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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
How Governor Ron DeSantis' Military Experience Shaped His Views
"Hugh Hewitt live in studio north Pleased to welcome back to the program Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Good morning governor. Thank you for joining me. Good morning How you doing? I am great now governor. I'm Republican Switzerland So I try and ask everyone roughly the same set of questions when former vice president Pence was on I talked about the fact he's a military dad. He's got a son and son -in -law on active duty You're the only veteran running. I think you were deployed with SEAL team one to Iraq. Am I right about that? That's correct Okay So do you think there's an advantage in being a veteran or being in a military family when it comes to military? decisions about deploying troops I think there is I think for example We we just rolled out a policy about getting rid of the wokeness in the military getting it focused back on the mission And I'm relying on my experience of being in an organization where at that time it was mission first And you check a lot of this political stuff at the door You try to get over any differences people have and unite to be for a common purpose That's just how I always thought it was I think that's how most veterans think it was now with the recruiting crisis There's a lot of people that understandably aren't signing up because they say the military has lost its way So that's that part and then second part my time in Iraq We were in Al -Ambar province places like Fallujah and Ramadi This is al -qaeda in Iraq during the troop surge of two thousand and seven. I think it began maybe late 2006 I was there in 2007 and from a military perspective It was a very successful operations I mean these guys were rooted out you started to have US forces work constructively with the Sunni Arab tribes And by the time we left I mean it was basically peaceful I would say 99 % of the casualties that the American troops were taking at that time were not in Al -Ambar province They were in the Shia dominated areas where you had Iranian Malicious that were killing US troops with things like EFP devices and so that was success the the issue though was Trying to cobble together a democracy In that part of the world which was something that was really beyond the military's Capability to do so I came away from that having confidence that if you give us a concrete mission As an American military and show you know that we have the means to achieve it our guys will execute that We're not going to be able to socially engineer societies around the globe and that was something that was readily apparent to me From being there, so I'm very sensitive if there's ever US troops involved I just want to make sure that that mission is very clearly defined and that we'll know That we can accomplish it and we'll know when we accomplish
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Al Qaeda" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Going to be a wet start to the week after this very active weekend that was WTOP meteorologist Brianna Berman sold latest forecast on the gates right here hot start here on WTOP. Many homes and businesses in our area are still seeing the effects of Ophelia. Dominion Energy now reports 800 customers are without power that's down from about from the 5 ,000 plus customers who were out of power in the last hour. The majority of the outages remain down in Spotsylvania. Meanwhile in Maryland, Pefko is reporting more than 300 homes and businesses in Montgomery County in the dark. Stay with WTOP as keep we you updated on all of those power outages. With the government shutdown potentially looming next week group a of congress members remains at the Capitol this weekend seeking agreements on a group of spending bills. There are conservative holdouts refusing to pass spending bills that the House Speaker earlier negotiated with the White House. So now Indiana Republican Congresswoman Erin Howchin says they have to approval win where there is common ground like defense and agriculture spending to prevent a government shutdown. This is a Republican perspective to stop gap and fund the government while we continue our work. Her Louisiana colleague Garett Graves is trying to get this process on a path where we can truly reduce spending and address a lot of the fundamental problems that this administration is causing particularly on the border in areas like energy inflation. A government shutdown would take effect October 1st if House the House and Senate are unable to reach agreement on a government funding plan. Jackie Quinn News this morning. The Baltimore Sun is reporting that Maryland Senator Ben Cardin will take over as of chairman the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This comes as the former chairman is under criminal indictment. This is Tom Fodie has more. New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez is accused of accepting bribes set to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson being a public servant means that you run for office or you're appointed in order to make decisions to benefit your constituents, not to make decisions yourself. that Menendez benefit denies it all but will step aside for now from his Foreign Relations Committee chairmanship. Still there is pressure on him to leave the Senate entirely after his second criminal indictment. Political analyst Larry Sabato. The Democrats cannot afford to lose that seat. Tom Fodie CBS News Washington. It's 134. Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn had made a surprise appearance at the Plains Peanut Festival in Georgia Saturday, seven months after he entered hospice care. The former 96 -year -old president was caught on camera by locals traveling in a black SUV with his wife. had They their windows down so that onlookers could spot the pair. Jimmy was born in Plains, Georgia, and continues he to teach Sunday School classes in his hometown until very recently. He will turn 99 on October 1, 2023. He is already the longest living president in US history. President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID -19 vaccine and annual flu shot. The White House physician confirmed the 80 -year -old president was also vaccinated several weeks ago against the respiratory illness known as RSV. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month endorsed the new COVID -19 shot for everyone six months and older. The severity of the COVID -19 pandemic has faded, but there are still thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths in the United States each week. Pope Francis is in Marseille, France, where he expressed his concerns for the welfare of migrants, warning against what he called the fanaticism of indifference. CBS's Anna Batranga is traveling with Francis. The Pope acknowledged that countries face difficulties in welcoming and integrating migrants, but said rejection was not the answer. Instead, the solution is for European countries to ensure legal entry, with each nation accepting migrants in according to its possibilities. For Pope Francis's comments, Pope Francis is in Marseille to preside over today's closing session of a gathering of Mediterranean area Catholic bishops, at which the migrant issue dominates. An explosive -laden vehicle was detonated at a security checkpoint in central Somalia today, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40 others. A state health official confirmed the deaths and say half the wounded are in critical condition and needed to be airlifted to Somalia's capital Mogadishu for advanced medical treatment. The attack The attack happened in the Hiram region of the old Somali government's latest military offense against East to Africa's Al Qaeda affiliate Al -Shabaab. There was no immediate claim of responsibility from the extremist group. Coming up after traffic and weather Extreme weather is forcing airports to adapt to a new normal White is 136. Lend the plumber heating and air. The plumber you've trusted for decades now offers fast reliable heating and cooling services throughout Washington DC and Maryland. We're here for you when you need heating, cooling and plumbing help fast. Keep your life moving with same day emergency service seven days a week from Lend the plumber heating and air. The
The Eric Metaxas Show
Thomas Baker Reveals How Mueller's Decision Led to FBI's Downfall
"Back. Talking to Thomas J. Baker. The book is The Fall of the FBI. You were just talking about how the culture of the FBI was once what it was. But then it became infected by the intelligence agency culture. How did that happen? Who oversaw that? It was started with Mueller. Mueller was made the FBI. Bob Mueller of special counsel fame was made the FBI director only a few days before the September 11th attacks. Which happened on a Tuesday. That Saturday morning he was summoned to Camp David by President George W. Bush, he thought, to give a report of the FBI's investigation. So essentially there were about three and a half days between that Tuesday attack and that Saturday morning. Mueller gave the report and the report was absolutely outstanding. In these three and a half days, the FBI had done what it does best. Investigate. And they had identified all 19 hijackers, their financing, their travel, their associates, their connections back to Al Qaeda. And when he was finished with this report, he expected, he's told us this, he expected praise and thanks. Instead, George W. Bush looked at him and said, I don't care about that. I only want to know how you're going to prevent the next one. Later that morning, George Tenet of the CIA presented a plan of action going forward. Bush, when he was done talking, Bush said, that's great. He turned and faced Comey and said - Excuse me. He turned and faced Mueller. I misspoke. He turned and faced Bob Mueller and he said, that's what I want to hear. Mueller said he left that meeting bound and determined to change the FBI's culture, and that's a word he used, from that of a law enforcement agency to the culture of intelligence. Now, if some people could make an argument after September 11th, there might have been a need for some of that. But it had bad consequences, terribly bad consequences that bared evil fruit down the road.
Frankie Russo
Fresh update on "al qaeda" discussed on Frankie Russo
"Were in the first Gatherings some of you were probably there as you assembled on the Brooklyn side Of the Brooklyn battery tunnel, I'll never call it to you Carrie tunnel husband -in -law David Patterson what a waste of money all that signage. Oh, we want to call it. Do you carry tunnel? Are you That guy was so half in the bag. He would never have been able to walk through And I remember we were assembled Few hundred at first and it came time for me to give a speech about The attackers of 9 -eleven that have been organized by Khalid Muhammad was still on Gitmo who had sold the idea to Osama bin Laden of al -qaeda in some Havel some cave in Afghanistan as they were feeding their goats the plan to get Jets Crashed him into buildings the World Trade Center in
Mark Levin
Thomas Baker: Robert Mueller Did Not Like the Special Agents in Charge
"How was he at he changed the culture of the FBI How was he as an FBI director Was he competent Political partisan a boob what Well first of all he was very hands on He was very demanding He did not like in this we all know now in many many other men will tell you this he did not like the special agents in charge He had been as you probably know in the U.S. attorney's office and a U.S. attorney in two different cities San Francisco and Boston He had dealt with the case agency He didn't like the agency in charge And some people say he didn't like any agents but that's all a matter of opinion But with the September 11th attacks he wanted that entire investigation handled out of headquarters by headquarters not by any field offices Now this is very contrary to FBI procedures in the past where we had an office of origin and in the September 11th attacks at logically would have been New York or perhaps Washington field In both cases they had international squads that had been working on Al-Qaeda for several years already And there were agents in the field who had a lot of experience in this type of thing But he wanted all pulled into headquarters right under his thumb and he pushed back at anybody who told them differently So that was the first case run out of headquarters later told me that the same thing with the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the Russian collusion investigation of the Trump campaign that had a lot of immediate bad consequences because when you do that when you run it out of headquarters like that the people making the top decisions and headquarters are the people doing the investigations You've eliminated layers of review
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Al Qaeda" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Are in the dark stay with WTOP as we keep you updated on the power outages with a government shutdown potentially next week a group of congress members remains at the Capitol this weekend seeking agreement on group a of spending bills there are conservative holdouts refusing to pass spending bills that the house speaker earlier negotiated with the White House so now Indiana Republican Congresswoman says they have to win approval where there is common ground like defense and agriculture spending to prevent a government shutdown this is the Republican perspective to stop gap and fund the government while we continue our her work Louisiana colleague Garrett Graves trying to get this process on a path where we can truly reduce spending and address a lot of the fundamental problems that this administration is causing particularly on the border in areas like energy inflation a government shutdown would take effect October 1st if the House and Senate are unable to reach agreement on a government funding plan Jackie Quinn Washington we're learning this evening the Baltimore Sun is reporting that Maryland Senator Ben Cardin will take over as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this comes as the former chairman is under criminal indictment CBS's Tom Foti has more New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez is accused of accepting bribes said to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars CBS News legal contributor Jessica Jessica Levinson being a public servant means that you run for office or you're appointed in order to make decisions to benefit your constituents not to make decisions that benefit yourself Menendez denies at all but will step aside for now from his Foreign Relations Committee chairmanship still there is pressure on him to leave the Senate entirely after his second criminal indictment political analyst Larry Sabato the Democrats cannot afford to lose that seat Tom Foti CBS News Washington former president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalind have made a surprise visit at the Plains Peanut Festival in Georgia today several months months after he entered hospice care the former president is 96 years old he was by caught on local trap locals traveling in a black SUV with his wife they had their windows down so that onlookers could spot the pair Jimmy Carter was born in Plains Georgia and he continued to teach Sunday school classes in his hometown up until very recently and as I just mentioned he turned 90 or he will turn 99 October 1st in 1923 he is already the longest living president in US history Pope Francis is in Marseille France today where he expressed his concern for the welfare of immigrants warning against what he called the fanaticism of indifference CBS is Anna Matrango is traveling with Francis the Pope acknowledged that countries face difficulties in welcoming and integrating migrants but said rejection was not the answer instead the solution is for European countries to ensure legal entry with each nation accepting migrants in according to its possibilities. Francis president Emmanuel Macron was in the audience for the Pope's comments. The influx of asylum seeking migrants across the US southern border continues to rise. City leaders in El Paso say they've reached a breaking point. With 6 ,500 migrants in Border Patrol custody in 2000 arriving daily, El Paso mayor Oscar Leaser says his city has reached its breaking point. It's been forced to open an additional 400 bed shelter still leaving hundreds on the streets. An appeal has been made to neighboring cities for help. Texas officials continue to bust migrants out of state. An explosive laden vehicle has detonated at a security checkpoint in central Somalia today killing at least 15 people and wounding 40 others. A state health official confirmed the deaths and confirmed the deaths and say half of the wounded are in critical condition and need to be airlifted to Somalia's capital Mogadishu for advanced medical treatment. The attack happened in the Huron region, the Somali government's latest military offensive against eastern Africa's Al -Qaeda affiliate. There was no immediate claim of responsibility from the extremist group. Coming up a special delivery is on the way for the planet Earth. Uline is here for the hard workers. For the ones rolling up their sleeves, working round the clock and getting the job done. You're dedicated to doing what it takes to keep a business growing. Uline is dedicated to helping you make that happen. Working seven days a week, staying fully stocked and ready to ship any of our 41 items the same day. Uline, your shipping and industrial supply specialists.
