Afghan Strategy, the balloon, Gold Egg

New Afghan Strategy:
Afpak is like working with a balloon
and a dotted line around the center.
One side is Afghan and on the other
half of the balloon is Pakistan.
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10-11 Escalation of Force Handbook - Afghanistan
Labels: Ops and Intel update 12.05.09

The 45-year-old Camara was shot while at a military camp housing hundreds of men under Toumba's control, Cherif said. Camara had driven to Camp Koundara to confront Toumba after Toumba went to a downtown police station and released officers that were loyal to him but whom Camara had ordered arrested, said Cherif.
Cherif declined to say how many people had been arrested in the ongoing investigation. He confirmed that Toumba was still at large along with a contingent of his men. Members of the junta, including Toumba, are believed to lead private armies that are faithful only to them.
Thursday's attack underscored the deep divide inside the military clique that grabbed control of Guinea last December following the death of the country's longtime dictator, Lansana Conte. Camara had initially promised to quickly organize elections, but then reversed course and began hinting that he planned to run for office, prompting a massive protest Sept. 28.
Toumba is accused of having led the presidential guard that opened fire on the peaceful demonstrators, who had gathered inside the capital's national stadium. Human rights groups say at least 157 people were killed and dozens of women were raped by the red beret-wearing presidential guard who also assaulted them with bayonets, rifle butts and with pieces of wood. The government put the death toll at 57.
At least 20 women were kidnapped and driven away in military trucks to private villas where they were drugged and videotaped while they were being gang-raped over several days, according to three survivors as well as several human rights groups. The government has denied all wrongdoing and blamed opposition leaders for going ahead with a banned protest.
The massacre led the European Union and the African Union to impose sanctions on Guinea,including on top members of the junta, who are now the subject of a travel ban. Sources inside the military say that it deeply aggravated divisions that were already present and has led to the clique fracturing further.
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Labels: Expecting coup in Guinea.
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The reason why Obama neglects to mention any regional interests Pakistan's? Admitting the larger logic of regionalization would make too painfully obvious the nature of our current strategic bankruptcy. Because it would suggest that the only "victory" to be found would be "won" by those neighboring powers who did nothing to stabilize the situation. In other words, their "treasure" and our "blood."
( The flip side of Tom's argument is that China is buyinghttp://cryptome.org/dodi/handbook-10-11.zip (4.7MB)
10-11 Escalation of Force Handbook - Afghanistan
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On a grainy undercover videotape recorded in a hotel room in Tbilisi, Georgia, an Iranian arms merchant chats with two Philadelphia salesmen who have brought samples of their military wares.
The merchant, Amir Hossein Ardebili, who has flown from Tehran to make a deal, patiently answers the Americans' questions. The radar microchips? Needed for antimissile protection. The sophisticated computers? Essential to "launch the F-4" fighter.
All of it, he says flatly, is destined for the Iranian military "because they think the war is coming." Against the United States.
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this from Cannoneer no. 4:"Self-radicalization without Jihadi videos is like self-gratification without porn. Pictures get you their quicker."
( youtube is a major contributor to jahidie recruiting. )
The Jihad web sites are incubators for recruiting, training, and bastardization of Islam.
Youtube stores the videos and provides bandwidth for the terrorist to broadcast their
propaganda lies on Jahidie web sites.
( I know I make a lot of spelling errors, "Jahide" isn't a spelling error.
Jihad is a legitimate Islamic quest, so I differentiate between legit Jihad and the
terrorist form of bastardization of the Jihad , with different spellings, I bastardize
the spelling of Jihad to Jahid just as the terrorist bastardize the function of Jihad
for the promotion of Bin Laden's Psychotic personality cult. G )
Taking out all the public terrorist web sites is desirable.
It drives them underground, away from public eyes,
cuts down on public recruiting and the propaganda
lies.
Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: Bin Laden the LIAR
And its not hard to trace and track the secret underground terrorist sites.
Some of you might remember the "Infovlad forum"
and the Terrorist Cyber dos attack planned for November
of last year against the USA, we continually burned them on Infovlad
posting the websites URl and they went underground ,
with our moles, and 3 days before
the cyber attack we posted their website's URL and took them out.
Forcing the sites to go underground provides a kind of vetting,
mostly only serious jahidders get in. And it provides a nice list
for arrests and Intel collection.
And taking out the Jadie sites helps in the SysAdmin programs,
as it would cut out alot of the propaganda lies.
Taking out Jahiddie and terrorist sites is a big
move towards preventing the bastardization of Islam
for the Terrorist twisted cult of al Qaeda.
Gerald
Internet Anthropologist
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Labels: Shutting Down Cyber Jihad



