Hope

Read today that some of the richest mineral deposits in the world have been found in Afghanistan. What a boon for the people there problem is as corrupt as the government is they will probably squander it. I do know that the war will intensify to gain control of the resources. I do hope the best for the Afghan people and maybe inshallah they will benefit from this find. Maybe now Karzi will let his military and NATO push the Taliban back into Pakistan and give his government some breathing room instead of the ticky tack stuff we have been doing. For those who think COIN operations are just hand holding they are wrong. So far we have not done one of the most important phases that is give the government breathing space. This is done by killing the terrorists that cannot be bought. However it will also depend on the Afghan government, military, and police to stop or at least minimize the corruption to levels that do not directly harm the population.

This was very cool

Over the last few days of school I have received some very nice compliments from fellow students about how interesting, insightful, and educational my discussion board postings have been. That is always very good to hear from peers. When this semester is over and I am done with my degree course work I will be posting some of my better stuff.

Be Safe Brother

My brother is now in the Stan. Be safe, get you and your gang back home. See you in a few months. Oh by the way blow the hell out of some bad guys for me.

Need some help with a little counter-cyber jihad

This is a Facebook page for the Voice of Jihad. In the left hand corner is the report function. We need to knock this page and its over 1000 friends off of Facebook for other reason to piss them off.

I normally do not stray in to domestic politics

However today the will of the people to govern has been taken over by a group of people that think that they in fact know what is best for us. 55 percent of the U.S. population declared their opposition to the current health care reform being voted for today. Our new sovereign masters have decided it is what is best for us and to top it off it is the IRS that is going to enforce it. Great.

Maybe Just Maybe they are trying to help

Dawn News reported that an American born al-Qaeda commander was captured Sunday. Let me emphasize that this guy was born in the U.S. just in case anyone misses the point. The United States is not protected by its oceans in this war. Also California born Adam Gadan and convert to Islam and long time mouth piece if AQ released a new video today praising the Major Nidal the Fort Hood killer. Al-Qaeda central is a shell of itself however it is supporting the leaderless jihad in ways such as this. AQ is happy as long as there is Islamic resistance it does not have to be flying planes into buildings it can be any type of attack that shows that Muslims are still fighting the Great Satan.

On happier news it looks like the Taliban and their foreign allies are having a little dust up of their own. This type of think makes me giggle. Thanks to the Long War Journal for this piece. A Fox news report puts the number of killed at over 50 this morning. Remember the Hekmatyar has been fighting since the Soviet invasion in 1979. His group ranks right up there with the TTP in launching attacks against NATO and Afghan forces.

Cyber Warfare

I maybe a little out of my depth in this class but what I have learned even in the first week is fascinating. Tell you how ignorant I am on the topic you can actually go out on the web and hire sites to do DOS (denial of service) attacks on others. Also script kiddies are people that do not have a lot of computer experience themselves but use available tools on the internet to go out and mess with people. This is just in the first week.