Friends and Enemies (Oliver North)

Creators Syndicate ^ | September 30, 2011 | Oliver North

[jazusamo]

OLIVER NORTH PING!

Please Freepmail me to be added to the Ollie North ping list.

[Gene Eric]

Fascinating. There’s a connection to this in the censored movie, Path to 9-11.

[Huskrrrr]

Oliver North Ping

[milwguy]

Pakistan views the USA as their personal ATM. If there is no unrest in Afghanistan, the Americans leave and take their cash with them.

Biden and Obama have fed the Paki’s, tripling the US aid to the corrupt Paki gov’t from the Bush years. Obama raised the Paki aid to $1.5 BILLION a year. If the Haqqani network gets taken out, we leave, and the cash stops.

Why did people not connect the dots when OBL was taken out in one of Pakistans most secure ‘military’ towns, Abbottabad? When Bin Laden died, the Pakis have resorted to plan B, firing up the Haqqani network to keep the cash flowing. If we take out Haqqani, they will pump up Gulbidden Hekmyater or some other bogeyman to keep the cash flowing. We are too dumb to see the obvious truth staring us right in the face.

[jazusamo]

Yes. The most amazing thing to me is so many people have known much of this and yet the LSM have kept silent.

[Gene Eric]

Indeed. And the censorship which is incredibly hypocritical and disturbing. They’re a bunch of damn frauds.

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for the ping jaz. So rarely do we read anything about Haqqani, and the reads are so long between them one sort of forgets about them.

[Veggie Todd]

BFL

[piasa]

This article about the Haqqani network being designated was written in late 2011 and look how long it took for the Obama admin to get around to this :

Clarify U.S. Policy on Afghanistan: Designate Haqqani Network Terrorists
Sunday, September 02, 2012 9:36:33 PM · by nuconvert · 6 replies ,p> The Heritage Foundation ^ | August 21, 2012 For the past two years, the Obama Administration has pursued on-again, off-again reconciliation talks with Taliban leaders in an effort to bring an end to the Afghan war. As part of this process, it has wrestled with how to handle the Haqqani network, a Taliban affiliate organization headquartered in Pakistan’s tribal border areas that has extensive influence in eastern Afghanistan and is responsible for some of the most vicious attacks against coalition forces. Congress recently passed legislation, which President Obama signed into law on August 10, requiring the Administration to determine within 30 days whether the Haqqani network should officially...

[nuconvert]

The designation went thru yesterday....2 days before the deadline.

[piasa]

And what it took:

US declares Haqqani network a terrorist body
Saturday, September 08, 2012 2:18:05 AM · by Olog-hai · 6 replies , AP via New York Daily News ^ | Friday, September 7th 2012, 12:58 PM | Bradley Klapper
http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/9c98ad14f2f4b4eee558ca7ee72d6fe4/us-declares-haqqani-network-a-terrorist-body

The Obama administration declared Friday that the Pakistan-based Haqqani network of militants is a terrorist body despite misgivings about how the largely symbolic act could further stall planned Afghan peace talks ....Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision, signed Friday ahead of a Sunday deadline set by Congress, bans Americans from doing business with members of the group and blocks any assets it holds in the United States. ...

[piasa]

A year. jeez

[jazusamo]

Thanks...Par for the course with Zer0 and his admin, especially in foreign affairs and dealing with allies and adversaries, it's been a disaster for us.

[piasa]

This was one of the holdups... while Afghans and americans and NATO personnel and even Pakis were getting killed by Haqqani operatives, the admin was still trying to do a John Kerry and give "peace" [concessions] another chance:

LEAD: US Afghan envoy confirms talking to Haqqani insurgents Deutsche Presse-Agentur ^ | Jan 22, 2012, 16:38 GMT Posted on 01/22/2012 6:23:51 PM PST by Nachum
As if the Taliban wasn’t bad enough. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan on Sunday confirmed a meeting with the Haqqani insurgent group, as signs of a dialogue between the United States and rebels continue to grow.
‘We had one meeting with Haqqani network,’ Marc Grossman told a news conference in Kabul.
His remarks come after US and the Taliban militants confirmed preliminary talks for opening an liaison office for the Taliban in the Qatari capital of Doha – increasing speculation of an end to the decade-long bloody insurgency in this war-torn country. (Excerpt) Read more at monstersandcritics.com

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To: Nachum
His remarks come after US and the Taliban militants confirmed preliminary talks for opening an liaison office for the Taliban in the Qatari capital of Doha – His remarks come after this too... Taliban video shows execution of Pakistani soldiers Winning! 11 posted on Sunday, January 22, 2012 10:03:19 PM by TigersEye

* Marc Grossman : More on Grossman at Strata-sphere. Seems he traveled with some cohorts of John Kerry's...Rand Beers in particular. Grossman went to the same college and graduated the same year as {drum roll please} [Ambassador] Joe Wilson and also had the same job in a neighboring country. Strato-sphere also has some interesting comments about a Turkey connection. You remember Turkey…the country that balked at allowing our forces passage into northern Iraq? ---------------- Posted by ravingnutter to kabar On News/Activism 09/14/2006 7:42:11 AM PDT · 287 of 296

On July 6, 2003, Armitage asked Ford to send a copy of the memo to Powell on AF-1. Ford changed the date and addressed it to Powell, but used the same text in the memo. And per the above linked article, it was Grossman that told Libby about Plame and he was also the first one to point a finger at Libby when this broke. We know Armitage had no loyalty to Bush, but it went even further than that…from a story I found last week: Kerry Exploring Cabinet Options ...--- a freeper

[JustSayNoToNannies]

making a fortune from the sale and transportation of opium

Thanks, War on Drugs, for hyperinflating terrorist profits.

[Fedora]

Thanks for the ping. FWIW, here is how I summed that Grossman role up in my personal notes from my Joseph Wilson timeline:

June 2003

Week of 1-7: Washington Post’s Walter Pincus asks CIA about Wilson’s trip

State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research head Carl Ford responds to request from Under Secretary of State Marc Grossman with memo mentioning Plame’s CIA association and role in arranging Wilson’s trip; memo is possibly shared with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Secretary of State Colin Powell

BTW, any updates on this allegation mentioned in one of my old posts (unsubstantiated last I checked but I noted it as worth following up on)?

Walter Pincus, Dana Priest, and other researchers have previously noted that Plame’s front company was called Brewster-Jennings & Associates, a disclosure that has generated remarkably little follow-up from a media usually eager to expose CIA scandals. Some researchers have asserted that Robert Novak’s 2003 column compromised CIA assets linked to Brewster-Jennings. But others have called attention to a report by former FBI agent Sibel Edmonds indicating that a year earlier the FBI was already aware that Brewster-Jennings had been compromised during a conversation between Marc Grossman and Turkish lobbyists under Bureau surveillance in a corruption investigation.

[Nachum]

Good work. Not sure I can put all of that into a post succinctly, but I will put up the video of the executions and Oliver North’s piece.

I think we can assume that there is scullduggery in high levels. I also suspect that Grossman is only one of many operatives. It would be interesting to do some search into all the Obama personnel who came from Strato-Sphere.

[piasa]

Those must be Turkish lobbysists of the American-Turkish Council, I guess.

[piasa]

Now, according to Vice President Biden the Taliban aren't our enemies.