veteranstoday--2020-11-19--Time: The US COVID Outbreak is Worse than Imagined, why aren’t we acting like it?

VT : The election is over and it ’ s time to move on with life for all of us .
For some , we face retaliation from the Trump administration , all taken into account but , the truth of it , Biden will be better but… If Trump had a heart , his style , brash and extreme , might have cleaned up the mess .
Instead , he joined the program 100 % , but totally forgot that you have to throw the suckers and losers a crumb every now and then .
Ignorance and hatred is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Nationally , about 20 % of us are infected .
3.5 % ( slightly less ) will die .
Unless the vaccine program is a success , 1.2 million will die .
Biden is right about starting now with a program that will move through his administration .
This is a brutal failing for Trump , and someone needs to reach out to him .
What Trump promised but made worse , turning the swamp into MAGA Swamp , still needs to be done and Biden is the wrong person to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , with our constitution in shambles , its failings exposed to all and democracy on life support , a leader that can cross party lines needs to come around next election , one that can get the constitution fixed , reform real political parties , and then move aside and let America regain her feet .
Ross Perot was that guy and his followers were the people who could do it .
Let ’ s find another Ross Perot .
From Time Magazine : Nothing about the current COVID-19 explosion should come as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ throughout summer and fall , experts repeatedly warned winter would be worse .
They cautioned that a cold-weather return to indoor socializing , particularly around the holidays , could turn a steady burn into a wildfire .
Throw in a lame-duck President , wildly differing approaches by the states and a pervasive sense of quarantine fatigue , and the wildfire could easily become an inferno .
So it has .
The U.S. is now locked in a deadly cycle of setting , then shattering , records for new cases and hospitalizations .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the U.S. were diagnosed with COVID-19 .
As of Nov. 17 , more than 70,000 coronavirus patients were hospitalized nationwide .
And unlike in earlier waves , which were fairly regionalized , the virus was as of Nov. 17 spreading–and fast–in virtually every part of the U.S. , according to Johns Hopkins University data .
This coast-to-coast surge is pushing hospitals across the country to the edge of catastrophe , their doctors and nurses exhausted and their intensive-care units running dangerously low on beds .
Some cities are already playing out their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Texas , the dead have been shunted to mobile morgues partially staffed by the incarcerated .
But the U.S. public has become terrifyingly good at ignoring those harsh realities .
Almost 40 % of respondents to a recent Ohio State University survey said they plan to gather with at least 10 people for Thanksgiving , even though in many areas this comes with the likelihood of sharing a table with an infectious person .
Many people continue to dine at indoor restaurants and work out in gyms , because many elected officials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints on Nov. 15 , nearly quadrupling the number recorded six months earlier , when COVID-19 was nowhere near as widespread .
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VT: The election is over and it’s time to move on with life for all of us. For some, we face retaliation from the Trump administration, all taken into account but, the truth of it, Biden will be better but…
If Trump had a heart, his style, brash and extreme, might have cleaned up the mess. Instead, he joined the program 100%, but totally forgot that you have to throw the suckers and losers a crumb every now and then. Ignorance and hatred is less than nourishing.
On to COVID. Nationally, about 20% of us are infected. 3.5% (slightly less) will die. Unless the vaccine program is a success, 1.2 million will die. Biden is right about starting now with a program that will move through his administration.
This is a brutal failing for Trump, and someone needs to reach out to him.
What Trump promised but made worse, turning the swamp into MAGA Swamp, still needs to be done and Biden is the wrong person to do it.


veteranstoday--2020-11-19--Team Rubicon Challenges Americans to ‘Go Grey’ on Black Friday 2020

“ This has indisputably been a tough year for our country , but it ’ s not too late to end it on a better note by helping our neighbors on Black Friday , ” said Jake Wood , CEO , and co-founder of Team Rubicon .
“ Rather than scanning Black Friday ads for deals , we hope this year people will scan their hearts for generosity .
We want to make Nov. 27 a day of social good instead of a day of shopping , a day of thinking about volunteerism instead of a day of consumerism .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ this year if hundreds of millions of Americans gave back this Black Friday.
” Team Rubicon ’ s “ Going Grey on Black Friday ” movement nods both to the organization ’ s volunteers , whom they call “ Greyshirts , ” and to the notion of “ living in the grey ” —finding purpose by serving your community .
Since its founding in 2010 , the 501 ( c ) 3 organization helps vulnerable communities before , during , and after disasters and humanitarian crises .
The nonprofit has done so more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ service for food-insecure populations , coordination and logistics support for COVID-19 testing , and encouraging individual acts of volunteerism through their # NeighborsHelpingNeighbors campaign .
This year , Team Rubicon has stepped outside its core services and served over 2.73 million meals and delivered nearly 50 million pounds of food to families in need at over 149 communities across the country , while continuing to help rebuild the communities devastated by a record-breaking hurricane season in the Gulf Coast .
The Go Grey movement is another example of how Team Rubicon pushes boundaries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ People who volunteer experience a renewed sense of purpose and empowerment , and that ’ s something we all could use as we wrap up a historic year , ” said Lorey Zlotnick , CMO of Team Rubicon .
“ Amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic , people won ’ t be lining up in stores the way they used to , so we ’ re encouraging people to Go Grey and give back instead .
There is an opportunity for all Americans to make a larger difference by investing in Team @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” A social media toolkit will be available encouraging groups of like-minded individuals to share the notion of going grey and giving hope across their social channels .
Ways to give back through Team Rubicon on Black Friday : To donate , please visit http : //teamrubiconusa.org/gogrey or text us through our Text to Give Program : • Text the word RUBICON to 20222 to donate to Team Rubicon .
• Text the word TEAM to 20222 to donate to Team Rubicon .
To earn your grey shirt , please visit http : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your organization can get involved with Team Rubicon , please contact Nicole Capossela , Chief Development Officer , at [ email protected ] .
Team Rubicon serves communities by mobilizing veterans to continue their service by leveraging their skills and experience to help people prepare , respond , and recover from disasters and humanitarian crises .
Founded following the Haiti earthquake in 2010 , the organization has grown to over 137,000 volunteers across the United States and has launched over 790 operations both domestically and internationally .
Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak , Team @ @ @ @ @ @ @ able to continue to deliver disaster response and rebuild services in core mission areas , but has also expanded their scope of missions to meet community needs brought about by COVID .
Visit www.teamrubiconusa.org for more information .

“This has indisputably been a tough year for our country, but it’s not too late to end it on a better note by helping our neighbors on Black Friday,” said Jake Wood, CEO, and co-founder of Team Rubicon. “Rather than scanning Black Friday ads for deals, we hope this year people will scan their hearts for generosity. We want to make Nov. 27 a day of social good instead of a day of shopping, a day of thinking about volunteerism instead of a day of consumerism. Imagine the good that could be done this year if hundreds of millions of Americans gave back this Black Friday.”
Team Rubicon’s “Going Grey on Black Friday” movement nods both to the organization’s volunteers, whom they call “Greyshirts,” and to the notion of “living in the grey”—finding purpose by serving your community. Since its founding in 2010, the 501(c)3 organization helps vulnerable communities before, during, and after disasters and humanitarian crises. The nonprofit has done so more than ever during COVID, aiding delivery service for food-insecure populations, coordination and logistics support for COVID-19 testing, and encouraging individual acts of volunteerism through their #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors campaign.
This year, Team Rubicon has stepped outside its core services and served over 2.73 million meals and delivered nearly 50 million pounds of food to families in need at over 149 communities across the country, while continuing to help rebuild the communities devastated by a record-breaking hurricane season in the Gulf Coast.
The Go Grey movement is another example of how Team Rubicon pushes boundaries and pivots in new and unexpected ways. “People who volunteer experience a renewed sense of purpose and empowerment, and that’s something we all could use as we wrap up a historic year,” said Lorey Zlotnick, CMO of Team Rubicon. “Amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic, people won’t be lining up in stores the way they used to, so we’re encouraging people to Go Grey and give back instead. There is an opportunity for all Americans to make a larger difference by investing in Team Rubicon to build resiliency across the country.” A social media toolkit will be available encouraging groups of like-minded individuals to share the notion of going grey and giving hope across their social channels.
Ways to give back through Team Rubicon on Black Friday:
To donate, please visit http://teamrubiconusa.org/gogrey or text us through our Text to Give Program:
Text the word RUBICON to 20222 to donate $10 to Team Rubicon.
to Team Rubicon. Text the word TEAM to 20222 to donate $25 to Team Rubicon.
To earn your grey shirt, please visit http://teamrubiconusa.org/volunteer.
For more information on how your organization can get involved with Team Rubicon, please contact Nicole Capossela, Chief Development Officer, at development@teamrubiconusa.org.
About Team Rubicon
Team Rubicon serves communities by mobilizing veterans to continue their service by leveraging their skills and experience to help people prepare, respond, and recover from disasters and humanitarian crises. Founded following the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the organization has grown to over 137,000 volunteers across the United States and has launched over 790 operations both domestically and internationally.
Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, Team Rubicon has not only pivoted to be able to continue to deliver disaster response and rebuild services in core mission areas, but has also expanded their scope of missions to meet community needs brought about by COVID. Visit www.teamrubiconusa.org for more information.
SOURCE Team Rubicon


veteranstoday--2020-11-19--Why the sudden increase in terrorism in Pakistan?

