From Masajid and homes to crops, conquering Pakistani military has not left anything standing in blindness of their might which failed to deter Waziri people from helping Mujahideen against invading Kafir army of USA along with their Murtid [apostate] agents in Afghanistan.

It may be a victory over the ruins of Sararoga but not in Sararoga [an area in Waziristan], as declared by ISPR in month of October 2009 without showing these images.

The houses of terrorists (as Pakistan’s secular government, army and media refers to Mujahideen) are destroyed using same tactics as used by Israel for Palestinian Mujahideen because they never surrender, as a matter of fact, only terrorists know the art of surrending!

Left: Pakistani Commander of 90,000 soldiers’ Lashkar signs instrument of surrender to infidels of Indian army, on right, corpse of Imam Abdul Rasheed Ghazi (shaheed – rahimAllah) who refused to drop his demands for implementation of Shariah Laws in Pakistan and chose path of martyrdom facing “Operation Silence” executed by Special Services Group Commandos of Pakistan’s army.

From Masajid and homes to crops, conquering Pakistani military has not left anything standing in blindness of their might which failed to deter Waziri people from helping Mujahideen against invading Kafir army of USA along with their Murtid [apostate] agents in Afghanistan.

It may be a victory over the ruins of Sararoga but not in Sararoga [an area in Waziristan], as declared by ISPR in month of October 2009 without showing these images.

The houses of terrorists (as Pakistan’s secular government, army and media refers to Mujahideen) are destroyed using same tactics as used by Israel for Palestinian Mujahideen because they never surrender, as a matter of fact, only terrorists know the art of surrending!

Left: Pakistani Commander of 90,000 soldiers’ Lashkar signs instrument of surrender to infidels of Indian army, on right, corpse of Imam Abdul Rasheed Ghazi (shaheed – rahimAllah) who refused to drop his demands for implementation of Shariah Laws in Pakistan and chose path of martyrdom facing “Operation Silence” executed by Special Services Group Commandos of Pakistan’s army.

On September 11, 2001 this nation suffered the worst act of terrorist aggression ever to be perpetrated on American soil.  On September 19th of that same year, remarks by Barack Obama were published in the Hyde Park Herald.  Following is an excerpt:  “The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers.  Such a failure of empathy … most often grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.”  Translation:  3000 of our people died because the Islamic jihadists who killed them just couldn’t help themselves.  They were poor, ignorant, helpless, and riddled with despair.   

In the fall of 2008 I wrote that (1) such a conclusion would be laughable had it not been reached by a person who, at that time, was actively campaigning for the presidency, and (2) that any candidate so incapable of discerning the true nature of avowed enemies of the United States was not fit to be Commander-In-Chief of our Armed Forces.  

Today we are witnessing the disasterous results of installing such a person in the Oval Office.  Field Commanders are still waiting for what they need to help ensure decisive victories for our men and women on the front lines of conflict … but foreign national terrorist operatives have already received  U. S. citizen rights enumerated in Amendment VI of our Constitution. 

At this writing, Obama remains noticeably inactive in support of our Armed Forces and noticeably proactive in support of Muslim terrorists.  Never mind that lives and missions are at stake.  Never mind that KSM and others like him are entitled to nothing.  Never mind that the last thing 9/11 families and the people-at-large want is KSM et al on American soil.  Never mind that my (and your) Constitutionally-guaranteed rights and liberties are not negotiable commodities.  Obama’s current mindset seems to mirror his 2001 mindset which, back then, was inconsequential due to lack of power.   Today, that mindset is deadly for (1) our national security, (2) our Armed Forces, and (3) our Constitutional rights and liberties.  Nevertheless, Obama continues to methodically work his way down the Radical Left Socialist Agenda set forth by benefactor George Soros, which includes “defending the civil rights and liberties of suspected anti-American terrorists and their abettors”.  The full agenda is at the link below and provides the playbill for Oval Office and Congressional action:  

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977

You’ll note that several of the items have either already been carried out or are currently in process.  There can be no doubt that the allegiance of Obama, Reid, Pelosi and the Progressive Caucus lies with George Soros, not our country or its people.  Understand and know that each and every member of Congress that supports Obama, Reid or Pelosi ultimately supports this agenda.  It’s as simple as that.

Is Obama selling us down the river?  Yes.  Is Pelosi selling us down the river?  Yes.  Is Reid selling us down the river?  Yes.  Why?  For the same reason that KSM is coming to New York and Gen. Stan McChrystal is still waiting  … it’s what George wants.

Over past two years, Pakistanis and entire world has been fed by Pakistani’s secular media that the military operations in northern tribal belt of Pakistan are against CIA and RAW supported elements who have nothing to do with Mujahideen in Afghanistan and Jihad therein.