Mark Levin
Thomas Baker: Robert Mueller Wanted a 'Culture Change' As FBI Director
"Absolutely moment was Mueller became directed just days before the September 11th attacks And in the September 11th attacks happened on a Tuesday on a Saturday the Saturday morning he was after the attack He was summoned to Camp David the presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland to give a report or the he believed he was there to give a report on what the FBI had done So between Tuesday and Saturday morning it was actually only about three and a half days of work But in that time the FBI did what it does best Investigate And in that time they identified all 19 hijackers They were associations their financing their rental costs their credit cards their connections all the way back to Al-Qaeda and he presented this report that morning to the president George W. Bush in front of all this top advisers in Camp David and when he was done speaking expecting praise and thanks Instead George W. Bush turned and said to him I don't care about that I just want to know how you're going to prevent the next one Shortly thereafter that morning can and gave a presentation George Tenet then the director of the CIA with a plan of action going forward when and when he was done speaking George W. Bush said great and he turned and looked at Mueller He said that's what I want to hear Mueller was humiliated Now we know this and we know the scenario because molo told us this several times and other people who were there told us this But then Mueller set up out and he said this to change the culture of the FBI He wanted to turn away from its law enforcement mentality and become an intelligence agency
Northwest Newsradio
"al qaeda" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Overnight in west Seattle. Big fire response along Al-Qaeda avenue Southwest. This is not far from the alkyl beach area, smoke was coming from a basement unit when they arrived at 27 year old man was able to get out safely. Seattle fire tells us smoke also traveled throughout that of building, causing a 93 year old woman to evacuate medics evaluated to hurt the scene. She is also stable right now. One firefighter also heard during this firefight, investigators determined the fire was an accident, damage estimated around $50,000. Firefighters do say the next time you cook in your kitchen, stay put. Use a timer to remind you the best stove is on. Make sure you clean up that stove area and keep a lid and cookie sheet near the stove just in case of fire breaks out. Go for it, Steve mccarran. It is 5 34 in time once again for a check on traffic we do it every ten minutes here on northwest news radio. Let's get you over to the high performance homes traffic center in this update with Kiara Jordan. Now we're finding some pretty heavy slowing on north on I 5 as we're pulling away from three 20th and traveling to state route 5 16 and then it'll start to break up a little bit more but still remain busy as you're traveling through sea attack and into that south center area eastbound 5 12 is becoming busy or starting just west and meridian to pioneer northbound one 6 7 is crowded in auburn, approaching 15th street northwest little hesitation to two 77th and then back on the brakes approaching a 180th to four O 5 in northbound four 5 will stay busy from the valley freeway to northeast 30th, in Kirkland, our ramp from northbound 405 to 85th has been working with a crash that's been partially blocking that ramp, and in Everett, it looks like the state route 5 two 9 bridge across the flat, that's currently open for some marine traffic. Our next northwest traffic at 5 44. Sponsored by Albertsons in Safeway this week at Albertsons and
AP News Radio
Saudi National Bank chair resigns after Credit Suisse storm
"The chairman of Saudi national bank has resigned for personal reasons after his comments on Credit Suisse sent the firm's stock cratering. A filing on Monday on Riyadh's tadawul stock exchange announced Amr academia's resignation from the Saudi national bank shares of Credit Suisse had sunk over 30% after Al-Qaeda has announced on March 15 that its biggest shareholder of the Saudi bank would not provide more money to the Swiss lender, while he sought to clarify his remarks, they caused Credit Suisse shares to drop by around a third of their value of the time and fuel this ultimate collapse, the incidents further spooked international markets already reading from other bank collapses and high inflation brought on in part by Russia's war in Ukraine. I'm Charles De Ledesma
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Darren Beattie Discusses Censorship From DHS and CISA
"Darren, one of the things that I'm finding both good and horrifying is the amount of information coming out about just how much abuse of power the deep state and especially now the Biden administration has been using against their political opponents. And one of the ones that just came out, the DHS is cyber agency, CIS a cybersecurity and infrastructure. Division was actually gave themselves a new mission of looking for censorship opportunities against domestic citizens. And against people who were saying things that they found dangerous until they got caught. Is this, I mean, are we going to find this in pretty much every agency that has any kind of investigative authority that they all were doing this at some level? I would imagine probably so, but with that said, there is something quite special about the Department of Homeland Security. The Department of Homeland Security is the tip of the spear when it comes to this deeply significant and dangerous trend in our politics. The weaponization of the national security state against the American people. Even under Trump, the DHS proclaimed that the number one threat to American national security is quote unquote white supremacy. It's interesting in a historical context because the DHS was set up. It's a relatively young agency from the standpoint of our national security bureaucracies. It was set up in the aftermath of 9 11 in order to help execute the war on terror. Now, that grift for better or worse dried up. They're in need of a new mission, a new imprimatur and it's very clear that the new mission for the DHS is we're the new Al-Qaeda. Trump supporters are the new Al-Qaeda.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Wild Human Sex Drive
"Greek society get men who could afford it to own basically boys for sex? Basically had a sexual man. Hard for me to understand as a heterosexual, but it was the case. And not only in Greece, but in many other societies in Afghanistan today, as we have found out, about all the young boys who were used as sex toys by men. Culture has an enormous impact on how people express themselves. The judeo Christian culture did a spectacular job. In channeling the wild human sex drive, into monogamous marriage. I am a man, I seek to marry a woman, bond with her. As it says in genesis, starts very early. Al-Qaeda of each at the emo, and therefore a man shall leave, his father and mother, with each toe. And he shall cling to his wife or to his woman. And by the way, notice it doesn't say to his women, even though polygamy was legal. The Old Testament did not like it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Welcomes Former Trump Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller
"Chris, tell us about your book, and then I have a ton of questions to ask you. But first, introduce our audience to your biography and also your book. Yeah, left government on the 1201 and the 20th of January 2021 with no work, no opportunity, worked, I listed in the army in 1983 and I was CDI wide served until 2014 as a green beret and army special forces guy. Then I worked at The Pentagon a bunch more and that president Trump, I really got really focused on defeating Al-Qaeda and president Trump had the same idea. And I worked with a guy named cash Patel, who was also with me on that journey. And we just got really, really obsessed with killing off the rest of Al-Qaeda and defeating them and in that war. And when I left government didn't have a lot of opportunities, I was fortunately given the chance to write this book. And what I wanted to do with the book was make it really accessible. You get these people like the D.C. people and you know him, Charlie, that they write those big phonebook looking things where nobody reads them, you know. They just name, you just name check yourself, right? You're like, hey, then I always name check myself and it's always some snide remark about this unqualified guy, which could nothing could be further from the truth. So I decided I needed to, well, I got the opportunity to put my thoughts down. So I told a lot of war stories from my time in the service in Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq, 2003. And then, you know, basically was part of that war for the remainder of the time. And then talk about my time in working for president Trump. Key takeaways on this thing is I wanted to make it accessible, you know, 7% of our population or veterans, 93% aren't. I want to try to close that gap between, you know, those that serve in those they serve because I saw a lot of confusion. That's not a criticism. It's a great problem to have, right? Charlie, we're not an armed society anymore. So that was the kind of the idea and try to try to communicate in a way that was accessible and light farted in some ways, but serious in others and try to, you know, talk to each other and help bridge this gap between our in our society right now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Kimberly Fletcher Describes the Challenges Faced by School Board Moms
"A very interesting story because it involves potentially three different agencies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Education, which we don't talk about a lot, which is this guy Miguel cardona, and it seems to be the evidence suggests and we'll get a definitive answer as Congress starts to do their job. That the national school board association, a non government organization, lobbied the Biden administration, was able to get an audience with three different government agencies that resulted in terrorist type activity. I mean, terrorist threat level activity as if we were dealing with Al-Qaeda having a sleeper cell in Charleston, South Carolina. That sort of law enforcement activity was then a result of the national school board association lobbying our government. Do I have that about right? You do have that right. And here's the really scary part about that is when the federal government comes out with those kind of standards, then all of the law enforcement agencies on the local level act on it. So we have had moms who have been going into the school board meetings who have read from the books that their children are being exposed to, who have addressed real concerns that the school district should be paying attention to. And they're being told that they can't talk about some of these things. Like when they're reading the books, these excerpts. They said, you can't read that because it's public TV, and that's against the FCC standards. You know, to have that on TV. And when the moms keep reading it, then we have had moms who have literally been handcuffed by police officers and taken out of these school board meetings. Who are the terrorists? So when you have the federal government, basically arming or empowering local governments to harass parents. That is a big problem. And
Mark Levin
U.S. Drone Strike Kills Al-Qaeda Leader in Afghanistan, Biden Says
Mark Levin
Bill O'Reilly: Afghan Debacle Allowed ISIS to Reconstitute
"And why do they want the American people to know that Because we are eliminating evil on this planet At a rate never before seen We are taking these people out we are destroying Trump destroyed ISIS And you know it's funny he doesn't really make a big deal out of that But what the Trump administration did to ISIS is historical And unfortunately now with Biden in the Afghanistan the allowed Al-Qaeda to reconstitute in the northeast part of Afghanistan which they are doing now And ISIS is back in western Iraq and northern Syria Now why are they back for one reason only to kill infidels in Americans are at the top of that list
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Toby Harnden Shares a Story From on the Ground in Afghanistan
"You mentioned this story, the prison uprising, Mike spann, a former marine CIA paramilitary. For those who know nothing, give us the story of that incredible event and what that man did. Yeah. It is incredible. And so November 25th, 2001. Two CIA officers walk into this fort called calla jangi, which means literally like fort of war outside mazar I Sharif. Now, backing up a little bit mazarin Sharif had fallen to northern alliance forces, aided by our allies. Our allies aided by the CIA green berets and air force combat controllers and the awesome might have U.S. air power overhead on November 10th. Now, less than a month earlier, Mike spann had been one of 8 CIA officers who landed in the Darius souf valley, aboard two Black Hawk helicopters that had flown in from Kashi Khan about K two, a former Soviet air base that Uzbekistan government had given over to the Americans for this post 9 11 mission. So October 17th, 2001, they land at dropped into the unknown. First Americans behind America. So we are barely barely a month out since 9 11. Yeah. First Americans behind them enemy lines. Now there had been a CIA team called jawbreaker that had landed in the pantry of Ali on September 26th, but that was, you know, relatively speaking safe territory controlled by the northern alliance. But this was enemy territory, Taliban controlled territory. So 8 of them, four of them were paramilitaries, one of those was Mike span. So when paramilitary is somebody who's been seconded, usually from the military and is working in the CIA using their skills for the CIA. Yeah, usually they actually in the CIA sometimes their contractors or people who've been seconded and on some of the other teams that were actually serving members of the Delta force and seals. But the four paramount trees on team alpha were serving CIOs special activities, division. Scott spellman, who was on the cover of the book, he was later became very senior, it was the senior CIA guy on the National Security Council during the Trump administration. He became station chief in Kabul, but then a young officer, but already battle hardened he had been wounded in the battle of Mogadishu in Somalia in 1993. It was a guy called Alex Hernandez, who was the deputy chief, who was a sergeant major, gone full career in special forces and then joined the agency and two case officers, JRC, who was the chief who'd worked with the CIA out of Islamabad in the 1980s against the Soviets for the supply and stinger missiles to the mujahideen and David Tyson who you mentioned at the beginning who was with Mike span on November 25th 2001. So they're in unfriendly territory. This is the Ford of war, walk us through that event. So David was a case officer based in Tashkent and spoke Uzbek almost fluently. And so he's the linguist and the main linguist on the team, although JR, seger also he spoke diary, which was the sort of lingua franca in Afghanistan. But on that day, the team split, there's a big fight, a hundred miles to the east. It expected in Kunduz so the bulk of American forces are there. But the night before 400 Al-Qaeda prisoners had arrived on the eastern edge of mazarin reef to surrender, and it was extremely murky why they were there. They should have been surrendering in Kunduz. And basically, I mean, what I was able to establish almost beyond doubt is that this was a Trojan horse operation. It was a deliberate trap. Yeah, it was a Taliban Al-Qaeda operation to put pretend that for these 400 fighters had surrendered, but in fact they were made up remained armed. They sort of exploited Afghan custom to keep their weapons with them and they were planning an uprising. Because you can have lots of people surrender at once if it's a regular army during the Gulf War, we had thousands of Iraqis surrender at once. When it's irregular fighters, you don't usually get hundreds of them surrendering at the same time. It's a little bit