After the Islamic revolution in Iran in March 1979 , the next big event which took place was the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet forces in December 1979 .
In anticipation to the Great Bear taking the next step in search of warm waters , Pakistan ’ s President Gen Ziaul Haq considered it prudent to support the Afghan resistance movement and to fight the war on Afghan soil rather than waiting to fight the future war on Pak soil .
After standing up to the Soviet challenge alone till June 1981 , the US decided to join the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the Mujahideen were named as holy warriors .
FATA was turned into a forward base of operation and training ground to launch the Mujahids .
The CIA brought in thousands of Mujahids from other Muslim countries .
While the weapons and intelligence were provided by USA , and funds by Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ) , the overall coordinator and executor of covert and overt operations was the ISI .
As per Bruce Reidel , the US spent only $ 4-5 billion , and the rest of funding was done @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the Mujahideen forced the Soviet forces to exit from Afghanistan by February 1989 .
Their humiliating defeat and crashing economy splintered USSR and reduced it to Russian Federation in 1991 , ending bi-polarism and the cold war between the two super powers .
The ones who had elevated USA to the status of the sole super power , were left alone by ungrateful USA to fend for themselves .
The US made India , which was the camp follower of USSR since its inception , as its strategic partner and Pakistan was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bore the fallout effects of the ten-year war in Afghanistan , which had given rise to religious extremism and sectarianism in the 1990s .
But it was by and large a nonviolent country where suicide attacks and explosive filled vehicle explosions were unheard of .
Baluchistan and FATA were peaceful and Pakistan was economically showing signs of progress .
When 9/11 happened , the world was horror-struck over the dastardly aerial terrorism which claimed about 3000 American lives .
The whole world sympathized with USA and this sympathy wave has not completely evaporated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was an in-house affair engineered by Zionists and neocons to achieve global ambitions .
George W. Bush administration itched for revenge and launched a crusade against self-appointed terrorists without any evidence .
The US once again befriended Pakistan to gain short term benefits , but under the condition that it will unfriend Taliban regime in Kabul and provide all kinds of military and intelligence support to the US-NATO forces to occupy Afghanistan .
Gen Musharraf in search of legitimacy agreed , but instead of giving a helping hand to 48-country alliance under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Afghanistan , he agreed to fight them on Pak soil when his arm was twisted in 2002 .
Terrorism used as a weapon against Pakistan Gen Musharraf ’ s decision to send regular troops to South Waziristan to fight CIA created Al-Qaeda that had taken part in Afghan Jihad against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan along with the Mujahideen , triggered a backlash and for the first time the Waziri tribesmen picked up arms against Pak security forces .
The plan envisaged spreading flames of terrorism in FATA to PATA to Khyber @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Simultaneously Baluchistan was to be made restive .
In this the US , India , Afghanistan , UK , Israel were fully involved .
Their intelligence agencies sat under one roof at Sehra Neward north of Kabul and hatched conspiracies to destabilize Pakistan with the help of paid proxies , and to later on denuclearize it .
Subsequently , scuttling of CPEC became an added target .
RAW established 87 training camps and centres ( 66 in eastern and southern Afghanistan and 21 in India ) .
The Indian Embassy in Kabul @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Consulates filled with RAW agents worked as forward coordinating centres .
Iran was made as an auxiliary base of operation .
Cross border terrorism was planned and executed at a massive scale from Afghan soil which was spearheaded by RAW and 14 Indian intelligence agencies , and supported by , CIA , MI-6 , Mossad , BND , and NDS .
Objectives were to destabilize , denuclearize , secularize and balkanize Pakistan .
CIA and FBI established Spider Web network in FATA in which retired commando soldiers from Pakistan and Afghanistan were inducted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operandi was to net Al-Qaeda elements , but its task was to create space and areas of influence for Baitullah Masood and Abdullah Masood and pave the way for establishing Tehreek Taliban Pakistan ( TTP ) with tentacles in all seven tribal agencies .
Well over 400 to 600 pro-Pakistan elders , Maliks and religious leaders were killed in FATA and civil administration officials terrorized .
Intelligence duties of FATA were taken over by CIA from the ISI and the latter tasked to kill/arrest Al-Qaeda operatives .
The ISI and security forces nabbed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their Pakistani affiliates , who were handed over to CIA .
The flames of terrorism were gradually spread from one tribal agency to another .
After making whole of FATA restive , and next KP , Islamabad and major cities of Punjab were also subjected to suicide attacks and group attacks , particularly after Lal Masjid episode in July 2007 .
Likewise terrorism was enflamed in Baluchistan in 2004 with the help of Bugti , Marri and Mengal Baloch tribes .
Shamsi airbase in Baluchistan was used by CIA to launch drones against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ signing peace deal with the Pak Army .
This base was also used by CIA to support Sunni Jundollah against Iran .
Later on , urban Sindh was made turbulent through MQM in 2010-11 .
No part of the country remained safe from acts of terror , which included , IED attacks , suicide attacks , explosive laden vehicle attacks , group attacks and target killings .
Efforts were made to undermine Pak nuclear program by selling the narrative that it was vulnerable and likely to fall in wrong hands .
Idea of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to steal or disable the nukes .
The new laws framed on terrorism by USA helped India , Afghanistan and Israel to fan terrorism in target countries .
Fearing to be declared a terrorist state , Gen Musharraf and his successors adopted a defensive , reactive and apologetic strategy and not only refrained from countering the state terrorism of India and Afghanistan , but also failed to chalk out a counter narrative of Indo-Afghan-US narrative that Pakistan abets terrorism and others are victims .
To please USA , Pak leaders kept doing more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doing more was meant to tire and exhaust security forces and to dishevel Pak economy .
Once the TTP reached closer to Margala Hills in Islamabad after capturing Lower Dir and Buner , Operations Rah-e-Raast and Rah-e-Nijaat were launched in 2009 which helped in recovering 17 out of 19 administrative units that had come under the sway of TTP .
During these operations , dozens of concealed caves laden with arms of all kinds , ammunition , explosives , IEDs , suicide jackets and Thora satellite wireless sets were discovered .
Suicide training @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and a simulated paradise at Khaisura in South Waziristan were found .
Several Hindus disguised as Imam Masjids were arrested .
After the terror attack on Jinnah terminal , Operation Zarb-e-Azb was launched in June 2014 which cleared North Waziristan and Khyber Agency .
Huge caches of arms were seized , and hidden jails and IED manufacturing factories demolished .
Writ of the state in lawless FATA was restored .
The TTP and all its affiliates took refuge in Afghanistan .
The three operations were at the cost of about 4000 casualties of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a military operation in 2006-07 , the Frontier Corps was strengthened and given frontline security duties .
The separatist agenda assigned to Baloch militant groups BLA , BRA , BLF , and Lashkar Baluchistan led by the absconding rebellious Baloch leaders was busted .
In Sindh , Rangers and police were employed in September 2013 to eliminate urban terrorism which was quashed in 2016 after defanging militant wing of the MQM .
Lights of port city were restored .
The MQM militants used to go to India by air via Bangkok to get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ camps in Dera Dun and Harayana .
Runaway Javed Langra received them at Delhi airport .
One of the sources of arms procurement were NATO containers stolen by Port & Shipping minister Babar Ghori .
Funds were delivered by RAW to Altaf Hussain living a lord ’ s life in exile in posh area of London since June 1992 .
Altaf and his absconding companions were given full protection and facilities by British govt and Mi-6 .
After a terror attack in Lahore , Operation Radul Fasad was launched in February 2017 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , handlers and sleeping cells in urban centres all over the country .
Tens of hundreds of intelligence based operations were launched and pleasing results were achieved , but all have not been netted/destroyed .
This is evident from the recurrence of acts of terror and in recent weeks the frequency has increased .
Once Gen Qamar Bajwa refused to ‘ Do More ’ , and started constructing fence along the western border and improved border management , the displeased US cut off Close Support Fund ( CSF ) , and put Pakistan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ placing it in grey list , the US is now threatening to blacklist it .
One reason behind not achieving 100 % results is the nexus between crime-politics and financial terrorism about which former army chief Gen Raheel had stated in 2016 that without breaking this nexus , terrorism can not be eliminated .
In this , Mafias , some political parties , religious groups , proscribed groups , NGOs , human rights activists , some think tanks and media persons on the payroll of foreign intelligence agencies promote foreign agenda .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Khan is trying to break the nexus of financial terrorism , stop money laundering , end corruption and eliminate the power of Mafias .
So far , little progress has been made since the Mafias are too powerful and an alliance of 11 political parties under the umbrella of PDM has been formed , which is espousing the Indian narrative to disrepute the army , judiciary and the ruling government .
After stoking terrorism , the US helped Pakistan in expanding and modernizing electronic media with a hidden objective of using it as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minds .
Not only George Bush dished out millions of dollars to Pak media , out of $ 7.5 billion Kerry Lugar Bill aid package given to Pakistan in 2009 by Obama-Joe Biden administration , $ 1.5 billion was for Pak media .
The aid package was given under the condition that the released amounts would be distributed for the projects by the US appointed contractors and none else .
The diplomatic embassies and consulates acted as safe havens as was seen in Raymond David case .
Segment of Afghan refugees living in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of foreign agencies and provide refuge and guidance to the terrorists launched from Afghanistan .
The porous western border across which 40,000 people crossed daily from both sides and weak border management were other reasons for easy infiltration of non-state actors .
CIA-FBI outposts initially established in FATA , secretly brought in RAW-NDS-Mossad-MI-6 agents to form a network .
In 2008 , thanks to Hussain Haqqani and Rahman Malik , Blackwater made its way .
Its operatives rented residential houses in major cities of Islamabad , Peshawar , Lahore , Quetta and Karachi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a rented house to train security guards , set up an arms shop , and purchased tinted glassed luxury cars .
FBI took over immigration department at airports and seaport .
The Blackwater and intelligence network made use of all anti-state elements including TTP and media , and coordinated covert war and hybrid war .
They indulged in target killings , abductions , created divisiveness in the society , polarized politics , spoilt civil-military relations , fanned ethnicity , sectarianism , religious extremism , terrorism and spread gloom and doom .
Over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agencies have gained contacts with all the proscribed group , and penetrated each and every government and semi government department .
This network helped in executing the US Navy Seals night attack in Abbottabad on May 2 , 2011 .
This attack couldn ’ t have materialized without the blessing of the PPP regime and Hussain Haqqani posted as ambassador in Washington .
He also drafted infamous Memo gate in October 2011 , which was aimed at defanging the military and the ISI and putting the nuclear assets under IAEA control .
Although @ @ @ @ @ @ @ huge efforts to roll back the influence of foreign agencies and push out Blackwater and achieved considerable success , however , the PML-N regime also pursued pro-US and pro-India policies and developed family relations with Modi and business relations with Indian businessman Jindan .
After China-Pakistan signed the CPEC project in April 2014 , a special cell was established at New Delhi under the direct supervision of NSA Ajit Doval , which was heavily funded and was connected with Kalbushan Yadhav at Chahbahar .
Sole aim of this cell was to subvert CPEC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now come under the direct supervision of Modi and so far Rs .
80 billion have been allocated .
