Category: War on Terror

THE Pentagon today said it would charge six Guantanamo inmates with 2,973 counts of murder over their role in the September 11 attacks. The suspects include the self-confessed mastermind of the terror attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed.

“The defendants will face the possibility of being sentenced to death,” said Brigidier General Thomas Hartmann, a Pentagon legal advisor, announcing the move.

Good!

The CIA admitted publicly for the first time last week, some of his confessions were extracted during sessions when he was subjected to “waterboarding,” a drowning simulation technique widely regarded as torture. Brigidier General Hartmann admitted that the first court battles are likely to focus on the admissibility of such confessions, as well as the legality of the tribunal itself. The tribunal rules have been extensively re-written since the Supreme Court ruled they breached the Geneva Convention and demanded more rights for defendants.

Now we will have the Human Rights (no Responsibility) mob queuing up to prattle on about torture. Some will even demand they be released because they had water poured over their faces and a confession obtained under torture is no confession. Some of these people will be Americans, some Australian, all of whom enjoy the benefits of western civilization while trying to undermine what made it great in the first place. Just make sure they did it and then top the bastards – the terrorists that is. We have to put up with the other bastards.

WASHINGTON: The CIA has for the first time admitted publicly that it used “waterboarding“, or simulated drowning, in interrogations of three top al-Qa’ida detainees nearly five years ago. So? Here’s their profiles;

Mohammed has claimed to be the operational mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Abu Zubaydah is alleged to have been an aide to al-Qa’ida leader Osama bin Laden. And al-Nashiri is alleged to have been the operational commander of the suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.

I note the use of the word “admits” like they have admitted to a heinous crime, maybe even as bad as murdering thousands of innocents by flying planes into a building. It just goes on and on, doesn’t it?

From the Counterterrorism Blog comes an article about the mob that Hicks fought for. Former Pakistani Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto was murdered because of herpotential actions in Pakistan, by the combined forces of jihadism in that country. In short, they executed her to pre-empt her future war of ideas. This was the bottom line and here is why

The long-term plan of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan during the 1990s was to eventually spread to Pakistan and seize power, and, ultimately after 1999, to seize the nukes, too. Miscalculating on September 11, Osama bin Laden lost Kabul and the jihadi war room crossed into their eastern neighbor. Plan B was then to seize Waziristan and gradually Talibanize the country, grabbing the “doomsday” devices in the end.

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Hicks is free but Natasha’s upset. The guy who supported the people who flew aeroplanes into New York City and murdered thousands of innocents; who trained with them and considers Osama a good guy; who took up military duties for the Taliban and was prepared to kill Australians and who has been released from prison because he didn’t “break an Australian law” Yep, that guy. Give me a break. The human rights lawyers and the judiciary have turned war into a court room fiasco that argues fine points of law loudly, above the screams of dying innocents. The loving father who deserted them all, his parents, his defacto, his children, his mates (if he had any) and his country to fight with the terrorists. But wait, maybe I’m being mean. He did speak of plans for a family reunion…….but the mother of Hicks’ children said she had been “left in the dark”.

.. Teenagers Terry and Bonnie are desperate to see their father but have no idea when they will finally be reunited outside prison walls, she says. Speaking through her agent Howard Whelan, Hicks’s former defacto Jodie Sparrow said they were still waiting to be contacted.

SO he’s about to be released after 6 years of incarceration and doesn’t bother to tell his defacto and kids when he will see them. Ah, the troubled course of true love and why, as an aside, does Jodie have an ‘Agent’? The Hicks mob are looking for money

DAVID Hicks’s family is looking at opportunities to skirt federal and state proceeds-of-crime laws, with publishers advising them of loopholes that would allow the confessed terrorism supporter to sell his story.

Here’s another money making idea. Hick’s face on a t-shirt. If murdering scum Che Gueverre can get his dial on a shirt then so can this idiot. Undergrads will buy them- they’ll become de rigeur at Taliban love-ins. Hicks said he recognised “the huge debt of gratitude that I owe the Australian public for getting me home”. He doesn’t owe it to the Australian people; he owes it to the left wing luvvies, human rights lawyers and to his lawyer Mori who run a good public campaign that turned a thug and terrorist into a hero.(remember the pics of the nine year old innocent) He owes it to the media, particularly the ABC/SBS/Age/SMH quartet who took his side against those who fight terrorism. He wants to go to uni and I guess he will. With a lot of the tertiary education power brokers believing he has been hard done by and considering he stuck it up the Bush and the Howard Governments he is considered a hero. I bet he gets a Luvvie Scholarship – didn’t finish high school! no worries…iffy IQ – too easy….let me write your paper for you. It aint over yet Hicks. There are a lot of Aussies who don’t like traitors.