Pakistani Mujahideen, from time to time, have been denying such allegations as “Lies” and “Defamatory Propaganda” to create support for military’s operations which broadly got planned and executed under American pressure and threats to stop millions of Dollars in aid.

Few days ago, a stunning report was published by Pakistani’s widely circulated newspaper which read:

“Pakistani and Afghan jehadi groups have decided to start “battle of evil and just”, as the Afghan fighters assured Pakistani militants of complete support in their fight against Pak army in South Waziristan.

According to sources, it was decided in a meeting of the commanders of al-Qaeda, Hakmatyar group, Afghan Taliban and Pakistani jehadi organisations, which was held in Afghanistan.

The meeting decided that the Pakistan security forces, which have been helping the American forces, would also be targeted and the Afghan fighters, who have been fighting in Afghanistan for the last eight years, for the first time decided to send manpower to Waziristan in support of Pakistan militants.”

To read full report, click here.

Pakistani soldiers [excluding sold-out high rank officers and their supporters] are our brothers, we believe that they have been misled by a systematic propaganda to convince them that they are NOT fighting America’s war. Being Muslims, we must encourage them to learn truth, refer to basics of Islam and request them to stop following un-Islamic orders of their corrupt officers. Be it Muslims of Pakistani tribes or young soldiers of Pakistan, both are assets of Pakistani nation which Kuffar are destroying through time test formula of “divide and rule”. It is only few corrupt elements in Army who deserve death of Ghaddar.

Over past two years, Pakistanis and entire world has been fed by Pakistani’s secular media that the military operations in northern tribal belt of Pakistan are against CIA and RAW supported elements who have nothing to do with Mujahideen in Afghanistan and Jihad therein.

Pakistani Mujahideen, from time to time, have been denying such allegations as “Lies” and “Defamatory Propaganda” to create support for military’s operations which broadly got planned and executed under American pressure and threats to stop millions of Dollars in aid.

Few days ago, a stunning report was published by Pakistani’s widely circulated newspaper which read:

“Pakistani and Afghan jehadi groups have decided to start “battle of evil and just”, as the Afghan fighters assured Pakistani militants of complete support in their fight against Pak army in South Waziristan.

According to sources, it was decided in a meeting of the commanders of al-Qaeda, Hakmatyar group, Afghan Taliban and Pakistani jehadi organisations, which was held in Afghanistan.

The meeting decided that the Pakistan security forces, which have been helping the American forces, would also be targeted and the Afghan fighters, who have been fighting in Afghanistan for the last eight years, for the first time decided to send manpower to Waziristan in support of Pakistan militants.”

To read full report, click here.

Pakistani soldiers [excluding sold-out high rank officers and their supporters] are our brothers, we believe that they have been misled by a systematic propaganda to convince them that they are NOT fighting America’s war. Being Muslims, we must encourage them to learn truth, refer to basics of Islam and request them to stop following un-Islamic orders of their corrupt officers. Be it Muslims of Pakistani tribes or young soldiers of Pakistan, both are assets of Pakistani nation which Kuffar are destroying through time test formula of “divide and rule”. It is only few corrupt elements in Army who deserve death of Ghaddar.

Today I cried.  It felt so good.  I needed that.  I had been holding so much in the inside trying to be so strong for everyone else.  But today I broke down.  So many emotions and feelings.  Some were of anger, pain, hurt, feelings of betrayal, loneliness, happiness, thankfulness to mention a few.  I can’t really tell you everything that I was feeling.  But I know I was able to vent to Soror Nedra.  My oh my you talking about  ”we help each other for we know there’s no other like our sisterhood” that is what sisters are for.  I so appreciate her for just lending me her ear for a few minutes.  Sometimes thats all it takes is a few minutes.

Then my cousin Nikki texted me and I was able to really just tell it all to her since she knows everything.  And it was as if I was in the counselors chair.  I just poured it all out.  And then came the tears.  I tried to hold my head up and not make a sound because I didn’t want my boys to hear me.  But it just came out.  I had no control.  I don’t know if you have ever been in the spirit and tried to come out and you couldn’t.  Well that is what happen to me today.  I so needed that.  Because I’ve not been to therapy in almost a year now. 

Sometimes keeping yourself busy to not focus on your problems doesn’t work.  And I know for me I have to be strong for so many that I have to put myself off often times.  But how many of us know that you MUST take care of yourself before you can take care of others.  Thus the reason why the flight attendants tell you to put your mask on before you help your child or anyone else.

I don’t celebrate holidays.  However Thanksgiving is just one of those days that I think you are just supposed to be surrounded by loves ones.  It’s such an emotional day for me.  And this morning something so strong came over me.  It was so overwhelming.  But again I thank the Lord on today for just placing someone in my life that allowed me to vent. 