A militia of 700 specially trained men has been formed and granted $ 60 million to sabotage CPEC .
The CPEC has become a major eyesore for India , USA and Israel since it has the capacity to block global ambitions of imperialist powers .
Pakistan has deployed two security divisions to protect the CPEC .
The writer is a retired Brig Gen , participant of epic Battle of Hilli in 1971 war , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , writes exclusively for Veterans Today , author of five books , Chairman Thinkers Forum Pakistan , Director Measac Research Centre , Member CWC PESS , & Veterans Think Tank .
Part 2 – Why sudden increase in terrorism in Pakistan ?
Upsurge in terrorism and its reasons There has been a sudden increase in incidents of terrorism in Karachi , North Waziristan , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , and Baluchistan .
In Karachi , Chinese Consulate and Stock Exchange were attacked .
In Baluchistan 24 soldiers lost their lives in last Oct ?
After @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , another cowardly attack occurred in a Madrassa in Peshawar on Oct 27 , in which ten children died and 100 were injured .
The terrorists succeed in striking the chosen soft targets with ease and seldom are nabbed beforehand .
The question is , why it is so when Pakistan security forces have broken the back of terrorism , improved their expertise in counter terrorism and intelligence skills , improved border management , and fenced almost two-third of the border .
There is no lack of will to fight terrorism and soldiers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No other country involved in war on terror has rendered so many sacrifices as Pakistan has done .
83000 fatalities including 9000 belonging to security forces is a colossal loss which has traumatized 83000 families .
From 2001 till now , 19,130 terror attacks took place in Pakistan .
India has spent Rs 22 billion in the last 3 years to destabilize Baluchistan .
Terrorism was easier when the safe havens were in FATA ; but has become cumbersome from the bases and training camps in Nuristan , Kunar , Nangarhar , Paktika @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distance , crossing of the border and fence , and presence of highly trained and motivated Pak security forces as well as patriotic tribesmen and village guards who refuse to cooperate with them .
The terrorists devoid of any religion are from the poor class and majority of the victims are also from the deprived class .
One thing is clear that no terrorist howsoever motivated would risk his life unless he is badly in need of money for himself or his family , or is brainwashed .
Young boys fed with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suicide attacks .
While the poor are used as cannon fodder , the heartless masterminds have their own selfish materialistic agenda .
Cross border terrorism can not take place without terror infrastructure installed by RAW-NDS , where physical and motivational training is imparted , funds given , weapons/ explosives/IED/suicide jacket provided , facilitation and handling at the site of occurrence arranged .
Cross border terrorism by militant groups is almost impossible without the patronage of the Afghan regime , NDS and RAW .
They can not undertake covert operations secretly right under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CIA .
If this is the ground reality , it implies that the US which is the initiator of war on terror , it is strategically aligned with NATO , Israel , India and Afghanistan , has defined objectives against Pakistan , as such its involvement is beyond doubt .
After the clearance of FATA from the presence of TTP in 2015 through Operation Zarb Azb , RAW has been arming , funding and launching TTP , Jamaatul Ahrar ( JuA ) , Lashkar Islam , Hizbul Ahrar and Lashkar Jhangvi into northwestern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Baloch proxies BLA , BRA , BLF in Baluchistan .
In order to rejuvenate the splintered and demoralized TTP as well as Baloch dissident groups , RAW in league with NDS and assisted by CIA managed to unite BLA , BRA and BLF under the banner of Baloch Raaji Asjoi Sangar ( BRAS ) in Nov 2018 , and also reunited JuA and Hizbul Ahrar with TTP this year .
Heavy funds were given to the two setups and the rates of terrorism were substantially enhanced .
In Sindh , MQM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sindhi nationalist parties including SLA and its target killers as well as RAW agents are still active in Karachi .
Current rates for suicide attacks and vehicle borne explosions are Rs .
10 million each , for IED , target killing Rs .
one million each .
The terrorists are paid monthly salaries and provided shelter , food and medical cover .
The DG ISPR Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a joint conference on Nov 14 in the wake of devastating firing and shelling by Indian forces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 14-15 in various sectors , causing extensive destruction and damage to civilian property .
Scores of civilians and soldiers were also martyred and injured .
One reason behind this madness was the sudden rise in clashes between Kashmiri Mujahideen and Indian forces in IOK and the latter suffering casualties .
Ceasefire violations has become a routine for India ever since Modi took over power in June 2014 .
In 2020 alone , xx violations occurred across the LoC and Working Boundary under a calculated design to exert pressure on Pakistan on multiple fronts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the state terrorism of India in comprehensive details and stated that a dossier is being handed over to the UN , OIC , P-5 and other international bodies to highlight Indian state terrorism against Pakistan and human rights violations in occupied Kashmir .
While a neighboring collaborating country was mentioned , Kabul was not named ; and Tehran was omitted .
So were Washington , London and Tel Aviv , the silent backers of India .
The massive bloodshed in Pakistan in the last 19 years couldn ’ t be inflicted by India @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a joint effort .
Silence must be broken and the whole truth spoken .
To avenge the deaths of less than 3000 Americans , millions of Muslims who had no hand in 9/11 were killed in the 19-year war on terror , millions were injured and millions displaced .
Afghanistan , Iraq , Libya , Syria , Yemen , Lebanon , Sudan , Somalia were destroyed and Pakistan profusely bled but terrorism instead of getting eliminated has spread all over the globe .
Islam instead of getting discredited has expanded and flourished .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ become more unsafe and the war continue to smolder and fester .
Despite being the most allied ally of USA , Pakistan has been crudely insulted , ridiculed , bashed and humiliated time and again by USA .
It has been subjected to cruel drone war .
On the other hand , the US went out of the way to bolster the economic , technological , military and nuclear capabilities of India and made rigorous efforts to make India the leading player in Afghanistan and policeman of Indo-Pacific region .
Its biased policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ favor of India , which has repeatedly threatened to break Pakistan into four parts .
A lot has been written on this subject and nothing is secret .
The US has all along pursued highly discriminatory policy which disfavors Pakistan and favors India and Afghanistan .
Pakistan is an ally in name only and in reality a target .
The US will rest only when it has disabled Pakistan ’ s nuclear Pakistan , disrupted CPEC , and made Pakistan a satellite of India .
If every Tom , Dick and Harry in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , how come the ones entrusted with the security of Pakistan are unaware of it ?
Well-knowing its track record and open ended hostility , how come our successive leaders starting from Gen Musharraf have been bending over backwards to remain in the good books of the US .
To earn its goodwill , Pakistan has been putting up with the hostility of India and the Afghan regime and have left no stone unturned to befriend them .
Our rulers never shirked from doing more in response to the dictates of Washington even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interest .
The infatuation is so strong that human loss of 83,000 and financial loss of $ 126 billion doesn ’ t bring even a frown on their foreheads .
The US has made use of its pawns Afghan regime and India and is wholly responsible for these huge losses .
One fails to understand as to what is the compulsion of our rulers to remain glued with USA .
One may have reconciled with this strange behavior if the people also had similar inclinations .
But the fact is that great majority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ responsible for their woes .
Extraordinary tilt could be digested had the US provided security umbrella and helped Pakistan when it was splitting apart in 1971 , or extended help when its assistance was needed the most ; or made Pakistan economically self-reliant .
These expectations by Pakistan which has been the most allied ally for 66 years and had put its security at risk twice to safeguard the US interests were not unrealistic .
On the contrary , India never put its national interests in jeopardy to protect the US interests and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 43 years .
With this mindset of blindly trusting USA , terrorism can never be eliminated .
As such , the problem is not terrorism , the real problem is the weak willed leaders who irrationally feel comfortable and safe by remaining under the magic spell of USA .
Today the US needs Pakistan ’ s assistance and not vice versa since it can neither win the war in Afghanistan , nor stay there , or exit safely .
Time has come to convey to Washington that if it needs its support in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reciprocate by way of dismantling the terror infrastructure installed by RAW in Afghanistan and to help Pakistan in completing the border fencing .
What is hurtful is Islamabad ’ s stance of generosity towards Kabul when the latter has never reciprocated Pakistan ’ s goodwill gestures and cooperation and has missed no opportunity to harm Pakistan .
The regime is a puppet of the US and India and it follows their dictates obsequiously .
By now after having collected all the evidence , we should have named it without any hesitation and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1973-78 insurgency in Baluchistan was backed by RAW , KGB , KHAD .
The Al-Zulfiqar terror organization was assisted by Kabul .
In the ongoing war on terror , main base of operation for the covert war launched by multiple anti-Pakistan agencies is Afghanistan .
The Baloch rebel leaders Balach Marri followed by Brahamdagh Bugti had taken refuge in Kabul and had fomented terrorism in Baluchistan .
Maulana Fazlullah after escaping from Swat in 2009 had taken refuge in Kunar and later became the head of TTP .
After the clearance of FATA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ TTP and the militants as well as IMU , ITM ( Uighurs ) , Asian Tigers and other affiliates took refuge in Afghanistan and all are being patronized by NDS and RAW .
While the Pak military has conclusive evidence of RAW ’ s involvement it also has concrete proofs of NDS involvement .
It is high time that the ruling regime in Kabul is clearly told to dismantle the terror infrastructure of RAW-NDS , to close the Pakistan specific Indian Consulates involved in terrorism , and to hand over Pakistani terrorists residing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s assistance for Afghan peace should be made conditional to fulfilment of these demands .
It is no secret that RAW has been using Iranian soil as an auxiliary base and used proxies to strike targets in Baluchistan , Makran Coast , Gwadar and Karachi .
Serving Wing Comd Kalbushan Yadhav who had been arrested in March 2016 was deployed at Chahbahar in 2003 by Indian NSA Ajit Doval .
RAW has been making use of Indian Consulates in Seistan , Zahidan and Mashad for conducting covert operations .
Given the changed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ India and has got closer to China , and the changed attitude of the Arab Gulf States towards Pakistan , Islamabad and Beijing should jointly impress upon Tehran to stop RAW ’ s meddlesome activities in Baluchistan from its soil .
Outgoing President Donald Trump had signed a peace deal with the Taliban in February 2019 and had pledged to end the 19-year war and bring home all the troops by this Christmas .
He will be in command till mid-day January 2021 after which he will hand over the baton to Joe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether Trump fulfils his promise or agrees to the proposal of partial withdrawal given by Pentagon .
It is to be seen whether the new team of Biden-Kamal Harris pursues the same old Zionist-Pentagon driven militarist and materialist policies or bring a change to make the turbulent world peaceful .
Indications are that Zionists will have their say .
Since terrorism has a direct bearing on the security and integrity of the country , it is the military and not the civil leadership that should be more concerned .
Instead of chasing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the military being the real power should exert decisive influence to break the magic charm and stop trusting and depending upon USA .
Given the weak state of economy and host of issues , Pakistan can no more afford to indulge in this expensive war on terror and should urgently chalk out a strategy to pullout 180,000 troops from the combat zone and take steps to extinguish the fire of terrorism .
The writer is a retired Brig Gen , participant of epic Battle of Hilli in 1971 war , defence & @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exclusively for Veterans Today , author of five books , Chairman Thinkers Forum Pakistan , Director Measac Research Centre , Member CWC PESS , & Veterans Think Tank .