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Toby Harnden Shares a Story From on the Ground in Afghanistan
"You mentioned this story, the prison uprising, Mike spann, a former marine CIA paramilitary. For those who know nothing, give us the story of that incredible event and what that man did. Yeah. It is incredible. And so November 25th, 2001. Two CIA officers walk into this fort called calla jangi, which means literally like fort of war outside mazar I Sharif. Now, backing up a little bit mazarin Sharif had fallen to northern alliance forces, aided by our allies. Our allies aided by the CIA green berets and air force combat controllers and the awesome might have U.S. air power overhead on November 10th. Now, less than a month earlier, Mike spann had been one of 8 CIA officers who landed in the Darius souf valley, aboard two Black Hawk helicopters that had flown in from Kashi Khan about K two, a former Soviet air base that Uzbekistan government had given over to the Americans for this post 9 11 mission. So October 17th, 2001, they land at dropped into the unknown. First Americans behind America. So we are barely barely a month out since 9 11. Yeah. First Americans behind them enemy lines. Now there had been a CIA team called jawbreaker that had landed in the pantry of Ali on September 26th, but that was, you know, relatively speaking safe territory controlled by the northern alliance. But this was enemy territory, Taliban controlled territory. So 8 of them, four of them were paramilitaries, one of those was Mike span. So when paramilitary is somebody who's been seconded, usually from the military and is working in the CIA using their skills for the CIA. Yeah, usually they actually in the CIA sometimes their contractors or people who've been seconded and on some of the other teams that were actually serving members of the Delta force and seals. But the four paramount trees on team alpha were serving CIOs special activities, division. Scott spellman, who was on the cover of the book, he was later became very senior, it was the senior CIA guy on the National Security Council during the Trump administration. He became station chief in Kabul, but then a young officer, but already battle hardened he had been wounded in the battle of Mogadishu in Somalia in 1993. It was a guy called Alex Hernandez, who was the deputy chief, who was a sergeant major, gone full career in special forces and then joined the agency and two case officers, JRC, who was the chief who'd worked with the CIA out of Islamabad in the 1980s against the Soviets for the supply and stinger missiles to the mujahideen and David Tyson who you mentioned at the beginning who was with Mike span on November 25th 2001. So they're in unfriendly territory. This is the Ford of war, walk us through that event. So David was a case officer based in Tashkent and spoke Uzbek almost fluently. And so he's the linguist and the main linguist on the team, although JR, seger also he spoke diary, which was the sort of lingua franca in Afghanistan. But on that day, the team split, there's a big fight, a hundred miles to the east. It expected in Kunduz so the bulk of American forces are there. But the night before 400 Al-Qaeda prisoners had arrived on the eastern edge of mazarin reef to surrender, and it was extremely murky why they were there. They should have been surrendering in Kunduz. And basically, I mean, what I was able to establish almost beyond doubt is that this was a Trojan horse operation. It was a deliberate trap. Yeah, it was a Taliban Al-Qaeda operation to put pretend that for these 400 fighters had surrendered, but in fact they were made up remained armed. They sort of exploited Afghan custom to keep their weapons with them and they were planning an uprising. Because you can have lots of people surrender at once if it's a regular army during the Gulf War, we had thousands of Iraqis surrender at once. When it's irregular fighters, you don't usually get hundreds of them surrendering at the same
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
'First Casualty' Author Toby Harnden on the Early War on Terror
"Him. He is toe behind and he's the author of a book called first casualty the untold story of the CIA mission to avenge 9 11. Toby, welcome to one on one. Thanks very much to the best in great to be with you. So we could you have kind of reinvented yourself in the last year or since this book came out. I see this very, very nicely curated posts on Instagram elsewhere with these iconic photographs from the battle zones from the mountains of Afghanistan, where you're taking a snippet of this incredible story and illustrating an individual and event. Let me start with the big picture. So I came to this issue of the gwa as a guy who done can a terrorism stuff. I was in the reserves in the British territorial army, then worked at the Rand corporation on Al-Qaeda issues. And then I looked at this question of insurgency and counter insurgency foreign internal defenses brack calls it. And I was convinced of the following. For all the weaknesses of the last 21 years, what America, with a very select number of allies and locals did, in the October of 2001, was absolutely incredible. In terms of small footprint, special operators paramilitaries with a tiny investment of manpower, creating a strategic effect, should be a case study of how it's done. And I think your book shares that analysis. I think in a way it is that case study, I agree with you absolutely. I mean, this is a period in time when we had hundreds of Americans on the ground. We're a handful. Yes. Not the 100,000 we had a decade later. And they were CIA paramilitaries, CIA case officers, green berets, U.S. Air Force combat controllers, and they were working by with and through. Which is the phrase. If you're not familiar, this is the, you know, the green berets, the in theater, irregular warfare, by with and through is how you look at the locals. That's right. By with them through the indigenous allies, and the indigenous allies were the northern alliance in the north a few pashtuns in the south, who were the resistance to the foreign invaders. The Americans weren't foreign invaders. My sort of contention really is that there wasn't an American invasion of Afghanistan until
Mark Levin
Gatestone Institute: A Final Warning From Arabs to Biden
"There was a piece in the gatestone institute international policy council Website By Khalid Abu tome And it's really quite compelling It says in a message directed at the Biden administration and the other western powers involved in the Vienna negotiations This is with Iran Led by Russia on our behalf the Arab country said that Iran and its terrorist militias are continuing to create chaos and instability especially in Iraq Yemen and Lebanon The Arabs including the Arab League are telling the Biden administration that in their view is not only Iran that threatens their security but also its terrorist proxies Including Hamas the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen The Arabs are clearly worried about the financial and military aid that Iran is providing to the terrorist groups Any deal with Iran will further strengthen these groups and encourage them to step up their terrorist attacks The Arabs are also worried that when Iran obtains nuclear weapons they will sooner or later find their way into the hands of terrorist proxies And other terrorist groups including the Islamic State that's ISIS and Al-Qaeda
Mark Levin
Justin Trudeau: Daily Briefings Influence Extending Emergencies Act
"Cut one mister producer Justin Trudeau at a press conference today Go As I said the emergencies act is not something to undertake lightly And it's something that needs to be momentary temporary and proportional That's why every single day I'm receiving briefings and we are reflecting on how much longer the emergencies act needs to be in place We don't want to keep it in place a single day longer than necessary But even though the blockades are lifted across the border openings right now even though things seem to be resolving very well in Ottawa this state of emergency is not over There are continues to be real concerns about the coming days But we will continue to evaluate every single day whether or not it is time and we are able to lift this state of emergency The soft voice with the iron fist State of emergency Laws put in place after Al-Qaeda attacked the United States Now used against truckers their families Their bank accounts their dogs
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Money War Happening Right Now in Canada
"Deputy vice minister of finance, I can't get her name titled right ever whatever. The deputy minister of finance, whatever it is, vice minister of finance, she's, she, her name is Chris Christie of Freeland, which I think is hilarious. Her last name is Freeland. It's incredibly ironic. It's like, yeah, my name is Freeland and I'm now gonna turn Canada into North Korea. And so she's finance minister christia Freeland. Thank you. She's a World Economic Forum graduate. She is a George Soros sympathizing type individual. In fact, I think she ran the open society foundation in one way or the other. She was an officer of the open society foundation. And she has been very clear and she has been quite forthright that listen. If you participate in wrong think, if you say things we don't like, we're going to take your money away. If you speak openly about what's happening in the country, otherwise known as Canada, then we're going to seize your assets. Now, this is something that I want to dive into because first of all, it's completely until the impressive, but it's not just going into bank accounts. It's even deeper than this. Okay, let me play some tape on this play cut 97 where she has ordered banks to begin freezing accounts. We're going to come after your money. This is the confiscation of private property. Play cut 97. Okay, so the names of both individuals and entities. As well as crypto wallets, have been shared by the RCMP with financial institutions. And accounts have been frozen and more accounts will be frozen. No court order. This is not like Al-Qaeda is trying to traffic funds through Canada and a judge freezes the bank accounts. This is a court order. This is about a warrant. She just wants to take your money away. Play cut 98, finance minister
Mark Levin
Chrystia Freeland Announces Financial Restrictions on 'Freedom Convoy'
"Who's christia Freeland ladies and gentlemen in America she's the deputy prime minister of Canada She is in effect there Kamala Harris Listen to this one Listen to her at this press conference What I said to you now well over 48 hours ago that Canada has become a totalitarian police state People are now using other words It's perfectly fine You get the drift Because it is Because Putin couldn't do a better job Of putting down political opposition peaceful protesters And hardworking Canadians Putin couldn't do a better job on his own people Go First we are broadening the scope of Canada's anti money lauder laundering and terrorist financing rules What does that have to do with the truckers Mister producer Are they laundering money Are they committing acts of terrorism So they're using laws that they put in place to deal with Al-Qaeda et cetera Against their own people This has always been the fear in our country Go ahead Funding platforms and the payment service providers they use So they're applying them against crowdfunding platforms and payment service providers Like a PayPal or go fund me or what have you They're grabbing the money they're grabbing the funding This is in fact what they do In tyrannical regimes This is why people invest in gold and gems and other things I'm just being honest Go ahead Changes cover all forms of transactions including digital assets such as
KLIF 570 AM
"al qaeda" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
