If Biden’s handlers had spent more time planning the withdrawal from Afghanistan and less on enforcing woke orthodoxy upon the military, these people might be alive today.
“Kabul Airport suicide attacker was freed by Taliban after four years in CIA custody for New Delhi terror plot,” by Praveen Swami, Firstpost, September 19, 2021:
The Islamic State suicide bomber who killed at least 169 Afghan civilians and 13 United States soldiers outside Kabul airport last month was incarcerated in Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram prison for the past four years, thanks to Indian efforts, Firstpost has learnt through credible intelligence sources.
Senior Indian intelligence sources familiar with the case have told Firstpost that he was handed over to the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency by the Research and Analysis Wing in September 2017. However, the jihadist walked free on 15 August along with thousands of other dangerous terrorists held in the high-security prison, taking advantage of the chaos that ensued in the aftermath of the United State’s hurried exit and the Taliban’s swift takeover of the entire country.
Identified as Abdul Rehman, the jihadist was a former student of an engineering college in India and hailed from Afghanistan’s Logar province. He was the son of an Afghan merchant who frequently visited India for business.
His arrest had led to the termination of a plot by the Islamic State of Khurasan Province (IS-K) — the Islamic State’s regional wing in Afghanistan — to stage suicide bombings in New Delhi and other cities across the region, probably on the behest of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).
“America’s disorganised retreat from Afghanistan has led to hundreds of highly-competent and highly-committed terrorists being set free to rejoin the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups,” one officer who worked on the Abdul Rehman case said.
“Literally a decade’s work on counter-terrorism has been undone by the US’ failure to secure key prisoners in Bagram,” he said adding that the consequences of this failure will be “very far-reaching.”
The Islamic State’s South Asia magazine, Sawt al-Hind (or Voice of the Indian Subcontinent) also confirmed in this weekend’s edition that the suicide bomber had earlier been arrested in New Delhi, in the course of a failed suicide-bombing plot….
mortimer says
If Biden’s handlers had spent one month learning about the basic doctrines of POLITICAL ISLAM, then they would not be making the same mistakes OVER and OVER and OVER again.
Sun Tsu said, ‘If you do not know your enemies … you will be imperilled in every single battle.’
The blockheaded cabal of conspirators believe they can simply GUESS what Muslims are thinking without doing their homework on BASIC teachings like the JIHAD DOCTRINE, NEAR-ENEMY DOCTRINE, KAFIR DOCTRINE, AL WALAA WAL BALAA DOCTRINE, the TAQIYYA DOCTRINE.
Daniel Triplett says
The problem with Biden and Libs is they think they already know everything. And when they think they already know everything, it’s impossible to learn anything.
The Left is plagued with Cognitive Dissonance and Dunning-Kruger Effect, among other problems.
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Cognitive Dissonance: The mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information. The unease or tension that the conflict arouses in people is relieved by one of several defensive maneuvers: they reject, explain away, or avoid the new information; persuade themselves that no conflict really exists; reconcile the differences; or resort to any other defensive means of preserving stability or order in their conceptions of the world and of themselves.
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect:
It’s a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their own capabilities.
The term lends a scientific name and explanation to a problem that many people immediately recognize—that fools are blind to their own foolishness. As Charles Darwin wrote in his book The Descent of Man, “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
An Overview of the Dunning-Kruger Effect:
This phenomenon is something you have likely experienced in real life, perhaps around the dinner table at a holiday family gathering. Throughout the course of the meal, a member of your extended family begins spouting off on a topic at length, boldly proclaiming that he is correct and that everyone else’s opinion is stupid, uninformed, and just plain wrong. It may be plainly evident to everyone in the room that this person has no idea what they are talking about, yet they prattle on, blithely oblivious to their own ignorance.
The effect is named after researchers David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the two social psychologists who first described it. In their original study on this psychological phenomenon, they performed a series of four investigations.
People who scored in the lowest percentiles on tests of grammar, humor, and logic also tended to dramatically overestimate how well they had performed (their actual test scores placed them in the 12th percentile, but they estimated that their performance placed them in the 62nd percentile).
Causes of the Dunning-Kruger Effect:
So what explains this psychological effect? Are some people simply too dense, to be blunt, to know how dim-witted they are? Dunning and Kruger suggest that this phenomenon stems from what they refer to as a “dual burden.” People are not only incompetent; their incompetence robs them of the mental ability to realize just how inept they are.
Incompetent people tend to:
— Overestimate their own skill levels
— Fail to recognize the genuine skill and expertise of other people
— Fail to recognize their own mistakes and lack of skill
Dunning has pointed out that the very knowledge and skills necessary to be good at a task are the exact same qualities that a person needs to recognize that they are not good at that task. So if a person lacks those abilities, they remain not only bad at that task but ignorant to their own inability.
An Inability to Recognize Lack of Skill and Mistakes:
Dunning suggests that deficits in skill and expertise create a two-pronged problem. First, these deficits cause people to perform poorly in the domain in which they are incompetent. Secondly, their erroneous and deficient knowledge makes them unable to recognize their mistakes.