…by Asif Haroon Raja
Part 1 – Afghan Jihad (1979-1989)
After the Islamic revolution in Iran in March 1979, the next big event which took place was the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet forces in December 1979.
In anticipation to the Great Bear taking the next step in search of warm waters, Pakistan’s President Gen Ziaul Haq considered it prudent to support the Afghan resistance movement and to fight the war on Afghan soil rather than waiting to fight the future war on Pak soil.
After standing up to the Soviet challenge alone till June 1981, the US decided to join the war by extending material support to Pakistan and the Mujahideen were named as holy warriors. FATA was turned into a forward base of operation and training ground to launch the Mujahids.
The CIA brought in thousands of Mujahids from other Muslim countries. While the weapons and intelligence were provided by USA, and funds by Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the overall coordinator and executor of covert and overt operations was the ISI. As per Bruce Reidel, the US spent only $4-5 billion, and the rest of funding was done by KSA.
Joint efforts of Pakistan and the Mujahideen forced the Soviet forces to exit from Afghanistan by February 1989. Their humiliating defeat and crashing economy splintered USSR and reduced it to Russian Federation in 1991, ending bi-polarism and the cold war between the two super powers.
The ones who had elevated USA to the status of the sole super power, were left alone by ungrateful USA to fend for themselves. The US made India, which was the camp follower of USSR since its inception, as its strategic partner and Pakistan was put under sanctions and scrutiny.
Pakistan bore the fallout effects of the ten-year war in Afghanistan, which had given rise to religious extremism and sectarianism in the 1990s. But it was by and large a nonviolent country where suicide attacks and explosive filled vehicle explosions were unheard of. Baluchistan and FATA were peaceful and Pakistan was economically showing signs of progress.
Post 9/11 Era
When 9/11 happened, the world was horror-struck over the dastardly aerial terrorism which claimed about 3000 American lives. The whole world sympathized with USA and this sympathy wave has not completely evaporated even now after it was learnt that it was an in-house affair engineered by Zionists and neocons to achieve global ambitions. George W. Bush administration itched for revenge and launched a crusade against self-appointed terrorists without any evidence.
The US once again befriended Pakistan to gain short term benefits, but under the condition that it will unfriend Taliban regime in Kabul and provide all kinds of military and intelligence support to the US-NATO forces to occupy Afghanistan.
Gen Musharraf in search of legitimacy agreed, but instead of giving a helping hand to 48-country alliance under the umbrella of ISAF to fight Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, he agreed to fight them on Pak soil when his arm was twisted in 2002.
Terrorism used as a weapon against Pakistan
Gen Musharraf’s decision to send regular troops to South Waziristan to fight CIA created Al-Qaeda that had taken part in Afghan Jihad against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan along with the Mujahideen, triggered a backlash and for the first time the Waziri tribesmen picked up arms against Pak security forces.
The plan envisaged spreading flames of terrorism in FATA to PATA to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and next Punjab. Simultaneously Baluchistan was to be made restive. In this the US, India, Afghanistan, UK, Israel were fully involved. Their intelligence agencies sat under one roof at Sehra Neward north of Kabul and hatched conspiracies to destabilize Pakistan with the help of paid proxies, and to later on denuclearize it. Subsequently, scuttling of CPEC became an added target.
RAW established 87 training camps and centres (66 in eastern and southern Afghanistan and 21 in India). The Indian Embassy in Kabul acted as master planner and 4 Indian Consulates filled with RAW agents worked as forward coordinating centres. Iran was made as an auxiliary base of operation.
Cross border terrorism was planned and executed at a massive scale from Afghan soil which was spearheaded by RAW and 14 Indian intelligence agencies, and supported by, CIA, MI-6, Mossad, BND, and NDS. Objectives were to destabilize, denuclearize, secularize and balkanize Pakistan.
CIA and FBI established Spider Web network in FATA in which retired commando soldiers from Pakistan and Afghanistan were inducted on high pay scale. Outward modus operandi was to net Al-Qaeda elements, but its task was to create space and areas of influence for Baitullah Masood and Abdullah Masood and pave the way for establishing Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) with tentacles in all seven tribal agencies.
Well over 400 to 600 pro-Pakistan elders, Maliks and religious leaders were killed in FATA and civil administration officials terrorized. Intelligence duties of FATA were taken over by CIA from the ISI and the latter tasked to kill/arrest Al-Qaeda operatives.
The ISI and security forces nabbed over 600 Al-Qaeda leaders and operatives and their Pakistani affiliates, who were handed over to CIA. The flames of terrorism were gradually spread from one tribal agency to another. After making whole of FATA restive, and next KP, Islamabad and major cities of Punjab were also subjected to suicide attacks and group attacks, particularly after Lal Masjid episode in July 2007.
Likewise terrorism was enflamed in Baluchistan in 2004 with the help of Bugti, Marri and Mengal Baloch tribes. Shamsi airbase in Baluchistan was used by CIA to launch drones against anti-American elements in FATA, and those signing peace deal with the Pak Army.
This base was also used by CIA to support Sunni Jundollah against Iran. Later on, urban Sindh was made turbulent through MQM in 2010-11. No part of the country remained safe from acts of terror, which included, IED attacks, suicide attacks, explosive laden vehicle attacks, group attacks and target killings.
Efforts were made to undermine Pak nuclear program by selling the narrative that it was vulnerable and likely to fall in wrong hands. Idea of joint control was floated with a view to steal or disable the nukes.
The new laws framed on terrorism by USA helped India, Afghanistan and Israel to fan terrorism in target countries. Fearing to be declared a terrorist state, Gen Musharraf and his successors adopted a defensive, reactive and apologetic strategy and not only refrained from countering the state terrorism of India and Afghanistan, but also failed to chalk out a counter narrative of Indo-Afghan-US narrative that Pakistan abets terrorism and others are victims.
To please USA, Pak leaders kept doing more, not realizing that the demand of doing more was meant to tire and exhaust security forces and to dishevel Pak economy.
Major counter terrorism operations launched by Pakistan
Once the TTP reached closer to Margala Hills in Islamabad after capturing Lower Dir and Buner, Operations Rah-e-Raast and Rah-e-Nijaat were launched in 2009 which helped in recovering 17 out of 19 administrative units that had come under the sway of TTP. During these operations, dozens of concealed caves laden with arms of all kinds, ammunition, explosives, IEDs, suicide jackets and Thora satellite wireless sets were discovered.
Suicide training centre at Srarogha run by Qazi Hussain and a simulated paradise at Khaisura in South Waziristan were found. Several Hindus disguised as Imam Masjids were arrested. After the terror attack on Jinnah terminal, Operation Zarb-e-Azb was launched in June 2014 which cleared North Waziristan and Khyber Agency. Huge caches of arms were seized, and hidden jails and IED manufacturing factories demolished.
Writ of the state in lawless FATA was restored. The TTP and all its affiliates took refuge in Afghanistan. The three operations were at the cost of about 4000 casualties of the brave-hearts.
In Baluchistan, after a military operation in 2006-07, the Frontier Corps was strengthened and given frontline security duties. The separatist agenda assigned to Baloch militant groups BLA, BRA, BLF, and Lashkar Baluchistan led by the absconding rebellious Baloch leaders was busted.
In Sindh, Rangers and police were employed in September 2013 to eliminate urban terrorism which was quashed in 2016 after defanging militant wing of the MQM. Lights of port city were restored. The MQM militants used to go to India by air via Bangkok to get trained in target killings in 4 training camps in Dera Dun and Harayana. Runaway Javed Langra received them at Delhi airport.
One of the sources of arms procurement were NATO containers stolen by Port & Shipping minister Babar Ghori. Funds were delivered by RAW to Altaf Hussain living a lord’s life in exile in posh area of London since June 1992. Altaf and his absconding companions were given full protection and facilities by British govt and Mi-6.
After a terror attack in Lahore, Operation Radul Fasad was launched in February 2017, which was directed against financiers, facilitators, handlers and sleeping cells in urban centres all over the country. Tens of hundreds of intelligence based operations were launched and pleasing results were achieved, but all have not been netted/destroyed. This is evident from the recurrence of acts of terror and in recent weeks the frequency has increased.
Once Gen Qamar Bajwa refused to ‘Do More’, and started constructing fence along the western border and improved border management, the displeased US cut off Close Support Fund (CSF), and put Pakistan in the web of FATF. After placing it in grey list, the US is now threatening to blacklist it.
Crime-politics-financial terrorism nexus
One reason behind not achieving 100% results is the nexus between crime-politics and financial terrorism about which former army chief Gen Raheel had stated in 2016 that without breaking this nexus, terrorism cannot be eliminated. In this, Mafias, some political parties, religious groups, proscribed groups, NGOs, human rights activists, some think tanks and media persons on the payroll of foreign intelligence agencies promote foreign agenda.
The current regime of PTI led by Imran Khan is trying to break the nexus of financial terrorism, stop money laundering, end corruption and eliminate the power of Mafias. So far, little progress has been made since the Mafias are too powerful and an alliance of 11 political parties under the umbrella of PDM has been formed, which is espousing the Indian narrative to disrepute the army, judiciary and the ruling government.
Pak media expansionism
After stoking terrorism, the US helped Pakistan in expanding and modernizing electronic media with a hidden objective of using it as its own mouthpiece to win battle of minds. Not only George Bush dished out millions of dollars to Pak media, out of $7.5 billion Kerry Lugar Bill aid package given to Pakistan in 2009 by Obama-Joe Biden administration, $ 1.5 billion was for Pak media.
The aid package was given under the condition that the released amounts would be distributed for the projects by the US appointed contractors and none else. The diplomatic embassies and consulates acted as safe havens as was seen in Raymond David case.
Afghan refugees
Segment of Afghan refugees living in camps and outside play into the hands of foreign agencies and provide refuge and guidance to the terrorists launched from Afghanistan. The porous western border across which 40,000 people crossed daily from both sides and weak border management were other reasons for easy infiltration of non-state actors.
The intelligence network/Blackwater
CIA-FBI outposts initially established in FATA, secretly brought in RAW-NDS-Mossad-MI-6 agents to form a network. In 2008, thanks to Hussain Haqqani and Rahman Malik, Blackwater made its way. Its operatives rented residential houses in major cities of Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Quetta and Karachi, established a training centre at Sihala in a rented house to train security guards, set up an arms shop, and purchased tinted glassed luxury cars. FBI took over immigration department at airports and seaport.
The Blackwater and intelligence network made use of all anti-state elements including TTP and media, and coordinated covert war and hybrid war. They indulged in target killings, abductions, created divisiveness in the society, polarized politics, spoilt civil-military relations, fanned ethnicity, sectarianism, religious extremism, terrorism and spread gloom and doom.
Over a period of time, foreign intelligence agencies have gained contacts with all the proscribed group, and penetrated each and every government and semi government department. This network helped in executing the US Navy Seals night attack in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011.
This attack couldn’t have materialized without the blessing of the PPP regime and Hussain Haqqani posted as ambassador in Washington. He also drafted infamous Memo gate in October 2011, which was aimed at defanging the military and the ISI and putting the nuclear assets under IAEA control.
Although DG ISI Lt Gen Shuja Pasha made huge efforts to roll back the influence of foreign agencies and push out Blackwater and achieved considerable success, however, the PML-N regime also pursued pro-US and pro-India policies and developed family relations with Modi and business relations with Indian businessman Jindan.
Special cell in Delhi
After China-Pakistan signed the CPEC project in April 2014, a special cell was established at New Delhi under the direct supervision of NSA Ajit Doval, which was heavily funded and was connected with Kalbushan Yadhav at Chahbahar. Sole aim of this cell was to subvert CPEC through proxy war. This cell has now come under the direct supervision of Modi and so far Rs. 80 billion have been allocated.