I don’t know about you but my battles start in my mind.  That is where the devil tries to get the best of me.  But how many of you know that he is defeated on today?  He doesn’t have the victory over my mind nor my body nor my soul.  But Jesus made a way of escape for me today just as he promised.  You know I love me some Jesus.  I really do.  I can’t tell you all that he’s done for me because I would be writing for days.  But when I tell you that he is a healer, that he is a friend, that he is a life line, that he is a keeper, that he is long-suffering, that he is patient, but also he chastises me as well.  And I appreciate him for that alone.  I thank him for getting on to me when I’m out of line.  I thank him that I have an ear to hear when he is getting on to me.

You know I have so much to be thankful for on today.  Not because its Thanksgiving but because when I didn’t want to live any more he told me that “THIS IS NOT UNTIL MY DEATH” when I wanted to just give up he wouldn’t allow me and because of that I’ve seen one child off to the US Army, I have one graduating next year and I’m raising my last one with love and patience as well.  I’m so glad that I’m still around to talk to them and tell that I love them and that I’m here for them.  I’m just so grateful on today.  Not only has he allowed me to raise my children; he has allowed me to be a positive force in so many youth today.  And for that I’m grateful as well.  My soul rejoices in him tonight.  I’m happy in Jesus tonight.  He has truly been a wonder in my soul!!!

We encourage the United States military in their pursuit of terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan. But harming a hair on the beards of those who would plot mass murder and beheadings is not in keeping with the image of ourselves in the west as a morally superior society. After all, capturing terrorists should be as simple as flicking on a light switch. Just ask three elite members of the Navy SEALs who allegedly harmed the beard of a notorious terrorist in Fallujah, and are now facing criminal charges:

The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called a captain’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.

Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.

Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and making a false official statement.

Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.

Neal Puckett, an attorney representing McCabe, told Fox News the SEALs are being charged for allegedly giving the detainee a “punch in the gut.”

Gee, maybe instead of focusing on capturing terrorists and defeating the enemy in Afghanistan, we should follow the U.S. lead and begin arresting and detaining soldiers for doing their jobs. That’s certainly what the Liberals seem to want us to do. Because as everybody knows, war is a very simple and easy game with straightforward rules.

It’s unfortunate for Mr.Abed that he was captured by the Americans. If he were under Canadian control he would have a very strong case that he was “tortured”, and would be probably be eligible for $10 million in damages.

Par Benny Morris

L’historien israélien Benny Morris fait régulièrement part de ses vues apocalyptiques sur le conflit au Proche-Orient. Pour lui, face à l’Iran, la seule solution est de bombarder les installations nucléaires. Cette attaque, qu’il juge inévitable, devrait intervenir au printemps, estime-t-il. Reste cependant à obtenir le feu vert d’Obama. — L’argumentaire développé ici montre combien le recours à la force est vain. Morris reconnait que seule une campagne aérienne prolongée pourrait détruire les capacités iraniennes, mais que celle-ci est hors de portée des forces israéliennes. Ce qui revient à constater qu’en l’absence d’une implication des USA, que Morris juge peu vraisemblable tant ils sont « empêtrés » dans les guerres d’Afghanistan et d’Irak, la région serait mise à feu et à sang – Morris envisage des opérations terrestres à Gaza et au Liban, le début d’une « guerre prolongée » avec l’Iran – à la seule fin de parvenir à retarder de quelques années un programme d’armement dont la réalité n’est toujours pas avérée. Tout cela n’a aucun sens. Sauf à imaginer qu’Israël parvienne à déclencher une guerre totale entre les USA et l’Iran. Et c’est peut-être le pari fou et criminel que font certains stratèges israéliens. Contre Info

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Le débat en Israël, – et notamment la semaine dernière dans Haaretz, le principal quotidien du pays- porte explicitement et ouvertement sur une guerre au printemps ou à l’été prochain. Le ciel sera dégagé pour les opérations aériennes, le bouclier israélien anti missiles contre les armes de courte et moyenne portée sera au moins partiellement opérationnel, la communauté internationale, dirigée par le président Obama, aura visiblement échoué à contrecarrer le programme d’armement nucléaire iranien. Et L’Iran se sera encore rapproché de la bombe.

Le Premier ministre Benyamin Netanyahou et le ministre de la Défense Ehud Barak devront alors décider si Israël peut vivre avec un Iran nucléaire et compter sur la dissuasion. Mais si l’on juge trop important le risque d’une attaque nucléaire contre Israël, l’armée du pays devra faire ce qui est en son pouvoir pour détruire les installations nucléaires de l’Iran, malgré les répercussions probables qui seront dévastatrices pour la région et pour le monde.

