Pakistan/Afghanistan: On Ground Updates - June 09, 2012

Pakistan/Afghanistan: On Ground Updates

“We are reaching the limits of our patience, and for that reason it is extremely important that Pakistan take action to prevent this kind of safe haven.”

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta

Kabul, Afghanistan, June o7, 2012

READ the story HERE

.U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta walks with Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony in New Delhi, June 06, 2012. Panetta and Antony discussed the stable and well-developed defense relationship between the two countries and the possibility of India taking a larger role in Afghanistan.

DoD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

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* NYDailyNews.com had this report up Friday afternoon and it starts off like this… Expressing both public and private frustration with Pakistan, the Obama administration has unleashed the CIA to resume an aggressive campaign of drone strikes in Pakistani territory over the last few weeks, approving strikes that might have been vetoed in the past for fear of angering Islamabad… Now, said a senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity in discussing sensitive issues, the administration's attitude is, "What do we have to lose?"… Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta made clear the deteriorating relations with Islamabad on Thursday, saying the United States is "reaching the limits of our patience" because Pakistan has not cracked down on local insurgents who carry out deadly attacks on U.S. troops and others in neighboring Afghanistan… "It is difficult to achieve peace in Afghanistan as long as there is safe haven for terrorists in Pakistan," Panetta told reporters…

Read the rest at link below…

CIA gets nod to step up drone strikes in Pakistan

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* FOXNews.com also had a great report posted up on their website Friday and it starts off like this… Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has not visited Pakistan since taking over as defense secretary a year ago… In a visit to India and Afghanistan this week, he skipped Islamabad again and expressed outright frustration with the Pakistani leadership and the safe havens they provide the Taliban in the Northwest Frontier province, especially the so-called Haqqani network… Admiral Mike Mullen in a parting shot at the Pakistanis did not mince his words when he said Pakistan's intelligence service provides direct support of the Haqqani network, whose fighters are killing US troops in Afghanistan….

Read this report in full/watch the News Video at link below…

US will do whatever necessary to protect forces in Pakistan, Panetta says
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* DAWN.com has the following report posted Saturday and it starts off like this… So it was a bad sign this week when the US defense secretary joshed in front of an audience of Indians about how Washington kept Pakistan in the dark about the raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden a year ago… “They didn’t know about our operation. That was the whole idea,” Leon Panetta said with a chuckle at a Q&A session after a speech in New Delhi, raising laughs from the audience… The Bin Laden raid by US commandos in a Pakistani town infuriated Islamabad because it had no advance notice, and it was seen by Pakistan’s powerful military as a humiliation… The US and Pakistan are starting to look more like enemies than allies, threatening the US fight against Taliban and al-Qaida militants based in the country and efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan before American troops withdraw…

Read the full report at link below…

US, Pakistan beginning to look more like enemies.

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* HindustanTimes.com has this interesting Book Review that goes in part like this. … Pakistani Journalist Ahmed Rashid, an astute chronicler of the troubled region, believes that talk about a peaceful transition to a workable Afghan State in 2014 is delusional, and smacks of tired spin. In ‘Pakistan On The Brink’, a collection of essays on the future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West, Rashid’s vision of the region is unrelentingly bleak. Nuclear-armed Pakistan, he writes, is on the verge of State collapse and becoming an international pariah, Afghanistan is far from ready for competent self-rule, and the US has no strategic vision for stabilising the region. So it is hurtling towards “greater conflict and contradiction rather than peaceful resolution and reconciliation”…

Read this review in full at link below…

Review: Pakistan On The Brink

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AubreyJ………

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CIA Thwarts New Ambitious Underwear Bomb Plot by Al Qaeda Affiliate in Yemen to Destroy U.S.-Bound Airliner

Monday, May 07, 2012

* LATimes.com brings us the following AP report that starts off like this… The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said… The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Dec., 25, 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time Al Qaeda developed a more refined detonation system, U.S. officials said…

Read the full report at link below…

CIAthwarts new underwear bomb plot against jet
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AubreyJ………