A militia of 700 specially trained men has been formed and granted $ 60 million to sabotage CPEC. The CPEC has become a major eyesore for India, USA and Israel since it has the capacity to block global ambitions of imperialist powers. Pakistan has deployed two security divisions to protect the CPEC.
To be continued
The writer is a retired Brig Gen, participant of epic Battle of Hilli in 1971 war, defence & security analyst, international columnist, writes exclusively for VT, author of five books, Chairman Thinkers Forum Pakistan, Director Measac Research Centre, Member CWC PESS, & Veterans Think Tank.
Part 2 – Why sudden increase in terrorism in Pakistan?
Asif Haroon Raja
Upsurge in terrorism and its reasons
There has been a sudden increase in incidents of terrorism in Karachi, North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Baluchistan. In Karachi, Chinese Consulate and Stock Exchange were attacked. In Baluchistan 24 soldiers lost their lives in last Oct?
After an attack in Quetta on Oct 15, another cowardly attack occurred in a Madrassa in Peshawar on Oct 27, in which ten children died and 100 were injured. The terrorists succeed in striking the chosen soft targets with ease and seldom are nabbed beforehand.
The question is, why it is so when Pakistan security forces have broken the back of terrorism, improved their expertise in counter terrorism and intelligence skills, improved border management, and fenced almost two-third of the border. There is no lack of will to fight terrorism and soldiers are laying down their lives valiantly.
No other country involved in war on terror has rendered so many sacrifices as Pakistan has done. 83000 fatalities including 9000 belonging to security forces is a colossal loss which has traumatized 83000 families. From 2001 till now, 19,130 terror attacks took place in Pakistan. India has spent Rs 22 billion in the last 3 years to destabilize Baluchistan.
Terrorism was easier when the safe havens were in FATA; but has become cumbersome from the bases and training camps in Nuristan, Kunar, Nangarhar, Paktika and Khost in Afghanistan because of long distance, crossing of the border and fence, and presence of highly trained and motivated Pak security forces as well as patriotic tribesmen and village guards who refuse to cooperate with them.
The terrorists devoid of any religion are from the poor class and majority of the victims are also from the deprived class. One thing is clear that no terrorist howsoever motivated would risk his life unless he is badly in need of money for himself or his family, or is brainwashed. Young boys fed with the promise of heavenly rewards are used for suicide attacks. While the poor are used as cannon fodder, the heartless masterminds have their own selfish materialistic agenda.
Cross border terrorism cannot take place without terror infrastructure installed by RAW-NDS, where physical and motivational training is imparted, funds given, weapons/ explosives/IED/suicide jacket provided, facilitation and handling at the site of occurrence arranged. Cross border terrorism by militant groups is almost impossible without the patronage of the Afghan regime, NDS and RAW.
They cannot undertake covert operations secretly right under the nose of US-NATO troops, ANSF and CIA. If this is the ground reality, it implies that the US which is the initiator of war on terror, it is strategically aligned with NATO, Israel, India and Afghanistan, has defined objectives against Pakistan, as such its involvement is beyond doubt.
After the clearance of FATA from the presence of TTP in 2015 through Operation Zarb Azb, RAW has been arming, funding and launching TTP, Jamaatul Ahrar (JuA), Lashkar Islam, Hizbul Ahrar and Lashkar Jhangvi into northwestern Pakistan from the safe havens in Afghanistan, and Baloch proxies BLA, BRA, BLF in Baluchistan.
In order to rejuvenate the splintered and demoralized TTP as well as Baloch dissident groups, RAW in league with NDS and assisted by CIA managed to unite BLA, BRA and BLF under the banner of Baloch Raaji Asjoi Sangar (BRAS) in Nov 2018, and also reunited JuA and Hizbul Ahrar with TTP this year.
Heavy funds were given to the two setups and the rates of terrorism were substantially enhanced. In Sindh, MQM London has married itself with rural based Sindhi nationalist parties including SLA and its target killers as well as RAW agents are still active in Karachi.
Current rates for suicide attacks and vehicle borne explosions are Rs. 10 million each, for IED, target killing Rs. one million each. The terrorists are paid monthly salaries and provided shelter, food and medical cover.
Joint Press Briefing – Nov 14, 2020
The DG ISPR Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a joint conference on Nov 14 in the wake of devastating firing and shelling by Indian forces across the LoC in Kashmir on Nov 14-15 in various sectors, causing extensive destruction and damage to civilian property. Scores of civilians and soldiers were also martyred and injured.
One reason behind this madness was the sudden rise in clashes between Kashmiri Mujahideen and Indian forces in IOK and the latter suffering casualties. Ceasefire violations has become a routine for India ever since Modi took over power in June 2014. In 2020 alone, xx violations occurred across the LoC and Working Boundary under a calculated design to exert pressure on Pakistan on multiple fronts.
Gen Babar and Qureshi brought out the state terrorism of India in comprehensive details and stated that a dossier is being handed over to the UN, OIC, P-5 and other international bodies to highlight Indian state terrorism against Pakistan and human rights violations in occupied Kashmir.
While a neighboring collaborating country was mentioned, Kabul was not named; and Tehran was omitted. So were Washington, London and Tel Aviv, the silent backers of India. The massive bloodshed in Pakistan in the last 19 years couldn’t be inflicted by India alone. It was and still is a joint effort. Silence must be broken and the whole truth spoken.
Devastations caused by the war
To avenge the deaths of less than 3000 Americans, millions of Muslims who had no hand in 9/11 were killed in the 19-year war on terror, millions were injured and millions displaced. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia were destroyed and Pakistan profusely bled but terrorism instead of getting eliminated has spread all over the globe.
Islam instead of getting discredited has expanded and flourished. The world instead of becoming safe has become more unsafe and the war continue to smolder and fester.
The US dual role
Despite being the most allied ally of USA, Pakistan has been crudely insulted, ridiculed, bashed and humiliated time and again by USA. It has been subjected to cruel drone war.
On the other hand, the US went out of the way to bolster the economic, technological, military and nuclear capabilities of India and made rigorous efforts to make India the leading player in Afghanistan and policeman of Indo-Pacific region. Its biased policy has heavily tilted the military balance in favor of India, which has repeatedly threatened to break Pakistan into four parts.
Pakistan’s myopic stance towards trouble makers
Magic spell of USA
A lot has been written on this subject and nothing is secret. The US has all along pursued highly discriminatory policy which disfavors Pakistan and favors India and Afghanistan. Pakistan is an ally in name only and in reality a target.
The US will rest only when it has disabled Pakistan’s nuclear Pakistan, disrupted CPEC, and made Pakistan a satellite of India. If every Tom, Dick and Harry in Pakistan know about the motives of USA, how come the ones entrusted with the security of Pakistan are unaware of it?
Well-knowing its track record and open ended hostility, how come our successive leaders starting from Gen Musharraf have been bending over backwards to remain in the good books of the US. To earn its goodwill, Pakistan has been putting up with the hostility of India and the Afghan regime and have left no stone unturned to befriend them.
Our rulers never shirked from doing more in response to the dictates of Washington even if their demands were against the national interest. The infatuation is so strong that human loss of 83,000 and financial loss of $ 126 billion doesn’t bring even a frown on their foreheads. The US has made use of its pawns Afghan regime and India and is wholly responsible for these huge losses.
One fails to understand as to what is the compulsion of our rulers to remain glued with USA. One may have reconciled with this strange behavior if the people also had similar inclinations. But the fact is that great majority of people detest USA and holds it responsible for their woes.
Extraordinary tilt could be digested had the US provided security umbrella and helped Pakistan when it was splitting apart in 1971, or extended help when its assistance was needed the most; or made Pakistan economically self-reliant.
These expectations by Pakistan which has been the most allied ally for 66 years and had put its security at risk twice to safeguard the US interests were not unrealistic. On the contrary, India never put its national interests in jeopardy to protect the US interests and had remained in the Soviet camp for 43 years.
With this mindset of blindly trusting USA, terrorism can never be eliminated. As such, the problem is not terrorism, the real problem is the weak willed leaders who irrationally feel comfortable and safe by remaining under the magic spell of USA.
Today the US needs Pakistan’s assistance and not vice versa since it can neither win the war in Afghanistan, nor stay there, or exit safely. Time has come to convey to Washington that if it needs its support in Afghan peace efforts, it will have to reciprocate by way of dismantling the terror infrastructure installed by RAW in Afghanistan and to help Pakistan in completing the border fencing.
Kabul
What is hurtful is Islamabad’s stance of generosity towards Kabul when the latter has never reciprocated Pakistan’s goodwill gestures and cooperation and has missed no opportunity to harm Pakistan. The regime is a puppet of the US and India and it follows their dictates obsequiously.
By now after having collected all the evidence, we should have named it without any hesitation and tailored our future responses accordingly. The 1973-78 insurgency in Baluchistan was backed by RAW, KGB, KHAD. The Al-Zulfiqar terror organization was assisted by Kabul. In the ongoing war on terror, main base of operation for the covert war launched by multiple anti-Pakistan agencies is Afghanistan.
The Baloch rebel leaders Balach Marri followed by Brahamdagh Bugti had taken refuge in Kabul and had fomented terrorism in Baluchistan. Maulana Fazlullah after escaping from Swat in 2009 had taken refuge in Kunar and later became the head of TTP. After the clearance of FATA in 2015/16, all the leaders of TTP and the militants as well as IMU, ITM (Uighurs), Asian Tigers and other affiliates took refuge in Afghanistan and all are being patronized by NDS and RAW.
While the Pak military has conclusive evidence of RAW’s involvement it also has concrete proofs of NDS involvement. It is high time that the ruling regime in Kabul is clearly told to dismantle the terror infrastructure of RAW-NDS, to close the Pakistan specific Indian Consulates involved in terrorism, and to hand over Pakistani terrorists residing in safe havens of Afghanistan. Pakistan’s assistance for Afghan peace should be made conditional to fulfilment of these demands.
Iran
It is no secret that RAW has been using Iranian soil as an auxiliary base and used proxies to strike targets in Baluchistan, Makran Coast, Gwadar and Karachi. Serving Wing Comd Kalbushan Yadhav who had been arrested in March 2016 was deployed at Chahbahar in 2003 by Indian NSA Ajit Doval.
RAW has been making use of Indian Consulates in Seistan, Zahidan and Mashad for conducting covert operations. Given the changed alignments wherein Iran has gravitated away from India and has got closer to China, and the changed attitude of the Arab Gulf States towards Pakistan, Islamabad and Beijing should jointly impress upon Tehran to stop RAW’s meddlesome activities in Baluchistan from its soil.
Will USA withdraw troops?
Outgoing President Donald Trump had signed a peace deal with the Taliban in February 2019 and had pledged to end the 19-year war and bring home all the troops by this Christmas. He will be in command till mid-day January 2021 after which he will hand over the baton to Joe Biden.
It is to be seen whether Trump fulfils his promise or agrees to the proposal of partial withdrawal given by Pentagon. It is to be seen whether the new team of Biden-Kamal Harris pursues the same old Zionist-Pentagon driven militarist and materialist policies or bring a change to make the turbulent world peaceful. Indications are that Zionists will have their say.
Since terrorism has a direct bearing on the security and integrity of the country, it is the military and not the civil leadership that should be more concerned. Instead of chasing the faceless enemy which amounts to chasing shadows, the military being the real power should exert decisive influence to break the magic charm and stop trusting and depending upon USA.
Given the weak state of economy and host of issues, Pakistan can no more afford to indulge in this expensive war on terror and should urgently chalk out a strategy to pullout 180,000 troops from the combat zone and take steps to extinguish the fire of terrorism.
The writer is a retired Brig Gen, participant of epic Battle of Hilli in 1971 war, defence & security analyst, international columnist, writes exclusively for VT, author of five books, Chairman Thinkers Forum Pakistan, Director Measac Research Centre, Member CWC PESS, & Veterans Think Tank.
Email: asifharoonraja@gmail.com


