Monday, February 20, 2012

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THE HANDSTAND

MARCH 2004

New Unabridged Israeli Dictionary

By Edna Yaghi

The following terms are designed to provide a greater insight into rephrasing a language, giving it a depth of new meanings and taking propaganda to a place it has never been before.

General terminology

1. art of the possible - Israeli politics based on the ideology that Palestinians must at all costs

continue to be the victims of Israeli expediency.
2. centre - midway between advocating the genocide of Palestinians or only killing a portion of them.
3. centrist - an Israeli who believes in killing some but not necessarily all Palestinians.
4. checkpoints - places where Palestinians are stopped on their own land. And humiliated and "inspected" by Israeli soldiers.

5. civil rights - fundamental protections and individual freedoms enjoyed by all citizens under the Israeli constitution EXCEPT and UNLESS they are Palestinian.
6. closures and blockades - the act of sealing off one Palestinian area from another and the prevention of supplies being distributed.
7. collective punishment - Israeli mass punishment meted out to ALL Palestinians because they dare to resist the Israeli occupation.
8. diplomacy - the skill in managing negotiations, a skill Israelis manage best at gunpoint.
9. domestic - relating to political affairs carried on within Eretz Israel and includes the belief that

Israelis are far, far, far superior to gentiles.
10. establishment - Israeli ruling class and institutions by which Israel maintains its existing disorder in its own society exclusive of Palestinians.
11. franchise - the right to vote on how to liquidate Palestinians; reserved for Israeli Jews only.
12. freedom of speech - reserved for Israeli Jews only. Any Palestinian daring to say what he/she

believes in will be dealt with brute force to silence them.
13. free enterprise - Israeli freedom to crush Palestinian economy and lives.
14. free thought - reserved for Israeli Jews only. Palestinians guilty of engaging in this activity will be severely punished.
15. geopolitics - how to exterminate or drive out the indigenous population of Palestine.
16. hard line - brute force, excessive punishment, shoot-to-kill and then complain to the world that

Israelis are the victims of Palestinian violence.
17. ideology - Israeli socio-political theories and programmes bent on the liquidation of Palestinians and the best means of achieving it.
18. independence - freedom from political control or domination by othersa taboo word for Palestinians.
19. iron hand - how Israelis deal with Palestinian babies who dare to play in the street.

20. laissez-faire - the idea that all Israelis should be free to shoot and kill as many Palestinians as they wish to.
21. liberalism - belief in personal liberty and autonomy, progress and government aid to Israeli Jews only, and never to Palestinians.
22. liberation - to free Israel from Palestinians.
23. liberty - freedom to exercise various rights, especially the choice of one's government and individual freedoms, but not meant for Palestinians.

24. national socialism - neo-Nazis, Israelis.(note images on tank, reverse and place back to back)
25. neo-Fascism - the Israeli platform.
26. New Left - movement advocating radical political and social change or, in other words, getting rid of the Palestinians.
27. New Right - movement advocating conservative social values and nationalistic foreign policy or, in other words, it is OK to kill some but not all Palestinians.
28. non-partisan - holding views to liquidate Palestinians without regard to a party or party platform

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29. oppression - unfair, harsh exercise of authority and highly recommended by Israeli government in treatment of Palestinians.
30. patriotism - love of one's country and loyalty to its government -- reserved for Israeli Jews only. Palestinians found guilty of patriotism will be executed.
31. political science - the study of how to lie about Palestinian history and convince the world that Palestine was always Israeli.

32. power elite - Israelis wielding inordinate political power over the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine.
33. proportional representation - system in which each party is represented in legislature in proportion to its percentage of its electorate with the exception of the Palestinians.

34. reactionary - holding ultra-conservative views (increase settlements, decrease Palestinian population) that firmly support the status quo and advocate suppression of those favouring change (Palestinians).

Criminal terminology

1. aggravated assault - when a child throws a stone at a heavily armed Israeli soldier.

