Day: May 21, 2015

Osama’s “Reading Rainbow”

For years we Americans were obsessed with everything Osama….he was the anti-Christ, the number one terrorist, public enemy #1….he was everything evil in the world and he was linked to lots of other things…….conspiracies, theories and a whole bunch of BS……

But all that came to an end about 4 years ago when he was killed by a SEAL with a big gun……..with his death we got a bunch of intel from his papers, notebooks and such…….the big story today is his bookcase, at least it is for the MSM……what sort of books did this evil person read?

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence yesterday released an “unprecedented number” of documents recovered in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan (among them: an al-Qaeda application and a warning about Iranian dentists). The ODNI also released a completed list of the 39 English-language books (though one is described as a “single saved webpage” and another as “only the book’s introduction) found there. The New York Times frames the bookshelf as a “weird hodgepodge.” The Guardian points out that the collection “bizarrely” includes a number of books by conspiracy theorists; one alleges George W. Bush had foreknowledge of 9/11. The full list is here, with 15 standouts below:

  1. A Brief Guide to Understanding Islam by I. A. Ibrahim
  2. America’s Strategic Blunders by Willard Matthias
  3. Al-Qaeda’s Online Media Strategies: From Abu Reuter to Irhabi 007 by Hanna Rogan
  4. Black Box Voting, Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century by Bev Harris
  5. Bloodlines of the Illuminati by Fritz Springmeier
  6. Christianity and Islam in Spain 756-1031 AD by C. R. Haines
  7. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
  8. Handbook of International Law by Anthony Aust
  9. Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
  10. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
  11. New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin
  12. Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward
  13. Oxford History of Modern War by Charles Townsend
  14. Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower by William Blum
  15. The US and Vietnam 1787-1941 by Robert Hopkins Miller

What won’t be declassified: bin Laden’s porn stash.

Most Americans could care less what he was reading……but me I found it interesting…….He seem to have a varied taste in reading material which shows he was not an idiot……but the one question that NO one has asked is ……why would a fundamentalist Muslim, a Wahhabi, need a book entitled……”A Brief Guide To Understanding Islam”?  I find that an interesting choice of reading material.

That book and its reason for being there would make an interesting story……at least I believe so.

The scary part is that I have also read a few of the same books as Osama…..so is that he has good taste in books or am I just a radical in waiting?   LOL

Syria: Bad Guy Vs Bad Guy

Opinion from the tortured fingers of Chuq

Does anyone remember reading MAD Magazine in their youth……especially the cartoon panels entitled “Spy Vs Spy”….one white one black and no one knows who was good or bad……

That cartoon made me think of a situation brewing in Syria as I write this…..Everybody is at war with everybody else and in between are the civilians that NO one, mostly notably the US, cares about….but that is a post for another day.

Let’s look at that war….we have Assad fighting anyone that is not in his army……we have rebels fighting rebels……we have the Coalition fighting ISIS…….and ISIS fighting anyone that gets in their way to gain total control of the region……about here is where I pick up on the post……..

There are many units fighting in Syria on various sides of the conflict….there is of course ISIS and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the AQ affiliate, Nusra Front which is fighting mostly in the Southern part of Syria……..this is where it becomes most interesting……

Both ISIS and Nusra are considered to be extreme fundamentalist which adhere to a very strict interpretation of Islam…..on the surface it would appear that these two entities should be allies…..but that ain’t happening.

The Nusra Front has launched an assault on rival Islamic State positions in the Qalamoun mountains on the Lebanon-Syria border, al-Qaeda’s official representative in Syria said.

According to social media accounts belonging to Nusra, its militants began attacking IS positions on Tuesday and now plan to “eradicate” IS in the region because it has exploited “the vision of an Islamic state”.

While the two groups have clashed throughout much of Syria, they had, until recently, fostered relatively good relations in Qalamoun, a mountain range key to securing supply routes into Syria.

– See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nusra-plans-eradicate-syria-lebanon-border-700200023#sthash.K4A7iceb.dpuf

“Eradicate” ISIS?  Now that should be good news to the ears of our guys in the State department…..but wait!  Nusra is an AQ affiliate how does that fit into the equation?

Now with this break between the two….will the US arm and train an AQ affiliate?  Where does this situation fit into the grand scheme of things (if there is a grand scheme)?
As with everything about the conflict in Syria…….there are questions……..so many questions and so little answers.
Well is this good news or not?

The New Lie About Iraq | The American Conservative

You read it right! I am pressing something from a conservative magazine.

We were scared into supporting a war in 2003 that did NOT need to be fought.  That game is being played again…….the media is doing all it possibly can to scare the American people into yet another ill fated war in Iraq.

The last line of the piece says it all……… “All Americans should be aware and suspicious of again being panicked into supporting more wars”

Good advice that we ALL should heed!.

The New Lie About Iraq | The American Conservative.

Why Did We Invade Iraq? – The Atlantic

The 2016 election is heating up already and all the focus seems to be on the Iraq War…..the second one not the first…….and the one question that has been asked is…..”Knowing what you know now would you have authorized the country going to war”?  A paraphrase but you get the idea.

It is a question that needs to be asked…..but there are others that would have been better…..the answers would be more telling of what type of president we would get with this person or that.

 

Why Did We Invade Iraq? – The Atlantic.