Muslim Brits Work in London Fight US in Afghanistan

British-based Muslims spend months fighting Nato forces in Afghanistan. UK-based Taliban live for most of year in London and head to Afghanistan for combat. I bet they receive social services and welfare. Is this any way to lose the war? You bet it is.

We have this in the US as well. A key Muslim terrorist in the Mumbai attack was David Coleman Headley.

Atlas reader Danielle wisely asks, "Where is MI-5? And why is the Guardian giving aid and comfort to the enemy by protecting this man's identity? I know Churchill and FDR would not have stood for it. Why does the press have the right to give aid and comfort to the enemy in the name of free speech?

I wonder how many Americans and other Westerners from Muslim backgrounds are fighting against NATO. Why aren't we putting more time and money into going after these traitors? Perhaps we should consider a travel ban for our citizens and residents who are not traveling on official business."

UK-based Taliban spend months fighting Nato forces in Afghanistan Taliban fighter reveals he lives for most of year in London and heads to Afghanistan for combat Guardian

British-based men of Afghan origin are spending months at a time in Afghanistan fighting Nato forces before returning to the UK, the Guardian has learned. They also send money to the Taliban.

A Taliban fighter in Dhani-Ghorri in northern Afghanistan last month told the Guardian he lived most of the time in east London, but came to Afghanistan for three months of the year for combat.

"I work as a minicab driver," said the man, who has the rank of a mid-level Taliban commander. "I make good money there [in the UK], you know. But these people are my friends and my family and it's my duty to come to fight the jihad with them."

"There are many people like me in London," he added. "We collect money for the jihad all year and come and fight if we can."

His older brother, a senior cleric or mawlawi who also fought in Dhani-Ghorri, lives in London as well.

Intelligence officials have long suspected that British Muslims travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan each year to train with extremist groups.

Atlas Shrugs

The Death Throes of Pakistan's Hindus

Obama is partnering with these sharia slaughterers.

The Death Throes of Pakistan’s Hindus Dr. Richard Benkin

I just returned from a month in India during which time an incredible number of significant events were occurring. My primary mission in going was to document and raise awareness of the ethnic cleansing of Bangladeshi Hindus. I found plenty, including evidence of ongoing attacks on them both in Bangladesh and in West Bengal, India. The border between the two is so porous that terrorists and contraband move freely with and without the help of India’s Border Security Force or West Bengal police. But I also witnessed the tragic beginning of the end for Pakistan’s Hindus. Once one in five Pakistanis, they have been reduced to one percent of the population.

But as the Taliban take over ever larger chunks of that country, that remnant of a people is streaming across the border into Indian Punjab. The stream became a torrent with the Taliban’s seizure of the Swat Valley earlier this year. Hindu refugees report attacks and threats by the Taliban, as well as officials telling them to leave the country “or else.” The February agreement between the Taliban and the Zardari government ceded the area to the former and allowed Sharia law to be imposed on Swat’s 1.2 million inhabitants.

President Obama has used this agreement as a model in his stated quest for “moderate Taliban.” But not only does the agreement countersign ethnic cleansing, it also failed even before Obama’s anticipated speech on US policy in the region. Just hours before the President spoke, one of the Taliban parties to the agreement, Tehrik e Taliban, abrogated it with a terror attack on a mosque in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province, and has engaged in other terrorist attacks subsequently.

One Hindi language channel quoted a Taliban spokesman confirming that his group was pulling out of the agreement not to attack elsewhere in Pakistan because, he said, it would be contrary to Allah’s wishes to limit Sharia to the Swat Valley. Yet, no major media in India, the US, or elsewhere made this connection.

Even more shameful, no media or government has protested the ethnic cleansing of Pakistan’s Hindus, who are being finished off by the Taliban. All governments involved in the region are just allowing it to happen,too. What kind of a world do we live in when India will not defend Hindus attacked for being Hindus; when the US ignores the atrocity; when not a single human rights group or the UN utters a word of protest?

NJ Transit Taliban Fires Worker for Burning Quran

The principle of free speech is not concerned with the content of a man's speech and does not protect only the expression of good ideas, but all ideas. If it were otherwise, who would determine which ideas are good and where forbidden? The government?" Ayn Rand

Another nail in the coffin of free speech.