"Is Al Qaeda Gone? Are they still around? There's still around a little bit there, you know. For the last 10 years, the US military has assessed that there's fewer than 100 Al Qaeda fighters or sympathisers in all of Afghanistan. It any given time. So that's compared to say, 60 or 70, or 80,000 fighters for the Taliban. It's a very small presence, Uh, we really again Al Qaeda had been kicked out of Afghanistan or killed or destroyed. Not long after we went in in 2000, and one of the big worry now is with the Taliban in charge of the whole country and having controlled the entire territory. Would this allow Al Qaeda to come back in with the offer them a refuge again and This is of course is a question. Nobody knows the answer to. Why did they offer them our refuge in the beginning? Could they just not get them out? Well, I think they were friendly with them. They Qaida had Summits leaders, including bin Laden, had helped the mujahideen the holy Warriors, as we did to that their trade and helped us fight the Soviets, so the Taliban leaders were friendly with Al Qaeda. They saw them as allies in that regard. At the same time. I think it is important to point out that you know there were no Afghans involved in the 9 11 attacks. It was actually mostly Saudis in this was an Al Qaeda operation. And there's no indication that the Taliban knew about it. I don't want to separate them entirely from Al Qaeda, because certainly there's sympathetic to each other and the Taliban had offered Al Qaeda refuge and You know, there's no sign yet that they would swear them off. You know, That's the big worry. Can Al Qaeda come back? And China, of course, is going to walk right in the door in Afghanistan, aren't they? Well so far. The signs are that the Taliban is pretty friendly with China. I think they see them as a source of income source of aid, their neighbor and part of Afghanistan. But what's interesting is the Taliban doesn't seem to mind too much. China's, uh, brutal human rights record with Muslims and some of its provinces. That seems to be something that the Taliban It's sort of dismissing, and they would rather have support from some outside power. They know they're not going to get it from the United States, so they're turning to China and frankly, they're going to turn to Russia to what did the Soviet Union at the time want within Afghanistan? Why they even go in there? They wanted to install the Communist government, one that would essentially they could control as a puppet, and they were concerned that Afghanistan was wiggling loose from its sphere of influence, so to speak, so they went in in 1975. After Cuda try and install their own strong men in Afghanistan I had written rubbed, read a poem by Roger Kipling after we had evacuated Afghanistan, and it was that short little poem about a British soldier. Lying on the fields of Afghanistan and in in the poem, and I'm paraphrasing it. Kipling rights When the women come to tear out your body parts, roll to your rifle and go to your God. And what about that little poem told me that every nation has tried to occupy Afghanistan, and none has been successful. That's right. I think this is something again. United States failed to learn the lessons of history, even though they were staring us right in the face that I mean the fact that we kept US troops here for 20 years. Even Afghans who were inclined to support the United States. They still would see us as occupying forces. Uh, you know, they saw this is the foreign infidels in some regards, and so You know, try as we might to get the Afghan people on our side and to support the Afghan government. There's still a tremendous amount of resentment because you know this war had been continuing for 20 years. The Afghan People suffered terribly under this now. Certainly the Taliban bears the biggest portion the blame for that. But a lot of Afghans just resented having foreign troops there for 20 years because You know, before us, Of course, the Soviets had been there. So really, they see the past 30 years as a big, long, unbroken string of foreign occupation and war And I think Understandably, they're just tired of all that on an A, B, c, D or E. What grade? Would you give George Bush for his handling of Afghanistan? Well, I'd give him an A for the first few months, then a C and then an F. In the end, I mean, he failed to stabilize the country. He won the war at first. But then he stopped paying attention and shifted his attention to Iraq and That that let the whole thing slipped through our grasp. How about Barack Obama? What would you give him? Well, not much better. I mean, he had promised. Also, like Bush that we would prevail in Afghanistan. He sent far more forces spent far more money in Afghanistan, trying to build it up. Trying to create this Afghan army and police force. But, you know, In retrospect, that was a failure to because we have nothing to show for it. Donald Trump. Same thing. I mean, he wasn't responsible as long as Bush or Obama for the war, but he also promised victory. He tried to negotiate with the Taliban to negotiate a peaceful end. But Again in the end, that didn't work, either. I mean, none of these presidents can claim that the strategies they endorsed to the American people worked in the end in any fashion. And how about Joe Biden? What would he get? Well, I'm going to be careful about handing out grades I think with mine will have to see right. I mean, he promised to leave Afghanistan so so far whether you know it was certainly a mess the way it happened, but he kept his promise. But we're going to have to wait and see what the consequences are in the coming years. With the Taliban being in charge. I think what they should have done was evacuated first before they took the troops out. That would've been the smart thing to do. But like you said, I don't think they anticipated the country collapsing overnight. They clearly didn't. Uh, that said, I think they were concerned that if they started to evacuate Afghans who had helped us during the war This would trigger a panic. So no question. It was between Iraq and a hard place if they trigger that panic. Uh then things might get bad, but because they didn't evacuate people early enough. You know, it just looked even worse. So they just didn't have a clear cut plan for what happened, Craig, what lessons have we learned? If we have learned anything about this situation? I think the biggest lesson for the documents I came for my book was Believe it or not, the mission was never really spelled out. There wasn't a clear objective or goal of what we're trying to accomplish in Afghanistan. First, there was when we thought we were going to Afghanistan to eliminate Al Qaeda. But as we discussed, George That happened within a few months. But then the mission got really blurry and mission creep set in, and it was unclear what we were trying to do there and At what point could we leave? We never really spelled out under Bush, Obama or Trump what we had to actually do in order to leave. It was all sort of vague that we were building up the Afghan government..
The News & Why It Matters
"al qaeda" Discussed on The News & Why It Matters
"They do. You have justice. Roberts yup okay who flops like a fish who you can't you don't know easy a wolfer see a sheep sometimes in who does he play for right and so amy can shake this up and this is what i wanted her to do when she came in and said come on hold them to a standard in the chamber but they were moments when she could have and they bout they close the doors. They shouted at each other behind closed doors. Are we going to take these cases by these states states. that say they can't verify a vote and they just bowed right so they've politicized themselves and i agree with you. I actually think they pay a lot of attention to the public opinion of the supreme court. They shouldn't give a rip about the public opinion. Do what's right by the american people. Take the tough cases. Let's see prosecution in this country again. Our attorney general. Bill bar wouldn't prosecute one of trump's number one concerns brought the guy he wouldn't prosecute sessions wouldn't prosecute why because they look up to the supreme court and they don't prosecute so don't playing a game no walk the line for once and for all get back to some justice. I would love to see them. Start taking on cases whether they were political or not. Right like the indiana student with the kovin vaccine mandates. You know we. We finally saw something with with them taking over texas. So maybe there is hope with the texas six-week abortion bill But like you guys are saying. I would love to see them. Just you know politics vault. Just take the cases and don't be scared like they have lifelong terms for a reason to not back down to any of this but Hopefully hopefully they take all of our advice i. I don't think that they will. But i don't have any hope. Would it trickles down if they don't take the cases and all of a sudden you've got ambulance chasing lawyers that are running cases up. You got district attorney's that won't take the tough cases. It comes all the way down to the district court. They sit the trend. I mean if they uphold justice for the sake of justice it the system. Yeah without a doubt. I mean the the the regional appellate court system. All of those people want to be supreme court justices so they look to the supreme court justice and they see them avoiding these politically difficult cases like the plague. Then they of course they're going to do the same thing unless benefits them in because they're in a particular district where it would do that and so it has far reaching implications. I don't want to even hear. Supreme court justices talking about the politics of their decisions. I just want them to do as you said. Do the right thing to do. What's legally binding focus on the constitution. And don't don't even pay attention to what's going on outside of that you talk about following a trend when we come back defunding the police. What when you don't pay them. They're not going to stick around. We'll talk about that after this talk. We've all heard the cries to.
The News & Why It Matters
"al qaeda" Discussed on The News & Why It Matters
"In the state of california and actress. Rose mcgowan the leader of the me too movement. She she's going out and she has. Actually endorsed larry elder for governor calling him the better man saying that gavin newsom wife tried to silence her about harvey weinstein. This came out on dave rubin show actually the interview dave. She was just saying you know. There's this woman about six months before the publication was going to come out in the new york times about weinstein and this woman just wanted to talk to me. She said she she drove up there. She looked at her and she said now this. This gives me the creeps. Can't do this. i'm out of here but such a weird story to have all of this stuff kind of coming together. For for the gavin newsom recall election and then to get rose mcgowan. Feels like there's a turning point here right like we see larry elder getting egged throat at him from somebody wearing a gorilla face and the media ignores it we hear rose come out and there are some people now that are talking about it but but are we making any steps here. Jakko are getting a little further than what we do. We fight child sex trafficking. So i'm after gavin newsom like white on rice. This guy can't stand me because because he is agent of doom for all things women an all things children and the in that state and knowing that he's wife tried to buy off by the silence of rose in the me too movement. This is where their true colors show. They will eat their own young. They don't care if you're not in the movement if you don't drink the kool aid if you don't sing from the hymn book they will sacrifice you. They're the ones who call. Larry elder a white black supremacist right. They will sacrifice anybody but thankfully here. She's got some guts look. I've never been with her but this time around. She stepping up. Now let's see where where are the joy of the world. Where are the rachel maddow. So of the world now coming up who is so behind her. Yeah and saying because what she's saying is true. He's just a better man for the job because she has inside information she understands what the news from family has been propagating and what they are for in that state. And so yeah. I'm with it on this. So welcome for a true awakening. Not a woke moment for her but an awakening of. Hey maybe we need to elect the better guy. Yeah you know what i really like about. The story is that this is a person who is a radical left wing person. Okay very vocal about it and for her to come out and to say you know what. I don't agree with everything that larry elder believes. But i'm the vote for the person who i think is actually the better person who cares about what's really going. Who is just out there saying these things playing politics and making all these rules in the not living by those rules but imposing on everybody else and and that i hope is is a bellwether for the rest of the liberal movement in california. I hope there are more people in california. Look at say you know what. I may not be a conservative larryelder. I may not agree with everything he says but at least he's not a scumbag. I'm not agree with them. Because scumbag isn't a career politician. He's somebody who says what he believes he means it. he's not gonna ram through. All these libertarian policies and california. Anyway right. I mean we're going to have to find some common ground to get things done sure. But let's elect somebody who isn't a tyrant and as an a hip a hypocrite. I think if there's more people like that in california than maybe state isn't quite as lost as it sometimes appears to be so. I think this is a fantastic story for that reason. If for no other reason. Kelly for a week last week and some little towns ask some great pizza and there's a lot of conservatives and there are you get to bakersfield he gets to some other. It's just the city's okay and newsom as lost his hold. I sit her on this show last week. I'm super optimistic about this race. There's no way newsom takes it unless steal it. Yes i said it. And this they find some way to coerce no win the radical left. And we're gonna talk about another story later. Starts turning on their own and say wait a minute. This is not right. This is a moment. This may just be the straw that breaks the camel's back in california and we need as a country. We need that state to get back to some sort of of normalcy in reality we look at all the partisan hack amy coney barrett supreme court justice came out and said that her goal is to try and convince everybody that the court is not compromised comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks. She's out there saying that. The media along with takes on twitter reports and the results of the decisions. They are not just results oriented. She actually says that they wanna go through. The process and the judicial philosophies are not the same as the political parties justin. What are you here in your mind like when you when you hear those words from amy. Amy amy conybeare. But i have as little respect for the supreme court as you will find. I really don't believe that they actually follow starting to size this. I don't believe that they are interested in in making the hard decisions. I think that they are all for making the easy ones. But when it really comes down to taking the cases that actually matter the most i think they are terrified to do it and in my opinion having spoken to many many people who are in the legal profession over very long period of time they are often more interested in protecting the idea of this of the supreme court and of this objective justice system. And all of this than actually following the law and the supreme court. You see it all. The time refuses to take cases in large part because they are so politically toxic for them. And so amy conybeare. I've seen liberals talk this way as well on the on the bench. They come out and they said we want. We don't we don't want to sound like where a bunch of political hacks now we're not political hacks. We really take this stuff seriously. But then they make decisions that can only be described as political decisions. So i would much rather prefer that. Their actions speak louder than their words. Here if you really aren't a bunch of political hacks then prove take the cases that actually matter take the cases that that are really tough to make hard decisions. Do those things until you do that. I don't want to hear from any of you. Honestly i really don't popularity in public. Opinion should not be part of any equation or any decision making process at the supreme court. They should care less it. Shouldn't they shouldn't even think about it when they wake up in the morning..
Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"al qaeda" Discussed on Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"Intel knew that only Al Qaeda Could have been could have had the resources and the wherewithal to do something like that, and then quite five when we begin to prepare a response, So that was the focus of the work during the day. And I went out the media. The press corps that live and work in the Pentagon had to evacuate with most other people, and they are people. A couple of my deputies moved them up the hillside to a gas station and use that as the briefing group and outdoor briefing room. And I went out there a couple of times during the day just to give what information I could. We're trying very hard not to put out inaccurate or misleading information. But we decided late afternoon we wanted the secretary and the chairman, the joint chief and then Senator John Warner and Senator Levin. To brief the American people on what had happened, what was being done and what the plan was going forward. And I think that was a very important important moment time because it was the first major communication to the American people. About what had happened what the military was doing to prevent further attacks and respond appropriately. So I think that was the next big moment of the day. One final question for you. Following the September 11th attacks, everything changes within the Department of Defense, the priorities the work you do, Nothing would ever be the same. Was that understood in the moment, or did it take time for everyone to realize that Yes. I don't think we realized at the time. And it's I. That sounds odd. But in the many months leading up to 9 11, we were trying to tell everybody Congress, the American people, others. That the world had changed. The kinds of threats we're facing had changed, and we really had to transform the military. So it was a 21st century military, not one prepared for 20 century 20th century conflict. And it was a hard case to make right But we're good reason. Sadly, 9 11 really drove that point home. So that literally the next morning we were probably in the building till about one. Most people went home for a few hours and came back and first thing the next morning secretary said. Look, course we're number one focus, preventing further attacks Number two. Preparing and executing response Number three. We really have to continue to press on the case. For transformation. So that was it was almost a three part focused nonstop for the next year or so. Tori Clarke, former assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, under then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Tory thank you so much for joining us and sharing your firsthand experience at the Pentagon on 9 11. We really appreciate it. Thank you for focus on hope you take care and stay safe. You as well. Thanks again. Tory. Coming up next 9 11 community advocate and host of the 9 11 stories, Podcast and YouTube series. Shelly Sunstein will check in with the story from September 11th that you won't want to miss its moments away here on this I heart radio 20th anniversary special of the September 11th attacks. Finally on this. I heard Radio 9 11 20th anniversary special. We remember the heroes of United Airlines flight 93. I'm your host, Ryan Gorman. And joining me to tell their story is Donna Gibson, President of the Friends of Flight 93 National Memorial. Donna Thank you so much for coming on to talk about the heroism of those on board flight 93..
77WABC Radio
"al qaeda" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"And they are the New York cousins through Al Qaeda. And they are near cousins to Isis K. And you know, all these folks were sponsored and nourished by Pakistan, which purports to be our friend, but they are not. And then Lord knows what's going to happen here. As you have this terrorist stomping ground in Afghanistan. I mean, you read crazy stuff that they're going to try to take over Pakistan, which is a nuclear country. I don't know if any of that's true. I'm not an expert in such matters. I know what I read and process. It's not good. None of it's good. None of it is good. And that's what hurts here this morning on the commemoration. And remembrance and memorialization of 9 11. This hurts. This is America and its worst. I'm sorry. It's not the end of the country. We are still the strongest power in the world and we will remain so. But of course it damages our credibility. This is a you know, we lost a battle. We're not losing the war. But we lost a battle, but we lost a tough battle. I don't like it one bit. I'm afraid. I'm afraid. That the commander in chief, the administration, the military I'm afraid they let us down 20 years later after 9 11 And I suppose I'll say 19 years later, after we blew the terrorists out of Afghanistan and the first place I'm afraid they let us down. And it makes me one very unhappy camper. We've got to take a break. I'm Larry Kudlow. W ABC radio dot com live streaming on the Internet throughout America throughout the world throughout the solar system. We'll be right back. Hey, it's.
C-SPAN Radio
"al qaeda" Discussed on C-SPAN Radio
"Is the 20th anniversary of the September 11 2000 and one terror attacks is just a few days away, former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and former assistant FBI director Christopher Swecker Today at a program hosted by the Heritage Foundation. One of my concerns. There's a variety of different concerns about, um, sort of the disastrous nature in which we withdrew from Afghanistan. But the primary concern is what you know if the Taliban is reconstituting a new government there, Dude, are they going to continue to provide safe harbor terrorist organization, Isis K or others? And what does that do in the medium? To long run for the security of the homeland. Look, we had a difficult time when we had boots on the ground when we had a diplomatic mission there of understanding what these were groups were doing there in the country. You remove all of our diplomatic presence, our intelligence capability there, and I think that that's going to be a black hole, and we're not going to know what's going on there until it's too late and whether they have the ability to strike the homeland again In that medium term. I think that's that's what we are. Have to figure out and hopefully guard against. But that's a concern today. That wasn't a concern six months ago. Um and so I think the events in Afghan to and have shifted the narrative here a little bit that you're going to have to have a whole U. S government approach of What do these foreign terrorist organizations? Are They going to have the ability to reach the U. S, uh, here in the in the medium to short term where they never really had that capability over the last 10 15 years, And I think that's That's my primary concern at the moment, because if they do they do have you know the desire and they start together the ability well, we know that they have a blueprint on how to get into the United States, and that's through that Southwest. We can't forget it. It's wide open. What are your thoughts on Senate priorities now? Yeah. I'm afraid that maybe was taken her out a little bit. Those of us that live the 9 11. It's in our brain. Not Yeah, killed because of the first responders and 15 to, besides and sent from working with working in the crime scenes. If you will we we have created. We're going. The reason we've been successful because we've gone upstream defined terrorists outside our our borders, and we've disrupted them in Iraq and Afghanistan as an FBI agent was sent to Iraq in 2000 and three with the team to find Terrorists who are foreign fighters who are being picked up on the battlefield and gather intelligence from them. And I think we've been extremely successful in going into their backyard and Working with local indigenous authorities there and developing eyes on the ground and human sources on the ground with there's no substitute for human sources. We now don't we now have lost that in that entire region, In my opinion, which is a notorious safe haven for terrorists, Al Qaeda Isis They had a strong presence there. That's why we went there. Al Qaeda in particular. Uh, we we did tremendous. We did. We disrupted their operations. We got bin Laden. I think the proof is in the fact that we have not experienced a serious attack in the United States. But now we are completely blind in that region, and we saw 5000 prisoners released in Bagram. They weren't all Taliban that Well over 1000 of them were foreign fighters. People came there to fight jihad, so the in the long term and that's what they look. That's how international terrorist look at them. They look at and in the long term, they want to establish a caliphate across the globe and then and then they don't care how long it takes to do it. So if we take our eye off that ball we have back in 93 on the World Trade Center. They weren't successful. Guess what? They came back in 2000 and 18 years later, and they will continue to come at us if we don't remain vigilant, and I think we just gratuitously gave up all the eyes and ears that we have in that entire region. Christopher Swecker was assistant FBI director under President George W. Bush. Before that, you heard Chad Wolf, who was acting homeland Security secretary under President Donald Trump. Today at a Heritage Foundation program. Is from CNN. The Taliban have announced the formation of a hardline interim government for Afghanistan, with key roles being shared among veterans of the militant group and their allies in the U. S sanctioned Hakani network. Notable omission from the government announcement was any roles within a ministry for women here is the Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid did The caretaker government is for solving the current problems We have because we know that our country has come out of a crisis recently. The war has finished. So we should have have a government as soon as possible. That's why we have decided to announce the caretaker government. Part of the Taliban spokesman's news conference today. Associated Press Writing appointed to the key post of interior minister was Sierra Judean Akani, who was on the FBI's most wanted list with a $5 million bounty on his head and is believed to still be holding at least one American hostage. He headed the feared Hakani network that is blamed for many deadly attacks and kidnappings. This is Washington today, and finally, you may have seen this weekend that won't Scott has died. He was a weatherman and personality on NBC's Today show from 19 82,015. Also the first bozo the Clown and was the first Ronald McDonald in TV ads. He died on Saturday. C Span interviewed him on our book Notes program in 2003. His book was titled The Older, the fiddle the battle better than tune the joys of reaching a certain age. Here's a portion where he talked about some of his personal problems. Wait. We're not supposed to talk about too much, but I recently got into a A and I wasn't. I didn't fall down to the gutter. But I had my problems and that was that. And this is something that I've been wanting to say in an interview, and I'm glad we can do it here because maybe I can actually reach somebody on something on this particular subject, But I think I drank pretty good. Mary has always keep me in line. My wife and I drink. Three or four drinks every night. I mean, I was up to about 12 ounces of Scott, seven nights a week loved it loved it loved it. And then after she died, there was nobody to keep me straight. And this happens with an awful lot of people that lose their spouse. I know they're probably watching right now, and you tend to start drinking even more, and I remember I guess it was like, uh, two months after she died. I went to first name a meeting because I wanted to seriously solve the problem. And I'm one of those who uses the meat ax approach. You know, you can't do it by yourself. I mean, God have mercy even try, But you need that support. I was just going to say the attitude that that a can give you the support. Faith is the secret of the A philosophy And you had never been to a bus never been made before. How many years of your life? Did you drink that much? Well, when I was a kid, I didn't drink at all. I was the other one to college. It didn't drink. But I was the designated driver. They don't even know what a designated driver was back in 1951 or two, But my father was a bad drinker. And he wouldn't drink during the week. But a weekend drinker he was and boy I mean, he was, you know, from Friday night till Sunday night. He was pretty rough. He was drinking. Never lost the job. Never got in trouble. But he was He could be very unpleasant. And booze in our house didn't mean anything. Really that positive where the you know a lot of the country Club social Records two or three Great. I wish I got him to drinks. I'd love to, But I'm not. I'm what's the word compulsive? I'm compulsive in my mouth. You can tell. I'm compulsive talker. I'm a compulsive eater, and I was a compulsive drinker. But that's the help of a A the fellowship of the meeting, which is just absolutely essential and beautiful. I mean, it's the most pure form of democracy I've ever met in my entire life..
