Archive for the 'Khalid Sheikh Mohammad' Category

July 2nd 2009

Unequal Justice For All

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ostile, America-hating jihadists captured in battles in Afghanistan were shown U.S. hospitality in Guantanamo – given Qur’ans and a proper Muslim diet, offered exercise and prayer time.  Each individual’s case was carefully researched and heard, a lawyer by the jihadist’s side to represent his interests.  Many were simply freed after this process, others ascertained judiciously to be too dangerous and returned to their cells.

And for this process, Leftists in America and anti-Americans around the world howled and spat and said vile things about our country and our president.  Even our new president joined in the condemning chorus, staking out the most left-wing of all candidates’ position on the matter.

Now, with the capture of a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, we have a sad and tragic opportunity to measure the behavior of America against the behavior of those who fight us on the battlefield, betray us on our shores, and denigrate us from the comfort of their protected European easy chairs.

We certainly can’t expect anything approaching equal treatment and respect from those jihadist thugs who captured the soldier. Here’s what WaPo reports on them:

“Our leaders have not decided on the fate of this soldier.” the AFP quoted the Haqqani commander, identified only as Bahram, as saying. “They will decide on his fate and soon we will present video tapes of the coalition soldier and our demand to media.”

So Haqqani leaders, not a tribunal, will decide his fate.  And he will be videotaped and used as a propaganda tool, a violation of the Geneva accords.  And they will use the soldier to make demands of us, rather than treat him as a prisoner of war.  Anyone who has followed these sorts of cases has to fear for the life of this soldier; I hope that is not the case, but he has suffered the great misfortune of being captured by people who are not Americans.

Check out the several stories posted on Memeorandum about this breaking event, and you will find no Leftist outlets or blogs listed; you will not be able to link over to any stories or posts from the Left, calling for justice and demanding compliance with Geneva. They are uninterested, just as they are suddenly uninterested in civilian deaths in Iraq or military operations in Afghanistan.  Hypocrites.

Don’t count on this story even breaking through the Michael Jackson storm in the European press, obsessed as it is with deviant behaviors – especially by Americans.

Those who demanded full rights don’t even much care about this soldier’s right to life.  Guantanamo was all about serving a purpose other than protecting jihadists; it was about destroying a presidency and denigrating America, nothing more – and the Left’s disinterest in the fate of this soldier is all the proof we need.

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March 16th 2007

Is KSM Bragging?

The Left, the conspiracy theorists, the MSM and the front men for Islam all are greeting Kahlid Sheik Mohammed’s confession in Guantanamo as either over-coerced by the CIA or over-stated by a braggadocio terrorist.

As the WSJ says today, let’s hope they’re right.

The chain of carried out and planned events reveal horrific schemes that, if successful, would have killed over 10,000 people; perhaps as many as 25,000 by my rough estimating. Nearly all would not have been combatants in the war against Islamfascism; they would have been moms and dads, kids, grandparents … innocents.

Those who are trying to ignore the ferocious, appalling goals of Islamofascism — whether it’s by criticizing the KSM confession or by sitting in their seats in Congress and undercutting the war — are trying to turn back the clock to Sept. 10, 2001, when they still thought they could get away with ignoring the jihadist threat.

Here’s how the WSJ editorial described those who would pretend we’re not at war:

But we think KSM’s world of war makes clear that, if anything, President Bush understated the danger posed by the 14 “high-value” enemy combatants he transferred to Guantanamo last autumn. And it reveals just how terribly mistaken was the view of those who told us, pre-9/11, that terrorism was merely a law enforcement threat like any other.

That view permeated the CIA, where Paul Pillar helped run the Counterterrorist Center and wrote that “There is no. . . BinLadentern” akin to the old Communist Comintern. He denounced “overheated rhetoric that has spun out ever more frightening and unusual ways in which terrorism might inflict large numbers of casualties.” And he deprecated President Clinton for ordering government agencies to examine the plausibility of a biological attack on New York City after he’d read “The Cobra Event,” Richard Preston’s 1998 novel on the subject.

When the 9/11 Commission concluded that the failure to avert that awful day was above all “a failure of imagination,” the Pillar world view is Exhibit A. And we mention it here because now, after five years without a terror attack on U.S. soil, that view is making a comeback in the growing opposition to holding enemy combatants in Guantanamo or to warrantless wiretaps of al Qaeda.

As KSM makes clear, bin Laden and his acolytes declared “war” on the U.S. in his fatwa of 1998, a fact the U.S. only figured out on September 11. He professes to regret the death of women and children, but calls such indiscriminate killing “the language of any war” and justified by his religious motivation.

“For sure, I’m American enemies,” said KSM in his broken English. For sure, too, he is a reminder of the evil that still confronts us in this conflict with radical Islam, and one that we underestimate at our existential peril.

As the Surge begins working, as Iran looks better than ever, we have KSM making the terrorists look worse than ever. And as his confession circulates, as the car bombs aren’t going off in Iraq, Congress continues to say there’s no war here, there’s nothing for us to win, let’s just go home, comfy in the knowledge that this whole Islamofascism thing was a bad dream.

Wake up!

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March 15th 2007

No Laughing Matter, But …

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad finally got his Combatant Status Review Tribunal at Gitmo and recited on pages 18-19 of the tribunal transcript his list of 31 personal accomplishments in the Jihadist War Against Infidels. Number 10 got me:

10. I was responsible for surveying and financing for the assassination of several former American Presidents, including President Carter.

President Carter? The sine qua non of appeasers? The Jew-slamming friend of the Palestinians? The enabler of the Iranian Revolution? (OK, that last one would really tick off a Sunni fanatic like Mohammad.) Man, Jimmy’s having a hard time getting any respect today.

To say the list is chilling is a profound understatement. Yes, it clearly says that al Qaeda’s hopes are far beyond its actual ability to realize them, but the brutal carnage they would like to unleash on us should get the attention of even the most radical of Lefties.

Should, not would.

The Token Dem here at the office tells me the Left is saying the release of the transcript was timed to take the steam out of the AG Gonzales affair.

And on ABC Talk Radio this a.m., I heard them talking about waterboarding’s possible influence on Mohammed’s “confession” — you could almost hear their manicured little fingers making the marks in the air — and the fact that no “independent collaboration” of the confession is available.

Idiots! Here is one of the world’s most evil men giving a detailed accounting of what our enemy is working very hard to do to us and all the Left can do is run and hide from the grisly details and point their pot-stained fingers at us, not the terrorists who want to destroy all we hold dear.

Idiots! Idiots! Idiots!

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