2. battery - the lawful beating or physical violence against Palestinians.
3. breaking and entering - what Israeli soldiers do in the wee hours of the night in Palestinian homes.
4. brutality - the more meted out against the Palestinians the better.

5. capital crime - when a Palestinian child throws a stone at an armoured tank. Not a capital crime - when an Israeli soldier murders a Palestinian infant.
6. concealment - how to cover up Israeli atrocities.
7. condemned - the sentence of all Palestinians by the Israeli government.
8. connivance - when Americans and other Western countries aid in Israeli illegal acts, thereby consenting to them.
9. crime - throwing a stone.
10. delict - encouraged acts by Israelis against Palestinians such as the Palestinian Holocaust and the confiscation of Palestinian towns, homes and land.

11. disorderly conduct - when a Palestinian breathes.
12. extortion - act of taking away Palestinian property by trickery or fraud but considered honourable in the eyes of Israeli governments.
13. graft - bribery, especially of a public official, a practice rampant in Israel where most of the leaders are known killers of Palestinians.
14. involuntary manslaughter - wilful killing of Palestinians but judged as criminal negligence.

15. lawbreaker - a Palestinian child wielding a stone.
16. lawless - all Israeli soldiers.
17. malfeasance - act of which all Israeli leaders are guilty.
18. misdemeanour - when an Israeli kills Palestinians.

19. offence - when Palestinians are guilty of living.

Military terminology

1. act of war - when a child dares to confront an Israeli tank.
2. aggression - normal routine of suppressing Palestinians.
3. air raid - often done by Israelis when Palestinians are asleep.

4. ally - all the world with Israelis against Palestinians.
5. barricade - obstacles across roadways to prevent Palestinians moving from one place to another.
6. bloodbath - how considerate Israelis bathe Palestinians.
7. containment - policy and actions to prevent Palestinians from venturing outside their homes.
8. deployment - positioning of Israeli troops on Palestinian hilltops in readiness to shoot and kill.
9. enemy - Palestinian babies.
10. laws of war - universal ethical guidelines governing basic conduct of forces towards enemies in

wartime -- something the Israeli army never adheres to.
11. massacre - what the Israeli army does every day to Palestinians.
12. sabre rattling - show or threat of Israeli military force used to intimidate Palestinians.
13. show of force - intentional display of Israeli military strength to deter babies from playing in the

street.
14. security - Israeli excuses to massacre Palestinians.
15. spasm warfare - brief, cataclysmic conflict that uses all forces and resources without regard to consequences to civilian Palestinian population.
16. trench warfare - when Israelis dig trenches in order to further isolate and strangulate Palestinian cities and villages from one another.
17. unconventional warfare - what Israelis do that defies logic.

18. war crimes - unethical, criminal behaviour and actions contrary to laws of war. All Israeli leaders are rewarded for their war crimes.
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Edna Yaghi is an American freelance writer specializing in social and political affairs in the Middle East

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Pashtun Resist: Kings from the Rising of the Sun

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Russia and the Central Asian Drug Trade: The Role of Kyrgyztan

Russia and the Central Asian Drug Trade: The Role of Kyrgyztan by Alexander Barentsev

Global Research, May 9, 2010
Strategic Culture Foundation - 2010-05-08

A drug trafficking campaign is being conducted against Russia on a broad scale affecting all spheres of its political, social and economic life. Kyrgyzstan plays an important role in this campaign. There are ten main routes of heroin traffic from Afghanistan (occupied by the US forces) with six of them crossing the Kyrgyz city of Osh, an important hub of Afghan drug traffic.