TalkRadio 630 KHOW
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"Presence there after 20 years, and one question many Americans have had as they watch things unfold there recently is. How did we get to this point? Said, Help answer that question. I'm joined now by David Loin, BBC Foreign correspondent and author of the Long War, The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan since 9 11 David, Thanks so much for coming on with us Now I want to start by going back to Afghanistan pre 9 11 because I think understanding that is really important if we're to understand where that country is likely headed now. With the Taliban having retaking control 20 years later, a Ryan I think that's a really interesting question. And I mean you mentioned the timing. I must say when I When I set the 20th anniversary of 9 11 is my sort of outdated for the book. Hadn't expected the Taliban be back in power in Kabul by by 9 11 in 2021. So, um, it's been a shock. It's been a surprise. I think too many of us Who watch Afghanistan. Many exists of the reasons why this became America's longest war and why it became such a difficult war. Worst set right at the beginning. Um, you know, back in 2000 and one when he mentioned, uh, Al Qaeda work very significantly in control really in Afghanistan In the last two years of the Taliban rule. The Taliban came in five years. Previously 1996 at the end of a terrible civil war and When when, by the time of 2000 and one and the twin towers coming down. And the attacks on 9 11 Al Qaeda were effectively in control. It was striking people who travel there. I travel there a bit. During those years I went to Kandahar. I met Muller Omar on one occasion, the leader of the Taliban very briefly. You don't want to meet Western journalists, but I, but at least he acknowledged me when I was there. There was a sense, um, that the Taliban were more marginalized by Al Qaeda. This has really become a state that was a crucible of international international terrorism. And it was understandable that for that the war happen, but it was how the war happened, which right at the beginning, but I think led to it being America's longest war. And the first thing that happened with the decision by Secretary Defense Donald Rumsfeld to have a light footprint. He calls it no American boots on the ground beyond Special operators who were effectively only spotting. Um, uh, airstrikes and very heavy air power. I mean, it was very striking out and a lot of time on that front line in October November 2000 and one just watching the the airplanes coming in waves in bombing the Taliban front lines. And, um, the people on the ground who were doing the ground fighting where not then American soldiers. They were militias led by warlords who are the very people that the Taliban have defeated five years previously. And it was in standing those people up in order to fight the war for us in 2000 and one but in a sense, the beginning the first spark of corruption with fueled In Afghanistan, those individuals in 2000 and two as um you nation began to try and emerge post Taliban try and kind of sense with what had happened and those individuals were The most powerful people. The most had the most muscle where the most money because the CIA million and they were the people who really began the The corruption back in Afghanistan, which led, you know, ultimately, 20 years later to the army being completely hollowed out, so it collapsed. All right, So we go into Afghanistan following the September 11th attacks that period between the start of our mission there and the ramp up to the war in Iraq. Were we making progress and successfully doing what we set out to do? And how much does our decision to invade Iraq? Change things on the ground in Afghanistan. Well, I mean, I would say yes up to a point We succeeded. We certainly succeeded in bringing down the Taliban government, which was the main plan. Didn't succeed in killing some of the Laden and one of the reasons for that was because this I think it's because of this problem. Uh, Rumsfeld not wanting to put American boots into harm's way. There were 1000 US Marines. Under the command of Major general, then Major General Jim Mattis Relations became secretary of defense. Um, who were in an airfield in Kandahar and with 3.5 1000 more U. S. Marines on board ship close by and they were pumped up and well motivated after 9 11 to go and take out a song bin Laden and They've been given the chance. I think I think history might have been different because they were kept out of the battle. That's quite matters. Fuming on the line to Centcom. In Florida to to try and bring his boys in because of Donald Rumsfeld desire only to use local militias and some pretty drug addled local militias, which stood up in Battle of Tora Bora in December. 2001 and Osama bin Laden escaped, of course not to be killed until he was in Found in Abbottabad in Pakistan 10 years later, so I think there were you know there were problems even in terms of the of the of the war itself right at the beginning. And I think Iraq obviously with the distraction from them. General Tommy Franks, who was the commander overall commander of US forces for the Afghan campaign, was asked by the White House to come up with a plan for war in Iraq even before Kabul has fallen at the end of 2001 so Which I write about in the book..
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"Violence al gum from afghanistan lincoln jesters al qaeda so we can see different statement from the white house. Different from the pentagon. Is there any communication issue from the highest level. No i think you're reading way more into things than you need to make. We're all Cited on the fact that they're still an al qaeda threat in afghanistan And as well as al qaeda affiliates we we know were there nobody has. I've said that consistently There's there's no gap and understanding. What the hell is this. The president of the united states interest the american public. Say ten thousand five thousand five hundred ten thousand so different state. Yes.
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"That this integration was happening in Al Qaeda helped organized at this helped direct this, and that's how the North fell so quickly because al Qaida use those groups to help integrate local populations. So the Al Qaeda threat remains and a victory for the Taliban here is certainly a victory for the top for Al Qaeda. The I expect there to be an effect like we saw in Iraq and Syria. When the Islamic state, um declared his caliphate here, the Taliban will declare their Emory And everyone in the jihadist community knows the role that Al Qaeda played here, and it will just it has these. It has effects on, um on orders that we just can't understand. This connects us with the statement. We started within our conversation these days this day. How county the Haqqani family, making a statement in late June that you've got to concern yourself with civilian governance. Haqqani is a connector to Al Qaeda. Almost a deputy Of Al Qaeda in the region in the Pakistan to Afghanistan region. I believe I've seen the name Connie mentioned in some remarks given from the Kabul capital wherever we see her colleagues that Haqqani network Do we also see Al Qaeda? Can we say that Bill? Yeah, Without a doubt. I mean, Al Qaeda's has fundraise for the high colonies and vice versa. So this is all bears out and designations Recruit. Train armed, you know, provide military advice. It's not just the economy just for other elements of the Taliban as well. The Haqqanis are just the most visible element. It's the one that everyone could see. Keep in mind when the US was heavy in the drone campaign and the Late two thousands and early to mid 2000. Tens numerous out top level Al Qaeda leaders were killed in areas control in that Pakistan controlled by the counties. Um often, Haqqani leaders or operatives were killed alongside the senior Al Qaeda leaders. They go hand in hand, particularly when when it's difficult at this point. And I know that this view is ridiculed but then keep in mind need warning people about the Taliban. The potential for Taliban takeover because of the rural strategy was insurgency strategy was also ridiculed by a lot of people. I'm sure the same people saying people will ridicule this, but it's hard to discuss the Haqqanis without discussing Al Qaeda. At this point, it's hard to see where one ended, one begins and the other Um And and, uh, you know, one thing to keep in mind. Al Qaeda swears allegiance to Al Qaeda is a mirror. So in that power relationship, while Al Qaeda is more of an external a bigger worldview thing, it does view the out the Taliban's leader, as it's as it's overall leader. It's the complex relationship. It's a symbiotic relationship that few Understand? Like Tom and I Isis. Isis has acted as said as an outside threat to everyone. This last month's with attacks on sectarian attacks with there was one attack. I believe that was Time to to murder school Children, Uh and it did and it Taliban denied it. Al Qaeda maintains that it's an opponent devices. The My administration has made mention of Isis in these last days. I've not seen any reporting that says that Isis is in the field or Isis is in Kabul. What do we know about what we call the chorus and province? Yes. So the Taliban Al Qaeda on one side and nicest on the other, and I'll go by the way. Keep in mind with the prison breaks. With all these prisons falling to the Taliban, hundreds of Al Qaeda and Islamic state fighters have been freed from the prisons. The Taliban executed The emir of the Islamic state, Um when when they broke him out of prison, so I think they sent a message. I think the Taliban is trying to tell all the fighters who's boss and get back in line. But there is a, um There's obviously conflict between the two. The Taliban likes to have primacy of the jihad in Afghanistan. The Islamic state threatens that, but here's something to note. Since the Taliban has taken over Kabul. There hasn't been a single major Islamic state attack that I've been able to detect on. Um now this could change. Um, and it's certainly you know, But as of yet the Islamic state hasn't targeted Hazara, Shia or or other ethnic minorities. You know, there's been a theory going around that the Islamic state Since it was defeated by the Taliban. Um within the last couple of years that has been kept on a tight leash by the Taliban and its attacks gives it gives the Taliban plausible deniability. So in the case of like a killing, Hazara say in in Kabul and a massive see what outside attack it destabilizes the situation it causes questions will arise about the government. It weakens the government. Keeps the stain of attacking civilians off the hands of the Taliban and into the hands of the Islamic state. So it remains to be seen, Um, you know, will the Islamic state organized and um and oppose the Taliban? Um I think the Taliban are well prepared for this. Um, I think what it's mainly done over the last, uh, since the rise of the Islamic state, except in certain instances where the Islamic state got to update, um, is that it's really reserved its combat power to face the United States and the Afghan government. So basically the Taliban had bigger fish to fry, and if the Islamic state when it created situations to fry the smaller, fresh And the Taliban are up to the task. The attacks, the suicide, the suicide attack on the defense secretary and the assassination of the prominent newsperson in Afghanistan that just prior to the taking of Kabul, where those linked in any fashion to Isis, or were those Taliban operations. The first was linked to the Taliban. The second It's unclear but very likely was part of the Taliban's assassination campaign. Um, the one of the things that the Taliban did. Leading up to the capture of Kabul was assassinate key military, political and civil society personnel in order to soften it up for when it did march into Kabul that everyone would get in life. I'm speaking with Bill Raj. Oh, he is a senior fellow, the foundation for the defense of democracy. He and his colleague Tom Johnson and their colleagues keep the Long War journal, which is a chronology of the tragedy..
