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Their 9/11 Role - The Taliban Five are even worse than you’ve heard.
The Weekly Standard ^ | June 13, 2014 | THOMAS JOSCELYN

Posted on 06/13/2014 4:51:05 AM PDT by don-o

One of the five senior Taliban leaders transferred to Qatar in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl played a key role in al Qaeda’s plans leading up to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Mohammad Fazl, who served as the Taliban’s army chief of staff and deputy defense minister prior to his detention at Guantánamo, did not have a hand in planning the actual 9/11 hijackings. Along with a notorious al Qaeda leader, however, Fazl did help coordinate a military offensive against the enemies of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan the day before. And Osama bin Laden viewed that September 10 offensive as an essential part of al Qaeda’s 9/11 plot.

The 9/11 Commission found that the hijackings in the United States on September 11, 2001, were the culmination of al Qaeda’s three-step plan. First, on September 9, 2001, al Qaeda assassinated Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud in a suicide bombing. Massoud’s death was a major gift to the Taliban because he was their chief rival and still controlled parts of the country. The assassination was also intended to weaken opposition to the Taliban and al Qaeda within Afghanistan before the United States could plan its retaliation for the most devastating terrorist attack in history. The Northern Alliance did, in fact, play a role in America’s response.

The following day, September 10, al Qaeda and the Taliban took their second step.

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; alqaeda; bergdahl; binladen; obamacrimes; obamaforeignpolicy; obamascandals; osama; taliban; talibanfive; waronterror
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Some interesting connecting of dots. I seriously question if ANYONE in The Regime was aware of this.
1 posted on 06/13/2014 4:51:05 AM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o

Oh I bet they were.


2 posted on 06/13/2014 4:52:38 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: don-o

“Some interesting connecting of dots. I seriously question if ANYONE in The Regime was aware of this.”

Why give the regime that hates all that America stands for the benefit of the doubt?


3 posted on 06/13/2014 4:54:34 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Good point. My comment could have been better stated as - The Regime chose to IGNORE these known facts.


4 posted on 06/13/2014 4:56:34 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

Don’t forget, the Kenyan regime also tried to get 911 architect Khalid Sheik Mohammed freed. Remember the regimes fanatical insistence that KSM be tried in New York city as a US citizen with full constitutional rights? Because they knew damn well a Judge would have to throw out the case. This is a regime that has tried to free terrorists since day one, literally. His first day in office January 20th 2009, the very first thing he did was trying to close Gitmo. Above everything else, that was his #1 priority. What we got here is not a POTUS but and Islamic enemy agent, and Congress damn well knows it too but being the pussies they are they refuse to do anything about it.


5 posted on 06/13/2014 4:58:19 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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Remember the regimes fanatical insistence that KSM be tried in New York city as a US citizen with full constitutional rights?

Yes, I do, and it's also a reason I believe the regime will grant amnesty to every last illegal currently mustered on the border. They believe that if you've set your feet on our soil, you're a citizen, and they're going to enforce their will on us much the same way they have with every other EO Obama's signed.

The tragedy here is that there's literally no one doing anything to stop this. No one in Congress, no one in the military, no one.

6 posted on 06/13/2014 5:02:15 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: don-o

Nothing surprises me anymore.


7 posted on 06/13/2014 5:03:44 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: don-o

Obama CHEERED when the 911 Atrocities were on.

Americans will die from this.
But then they did even as far back
as sfter Fast&Furious
... when the US Congress did nothing.


8 posted on 06/13/2014 5:04:21 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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The tragedy here is that there's literally no one doing anything to stop this. No one in Congress, no one in the military, no one.

I know. You think of movies and novels and what would happen next, and surely some hero is going to come riding to the rescue.

9 posted on 06/13/2014 5:07:11 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

When Obama won in November, 2008, I told my friends ‘now all our enemies will know all our secrets’. This Regime knows EVERYTHING. It is only the gullible and naïve (and those who agree with what they’re doing) that always give them the benefit of the doubt.