veteranstoday--2020-11-21--Proof: Trump was a political Satanist from time immemorial

Trump ’ s erratic behavior has been giving Philip Giraldi a sense of foreboding .
Giraldi , a former intelligence officer for the CIA for 18 years , received his bachelor ’ s degree from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in history from the University of London .
He is also a polyglot : he can speak German , Italian , Spanish , and Turkish .
One can say with certainty that Giraldi is not part of the Zionist , New World Order ideology which has come to dominate much of the political climate in the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ I have a crazy idea that I can ’ t get out of my head , that we Americans are heading for something like an Armageddon in the next several months no matter how the currently electoral imbroglio is resolved .
My greatest concern is that I fear that Trump is going to attack Iran , either through some kind of false flag contrivance or through direct aggression .
“ The stage has already been set for military action through the unrelenting hostility towards the Islamic Republic over the past four @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against the country ’ s economy and the deliberately provocative assassination of an Iranian leader , General Qassim Soleimani in January .
In truth , it would not require much to start a shooting war , just an errant patrol boat creeping into Iranian coastal waters and opening fire when challenged by a Revolutionary Guards speedboat .
A couple of Iranians die , maybe also an American or two and you will have a war.
” I could turn out to be wrong , but I don ’ t believe that Trump would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s fear justifiable ?
Is there any evidence of the United States creating false flags to wage bloody wars ?
The answer is a resounding yes .
Once again , think about what the Anglo-American did in Iran in 1953 .
They literally and diabolically overthrew a democratically elected president by the name of Mohammad Mosaddegh .
[ 1 ] Despite all of that , Iran never retaliated militarily .
But Iran did flesh out a vibrant response to the United States ’ diabolical activities in the Middle East .
By 1979 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is “ evil and wicked , ” which was another way of saying that there was and still is a diabolical ideology that has come to wrap around arguably much of the political system .
[ 2 ] Khomeini is in no way referring to the American people .
Khomeini even made it very clear that “ death to America ” has nothing to do with the average American but has everything to do with the Zionist ideology , which seeks to juice much of the Middle East .
This policy was fleshed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still relevant today .
The Ayatollah Khomeini posited then : “ There is no crime America will not commit in order to maintain its political , economic , cultural , and military domination of those parts of the world where it predominates .
It exploits the oppressed people of the world by means of the large-scale propaganda campaigns that are coordinated for it by international Zionism .
“ By means of its hidden and treacherous agents , it sucks the blood of the defenseless people as if it alone , together with its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in this world .
Iran has tried to sever all its relations with this Great Satan and it is for this reason that it now finds wars imposed upon it.
” “ International Zionism ” is an appropriate description of what was going on then .
As I have already suggested , the United States and England had already overthrown a democratically elected president in Iran in 1953 , and both countries were expanding aggressively in the Middle East to keep a diabolical empire alive and well .
The Ayatollah Khomeini made an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” problem by appealing to Muslim unity .
But that again was another problem because countries like Saudi Arabia were already prostrating before “ international Zionism.
” As E. Michael Jones puts it , “ At the very moment he invoked Islamic unity , Khomeini was forced to concede that Islam was breaking up into two warring factions .
The grand climactic battle of the anti-Communist crusade disguised this split for decades , but now , as intra-Islamic wars raged in Yemen and Iraq , Khomeini showed himself more of a prophet than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unity .
Either way , the Great Satan was exacerbating division as a means of achieving geo-political goals.
” [ 3 ] Khomeini obviously lit up a prophetic fire which again is still relevant today .
“ International Zionism ” is still sucking the blood of virtually every nation on earth through covert activities , espionage , and deceptive means .
[ 4 ] And by metaphysically rejecting the moral and political order and embracing chaos and destruction , international Zionism has essentially become Satanism .
Trump , sad to say , has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ largely because he has been listening to Satanists like Benjamin Netanyahu when it comes to dealing with Iran .
Trump obviously knows that right after the 9/11 attack , it was Iranian leaders themselves who offered to join forces with the US military in order to combat terrorism .
The US , however , rejected the generous offer .
[ 5 ] Moreover , Iran , unlike America , has never been in the business of invading countries and destroying the moral and political fabric of those countries .
We already know how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ 6 ] So why would Trump even think about obliterating a peaceful country like Iran ?
Well , again , he has been sleeping with Benjamin Netanyahu .
Trump , mind you , knows what happened in Iraq in 2003 .
But Trump has been giving mixed signals since the beginning of time .
For example , in his 2000 book The America We Deserve , he unapologetically declares that Iran and Iraq are “ America ’ s enemies… ” [ 7 ] Trump , in the same book , says , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nuclear reactor they were condemned by the world community .
But they did what they had to do to survive.
” [ 8 ] Trump even gave the impression that he would have supported a surgical strike against countries like Iraq .
Listen to his assessment very carefully here : “ A surgical strike would not only put out fire in North Korea , but it would also send message around the world that the United States is going to eliminate any serious threat to its security , and do so without apology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beside China , which is far too interested in trade expansion to do anything more than the perfunctory grousing ?
Are we afraid we might upset Fidel Castro ?
Or Iraq ?
The only thing that unites the people who would oppose such an operation is that they are all nondemocratic regimes who hates the United States because it represents the antithesis of their rotten , corrupt , impoverished police states .
Are we going to walk their line , or our own ?
” [ 9 ] Trump sounded like a mad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Consider Iraq .
After each pounding from U.S. warplanes , Iraq has dusted itself off and gone right back to work developing a nuclear arsenal .
Six years of tough talk and U.S. fireworks In Baghdad have done little to slow Iraq ’ s crash program to become a nuclear power .
They ’ ve got missiles capable of flying nine hundred kilometers—more than enough to reach Tel Aviv .
They ’ ve got enrich uranium…Saddam Houssein wouldn ’ t let UN weapons inspectors examine certain sites where the material might be stored… @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But the fact is , if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary , it is madness not to carry its mission to its conclusion .
When we don ’ t , we have the worst of all worlds : Iraq remains a threat , and now has more incentive than ever to attack us.
” [ 10 ] Trump was essentially lifting things from Benjamin Netanyahu ’ s book when he wrote then : “ Within five years Iran is expected to have nuclear missiles capable of reaching the continental United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Iraq , they ’ ve been importing crucial parts and technological assistance from Russia—today the world ’ s nuclear Wal-Mart.
” [ 11 ] Ladies and gentlemen , Trump again wrote those words in 2000 , and we are nearing the end of 2020 .
Iran still does not have the bomb !
So , if those words are not the work of a Satanist trying to bleed a peaceful country to death , then what is ?
What we are seeing here is that Trump deliberately lied during his presidential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opposed the Iraq war from the beginning .
“ I said it loud and clear , ‘ You ’ ll destabilize the Middle East , ’ ” [ 12 ] he said .
Total balderdash .
In his 2015 debate , he lied again saying that he “ fought very , very hard against us … going into Iraq.
” Trump here was acting like a fool who obviously didn ’ t realize that his words were printed in books !
But there is more : “ Trump has even said that he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ White House ’ in attempt to silence him , because , he said , he was getting ‘ a disproportionate amount of publicity ’ for his opposition to the war… “ BuzzFeed reports that Trump indicated his support for war in a radio interview with shock jock Howard Stern on Sept. 11 , 2002 — a little more than six months before the war started .
Stern asked Trump directly if he supported going to war with Iraq , and Trump hesitantly responded , ‘ Yeah , I guess so.
” ” Just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was flipflopping , saying that he would oppose it .
But it ’ s only because he perceived that the war would turn out to be an economic disaster for him and his business : “ Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts planned ‘ to sell $ 485 million in junk-grade bonds this week in an effort to avoid a cash crunch later this year.
’ The uncertainty of war complicated Trump ’ s bond sale .
“ The company began planning for the sale of the bonds in December , and it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the war started .
The Star-Ledger reported that ‘ the growing threat of war with Iraq ’ and a proposal to ‘ raise casino taxes and install video slot machines at New Jersey ’ s racetracks … made it more difficult for the company to find willing investors.
” “ After the sale of the bonds was completed , Trump issued a statement on March 13 saying he was pleased with the results “ despite difficult capital market conditions and the looming threat of war.
’ Trump expressed concerns about the cost of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If Trump did support the war , he turned on it quickly.
” In short , Trump has been masquerading himself as a man of the people , but that doesn ’ t line up with Trump ’ s own background .
Think about this for a moment .
When Trump realized that his presidential term was coming to an end and that he desperately wanted to be reelected , he gave the impression that he wanted to pull troops from the Middle East ( particularly Iraq and Afghanistan ) in order to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from some of his supporters .
[ 13 ] Now that he knows that he is going to be out of the White House within about two months , he is thinking of making foreign policy a living hell for Joe Biden by attacking Iran !
[ 14 ] Once again , if that is not diabolical in its metaphysical form , then nothing is .
• [ 1 ] See Stephen Kinzer , All the Shah ’ s Men : An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror ( Hoboken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ & 2008 ) ; Christopher de Bellaigue , Patriot of Persia : Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup ( New York : HarperCollins , 2013 ) ; Ervand Abrahamian , The Coup : 1953 , the CIA , and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations ( New York : The New Press , 2015 ) .
• [ 2 ] For a historical analysis of this manifestation in Afghanistan , see Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould , Invisible History : Afghanistan ’ s Untold Story ( San Francisco : City Lights Books @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] E. Michael Jones , “ The Great Satan and Me : Reflections on Iran and Postmodernism ’ s Faustian Pact , ” Culture Wars , July/August 2015 .
• [ 4 ] See Stephen Kinzer , The Brothers : John Foster Dulles , Allen Dulles , and Their Secret World War ( New York : Times Books , 2013 ) .
David Talbot , The Devil ’ s Chessboard : Allen Dulles , the CIA , and the Rise of America ’ s Secret Government ( New York : Harper Collins , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ See Trita Parsi , Treacherous Alliance : The Secret Dealings of Israel , Iran , and the United States ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 2008 ) ; A Single Roll of the Dice : Obama ’ s Diplomacy with Iran ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 2011 ) .
• [ 6 ] Ernesto Londono , “ Study : Iraq , Afghan war costs to top $ 4 trillion , ” Washington Post , March 28 , 2013 ; Bob Dreyfuss , The $ 6 Trillion Wars , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2013 ; “ Iraq War Cost U.S. More Than $ 2 Trillion , Could Grow to $ 6 Trillion , Says Watson Institute Study , ” Huffington Post , May 14 , 2013 ; Mark Thompson , “ The $ 5 Trillion War on Terror , ” Time , June 29 , 2011 ; “ Iraq war cost : $ 6 trillion .
What else could have been done ?
, ” LA Times , March 18 , 2013 .
• [ 13 ] “ resident Trump is expected to order troop withdrawals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Today , November 16 , 2020 .
• [ 14 ] Eric Schmitt , Maggie Haberman , David E. Sanger , Helene Cooper and Lara Jakes , “ Trump Sought Options for Attacking Iran to Stop Its Growing Nuclear Program , ” NY Times , November 16 , 2020 .

