Families of dead SEAL Team 6 members will not be allowed to testify before Congress

A Bi-Partisan Cover Up

• 30 Navy SEALs are slaughtered in Afghanistan, the helicopter black boxes mysteriously "vanish", all the bodies were rapidly cremated so no autopsy could be conducted and no one in either party speaks up forcefully.
• Now Congress will have a hearing where one single Pentagon official will testify and the family members will be excluded.
• We are ruled over by liars and whores.

"Corruptus in Extremis"  -  A congressional panel on Thursday will hold a hearing on a mysterious helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 unit.

Many questions about the Aug. 6, 2011 attack, which killed 30 Americans, will be asked during the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on National Security.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who heads the panel, told The Hill that the hearing is aimed at getting answers from the Pentagon and “honoring those who gave the ultimate sacrifice,” reports The Hill.

The 30 Americans were killed three months after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by Team 6 forces. The timing has sparked speculation that the attack was payback for the bin Laden raid.

In all, 38 died when Afghan militants shot down a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Twenty-two Navy SEALs perished, along with seven Afghan soldiers and an Afghan translator. The U.S. forces were on a rescue mission called Extortion 17.

The 38 bodies were recovered, but the chopper’s black box wasn’t. Department of Defense (DOD) officials claim it couldn’t be recovered because of a flash flood that occurred after the assault. All 38 bodies were cremated so no autopsy could be conducted.

Pentagon officials have defended the cremations to the soldiers’ families, saying the bodies were badly burned. Chaffetz has said he has seen a photo of a deceased SEAL that was not.

Chaffetz said the Pentagon will be asked about the flash flood assertion and the cremations. He stressed that “we’re not out to embarrass the Pentagon or the administration.” He said the victims’ families deserve answers to many outstanding questions.

Some of the victims’ family members want to testify, but Chaffetz indicated that is unlikely. He said a single Pentagon official will probably be the only witness, though it’s unclear at this time which DOD employee will appear before the House panel.

A Must Listen to Interview

Michael Savage interview with the father of 'MICHAEL STRANGE' Navy Seal | Suspicious SEAL Team 6 Deaths.

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AMAZING INTERVIEW! Aired on July 24, 2013 - On The Savage Nation with Michael Savage - Charles Strange Father of Navy SEAL Michael Strange Calls Revealing Suspicious Details of Son's Death - Team 6

 

Did the U.S. Army Kill Philip Seymour Hoffman?

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Killed by the U.S. Army?

Under both Democrats and Republicans the US Army has

protected the poppy fields of Afghan drug lords.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead with five empty heroin bag as well as many as 65 more bags that were still unused.

But the real story that the lame-stream media will not tell you is Hoffman was most likely killed by heroin exported from Afghan poppy fields protected by NATO and the U.S. Army.

Below is a must listen to interview on the phony drug war between radio host Alex Jones and former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura (Independence Party of Minnesota). 

Both major parties and their lap-dog media supporters have covered up American and NATO involvement in protecting drug lords.  It takes independent politicians like Ventura and Internet journalists such as Jones to tell the truth.

Jesse Ventura: On The Drug War

Advance the video to 5:30 for the truth about the phony war on drugs.

The Taliban was eradicating poppy production as "un-Islamic".  Then in comes NATO and poppy farmers are allowed to grow their crops again.

Today, with 87,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan, cultivation of poppies has hit record levels as NATO forces prepare to exit the country. The UN warned warlords may be the biggest benefactor of the situation.
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Afghanistan, long the world’s main heroin supplier, has seen its total area of poppy seed plantations explode to 516,000 acres - a 36 percent increase from 2012, according to the report says RT News.
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Last year, the war-torn Central Asian country accounted for 75 percent of the world’s opium supplies; Jean-Luc Lemahieu, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Afghanistan, has said in the past that supplies may reach 90 percent of the global total this year.

Making the world safe for drugs

A funny thing happened on the way to Afghanistan, the US

and NATO protected poppy producers from the Taliban.

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See our article:

US & NATO encourage Afghan poppy production

2001 Blast from the Past Article
Only a "crazy" fringe person would suggest that the US and NATO went into Afghanistan in order to keep the supply of drugs flowing.  Only a conspiracy nut would suggest that governments want to keep their populations in a perpetual drugged stupor so they will not question their Masters.  It would be wrong to say these things, so I will not do it.

