Afghanistan

Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "The Feminist Barack" is above and it captures Barack's efforts to cozy up to the Taliban. We covered that last Sunday in "Editorial: Ms. magazine gets punked" and other Afghanistan coverage in the community last week included:


"Selling out the women of Afghanistan," "Afghanistan," "Afghanistan women get forgotten"
"Afghanistan roundtable," "US designates Gulbuddin Hekmatyar a Terrorist," "afghanistan roundtable," "Afghanistan," "Afghanistan in the Kitchen," "Talking Afghanistan," "The Afghanistan Roundtable," "Roundtabling Afghanistan," "Friday night movie post on Tuesday," "Afghanistan roundtable," "Iraq and Afghanistan," "Afghanistan," "Ron DLC Kirk," "Iraq, Hillary, Isaiah, etc" and "Anti-feminist Barack Obama"

It also included the following:

US designates Gulbuddin Hekmatyar a Terrorist

19 February 2003 U.S. Designates Gulbuddin Hekmatyar a Terrorist, February 19, 2003 (Hekmatyar supported terrorist acts by Bin Laden, Taliban) The U.S. government has designated Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the head of the Hezeb-e Islami Afghanistan party, a terrorist, according to a statement from State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. The statement said Hekmatyar supported terrorist acts carried out by al-Qaida and the Taliban. The United States will seek to have Hekmatyar's name included in the U.N. sanctions list of people and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, al-Qaida and the Taliban, the statement said. Following is the text of the Boucher statement: (begin text) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman February 19, 2003 STATEMENT BY RICHARD BOUCHER, SPOKESMAN Designation of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as a Terrorist The U.S. Government has information indicating that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has participated in and supported terrorist acts committed by al-Qa'ida and the Taliban. Because of his terrorist activity, the United States is designating Hekmatyar as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under the authority of Executive Order 13224. At the same time, the United States will request that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee include Hekmatyar on its consolidated list of entities and individuals associated with Usama bin Laden, al-Qa'ida, and the Taliban, which would obligate all Member States to impose sanctions, including assets freezes, under UN Security Council Resolutions 1267, 1390, and 1455. (end text) [The above can currently be found here, at the US Embassy in Italy's website. It has been disappeared elsewhere, hence the reposting.]

C.I. copied and pasted that from the US Embassy in Italy's website to ensure that we had a copy of it (it's disappearing all over the net). At Dissident Voice, Tom Burghardt tackled the terrorist whose past Barack's attempting to 'tidy up' by noting:

A piece of work from the get-go, Hekmatyar was a former engineering student and founder of Afghanistan's Muslim Brotherhood. This brave mujahid cut his political teeth by throwing vials of acid in the faces of Kabul University women who refused to wear the veil. Accused of murdering a leftist student, Hekmatyar fled to Pakistan where he continued his activities with "guidance" from ISI handlers.

For the record, very few feminist organizations or 'leaders' have bothered to speak out. Their silence has been shameful. As always, the most shameful are those who chose to profit from the plight of Afghan women with books, films and lectures.