Here are these routes:

1. Badakhshan (Afghanistan) – Gorno-Badakhshan (Tajikistan) – Osh (Kyrgyzstan) – Sumgait (Azerbaijan) (earlier the processing of morphine into heroin was carried out at a facility near the Azeri capital of Baku but with the development of drug production in Afghanistan the Azeri drug mafia switched to drug transit) – Bosnia – Croatia – Western Europe;

2. Badakhshan – Gorno-Badakhshan – Osh, – Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) – Samara (Russia) – Moscow (Russia) – Estonia – Sweden – the US;

3. Badakhshan – Gorno-Badakhshan – Osh, – Bishkek – Yekaterinburg (Russia) – Moscow – Estonia – Sweden – the US;

4. Badakhshan – Gorno-Badakhshan – Osh, – Bishkek – Nizhni Novgorod (Russia) – Moscow – Estonia – Sweden – the US;

5. Badakhshan – Gorno-Badakhshan – Osh, – Bishkek – Saransk (Russia) – Moscow – Estonia – Sweden – the US;

6. Badakhshan – Dushanbe – Bombory (Georgia) – Kobuleti, Ajaria (Georgia) (earlier the processing of morphine into heroin was carried out here but with the development of drug production in Afghanistan, Kobuleti was also turned into a transit center) – Turkey;

7. Murghab (Tajikistan) – Gorno-Badakshan, – Osh – Bishkek – Ganja, Azerbaijan – Moscow – Šiauliai (Lithuania),– Europe;

8. Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan) – Termez (Uzbekistan) – Shali, (Chechen republic) – Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan) – Turkey;

9. Mazar-i-Sharif– Termez – Samarkand (Uzbekistan) – Ganja – Dagestan – Shali – Moscow – Šiauliai;

10. Mazar-i-Sharif– Termez – Samarkand – Ganja – Dagestan – Shali – the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia (Russia) – Abkhazia – Romania.

As we can see – the main routes of heroin traffic to Russia, Europe and the US are those that cross or originate in Tajikistan and/or Southern Kyrgyzstan.

These routes (from Tajikistan to Southern Kyrgyzstan) cover three main motor roads: Khujand - Osh, Khorog – Osh and Dzergital – Osh.– along these roads the Afghan heroin is transported further to Kazakhstan and Russia: For example, "Sogdian direction" covers motor roads from the Tajik Khujand to the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan and farther to Osh. Another direction, the "Batken direction", covers mountain paths from Dzhergitalsky district of Tajikistan to the Batken region. Part of these routes passes through the territory of Uzbekistan. And practically all routes lead to the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan and from there drugs are shipped via the Jalal-Abad region to the North of Kyrgyzstan – to the Talas and Chui regions, and from there to Kazakhstan, Russia and Europe.

Besides, in summer drugs are shipped from Tajikistan to southern Kyrgyzstan down hundreds of hiking and horse paths in the mountains which are practically impossible to control.

As we can see, the Gorno-Badakhshan (Tajikistan) – Osh (Kyrgyzstan) section is the one that’s most frequently used in most routes.

Since 2008 the number of Kyrgyz citizens, detained on Russian territory for illegal sales of drugs has increased. In early 2009 alone, almost five tons of drugs were confiscated, including 480 kg of heroin and 2680 kg of hashish. The detainees were mainly Kyrgyz citizens and ethnic Kazakhs who carried Russian passports. According to the Deputy Director of the Agency for Drug Control of Kyrgyzstan Vitali Orozaliev, drug traffic via Kyrgyzstan is constantly growing and in 2009 it doubled on the previous year.

"Drug dealers have huge financial resources, - Orzaliev says, - and they receive detailed information from corrupt law enforcement agency officials about forthcoming operations against them". The average salary of an anti-narcotic agency officer in Kyrgyzstan is $150, and if drug dealers offer them $50,000-100,000 for his cooperation, this deal will be hard to refuse”, Orzoliyev stresses. He adds that drug trafficking is a very profitable business. If in Afghanistan a kilo of heroin is available at $1,200-1,300, in Kyrgyzstan the price rises to $4,000-5,000 per kg, while in Russia it shoots up to $45,000 per kg.

