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Thursday, November 17, 2005
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All the jawboning from Bush and Cheney won’t change the actual facts. Al Qaeda is now operating again in Afghanistan. Had we stuck to our guns instead of going off to Iraq, we would have decapitated them in Afghanistan and be able to destroy their other outlets. Instead now, they’re all over the place (Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bali, to name a few) — and you’re fooling yourselves if you don’t think they’re coming here.
A US soldier was killed yesterday by a bomb that exploded near a troop patrol in eastern Afghanistan, and President Hamid Karzai said he expected such attacks to continue ‘’for much more time to come.”
The attack was carried out a day after suicide bombers rammed cars filled with explosives into NATO forces in two attacks in Kabul. It was the first major assault on foreign troops in Kabul in more than a year.
Yesterday, the death toll rose to nine, as police found more bodies in a ditch, and a wounded man was reported to have died.
Police said Al Qaeda was responsible for the suicide bombings. Such seemingly coordinated attacks are unprecedented in Afghanistan and reinforced fears that Osama bin Laden’s terror network has teamed up with its old ally the Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The idiotic leadership of the Bush presidency is going to make America lose the war on terrorism.
(Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.)
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83,000???? Just when you think you have heard the worst about this administration's chaotic, ad hoc, incompetent and intermittently criminal detention policies in the war on terror, a trap-door opens and you fall down another story. It is important to recognize that this administration reserves the right to detain anyone, include American citizens, anywhere, for any amount of time, without charge, sometimes without even documentation, and reserves the right to torture them as well. There are now close to 4,000 held without charge for a year. It is past time for the legislature and the courts to fight back and restrain - or at least bring some kind of order and legality - to this astonishing record. If the administration will not grant these prisoners POW status, it must agree to new rules that allow the innocent to be distinguished from the guilty, and to bar torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment for ever. Pass the McCain Amendment now.
(Via Daily Dish.)
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