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Today’s WApo has an interesting article above the fold which doesn’t quite touch on the precise reasons why this is all happening. Perhaps the MSM is starting to realize that the way to take down the Bush administration is to start concentrating on what’s happening in Afghanistan. Because you know as well as I do–that’s the only reason they would report this as news. They don’t have it totally right though, because they’re not going to come out and say that the Department of State, the FBI and so on–are having an absolute fit because the Northern Alliance won the majority of seats in Parliament. They’re trying to portray this as business as usual and feign surprise, disbelief and astonishment that Taliban/Al Qaeda attacks are on the rise. After all, didn’t we successfully get rid of the Taliban? Oh, what’s this? Suicide bombing attacks? Foreign fighters? Perhaps we can paint this as another failure of the Bush administration, nail the military as ineffective and unnecessary and tag this onto the ‘doom and gloom’ memes about Iraq. OK, I’m on it!

Afghans Confront Surge in Violence
Foreign Support Seen Behind Attacks That Mimic Those in Iraq

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 27 — An onslaught of grisly and sophisticated attacks since parliamentary elections in September has left Afghan and international officials concerned that Taliban guerrillas are obtaining support from abroad to carry out strikes that increasingly mimic insurgent tactics in Iraq.

That’s what happens when you “release” the Taliban from the prisons, and try to institute a policy of “appeasement” and let’s all kiss each other again. Perhaps if Karzai was really treating these people as though they were the enemy–and wasn’t allowing them to participate in the elections, there wouldn’t be a growing problem. Ya think?

The recent attacks — including at least nine suicide bombings — have shown unusual levels of coordination, technological knowledge and blood lust, according to officials. Although military forces and facilities have been the most common targets, religious leaders, judges, police officers and foreign reconstruction workers have also fallen prey to the violence.

We’ve already established that these people are animals. They behead their victims, do public hangings, rape Christian girls to force them to convert to Islam, kidnap Christian girls and marry them off to muslim men, etc.. This isn’t an ideology that is “tolerant” of the infidel by any stretch of the imagination. They strap people into cars, forcing them to become suicide bombers by threatening to kill their entire families. They torture people in front of their families…these are horribly violent, sadistic criminals who at the very least should be behind bars. These are the Pashtuns of Afghanistan–and they include Karzai, the supposed “elected” president. I would like to have seen THAT election “confirmed”. Although there was a public outcry about the election that elected Karzai, they didn’t bother to investigate it because he was the American puppet, who had previously worked as a consultant for Unocal.

The success of the September vote, which was relatively peaceful despite Taliban threats of sabotage, initially raised hopes that the insurgency was losing strength. But after two of the bloodiest months since U.S. forces entered Kabul in 2001, officials now say the Taliban might have been using that time to marshal foreign support and plot new ways to undermine the Western-backed government.

This is kind of a twisted paragraph. The September vote successfully put a Northern Alliance majority into Parliament, which the American State department is having a fit over. This is why Karzai has postponed their swearing in. Of COURSE the Taliban is attempting to sabotage it–but it’s not because this is “American-backed”, this is because the Northern Alliance has control of Parliament!!!!

The attacks have been particularly noteworthy for their use of suicide bombers. Some have struck in waves, with one explosive-laden car following the next in an effort to maximize casualties. That sort of attack has been a hallmark of al Qaeda and a regular occurrence in Iraq. But in Afghanistan, suicide attacks of any kind have been relatively rare, despite a quarter-century of warfare.

I have no doubt these attacks will continue to increase, considering the Taliban and Al Qaeda have joined forces against the Northern Alliance and the US. I suppose you could construe it as a war against the American-backed government, considering the Northern Alliance were once our allies…but that’s if you listen to the MSM and don’t look under the covers.

The truth is– the State Department has withdrawn their support of the Northern Alliance, Karzai is allowing the Taliban to participate in elections, and has released them from prisons. All in all, we turned our backs on our allies and are inviting a terrible nightmare to occur by supporting the Pashtunization of Afghanistan. FYI–Pashtun=Taliban.