10 posted on 06/13/2014 5:09:59 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: originalbuckeye

I did revise and extend my remark in post 4.


11 posted on 06/13/2014 5:14:09 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Obama picked an Attorney General, who previously defended terrorists in private practice and also submitted Amicus briefs.

Holder withheld some of this info from the Judiciary Committee. But nothing happens to him.

http://www.redstate.com/diary/jeffdunetz/2010/03/15/why-eric-holder-is-hiding-his-record-of-defending-terrorist/

12 posted on 06/13/2014 5:15:58 AM PDT by FR_addict
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To: don-o
From the article on 2nd page,

It is true that Fazl and his Taliban colleagues have not directly planned 9/11-style attacks on the United States.

That's an interesting twist that makes this "news" fair and balanced.
13 posted on 06/13/2014 5:16:13 AM PDT by heyheyhey
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To: don-o

Nope. Fiction is exactly that. The reality is that Solzhenitsyn’s review of the communist revolution in Russia is a more accurate description of how the people cower to power. The current leviathan in DC knows that and is using it to impart their version of terror on the American people.

It doesn’t hurt yet, but it’s coming.


14 posted on 06/13/2014 5:16:28 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: don-o
Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud

I remember him, clearly.

I had been reading about him and heard about his murder THEN the events of 9/11 occurred.

Concurrent with his murder as I recall, there had been a systematic destruction of ancient, religions carvings in Afghanistan.

I guess no one in the US intelligence community knew the price of a cup of coffee in Afghanistan.... do any of them even read the fact sheets?

15 posted on 06/13/2014 5:16:42 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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if the 5 didn’t pose a threat to the ussa,then why were they detained in the first place, and why were they still at gitmo, and why did the taliban specifically name these 5... keep in mind they were sent to qatar... the same country where the ussa is training the al queda and isis forces.. yes the same isis that turned to iraq... and now obumbler wants to make a deal with iran to send in shia fighters from iran (hezbollah and recall the sadr army) to fight the isis... IS THIS IN ANY WAY RESEMBLING A FOREIGN POLICY OR IS OBUMBLER AND JARRETT AND BRENNAN AND KERRY THE REST OF THE BRAIN DEAD CREW LETTING A BROWNIAN MOVEMENT OF FORCES RUN AMUCK... look its really simple... Obumbler is ONE OF THEM. HE IS A TRAITOR AND A COWARD..surrounded by useful idiots... He has done more to sustain al queda and affiliates than bin laden ever did.. He arms and funds them through proxies QATAR and TURKEY being two of them..as well as direct funding in Syria and Lybia and Egypt. Recall the $1.6 billion he sent to Morsi and also recall Morsi had representatives at the Benghazi Ambassador kidnap/murder, plus the intel intercepts of the telcons between the terrorists in Benghazi and al queda. Plus Al Zawahiri called for an attack in Lybia to revenge the drone attack that killed the Al Lybi al qeda #3 at the time... It all leads right back to Obumbler.. His approach is ambivalent but al queda is booming as a result... Giving up a TRAITOR for 5 TERRORISTS makes absolutely no sense except it benefits al queda and the taliban, who are now threatening pakistan ... that has nukes..


16 posted on 06/13/2014 5:34:20 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: don-o

“You think of movies and novels and what would happen next, and surely some hero is going to come riding to the rescue.”

Help is on the way...

http://www.patburt.com/


17 posted on 06/13/2014 5:39:23 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: don-o

Remember when Michelle said “All this for a flag” at a 9-11 remeberance?
It shows that these two have no love for Americans.


18 posted on 06/13/2014 5:40:16 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: don-o

0bama is the worst of them all as he has the power.


19 posted on 06/13/2014 5:48:57 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

TREASON!!!!!!!


20 posted on 06/13/2014 5:54:47 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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