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File photo by Rewards for Justice

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CIA Drone Kills Al Qaeda No. 2

* The New York Times brings us the following good news and it starts off like this… A drone operated by the Central Intelligence Agency killed Al Qaeda’s second-ranking figure in the mountains of Pakistan on Monday, American and Pakistani officials said Saturday, further damaging a terrorism network that appears significantly weakened since the death of Osama bin Laden in May… An American official said that the drone strike killed Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, a Libyan who in the last year had taken over as Al Qaeda’s top operational planner. Mr. Rahman was in frequent contact with Bin Laden in the months before the terrorist leader was killed on May 2 by a Navy Seals team, intelligence officials have said…

Read the rest at link below…

C.I.A. Drone Is Said to Kill Al Qaeda’s No. 2

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DoS file photo - Atiyah Abd al-Rahman

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Killing of Osama Bin Laden - May 09, 2011

Killing of

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The President's Story

Monday, May 09, 2011

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To mark the death of Usama Bin Ladin—the man who ordered the 9/11 attacks—the CIA placed flags at its Headquarters next to three artifacts from the attack sites, including this safe door pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center.

Image credit: CIA

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Bin Laden’s Death May Impact Afghanistan, Gates Says

Written by Jim Garamone - American Forces Press Service

Originally posted 5/06/11

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SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. - The killing of Osama bin Laden “could be a game changer” that affects the situation in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.

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Still, it will take time before the situation clarifies, Gates told about 450 airmen at the 335th and 336th fighter squadrons.

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“Bin Laden and [Taliban leader] Mullah Omar had a very close personal relationship, and there are others in the Taliban who have felt betrayed by al-Qaida -- [they feel] it was because of al-Qaida’s attack on the United States that the Taliban got thrown out of Afghanistan,” the secretary said. “We’ll have to see what that relationship looks like.”

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Officials may know in six months or so how bin Laden’s death has affected al-Qaida operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere, Gates said.

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The secretary described U.S. relations in the region as complex. Using Pakistan as an example, the secretary said he would have been astounded if someone had told him two years ago that Pakistan would have 140,000 troops on its western border with Afghanistan and was going to drive the Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaida from South Waziristan and the Swat Valley.

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“I would have said that’s not going to happen, but it has,” he said.

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Pakistan has pulled troops from its border with India and has taken thousands of casualties in the fight against the terrorists. Pakistan also allows a huge percentage of the logistics sent to troops in Afghanistan to flow across their country, Gates said.

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The United States and Pakistan are firm partners in the fight against terrorism, Gates said. However, he added, the Pakistanis may be concerned that United States’ current interest in the region may diminish with time.

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“At the same time there is no question that they hedge their bets,” he said of Pakistan’s leadership. “Their view is that we have abandoned them four times in the last 45 years, and they are still not sure we are going to stay in the region. They saw us leave after the Soviets were thrown out of Afghanistan in 1989 and they are not confident that we won’t leave again when we have accomplished our mission in Afghanistan.”

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Pakistan and the United States have to keep working on their relationship, Gates said. At the tactical level -- across the border with Afghanistan -- the relationship is good and getting better, he said. U.S. and Pakistani forces take turns being the “hammer and anvil” with the Taliban stuck in the middle.

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“I would say it is a relationship we just have to keep working at,” he said.

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* Click out more with this DoD Special Report at link below...

THE DEMISE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN

Lots of reports, videos, photos and more at above link...

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* NPR SPECIAL SERIES:

Osama Bin Laden Killed

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* Background Briefing with Senior Intelligence Official at the Pentagon on Intelligence Aspects of the U.S. Operation Involving Osama Bin Laden

Originally posted Saturday, May 07, 2011

Click out the FULL transcript HERE.

NOTE: Above link also has the 5 Bin Laden videos for you to view or download or both!

