One of the most commonly repeated elements of the Leftist/Islamic supremacist rap sheet against me, supposedly establishing that I am an “anti-Muslim extremist,” is that I said that there was no reliable way to distinguish between peaceful Muslims and jihadists, and no distinction between the two in Muslim communities. Yet if I were wrong in saying that, this American service member would be alive today, because the jihadi who murdered him or her would never have been accepted into the Afghan National Army.
“‘Insider Attack’ Kills U.S. Service Member in Afghanistan,” by Mujib Mashal and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, July 7, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan — An American service member was killed and two others were wounded in southern Afghanistan on Saturday in what officials described as an “apparent insider attack.”
The United States military, announcing the death in a statement, did not provide further details. The wounded service members were in stable condition, the military said. The name of the soldier who was killed was being withheld so the next of kin could be notified.
An American military officer familiar with the attack said it had occurred at a small base in Tarinkot, a town in Uruzgan Province, where roughly 150 soldiers who are stationed in Kandahar often rotate through to train Afghan soldiers. The outpost is one of several in the country where the Army’s Security Force Assistance Brigade is stationed. The unit — tasked with training and assisting the Afghan National Army — is one of the leading elements of the Trump administration’s new strategy in Afghanistan….
It also offered a reminder that insider attacks, also known as green-on-blue attacks, have been a recurring problem in Afghanistan, carried out by Afghan security forces loyal to the Taliban or harboring grievances against American troops. About 150 troops from the American-led coalition have been killed in such attacks during the nearly 17-year-old war, according to data from the United States military, with the number of the attacks peaking in 2012.
The assault on Saturday is the first insider attack of 2018 against American troops, roughly 14,000 of whom are stationed in Afghanistan. In 2017, there were three such attacks on American forces and one against Romanian troops. In June of that year, three United States soldiers were killed in Nangarhar Province when an Afghan commando opened fire at a small outpost used in the battle against Islamic State militants….
gravenimage says
Afghan soldier murders an American service member who was training him, wounds two others, in insider jihad attack
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These poor service members and their families.
But this is what Islam is like. This will not stop. We need to pull out of Afghanistan–we cannot civilize these Muslims.
BC says
What happened to the murderer?
Julea Bacall says
17 years! And we have not learned yet that we cannot ‘train Muslims to fight wars we want them to’. (or give any of them weapons! none of them) They will not do it and will turn on us one way or another every time. This is Trumps pumped up idea? Really? Whose idea really is this? There are too many old fashioned wrong minded still in the military. What am I missing?
Jackie Drewes says
They were doing that training afghan soldiers before Trump. There is always bad apple in every muslim barrel that are terrorist and extremist. Yes how do we really know who is terrorist extremist and who isn’t. There has been a lot of attacks by so called peaceful citizens in democracies. That is why I agree to limit immigration from muslim terrorist hot spots altogether. They don’t have terrorist attacks in Japan because they don’t allow muslim immigration. They can go the theatre or everywhere out in public and not have to worry about it. happening. Its an unfortunate reality these terrorist attacks rapes and thefts that are happening and to not deal with it with politically correct slogan to not offend anyone is evil and worse than terrorists by leaders who promote it to happen with open borders. I work seasonally and am behind reading books I already have but will get your book Mr Spencer in fall and value your input. When you present facts of what is happening in the world with terrorist attacks and are condemned as extremist by left wing globalist puppets for stating these facts it doesn’t add up to me. A nephew of mine says to stay away from you on line but you tell news and facts that mainstream media often doesn’t tell and you are one of courageous ones out there doing it. Mr. Spencer. I will look forward to reading your book this fall. The globalist left wing media and those in acedemia and educational system infiltrating there are making young people who are puppets to only one way of thinking to follow like robots and not think for themselves or even enter in discussion. They are taught to be intolerant