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Even if fewer troops are sent, or their mission is modified, the rough formula used by the White House, of about $1 million per soldier a year, appears almost constant.
So the math is easy: 40k troops for Afghanistan equals $40B.One answer is to build in the direction of the SysAdmin, of course, but to do so in sufficient fashion would make the Leviathan too small, thus my argument from day one that the answer is to shift the old burden sharing arguments from the Leviathan (where little exists anyway) to the SysAdmin (where our allies are far more comfortable operating anyway).Extending the logic further: since our old allies (Europe, Industrialized Asia) typically can't muster the necessary ROE (rules of engagement), because SysAdmin work ain't all passing out food packets, we need to expand the pool of allies to include people willing to kill and sacrifice in defending globalization's expanding networks (colonialism to the small-minded who believe people should be left alone to enjoy their pristine poverty).At that point, you're talking logically about the rising pillars with expanding economic interests--meaning the incentivized.These states will typically claim, "I don't want to get involved with such nasty stuff. Everybody loves me! Leave it to the Americans."Then, in the final calculation, you get past the hyperbole and nonsense and realize that the opponents of connectivity fall into two, rather small but still potent camps: 1) the dictators that must maintain it to maintain their power; and 2) the fundamentalists who must detach from this "evil" assimilation process that liberates women, "ruins" kids, and gives people all sorts of "dangerous" ideas.Do-able?Not with our current set of allies. But when the entirety of the Core is considered? Absolutely
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The catch 22, Others don't want to do the SysAdmin, it isn't safe.
Doing SysAdmin in a battle field is dangerous.
How do we incentivize the core to do SysAdmin in the Gap?
Capitalism, profits may lead the way.
In Tom's weblog he had some great arguments about implementing
SysAdmin, but the site doesn't seem to have a search function any more?
How does one build roads, infrastructure in a battle field?
USA has the Leviathan but doesn't seem to be able to
provide the security necessary to develop the SysAdmin.
And USA doesn't seem able to provide the security without
an infrastructure.
And to get the infrastructure it needs the SysAdmin,
and SysAdmin needs the security to build the infrastructure,
the catch 22.
The question remains how to provide it all at once?
It would seem long term the indigenous security systems,
Army and Police have to provide the security to set up the
SysAdmin to build the infrastructure.
So we are back to building up the Nations security systems
to provide the security.
Can this be done without killing all the Taliban?
Can the people be converted to support a SysAdmin
against the Terrorist?
That would seem to rely on an effective Info WAR,
bring the truth to the people, and laying the responsibility
for the suicide bombings at the feet of the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Currently the people are all over the horizon blaming USA, India
and Blackwater for the suicide bombings.
Blaming everyone except themselves for the empowered
terrorist among themselves.
It would seem there is a road map through this landscape
if done in proper order.
Gerald
Anthropologist
(Google formating SUCKS
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Labels: SysAdmin catch 22

Modern-day Pakistan began with independence from British India on August 14, 1947.[4][5] The political history of eventual birth of the country began in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which culminated in 90 years of direct rule by the British Crown and subsequently, spawned a successful freedom struggle led by the Indian National Congress and later by the All India Muslim League. The latter was founded in 1906 to protect Muslim interests and rose to popularity in the late 1930s amid fears of neglect and under-representati on of Muslims in politics. On the 29 December 1930, Muhammad Iqbal called for an autonomous state in "northwestern India for Indian Muslims".[6] Muhammad Ali Jinnah espoused the Two Nation Theory and led the Muslim League to adopt the Lahore Resolution[7] of 1940, demanding the formation of an independent Pakistan.
Pakistan became independent from British India as a Muslim-majority state with two wings - West Pakistan and East Pakistan. Independence witnessed unprecedented and prologed communal riots across India and Pakistan, eventually resulting in millions of Indian Muslims migrating to Pakistan and millions of Pakistan's Hindus and Sikhs
Pakistan declared itself an Islamic republic on adoption of a costitution in 1956, but the civilian rule was stalled by the 1956 military coup d'etat by Ayub Khan, who ruled during a period of internal instability and a second war with India in 1965. Economic grievances and political dissent in East Pakistan led to violent political tensions and army repression, escalating into civil war[8] followed by the third war with India. This ultimately led to the secession of East Pakistan and the brith of Bangladesh.[9]
Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 1977 under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, until he was deposed by General Zia-ul-Haq, who became the country's third military president. Pakistan's secular policies were replaced by the Islamic Shariah legal code, which increased religious influences on the civil service and the military. With the death of Zia-ul-Haq in 1988, Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan. Over the next decade, she alternated power with Nawaz Sharif, as the country's political and economic situation worsened. Military tensions in the Kargil conflict[10] with India were followed by a 1999 coup d'état in which GeneralPervez Musharraf assumed executive powers.[11]
In 2001, Musharraf named himself President after the resignation of Rafiq Tarar. In the 2002 Parliamentary Elections, Musharraf transferred executive powers to newly elected Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who was succeeded in the 2004 by Shaukat Aziz. On November 15 2007 the National Assembly completed its term and a caretaker government was appointed with the former Chairman of The Senate,Muhammad Mian Soomro as Prime Minister. Following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, resulted in a series of important political developments. Asif Ali Zardari was eventually elected as the new President.
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But there is a political side to the Paranoia.
From one of our sources inside the Beltway.
"The Paki's are intensely paranoid of foreign influences. They see themselves surrounded by enemies such as Russia, India, now the US. They are very gossipy and rumor driven and there are a number of fantasies that play to that mass hysteria at times. The internet has great power to inform and also to deceive.
Switch on any of the dozens of satellite news channels now available in Pakistan.
You will be bombarded with talk show hosts who are mostly obsessed with demonising the elected government, trying to convince viewers of global conspiracies against Pakistan led by India and the United States or insisting that the recent campaign of suicide bomb blasts around the country is being orchestrated by foreigners rather than local militants.
Viewers may well ask where is the passionate debate about the real issues that people face - the crumbling economy, joblessness, the rising cost of living, crime and the lack of investment in health and education or settling the long-running insurgency in Balochistan province.
The answer is nowhere.
...Recently, one senior retired army officer claimed that Hakimullah Mehsud - the leader of the Pakistani Taliban which is fighting the army in South Waziristan and has killed hundreds in daily suicide bombings in the past five weeks - had been whisked to safety in a US helicopter to the American-run Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
In other words the Pakistani Taliban are American stooges, even as the same pundits admit that US-fired drone missiles are targeting the Pakistani Taliban in Waziristan.
These are just the kind of blatantly contradictory and nut-case conspiracy theories that get enormous traction on TV channels and in the media - especially when voiced by such senior former officials.
...The army has not helped by constantly insisting that the vicious Pakistani Taliban campaign to topple the state and install an Islamic emirate is not a local campaign waged by dozens of extremist groups, some of whom were trained by the military in the 1990s, but the result of foreign conspiracies.
Paki you have access to the Internet, where is
their critical thinking?
Where are the professional broadcasters, NEWSMEN, Journalists?? Some one needs to step UP..Ahmed Rashid???
Gerald
Anthropologist
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Labels: Ops and Intel update 11.28.09