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[At the conclusion of the briefing, DVDs with the five video segments were handed out to the press corps along with the following ON THE RECORD statement from Leon E. Panetta, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency: “This mission goes to the heart of what the CIA is all about: protecting America and building a better world for our children. It demonstrates the perseverance, skill, and sheer courage of the men and women who stand watch for our nation, day in and day out. And it is a model of seamless collaboration, both within the Intelligence Community and with the US military. The material found in the compound only further confirms how important it was to go after Bin Laden. Since 9/11, this is what the American people have expected of us. In this critical operation, we delivered.”]

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From the CIA website I found this:

The Final Chapter in the Hunt for Bin Ladin

Lots of good stuff at above link so be sure to click it out...

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- 60 Minutes: The President’s Story -

Killing Bin Laden:

The President's Story, Part 1

Originally Aired May 8th

In his first and only interview since the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama talks to Steve Kroft about the intelligence and preparations leading up to the operation in Pakistan.

Read more/watch the rest at link below...

President Obama on the mission to kill bin Laden .
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AubreyJ.........

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On Ground Updates: Afghanistan/Pakistan - December 31, 2009

On Ground Updates: Afghanistan/Pakistan
Seven CIA Officers lost their lives Wednesday during a Suicide Bomb Attack on Forward Operating Base Chapman, Afghanistan
Post Date: Thursday, December 31, 2009
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From The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
Thursday, December 31, 2009
. Official White House file photo by Pete Souza
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Message from the President to the CIA Workforce
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Earlier this morning, the President sent this message to the CIA workforce in relation to yesterday’s attack in Khost Province, Afghanistan:
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To the men and women of the CIA:
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I write to mark a sad occasion in the history of the CIA and our country. Yesterday, seven Americans in Afghanistan gave their lives in service to their country. Michelle and I have their families, friends and colleagues in our thoughts and prayers.
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These brave Americans were part of a long line of patriots who have made great sacrifices for their fellow citizens, and for our way of life. The United States would not be able to maintain the freedom and security that we cherish without decades of service from the dedicated men and women of the CIA. You have helped us understand the world as it is, and taken great risks to protect our country. You have served in the shadows, and your sacrifices have sometimes been unknown to your fellow citizens, your friends, and even your families.
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In recent years, the CIA has been tested as never before. Since our country was attacked on September 11, 2001, you have served on the frontlines in directly confronting the dangers of the 21st century. Because of your service, plots have been disrupted, American lives have been saved, and our Allies and partners have been more secure. Your triumphs and even your names may be unknown to your fellow Americans, but your service is deeply appreciated. Indeed, I know firsthand the excellent quality of your work because I rely on it every day.
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The men and women who gave their lives in Afghanistan did their duty with courage, honor and excellence, and we must draw strength from the example of their sacrifice. They will take their place on the Memorial Wall at Langley alongside so many other heroes who gave their lives on behalf of their country. And they will live on in the hearts of those who loved them, and in the freedom that they gave their lives to defend.
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May God bless the memory of those we lost, and may God bless the United States of America.
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President Barack Obama

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Taken from a White House Press Release - Office of the Press Secretary
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* The Wall Street Journal has this terrible report out of Afghanistan today and it starts off like this... Seven Central Intelligence Agency officers were killed and six more wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan, the CIA Director Leon Panetta said Thursday, the largest single-day loss for the spy agency since the Beirut embassy bombing in 1983... The attack Wednesday killed at least eight American civilians at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a U.S. compound in the Afghan province of Khost near the Pakistani border that has been a base of operations for the CIA... "Those who fell yesterday were far from home and close to the enemy, doing the hard work that must be done to protect our country from terrorism," Mr. Panetta said in a message to agency employees. "We owe them our deepest gratitude, and we pledge to them and their families that we will never cease fighting for the cause to which they dedicated their lives -- a safer America."...
Read the full report at link below...
CIA Officers Are Killed in Afghan Attack
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* Guardian.co.uk reports it this way... The Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on a US military outpost that killed seven CIA operatives and wounded six others on Wednesday, in a strike that illustrates the insurgents' growing reach and military capability... Former CIA officers said the dead agents were part of a paramilitary unit, likely involved in recruiting and training local Afghans in security roles and carrying out military operations against Taliban and al-Qaida militants along the Pakistan border... The attack took place at a military outpost about a dozen miles from the federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan, a Taliban stronghold...
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Taliban suicide attack kills CIA agents at US outpost in Afghanistan

