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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarsha Blackburn (R-Stupid) just characterized the recently released Taliban
as members of Al Quaeda (on msnbc). Is she really that stupid, or is that deliberate disinformation?
Orrex
(63,084 posts)And yesterday. And the day before.
It's deliberate information, it's widespread, and it's repeated unchallenged by the echo chamber.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)somehow I suspect that most Americans make no distinction between the taliban and al qaeda.
Which is why that picture of Ronnie Raygun sitting in the Oval Office with a bunch of Taliban dudes in turbans needs to be posted everywhere until republican heads explode.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Too simple for the RStupid to understand
840high
(17,196 posts)Here they are:
Mullah Mohammad Fazl (Taliban army chief of staff): Fazl is wanted by the UN for possible war crimes including the murder of thousands of Shiites. Fazl was associated with terrorist groups currently opposing U.S. and Coalition forces including al Qaeda, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, and an Anti-Coalition Militia group known as Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami. In addition to being one of the Talibans most experienced military commanders, Fazl worked closely with a top al Qaeda commander named Abdul Hadi al Iraqi, who headed al Qaedas main fighting unit in Afghanistan prior to 9/11 and is currently detained at Guantanamo.
Mullah Norullah Noori (senior Taliban military commander): Like Fazl, Noori is wanted by the United Nations for possible war crimes including the murder of thousands of Shiite Muslims. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Noori fought alongside al Qaeda as a Taliban military general, against the Northern alliance. He continued to work closely with al Qaeda in the years that followed.
Abdul Haq Wasiq (Taliban deputy minister of intelligence): Wasiq arranged for al Qaeda members to provide crucial intelligence training prior to 9/11. The training was headed by Hamza Zubayr, an al Qaeda instructor who was killed during the same September 2002 raid that netted Ramzi Binalshibh, the point man for the 9/11 operation. Wasiq was central to the Talibans efforts to form alliances with other Islamic fundamentalist groups to fight alongside the Taliban against U.S. and Coalition forces after the 11 September 2001 attacks, according to a leaked JTF-GTMO threat assessment.
Khairullah Khairkhwa (Taliban governor of the Herat province and former interior minister): Khairkhwa was the governor of Afghanistans westernmost province prior to 9/11. In that capacity, he executed sensitive missions for Mullah Omar, including helping to broker a secret deal with the Iranians. For much of the pre-9/11 period, Iran and the Taliban were bitter foes. But a Taliban delegation that included Kharikhwa helped secure Irans support for the Talibans efforts against the American-led coalition in late 2001. JTF-GTMO found that Khairkhwa was likely a major drug trafficker and deeply in bed with al Qaeda. He allegedly oversaw one of Osama bin Ladens training facilities in Herat.
Mohammed Nabi (senior Taliban figure and security official): Nabi was a senior Taliban official who served in multiple leadership roles. Nabi had strong operational ties to Anti-Coalition Militia groups including al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, some of whom remain active in ACM activities. Intelligence cited in the JTF-GTMO files indicates that Nabi held weekly meetings with al Qaeda operatives to coordinate attacks against U.S.-led force
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)see if info incorrect.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)Which says:
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840high
(17,196 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)alsame
(7,784 posts)her or question her. She was allowed to spew lies uninterrupted.
Of course it's deliberate, before this is over the GOP will be saying the 5 were all AQ number 2.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)alsame
(7,784 posts)been all right wing on this issue. It's disgusting, I might as well watch Fox.
alsame
(7,784 posts)soldiers from Bergdahl's unit is on trashing him.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)different confederate stupid talking points dating from Bergdahl all the way back to the beginning of the Obama Era.
Not once did she make a complete point. I watched wondering how fucking stupid someone has to be to vote for her.
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)She is a liar and this was deliberate