"Dawn Breaks on Marblehead " - Afghan President Hamid Karzai says trying to talk peace with the Taliban is useless....shocker.

REALLY ?? No....Afghan President Karzai says that talking peace with a group of godless bastards who murder women & children is useless....Well it's about time you figured that out chucklehead. The rest of the world figured that out about a decade or more ago.

The Taliban, al-Qaida and Taliban-allied Haqqani network are not interested in peace talks, only continued domination of the Afghan people and terrorizing the rest of the civilized world. These criminals are only interested in control of the drug money, world-wide terror and killing anyone who opposes them.

The more we try to appease them, the more innocents will die. We just captured one of their key leaders and killed another one in Yemen.....I say we need to keep it up. No peace talks, just find the bastards and take them out. The sooner the better.

Afghan president says talks with Taliban useless
AP – 10/01/11

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says trying to talk peace with insurgents is futile and that neighboring Pakistan — not the Taliban — needs to be the other party in the peace talks.

The president's remarks came on a video recording that his office released on Saturday.

Karzai has been pushing for years to reconcile with the Taliban.

He says that effort is no longer viable since a suicide bomber claiming to be a peace emissary from the Taliban killed former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani at his home on Sept. 20. Rabbani was leading Karzai's effort to broker peace with the Taliban.

Karzai says the only way forward is for Afghanistan to negotiate with Pakistan.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO captured a senior leader of the al-Qaida- and Taliban-allied Haqqani network active inside Afghanistan, the alliance said Saturday, describing it as a "significant milestone" in disrupting the terror group's operations.

NATO said Haji Mali Khan was seized Tuesday during an operation in eastern Paktia province's Jani Khel district, which borders Pakistan. It was the most significant capture of a Haqqani leader in Afghanistan, and could dent the group's ability to operate along the porous border with Pakistan's lawless tribal areas.

Shortly after NATO's announcement, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid denied in a message to Afghan media that Khan had been arrested but provided no evidence that he was free.

NATO described Khan as an uncle of Siraj and Badruddin Haqqani, two of the son's of the network's aging leader Jalaludin Haqqani. However, in a recent report on the Haqqani's by the Institute for the Study of War, Khan appears as a brother in-law to Jalaludin Haqqani.

The Pakistan-based Haqqani network is affiliated with both the Taliban and al-Qaida and has been described as the top security threat in Afghanistan. The group has been blamed for hundreds of attacks, including a 20-hour siege of the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters last month.

Last week, U.S. officials accused Pakistan's spy agency of assisting the Haqqanis in attacks on Western targets in Afghanistan — the most serious allegation yet of Pakistani duplicity in the 10-year war.

The United States and other members of the international community have in the past blamed Pakistan for allowing the Taliban, and the Haqqanis in particular, to retain safe havens in the country's tribal areas along the Afghan border — particularly in North Waziristan.

"He was one of the highest ranking members of the Haqqani network and a revered elder of the Haqqani clan," NATO said of Khan, adding that he "worked directly under Siraj Haqqani, and managed bases and had oversight of operations in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Khan also moved forces from Pakistan to Afghanistan to conduct terrorist activity, NATO said. "Jalaluddin Haqqani consistently placed Mali Khan in positions of high importance."

NATO also said that Khan had in the past year established a militant camp in Paktia and "coordinated the transfer of money for insurgents operations, and facilitated the acquisition of supplies."

During the operation Tuesday, Khan surrendered without resistance and NATO forces also arrested his deputy and bodyguard, along with a number of other insurgents, the alliance said.

"The Haqqani network and its safe havens remain a top priority for Afghan and coalition forces," NATO concluded.

The NATO statement said security forces have conducted more than 500 operations so far in 2011 in an effort to disrupt the Haqqani network leadership, resulting in the deaths of 20 operatives and the capture of nearly 300 insurgent leaders and 1,300 suspected Haqqani insurgents

This is why we fight these bastards - Taliban terrorists use children to detonate bombs

This is all the info you need to know as to why we will fight these bastards....no amount of political diatribe can wash away the evidence that these murderous thugs will continue to do things like this until we take them out, and free the people of Afghanistan from their terror.....no plainer way to say it.

I had previously posted about them publicly hanging a 7 year old child, accusing him of being a spy - see link to post below

http://usnavyjeep.blogspot.com/2010/10/taliban-cowards-hang-7-year-old-afghan.html

I, for one, am glad to say that I was there in Afghanistan and supported the Troops that capture and kill these heinous bastards....Until we can turn the tide against them, it will be a fight, but one in which we must not fail. As I have stated before, and it is worth repeating, this fight will be:

" All hard, all the time."


Afghanistan: Taliban terrorists use children to detonate bombs
http://www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?id=44951
12/13/10

Taliban terrorists used a two-year-old girl as the trigger for an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, killing the child and five Afghan police officers. Afghan National Police officers near Kandahar stopped their vehicle to comfort the child who they saw sobbing by the side of the road. The Islamist insurgents had ordered the toddler not to move, in order to lure the hapless officers who were being trained by British troops at the Helmand police training center in Lashkar Gah.

The incident happened in mid-2010, according to Afghan police in training. One of the officers, and eyewitness, said “Bad people did this. They are enemies of humanity, enemies of Islam and enemies of the Koran.” This fresh horror came to light when civilian police of Britain’s Ministry of Defense observed with shock that not one of their Afghan trainees went to calm a child during a practical training session on dealing with missing children. Recruits to the Afghan police forces related to their British mentors the horror they had observed earlier in the year. ran a practical training session on what to do if Afghan police found a missing child. The Brits were shocked not one officer went to calm a child in the session - until recruits told them of the sick trick of using tiny tots as triggers. One British officer said that he was unprepared for such devious tactics, saying "I've come to teach them community policing but it's life and death every day.”

Explosive booby traps such as these (IEDs) have been used to deadly effect following the invasion of Iraq by US and Allied forces, killing numerous troops as well as civilians. In Afghanistan, an IED consisting of a 250 lb bomb was found by Afghan police forces on November 1. The device was rigged with bullets and metal fragments for maximum effect. It was hidden in a drainage pipe beneath a road in apparent Taliban revenge for a firefight they encountered with British troops just a day earlier. Defused by British demolition teams, the device was detonated under controlled circumstances, leaving a crater 5 feet deep and 20 feet wide. Witnesses said that it could have easily flipped a military vehicle and killed its occupants had it been detonated as planned by the Taliban. Afghan police that found the bomb had noticed a copper detonation wire that extended more than 400 yards to a nearby treeline.

British troops in February 2010 noted that children as young as 12 were being used by the Islamist marauders to plant IEDs with the intention of killing and maiming troops. British Army commanders say insurgents are forcing children to lay IEDs because they know they will not be shot by British snipers. Moreover, say British sources, the children’s parents and families are likely to have been threatened by the Taliban to allow their children to carry out terrorist tasks.

Editor Martin Barillas is a former US diplomat, who also worked as a democracy advocate and election observer in Latin America. He is also a freelance translator.