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* Telegraph.co.uk has this report late this Thursday afternoon... The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote base in south-eastern Afghanistan was being courted as an informant and had been invited onto the base, according to a report... The bombing, which came as President Barack Obama's surge is gathering pace, represented the biggest loss of life suffered by the US intelligence agency since an attack in Beirut in 1983. The CIA said on Thursday a further six agents had been injured in the attack... On Thursday night it was reported that the bomber had been invited onto the base and had not been searched... A former senior intelligence official told the Associated Press that the man was being courted as an informant and that it was the first time he had been brought inside the camp... The official said a senior and experienced CIA debriefer came from Kabul for the meeting, suggesting that the purpose of the session was to gain intelligence...
Read the full report at link below...
CIA suicide bomber was invited on base, report claims

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CIA Slaughter in Afghanistan
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About This News Video: A suicide bombing reportedly killed eight Americans on a CIA base in Afghanistan, making it the worst single loss of life for the CIA since 1983.. As David Martin reports, the Taliban is claiming responsibility.
This Video posted on YouTube by CBS
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Our thoughts and prayers go out to all our fallen Heroes, their family, friends and other loved ones...
AubreyJ.........

Osama bin Laden’s son, Saad bin Laden Apparently Killed in U.S. Missile Strike

Osama bin Laden’s son, Saad bin Laden Apparently Killed in U.S. Missile Strike
Osama bin Laden’s son, Saad bin Laden, who’s also an al-Qaeda member, was apparently Killed in past missile strike by an unmanned CIA Predator
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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* The Washington Post brings us the following report this Thursday afternoon and it starts off like this… The second-oldest son of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was apparently killed in a U.S. missile strike inside Pakistan this year, U.S. counterterrorism officials said Thursday… Saad bin Laden, 27, an al-Qaeda member who has been linked to terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia, is believed to have been among the victims of a series of strikes by unmanned CIA Predator aircraft in the past few months, the officials said. If confirmed, he would be the closest relative to bin Laden killed by U.S. forces since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington…
Read this report in full at link below…
Officials: Son of Osama bin Laden Believed Killed in U.S. Missile Strike
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* BBC News reports it this way… One of Osama Bin Laden's sons is believed to have been killed by a US missile strike in Pakistan earlier this year, a US intelligence official says…
Read the rest of this short report at link below…
Bin Laden son 'believed killed'

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Son of Osama Bin Laden Killed in Pakistan by Hellfire Missiles

This Fox News Video posted on YouTube by LamePseudonym1
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Can we PLEASE get the OLD MAN too!!!
AubreyJ………

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - Incompetent or Liar?

Is Nancy Pelosi Incompetent or a Liar?
I’d say BOTH!
Friday, May 15, 2009
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File photo from the speaker.gov website

* CNN had the following article posted up on their website today and it starts like this… House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is engaging in a "despicable, dishonest and vicious political effort" to withhold what she knew about the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques, former Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday… Gingrich said Pelosi "lied to the House" when she earlier claimed that the CIA had never briefed her about the Bush administration's use of interrogation methods like waterboarding, which is considered torture by the current administration… "I think that the House has an absolute obligation to open an inquiry, and I hope there will be a resolution to investigate her…
Read the rest at link below…
Gingrich: 'Absolute obligation' to investigate Pelosi
Above link has photos, news videos and more
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* WashingtonPost.com had this report up on their website today…
CIA Director Leon Panetta today rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's charge that the agency misled her in 2002 about its use of waterboarding and other coercive interrogation methods on suspected terrorists… Panetta, who took office as President Obama's CIA chief in February, reasserted the agency's claim that it told about the use of such methods during a closed-door briefing in September 2002…
Read the full report at link below…
CIA Director Rejects Pelosi's Charge That CIA Misled Her
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* Politico.com reports…
Gingrich: 'Absolute obligation' to investigate Pelosi
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FIRE PELOSI!!!
AubreyJ………

Nancy Pelosi, Liar… FIRE HER NOW!!!

