American Women Deliver Islamists To Their Deaths

It is extremely gratifying to know that Islamists died with the knowledge that an American woman brought then down. Very, very sweet. Put that in your pipe and smoke it MoHAMmad.

As the hailstorm of munitions continued, Dostum grabbed his walkie-talkie, switched to the Taliban’s unsecured frequency and relayed to them the sound of Black’s chatter coming through Army radio.

He used the female pilot’s voice to taunt them as they bled.

“He said, ‘America is so determined, they bring their women to kill the Taliban. You’re so pathetic,’” Black said. “‘It’s the angel of death raining fire upon you.’” After circling the safe house environs many times — striking militants after they’d regroup in threes and fours — the Spectre had just enough fuel to return to Uzbekistan. The crew had expended all of its ammunition: 400 rounds of 40mm cannon shot and 100 rounds of 105mm Howitzer rounds. Black contacted an incoming gunship sent to finish off the remaining militants with a fresh load of ammo.

In those few hours, Black had become the first female AC-130H navigator to shoot in combat. Six years later, she’s a combat-medal-wearing mother to two sons, ages 6 months and 2 years, and she expects to return to Afghanistan in early 2008. She estimates the total number of human targets eliminated on that first tour at more than 250 enemies.

Female airmen deadly in Iraq, Afghanistan – Air Force Times

H/T:Latterdays

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Squandering Honor and Treasure….

This just turns my stomach. Damn my soul for being asleep these many decades, unaware of the perfidies perpetuated by ravenous and greedy politicians craving power. Be they Clinton or Bush or Johnson, Carter or Kennedy, over these many decades they have all poisoned the soul of America , squandering honor and treasure.

Not like any of us could have done anything about it. Who, in the end, can prevail against powerful men who have nary a principle or a scruple left to their names. As one friend remarked, the sums quoted by the writer quoted below are only the tip of the iceberg.

From the Iconoclast, where you can read it in it’s entirety…

Selig Harrison, a close student of Pakistan, almost a year ago calculated the actual aid to Pakistan up to that time as amounting to (if one includes, as of course one should, the cancellation of Pakistani debts to the United States) at $27.5 billion. Since then many millions more have been added. Members of the Press, and others, before repeating the claim that Pakistan has received “$10 billion” should read Harrison’s article, and come to their own conclusions. My view is that the correct formulation would be that since 2001 Pakistan has received $30 billion dollars from the United States. It has become, during that time it was receiving such colossal amounts of aid, and has remained, the sanctuary of Bin Laden and of Ayman al-Zawahiri. It has remained the chief sanctuary and supporter of a revived Taliban. It has remained the chief incubator of Islamic nuclear ambitions, with weapons which, we are supposed to believe, are being “secured” by “Pakistani”(!) forces. It has remained, and will remain, a malevolent supporter of terrorism and aggression against Kashmir, and the rest of India.
But what is $30 billion wasted, compared to the $60 billion wasted on malevolent meretricious Egypt? And what is $30 billion wasted on Pakistan, to do what it never would do, to become what it never will become (a real “ally” in the “war on terror” — god, we are run by fools, and other fools listen to them and do not question them), compared to the one trillion dollars, and counting, spent on Light-Unto-the-Muslim-Nations Iraq

The Iconoclast – New English Review

But please, do tell me where are the protests of those who impugn America’s support for Israel when it comes to objecting to the egregiously obscene amounts that we hand out to our enemies? At least Israel and the Jews have gifted this world with centuries of genius and invention, while the Arabs and the Egyptians and the Islamists are as locusts, devouring the fruit of the West, raping her bounty and defiling her soul.

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For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets – Times Online

 

A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.

Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office.

She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey.

Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions.

Among the hours of covert tape recordings, she says she heard evidence that one well-known senior official in the US State Department was being paid by Turkish agents in Washington who were selling the information on to black market buyers, including Pakistan.

The name of the official – who has held a series of top government posts – is known to The Sunday Times. He strongly denies the claims.

However, Edmonds said: “He was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives.”

Continue reading….For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets – Times Online

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