Trump’s erratic behavior has been giving Philip Giraldi a sense of foreboding. Giraldi, a former intelligence officer for the CIA for 18 years, received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in history from the University of London. He is also a polyglot: he can speak German, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish.
One can say with certainty that Giraldi is not part of the Zionist, New World Order ideology which has come to dominate much of the political climate in the United States and England. Giraldi has recently declared:
“I have a crazy idea that I can’t get out of my head, that we Americans are heading for something like an Armageddon in the next several months no matter how the currently electoral imbroglio is resolved. My greatest concern is that I fear that Trump is going to attack Iran, either through some kind of false flag contrivance or through direct aggression.
“The stage has already been set for military action through the unrelenting hostility towards the Islamic Republic over the past four years combined with an economic war waged against the country’s economy and the deliberately provocative assassination of an Iranian leader, General Qassim Soleimani in January. In truth, it would not require much to start a shooting war, just an errant patrol boat creeping into Iranian coastal waters and opening fire when challenged by a Revolutionary Guards speedboat. A couple of Iranians die, maybe also an American or two and you will have a war.”
I could turn out to be wrong, but I don’t believe that Trump would eventually attack Iran. Yet is Giraldi’s fear justifiable? Is there any evidence of the United States creating false flags to wage bloody wars? The answer is a resounding yes.
Once again, think about what the Anglo-American did in Iran in 1953. They literally and diabolically overthrew a democratically elected president by the name of Mohammad Mosaddegh.[1] Despite all of that, Iran never retaliated militarily.
But Iran did flesh out a vibrant response to the United States’ diabolical activities in the Middle East. By 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini declared that America is “evil and wicked,” which was another way of saying that there was and still is a diabolical ideology that has come to wrap around arguably much of the political system.[2]
Khomeini is in no way referring to the American people. Khomeini even made it very clear that “death to America” has nothing to do with the average American but has everything to do with the Zionist ideology, which seeks to juice much of the Middle East. This policy was fleshed out in 1979, and it is still relevant today. The Ayatollah Khomeini posited then:
“There is no crime America will not commit in order to maintain its political, economic, cultural, and military domination of those parts of the world where it predominates. It exploits the oppressed people of the world by means of the large-scale propaganda campaigns that are coordinated for it by international Zionism.
“By means of its hidden and treacherous agents, it sucks the blood of the defenseless people as if it alone, together with its satellites, had the right to live in this world. Iran has tried to sever all its relations with this Great Satan and it is for this reason that it now finds wars imposed upon it.”
“International Zionism” is an appropriate description of what was going on then. As I have already suggested, the United States and England had already overthrown a democratically elected president in Iran in 1953, and both countries were expanding aggressively in the Middle East to keep a diabolical empire alive and well.
The Ayatollah Khomeini made an attempt to solve the “international Zionism” problem by appealing to Muslim unity. But that again was another problem because countries like Saudi Arabia were already prostrating before “international Zionism.” As E. Michael Jones puts it,
“At the very moment he invoked Islamic unity, Khomeini was forced to concede that Islam was breaking up into two warring factions. The grand climactic battle of the anti-Communist crusade disguised this split for decades, but now, as intra-Islamic wars raged in Yemen and Iraq, Khomeini showed himself more of a prophet than a politician who could bring about Islamic unity. Either way, the Great Satan was exacerbating division as a means of achieving geo-political goals.”[3]
Khomeini obviously lit up a prophetic fire which again is still relevant today. “International Zionism” is still sucking the blood of virtually every nation on earth through covert activities, espionage, and deceptive means.[4] And by metaphysically rejecting the moral and political order and embracing chaos and destruction, international Zionism has essentially become Satanism.
Trump, sad to say, has become part of that Satanic wave, largely because he has been listening to Satanists like Benjamin Netanyahu when it comes to dealing with Iran. Trump obviously knows that right after the 9/11 attack, it was Iranian leaders themselves who offered to join forces with the US military in order to combat terrorism. The US, however, rejected the generous offer.[5]
Moreover, Iran, unlike America, has never been in the business of invading countries and destroying the moral and political fabric of those countries. We already know how catastrophic the war in Iraq was.[6] So why would Trump even think about obliterating a peaceful country like Iran?
Well, again, he has been sleeping with Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump, mind you, knows what happened in Iraq in 2003. But Trump has been giving mixed signals since the beginning of time. For example, in his 2000 book The America We Deserve, he unapologetically declares that Iran and Iraq are “America’s enemies…”[7]
Trump, in the same book, says, “When the Israelis bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor they were condemned by the world community. But they did what they had to do to survive.”[8] Trump even gave the impression that he would have supported a surgical strike against countries like Iraq. Listen to his assessment very carefully here:
“A surgical strike would not only put out fire in North Korea, but it would also send message around the world that the United States is going to eliminate any serious threat to its security, and do so without apology. Who’s going to complain beside China, which is far too interested in trade expansion to do anything more than the perfunctory grousing? Are we afraid we might upset Fidel Castro? Or Iraq? The only thing that unites the people who would oppose such an operation is that they are all nondemocratic regimes who hates the United States because it represents the antithesis of their rotten, corrupt, impoverished police states. Are we going to walk their line, or our own?”[9]
Trump sounded like a mad Neocon when he unflinchingly said:
“Consider Iraq. After each pounding from U.S. warplanes, Iraq has dusted itself off and gone right back to work developing a nuclear arsenal. Six years of tough talk and U.S. fireworks In Baghdad have done little to slow Iraq’s crash program to become a nuclear power. They’ve got missiles capable of flying nine hundred kilometers—more than enough to reach Tel Aviv. They’ve got enrich uranium…Saddam Houssein wouldn’t let UN weapons inspectors examine certain sites where the material might be stored…
“I’m no warmonger. But the fact is, if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary, it is madness not to carry its mission to its conclusion. When we don’t, we have the worst of all worlds: Iraq remains a threat, and now has more incentive than ever to attack us.”[10]
Trump was essentially lifting things from Benjamin Netanyahu’s book when he wrote then: “Within five years Iran is expected to have nuclear missiles capable of reaching the continental United States. Like North Korea, China, and Iraq, they’ve been importing crucial parts and technological assistance from Russia—today the world’s nuclear Wal-Mart.”[11]
Ladies and gentlemen, Trump again wrote those words in 2000, and we are nearing the end of 2020. Iran still does not have the bomb! So, if those words are not the work of a Satanist trying to bleed a peaceful country to death, then what is?
What we are seeing here is that Trump deliberately lied during his presidential campaign relentlessly and universally saying that he opposed the Iraq war from the beginning. “I said it loud and clear, ‘You’ll destabilize the Middle East,’”[12] he said. Total balderdash.
In his 2015 debate, he lied again saying that he “fought very, very hard against us … going into Iraq.” Trump here was acting like a fool who obviously didn’t realize that his words were printed in books! But there is more:
“Trump has even said that he was ‘visited by people from the White House’ in attempt to silence him, because, he said, he was getting ‘a disproportionate amount of publicity’ for his opposition to the war…
“BuzzFeed reports that Trump indicated his support for war in a radio interview with shock jock Howard Stern on Sept. 11, 2002 — a little more than six months before the war started. Stern asked Trump directly if he supported going to war with Iraq, and Trump hesitantly responded, ‘Yeah, I guess so.””
Just one week before the war, Trump was flipflopping, saying that he would oppose it. But it’s only because he perceived that the war would turn out to be an economic disaster for him and his business:
“Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts planned ‘to sell $485 million in junk-grade bonds this week in an effort to avoid a cash crunch later this year.’ The uncertainty of war complicated Trump’s bond sale.
“The company began planning for the sale of the bonds in December, and it was completed March 13,2003 — six days before the war started. The Star-Ledger reported that ‘the growing threat of war with Iraq’ and a proposal to ‘raise casino taxes and install video slot machines at New Jersey’s racetracks … made it more difficult for the company to find willing investors.”
“After the sale of the bonds was completed, Trump issued a statement on March 13 saying he was pleased with the results “despite difficult capital market conditions and the looming threat of war.’ Trump expressed concerns about the cost of the war soon after it started. If Trump did support the war, he turned on it quickly.”
In short, Trump has been masquerading himself as a man of the people, but that doesn’t line up with Trump’s own background. Think about this for a moment. When Trump realized that his presidential term was coming to an end and that he desperately wanted to be reelected, he gave the impression that he wanted to pull troops from the Middle East (particularly Iraq and Afghanistan) in order to respond to the complaints he was getting from some of his supporters.[13]
Now that he knows that he is going to be out of the White House within about two months, he is thinking of making foreign policy a living hell for Joe Biden by attacking Iran![14] Once again, if that is not diabolical in its metaphysical form, then nothing is.