Whether you like what the man did or not is irrelevant. This is (was) a free country, and his is protected speech. This is an outrage. Let's hope this goes to the Supreme Court. How else to stop this relentless islamization of our society? Over at Creeping:

Violated his trust as a state employee? How so? NJ has been a stronghold for Islamic terrorists going back to the 1993 World Trade Center bombers. How many are employed by New Jersey Transit? via Koran burner Derek Fenton fired from his job at NJ Transit.

A radical who burned pages from the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero was fired from his job at NJ Transit, sources and authorities confirmed.

Derek Fenton, an 11-year employee at NJ Transit, was fired Monday, the agency said in a statement, two days after he was photographed burning the Koran.

“Mr. Fenton’s public actions violated New Jersey Transit’s code of ethics,” NJ Transit said.

“NJ Transit concluded that Mr. Fenton violated his trust as a state employee and therefore was dismissed.”

Fenton’s hate-filled display occurred during a protest against the mosque on the ninth anniversary of Sept. 11.

JammieWearingFool‘s commentary is on point.

Who knew public employees were kept on such a short leash? Heck, teacher’s union goons wished death upon Governor Christie and they still all have jobs.

When someone burns an American flag are they hate-filled radicals or just people exercising free speech?

When SEIU thugs storm people’s houses and they beat up tea partiers they all get to keep their jobs. Why such selective justice in this case?

UPDATE: Diane rightly points out, "This article is tantamount to putting out an Islamic wanted poster. He and his entire family will not be safe and will need protection just like everyone else who has dared to speak out against the religion of perpetual outrage."

Obama's "Peace Partner's" Chilling Hunt, Slaughter of Med Aid Group Suspected of Christianity But Spares Muslim Driver -- Pak-trained killers 'used Fa

Obama's "Peace Partner's" Chilling Hunt, Slaughter of Med Aid Group Suspected of Christianity But Spares Muslim Driver -- Pak-trained killers 'used Facebook
This story in today's NY post is so brutal and savage, your blood will run cold. It did mine and I cannot recover myself.

This group of medical aid workers traveling in the what was considered one of the safest provinces in Afghanistan before this massacre (even billed as a future tourist spot for adventuring travelers) were tracked and murdered because the "perceived sin" of preaching Christianity.

The devout Muslim Taliban spared the driver, who dropped to his knees and recited from Koran.

"The group denied it was doing anything but rendering medical aid to the needy." But so what if they were? What kind of evil is advancing in the face of the West's cowardice?

Nothing will be done. The UN will say nothing. Free men will keep silent. Those who denounce, report or criticize such savagery are "Islamophobes" and "bigots."

Worse still, Obama is negotiating with the Taliban, his would-be peace partner. Sick. During the campaign Obama declared that Afghanistan was the war that should be fought. Iraq was the wrong war (though now he is clucking that Iraq is a feather in his cap). Obama promised he would defeat the enemy in Afghanistan. Who knew he meant by partnering with them.

Taliban's chilling hunt & slaughter Pak-trained killers 'used Facebook' to track aid group

"What's going on?"

Upstate optometrist Tom Little, 62, reportedly shouted his final words as Taliban fighters, faces covered by scarves and bodies wrapped in blankets, rushed at him and nine other charity workers.

In an account of the terrorist atrocity, the Sunday Times of London reported that the small group, led by Little, had just stopped their all-terrain vehicles after navigating a river that had washed out part of the dirt track they'd followed in Afghanistan's remote Badakhshan province.

Little, a father of three from Delmar, outside Albany, yelled his last words as the 10 masked thugs began shooting in the air.

His answer was a blow from the butt of an AK-47 -- and a bullet to the gut.

In a terrible twist, the sole survivor of the attack, driver Safiullah, said that one of the gunmen was part of a group of three that the convoy had offered to drive through the rugged terrain.

Two women with Little made a desperate bid to escape by climbing into a nearby ATV. But a Taliban goon calmly lobbed a hand grenade into the vehicle, killing them both, the newspaper reported.

