Fun Video: UFO attacking Taliban compound?

From the comments it's either a an AC-130 Gunship or Stealth Bomber, but I like the idea aliens are on our side. Whatever it is, it unleashes massive pain on the Taliban. What do you think?

Surprise: One of Taliban swapped for Bergdahl trying to return to militant activity...

We should fire the Generals who approved this...

Washington (CNN)The U.S. military and intelligence community now suspect that one of the five Taliban detainees released from Guantanamo Bay in return for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in May of last year has attempted to return to militant activity from his current location in Qatar, CNN has learned exclusively.

The development has led to an ongoing debate inside the administration about whether there is a new threat from this man, and potentially the other four.

This is the first known suggestion that any of the detainees involved in the exchange may be trying to engage again in militant activity. It comes at a politically sensitive time as the administration has quickened the pace of prisoner release in an effort to encourage the closure of the Guantanamo, and the Army must decide in the coming weeks whether and how to punish Bergdahl for leaving his post.

Feel Good Story: Taliban commander blows self up planting IED...

Boom!

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Twenty-four insurgents and two Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed in string of anti-militant offensives in southern Helmand province, officials said.
Lt. Col. Muhammad Rasool Zazai, spokesman of the 215th Maiwand military corps, told Pajhwok Afghan News that operation had been launched in parts of Paich area close to Sangin district on Friday to purge the restive locality of anti-state elements. […]
Another militant commander died when his own explosive he was planting went-off prematurely, he informed. However, Taliban have not yet commented on the clashes.

Report: Obama turned over top Taliban commander to Pakistan...

The stupidest Commander-in-Chief ever...

Via BBC:

A senior Pakistani Taliban commander, Latif Mehsud, has reportedly been handed over to Pakistan by the US from Afghanistan.
The US military confirmed it “transferred custody” of three Pakistanis, but did not reveal their identities.
The Afghan government was not involved in the transfer, the US said.
Correspondents say the repatriation of a senior Taliban figure is extremely unusual.
It could relate to attempts to improve Afghanistan-Pakistan ties, they say.
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Feel Good Story: Thirteen Taliban killed in workplace accidents...

Allah is out of virgins, but I heard he still has goats...

(Xinhua) — Three Afghan soldiers and 13 militants were killed in separate explosions in Afghanistan on Sunday, sources said.
The Defense Ministry said in a statement that three army soldiers were killed in Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attacks elsewhere in the country.
On Sunday afternoon, eight Taliban fighters, including an insurgent local leader Mawlawi Zarif, were killed when an IED they were building went off prematurely in a house in Kohistanat district of northern Sari Pul province, deputy provincial police chief Sakhidad Haydari told Xinhua.
Five militants were killed as a roadside bomb they were planting detonated accidentally in Sangin district of southern Helmand province overnight, officials said.

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin: Obama broke the law by releasing 5 Taliban without giving Congress notice......

It's not that Obama gives a rat's a$$ about the law...

Via Mediaite:

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin declared on Monday that President Barack Obama “broke the law” when his administration failed to give Congress notice of at least 30 days before releasing five ranking Taliban members from Guantanamo Bay. Toobin said that a presidential signing statement did not absolve Obama from culpability for failing to abide by the law mandating congressional notification.

“I think he clearly broke the law,” Toobin said. “The law says 30-days’ notice. He didn’t give 30-days’ notice.” Toobin added that Obama’s opinion expressed in a signing statement “is not law.”

“The law is on the books, and he didn’t follow it,” Toobin added.

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer noted that former President George W. Bush also issued signing statements even though they thought their action may not have been constitutional or legal. “But liberals were outraged by George W. Bush’s signing statements,” Toobin noted.

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Five Taliban Commanders Arrive In Qatar Without Any Sign Of Guards...

These guys will be back in Afghanistan and fighting us by the end of Summer.

Via ABC News:

“The terror group is calling their release a major victory. New video posted this morning on an Afghan news website shows the five former detainees arriving in Qatar with no sign they are under any sort of custody or guard.… They received a hero’s welcome.”

Report: Bergdahl may have been collaborating with the Taliban...

If true, this puts a whole different light on the prisoner exchange. 