Obama Admin. - "The Taliban are not our enemies"

What were we fighting for again?

An interview from Radio Free Europe.

RFE/RL: Do you think that the Afghan security forces are able to deal with the Taliban on their own?

Karzai: This is our responsibility. We are all Afghans and we know each other well. Whether we would fight the Taliban or make peace with them — that is our problem. Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior White House officials, generals, and intelligence officials, the national security adviser met with me.

He told me: “The Taliban are not our enemies and we don’t want to fight them.” I told him “This is a very good thing and this is what we want. We have been urging you for years to stop bombing people and fighting people inside of Afghanistan. So if you don’t consider the Taliban your enemies and don’t want to fight them, then why are you raiding Afghan homes every night? If you don’t consider the Taliban your enemies, which are something I want you to do and am happy you have recognized, then why are you going into Afghan homes in the name of looking for the Taliban every night?” My question is whether this will go on after the security agreement. This is why I can never allow it to happen. The security agreement should end American operations.

RFE/RL: Mr. President, after meeting you on November 25, Susan Rice said in an interview the United States is worried that after failing to convince you to sign the agreement, Washington may be prompted to plan the withdrawal of all of its forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. You also know that America is committed to spending billions of dollars on strengthening Afghan security forces and on security in Afghanistan. Are you ready to endanger this $8 billion or $9 billion in American aid?

Karzai: It is up to the Americans whether they want to stay or go. Even if we sign a thousand agreements with them, if it doesn't suit their interests they will leave -- just as they left Afghanistan alone in 1990s during the years after jihad. I was a deputy foreign minister then and I saw how the West abandoned Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal. I used to go to them and ask them to leave one junior official behind in their embassy. But they closed their embassy and left. So if it is not in their interest, they will never come here. If America wants to be in Afghanistan today, it is because of their own interests --- whether it is security interests or their major economic interests. As an independent nation, we have the right to protect and promote our interests.

For the full interview go to Radio Free Europe.

Thousands block NATO supply line to Afghanistan

Activists of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) shout slogans as they arrive to
 attend a protest rally in Peshawar on November 23, 2013
(AFP Photo / A Majeed)

10,000 protest US drone attacks

• NATO supply line blocked in Pakistan.
• Let's face facts.  The US is not wanted by just about anyone in Pakistan.  The Muslims in the streets hate westerners, burn churches and attack Christians.  Running NATO line trough Pakistan is crazy at best.  But there is no choice.

Thousands of demonstrators protesting US drone strikes in Pakistan blocked a main road Saturday in the Peshawar province used to transport NATO supplies to and from Afghanistan.

The protests was led by the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) party, which is led by Imran Khan, a former international cricketer now turned politician.

They were supported by their allies in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government and they were also joined by the Jamaat -i-Islami (JI) and the Awami Jamhoori Ittehad (AJIP) political parties.

“We will put pressure on America, and our protest will continue if drone attacks are not stopped,” Khan told reporters reports RT News.

“We are here to give a clear message that now Pakistanis cannot remain silent over drone attacks,” said Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a senior member of the PTI, addressing the protesters.

Imran Khan has been a fierce critic of US drone attacks, arguing that they violate Pakistan’s sovereignty. Khan said that the Pakistani government is doing nothing to stop drone attacks except for issuing statements of condemnation and that the protest would continue indefinitely. 

Khan stressed that NATO supplies would not be allowed to pass through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly called North-West Frontier Province, and added that the province’s PTI-led government had the mandate to block NATO trucks from passing through its territory.

Earlier Imran Khan had warned that NATO supply routes will be blocked if continuing US drone strikes in Pakistan threaten the country’s peace talks with the Taliban. 

Party workers from the PTI and the JI travelled to Peshawar from across Pakistan and an estimated 10,000 people participated in Saturday’s protests. The protesters shouted anti US slogans such as “Stop drone attacks” and “Down with America”. 

“I am participating in today’s sit-in to convey a message to America that we hate them since they are killing our people in drone attacks. America must stop drone attacks for peace in our country,” Hussain Shah, a 21 year old university student, told Dawn, Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper.