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"The Pentagon on the outside of the fifth corridor on the Army corridor, several army off and my office was on the third floor in the, uh, the ring. You've got rings in the Pentagon and the primary real estates, the outer ring where you actually have a window. So as fate would have it. On that morning, American Airlines flight 77, which had been hijacked by the Al Qaeda terrorist crashed in to the west side of the Pentagon, where my office was and the aircraft hit the first floor. It came in at an angle and so the vertical stabilizer on the aircraft tore through the third floor. And some of my office mates close to my office were killed. Most of the casualties were on the first floor in the second floor of 125 that were lost, but I was fortunate rate to survive that day. There was a little bit of interval between the time the Jets struck in lower Manhattan. And that American Airlines flight came smashing into the Pentagon. Was the building already on alert. Was there a feeling that the country was under attack? It's hard to imagine looking back on that 20 years later, But the answer to the question is no. The Pentagon was not on alert. There was an awareness of what had happened in New York City. I myself Was in my office, getting a briefing for a trip that I was getting ready to make the next day and I had told my secretary not to disturb me. So she had had a report from the World Trade Center but took the guidance not to disturb me, then to heart. And the first awareness that the major and I had in my office. That something was wrong is that there was a tremendous shock as the aircraft hit just below my office through our heads against the wall. There is a very bright red flame outside of our window. Uh, we were very fortunate on the west side of the Pentagon. That was the first part of the Pentagon that had the shatterproof windows put in. And so there was no glass fragmentation, which would have taken a massive number of casualties. But of course, then something was very wrong. Got up and already flame and smoke starting So I stayed back for a period of time with a couple of younger officers on our team. And Did what we could to See if there is anybody within this chaos that we could find and rescue But eventually the floor from the kind of gun on that side of the building collapsed and you remember the images of the collapse. Pentagon. Where the officers that had stayed behind. We've just gotten over that part of the Pentagon when it collapsed and So at that point, we decided to pull back and to go to the center of the Pentagon, where everyone was rallying. I Had a report that came in because we're all we're out of communications and it was known I was on the Army staff at my wife got a call at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. That I was lost in the attack. So when I finally got home about eight hours later, you can imagine it was a very emotional reunion. Unbelievable. Well, Did people start to put two and two together? I mean the smashing sound, the flame the rescue. How long did it take before people realized? Oh, I think we're at war now very quickly. Ray. I left that building about 15 minutes after the plane struck. Still not clear as to what had happened because there do no communications between me and the several officers that were with me, and we thought it was still possibly a explosion that occurred in the Pentagon. Or maybe there is a terrorist bomb that had been planted. But it's only when we got out of the courtyard than that. People were had already connected the dots between what had happened in New York City and what had happened in Washington, D C and indeed And within 45 minutes of that plane striking the Pentagon we knew were war. We had no idea what kind of war we were entering into. But we knew we were at war. Well. It didn't take long before planning started for an invasion of Afghanistan that would topple the Taliban government expel Al Qaeda from Afghanistan and hunt for its leaders. How long did that take? The planning began immediately. Ray. I was on the Army staff, which was contributing to the planning. But I was not central to it in military speak. It was the joint staff and the operational command of U. S Central Command that had the responsibility. For Afghanistan and that part of the world that was at the core of the planning. So I was on the periphery of it, but we still contributed to it on the army staff. And the plans evolved rapidly as the Bush administration. Had through the offices of Pakistan, the U. And Saudi Arabia. The only three countries that had political ties with Afghanistan, and with the Taliban had given him an ultimatum to surrender bin Laden or we would attack And, uh, there is an assumption that the Taliban would not comply and that there would have to be an offensive operation conducted from the outset. Ray though they Planning that was conducted was one in which, on the one hand there was a desire, of course, to put what we have to get on the ground to get bin Laden. We were not there to fight Taliban. We were there to fight international terrorism and Al Qaeda, which should give us from sanctuary in Afghanistan. And with the support of the Taliban, but not the active complicity of the Taliban, So the war is against Al Qaeda and you're a distance. You have no basis in the area. So what does that mix between how much force do we need to put on the ground to ensure we get bin Laden and not put so much on the ground that we get entangled in Afghanistan, as the British did 150 years before us, as the Soviets did in the 19 eighties, a recognition That great powers don't do well in Afghanistan if they have a lot of forces there well in the first weeks and months of the U. S presence in Afghanistan after That initial mission was accomplished very quickly. It was a lot more talk about how quickly it was done and how small the force was very exciting stories about special forces operatives on horseback with small lightning fast strikes and so on. There was a lot more talk about that. Then there was serious discussion about what happened. Next. With the most basic, straightforward war aims accomplished. The Taliban turned out of power. Al Qaeda scattered Its leaders being hunted. What if we had said We're done and left, then? Yeah, Ray. That's the question that People that have served in Afghanistan over the last 20 years at all levels. They continued to ask and Our military campaign in Afghanistan, the one conducted in late 2000 and one aimed at getting bin Laden. I think that the verdict will be read that it was tactical success. It was a strategic failure. You know, Think of the counterfactual. What if we had actually got bin Laden? In late 2000 and one And we have managed to completely decapitate the Al Qaeda leadership. We failed at that bin Laden escaped the dragnet, and he managed to get to Pakistan. And then from this What unfolds. Is this ever expanding mission? And why is that Because you can't leave Afghanistan after going in when you still haven't gotten bin Laden, but we can't go into Pakistan, Pakistan's sovereign state. They are going to absolutely resist us military move into their country. They have nuclear weapons. We don't want that country to collapse. And then get overrun by terrorists. So what are we left with them? It's a not good option, but it's the only option you're left with..
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"With respect to Al Qaeda. Right now. Our intelligence community does not believe that Al Qaeda in Afghanistan represents a threat to the United States homeland, he has pointed out. That we have been able to deal with and suppress terrorist threats in other countries that do have attack capabilities against America without a permanent military presence on the ground. We intend to do the same thing when it comes to Afghanistan. Okay, So he's Yep. Yeah, why? First of all The terrain in Afghanistan is very, very difficult. It's not like Syria and Yemen, where you can do overflights and track a lot of stuff in Afghanistan. You need human sources. The reason why we haven't been hit in the homeland is because We were out there on the front line, detecting those al Qaida terrorist threats and preempting them, um and ending them before they could hurt us in the region and beyond. Uh Secondly, the guy who's running security for Kabul is Khalil Haqqani, the uncle of Sirajuddin Haqqani. He is a terrorist designated as such by our State Department, his whole economy network. They have allowed Al Qaeda to homestead on their territory. Dare we reminded by an administration that the leader of Al Qaeda Ayman al Zawahiri, is at large in Afghanistan Pakistan region but most likely in Afghanistan. Uh there are Al Qaeda fighters, and they are now going to Travel to this region, knowing that they have a welcome host and the Taliban, so we don't have the intelligence capability any longer to really detect those threats. This administration like to have near certainty before launching kinetic strikes. Good luck with that. So, lastly, I understand over the weekend it got reported to me and I think the situation been solved the CIA guys since they dissolving their bases that we didn't know much about, and I'm glad we didn't Uh, they've been left exposed and out there and there's been an unresponsive White house to help them. Did you hear anything about this? And you and I heard the situation has been solved. If so, did you hear the same thing? Well, I've heard, um more harrowing news than that that many of our Afghan partners Um, fought to the death against the Taliban. And these were guys who were fighting the Taliban alongside of keeping us safe collecting intelligence on our behalf so that we could Find fix and finish Al Qaeda threats. We had a long standing partnership with With Afghan Brave Afghan paramilitary units and Heaven knows what what, what Their faith was, But I know in some circumstances, uh, they went down fighting against the Taliban and You know that that history will be written. Frankly, there will be a lot of testimony in the Congress. Some of it will be open for our citizens to listen to, and some of it will be behind closed doors. I hope we get a lot of it because we really need to accurately to understand what went wrong here. Um, so that Maybe in the future. Another administration can pick up the pieces and once again focus on keeping our nation safe properly and just do as an American has done what you've done. What does it do to you? Knowing that life was going on this weekend, there was a huge fundraiser with the speaker of the house running in California, and then you have the majority leader of the Senate dancing at a concert. How can you do that and call yourself an American leader with what's happening in Afghanistan? I mean, this is a somber time. Um, as we approach the 20th anniversary of 9 11 And You know, I have a very dear friend of mine who was there in New York in Manhattan. Um, I was working for CIA and happened to be there at the World Trade Center and saw people jumping to their deaths. He went and served three tours in Afghanistan, including as our station chief, Um, he and I have talked a lot in the past few weeks in the past few days. Um, we're just isn't a somber time to reflect on that day 20 years ago. And also for all of us to be cognizant that look, Afghanistan is more of a clear and present danger today than it's ever been. And our citizens are less safe today than they were yesterday. And I can tell you that the CIA in U. S military and State Department focused on on our national security and keeping our people safe. But they've just been dealt a wicked hand and it's going to be extraordinarily difficult to do so. The president has just written it. Check. That's going to be hard for us to cash, frankly. And their leaders of the State Department, Anthony Blinken and Austin. They have to be fired there if they did not put down and turning their their IEDs after being told to do this. Then that means they're complicit and they should be fired. They embarrassed this country at a level I didn't think was possible. Daniel. Thanks so much. Dan Hoffman will continue to talk to you, former CIA station chief in just about every dangerous place on the planet. Thanks, Dan. 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"Speaking of Claudia Rosett. She, of course, is the former bureau chief in Moscow for the Wall Street Journal and foreign policy Fellow at Independent Women's Forum. So cloudy Let's talk about China policy for a second. So there appears to be this sort of bizarre, bifurcated language that Joe Biden uses about China. On the one hand, he will suggest their human rights violator and that we are and sympathetic toward toward their values. On the other hand, he does nothing with regard to Hong Kong. It seems like he is weakening the U. S military at a time when China is building up Its military. He seems to use the sort of flip flopping vacillating language with regard to China. China, meanwhile, is growing increasingly aggressive. The the president over there the dictator Xi Jinping. He made a statement last week talking about how essentially he's going to bloody the nose of anybody who challenged any of their interests has been making aggressive moves with regard to Taiwan. What do you make of the vitamin IST rations policy with regard to China? Unfortunately, the message he's broadcasting on just about every front is that he really won't stand up to them. So of course, we're seeing Xi Jinping in a mouse suit, exhorting his country on to world domination, essentially That's what he's got in mind. That's where this goes unless something gets in his way. And the biggest thing on the list you just mentioned is the military. She Jinping is building up China's military at speed. They're really They're modernizing. They are building a serious Maybe, uh and the United States is Simply not keeping up with what we need to. Um we're focused on gender issues in the military virtue, signaling uniforms. And you know it's one in a blowout budget proposals. It's really the only sector along with homeland security that isn't getting piles and piles of money. The day will come. Unfortunately, when Americans will look back And wish that we have spent on defense. I'm the military the money that is now being murdered away by the trillions on these social spending programs that Don't actually help. Most of the people are supposed to help and really cripple our economy. Um, that's going to be what we need to be doing right now is deterring this rise of China in a serious way. You don't do that by apologizing for America at every turn, and That and keeping your military in a shape that implies you think you have no real threats, and Claudia. Meanwhile, the The Biden administration is exacerbating this pullout from Afghanistan. They're they're oddly enough. They picked September 11th as the date when they want to finally announced they've removed all American troops from Afghanistan, which seems like about the worst time to suggest that you've given up the country back to the people. Who harbored the people who committed September. 11 like that makes no sense to me at all. You're literally setting the date for the pullout and the and the loss of Afghanistan as the date when these same people were complicit in the murder of 3000 Americans, which is bizarre messaging. To say the least, You know, I don't understand what exactly the win here is. Do you think that it's wildly popular with the American people to pull out of the conflict where we lost precisely one American soldier, An actual armed combat last year has been treated by the media as a as a sort of Endless war, but I'm not aware of any definition of a war in which you lose one soldier in the course of the year. No, it's this is Be whatever the actual thinking. If there was any at all behind setting September 11th, there couldn't be a worse state. You're handing a celebration to the Taliban and Al Qaeda on the date that they attacked the United States. Does anyone remember? Stench of burning that hung over Manhattan for weeks after the collapse of the twin towers. The people who died. The things we had to do to try to support further attacks were still having to do them. But now comes this. This is a message not just to Taliban, Al Qaeda, other terrorist groups. This is a message to the world, and unfortunately what it says is, America is at the not this kind of foreign policy. Is designed by fools. If this is a coming at us, I mean, you truly couldn't pick a worse day. It's also the anniversary of the attack on the American delegation in in Benghazi. The annex in which for the first time in more than 30 years serving ambassador was assassinated. I mean everything about that anniversary is just awful. And then there's the actual material Fact of We just pulled out of Bagram military base in Afghanistan. That's something that is we. We may need access to China. If things really keep going in a bad direction in the direction of going now with China to leave that Again was I think very school party. Claudia. Meanwhile, I want to ask you also about about Russia. So the fact is that the Biden administration, Biden decided to have this face to face meeting with Putin. The media just champion that they loved it. They love the fact that Biden did. The statement about America does values versus Putin's values. Um, yeah, it seemed to me that the entire normally we have a face to face meeting with a foreign adversary. There's some sort of agenda item on the table. There was no agenda item on the table. It seemed to me mostly to be constructed for domestic political purposes. That basically it was just Biden saying, Look at me standing up to Putin in a way that Trump never would. I'm not using the sort of conciliatory language that Trump used when he was in Helsinki. But meanwhile, His policy with regard to Russia's been unbelievably soft and he's he's basically soften the sanctions on the Russians have been no serious repercussions to Russian front groups hacking now an increasing number of American companies and and even an American. Pipeline. They cut off gas to the East Coast for basically a week. Right? So what do you make of his his Russian foreign policy. Let's go back to that pipeline for a minute because that's huge. They can talk about America last Biden's first act was to kill the Keystone Pipeline. You know, our energy independence finally achieved this really important thing. Uh, is now receding again. And then he went on to They stopped the sanctions aimed at stopping the North Stream line where rough is delivering singled to Europe. So you tell me, uh Vladimir Putin is a KGB trained season pro. I mean, he is A professional at the desperate Howard game. And what would he make of that? That's a sign of such incredible weakness, foolishness, recklessness and This sort of Very again. Foolhardy. It's coming to nine. Whatever the aim, really? Is I the idea that America that this administration has that we can do all again all these sort of virtue, signaling things kill the Keystone pipeline that will tell everybody we're serious about all this echo. Policy. And yet, uh, for Russia. There's no such thing. So they get a pass. Um, As far as I sit down it dignified Vladimir Putin. It really did. Which is not a good idea. And it came. Joe Biden went to, uh, a G seven meeting, And then he went on to a NATO meeting, but the big event in that series his first trip Abroad as president for it think his first trip to Europe. Sure, um, was the meeting with Putin. And that puts Putin on apart with the American president. That's a mistake. Yeah, smart and we've seen it. Remember of President Obama told Putin's, you know, cut it out with the cyber attacks. Um, Joe Biden just did the same thing. I guess what? It doesn't work, you know, and again, Vladimir Putin is watching is the U. S military. What's being built up there? That might actually Threaten him deter him from trying to get his hands on more of Ukraine on the politics on meddling in Europe meddling here, Uh He's looking at what might be seriously to do and Joe Button has been excusing. Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. And these rents were attacks. Even now, he said, Well, you know, I told him that we would retaliate. Okay. It's sort of time. If that's in the cards Instead, we keep hearing. From this administration that well, you know, it's private actors, and we need to see if it's connected to the Kremlin. Look. Witness The godfather of Russia. It's all connected. Things like that don't happen on his turf. Certainly not more than once, without his at least his consent, if not his encouragement. And that is simply what the United States should assume He's responsible for any attack that comes out of Russia full stop, and for Joe Biden to be excusing him isn't really standing up to them, I would say. That's Claudia is that former bureau chief in Moscow for the Wall Street Journal former and a foreign policy fellow at the Independent Women's Forum. Claudia really appreciate your time..
