http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Paktia Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:42:23 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Paktia Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:31:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6b_1371122086 sahaafi_mujahid ..steely nerves of mujahidin during mortar attack at 11.00 to 18.00.. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6b_1371122086 sahaafi_mujahid &amp;quot;Daily Life of Mujahidin - 9&amp;quot; - Full HQ Version afghanistan,attack,mujahid,mujahidin,morar,daily,life,paktika,paktia,khost,kabul Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:21:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=24d_1371025030 userkc NATO savor of heroin http://en.fbii.org/investigations/271.html The West, which makes heroin in Afghanistan on an industrial basis, involved in the drugs production the general population of the country, making drug-dealing invincible. 9 June, 2013 Block of scouts, human rights activist sand drug barons Green Village is an elite district of Kabul, the safest place in the country. It's hard to get in. A special permit or people, who have the one, are required. Green Village is the western paradise in snobby, but still apart from modern civilization Afghanistan, populated by privileged caste, including foreign experts, various humanitarian and other missions, overseas pilots, employees and wealthy Afghans. They are wealthy in mid-western, non-Afghan standards. In the absence of any industry, explored and developed hydrocarbon deposits, the legal international commodity exchanges the necessary alternative to make money in Afghanistan is becoming a drug baron. Afghan heroin in recent years is a byword. The number and location of plantations, laboratories, and delivery path are matters of common knowledge. But the year-on-year export business of drugs is drastically increasing. This has come to the front with the "Operation Enduring Freedom" in 2001, when U.S. troops, along with coalition forces in Afghanistan have begun to manufacture democracy. As a result ground has been filled out with a quantity of scarlet poppies instead of at some time traditional wheat, corn and cotton. In fine, the area of opium crops during the U.S. troops' presence in Afghanistan has spread 100 times, a production of heroin - by 40 times. The foreign authorities take it cynical and indifferent. It raises suspicions whether U.S. is committed in Afghanistan heroin expansion. We have come to Green Village to question a wealthy and highly respected Afghan. Let's call him Said. He is the current functionary of Afghan political elite and one of the big men of its underground economy. We know what way he has got the money for four-story mansion with fountains, white columns, gilded moldings and crystal chandeliers. He knows that we know. But the conversation, according to Eastern tradition, is abstract, as if anybody suspects nothing. - The Americans have never set themselves objective of combating the drug threat - Said begins to speak in excellent English showing an ultrawhite smile. - For them, Afghanistan is the base coterminous to China, Iran, Pakistan ... It was started in order to this. Drugs, the Taliban ... What's it all about? If they would like to nail down the Taliban, it had to be started from drugs. What resistance can be without funding? - Is that so the Taliban are involved in the drug trade? It seems, under their governance heroin production has dropped to zero. - A very common myth, that at the end of nineties up to 35 percent of the heroin business revenues went just to the Taliban. By the way, Taliban's connection with al-Qaeda has caused an establishment of a drug distribution network, which with the beginning of U.S. operation has completely driven former leaders Myanmar, Laos and Thailand out of business. A single terrorist network was also suitable for drug activity. The reasons for the dramatic decrease in the heroin production in 2001 are the Taliban attempts to gain international prestige. They hoped to get reward equal to merit for the "war on drugs", but have faced the invading of coalition forces. Just one year after the start of "Operation Enduring Freedom" the opium bricks production in Afghanistan has increased by 1400 percent! In addition the price has slowed to a trickle. In South Asia kilogram of pure heroin cost 10,000 dollars, in Afghanistan - only 650. Due to the dumping the country has instantly become the world monopolist. In addition, before the invasion laboratory manufacturing, generally, was in neighboring Pakistan, then, with the manufacturing of democracy with its cultural, but in the main technological advances, in Afghanistan closed production cycle has been launched on an industrial scale. Western firms, without elaborating, delivered to the Islamic republic necessary fertilizers, pharmacological equipment, and chemical reagents as the form of humanitarian aid to farmers and developers of drugs. United States established a supply of compact mobile drilling rigs, by which any farmer could build reclamation in the driest areas. The seeds of poppies were begun to ship from the U.S. and Europe. The business is cynical, profit is before anything else. A start-up capital for profitable investments was provided not by drug industry movers and shakers, but by respectable Western banks. Kandahar during the presence of coalition forces in Afghanistan has turned into a financial center serving the drug industry. The loans to "farmers", "pharmacology", carriers are made there, the same as payments for the sold lots through the Afghan financial know-how - the