Good news from Afghanistan

The AP is reporting this morning that the US military has killed a top Taliban commander who they describe as a “close associate of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Afghan insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar” earlier this week.

Way to go, guys!

Hat tip: The Astute Bloggers

Update: In other war on terror-related news, AQ’s #2 Ayman al Zawahri is claiming that that Al Qaeda should claim credit for the Republican defeat in the elections last month. Brian Ross has the details here, details you will likely not see anywhere else in the MSM.

Regardess of what you think about AQ propaganda and whether or not it should be taken seriously, this latest message from Zawahri is even more proof that Al Qaeda pays attention to what we say and do over here. I have argued with my liberal friends up one side and down the other about how the enemy keeps a close watch on what’s happening here in the US, and most of them just come back at me by saying or implying that AQ doesn’t have time to pay attention to what goes on here. What that demonstrates to me is that they have a fundamental lack of understanding about how the enemy operates. They DO analyze what we do here, make no mistake about it.

11 Responses to "Good news from Afghanistan"

Kevin says:

December 23, 2006 at 9:26 am

They DO analyze what we do here, make no mistake about it.

And they attempt to affect what we do as well. Remember bin laden in 2004 trying to get everyone to vote for Kerry by suggesting that red states would be hardest hit by future terrorism?
Leslie says:

December 23, 2006 at 11:42 am

Well obviously the Al-Q’s analyze what we do here, but they get it right about as often as our policymakers understand the murky world of the Middle East.

I.e., seldom.
Drewsmom says:

December 23, 2006 at 12:38 pm

You’re dern right they pay attention and we can talk to our liberal friends till we’re blue in the face, they just don’t get it … how scarey is that.!!!!!!
Brian says:

December 23, 2006 at 2:12 pm

Oh pshaw. The New York Times has the release right here: Zawahri.

I consider myself a moderate, but only a moron (and I believe there are morons within both the right and left) would believe Al Qaeda does not pay attention to our news. That’s why they flew the planes into our buildings in the first place! They hate our culture!

My point is many, many liberals know our enemies read our news.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

December 23, 2006 at 2:12 pm

al Qaeda now has the Democratic Congress they want. After 2008, they may get the Democratic president the want as well.

The Far Left is always screaming about the Israeli lobby. Nary a word about the al Qaeda lobby.
Analysis of New Zawahiri tape at Conservative Times--Republican GOP news source. says:

December 23, 2006 at 2:29 pm

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Leaning Straight Up says:

December 23, 2006 at 2:53 pm

Al Qaeda Sends a Message to Democrats- “Your welcome”

Strange bedfellows indeed.
Al Qaeda Sends a Message to Democrats
Al Qaeda has sent a message to leaders of the Democratic party that credit for the defeat of congressional Republicans belongs to the terrorists.
In a portion of the tape from al Qaeda No…
Steve Skubinna says:

December 23, 2006 at 3:11 pm

We’ve all heard “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” To many leftists in the West, their enemy is not the jihadis, but George Bush. So far, the jihadis are far too repulsive for any but the most morally bankrupt lefty to actually endorse. But still, we keep hearing asinine statements that the Republicans are a greater threat to us than al Qaeda.

Yeah. As simply one example, the big debate concerning gays in the US is whether they should be allowed to marry, or if another sort of civil recognition is more approriate. The big debate in Islam is whether they should be crushed to death by falling walls, stoned to death, or hurled to their death from a height.

Yeah, I can see how confusing it’d be to tell the two groups apart. ST, you’ll surely let us know as soon as the Right Wing Decency Enforcement Squads show up to confiscate your shoes, confine you to your house, and stuff you into a burka, right? Or will they go for Rosie O’Donnell first (not a job I would take)? Anyway, I’ll vigorously petition the Dark Lord Rove for an exemption in your case.

Most of the left disbelieves we are all in the same boat here. They actually think that if they differentiate themselves from the Red Staters they will be safe. After all, if we just show how reasonable we are, we can all sit down and work things out. The jihadis really want the same things we do, yes?

Well, they’re partly right. The jihadis want Bush crushed and the US discredited. But then they want the lefties dead too.
Phil says:

December 23, 2006 at 4:09 pm

ST Wrote: Regardess of what you think about AQ propaganda and whether or not it should be taken seriously, this latest message from Zawahri is even more proof that Al Qaeda pays attention to what we say and do over here.

No kidding, I thought that anyone would know that much. But please do tell which of the media is the most culpable in disclosing our National Secrets those are the dirty so&so’s that I would like to see get nailed to the wall.

I have argued with my liberal friends up one side and down the other about how the enemy keeps a close watch on what’s happening here in the US, and most of them just come back at me by saying or implying that AQ doesn’t have time to pay attention to what goes on here. What that demonstrates to me is that they have a fundamental lack of understanding about how the enemy operates. They DO analyze what we do here, make no mistake about it.

What that demonstrates to me is that they must live in a cave. Who knows maybe Osama’s buddie here in the U.S. has built them caves for your Liberal friends to live in. You might want to sneak up on your Liberal friends sometime and see if they are secretly trying on a burka.
benning says:

December 23, 2006 at 5:57 pm

What that demonstrates to me is that they have a fundamental lack of understanding about how the enemy operates.

What that demonstrates to me is that they have a fundamental lack of understanding. Period!
G Monster says:

December 27, 2006 at 11:40 am

Good News From Iraq?

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