DAVID IGNATIUS ON BENGHAZI COVER UP

Lingering questions about Benghazi

By David Ignatius, Published: October 30/Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-benghazi-questions-the-administration-must-answer/2012/10/30/02d02538-22e2-11e2-8448-81b1ce7d6978_story.html

... But Fox News has raised some questions about the attack that deserve a clearer answer from the Obama administration.

Fox’s Jennifer Griffin reported Friday that CIA officers in Benghazi had been told to “stand down” when they wanted to deploy from their base at the annex to repel the attack on the consulate, about a mile away. Fox also reported that the CIA officers requested military support when the annex came under fire later that night but that their request had been denied.

The Benghazi tragedy was amplified by Charles Woods, the father of slain CIA contractor Tyrone Woods. He told Fox’s Sean Hannity that White House officials who didn’t authorize military strikes to save the embattled CIA annex were “cowards” and “are guilty of murdering my son.”

..... what did happen in Benghazi on the night of Sept. 11, when Woods, Ambassador Christopher Stevens and two others Americans were killed? The best way to establish the facts would be a detailed, unclassified timeline of events...That’s a must, even in the volatile final week of the campaign. In the meantime, here’s a summary of some of the basic issues that need to be clarified.

First, on the question of whether Woods and others were made to wait when they asked permission to move out immediately to try to rescue those at the consulate.

...The main reason for the delay, several sources said, was that CIA officials were making urgent contact with a Libyan militia, known as the February 17 Brigade, which was the closest thing to an organized security force in Benghazi. The United States depends on local security to protect U.S. diplomatic facilities everywhere, and officials wanted to coordinate any response to the consulate attack. After this delay, Woods and his colleague proceeded to the consulate.

Here’s my question: Was it wise to depend on a Libyan militia that clearly wasn’t up to the job? Could it have made a difference for those under attack at the consulate if Woods had moved out as soon as he was, in one official’s words, “saddled and ready”?

Second, why didn’t the United States send armed drones or other air assistance to Benghazi immediately?

What more could have been done? A Joint Special Operations Command team was moved that night to Sigonella air base in Sicily, for quick deployment to Benghazi or any of the other U.S. facilities in danger that night across North Africa. Armed drones could also have been sent. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta summarized last Thursday the administration’s decision to opt for caution: “You don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on.”

...The Obama administration needs to level with the country about why it made its decisions.

SAUDIS TO BEGIN MAJOR IDEOLOGICAL ASSAULT ON AFGHANISTAN

This is the beginning of the end.

Look what happened to Pakistan once the Saudis embarked on their “ideological warfare” to purify those who were in “jahilliyyah.” Their view.

They built the Faisal Mosque which was their “show of force/dominance” as Pakistan’s elite/military sold their souls. Weird crap is happening to this post....please see below











The rest...

Things ever since have gone downhill for Pakistan.
And then, via the Saudi funded madrassas, with their hateful and intolerant worldview, emerged those gullible Pushtun orphans and war veterans who set out to destroy their own motherland in the name of the “true faith.”
The Taliban’s taqlid, following the wishes of their paymasters, showed no respect or tolerance towards Afghanistan’s Sufi variant of Sunni Hanafi Islam (and also targeted the Shias) per their marching orders. 

If you take money from such ideologues, who are one of the primary actors (Iran and Pakistan have also contributed their share of damage) behind your country’s destruction, you must then be prepared to accept the dire consequences.

You will be abids of the Saudis.

Do you want to live in Afghanistan, as in the days of your ancestors, as free independent men? Or, do you want to sell your souls, your culture & way of life to the highest bidder for a few gold coins and a “grand and unique” mosque???

Have you not learnt yet from what has happened across that Durand Line?? Now you will have no one to blame but yourselves.

Go ahead…let in the Wahhabi/Salafi…yes, the same who funded those Arab “guests” who swore bayah but betrayed you and let you bear the brunt of 9/11. But do not shed tears of gham and servitude.

It will be painful to see where this new train wreck is heading during the next decade.

Haven’t your so-called “democratically elected” leaders any nang left??? Weren’t the spoils from the generous feringhi not enough for your grasping hands???

Wonder what Pir Roshan, Khushal Khan, Mirwais, Abdali etc etc would make of your betrayal to the enemies of the Afghan qaum?

READ AND WEEP….
SAUDIS TO BUILD MAJOR ISLAMIC CENTRE IN AFGHANISTAN

GULF TIMES, OCTOBER  29th, 2012. AFP/RIYADH

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=540439&version=1&template_id=41&parent_id=23

Saudi Arabia will build a massive Islamic centre complete with a university and a mosque in Afghanistan, an Afghan minister said yesterday, describing the project as “grand and unique”.
Estimated to cost up to $100mn, the centre on a hilltop in central Kabul will house up to 5,000 students, Dayi-Ul Haq Abed, the acting Haj and religious affairs minister said.
It will be named after Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the minister added.
“The agreement was signed last week in Jeddah. The construction will start next year, in couple of months or so,” Abed said.
The mosque, similar to the Faisal Mosque in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad that was also built by oil-rich Saudi Arabia in 1980s, will hold 15,000 worshippers at a time.
The minister said the centre will be run jointly by the Saudi and Afghan ministries of religious affairs. Other universities in Afghanistan are run by the higher education ministry.
Saudi Arabia was one of only three countries — along with Pakistan and the UAE — that recognised the Taliban regime during its rule.