“We are witnessing a merger of the drug business with law enforcement agencies”, - Erik Iriskulbekov, an expert with Kyrgyzstan’s NGO Adilet, says. Even if a criminal is caught in the act, they will not necessarily be brought to responsibility. Very often judges or medical experts rule such offenders to be mentally ill, so the latter escape punishment.

And now – attention, please!

On April 1, 2010, during a special operation in the city of Osh to detain a drug suspect, the agents of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry confiscated more than 160 packages of Afghan hashish (about 107, 8 kg) and 24.4 kg of heroin. That was a serious blow to the drug mafia, so a few days later, on the night of April 6th, the country saw a people’s uprising, and a coup. A government of national confidence seized power as a result, pledging Washington to retain the US military base Manas in Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan has long since been prominent on the geopolitical agenda of the United States and its allies.

According to the CIA, Kyrgyzstan is a small, poor country in the mountains with an emphasis on agriculture. Cotton, wool, meat are the main agricultural products and exports. But the country also has hydropower resources, deposits of gold and rare-earth metals; local deposits of coal, oil and gas, mercury, lead, zinc, bismuth, nephelite. The CIA points out in a report the circulation of illegal drugs in Kyrgyzstan, local opium poppy and hashish production mainly for the consumption within the country and in the CIS countries. The report also mentions that the government has launched a minor-scale programme to root out the drug crops; the use of Kyrgyzstan as a drug traffic transfer point to ship drugs to Russia and Western Europe from South West Asia.

According to the Western media, people’s anger on the night of April 6th of 2010 was sparked off by an increase in gas and water tariffs, arrests of the opposition leaders, corruption and the clan system, and general authoritarianism. But no mention was ever made of the drug business!

However, connivance at this criminal business costs Russia a pretty penny.

The borderline between Russia and China near Kyrgyz territory was established more than 100 years ago. For a number of reasons (inaccuracy in the description of the border, difficult high-altitude conditions, inadequate study of the area, etc.) there are several controversial areas between China and Kyrgyzstan, whose territorial identity was not established before 1996, when Kyrgyzstan and China signed an agreement on their state border. Meanwhile the Kyrgyz-Uzbek and Kyrgyz-Kazakh borders remain open. With the rules of the Customs Union coming into force and the increase of the custom duties these stretches of the Kyrgyz border will prove excellent loopholes for the drug business to use. The Kyrgyz government discussed this problem at its meeting in February 2010.

Although Kazakhstan has been part of the Customs Union with Russia since January 1st 2010, its borders with other countries remain poorly protected. Many border checkpoints lack elementary power supply, and no more than 12 officers perform their duties at the checkpoints, where a 100-strong customs force should be present under the existing customs regulations.

If we look at the map, we will see how firmly Kazakhstan grasps Russia’s South. The Afghan drugs cross the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border practically without hindrance. The question is: what will happen after the creation of the Customs Union of Russia and Kazakhstan?

Moscow told Astana to boost the protection of Kazakhstan’s southern borders if Kazakhstan wanted to join the Customs Union with Russia. Kazakhstan promised Russia to make progress in guarding its border with Kyrgyzstan, and allocated huge funds to tighten border security. But are the measures taken by Astana and Bishkek to protect Russia from the aggressive drug traffic from the US-controlled Afghanistan effective enough? Our earlier negative experience gives us grounds to doubt it.

So far the borders in question have had gaps that are wide enough for tons, rather than grams, of drugs to be smuggled through. Cooperation of the drug lords of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia has ensured smooth passage of tens of tons of drugs from one country to another. While customs officers at Russian airports confiscated grams of drugs, tons were being channelled into Russia by land routes. A number of checkpoints on the Russian-Kazakh and Russian-Kyrgyz borders lack the required inspection equipment. Custom officers are unable to check large TIR trucks carrying huge freight containers. The drivers claim that the containers are being transported from the Kyrgyz warehouse sealed, and nobody has the right to open them before they reach their destination in Russia.

Now, who may be interested in maintaining the current state of affairs?