File photo from the speaker.gov website
Enough is enough…

LIAR!!!
FIRE NANCY PELOSI,
As House Speaker, NOW!!!
What say you?
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AubreyJ………

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What fellow Bloggers are saying…
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* Karl Rove…
Congress and Waterboarding - Nancy Pelosi was an accomplice to 'torture'
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* Amy Proctor…
'Nancy Pelosi Was an Accomplice to Torture'
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* Atlas Shrugs…
Pelosi: Liar of the House
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* LGF…
Pelosi Accuses CIA of Lying to Her About Waterboarding
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* Michelle Malkin…
Pelosi, the CIA, and the Dems’ dangerous blame game
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* Gina Cobb…
Attempt to Torment Bush Administration Over "Torture" Turns Into Slow Torture for Nancy Pelosi and Other Dems in Congress

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CIA Uses Viagra as Bribing Tactic to get Intel from Afghan Warlords

CIA Uses Viagra as Bribing Tactic...

to get Intel from Afghan Warlords
Monday, December 29, 2008

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The WashingtonPost.com website brings us this uplifting report and it goes in part like this...
...The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift. Four blue pills-- Viagra... "Take one of these. You'll love it," the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam... The enticement worked. The officer, who described the encounter, returned four days later to an enthusiastic reception. The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes -- followed by a request for more pills...
Read the rest of this Rousing Story at link below...
Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghanistan
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* DNAIndia.com reports it this way...
US uses Viagra against Qaeda, Taliban
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The things we do for our country...
AubreyJ.........

CIA, General Michael Hayden: Osama bin Laden is alive - "putting a lot of energy into his own security"

Thursday, November 13, 2008

The ABC News website brings us this report today and it starts off like this... Osama bin Laden is alive and "putting a lot of energy into his own security," the director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden, said today... He also claimed, without providing details, that the US intelligence community had disrupted an attack "that would have rivaled the destruction of 9/11."...
Read the full report at link below...
CIA Chief: Bin Laden Alive, Worried About 'Own Security'
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* AP.Google.com had this take on the news and it goes in part like this...
...The hunt for bin Laden remains at the top of the CIA's priority list... "His death or capture clearly would have a significant impact on the confidence of his followers - both core al-Qaida and unaffiliated extremists throughout the world," Hayden said... Al-Qaida-affiliated groups in the Philippines and Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Iraq have been degraded, but al-Qaida cells are surfacing elsewhere, Hayden said...
Read the full report at link below...
CIA: Hunt for bin Laden is on

General Hayden file photo from AF.mil website - Osama bin Laden file photo courtesy of Rewards for Justice

CIA To Brief Members Of Congress Today In Closed, Classified Meeting Over North Korea-Syria Nuke Link

Thursday, April 24, 2008

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POST is being UPDATED and moved to top of Friday's Post

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Well... The day has finally come that U.S. Intelligence Officials will finally tell members of Congress what they know about North Korea helping Syria build a nuclear facility that was eventually bombed to pieces by Israel back in September 2007. The United States, Israel and Syria immediately went mum... never giving us any details about the attack and what they hit. That is until today.... ...
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IsraelNationalNews.com brings us this report early this morning and it starts off like this... The CIA is set to confirm to Congress that the Syrian installation destroyed by Israel last September was a nuclear reactor...
CIA Confirms: Israel Bombed Nuclear Reactor in Syria
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* WashingtonPost.com reports... A video taken inside a secret Syrian facility last summer convinced the Israeli government and the Bush administration that North Korea was helping to construct a reactor similar to one that produces plutonium for North Korea's nuclear arsenal, according to senior U.S. officials who said it would be shared with lawmakers today... The officials said the video of the remote site, code-named Al Kibar by the Syrians, shows North Koreans inside. It played a pivotal role in Israel's decision to bomb the facility late at night last Sept. 6, a move that was publicly denounced by Damascus but not by Washington...
N. Koreans Taped At Syrian Reactor