American drones are performing regular extrajudicial killings of Islamist leaders, accompanied by the collateral damage of many civilian casualties.
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Strict security measures were in place Saturday, with 500 police personnel on duty. Trucks were directed to use an alternative route, although Tahir Khan, a government official, said there was normally little NATO traffic Saturday as most of the trucks arrive by Friday night to clear the border crossing.

Also see Daily Times of Pakistan

Activists of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) arrive to attend a protest rally.
(AFP Photo / A Majeed)

 

NATO supply trucks.

Long and Exposed Supply Lines.
NATO supply lines from both the north and south.  Very, very long supply lines running through hostile lands to an even more remote and hostile Afghanistan.  Long, exposed military supply lines are never a good idea, plus the expense to supply a large modern army is insanely high. 

And the supply trucks go Boom

Smoke rises from NATO supply trucks following a strike by militants on a U.S. base in the Torkham area near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the strike.

(Rahmat Gul, Associated Press / September 2, 2013)

Read More: Los Angeles Times.

US & NATO encourage Afghan poppy production

Making the world safe for drugs

A funny thing happened on the way to Afghanistan, the US

and NATO protected poppy producers from the Taliban.

The "War" on Drugs  -  Silly, and you thought the war in Afghanistan was about terrorism.

The Taliban was eradicating poppy production as "un-Islamic".  Then in comes NATO and poppy farmers are allowed to grow their crops again.

Today, with 87,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan, cultivation of poppies has hit record levels as NATO forces prepare to exit the country. The UN warned warlords may be the biggest benefactor of the situation.

The report, the Afghanistan Opium Survey for 2013, provides little cause for optimism among countries that have witnessed a surge in incidences of heroin abuse among their populace since US-led forces started a military offensive against the Taliban on Afghan soil in 2001.

Afghanistan, long the world’s main heroin supplier, has seen its total area of poppy seed plantations explode to 516,000 acres - a 36 percent increase from 2012, according to the report, released on Wednesday reports RT News.

Last year, the war-torn Central Asian country accounted for 75 percent of the world’s opium supplies; Jean-Luc Lemahieu, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Afghanistan, has said in the past that supplies may reach 90 percent of the global total this year.

US Soldiers guarding opium in Afghanistan?

There is a single anti-Israel photo at the end of this video that I do not like. 

But 99% of the video is so cleaver that I felt I needed to post it.  Let those

with open minds view it and decide for themselves.

Afghan Drugs

A Russian point of view - poppy production had been nearly abolished.

 

The new data surpasses the previous record set in 2007, when 477,000 acres were cultivated, according to the UN drug watchdog. Total opium output is estimated at 5,500 tons, up 49 percent from 3,700 tons in 2012.

With profits from opium cultivation nearing $1 billion, or 4 percent of gross domestic product, insurgency groups like the Taliban will only benefit from the cash crop.

A massive inflow of cash connected to the sale of opium has helped the Taliban insurgency, which imposes a tax on poppy farmers in areas it controls, in addition to the outright participation in the selling and transferring of the crop.
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Afghan government officials and tribal warlords have also helped themselves to a piece of the opium trade action.
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"The short-term prognosis is not positive," said Jean-Luc Lemahieu, as quoted by Reuters. "The illicit economy is establishing itself, and seems to be taking over in importance from the licit economy."
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One reason for the surge in opium cultivation is the lack of political will, which is noticeably lacking with April presidential elections on the horizon, Lemahieu said. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is ineligible to run again, while some of the potential candidates receive their financial support from poppy producers.
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The US-led coalition has rejected any crop eradication operations by its soldiers for fear of bankrupting farmers and forcing them to join the insurgency, a policy criticized by Russia, among others.
  

2001 Blast from the Past Article
But only a "crazy" fringe person would suggest that the US and NATO went into Afghanistan in order to keep the supply of drugs flowing.  Only a conspiracy nut would suggest that governments want to keep their populations in a perpetual drugged stupor so they will not question their Masters.  It would be wrong to say these things, so I will not do it.

Fast forward to 2013
Afghanistan, long the world’s main heroin supplier, has seen its total area of poppy
seed plantations explode to 516,000 acres - a 36% increase from 2012.

87,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan

This October 2013 map displays approximate numbers of forces provided to ISAF by Allied and other contributing nations, and countries responsible for ISAF Regional Commands.
See more at:  ISAF.nato.int/troop numbers.