On assistera probablement à des tirs massifs de roquettes sur les villes israéliennes et les bases militaires par les Iraniens et le Hezbollah (à partir du Liban), et peut-être par le Hamas (à partir de Gaza). Cela pourrait déclencher des guerres terrestres au Liban et à Gaza, ainsi qu’une guerre prolongée avec l’Iran. Il pourrait y avoir des opérations terroristes menées par des agents iraniens contre des objectifs israélien (et juif) à travers le monde ; une forte augmentation des cours mondiaux du pétrole, dont Israël aura à subir le contrecoup politique ; des actions de l’Iran contre des cibles américaines en Irak, en Afghanistan et dans le Golfe. Plus généralement, le terrorisme islamiste contre des cibles occidentales ne pourrait qu’augmenter.

Mais ce ne sont pas seulement les dirigeants d’Israël qui devront décider. Obama aura à le faire également. C’est un homme qui, dans l’arène internationale, a fait preuve d’une propension à l’indécision (sauf quand il s’agit des colonies de peuplement israéliennes en Cisjordanie). Donnera-t-il aux Israéliens le feu vert (et peut-être certains équipements supplémentaires qu’ils veulent obtenir pour faciliter une attaque) et accordera-t-il l’ouverture d’un couloir arien au dessus de l’Irak ? Ou acceptera-t-il que les mollahs aient en mains l’arme atomique ?

Il est clair – et cela devrait l’être d’ici là pour tout le monde en dehors des partisans ramollis de l’apaisement – que l’approche diplomatique ne va nulle part, lorsque les Iraniens manoeuvrent, fournissent des réponses évasives et traînent des pieds, tout en enrichissant davantage d’uranium. Téhéran se moque de nous, comme il l’a déjà fait, sur ce chemin vers l’Apocalypse. Ahmadinejad et les mollahs savent pertinemment que l’Occident ne pourra jamais imposer les seules sanctions qui pourraient être efficaces (un boycott total du pétrole iranien et un arrêt de toutes les livraisons de marchandises vers l’Iran).

En occident, certains espèrent joyeusement que les Iraniens veulent une arme rustique qui « resterait à la cave », et non pas des armes immédiatement utilisables, ce qui réduirait la nécessité d’une frappe militaire préventive. Mon sentiment est que l’Iran n’a pas fait cet immense pari afin de seulement parvenir à une capacité nucléaire incertaine et implicite : il ne s’arrêtera pas en deçà d’armes atomiques réellement utilisables avec lesquelles il pourra intimider, acquérir une hégémonie sur ses voisins, dissuader l’Occident et, peut-être, détruire Israël.

Le moment de vérité se rapproche donc rapidement pour Obama. Son prédécesseur George Bush avait à plusieurs reprises assuré à Israël que les États-Unis ne permettraient pas que l’Iran fondamentaliste obtienne la bombe. Cela impliquait que l’Amérique elle-même prévienne cette éventualité – et en dernier recours par des moyens militaires.

Aujourd’hui, cela semble hautement improbable. Obama est empêtré dans deux guerres dans les pays musulmans, avec un conflit en Afghanistan qui paraît de plus en plus ingagnable, et un Irak qui se dirige soit vers une partition de facto, soit vers une subordination croissante à l’Iran chiite. Avec une opinion publique américaine de plus en plus lasse de la guerre, de toute guerre, le président américain ne mobilisera sans doute pas les forces aériennes, la marine et les forces spéciales pour détruire les installations nucléaires iraniennes.

Il y a une double ironie amère en cette circonstance. Les Iraniens et leurs agents vont vraisemblablement attaquer des cibles américaines, que les États-Unis soient ou non impliqués dans une attaque contre l’Iran. Et alors que les capacités militaires conventionnelles israéliennes sont limitées et ne pourraient probablement retarder que de quelques années l’obtention par l’Iran d’armes nucléaires, les forces conventionnelles américaines – si on les mobilisait résolument et efficacement dans la bataille – pourraient arrêter complètement le projet nucléaire iranien et détruire totalement ses défenses militaires en quelques semaines de bombardements intensifs. En fait, le régime lui-même pourrait s’effondrer comme un château de cartes, tout comme celui de Saddam Hussein sous l’assaut américain en mars 2003.

Cela n’adviendra pas. Mais Obama devra néanmoins bientôt décider s’il convient de donner le feu vert à Israël, et quel sera son intensité. Il devra le faire vite. Car le printemps approche à grands pas.

Source : http://contreinfo.info/article.php3?id_article=2906

I have been on the lookout for social media role models, and so far two organizations have made it to my short list.