national banking semi-legal "hawala", as well as through Western banks of global renown and credit organizations. And all actions were in front of a large contingent of U.S., UK and Canada, stationed near Kandahar. As a result of a favorable investment climate plantations and laboratories spread over the Islamic Republic. The main were in the provinces of Balkh, Helmand, Kunar, Nangarhar, Paktia, Khost, Kunduz and Faizabad. Information about the fields and laboratories in these areas, including satellite imagery is regularly reported to the International Security Assistance Force. But they just "take it into consideration." U.S. generals believe that with the complexity of the "operational situation" in the country it would be extremely dangerous to incur the wrath of the farmers. Apparently, the support of Afghanistan agricultural areas' public is badly needed to Americans. Consequently if some special operations or humanitarian mission, God forbid, wreck farmers' nerves, "democratizers" pay fifteen hundred dollars per hectare as compensation. - This compensation, of course, does not pay for loss - said Said. - The cost of harvest per hectare is about 15 thousand dollars. But due to our climate conditions we can take the crop three times a year. So these are production costs. - Are there really no counterdrug structures? - Why not? - Afghan is grinning. - There are United Nations Drug Control Programme and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. They hold joint press conferences and make proclamations - that is the extent of their practice. This business is profitable for the West, including reasons of cost - heroin traffic generates revenue up to 80 percent of Afghanistan's GDP. That way we will get self-repayment someday (laughing). - Don't you confuse by the moral aspect of this business? - I assure you, no one, involved in this scheme, thinks of adolescents who OD n' die. Everyone thinks only of oneself - the farmer of pesticides, chemical - of the reagents, the carrier - how to be uncaught ... It's another level of understanding. For you, this is really a threat, but for the people who do this every day - this is a normal job, which brings good income. It is noteworthy that only homeopathic doses of Afghan heroin get U.S. Perhaps that is why Americans are so passive in Afghanistan. Washington is wrestling against the more close Latin American threat of drug traffic. For example, U.S. gives a multi-million dollar grants for the development of herbicides, destroying coca crops in a foreign, sovereign country. At the same time, the destruction of plantations in Afghanistan is seen as the peasants' rights violation. In the United States is possible to face a long-time prison term even for intent to import cocaine. In Afghanistan, the same drug is made in full view of several thousand of U.S. troops and their armed companions. But American teenagers are not affected by this drug. Is this a reason for not so strict control? Can the Americans have selfish interests in the Afghan drug trafficking? - In the 90s, after the departure of shuravi, the economy completely collapsed, and the production of opium was the only chance to survive. There was a real hunger - says Said. - And before the Taliban almost every laboratory had its curator-American. It was someone like consultant, suppliers and buyers communicated through him. - What now? - Now the structure is self-sufficient, - Afghan speaks intricately. - The good news is that they don't interfere. At long last, they need funds to build bungalow in Florida. The head of the heroin River Of course there are no direct evidences of U.S. military involvement in the drug trafficking. Although indirect evidences for this are quite enough. In Kosovo, the largest heroin transit point in Europe, you will be talked about using of U.S. military transport aircraft. A former employee of the UN drug control, a native of the former Soviet Union, told us in Kabul about the events in the middle of the 2000s: "Weekly the U.S. cargo planes conducted 800 flights to its European bases in Afghanistan. The command of the International Security Assistance Force turned a blind eye to such activity. In fact, there were reasons to believe that the military transport ships were used to smuggle heroin into the Old World. One staging post was at the Turkish U.S. Air Force Base in Incirlik. The second, which was the largest, post located in Kosovo. Up to 100 tons were transited through the NATO military objects in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. Although, compared to the main traffic, it's not so much. I don't think that since 2006, when I retired, anything has changed. Although it's not necessary to do dirty work. The system is well-defined. Now it's easier to control the heroin "branches", "control the stream" and receive dividends. In fact, the Americans are doing this". To understand the organization of the current Afghan drug trafficking, we went to one of the poppy fields, near Kunduz. We asked Said to give a tour. He hesitated a long time, as long as we have told him: "We understand that this is not your plantation. You just know someone who knows the field commander, who is in charge of those fields. We want just to look at a poppy field. We have heard that it's beautiful." Said with a smile, praised the eastern ornateness of our request. Also we had two gunmen as escort. We came to the plantation early morning. Inconspicuous pickup Toyota Hilux - there is thousands of such cars. Our escort was not afraid of western roadblocks, there are no such roadblocks outside Kabul, Afghan army patrols passed over us. Especially, as we suspected, the two