and is based at Fort Benning in Georgia on his FB page. He claims to have landed the job on December 6, 2013.

        Of course, it is easy to fabricate and embellish on FB…but this shit troubles me.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2014 at 9:06 pm

      Agreed, Rainman.

  4. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 4:13 pm

    OT – love that B-17….

  5. Gene Poole says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 5:15 pm

    Maybe they were going to dodge the Army and get amnesty in Canada? After all who in their right mind is going to fight for Obama. He sells our troops out both overseas and cuts their benefits when they get home. What a guy.

    • ninetyninepct says

      Sep 23, 2014 at 8:47 pm

      They were possibly heading for Canada with intentions to join the Liberal party of Canada, a Federal level political party headed by Justin Trudeau who has professed his support for Chinese dictators, who considers the Boston Marathon killers as just misunderstood and who has prayed at islamist radical mosques. Not the kind of possible future Prime Minister America needs for a neighbor. Had these Afghans been successful getting to the border, Trudeau could possibly have welcomed them with open arms.

  6. Gene Poole says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    If these are high level Officers in the Afghan military that we trust, who are the thousands of Syrian Rebels that Obama wants to arm to fight ISIS? It appears the GOP is correct, all we are doing is arming the next group of anti-US terrorists. President Bush managed to wipe out Al Qaeda until Obama decided to fund and arm the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood removed several Mideast moderate governments and replaced them with radical Islamic Regimes. Chaos, crisis, scandals, and confusion, that’s the price we pay for electing a 60’s radical to the Presidency.

  7. Tradewinds says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 7:21 pm

    Bring in Muslims and then lose them? That’s not good.

  8. Porkistan says

    Sep 22, 2014 at 11:24 pm

    I understand your alarm but I bet these guys were just defecting.

    These are Afghani DEA agents who are paid crap and get shot at all day long. They probably looked at our running water and electricity and thought it would be better to be a cab driver here (or Canada) than a police officer in Afghanistan.

    They’re still muslims. Even if they are not jihadists, their children or grandchildren will eventually be. If they aren’t willing to renounce islam, eat a pork sandwich, and drink a beer then send them back (or to France).

  9. Covadonga says

    Sep 23, 2014 at 1:40 am

    >”Non-US soldiers underwent a thorough security tracking and vetting process—known as “Leahy vetting”—before being granted approval to participate.”

    Well, if they underwent a thorough vetting process named in honor of Sen. Leaky Leahy of Vermont, then all is well, and we may surely trust them implicitly.

  10. eric says

    Sep 23, 2014 at 7:58 am

    A Captain, a Major and a Lt Colonel are “three senior military officers”? That must mean all Afghani junior military officers are lieutenants? None of these are considered “senior” ranks in the US Army Air Force or Marines. I guess we know who is not doing much of the work in Afghanistan.

  11. CAG says

    Sep 23, 2014 at 8:37 am

    I love this site. Must admit some of the comments go over my head.
    How in hell did they get from Cape Cod to the Canadian border? they did not even take the shortest route

    • Covadonga says

      Sep 23, 2014 at 12:04 pm

      It may have been the shortest overland route if they were heading for Toronto or Windsor, Ontario, or to the Dearborn, Michigan area.

      If they were just trying to get out of the US as quickly as possible, then of course you are correct.

  12. SSI01 says

    Sep 23, 2014 at 8:45 am

    Isn’t it odd the guys who went missing from their mall outing near Quantico were found in Buffalo, NY – right next to the Canadian border – just as this latest group were also found near the Canadian border? What’s up with that?

  13. Raja Wahid says

    Sep 23, 2014 at 8:59 am

    Robert, your site covers Jihad very well and that is invaluable. But you don’t need to have an opinion on every incident like this. Such people come from a third world country and if they thought of running away to ‘permanently’ live either in US or Canada, that should not make a headline on JihadWatch. New York is full of such people who escaped their misery one way or the other to come and live in US.

    Such reporting only affects the credibility of your site. Crying wolf over such incidents and painting Free Syrian Army as ‘ISIS’ like are two sore points on your site. Please think about it.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2014 at 9:24 pm

      Raja Wahid wrote:

      Robert, your site covers Jihad very well and that is invaluable. But you don’t need to have an opinion on every incident like this.
      …………………………………..

      Yeah—given the number of incidents of our Afghan “allies” turning on Infidels in Afghanistan itself, he better shut up about their being brought here…

      More:

      Such people come from a third world country and if they thought of running away to ‘permanently’ live either in US or Canada, that should not make a headline on JihadWatch. New York is full of such people who escaped their misery one way or the other to come and live in US.
      …………………………………..

      These are high-ranking Afghan military, and are supposed to be our partners in fighting Jihad terrorists—how can this *not* be news?

      These are not just illegal immigrants hoping to get a job under the table driving a cab or doing yard work…

      More:

      Such reporting only affects the credibility of your site. Crying wolf over such incidents and painting Free Syrian Army as ‘ISIS’ like are two sore points on your site. Please think about it.
      …………………………………..

      There is no “Free Syrian Army”—not in the way we would like to think. Most of the opposition to Assad was Sunni Jihad from the beginning—and whatever more “moderate” elements have certainly been eradicated by now.

      The idea that there is a democratically-minded opposition in Syria is just fiction—though it is one that all too many in the West have desperately clung to.

      The idea that if a group opposes an authoritarian dictator that they must, perforce, be Jeffersonian democrats…

      All in all, this post is a load of Taqiyya—just a rather more subtle one than is the norm.

      • Raja Wahid says

        Sep 25, 2014 at 1:36 am

        “Load Of Taqqiya!”