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| Date | Description & Location | Perpetrtor & Weapon | Killed | Injured |
| 2002-0105 | Bank of America cessna crash, Tampa, FL | Charles Bishra (Airplane) | 00 | 00 |
| 2002-0522 | Armstrong International Airport shootings, New Orleans, LA | Patrick Gott (gun) | 01 | 01 |
| 2002-0705 | LAX Airline counter shootings, Los Angeles, CA | Hesham Mohamed Hadayet (gun) | 02 | 05 |
| 2002-1002 | Beltway (& other) shootings, CA, AZ, TX, AL, MD, DC | John Mohammed, Lee Malvo (gun) | 17 | 05 |
| 2003-0323 | Camp Pennsylvania sapper attack, Kuwait | Sgt. Hasan Akbar (grenade, gun) | 02 | 14 |
| 2004-0806 | Muslim convert kills his Jewish friend, Houston, TX | Mohammed Ali Alayed (knife) | 01 | 00 |
| 2005-0111 | Goodwin House retirement attack, Alexandria, VA | Mustafa Mohamed (knife) | 00 | 06 |
| 2005-1001 | Univ of Oklahoma stadium bombing, Norman, OK | Joel Henry Hinrichs III (bomb) | 00 | 00 |
| 2005-1218 | Home Depot car attack, Chandler, AZ | Ali R. Warrayat (car, fire-bombs) | 00 | 00 |
| 2006-0303 | SUV attack, Univ of North Carolina, Chapill Hill, NC | Mohammed Taheri-azar (car) | 00 | 09 |
| 2006-0615 | Movie Theater shooting, Baltimore, MD | Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar (gun) | 01 | 00 |
| 2006-0625 | Safeway Warehouse shooting, Denver, CO | Michael Julius Ford (gun) | 01 | 05 |
| 2006-0728 | Jewish Federation shooting, Seattle, WA | Naveed Afzal Haq (gun) | 01 | 05 |
| 2006-0830 | SUV rampage, San Francisco, CA | Omeed Aziz Popal (car) | 01 | 19 |
| 2007-0212 | Trolley Square Mall shooting, Salt Lake City, UT | Sulejman Talovic (gun) | 05 | 04 |
| 2007-0220 | Vanderbilt car rampage, Nashville, TN | Ibrahim Ahmed (car) | 00 | 02 |
| 2007-1023 | Homestead Air Force Base gate attack, Miami, FL | Tahmeed Ahmad (knife-fire bomb) | 00 | 00 |
| 2008-0812 | Hospital employees attacked, Minneapolis, MN | Somali Teens (minors not named) | 00 | 02 |
| 2008-0908 | Subway hammer attack, Philidelphia, PA | Thomas Scantling (hammer) | 00 | 01 |
| 2008-1103 | Jewish Students attacked at UC Berkely, CA | Husam Zakharia (fists) | 00 | 02 |
| 2009-0601 | Army recruiting station shooting, Little Rock, AR | Abdulhakim Muhammad (gun) | 01 | 01 |
| 2009-1105 | Ft. Hood, Texas mass shooting, Killen, TX | Major Nidal Hasan (gun) | 13 | 29 |
| TOTAL: | 46 | 110 | ||
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