Kodak

Kodak’s social media approach is lots of education, followed by a sensible list of rules. The social media policy (PDF) is a great primer on the value of social media and how to use it. The company focuses on being transparent, and sets simple boundaries for employees to follow.

US Army

I am looking for more role models to share. Let me know your favorites.

Just in from Charles Kerchner, lead plaintiff in the Kerchner V Obama & Congress lawsuit, November 25, 2009.

“25 Nov 2009 -  For Immediate Release

There is activity in the Kerchner v Obama & Congress lawsuit. The U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia PA has issued a Briefing Notice schedule for the Kerchner v Obama & Congress case.

U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Briefing Notice Issued for Kerchner v Obama & Congress Lawsuit:
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2009/11/kerchner-v-obama-congress-3rd-circuit.html

Brief due dates for the Appeal are now set for 4 Jan 2010. We look forward to moving ahead with this very important constitutional case along the legal pathway to the ultimate decision maker for this historic and precedence setting lawsuit, the U.S. Supreme Court. They will determine the answer to the pressing legal question of what is a “natural born Citizen” of the USA per Article II constitutional standards and did Obama and the U.S. Congress violate the Constitution and statutory laws and my constitutional rights during the 2008 election cycle. And, the Supreme Court will also be asked to refer their legal definition to Congress to determine if Obama meets that legal ruled definition. I say Obama does not meet the founders and framers intent for the Article II eligibility clause. I say Obama is a deceiver and a usurper.

In the interim in addition to our internet efforts, we are running educational advertorials in print media to inform the general public of the issues.  See an example attached.  More examples can be seen at: http://www.kerchner.com/protectourliberty/advertorials.htm

Charles F. Kerchner, Jr.
Commander USNR (Retired)
Lead Plaintiff
Kerchner v Obama & Congress
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/
We need your help and support.
See: http://www.protectourliberty.org/

“

http://usdebtclock.org/

(excerpted from post dated October 24, 2008 regarding then-candidate Obama)

Character matters.  Senator Obama directly insulted real America, the folks in small towns across this country he called ”bitter people clinging to their guns and religion”.  

I don’t care how much money the Senator has in his campaign coffers – my vote is not for sale.  I don’t care how many words he can string together – the slickest snake oil salesman can do that.  Those things don’t matter.  What matters is what I know about Senator Obama today:  

1)  His word is meaningless.  He did the exact opposite of what he said he would do regarding campaign financing.

2)  He is not truthful.  He refused to provide an honest answer to Pastor Rick Warren’s question regarding his position on when life begins.

3)  He is not respectful.  He has derided Evangelical Christians for devotion to faith.

4)  He is not trustworthy.  He has demonstrated the worthlessness of his word.    

5)  He has saluted the people of Europe, but not the flag of the United States.

6)  He has walked into the home of a domestic terrorist and anarchist, but not through the halls of Landstahl Regional Medical Center.

7)  He has sat down with unindicted co-conspirators in Federal terrorism cases, but not with a fellow Senator in open forum before the American people. 

On September 11, 2001 this nation suffered the worst act of terrorist aggression ever to be perpetrated on American soil.  On September 19th of that same year, remarks by Barack Obama were published in the Hyde Park Herald.  Following is an excerpt:  “The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers.  Such a failure of empathy … most often grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.”  Translation:  3000 of our people died because the Islamic jihadists who killed them just couldn’t help themselves.  They were poor, ignorant, helpless, and riddled with despair.   

That conclusion would be laughable had it not been reached by a man who at this writing is encouraging you to choose him as your next president.  Any candidate so incapable of discerning the true nature of avowed enemies of the United States is not fit to be Commander-In-Chief of our Armed Forces. 

If you’re a voter in any one of the 15 states currently under investigation by the FBI for ACORN’s fraudulent registration practices, then today you know that an Obama win in your state has been determined more important than your right to an electoral process free from willful contamination.  As of this writing, the Senator has neither disavowed ACORN and its practices nor expressed any concern regarding the probable compromise of your state’s election results.  

Here is what those of us in real America have always known and lived by:  Talk is cheap.  Judge a man by what he does and the company he keeps.  You’ll rarely, if ever, be wrong.

Par Fred Kaplan

La société afghane a toujours été structurée par les tribus. Il n’y a jamais eu de pouvoir central fort.

«Les milices afghanes combattent les talibans avec l’aide des Etats-Unis». Tel est le titre de l’article de Dexter Filkins, paru le 21 novembre 2009 dans le New York Times. Ce papier ne prétend pas percer les intentions d’Obama; pour autant il pourrait bien lever un coin du voile sur l’examen stratégique du président et ses projets pour l’Afghanistan.