        There is no chance of that. However, one can surmise from your haste to brand my statements Taqqiya, that you have the mindset of a closet KKK sympathizer.

        But lets get to the point. May be your memory fails you. United States supported Jihad to drive out Russians from Afghanistan. In 2001, a faction of the same Jihadi force (Northern Alliance) helped us defeat Taliban. In Iraq United States supported Sunni tribal militias after the ‘surge’ to defeat Al-Quaida of Iraq.

        I am of the opinion that had we helped the Free Syrian Army two years ago, ISIS would not have taken hold of so much territory. This is an age-old strategy, to find allies in the conflict to minimize cost and casualties. As much as I hate ISIS, I also know that success will only come if there is a ground force to drive ISIS out.

        Of course, if the so-called Free Syrian Army has since radicalized, we’ve lost an opportunity to prevail in Syria. In that case, Robert is right. But nothing that I have written warrants you to lose your good sense.

        And lastly, I donate to veterans organizations. I see WWP ads and feel sad for the soldiers who lost their limbs in Iraq. I don’t want US to shed any more of our blood when those bastards there need to stand up for themselves.

  14. SSI01 says

    Sep 23, 2014 at 9:00 am

    SAKOVKT actually had an interesting observation. I’ve noticed this too. I’ve never been to Afghanistan or Iraq, have no desire whatsoever to go, but conversations with people who have been leave me feeling like I have been. Over and over I hear these comments about the futility of trying to train these people to do anything. You set them on a task and it’s essentially busy-work, they won’t see it through to completion and the only way it gets done is for someone else to do it for them while they go back to being nomads. Whether it’s building roads, schools, sinking wells, or anything else – someone else has to do it because they have neither the interest or inclination to do so. If they can con those Infidels into doing this, so much the better. Or the Iraqi ANA recruits detailed for training who hide in their barracks’ ventilation system to avoid having to show up, break a sweat, and at least act like a soldier. You hear a lot of talk about the ancient Assyrians and others who lived in these areas, and how tough and warlike they were. Were is right. What happened to these guys? Islam, and the idea the non-Islamic world owes them everything because they’re too noble to work like the rest of us.

    This is in microcosm what the government’s response will be when major attacks begin to occur in this country. Their identities were hidden for a good reason – they may have been clobbered by the locals once it was heard they were on the loose. After any attacks there will be a lot of innocents who just look like they’re Middle Eastern – like Indians – who will be badly handled by Americans because of their appearance. I have a sneaking suspicion the authorities believe this, too, which is why they tried to keep the speculation tamped down. When the stuff hits the fan the FBI, DHS, and DOJ, though they be 10 times their current size, won’t be able to keep up with the “hate crimes” that will occur when outraged Americans – who believe their govt has failed to protect them – take matters into their own hands. I’m not advocating this – I’m just stating what regrettably will be fact.

    • DP111 says

      Sep 23, 2014 at 9:28 am

      I have a sneaking suspicion the authorities believe this, too, which is why they tried to keep the speculation tamped down. When the stuff hits the fan the FBI, DHS, and DOJ, though they be 10 times their current size, won’t be able to keep up with the “hate crimes” that will occur when outraged Americans – who believe their govt has failed to protect them – take matters into their own hands. I’m not advocating this – I’m just stating what regrettably will be fact.

      That is why all Western leaders insist that Islam is the Religion of peace, and Jihadis are a tiny minority, “It has nothing to do with Islam”,”Jihadis are taking the Koran verses out of cointext” etc.

      The fear of serious internal unrest is what worries the politicos. I understand this and support the policy, as the alternative is civil war, and the destruction of our way of life.

      • islamisdeath says

        Sep 23, 2014 at 6:58 pm

        Our way of life is being destroyed by this pc/mc policy you support.

  15. paddy says

    Sep 23, 2014 at 9:59 am

    Maybe they went on a ‘road trip’ to look for America. Nonetheless, watch yourselves.

  16. BW022 says

    Sep 23, 2014 at 3:18 pm

    Most likely, these guys are just would-be political refugees. They really don’t want to go back to Afghanistan and fight. No sane person would. If American soldiers have tried fleeing to Canada to avoid a tour in Iraq… you can’t imagine what your average Afghan soldier is thinking about the prospect.

    Of course… any sane US official should have thought about this. If we bring Afghan soldiers to the US… won’t some of them try to avoid going back? Hence… why bring them to the US in the first place? What training can they get in the US which they can’t in Afghanistan?

    I can’t imagine it would be a good idea if Canada brought over a few hundred Ukrainian, Honduran, or Kosovo fighter… and just let them wander around Canada. Gee… maybe some of them might claim refugee status in order to live in an advanced western country rather than return to a war-torn country with compulsory military service?

    Are they terrorists? Probably not. Is it a good idea to take soldiers from worn-torn, third world countries into an advanced western nation and expect them not to try make some type of refugee claim? Probably not.

  17. gravenimage says

    Sep 23, 2014 at 9:02 pm

    Afghan soldiers missing from Joint Base Cape Cod found near Canadian border

    Why did they go AWOL? We don’t know. What do they think about the Taliban? We don’t know. It is politically incorrect to ask such questions. What do they think about the United States? We don’t know. It is politically incorrect to ask such questions…
    …………………………………….

    But it is perfectly politically correct to invite them into the US, where they might engage in a little “friendly fire” with our own civilian population…

    More:

    “All we’re worried about right now is for their safety,” Aranda said.
    …………………………………….

    Is anyone concerned about *our* safety, rather than that of AWOL Mohammedans? I wouldn’t count on it…

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