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Great News from the SandBox

27 Sunday Oct 2019

Posted by perrinlovett in News and Notes

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ISIS, middle east, War

Mission accomplished. Time to withdraw in triumph. Al-Baghdadi (not a rapper) is dead:

The United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek has learned. President Donald Trump approved the mission nearly a week before it took place.

Amid reports Saturday of U.S. military helicopters over the Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, a senior Pentagon official familiar with the operation and Army official briefed on the matter told Newsweek that Baghdadi was the target of the top-secret operation in the last bastion of the country’s Islamist-dominated opposition, a faction that has clashed with ISIS in recent years.

Trump Details Death of ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi in Northern SyriaREAD MORE
A U.S. Army official briefed on the results of the operation told Newsweek that Baghdadi was killed in the raid, and the Defense Department told the White House they have “high confidence” that the high-value target killed was Baghdadi, but further verification is pending DNA and biometric testing. The senior Pentagon official said there was a brief firefight when U.S. forces entered the compound in Idlib’s Barisha village and that Baghdadi then killed himself by detonating a suicide vest.

One hopes they rapidly conducted one of those traditional Islamic sea-burials that nobody has ever heard of. Otherwise, the “leader” of the leaderless ISIS might rise again, only to die ten years from now from renal failure.

The great news! If any of this actually happened, then these same tactics can be used on real terrorists and enemy combatants in DC and NY. The sooner the better.

Drone Cold Crazy

17 Saturday Oct 2015

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns

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America, crime, drones, Economic collapse, Edward Snowden, government, insanity, middle east, Obama, politicians, terrorism, The People, War, Washington

Years ago I pondered the menace of the Empire’s drone wars: here and here.

The New york Times has warned that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may be engaging in a “‘Whac-A-Mole’ approach to counterterrorism.”  Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, does it not? Silly old Jimmy Carter was laughed at for once stating he sought nuclear policy advice from his daughter. Now we have a deadly serious policy operating on the principles of a carnival game.

Droning On and On.

It seems “Whac-A-Mole” was the perfect description of the program. Read this: The Drone Papers. In Edward Snowden style someone has leaked detailed classified information about America’s drone wars.

The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama’s drone wars.

The Intercept.

From the “Firing Blind” section:

The Obama administration has portrayed drones as an effective and efficient weapon in the ongoing war with al Qaeda and other radical groups. Yet classified Pentagon documents obtained by The Intercept reveal that the U.S. military has faced “critical shortfalls” in the technology and intelligence it uses to find and kill suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia.

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A report last year by retired Gen. John Abizaid and former Defense Department official Rosa Brooks noted that the “enormous uncertainties” of drone warfare are “multiplied further when the United States relies on intelligence and other targeting information provided by a host nation government: How can we be sure we are not being drawn into a civil war or being used to target the domestic political enemies of the host state leadership?”

In 2011, for example, U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal that they had killed a local governor because Yemeni officials didn’t tell them he was present at a gathering of al Qaeda figures. “We think we got played,” one official said. (The Yemeni government disputed the report.)

We’re being played while we play with fire, firing blindly at phantoms of enormous uncertainty. That reminds me of the people’s part in electoral politics.

Shooting missiles at local politicians and goat-herders in foreign countries does nothing to fight terrorism. Muslim terrorists are in America and operating freely – in Boston, Oklahoma City, Chattanooga, etc. More are being imported by the master terrorists in Washington.

These proxy operations only serve the military-industrial complex and the bankers. And, we are rapidly running out of money to pay them.

All of this will end, it just won’t end well.

Students, Guns, and Money

01 Thursday Oct 2015

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes

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CIA, debt, government, guns, insanity, jihad, John Boehner, law, middle east, money, Muslims, Old Republic, shooting, The People, Warren Zevon

My apologizes to the late, great Warren Zevon.

Another shooting in another gun-free zone.  Hmm. Always the narrative.  One would seem to preclude the other.  You don’t hear about too many shootings at police stations, gun ranges, NRA conventions – places where everyone is armed. Anyway, 13 or more innocent people are dead in Oregon.  Very sad.

It’s also rather suspicious that officials know the shooter’s age and sex but not his name.  We knew Vester Flanagan’s name and even his alias immediately. CNN had pictures of KKK-wannabe Dylan Roof instantly.  Nothing this time.

Also interesting is the shooter’s request that his victims rise and state their religions before he executed them.  All this leads me to believe the shooter was either anti-Christian or Muslim.  Maybe both.  Maybe he was just a nut.  Maybe he was a recently imported, CIA trained “refugee” from the middle east seeking a better, safer life in America.  That was sort of the story in Chattanooga and some other recent shootings.  The government is working overtime to import jihadis into the rubble of the Old Republic.

The same government is about to run out of money.  All year they have employed various tricks to make invisible the mounting debt crisis.  As I said earlier, they’re printing and spending just not reporting.  Now the chickens are coming home and the roost is ready to collapse.

Not to worry.  Ahead of his departure Speaker John “Boo Hoo” Boehner is orchestrating a plan to raise the government’s borrowing limit.  They will succeed.  A default and resulting shutdown would be the best thing that could possibly happen to this country.  After several weeks or months the people would forget about the government and never want it back.  The best thing for us is the worse for the political class.  They can’t have that.  The horror show will go on.

They keep spending, we keep dying.  Convenient, huh?

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