Présentons les choses autrement: si Obama décide de renforcer l’engagement américain en Afghanistan, et si sa stratégie ne ressemble en rien à l’approche présentée par Filkins… l’échec de notre armée sera alors presque inévitable.

Selon Filkins, qui compte parmi les plus intrépides correspondants de guerre, les forces spéciales américaines viennent depuis peu en aide aux milices antitalibanes dans le sud et l’ouest de l’Afghanistan, où sont concentrés la majorité les insurgés. Ces milices se sont constituées d’elles-mêmes au sein de certaines tribus; les commandants de l’armée américaine espèrent pouvoir user de l’exemple de telles révoltes pour «encourager la naissance de groupes armés similaires au cœur des terres talibanes.»

De fait cette situation éveille l’intérêt – on peut même parler d’enthousiasme – des Américains pour deux raisons. Tout d’abord, ces évènements rappellent ceux de «l’Eveil d’Anbar», en 2006-2007, quand des chefs de tribus sunnites de l’ouest irakien s’étaient alliés aux forces américaines (qui se faisaient tirer dessus par ces mêmes sunnites quelques mois auparavant) pour venir à bout d’un acteur plus menaçant encore: Al-Qaïda. D’autre part, ces évènements ont poussé l’armée à s’intéresser de plus près à un rapport de 45 pages rédigé par le major Jim Gant, l’ancien chef d’un détachement de forces spéciales stationné dans la province de Kunar. L’auteur du document (intitulé «Une tribu à la fois: quelle stratégie adopter pour vaincre en Afghanistan») y raconte comment il a constitué des «tribal engagement teams» (équipes d’engagement auprès des tribus) pour aider les combattants de la région à repousser les talibans; il y expose ensuite sa stratégie visant à constituer des équipe de ce type dans le reste du pays.

Le rapport de Jim Gant a sans aucun doute éveillé l’intérêt de sa hiérarchie: au lieu d’être envoyé en Irak – comme prévu -, le major a été redéployé en Afghanistan pour aider à la création d’autres équipes d’engagement.

Dans son introduction, il affirme que l’Afghanistan «n’a jamais été un Etat au pouvoir central fort, et ne le sera jamais». La société du pays et sa hiérarchie politique ont toujours été organisées autour du système tribal; si les Etats-Unis et l’OTAN espèrent vaincre les talibans, il leur faudra donc passer par les tribus.

L’approche adoptée par les Etats-Unis depuis maintenant sept ans (se concentrer sur Kaboul et sur la formation d’une armée et d’une police… nationales) est donc vouée à l’échec. Gant ne nie pas que l’approche tribale comporte elle aussi un bon nombre de risques. Le jeu en vaut néanmoins la chandelle, selon lui. Et pour cause: «rien d’autre ne marchera».

Certains signes laissent penser qu’Obama caresse l’idée d’une stratégie similaire. Le président a rencontré sept fois ses conseillers militaires; lors de l’une de ces réunions, il a demandé un rapport sur les provinces afghanes, afin de savoir quelles régions du pays étaient en mesure d’assurer leur propre défense, et dans quelles proportions. Dans une interview récente accordée à Jake Tapper, de la chaîne ABC, il a déclaré que ses conseillers et lui-même avaient cessé de «se consacrer au seul gouvernement national de Kaboul», pour s’intéresser également «aux acteurs des gouvernements provinciaux, qui sont légitimes dans l’immédiat».

Obama a toutes les raisons d’opter pour une stratégie reposant sur le système tribal. Cela permettrait tout d’abord de placer le peuple afghan – et non plus l’occupant américain – au centre des opérations. Dans ce cas de figure, le soldat américain vit près des tribus, gagne leur confiance, les entraîne, les approvisionne en vivres et en matériel, obtient des renseignements, et combat à leurs côtés. L’Américain était un chef; il devient un allié.

Deuxième avantage: ces équipes de soldats américains fonctionnent par petits groupes. Cette approche, comme l’explique Gant, prend énormément de temps (plusieurs mois pour créer le contact, des années pour établir un lien durable) mais réclame un nombre limité de soldats. Si Obama cherche à contrer les talibans et à assurer la sécurité de l’Afghanistan sans avoir à mobiliser le renfort de 40.000 hommes demandé par le général Stanley McChrystal, il pourrait s’engager dans cette voie.

Troisième point: cette stratégie permet à l’armée américane de moins dépendre des succès politiques du président afghan Hamid Karzaï. Le succès des campagnes anti-insurrection dépend souvent du comportement des autorités locales: si ces dernières ont la réputation d’être corrompues, la campagne échouera. Karzaï a promis des réformes, ce qui pourrait redorer son blason et le rendre plus légitime aux yeux du peuple afghan. Mais même s’il ne tenait pas ses engagements, ou si ses efforts ne rencontraient pas le succès escompté, la stratégie de Gant n’en pâtirait pas vraiment: les chefs de tribus sont les seules autorités qui comptent.

