[Breitbart] U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s administration has intensified the American air war against the resilient Taliban ...Arabic for students... and growing Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS) branch in Afghanistan, dropping 3,328 bombs on the jihadists so far in 2017, more than during any other full year since 2012, military figures reveal.
According to recently released data from the U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT), which covers military activity in the Middle East and the Afghanistan region, the American military had dropped 3,328 munitions on Afghan bandidosbandidos myrmidons as of the end of September, exceeding the number of bombs launched during all of 2016 (1,337), 2015 (947), 2014 (2,365), and 2013 (2,758), respectively.
The U.S. Arclight airstrikes launched on Afghan targets so far this year more than tripled the bombs dropped during the same period (January through September) last year.
Airstrikes this year, if they continue at the same pace, could also very well surpass the record 4,084 weapons dropped in 2012.
In September alone, the Trump administration dropped more bombs than any other month since 2012.
While the Afghan Taliban and its allies remain the most prominent terrorist threat in Afghanistan, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... reported that Islamic State branch in the country, known as the Khorasan province (ISIS-K), has expanded its reach to unprecedented levels in the last few months ‐ extending its presence from one to seven provinces and escalating its attacks.
Nevertheless, AFCENT notes that the Trump administration is determined to defeat the Taliban and ISIS-K, crediting the president’s new Afghan war strategy with the increase in Arclight airstrikes against the two groups.
"September marked a record high month for weapons employed in Afghanistan since 2012, with 751 munitions being delivered against Taliban and ISIS ‐ Khorasan targets; a 50 percent jump from August," notes the U.S. Air Force in a statement published with the new Arclight airstrike data, adding:
This increase can be attributed to the President’s strategy to more proactively target myrmidon groups that threaten the stability and security of the Afghan people. Additionally, the recent addition of six F-16s at Bagram Air Base, coupled with more B-52 missions dedicated to Afghanistan, offer the additional strike capacity needed to target these groups.
Last week, top Pentagon officials told politicians the Trump administration had lifted restrictions on the rules of engagement (ROE) for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, no longer requiring them to be in contact with bandidosbandidos myrmidons in Afghanistan before opening fire.
"So these kinds of restrictions that did not allow us to employ the air powerfully have been removed, yes," U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis told politicians.
"We are no longer bound by the need for proximity to our forces," Pentagon chief Mattis told the House Armed Services Committee in the afternoon. "It used to be we have to basically be in contact with that enemy."
Mattis noted that Gen. John Nicholson, the top commander of U.S. and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troops in Afghanistan has the authority to decide when to target the enemy.
Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who testified alongside Mattis, explained that there is no terrorist group in Afghanistan that the U.S. commander does not have the authority to pursue.
"Wherever we find them, anyone who is trying to throw the NATO plan off, trying to attack the Afghan government, then we can go after them," emphasized Mattis.
Under the previous administration, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in early 2012 told politicians that the former president had taken away his authority to offensively target the Taliban, only allowing American troops to shoot in self-defense.
In August, President Trump unveiled his South Asia strategy, which primarily focuses on defeating ISIS and pressuring the Taliban into a reconciliation agreement with the Kabul government.
#1
Maybe because they failed to listen to Ripley from the start. Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. No. So we get to experience a long series of sequels. How's that kinder gentler war going for you? /rhet question
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The foreign ministry of Pakistain once again reiterated Islamabad’s stance regarding the role of India in Afghanistan, calling it a controversial presence which is against the stability of the region.
Speaking to news hounds in Islamabad on Friday, the ministry of foreign affairs front man Nafees Zakaria claimed that India’s controversial role in Afghanistan is neither in the interest of regional stability nor is it acceptable to Pakistain.
He went on to claim that Indian role in Afghan’s conflict can endanger regional stability.
Zakaria further added that Pakistain takes this issue very seriously and has raised it on several international fora.
This comes as the Afghan officials have long been insisting that the Afghan soil will never used and no party will be allowed to use it against its neighbors.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/15/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... reiterated his stance regarding the controversial Durand Line separating Afghanistan and Pakistain, insisting that he has never and will never accept the line as the formal border between the two nations.
Speaking during a presser in Kabul today, Karzai said we want good relations and friendship with Pakistain but the Afghan nation will never accept Durand Line as the formal border.
In other parts of his speech, Karzai said such claims are baseless and are not true that twenty terrorist groups are operating in Afghanistan.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... he expressed concerns regarding the deployment of ISIS fighters by alien helicopters.
The former Afghanistan's Caped President asked the United States to help and provide information regarding such movements.
This comes as Karzai earlier accused the US forces in Afghanistan for aiding the loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.
In an interview with the Russia Today and in response to a question whether there was any suspicion that the US was aiding ISIS group, Karzai said "I have more than suspicions."
Posted by: Fred ||
10/15/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
It must be hard to have a foot on both sides of the river.