The account also revealed that British aid worker Karen Woo was lashed across the face by a gunman wielding a Kalashnikov. She fell face-first onto the stony track, and the gunman shot her twice in the back.

The team's cook was fatally shot as he hid beneath an ATV.

One by one, the entire team -- Little, Woo, five other Americans, one German and two Afghans -- were wiped out.

Only their driver, who fell to his knees and recited from the Koran, was spared.

"God was good to me," Safiullah told the AP in his first interview since being released.

No, he was spared because he was a Muslim.

When the slaughter was over, one of the Taliban killers spoke Urdu into his radio.

"Mission accomplished," he coldly declared.

When news of the brutal Aug. 5 killing surfaced, the Afghanistan government initially blamed rogue bandits. But now authorities believe the deaths were anything but random, the newspaper reported.

Testimony from Safiullah has convinced Afghan officials that Little and his group were tracked and executed for the perceived sin of preaching Christianity, the paper said.

"They had made a plan," said the survivor, who suggested that the attackers may have also been after their satellite phones. "It was a very organized group."

"If it's 100 years later and I see them, I'll know them."

Little and the others were part of the Christian charity International Assistance Mission, which has denied the group was doing anything but rendering medical aid to the needy.

They day the group was ambushed, the medical workers were returning from a 120-mile trek on foot and horseback to treat villagers in the remote Nuristan region.

Intelligence sources told The Sunday Times it appears the Taliban tracked the medical team for days. Other intelligence sources said the group's Facebook page may have alerted the Taliban to the trekkers' intentions before they had reached Nuristan.

"It appears the doctors were followed across the mountain passes between Nuristan and Badakhshan by the Taliban. The information we have suggests that this was a targeted killing," an Afghan security service agent told the paper.

Some of the killers had been trained in Pakistan, police told the newspaper.

In crossing Badakhshan, Little and his other aid workers had no idea they were walking into an area rife with Taliban.

US/Iraq Long Term Security Deal Collapses

US Iraq Long Term Security Deal Collapses
HuffPost
The Washington Post reports that the U.S. and Iraq have abandoned attempts to forge a long-term security agreement. The focus is now on a "bridge document" that would provide for basic military operations after the UN mandate expires at the end of this year, and it would fall to the next administration to deal with any extended security agreement:
U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have abandoned efforts to conclude a comprehensive agreement governing the long-term status of U.S troops in Iraq before the end of the Bush presidency, according to senior U.S. officials, effectively leaving talks over an extended U.S. military presence there to the next administration.
In place of the formal status-of-forces agreement negotiators had hoped to complete by July 31, the two governments are now working on a "bridge" document, more limited in both time and scope, that would allow basic U.S. military operations to continue beyond the expiration of a U.N. mandate at the end of the year.
The failure of months of negotiations over the more detailed accord -- blamed on both the Iraqi refusal to accept U.S. terms and the complexity of the task -- deals a blow to the Bush administration's plans to leave in place a formal military architecture in Iraq that could last for years.
Although President Bush has repeatedly rejected calls for a troop withdrawal timeline, "we are talking about dates," acknowledged one U.S. official close to the negotiations. Iraqi political leaders "are all telling us the same thing. They need something like this in there. . . . Iraqis want to know that foreign troops are not going to be here forever."
The increasing need for more troops in Afghanistan to combat a resurgent Taliban may force the Bush Administration to accelerate the rate of troop withdrawal from Iraq:
The Bush administration is considering the withdrawal of additional combat forces from Iraq beginning in September, according to administration and military officials, raising the prospect of a far more ambitious plan than expected only months ago.

Such a withdrawal would be a striking reversal from the nadir of the war in 2006 and 2007.
One factor in the consideration is the pressing need for additional American troops in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and other fighters have intensified their insurgency and inflicted a growing number of casualties on Afghans and American-led forces there.
More American and allied troops died in Afghanistan than in Iraq in May and June, a trend that has continued this month...
...The desire to move more quickly reflects the view of many in the Pentagon who want to ease the strain on the military but also to free more troops for Afghanistan and potentially other missions.