 

 

THE GAEL...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U89Qtbnk-Q4&feature=list_other&playnext=1&list=RD02hg1xqAjQ5e4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b11-37Me_a4&feature=list_other&playnext=1&list=RD02M0d4qM7gCH8

GHAZALA JAVED WAS PUKHTUNKHWA'S NIGHTINGALE SO THEY KILLED HER

Note: The TTP are another faction of a contagion that is now sweeping the globe in the name of Islam. These orthodox literalists want to silence the music, kill anything beautiful and murder schoolgirls who want to go to school. They are diehard ideologues and there is NO ROOM for negotiation w/such scum.

 

With Ghazala Javed’s death, music is subdued in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa

Kiran Nazish | 3rd September, 2012   DAWN

 

http://dawn.com/2012/09/03/with-ghazala-javeds-death-music-is-subdued-in-khyber-pakhtunkhwa/

A little over two months ago, news of a popular Pashtun female singer’s death streamed local and global media, fuelled by rumours of the Taliban’s involvement in her murder. Ghazala Javed, 24, and her father were shot dead on June 18, in Peshawar’s Dabagari Garden area.
“She was shot six times by gunmen as she left a beauty salon,” said a police officer working on the case. These shots were not fired by the Taliban. The police claim that her ex-husband, who had remarried and would force his first wife to quit singing, was the prime suspect and was hence arrested last week. Her sister, who filed the FIR said, “When Ghazala found out that he had a second wife, she asked for a divorce. This really annoyed him as it is against family honour for a husband to be asked to

Ghazala Javed – Image taken from YouTube video grab

leave.” Although Javed’s family did not specify their suspect, local police claimed her ex-husband’s involvement with much confidence.
Ghazala’s death has raised several questions about the law and order condition in KPK, the government’s responsibility in dealing with the issue of security and the threat of extremism, all of which squeezes the margin of survival of musicians and artists in the area.
Ghazala who originally hailed from the Banrr village in Swat, which fell to Taliban rule in 2007, had fled to pursue her music career away from their tyrannical insolence and continued to sing in Peshawar, 170 kilometres away from her hometown.
She enjoyed tremendous following in the region, not just among boys and girls but middle-aged and elderly locals as well. She sang of youthful love and desire, mostly self-written. The threats she faced from the Taliban were easily countered by the respect she enjoyed from her progressive ethnic Pashtun fans, both for her music and her boldness. Ghazala would travel to Dubai for her recordings, in order to keep the music-related activity to a minimum in the Taliban-threatened region.
One of her seniors in the music industry, who does not want to be named said, “Ghazala Javed was a remarkably talented young lady. When she entered the music industry, she instantly developed a fan following, not just in Peshawar, but across Pakistan.”
Perhaps it was her beauty that initially attracted most listeners, but her fans kept growing in the region for her angelic voice and the sense of ethnic music. She defied the Taliban and continued to take on whatever problems came with it. “As a musician I know that is not easy, not something I will be able to keep up with,” said the musician.

Even though Ghazala was not killed by the Taliban, but the constant threats she received have overshadowed the plot. She was that quintessential inspiration for an artist in KPK and her tragic murder will have a pronounced impact on the careers of young singers. Especially the female singers who want to pursue their career in music, in the deeply orthodox society of KPK.
One of Ghazala’s fans and recent students, Anila says that she might not have the courage to sing after loosing her mentor and teacher to an unknown death. “It shocked me, it made me cry, but it also made me fear in the wonder, if I will be able to have a safe career if I pursue the things my mentor taught me.
“They talk about freedom of expression. What is it? Freedom of expression does not necessarily come with writing or activism. To me, singing is my freedom. And that I don’t have. But I have decided to certainly try to pursue what I am passionate about.”
Most other female singers in the area did not express their pain openly as they felt the fear of a backlash. A close friend of Ghazala’s also a singer anonymously said, “We could be targeted for saying anything for or against her, but I would just like to pay my due respect to her. She was certainly a role model for many young singer and a great fellow of mine.”
KPK is an in-friendly domicile for artists, musicians or poets and is mostly obsessed with conventional social and religious constraints. Apart from the religious justifications against such professions, there are other social and family pressures. Additionally the security concerns from different militants and extremists groups usually overshadow the talent that the Pushtoon community has the potential to enjoy.

Considering how recently the Taliban poetry is making rounds in the local and global media, it becomes increasingly intriguing, what really is the benchmark behaviours they expect from people.
There are about 150 known musicians in different areas of KPK, most of whom will not say anything about their conditions in public out of the fear. A 22-year-old harmonium player, Imran Khan from the district of Dabagari, was abrasively beaten up by an unknown group for speaking openly about Ghazala’s grief. “I just spoke about the unnecessary fear that creative people in our town generally have to face. Everyone should have the freedom to choose their profession, as freely as in the rest of the country.” Imran who got scars from the beating concluded, “If music serves my soul, then my soul should die, or I should die.”
What killed Ghazala could be a prevailing patriarchal mindset and indeed, in some way, the Taliban ideology now deeply ingrained in the Pashtun society.