Via Fox News:

A senior official confirms to Fox News that the conduct of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — both in his final stretch of active duty in Afghanistan and then, too, during his time when he lived among the Taliban — has been thoroughly investigated by the U.S. intelligence community and is the subject of “a major classified file.”

In conveying as much, the Defense Department source confirmed to Fox News that many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy.

The Pentagon official added pointedly that no relevant congressional committee has sought access to the classified file, but that if such a request were made, key committee chairs would, under previous precedent, likely be granted access to it. Separately, the Pentagon confirmed Monday that it is looking into claims Americans died during the search for Bergdahl.

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Spin: Susan Rice claims they negotiated with government of Qatar for Berdahl release, not the Taliban...

This woman is an embarrassment. She has no scruples or credibility.

Barack Obama broke the law in Bergdahl-Taliban prisoner swap...

I am glad Mr. Bergdahl is free, but Obama is not above the law in spite of what he seems to think.

Amid jubilation Saturday over the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from captivity by the Taliban, senior Republicans on Capitol Hill said they were troubled by the means by which it was accomplished, which was a deal to release five Afghan detainees from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Top Republicans on the Senate and House armed services committees went so far as to accuse President Obama of having broken the law, which requires the administration to notify Congress before any transfers from Guantanamo are carried out.
“Trading five senior Taliban leaders from detention in Guantanamo Bay for Bergdahl’s release may have consequences for the rest of our forces and all Americans. Our terrorist adversaries now have a strong incentive to capture Americans. That incentive will put our forces in Afghanistan and around the world at even greater risk,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. McKeon (R-Calif.) and the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, James M. Inhofe (Okla.), said in a joint statement.
Lawmakers were not notified of the Guantanamo detainees’ transfer until after it occurred.
The law requires the defense secretary to notify relevant congressional committees at least 30 days before making any transfers of prisoners, to explain the reason and to provide assurances that those released would not be in a position to reengage in activities that could threaten the United States or its interests.

Fun Video: Mysterious aircraft filmed 'blitzing Taliban base in Afghanistan'

Space aliens are on our side now. NSFW language in video.

Amusing: 30 Taliban militants killed when they drive over their own roadside bomb...

Today's feelgood story...

KABUL —  About 30 Taliban militants have been killed in Afghanistan since early Saturday, authorities said on Sunday.
“Afghan National Security Forces carried out operations and battled the militants in nine provinces, killing 20 Taliban insurgent members over the past 24 hours,” the Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Two insurgents were wounded and three others detained by the ANSF, the statement noted.
In addition, 10 Taliban militants were killed after a vehicle carrying them set off a roadside bomb planted by their men in Registan district of southern Kandahar province on Saturday evening, the provincial police spokesman, Zia Durrani, told Xinhua.

Feel Good Story: Workplace accident blows up Taliban commander in Mosque blast...

Maybe Allah really wasn't on their side.

Via KHAAMA PRESS:

Taliban leader among 5 rebels killed in Ghazni mosque explosion A local Taliban commander was among five militants killed following an explosion inside a mosque in eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.Local government officials said the militants were killed while they were making an improvised explosive device (IED) to carry out a roadside bomb explosion. Deputy provincial governor Mohammad Ali Ahmadi said the incident took place on Saturday morning in western party of Ghazni city. Ahmadi further added that the Taliban commander was recognized as Mullah Sadiq who was killed along with four other militants following the explosion. Ahmadi further added that the Taliban commander was recognized as Mullah Sadiq who was killed along with four other militants following the explosion.

Prepare 504 goats...

Black-eyed virgins are in short supply...

Khaama Press reported:

At least seven militants were killed while making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The interior ministry following a statement said the incident took place inside a mosque in Deh Yak district on Saturday.
The statement by interior ministry further added that the explosion left seven militants dead and there were no other casualties.
Interior ministry condemned the anti-government militant groups for using religious places for conducting terrorist activities and said such activities show that the militant groups are acting against the principles of Islam.
The anti-government militant groups including the Taliban militants frequently use improvised explosive device (IED) as the weapon of their choice to target Afghan and coalition security forces, however innocent civilians are mostly targeted in such attacks.

