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Title: Taliban to Obama: Take troops home
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URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80306
Published: Nov 7, 2008
Author: Bob Unruh
Post Date: 2008-11-07 14:35:04 by christine
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President-elect Barack Obama repeatedly denounced the "failed" policies of the Bush administration in the war on terror during his successful election campaign. But now he is on the spot as Taliban leaders demand that he withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. According to a report today from MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, several Taliban leaders are reacting to Obama's election. "The new U.S. president can begin a new era of peace in the world. Therefore, Obama should withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan," said Qari Muhammad Yusuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan. "We want Obama to change President Bush's policies. He can end the war that has been going on for years by withdrawing U.S. and allied troops from Afghanistan.," he said. "An increase in the number of troops in Afghanistan cannot bring change; rather, even if a soldier is deployed for every stone in Afghanistan, the West cannot bring in [to Kabul] a government of its choice," the report quoted him saying. MEMRI monitors media in the Middle East and provides translations of reports and commentaries. "There is neither sadness nor happiness among the Taliban groups over the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president," Ahmadi said, "The issue is not a change of face in the U.S. presidency but [the need for] a change in policies." He said Obama and GOP candidate Sen. John McCain "had emphasized that the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan would be increased. … If [Obama] fulfills his campaign promise, the Taliban cannot be happy about his election. "We want to tell the world and the West to pull out their troops from Afghanistan as the Bush party has lost the race because of their flawed polices," he said. Muslim Khan, another spokesman for the Taliban, said of Obama's victory: "The change of leadership in the U.S. will remain meaningless until the U.S. and Allied troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan. "If president-elect Barack Obama persists with the policy adopted in Afghanistan and Iraq, and if the path to the establishment of an Islamic system in Pakistan is stopped [by the U.S.], our struggle against the U.S. will continue as ever. "[We hope that] Barack Obama [will] respect his mandate, [and will, instead of] converting the tax money from the American public into a heap of explosives, spend [it] on their welfare," Khan said. Syed Munawwar Hasan, secretary-general of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, said, "There is a parallel between the February 18 elections in Pakistan and the U.S. presidential election. Here [in Pakistan], the people rejected the policies of President Pervez Musharraf, while the U.S. public used their vote against [President] Bush's policies. "The U.S. is hated worldwide due to its foreign policies. Barack Obama will need to understand the reasons," he continued. "The U.S. has always backed dictators in Muslim states, and has trampled people's democratic decisions. The same double standard is used even in the war against terror; the U.S. has always stood by occupiers in crushing people's movements in Palestine and Kashmir. "If Barack Obama wants to see peace in the world, he must change these policies. Otherwise, the fire lit by Bush in the name of [the war on] terrorism will spread across the world and destroy it into dust," he said. During the campaign, Obama advocated for additional troops in Afghanistan to crush the terror faction that was attacked following the Sept.11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Does anyone here really believe that Rahm Emanuel would ever allow that??? The military has called for more ground troops as have the politicians. We will never withdraw from the Middle East. Israel will never allow that.
Per usual, these "reports" come from MEMRI and SITE. The "reports" even wear yarmulkes but the sheep still miss the source.
Please check who is behind MEMRI, and who operate it: FROM: http://www.factsontheground.co.uk/?p=120 MEMRI and it’s Mickey Mouse translation MEMRI which stands for Middle East Media Research Institute was established by former Israeli intelligence agents, the Mossad, to police Arabic media for any evidence of anti-Israeli rhetoric. In my professional opinion, MEMRI’s “translation” is not credible and flat out forgery.
noted
www.csmonitor.com/200 6/0502/dailyUpdate.html posted May 2, 2006 at 12:00 p.m. US does not consider Taliban terrorists By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com When the US State Department issued its annual Country Reports on Terrorism last Friday, it listed numerous state-sponsors of terrorism, like Iran, and groups it considers foreign terrorist organizations, like Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Hizbullah. Conspiciously absent from the lists, however, was the Taliban. In an article entitled "Terrorism's Dubious 'A' List," the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) reports that the religious extremist organization has never been listed as a terrorist group by the US, Britain, the EU, Canada, Australia, or any of the coalition partners, despite the fact that during its six year rule in Afghanistan, it provided save haven for Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and currently is staging terrorist attacks against coalition forces and waging a national campaign of intimidation and fear.
MY REPLY TO ZEITGEIST: 1John Chapter 2: "21 I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth. 22 Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Whoever denies the Father and the Son, this is the antichrist."He said Obama and GOP candidate Sen. John McCain "had emphasized that the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan would be increased. … If [Obama] fulfills his campaign promise, the Taliban cannot be happy about his election.
#2. To: Cynicom, christine (#1)
#3. To: Cynicom (#1)
#4. To: Old Friend (#3)
appropriate clip bump
#5. To: christine (#0)
MEMRI monitors media in the Middle East and provides translations of reports and commentaries
#6. To: Max (#5)
MEMRI which stands for Middle East Media Research Institute was established by former Israeli intelligence agents, the Mossad, to police Arabic media for any evidence of anti-Israeli rhetoric.
#7. To: christine, max, all (#6)
Even as the Taliban attacks US, Canadian, and British forces, organization is left off terrorist list in 'political' decision.
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
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