middle-aged men in a camouflage serve in the present army. Said did not disclose details of the route. The only thing that we realized that the car went towards Kunduz. Climbing to the mountains for a few thousand meters, we have turned into one of the countless canyons, hidden from the aliens by a small village, the inhabitants of which have controlled the well-groomed ground road. Gorge, as we were explained, was transparent and used to carry "goods". The only disadvantage is that at one point of the route the goods are had to move in packs and over the mountain pass again to unload in the cars. But this was road "for good guys" and we guess from the context what things are carried there, when after a few hours of tedious drive, our car started to go down to a huge valley as on the serpentine road. The first person we met was a shepherd with binoculars and a radio station. It could not have been otherwise - the drug business has to control its veins-roads where fertilizers, precursors, and the product itself are flowing. According to the escort, we are already in the British zone of responsibility, but for some reason the West is not interested in the head of the heroin river. Moreover, in the international coalition of military forces based in Afghanistan, the British are responsible for the campaign to combat opium plantations. But it seems, that they have more important things to do. Roads of death According to a former employee of the Russian special services to combat narcotics in Afghanistan, the direct delivery of the finished heroin in Tajikistan is a myth. "The product", as a rule, travels a long way, before crossing the border in Afghanistan. He says, that the one who put the production of heroin in Afghanistan on an industrial basis, decided to global task - to engage in the production and drug trafficking entire country, without exception, to make drug trafficking almost invincible, to tie the whole population to drug revenues. Thus, the raw opium is grown in Afghanistan - EVERYWHERE, no matter who is responsible for the area in which the plantations are located - the Italians, the Germans, the Americans. The collected materials are partly processed, partially are remained in its raw form and transported to the factories in the provinces of Paktia, Khost, Helmand, Kunar, Balkh, Kunduz. We visited the head of heroin vein to Kunduz. After processing diacetylmorphine hydrochloride are sent to Kandahar, which is a transport and financial hub. Here, suppliers and carriers determine further routes of potion. This product does not take up much space and does not deteriorate as opposed to poppy straw, which can simply rot. From Kandahar heroin are sent to Pakistan, specifically - to Chitral area with chemical production of precursors needed for the purification and distillation of raw opium. The most important precursor in a chemical reaction is acetic anhydride, and Pakistan has a monopoly on the production of this component, forcing drugs manufacturers constant to contact with the country. The scheme is simple - if there are no acetic anhydride, poppy growers will get inexpensive and castaway raw opium. Therefore, from the vicinity of Chitral full-flowing and the shipping heroin river heads, after leaks to South-East Asia and the CIS countries, and then - to Russia and Europe. Poppy fields of amazing green metallic color are divided into equal squares by ditches. Only here and there, at the edges, red blooming inflorescences are seen. At sight of this magnificent picture of ripened harvest of death, one of us forgets all agreements with Said and begins to fasten the camera with a wide angle lens. One of the attendants silently turns, picks the camera out and puts hit on his laps. We do not really understand the secrecy. An employee of the Agency for Drug Control under the President of Tajikistan told us that every week he receives a set of images of Afghanistan made by photo-reconnaissance satellite "Cobalt". He feeds information into computer, processes it. The poppy fields he documents separately. Sometimes, if the image quality is low, he checks the information on the new plantations through agents. He files a report : - Every month I give a final report to Americans, the British and the government of Afghanistan. And this is in vain. I've never even heard the words "thank you." I don't say so much as about devastated crops. The West is set no store by this issue. But by conferences and reports they cunningly pretend to conduct anti-heroin war. This is a hoax or sabotage against Russia and Central Asia. Heroin is transited through Tajikistan, but I know that people, who have tried at least once easy drug money, will never go back to honest work. This is hex for generations to come. For thirty minutes we are staying near some adobe hut. Here we see few people in traditional Afghan clothing sitting in the shade. In their hands they are keeping not customary Russian "Kalashnikov", but modification of U.S. M16. - The bullets are easier can be drawn out - explains our escort. We guess that, despite all the approvals, we are not welcomed here. Cell phones don't work in the valley, but going by air wire there is the radio station in the booth, and our guard goes there several times for talks, which seemingly grind on. Finally, we are brought a bag from U.S. fertilizers and are put it on the ground. Signs indicate that we need to put there all the recording equipment. It will be returned to us when we go back. We pack the cameras, cellphones and voice recorder. An Afghan security guard tie a packet in a knot, melts kink with the lighter and treads on it by the foot. Package with appliances are