Gant est parfaitement lucide quant aux difficultés que pourrait poser ce rapprochement tribal. Le risque principal serait, selon lui, de se retrouver impliqué dans on ne sait quelles luttes intestines. En 2001, pendant l’invasion américaine en Afghanistan, il arrivait que nos alliés dans la guérilla locale signalent à l’aviation et à l’artillerie américaines des «cibles talibanes» devant être détruites – en fait de talibans, ces cibles s’avéraient parfois être des camps de tribus rivales.

L’un des objectifs les plus transparents – et les plus essentiels – de la stratégie de Gant consiste à créer un réseau de tribus indépendantes, en commençant par celles d’une même province, puis d’une même région, avant de passer à la nation entière; réseau lié au gouvernement de Kaboul par un système d’échanges de bons procédés (défense mutuelle, approvisionnement). Le major n’explique pas comment cette approche « ascendante » de l’unité nationale afghane pourrait concrètement prendre forme, mais il est sûr d’une chose: si cette stratégie n’est pas mise en place, les talibans conserveront l’avantage en jouant sur les rivalités tribales.

Il précise également qu’une telle stratégie ne pourra pas, à elle seule, vaincre les talibans. Les officiers qui ont fait circuler le rapport de Gant, et qui en discutent lors de réunions en huis clos, sont de toute manière loin d’être optimistes.

Il y a deux semaines, lorsqu’un journaliste lui a demandé où en étaient les longues discussions en interne sur le sujet, le secrétaire à la Défense Robert Gates a répondu que le président Obama était en train d”« associer les meilleurs éléments des différentes idées » avancées par ses conseillers.

Lorsque Obama fera connaître sa décision – quelle stratégie adopter, combien de renforts envoyer -, il nous faudra étudier son projet avec soin. Et répondre à cette question cruciale: quel rôle aura-t-il donné aux tribus afghanes ?

Lire également sur la guerre en Afghanistan: Afghanistan: la corruption des Karzaï fera perdre la guerre, L’Afghanistan, un nouveau Vietnam et Il faut rester en Afghanistan.

Source : Slate http://www.slate.fr/story/13497/afghanistan-pour-gagner-la-guerre-il-faut-sallier-aux-milices

Review of Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Joanne Baker’s book

by David MacGregor
Published: Nov. 15, 2009 – Global Research

Hegel remarks upon the appearance of “concrete evil” in history, the intermittent eruption of human malevolence on a colossal scale capable of destroying entire societies. Perpetrators of world-historical crimes are propelled solely by passion—by self-regard, greed and hatred—and pay no heed, Hegel noted, to “order and moderation, justice and morality.” [1] The imperialist assault on Iraq—which began with the First Gulf War, reached a peak with “shock and awe” attacks launched by U.S./U.K military forces in 2003, and continues today, nearly twenty years later—offers a horrendous example of unrestrained evil spread across a titanic canvas.

Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s and Joanne Baker’s indispensable book spotlights the appalling criminal enterprise now working itself out in Iraq: Deliberate contamination of the Iraqi nation, its peoples, and natural environment with radiation from previously unheard of weapons of mass destruction—deadly implements of war fashioned from a practically inexhaustible global garbage dump of depleted uranium (DU).

Grisly newspaper photographs and televised images of the “Highway of Death” revealed in late February 1991 desert vistas of burnt-out, twisted Iraqi civilian and military vehicles destroyed in cold blood by US air strikes during Saddam Hussein’s hasty exit from Kuwait. Surely the world will be repelled by such savagery, many thought at the time. Surely these pictures alone will push popular sentiment against war, and propel combatants toward peace? But the cavalcade of cruelty on the road from Kuwait to Basra signaled just the beginning of a crusade that would unfold for most of the next two decades. And no photograph, no television video, nor even the senses of sight, taste, feeling and smell of witnesses on the ground could have revealed the secret corruption of those searing images, the deadly radioactive and toxic refuse emitted in clouds of invisible vapour from fired US missiles, shells and other armaments composed of DU that will contaminate the Gulf area for a millennium.

George H.W. Bush’s 1988 declaration that Saddam Hussein was “worse than Hitler” inaugurated a successful propaganda offensive vilifying the Iraqi people. The culumny against Iraq now extends to its inability to seek protection from radioactive and chemical poisoning by DU, or indeed to carry out and publicize scientific research on dangers presented to humans and animals by DU contamination. As documented in this book, US/UK governments treat DU deposits with serious concern, but only as regards their own territory and citizens. The people of Iraq have become a giant experimental colony for measuring the hazards of ionized radiation and toxicity associated with reckless deployment of DU.