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"al qaeda" Discussed on NewsRadio WIOD
"List of states with the most homes that based on projected sea level rise will see at least one major flood per year by 2050 more than 70,000 homes, according to climate Central. It's followed by Florida, California, Louisiana and North Carolina. From homes on the jersey shore. Do a 2000 ton, historically join the conversation. 8666 10 6397 have Nellie Rodriguez with a trending story morning, Natalie. Good morning, Brian. Some of South Florida shining high school seniors are Going to be in the spotlight for a wonderful reason. Tonight. It's the annual Silver Knight Awards. The Miami Dade and Broward County students have been nominated and 15 different categories include math, science, art athletics. And, of course, their accomplishments both in the classroom and in the community they will receive if they're winner, a scholarship and some other prizes. Former Silver Knight Winners do include Amazon founder and Palmetto High alum Jeff Bezos and Pro Football Hall of Famer and highly A high grad Ted Hendricks. That's super Cool. Yeah. Now, what's the mass policy? Not sure it isn't that the That's the question for everything they say, right? To mask or not to mask that is the question. Hmm. Uh, Today's stop. Three takeaways for you. What's up is down in what's down is up. Actually how many times since Joe Biden became president and the Democrats took control of Congress have you felt that way? Maybe the better question is, if there's been a single day that's gone by in which you haven't felt that way. And that's because, after decades of discussions about the threat of socialism, infiltrating the United States, we actually haven't represented by some Democrats in Congress. And it's because, after decades of warning about the efforts to undermine our constitution, starting with the First Amendment, yes, the big tech companies that have seized control of the Internet to do it. Primarily it's because after decades of warning about what Woz and what wasn't happening inside of our classrooms Due to the creation of the Department of Education in 1980, but we now have two generations of adults who've been indoctrinated. Been propagandized, and they've been taught that there are more than two genders and pretty much all of the daily cultural absurdities. They're explained away by that one. This isn't a general pontification. I'm going somewhere specific. Of all the absurdities. Can't think of anything more absurd. Inciting with terrorists. So consider that By mid day yesterday. Israel had been subjected to over 3000 rocket attacks by Hamas. In real time. We're now over 4000. Just imagine for a moment. If Osama bin one Al Qaeda. They launched over 3000 missiles at us How hard to imagine, isn't it? Think is that Israel is a country barely larger than the state of New Jersey. Then consider this. You had president by new called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and according to White House accounts Told him to stand down. The recap got a terrorist organization. Which has stated a goal of the eradication of Israel. The initiate missile attacks in Israel. He followed with thousands of rockets and the of Israel is being called on by President Biden to stand down. That's The epitome of what's up is down and what's down is up. I just cannot even begin to imagine, And you always have the news video. Talking about this like it's Boxing match like OK, Cease fire and go to your corners. What's gonna happen? Win. Hamas goes back to its corner in Iran, loads them up with more weapons. They still want the eradication of Israel. I mean seriously. And again. The reason I used the Al Qaeda example. Were we ever going to be okay if Ben Lund was just allowed to go back to his corner and do whatever he was doing with Al Qaeda? No right. Not ever. We never would have been okay with that. So why is it that we're trying to impose that on Israel? That is the first of my three takeaways today. By the way, that's kind of policy. You get Win. A squad member meets Joe Biden on a tarmac. So Uncertain about what happens next. Get to my other take ways and just a bit. We have Maria weighing in on mask. Add school, Maria, Welcome to the show. Thanks, Brian. Nice to talk to you and listen to your show all the time. But it never called in And I wanted to take an opportunity Toe. Let carvahlo no on the radio that we wholeheartedly disagree with him going back on his, uh Mask issue. We definitely want the right to have our kids immediately pick off their masks if the parent chooses and if the child besides that is what is Right for their family. I hope I'm making it clear here. I'm not alone. There's thousands of us here in Miami that feel very strongly about this. And we made our voices her. Not only here in the Miami did tell me yesterday. But also in Broward, Um, on the 18th. And you know, this is just not right. We have the freedom to have our kids. 10 school without a mask. Well for a first time caller. That was brilliant. I don't think you could have been any more clear or on point. Thank you very much for the Colts appreciate him. Welcome, Brian. Have a great day. You as well. I am going to offer out this for Superintendent Carvalho. Get the feeling. This really Seems like it was the school board who put the heat on him to do this. My personal opinion, and we have reached out to the superintendent. I'm not sure if he would speak to this specifically, but I just get the sense that in multiple times during the course of the pandemic. He has been pushed in the policy by the school board that he himself would not have necessarily chosen. We'll be right back. Right? But shouldn't you try to go 16? W y o. Here's the question. Who will you invite to dinner? First? Once you're vaccinated, How will you celebrate more than 100? Million people have been safely vaccinated against covert 19. Now is the time to join them. Get started at stay well, Nova calm. Please. Like a cowboy, please. In a town like a couple of time in the way like the cowboy way..
The Last American Vagabond
"al qaeda" Discussed on The Last American Vagabond
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The Last American Vagabond
"al qaeda" Discussed on The Last American Vagabond
"Involved in yemen. Whether it's by proxy war is on the ground in general. Well actually. That wasn't interesting proud of the discussion on the previous discussions. Tides earned with yemeni officials in mascow Also stated very clearly that israel had been involved in the war from the beginning The clarification of why israel would be invoked of is of course at van nemesis iran yemen. The last thing they want is for yemen in in this is their perception to become a satellite state of iran And what osa came out of the more. Recent meeting of course is that the yemenis themselves of developing missile technology Which israel is claiming is threatening for example tel aviv. As far as they're concerned. Laura developing Missile capability to target tel aviv. So again we have you know the the familia israeli argument preemptive aggression in self defense and so whereas before israel was probably a little bit clandestine in support of the saudi coalition although it was a well known fact that it was working together with the saudis and of course with the british and the us in they Control scientists in riyadh. I mean it's well alight that the us and the uk actually designating targets in yemen to be hit by the saudi moments. This was a well nine flapped. One was also involved in That designation of targets of course we the majority of the target says civilians or in civilian infrastructure targets battle. They are committing a crime every time they own yemen effectively. There are not hating most of the time. They're not hitting military targets The us has had troops actually inside yemen. That might come as a bit of a short to some people. Since i think around two thousand seventeen to nineteen the. Us is also moved on patriots. Air defense onto the island of sequoia off the coast of yemen which is under the control of the white why in the uae. And actually as part of the discussion with yemeni buster He told me there are now is ready troops on sikora so this is very much about in the israeli politics. This is about limiting. They arrange potential to target israel And israel is collaborating very closely with the united arab emirates if you remember we talked about the integration of israel into central and within Some think tanks in israel. They're talking about an alliance with pragmatic sunni islamic. State's of course that includes United arab emirates. Which is the conflict capital a show-me no aeneas another fantastic journalists described them on twitter quite recently The conflict capital for the us and the uk they house many of what i call the british mercenary full military private security advises akin to black culture Jamesy zero the founder of white helmets works for good harbor. It's national which was set up by richard seeks in the in i and and the majority of private security firms all based in the ua and we and we've actually. I think you and i discussed the torture prisons in the cia involvement. As well as you know there's just so it's so sickening to watch the avert war crimes..
KOMO
"al qaeda" Discussed on KOMO
"S. Capitol. Expect hundreds. If not thousands of arrests eventually is the FBI tracked down those individuals. The FBI has opened more than 160 case files since the January 6th. Ryan and the FBI, Steve Antonio said. That's just the tip of the iceberg agents from our local field offices. We knocking on your door? If we find out that you were part of the criminal activity at the Capitol. As for the charges were looking at significant felony cases tied to sedition and conspiracy, Acting U. S Attorney Michael Sherwin said. That's punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Aaron Carter SKI ABC News, New YORK, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went to the National Press Club to announce the death of Al Qaeda number two Abu Mohammed el misery today I can confirm for the first time. His death on August 7th of last year, L'm as re helped orchestrate the deadly bombings of U. S embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 Pompeo also says the relationship between Al Qaeda and Iran is now more robust. Have the world's state largest state sponsor of terrorism. Islamic Republic of Iran. As the home base for Al Qaeda. Manager says actor Chuck Norris was not at the Capitol Riot last week. Images have been circulating of a man resembling yours, but his manager says Norris has been in Texas with his family. This is ABC News Coleman, whose time 904 and traffic every 10 Minutes on the force from the dupe in law Group Traffic Center. Here's Tammy Felton. In Tacoma. Roadwork on South Found five has the exit to Portland Avenue closed until five o'clock tomorrow morning for overnight road work and fight the port of Tacoma ramp to South Bound. Bob is also closed for overnight roadwork and will re open at six o'clock tomorrow morning. Was still watching her crash of the Civic on South Bound Highway 1 67. It's just after Ellingson Road, It's over on the right shoulder consequent bit of a slowdown our next camel traffic 9 14 Shannon.