veteranstoday--2020-11-20--New York Times: Trump Asked Advisors if He Could Fellate Netanyahu Before He Leaves Office

President Donald Trump last week asked senior aides what possibilities he had for performing fellatio on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , The New York Times reported Monday .
Citing four current and former US officials , the paper reported that the meeting occurred in the Oval Office on Thursday .
The source said Trump asked his highest-ranking national security advisers whether they thought that after freeing Jonathan Pollard , trying to start a nuclear war with Iran for Israel , officially labeling BDS “ anti-Semitic , ” and sending Pompeo to bless war criminal settlements , he should just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wailing Wall and get it over with .
Vice President Mike Pence , Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley were among the senior advisers who convinced the President not to fellate Netanyau , according to the paper .
They cautioned that such an act could easily balloon into a full-fledged sodomization marring his final days as president , the Times reported .
Administration officials with knowledge of the meeting told the paper that after Pompeo and Milley @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Trump asked if Jonathan Pollard , just then leaving prison en route to Israel , could stop by the White House first so Trump could fellate him instead .
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veteranstoday--2020-11-20--Some Good News! DRC Declares End of Its 11th Ebola Outbreak

Health Editor ’ s Note : During this COVID-19 pandemic it is easy to have lost sight of the clear fact that the DRC was fighting another medical war , the war against its 11th bout with ebola .
Some good news as we hear that there have been no further confirmed cases of ebola for 42 days…..Carol Democratic Republic of the Congo declares the end to its 11th Ebola outbreak The Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ) officially declared the end of its 11th Ebola outbreak Wednesday , six months after the first cases of the deadly virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t easy , but we ’ ve done it !
” tweeted Dr. Matshidiso Moeti , the World Health Organization ’ s Regional Director for Africa .
The WHO made the announcement alongside DRC Minister of Health , Eteni Longondo .
It had been 42 days since the last confirmed case tested negative , according to the WHO .
No new confirmed cases have been reported since September 28 .
The outbreak began on June 1 in the country ’ s western Equateur Province , just as another outbreak was winding down in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eastern outbreak was the world ’ s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak on record , and was officially declared over on June 25 — but the one in Equateur was just beginning .

(CNN) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) officially declared the end of its 11th Ebola outbreak Wednesday, six months after the first cases of the deadly virus were reported.
“It wasn’t easy, but we’ve done it!” tweeted Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa. The WHO made the announcement alongside DRC Minister of Health, Eteni Longondo.
It had been 42 days since the last confirmed case tested negative, according to the WHO. No new confirmed cases have been reported since September 28.
The outbreak began on June 1 in the country’s western Equateur Province, just as another outbreak was winding down in the country’s east. The eastern outbreak was the world’s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak on record, and was officially declared over on June 25 — but the one in Equateur was just beginning.


veteranstoday--2020-11-20--MSNBC: Trump says we’re ‘learning to live’ with COVID…Maybe if you’re white (good read)

“ I say we ’ re learning to live with it .
We have no choice.
” With these words , President Donald Trump has shown himself to be the Marie Antoinette of our times , and the pandemic is his own garish Versailles .
The rot enveloping him , literally infecting himself and his closest aides , has only been made worse by his own words and action .
Trump has made it incredibly clear that he simply doesn ’ t care about the millions of Americans who are infected , the hundreds of thousands who have died , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a result of his complete indifference in the face of the greatest public health crisis of several lifetimes .
For members of Black , Indigenous and people of color , or BIPOC , communities , this notion of having no choice hits right in the gut .
Black and LatinX people are dying of Covid-19 at higher rates in this country .
Those who are not dying are almost guaranteed to lose years off of their life expectancy .
In short , their lives are cut short no matter what because of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has failed to address it .
This is apparent when you enter the doors of any clinic like mine in the United States , where millions of patients receive Covid-19 testing and more than half of the positive cases are racial and ethnic minorities ; in some parts of the country as many as 80 percent of Covid-19-related deaths are in Black or brown communities .
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“I say we’re learning to live with it. We have no choice.” With these words, President Donald Trump has shown himself to be the Marie Antoinette of our times, and the pandemic is his own garish Versailles. The rot enveloping him, literally infecting himself and his closest aides, has only been made worse by his own words and action.
I didn’t and I’m in Texas. Our hospitals are at the breaking point. In El Paso there are *10* refrigerated trucks full of dead Covid patients. Others are being sent directly to the morgue.They have now set up tents to hold the Covid patients.😷💯😞💔 — Gayla Mixon (@gayla_mixon) November 13, 2020
Trump has made it incredibly clear that he simply doesn’t care about the millions of Americans who are infected, the hundreds of thousands who have died, as well as those who will die as a result of his complete indifference in the face of the greatest public health crisis of several lifetimes. For members of Black, Indigenous and people of color, or BIPOC, communities, this notion of having no choice hits right in the gut.
Hey @elonmusk. I have a challenge for you. If you agree to do an ICU or COVID-19 floor shift, I will find you a colleague in a Midwest hospital willing to let you shadow them. You can learn about how many covid-19 cases are “real”. — Dr. Nahid Bhadelia (@BhadeliaMD) November 14, 2020
In some parts of the country as many as 80 percent of Covid-19-related deaths are in Black or brown communities. Black and LatinX people are dying of Covid-19 at higher rates in this country. Those who are not dying are almost guaranteed to lose years off of their life expectancy. In short, their lives are cut short no matter what because of Covid-19, aided by an administration that has failed to address it. He's not the only one that shd. do a shift on a Covid-19 floor. Every anti-mask, covid-downplaying/denying Congressperson & Fox News nutbag shd be forced to do multiple shifts, not only on a Covid ward, but in the morgue loading bodies of covid dead into the refrigerated trucks. — RareIdahoLiberal (@MILITANTIDLIB) November 14, 2020 This is apparent when you enter the doors of any clinic like mine in the United States, where millions of patients receive Covid-19 testing and more than half of the positive cases are racial and ethnic minorities; in some parts of the country as many as 80 percent of Covid-19-related deaths are in Black or brown communities. read more… https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/trump-says-we-re-learning-live-covid-maybe-if-you-n1244793?icid=msd_botgrid