AUSTRALIA faces a “London-type bombing” if relations between Muslims and the intelligence and police authorities do not improve, an influential Islamic youth leader has warned. Then the solution is easy. If you are the leader the media claim you are then talk to Muslims and explain that for relations between them and Australia to improve they just need to behave better. Talk of slaughtering scores of Australians as they commute to work because of a poorly handled case against Haneef would suggest the youth leader and his followers have a problem. Not the police or ASIO.

“Look at the Haneef thing – why would we trust these guys when all you see is one fumble after another? People are afraid.”

What of?

THE SAS soldier killed in Afghanistan yesterday was Sergeant Matthew Locke from Perth. Sergeant Locke was serving with the elite Special Air Service Regiment when he was shot and killed by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, becoming the third Australian to die in combat in the country and the second this month. Governor-General Major-General Michael Jeffery, speaking in Sydney, expressed his deepest sympathy to Sergeant Locke’s family and friends.

He said that in December last year he had presented Sgt Locke with the Medal for Gallantry for outstanding leadership and bravery under sustained fire in Afghanistan. “Sergeant Locke’s actions of gallantry whilst under enemy fire in extremely hazardous circumstances, displayed courage of the highest order….” his citation said.

Rest in Peace Sgt….duty done. UPDATE: Received this email from Defence Media;

TRIBUTE TO SERGEANT MATTHEW LOCKE The Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston today paid tribute to Sergeant Matthew Locke who died yesterday whilst on operations in Afghanistan. “Sergeant Matthew Locke was everything you would expect of an Australian soldier. He was courageous, dedicated and very professional. He took great pride in being an Aussie digger, displaying the characteristics of loyalty, mateship and determination for which Australian soldiers are renowned, Air Chief Marshal Houston said. “Sergeant Locke died whilst working with our coalition partners and Afghan forces to drive the Taliban from their sanctuaries and create an enduring security presence in the area. Operation ‘Spin Ghar’ was to target and clear Taliban from the area around Tarin Kowt in Oruzgan Province. “Sergeant Locke had extensive operational experience in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan and was one of the finest soldiers in the Australian Army. “Sergeant Locke will be greatly missed by his brothers in arms. He was admired and respected by all who served with him. His energy, enthusiasm and sense of humour made him a popular figure in the Special Air Service Regiment.’ “In 2006, his courage was recognised with a Medal of Gallantry, one of the ADF’s highest honours. With complete disregard for his own safety, Sergeant Locke braved heavy enemy fire to neutralise the Taliban advancing on the Australian position and in doing so saved the lives of his mates. His courage on that day was but one example of the extraordinary valour we have come to expect from the Special Air Service. “The thoughts and prayers of the entire Defence organisation are with the family, friends and comrades of Sergeant Locke. We will do everything we can to support them through this difficult time,” Air Chief Marshal Houston said.

Letter writer Mike Puleston votes to nuke Israel

THE US is preparing to attack Iran (“US shifts focus in Iran from nuclear sites to key troops”, 2/10). It has been planning to do so for a long time but recently preparations have intensified. President Bush wants to get in one last hit before he goes. However, talk of “surgical strikes” is nonsense because thousands of ordinary Iranians would die. The repressive Iranian government would be strengthened by a US attack which would solidify popular support behind it. US aggression against Iran would make Iraq look like a sideshow, especially if Pakistan were pulled in. Let us hear John Howard and Kevin Rudd say—unequivocally—that they would condemn an attack on Iran and would not cooperate with the US in any way in this mad scheme. Mike Puleston Brunswick, Vic

A lot of what Mike says could be true but he omits one possible result of a surgical anti-nuclear strike against Iran and that is, Israel would continue to exist. The Iranian President doesn’t do ‘Diplomacy’ as us westerners understand it. He is more of a Mao disciple believing ‘Diplomacy comes from the barrel of a gun’ or missile, and while his statement that he would nuke Israel is still on the books then I don’t know what other options the civilized world has. Whatever the case, I can assure you that if Iran gets close to having a bomb Israel will strike; it won’t be telegraphed and they won’t cry over the ‘Peace at any Price’ brigade and their outcries. We will read about it in the morning press – done deal! Iran has lost the ability to turn Tel Aviv into a parking lot courtesy of the IDF I doubt if Mike’s thousands of ordinary Iranians would die, more like hundreds but whatever, it would be better than millions of dead in Tel Aviv.