of others views and not listen and interact in that respect like little puppet dictators with Trudeau down talking in Canada to anyone that doesn’t agree with his views and working to bring in dictatorship and take away freedom of speech with compelled speech. He now quietly behind canadians backs gave 23 million of our debt tax dollars to muslim groups in Canada to tackle Islamophobia some more and work to bring in form of Sharia Law. Canada wake up. We are at war with our own majority gov’t for the our very country and freedoms. He is working to shut people up and weaken our country before the next election where I’m presumming he will offer more debt money in billions to get reelected to special interest groups and out of country to get seat at UN as well as blame previous gov’t in attack mode in 20l9 elections for all the mess and wrongs he has been doing himself to make Canada a post nation and take away its identity and bring in a globalist dictatorship. The left wing globalist owned media and CBC a 24/7 propoganda machine for the liberals with the taxpayers money will as usual baby Trudeau to do whatever he wants to get into power again. Canada has been taught by mainstream media here from media in States to hate Trump. Lots of left wing fake news not telling whole story of all good things Trump is doing. Trump faught it all off in States and is doing great and still fighting its entrenched dogma. We need Trump leader to fight the same thing in Canada and look out for canadians and our country and be representing the people not dictating and oppressing them and pitting one group against another as Trudeau is doing while unnecessarily putting us in billions of debt with no ability to handle our tax dollars as sacred trust just abuse it. For our childrens and grandchildrens sake who will be saddled with all of Trudeaus extravagant ideological spending and lavish trips to pay for for decades and for their freedom, if we care about them at all we are at war in Canada right now with this corrupt liberal gov’t.
Jackie Drewes says
Its jackie again. I know the muslims are not all extremists and many in democracies just want to live their lives . Know muslim dentist and doctor who saved a family members life.having worked for years in profession. That said they have generally integrated because they are in minority previously here. Now is different with terrorist attacks and open borders all over the world.with them coming in by l00s of l000s .Time to limit muslim immigration especially from terrorist hot spot countries.We must say “No ” to more muslim immigration and make illegal migrants have to leave or they should be applying like everyone else and respecting our laws and immigration system. That Trudeau disrespects our laws freedom of speech federal law and immigration laws he is to blame for opening way for illegals to just walk in who can be criminals or terrorists or rapists or drug dealers etc. etc. We really blew it electing Trudeau. who tweeted to welcome them in.not caring about our security and just putting mess he created on the provinces to deal with lack of funding and housing and services to deal with it. Without borders we don’t have a country which Trudeau is working towards ending Canada, the country that everyone in world wants to come to for its freedom of speech, freedom of religion, human rights, value of individual, good education and health care to better yourself, and a peaceful country where you could feel safe and having rule of law.A lot of that happening comes from our christian heritage where in bible god gives people free will to decide what they want to believe and values the individual. Yet Trudeau thinks its archaic wants to get rid of it and regularly apparently attends mosques I heard and favors muslims and promotes bringing into Canada a form of Sharia Law taking away our basic freedoms that our forefathers faught and died for.If we cannot critique Islam like we can critique other religions its bringing in form of Sharia Law where muslims can do wrong and not be held accountable like everyone else. We see this in EU and Briton. Terrible. They hide muslim offences. This is wrong.Apparently the muslims rape gangs in Briton was not told for decades till recently covered up. where l00s of British girls were drugged and raped etc.The muslims here that are peaceful and follow and accept our freedom and democracy and rule of law are welcome. But they’re now not majority due to mass immigration of Islam now from countries that opposes our very democracy.Thats what Merkel in EU has promoted to damage all EU countries from it. Now theres finally a movement to say no to it in EU countries.and she is on verge of being put out of office. We need to do the same to Trudeau in 20l9. I shudder to think of what damage he will continue to do until then.
Julea Bacall says
Under Reagan we trained al Qaeda! We were the ones who trained bin Laden in Afghanistan!