Actual Good News: Marine Corps drops criminal charges against an officer in the Taliban urination video case

Apparently, superiors were trying to railroad him. I wonder if it was on Team Obama's orders? 

Via The Washington Times:

The Marine Corps has suddenly dropped criminal charges against an officer in the infamous Taliban urination video case, heading off what promised to be an embarrassing pre-trial hearing for the commandant on Wednesday.
Defense attorneys for Capt. James V. Clement had won a judge’s order, over objections from Marine prosecutors, for two staff attorneys to testify in open court about how senior commanders had interfered in the case to get a guilty verdict.

Read more here..

Feel Good Story: Group of eight Taliban suicide bombers accidentally explode...

Prepare a reward of 576 virgins goats...

Via PressTV:

At least eight Taliban militants have been killed and several others severely injured when their explosive devices went off prematurely in the troubled southern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry says.

The Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement that the deadly blast took place in the house of a Taliban local commander, Mullah Sababullah, in the southern province of Zabul on Wednesday.

“A group of eight suicide bombers linked to the Taliban outfit were killed by the accidental blast of their own explosive material while they were organizing terrorist attacks in Now Bahar district of Zabul province today,” the statement read.
Sources say the death toll is expected to rise as some of the injured are said to be in critical condition.

Feel Good Story: Eight Taliban accidentally explode at a Afghanistan Mosque...

Karma...

Kabul: Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say explosives transported by suspected Taliban militants accidentally detonated while they were stopped at a mosque, killing 12 people.

Local official Qasim Desewal on Saturday said that four civilians and eight militants died in the blast during evening prayers the night before in Ghazni province’s district of Andar.

He said that the Taliban had apparently stopped at the mosque while traveling and the explosives they were carrying went off while they were inside.

The Ghazni explosion was on the same day as Taliban fighters supported by a suicide car bomb attacked a compound for international aid workers in the capital.

Interesting: Taliban enter 21st century (a little bit)

The Taliban are now supporting polio vaccination...

The announcement comes just weeks after the Afghan government launched a new campaign to immunise more than eight million children between six months and five years old throughout the country. It said it had trained 46,000 volunteers to conduct the campaign which is funded by the American aid agency USAID, the World Health Organisation and Unicef.

Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria are the three remaining countries in the world where polio remains a serious threat, but efforts to eradicate the disease have been sabotaged by the Taliban and other Islamic militants who have assassinated immunisation volunteers in all three countries.

Eleven polio workers were killed in Pakistan last year, including five women who were shot dead in Karachi in December last year. Earlier this year a police officer protecting vaccination campaigners was shot by motorcycle gunmen in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. In Afghanistan, a 16 year old girl involved in an anti-polio vaccination campaign in Kapisa province was shot six times in the stomach outside her home last December and died later in hospital.[...]

But in a sudden U-turn the Taliban leadership issued a statement offering its support for polio eradication campaigns as long as foreigners were not involved and that all volunteers respected local Islamic culture.

"According to the latest international medicine science, the polio disease can only be cured by preventive measures ie the anti-polio drops and the vaccination of children against this disease.
"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan supports and lends a hand to all those programs which works for the health care of the helpless people of our country," said a stament issued by the 'Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan'.

Hump Day Fun Video: 2 Talibans in Panjwai planting IED's Blasted!

This is the flying Jihadi edition...

Report: Prince Harry killed a Taliban top commander...

Nice...

(The Sun) — PRINCE Harry has killed his first Taliban commander, The Sun can reveal.
The 28-year-old gunship co-pilot was called on to unleash a missile strike to eliminate a senior terror leader.

Harry has proved a massive hit with comrades in Helmand, Afghanistan, who have nicknamed him Big H.

A defence insider said: “Big H is a legend.

“We were on patrol and the Apache helicopters were called in. We heard this posh voice come over the radio and knew it was Big H. They were tracking a Taliban leader — he was commander level.
“The Apache then let off some Hellfire missiles and its 30mm cannon and ‘boom’. It was Big H all the way.”

The Sun understands the decisive strike occurred in late October during a partnered patrol with Afghan troops hunting the Taliban chief. Keep on reading…