[The Hill] Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the Washington, D.C., establishment is enraged with President Trump because he is following through on his promise to "drain the swamp."
"Donald Trump really is draining the swamp, and the alligators are really unhappy," Gingrich told John Catsimatidis on AM970's "The Answer." "This guy is actually doing what he said he would do: We're getting conservative judges nominated. We are getting regulations rolled back."
"We're getting a much more aggressive pro-American trade policy and pro-American foreign policy," Gingrich said. "The other side sees this as the end of their way of life."
The former House leader pointed to the release of American hostages held by the Taliban by Pakistani troops this week as a concrete result of Trump's foreign policy shift.
"The Pakistanis understand how much tougher and how much more aggressive the Trump Administration is than the Obama Administration," Gingrich said. "And I think they're trying to find some way to appease us because they know that we are very angry at them."
"Remember, they had bin Laden in their country for a decade," he added. "As a result, they’re scrambling to find a way to appease us."
#2
but I still haven't seen a ton of firings as I'd expected.
Remember all those people at the State Department who resigned, Glolurong Bumble6930, not to mention complaints about how many positions remain unfilled? I have to imagine that State is not the only department where that happened -- remember, the new management had committed to reorganizing to better meet new objectives once the current organization and current objectives had been understood. It is my understanding they'd targetted to have achieved understanding about now.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/15/2017 19:15 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Might want to look at the EPA and the Department of Education. You might be surprised at how many positions are being rated as "no longer necessary".
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
10/15/2017 23:36 Comments ||
Top||
[Al Jazeera] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has hit back at his US counterpart, Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , over his aggressive new strategy towards Iran, saying Tehran will remain committed to a multinational nuclear deal as long at it serves its national interests.
Rouhani's remarks came in response to a speech by Trump earlier on Friday in which the US president "decertified" his backing for the landmark deal - also signed in 2015 by Britannia, La Belle France, Russia, Germany and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... - and left its fate in the hands of Congress.
"What was heard today was nothing but the repetition of baseless accusations and swear words that they have repeated for years," Rouhani said in a televised address from Tehran.
"The Iranian nation does not expect anything else from you," he added.
Rouhani called the deal not renegotiable, adding that Trump's decision to not certify it would isolate the US as other signatories of the accord remained committed to it.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/15/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11124 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
[Breitbart] The U.S. led coalition currently fighting Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) has slashed the organization’s revenues by over 90 percent over the past two years, according to statistics provided to USA Today.
The statistics reveal that oil production in the caliphate’s major strongholds of Iraq and Syria has dropped to a new low of under $4 million a month. ISIS was making $50 million a month two years ago after the group swept through regions seizing dozens of lucrative oil refineries, including the Bayji refinery in Iraq and the oil-rich Deir al-Zour region in eastern Syria.
Coalition forces began a campaign designed to deplete ISIS’s oil revenues back in 2015, known as Operation Tidal Wave II, and have since destroyed over 2,500 ISIS-owned tanker trucks, dozens of mobile refineries and other oil infrastructure operated by the group.
"The coalition has regularly conducted strikes against ISIS and their oil production capabilities to degrade their ability to generate revenue from oil resources and facilities," the coalition said in a statement.
Another faction battling to retake oil refineries is the Syrian Arab Army, which last month reclaimed significant territory, including an oil field, with the support of Russian forces.
The statistics are another sign that the coalition is winning the war against ISIS, given that oil revenues account for over half the organization’s total revenue, alongside looting campaigns on banks and extorting cash from civilians in occupied cities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... a report in May also found that the U.S.-led coalition had increased the number of Arclight airstrikes against ISIS by 50 percent over the course of 2017, as it seeks to fully incapacitate the terrorist organization.
In May, Defense Secretary James Mattis credited Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... with the coalition’s success, citing factors such as giving greater responsibility to battlefield commanders and the loosening of Obama-era rules of engagement that some in the military claimed amounted to micromanaging military activity.
"He has delegated authority to the right level to aggressively and in a timely manner move against enemy vulnerabilities," Mattis said in May.
In July, Iraq and the U.S. coalition also celebrated the complete liberation of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from the Islamic State following a violent months-long campaign, although much of the city now lies in ruins, thousands dead and maimed, while nearly a million people were forced from their homes.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
10/15/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11132 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
#1
Let it be known that Obama refused to bomb them out of 'environmental concerns'. If any asshole out there would like to continue the fiction that Obama's not an enemy of the USA, this is another data point.
#4
Let it be known that Obama refused to bomb them out of 'environmental concerns'. If any asshole out there would like to continue the fiction that Obama's not an enemy of the USA, this is another data point.
Posted by Raj
If your resources are being consumed by an endless tribal conflict in Afghanistan, your responsibility for the monitoring of other global issues and mischief may go unnoticed.
Victory was never a Soetoro-Brennan objective.
Also see: Bloodletting (or blood-letting) a withdrawal of blood from a patient to cure or prevent illness and disease.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] U.S. President 