Global Research Articles by Alexander Barentsev

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Khazakstan (Kazakstan) is exactly Khazaria where Gog and Magog, the AshkeNazim Jews are from.

Communista Internationale Sixth: SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS: THE CRIMES OF THE BOLSHEVIKS,

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Prior to modern abortion and the genocides of Mao Tse Tung and the Russian genocide by the Jews and outside of the huge numbers killed, in first, enslaving of Slavs by the Scandinavians and Germans and then European enslaving (following Arab slaving of the same) of black Africans, after those, the worst genocide in the last seven centuries was the mass martyrdom genocide of East Chaldean Catholics by Tamerlane (Timur - 14th century A.D.) - 59,000,000 (fifty nine million men women and children). Tamerlane at one point had also been declared an enemy of Islam for killing huge numbers of Muslims, though he was a nominal Turkic Shi'ite Muslim. The Muslim historian of the period, Ibn Arabshah (d. 1401 A.D.) even questioned whether he could be considered a Muslim at all. What he was in fact was a politician of his era, the Mongol Khan from Persia/Turkestan who ruled briefly the known Eurasian world from Turfan (China) to Damamscus and from India to the Byzantine empire and in the north, Russia - and as ruthless as can be. Tamerlane was the man of iron of his time who cast down Muslim Caliphs and Christian rulers both in his insane drive to dominate.

Stalin, the cold eyed "Asiatic" Jew versus Trotsky the insane "Magus" Jew showed that one tyrant is not preferable to another. Hitler and Stalin are another example of this. Given what is happening by the NWO's destruction of the Middle East under way now caused by power centers in other parts of the world, let us hope that one tyrant does not emerge as an answer to another.

Through it all the insanities of Judaist Cabalism and Hermetic Satanism and even simple secular desire to rule by bloody tyranny run as threads intertwined.

With the world's history drenched in the blood of innocents, let us all Christian and Muslim pray that we stand up in unison to stop this from happening on an even larger scale now.

The Justice of God: The Plagues will be real - Three Looks at the 16th Chapter of the Book of the Revelation

Rv:16:

12 ¶ And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river Euphrates and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun. … Scripture reference – Isaiah: 50:2!

16:12 As in 9:13—21, the Roman Empire is threatened by peoples from beyond the Euphrates. This river formed a natural defensive line for Rome against the kings from the east [or Kings from the Rising of the Sun - in literal translation], the Parthians (see also 6:2; 17:12, 13). The Old Testament miracles of crossing over a river on dry land (Ex. 14:21; Josh. 3:17) are repeated (see also Is. 11:15; Jer. 51:36; Zech. 10:11).

One of the Kings from the Rising of the Sun
Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan

What is spoken of in the main here in Revelation 16:12 is the return of the Diabolic spirits and those people possessed by them from the East to Jew Zionist Antichrist Jerusalem.

See here for part of their proliferation throughout the world.

ANCIENT PAGAN LIES - AND THE ROTHSCHILDS IN AMERICA AND RUSSIA AND Y'ISRAHELL - THE JUDEO-MASONIC C

Khazaria is where the Ashkenazim came from and became Talmudic Masoretic Pharisee Jews in 800 A.D. - it was Sephardic and Persian Jews who converted them to that.

Go to this link The First Amendment: GOG, MAGOG AND THE KINGDOM OF THE KHAZARS: Part I or this one:

Gog and Magog

GOG, MAGOG AND THE
KINGDOM OF THE KHAZARS
Part I
PROLOG
“Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog,
the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and
prophesy against him.” Ezekiel 38:2

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Sinister Sites – Astana, Khazakhstan . . .

...billions of petrodollars....