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* Google Earth Community has some great Google Earth satellite views of the site HERE
(Need Google Earth to view)

File photo by IAF

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UPDATED: Friday, April 25, 2008
Sorry to take so long. Finally got what I was looking for...
Click out the 11 minute video, in BBC News part of this post below.
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The following is from:
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
Statement by the Press Secretary
Thursday, April 24, 2008

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Today, administration officials have briefed select Congressional committees on an issue of great international concern. Until Sept. 6, 2007, the Syrian regime was building a covert nuclear reactor in its eastern desert capable of producing plutonium. We are convinced, based on a variety of information, that North Korea assisted Syria's covert nuclear activities. We have good reason to believe that reactor, which was damaged beyond repair on Sept. 6 of last year, was not intended for peaceful purposes. Carefully hidden from view, the reactor was not configured for such purposes. In defiance of its international obligations, Syria did not inform the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the construction of the reactor, and, after it was destroyed, the regime moved quickly to bury evidence of its existence. This cover-up only served to reinforce our confidence that this reactor was not intended for peaceful activities.

We are briefing the IAEA on this intelligence. The Syrian regime must come clean before the world regarding its illicit nuclear activities. The Syrian regime supports terrorism, takes action that destabilizes Lebanon, allows the transit of some foreign fighters into Iraq, and represses its own people. If Syria wants better relations with the international community, it should put an end to these activities.

We have long been seriously concerned about North Korea's nuclear weapons program and its proliferation activities. North Korea's clandestine nuclear cooperation with Syria is a dangerous manifestation of those activities. One way we have chosen to deal with this problem is through the Six Party Framework. Through this process we are working with our partners to achieve the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The United States is also committed to ensuring that North Korea does not further engage in proliferation activities. We will work with our partners to establish in the Six Party Framework a rigorous verification mechanism to ensure that such conduct and other nuclear activities have ceased.

The construction of this reactor was a dangerous and potentially destabilizing development for the region and the world. This is particularly true because it was done covertly and in violation of the very procedures designed to reassure the world of the peaceful intent of nuclear activities. This development also serves as a reminder that often the same regimes that sponsor proliferation also sponsor terrorism and foster instability, and cooperate with one another in doing so. This underscores that the international community is right to be very concerned about the nuclear activities of Iran and the risks those activities pose to the stability of the Middle East. To confront this challenge, the international community must take further steps, beginning with the full implementation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions dealing with Iranian nuclear activities. The United States calls upon the international community to redouble our common efforts to ending these activities and preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction in this critical region.

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Here’s what we been waiting for!
The CIA VIDEO...
Thanks to the BBC News website, we now got it.
The US has accused North Korea of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor that "was not intended for peaceful purposes"... The CIA presented the following video to members of Congress, claiming it shows similarities between a North Korean reactor and one in Syria which was bombed by Israel in 2007.
Footage courtesy of US Government video – A little over 11 minutes long
Click out the VIDEO HERE
* Read more from BBC News today HERE

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* The Times Of India website has this report out early this Friday morning and it starts off like this... The UN atomic watchdog hit out on Friday at the United States for withholding intelligence that Syria had been building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korea's help... The International Atomic Energy Agency also criticized Israel for acting on the allegations and bombing the purported reactor in a raid last September without giving IAEA inspectors an opportunity to investigate...
Read this report in full at link below...
IAEA chief hits out at US, Israel over Syrian reactor claims

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JPOST.com reports it this way...
ElBaradei slams Israel for attacking Syrian nuclear reactor

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Syrian Ambassador Rejects US Nuclear Charges

About video: After being briefed by American officials, Syria's ambassador to Washington, Imad Moustapha, has denied US allegations that his country was building a nuclear reactor with help from North Korea.
Video posted on YouTube by AlJazeeraEnglish
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