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June 18, 2008

Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani

Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, don of an Afghan/Pakistani terror network. He is responsible for recent suicide bombings, a relatively new development in Afghanistan. He runs a network of madrasas and terrorist groups including Al Qaeda. He is protected by the government and by the US, as you can see by these very revealing few graphs from yesterday's Times piece:
"Asked in 2006 why the Pakistani military did not move against Maulavi Haqqani, a senior Pakistani intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, acknowledged that it was because he was a Pakistani asset.

"Maulavi Haqqani has by now become so powerful in his redoubt that a Western military official who has worked in both Pakistan and Afghanistan said the problem of going after him was that the Pakistani military was not capable of taking him on and feared failure if it tried.

"Pakistani forces accompanied by Americans raided a mosque owned by Maulavi Haqqani while searching for him in North Waziristan in 2002, but since then he has been largely left alone.

"One Western military official said there was an unspoken agreement between Pakistani and American officials that United States Predator drones would generally be used in the tribal areas against foreign Qaeda members, rather than Pakistani or Afghan targets, like the Haqqanis."

So here it is, the corrupt, incompetent, and lying Bush foreign policy in a nutshell. Four thousand soldiers dead, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, a shredded constitution, and world reputation later...here's our war on terror: chasing the fighter we created in Iraq and cutting deals to ignore them where they had been before 9/11. And get the final graph, a quote by him:
"'We will fight them with patience,' Maulavi Haqqani says on the DVD. 'This is not a battle of haste; this is a battle of patience. If a strong animal fights with a small and weak animal, the big animal uses all its power, not against the enemy, but against itself.'"


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It is common practice to use local factions against the one you are fighting, just like Cortes used local Indian tribes as allies to conquer the Aztecs. Can some of those factions betray you? Sure, but that's what war is all about. I'm sure Jalaluddin has his own agenda and will use whoever can help him to meet his goals. War is not glamorus like we see in the movies.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature (such as the mother jones crowd) and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."-- John Stuart Mill
Posted by:RaulJune 19, 2008 8:40:27 AMRespond ^
The painting is excellent.
The story?? No so sure.
I think that Bush made a deal with Bin Laden, one of those fabled 10-year Islamic truces. But that's just my opinion, I could be 'mer·e·tri·cious'.
Posted by:TrollsteinJune 19, 2008 1:59:01 PMRespond ^
I have been around since the Vietnam War, I have read about WWII and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. All ugly and a loss of good men and women. Yes, this country has had many wars- does it matter if it was necessary or not? What are you saying to the families of these soldiers who died? Why are you doing to the soldiers who are out there now, what was done to our Vietnam Vets. They were filled with anger and resentment. No I'm not comparing the wars, just the human element. I can't fight, but if I could physically, I would stand beside these brave young men and women and continue to encourage them. I don't make the decisions for this country,but I vote and pray everyday for it and let some one bigger, stronger, smarter and in control handle this war: GOD!
Posted by:IrmaC.June 23, 2008 5:17:14 PMRespond ^
If you want to know the real Haqqani, check out:

http://www.afghan-web.com/bios/haqqani.html
Posted by:Hasan ShabnamOctober 14, 2008 10:08:36 PMRespond ^

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