To Conclude

As members of the world elite are fulfilling the conditions required to unite the world into a single government, they are scattering all over the world symbols of their power. The fact that the general population have no idea what those structures represent is exactly the reason why their plans go forward unquestioned and unnoticed. But those plans have been here for ages now. Manley P. Hall wrote in 1918:

“When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illuminated faith, and fear into love“

Mob is equal to democracy, church is equal to religion and state is equal to countries. In other words, before men can live in harmony, we have to abolish democracy (because the mass is too dumb), religions (because they are superstitions) and states (because we need one world government). He continues:

“The perfect government of the earth must be patterned eventually after that divine government by which the universe is ordered. In that day when perfect order is reestablished, with peace universal and good triumphant, men will no longer seek for happiness, for they shal find it welling up within themselves”

Sound good doesn’t it? Only one catch. When this will happen, most of the world population will be dead. On that note, have a nice day.

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

New York Times - Asia Pacific - In Afghan War, Officer Becomes a Whistle-Blower

In Afghan War, Officer Becomes a Whistle-Blower

By SCOTT SHANE

Published: February 5, 2012

Since enlisting in the Army in 1985, he said, he had repeatedly seen top commanders falsely dress up a dismal situation. But this time, he would not let it rest. So he consulted with his pastor at McLean Bible Church in Virginia, where he sings in the choir. He watched his favorite movie, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” one more time, drawing inspiration from Jimmy Stewart’s role as the extraordinary ordinary man who takes on a corrupt establishment.

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis last month after sharing his view on the Afghan war with some members of Congress. “You can't spin the fact that more men are getting blown up every year,” he said.

And then, late last month, Colonel Davis, 48, began an unusual one-man campaign of military truth-telling. He wrote two reports, one unclassified and the other classified, summarizing his observations on the candor gap with respect to Afghanistan. He briefed four members of Congress and a dozen staff members, spoke with a reporter for The New York Times, sent his reports to the Defense Department’s inspector general — and only then informed his chain of command that he had done so.

“How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding?“ Colonel Davis asks in an article summarizing his views titled “Truth, Lies and Afghanistan: How Military Leaders Have Let Us Down.” It was published online Sunday in The Armed Forces Journal, the nation’s oldest independent periodical on military affairs. “No one expects our leaders to always have a successful plan,” he says in the article. “But we do expect — and the men who do the living, fighting and dying deserve — to have our leaders tell us the truth about what’s going on.”

Colonel Davis says his experience has caused him to doubt reports of progress in the war from numerous military leaders, including David H. Petraeus, who commanded the troops in Afghanistan before becoming the director of the Central Intelligence Agency in June.

Colonel Davis on patrol in Khost Province last August.

Last March, for example, Mr. Petraeus, then an Army general, testified before the Senate that the Taliban’s momentum had been “arrested in much of the country” and that progress was “significant,” though fragile, and “on the right azimuth” to allow Afghan forces to take the lead in combat by the end of 2014.

Colonel Davis fiercely disputes such assertions and says few of the troops believe them. At the same time, he is acutely aware of the chasm in stature that separates him from those he is criticizing, and he has no illusions about the impact his public stance may have on his career.

“I’m going to get nuked,” he said in an interview last month.

But his bosses’ initial response has been restrained. They told him that while they disagreed with him, he would not face “adverse action,” he said.

Col. James E. Hutton, chief of media relations for the Army, declined to comment specifically about Colonel Davis, but he rejected the idea that military leaders had been anything but truthful about Afghanistan.

“We are a values-based organization, and the integrity of what we publish and what we say is something we take very seriously,” he said.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Petraeus, Jennifer Youngblood of the C.I.A., said he “has demonstrated that he speaks truth to power in each of his leadership positions over the past several years. His record should stand on its own, as should LTC Davis’ analysis.”

If the official reaction to Colonel Davis’s campaign has been subdued, it may be partly because he has recruited a few supporters among the war skeptics on Capitol Hill.

“For Colonel Davis to go out on a limb and help us to understand what’s happening on the ground, I have the greatest admiration for him,” said Representative Walter B. Jones, Republican of North Carolina, who has met with Colonel Davis twice and read his reports.

Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, one of four senators who met with Colonel Davis despite what he called “a lot of resistance from the Pentagon,” said the colonel was a valuable witness because his extensive travels and midlevel rank gave him access to a wide range of soldiers.

Moreover, Colonel Davis’s doubts about reports of progress in the war are widely shared, if not usually voiced in public by officers on duty. Just last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said at a hearing that she was “concerned by what appears to be a disparity” between public testimony about progress in Afghanistan and “the bleaker description” in a classifiedNational Intelligence Estimate produced in December, which was described in news reports as “sobering” and “dire.”

Those words would also describe Colonel Davis’s account of what he saw in Afghanistan, the latest assignment in a military career that has included clashes with some commanders, but glowing evaluations from others. (“His maturity, tenacity and judgment can be counted on in even the hardest of situations, and his devotion to mission accomplishment is unmatched by his peers,” says an evaluation from May that concludes that he has “unlimited potential.”)

Colonel Davis, a son of a high school football coach in Dallas and who is known as Danny, served two years as an Army private before returning to Texas Tech and completing the Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He served in Germany and fought in the first Iraq war before joining the Reserve and working civilian jobs, including a year as a member of the Senate staff.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, he returned to active duty, serving a tour in Iraq as well as the two in Afghanistan and spending 15 months working onFuture Combat Systems, an ambitious Army program to produce high-tech vehicles linked to drones and sensors. On that program, too, he said, commanders kept promising success despite ample evidence of trouble. The program was shut down in 2009 after an investment of billions of dollars.

In his recent tour in Afghanistan, Colonel Davis represented the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, created to bypass a cumbersome bureaucracy to make sure the troops quickly get the gear they need.

He spoke with about 250 soldiers, from 19-year-old privates to division commanders, as well as Afghan security officials and civilians, he said. From the Americans, he heard contempt for the perceived cowardice and double-dealing of their Afghan counterparts. From Afghans, he learned of unofficial nonaggression pacts between Afghanistan’s security forces and Taliban fighters.

When he was in rugged Kunar Province, an Afghan police officer visiting his parents was kidnapped by the Taliban and killed. “That was in visual range of an American base,” he said. “Their influence didn’t even reach as far as they could see.”

Some of the soldiers he interviewed were later killed, a fact that shook him and that he mentions in videos he shot in Afghanistan and later posted on YouTube. At home, he pored over the statements of military leaders, including General Petraeus. He found them at odds with what he had seen, with classified intelligence reports and with casualty statistics.

“You can spin all kinds of stuff,” Colonel Davis said. “But you can’t spin the fact that more men are getting blown up every year.”

Colonel Davis can come across as strident, labeling as lies what others might call wishful thinking. Matthew M. Aid, a historian who examines Afghanistan in his new book “Intel Wars,” says that while there is a “yawning gap” between Pentagon statements and intelligence assessments, “it’s oversimplified to say the top brass are out-and-out lying. They are just too close to the subject.”

But Martin L. Cook, who teaches military ethics at the Naval War College, says Colonel Davis has identified a hazard that is intrinsic to military culture, in which a can-do optimism can be at odds with the strictest candor when a mission is failing.

“You’ve trained people to try to be successful even when half their buddies are dead and they’re almost out of ammo,” he said. “It’s very hard for them to say, ‘can’t do.’ ”

Mr. Cook said it was rare for an officer of Colonel Davis’s modest rank to “decide that he knows better” and to go to Congress and the news media.

“It may be an act of moral courage,” he said. “But he’s gone outside channels, and he’s taking his chances on what happens to him.”

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U.S. Plans Shift to Elite Units as It Winds Down in Afghanistan (February 5, 2012)
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Kings from the Rising of the Sun

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Russia and the Central Asian Drug Trade: The Role of Kyrgyztan

Russia and the Central Asian Drug Trade: The Role of Kyrgyztan by Alexander Barentsev

Global Research, May 9, 2010
Strategic Culture Foundation - 2010-05-08