One has to wonder how we could support the Northern Alliance one moment, and pull the carpet from beneath them the next and virtually throw our support behind the Taliban and Al Qaeda. That’s the story the MSM should be picking up, and that’s why they’ve missed the mark. Anyone wonder why Hekmatyar one of the most notorious buddies of both Bin Laden and Mullah Omar is on and off the Most Wanted Terrorist list?

C’mon.

As an aside, I have to wonder about that list. Al-Libby is still on there, and nothing is up there about his arrest. I don’t see Mullah Omar on that list, was he ever on that list? Seems like it’s just a token list. Since Al-Libby was arrested in May of 2005, don’t you think the FBI should update it? Do they think nobody is looking at it, or what?

Attackers have also shown a growing appetite for strikes in cities, particularly Kabul, setting residents’ nerves on edge and leading them to take new security precautions at work, home and social events.

Yep, that’s a sure fire example of how this policy of appeasement and the Pashtunization of Afghanistan has meant success and safety for the Afghan people.

At a wedding Saturday, armed Afghan police officers meticulously searched guests before they were allowed to enter — a practice unknown here until recent months. “Maybe somebody will bring a bomb and explode it at the wedding,” said Nasrullah, a guest in his fifties who, like many Afghans, uses only one name. “It used to be that we could trust people. But right now, we cannot trust.”

Fear of an Islamofascist attack at a wedding? Say it ain’t so.

Col. Jim Yonts, spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, said the Taliban is resorting to suicide attacks and remote-controlled bombings in urban areas “out of desperation” as it continues to lose ground — and men — to international forces in the mountains and other rural areas. “They only lose one person in a suicide attack, not 10 or 15,” as they would in battle, he said.

But Yonts acknowledged “grave concern” among U.S. officials over the idea that the Taliban might be taking a page from Iraqi insurgents’ playbook by attacking with explosives in cities.

Afghan officials said the recent attacks demonstrate that the Taliban fighters are continuing to receive considerable outside assistance, such as advanced explosives and computerized timing devices that are being used to build more devastating bombs.

The real story is –we’ve sanctioned Karzai’s policy of appeasement, they’ve released the Taliban fighters and through a bizarre chain of events, supported and sanctioned the imprisoned one of our best weapons against the Taliban, Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda–Jack Idema. Sure, suicide attacks are ridiculous–that’s why they threaten peoples’ families and tape them to the steering wheels of cars. Most rational people would never do something like that–no matter how much they are devoted to Allah. Yep, the Taliban and Al Qaeda are in cohoots, which is why Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has met with Bin Laden on numerous occasions.

“There has been . . . more money and more weapons flowing into their hands in recent months,” Defense Minister Rahim Wardak said in a recent interview with the Associated Press. “We see similarities between the type of attacks here and in Iraq.”

In the past two weeks, Afghanistan has experienced near-daily attacks. Among the incidents:

Eight civilians and a German soldier were killed when two cars — one coming minutes after the other — plowed into crowds in Kabul. Soldiers thwarted a suspected third attack when they shot and killed the driver of a car speeding toward the scene.

An Indian truck driver was taken hostage while working on a road reconstruction project in Nimruz province in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban later asserted it had killed him when a deadline passed for the worker’s company to agree to abandon its operations in Afghanistan. Villagers found his nearly decapitated body the following day.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed by separate roadside bombs, bringing the number of American troops killed in Afghanistan this year close to 90 — double the total in 2004. A Portuguese soldier and a Swedish soldier were also killed in bombings.

Insurgents burned down a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan and took five Afghan officers hostage. Dozens more Afghans across the country were killed by bombs planted in homes, or in suicide attacks and ambushes.

And it’s going to continue to get worse if we continue molly coddling these people, acting as though they deserve to be handled with kidd gloves when what we should be doing is arresting them, killing them, and letting them know we mean business. The hardline approach is the only approach to take that they will take seriously. Otherwise, they are just laughing at us.

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