A Lack of Metacognition:
The Dunning-Kruger effect is also related to difficulties with metacognition, or the ability to step back and look at one’s own behavior and abilities from outside of oneself. People are often only able to evaluate themselves from their own limited and highly subjective point of view. From this limited perspective, they seem highly skilled, knowledgeable, and superior to others. Because of this, people sometimes struggle to have a more realistic view of their own abilities.
A Little Knowledge Can Lead to Overconfidence:
Another contributing factor is that sometimes a tiny bit of knowledge on a subject can lead people to mistakenly believe that they know all there is to know about it. As the old saying goes, a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing. A person might have the slimmest bit of awareness about a subject, yet thanks to the Dunning-Kruger effect, believe that he or she is an expert.
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“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
— Confucius
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
— Charles Darwin
“The more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know.”
— Unknown
“A little learning is a dangerous thing.”
— Alexander Pope
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
— William Shakespeare
James Lincoln says
Daniel Triplett,
An excellent and accurate post, my compliments.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Daniel. Very apt.
john smith says
Excellent post Daniel.
Eric says
The only good news is he is too busy with his virgins in paradise to kill more earthly beings.
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
Nowhere in the Quran does it promise 72 virgins. … The Arabic word for ‘virgin’ has been mistranslated. The original [word] that was used in the Quran was the word for raisin, not virgin. In other words, that martyrs would get raisins in heaven, not virgins
CogitoErgoSum says
Yeah, milky white grape with with translucent skin and big beautiful breasts.
CogitoErgoSum says
… or raisins, that is.
gravenimage says
Uh huh… Here are some of the descriptions of those “raisins” in the Qur’an:
36:55 “companions”,
37:48 “with large and beautiful eyes”,
38:52 “companions of modest gaze well matched
44:54 “wide and beautiful eyes”,
52:20 “beautiful houris of wide and beautiful eyes”,
55:56 “untouched beforehand by man or jinn”,
55:72 “bright-eyed damsels in sheltered in pavilions”,
55:74 “untouched by any man…reclining on green cushions and beautiful carpets”,
56:8 “with intensely black eyes set against the whiteness of their irises”,
56:35 “created without the process of birth”…
I know this is definitely the sort of thing I think of when snacking on some trail mix… sarc/off
somehistory says
“whiteness of their irises”,
Whiteness in the iris means a tumor, in most, if not all cases. The iris is the colored part of the eye, and the pupil is black; so this verse shows a profound ignorance, does it not?
CogitoErgoSum says
I wonder how many of those other freed prisoners made it onto a flight out of Afghanistan and are now bent on revenge by blowing themselves up at a public place in America so they can go straight to their reward of 72 houris. To how many people did Joe Biden give a one way ticket to Paradise? When we begin to find out I hope Old Joe gets all the credit he deserves.
gravenimage says
Good question, CogitoErgoSum.
somehistory says
I cannot even feign surprise. It was predictable, just as those ‘o’ freed from gitmo went straight to “grandma’s house” to blow it up for the taliban…of which they are commanding members now that the old taliban is back in power.
I refer to “grandma’s house,” due to the big bad wolf telling the police that caught him that he, when asked if he would “go straight,” answered, “Yes, I’ll go straight. I’ll go straight, Straight to grandma’s house.” (to eat grandma and wait for the little girl, Red Riding Hood. mozlum wolves would want her as their rape-daily victim.)
How many have stayed in afganistan to continue to blow people up, people who may not agree with them? Probably very few, as the taliban can just use the weapons they were gifted by biden, er, ‘o.’ That way, they eliminate their enemies and continue to live another day to kill yet more young women and former helpers for the various military groups.
The rest of the Bagram crew have probably flown to greener pastures. How many of them are “engineering” students or “engineers”?
Engineering seems to be a favorite occupation for mozlum terrorists. Even when their terror tactics are milder, as in suing because they don’t want to work and find “offensive” such words as “others” when applied to other people.
Engineering…has to be in order to develop weapons. To know how to use phones as detonators, etc.
Watch for any from afghanistan who claim to know engineering, or to be an engineer.
Walter Sieruk says
That jihadist/Muslim is ,no doubt of such a thoroughly jihad.mindset the he will most likely attempt another jihad suicide/homicide bombing attack.
That jihadist religion , Islam, had make him dangerous to self and others.
PMK says
Why did India hand this man over to the CIA? He had been a student in an engineering college in India. He had committed crimes against India. He had been arrested in New Delhi. Wasn’t it up to the Indian government to administer justice? Instead they dumped him on US forces.
Also, even if our withdrawal from Afghanistan had been totally successful, is there any doubt this man, along with the thousands of other terrorists being held at Bagram would have ultimately been freed by Taliban or by corrupt officials in the Afghan government?
If he was THAT dangerous, why wasn’t he sent to GITMO?
James Lincoln says
The suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. service members also injured at least 18 more service members, some *very* seriously.
The details of this horrific morbidity has been largely overlooked by the media.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/explosion-outside-kabul-airport-afghanistan-evacuation
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Jihad suicide bomber who killed 169 Afghans and 13 Americans had just been freed from Bagram prison
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Oh, joy…
Clifford Fodor says
I don’t get it. Didn’t the suicide bomber die when he committed suicide?