Karl says
Haha I love it when these idiots whine “Trump!” and sane adults are like “No?”. Trump did say “We got a lot of stupid people” – glad to hear plenty of people know these orcs aren’t up to the level of animals
Joe says
I agree. But don’t stop with Afghanistan. We have military training and arming Muslims (by their open book, we are their enemy) in many countries. The money, lives, and resources should be spent on our interests.
christianblood says
(..Afghan soldier murders an American service member who was training him, wounds two others, in insider jihad attack..)
Allies turning on each other!
J D S says
“Know your enemy”..One of my earliest teachings…but in this situation and any other situation where Muslim soldiers are mixed with American soldiers it’dshard to know your enemy and harder yet to treat all Muslim soldiers as the enemy..After all aren’t we supposed to be helping them and them helping us ……Doubtful if there will ever come a time when the Afghanistan soldiers would be able to carry the whole load by themselves…Best I guess to just walk away and let them kill each other till one could not tell the difference between them and the sand of the desert.
penelope says
what is to be gained from helping them? nothing
James Lincoln says
“Insider” attacks on US service members are absolutely nauseating.
Chatillon says
No word on what happened to the perp. Is he dead and gone to judgment?
Islam tries to appropriate the achievements of other, more advanced (i.e. any other) cultures. But there is one art form that they are uncontested masters of: The art of the lie.
They are masters of this art not because they are so artful, so clever, so skilled at spinning alternative narratives. Their skill comes, I believe, from their capacity for cognitive dissonance, the ability to hold multiply exclusive ideas in mind simultaneously.
Holding multiply exclusive concepts in mind without bothering to sort out the matter is stupefying. It makes you stupid. It also makes you susceptible in turns to any of those concepts, suspended in air like a juggler’s plates ( or chainsaws). And it makes you undependable, for a cab or uber driver, for a doctor, for a husband or boyfriend or as an armed comrade.
Isn’t this clear by now?
Guy Forester says
Time to end the pipe dream that we can bring Afghanistan into the modern and westernized world. So what if the Pakis and PRC get in there. The romance between the ChiComs and Jihadis will be short lived. The Pakis will not be able to control the place better than anyone else.
Bring the troops home, stop wasting lives, money, resources, and time.
Anne Smith says
Couldn’t agree more. Entire British armies have perished in the past, trying to subdue Afghanistan. They are a shifting tribal nation and one day your friend is next day your enemy. They chop and change at the drop of a hat and the British army at its zenith in the days of Queen Victoria was not able to subdue them.
Let them fight each other to death – who really gives a damn?
Mark Berlinger says
So-called peaceful Muslims and jihadists in Muslim communities use the same fraudulent Qur’an to justify the behavior of rightly guided Muslims. So tired of this shit.
Harriet says
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier ~of~ the Queen!
Rudyard Kipling
these people are amalek
Screeminmeeme says
What is it going to take for thinking men to realize that Muslim cannot be trusted ever, Period.
Since they are prohibited from pledging allegiance to any but Allah, no Muslim should ever be in our military, on a police force, or in our government. And the additional fact that they are permitted to lie to non-Muslims makes dealing with them problematic.
Berzrkr50 says
I hope like hell that somebody standing nearby lit the animal up real good! No mercy for animals like him…
KJW says
What about the 700 Muslims on the NYPD, in our military and police. I saw Australians talking about the same thing there and how Muslims have been accommodated in their armies. One asked if the Muslim soldiers would fight for us or stick with their brothers. If you have to ask the question then that’s your answer. When the sh*t hits the fan, I’m sure they will stick with their brothers. You’ve got a lot of Muslims here with legal guns with permits and illegal guns. Heck, CAIR bought a lot of rifles to be trained by a Florida trainer because they said they should be prepared if a mosque is attacked. Crazy. Blame our military and security forces, et al. Do we have anyone or any department in our government who is loyal to the US Constitution and our freedoms?? Not even the Dept of Education is clear of guilt, especially under Obama.