From a purely military point of view, DU is highly cost-effective. [2] DU is a radioactive waste product generated by nuclear reactors and the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Suppliers are anxious to get it off their hands since gratis procurement by the military is a desirable alternative to prohibitively expensive, safe disposal of “nuclear tailings”. Just as chemically toxic as lead, DU is almost twice as heavy and much harder. DU is self-sharpening: DU bores through very tough materials while gaining ability to penetrate. DU at high velocity sears through hard targets such as tank armor and emerges on the other side with intense fire and deathly gases. As this book documents, over 2000 tons of burnt, pulverized and exploded DU have been scattered over Iraq by US/UK armed forces since 1991.

Beginning in 1991 the world stood by while western imperialism enforced a total blockade on Iraq: the first time in modern history that a nation has been entirely cut off from external trade and communications. Only barbaric sieges dating from the Middle Ages offer anything like the spectacle of suffering in Iraq. Even scholarly and scientific discourse fell victim. Without a murmur of dissent from the global community, imperialism barred Iraqi researchers and writers not only from vital materials required for research but also from international sources of scientific discovery and dissemination.

Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Joanne Baker offer in this book an initial scientific reckoning of DU despoliation from behind the uranium curtain. [3] The authors do not suggest that the poor state of health of the Iraqi people arises entirely from DU contamination. There are plenty of reasons for the massive increase in disease, including cancer and birth deformities, among Iraqis. US/UK imperialism destroyed the social infrastructure of the country, including water treatment plants, electric power installations, food markets, hospitals and schools. Uncontrolled oil fires polluted the air. Assaulted by malnutrition and infected water sources, the immunological systems of many Iraqi children have collapsed. Even the farcical trial and diabolical murder of Saddam Hussein did not satisfy western invaders. After the Iraqi leader’s removal, the embargo remained and infrastructure deteriorated even furtherPre-war Iraq enjoyed the professional services of 34,000 registered doctors. By 2006, 20,000 physicians had fled; 2000 of the remainder had been killed, and 250 kidnapped. By 2007, 8 million Iraqis required emergency aid and over half the population of 22 million suffered absolute poverty. The Red Cross reported last year that the humanitarian situation in Iraq was among the most critical on the globe.

Apologists talk about a “failure” of American and British policy in Iraq, the occupiers’ inability to construct a stable democratic system to replace the Ba’athist order under Hussein. [4] But peace and security were never on the order paper for US/UK militarism. Its job was to loot, divide, desecrate and cripple Iraq to ensure the country would never again thumb its nose at the western imperium.

According to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention of Genocide, the crime of genocide involves acts committed with intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. These acts include killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, and inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group in whole or part. The authors present compelling evidence that the occupying powers’ indiscriminate use of DU in Iraq, along with the affects of blockade and invasion, conform to these elements of the definition of genocide.

This book includes the results of controlled studies by Iraqi scientists of the relation between the presence of DU, ionizing radiation, and malignant disease rates carried out under extremely adverse conditions 7-10 years after the 1991 assault. These epidemiological studies and measures of high radiation are necessarily rudimentary and incomplete. Yet combined with documented reports of birth defects and cancer related to radiation exposure since the 2003 invasion (including a marked increase in breast cancer among Iraqi women), these pioneering investigations present an extremely disturbing picture. Alarming evidence revealed by the authors of this book constitutes a strong case that US/UK invaders committed genocide in Iraq through indiscriminate employment of DU-armed weaponry.

Notes

1. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History. Introduction: Reason in History. Trans. H.B. Nisbet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975, p. 21.

2. For a useful summary of the issues surrounding DU see Rob White, “Depleted Uranium, state crime and the politics of knowing.” Theoretical Criminology. Vol. 12(1):31-54, 2008.

3. The US Atomic Energy Commission detonated the first deliverable hydrogen bomb in 1954 in the Marshall Islands, code-named “Bravo”. Deadly radiation from the gargantuan nuclear fireball fell upon island residents, US scientists and armed forces personnel. The Eisenhower administration tried unsuccessfully to block news of the disaster. Critics dubbed the US cover up, “the uranium curtain.” Shane Maddock, “The Fourth Country Problem: Eisenhower’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy,” Presidential Studies Quarterly; Summer 1998; 28, 3, p. 555.

4. E.g., Daniel Byman, “An Autopsy of the Iraq Debacle: Policy Failure or Bridge Too Far?” Security Studies, 17: 599–643, 2008.

Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16098

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