carried to the booth, and we drive on. Sometimes Jeep rolls over a plastic tube - apparently they have seriously decided to do irrigation and bring the number of harvests to four a year. We pass fertilizers stores and watch sheds with dark blue bags with treacherously waved American flags. This is a humanitarian supplies to Afghan farmers. Is it possible that the U.S. doesn't know that the amounts of cultivated cereals and grain crops in Afghanistan are quickly approaching to zero? Another sign of humanitarian aid is a giant drums with plastic pipes for drip irrigation devices displaying English and Hebrew markings. At the end of the plantations, there is a very "drug laboratory" - assembly hangar, a bunch of empty chemical glass and plastic containers, and the acrid smell of acetic anhydride. Here so-called "tear of Allah" - diacetylmorphine - is distilled from raw opium. Our guides explain that in this valley the poppy was ever grown, even though twenty years ago, most of the land here was planted with cotton. Poppy raw materials were processed in the colorants and it was a by-production. But one hectare of poppy field yields the same gains as the 40 hectares of crops, therefore local farmers haven't been thinking long time what line to choose for their agricultural business. We have seen the peasants themselves, only from afar, from the village near one of the valley slopes. Some equipment and dozens of people have moved to the fields. Another "Harvest Festival" was starting in the drug valley. Thousands of miles away it will come to the end with "the dance of death." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=24d_1371025030 userkc NATO savor of heroin Afghanistan, heroin, drugs Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:41:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c3_1370356760 snoopAhLoop Ten children, two soldiers and a police officer have been killed by a suicide bomber who targeted a NATO convoy in Afghanistan. The convoy was passing a school as the children left class in Paktia province. Fifteen children have been injured. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c3_1370356760 snoopAhLoop Suicide Bomber Kills 10 Children in Front of School Afghanistan, ISAF, Taliban, Suicide, Bomber, School, Children Tue, 04 Jun 2013 04:35:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b8_1370334442 Muhammad_ibn_Abdullah Nine school pupils and a police officer have been killed in a suicide bombing outside a market in east Afghanistan . The attacker was reportedly targeting a passing US military patrol but it was unclear if there were any American casualties. General Zelmia Oryakhail, provincial police chief of Paktia province, said the bomber was on a motorbike and detonated his explosives at midday on Monday outside the market in Samkani district. He said a local school had let students out for lunch moments earlier. Fifteen other pupils were wounded, Oryakhail added, but did not say how old they were. He could not give information about the American patrol. The international coalition did not immediately confirm the incident. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/03/schoolchildren-killed-afghanistan-suicide-bomb-market http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b8_1370334442 Muhammad_ibn_Abdullah Nine Schoolchildren Taken Out by a Muslim... islam, religion of peace, jihad, murder, massacre, death, cult, allah, satan, shaytan, djinn, muhammad, quran, koran, qur'an, evil, satanic, Sun, 26 May 2013 13:07:29 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=313_1369587922 Detroit Iron By Rob Crilly World Last updated: May 26th, 2013 From its very earliest days fighting the Afghan government in the mid 1970s, the militia led by Jalaluddin Haqqani has been used as a proxy by Pakistan . Today it is known as the Haqqani network, allied to the Taliban and considered the most deadly threat to international forces in Afghanistan. It is behind many of the most spectacular attacks in the capital Kabul . Yet Islamabad has so far failed to move against the outfit, which is based around Miranshah in North Waziristan. It continues to see the Haqqani network as "good Taliban", a useful conduit to other militant groups such as the Pakistan Taliban and a hedge against Indian interests in Afghanistan. For Pakistan, staying in with the Haqqanis allows access to the nexus of terrorist and militant groups that has coalesced around them and an opportunity to try to redirect them against Islamabad's foes. And the costs have been manageable. The Haqqani network may have sheltered al-Qaeda figures - based on personal ties or short-term financial considerations - but at most its war aims have been to reclaim its old territory of Loya Paktia , those south-eastern provinces along the border with Pakistan where it mainly operates. That at least is the accepted wisdom. A compelling new book by Vahid Brown and Don Rassler, Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012 published by Hurst , suggests we will have to rethink our understanding of the Haqqani network, its motivation and its worldview at a crucial time, just as international forces withdraw and pressure for peace talks intensifies. Drawing on primary sources, such as Manba' al-Jihad (from which the book takes its title) the Haqqani network's own magazine, the authors conclude that the Haqqanis are much more than mere hosts to al-Qaeda: the two are intimately entwined having co-evolved during the past three decades and with Jalaluddin Haqqani himself emerging as one of the key drivers behind the development of al-Qaeda's global war. Jalaluddin was the first to declare the Jihad against the Soviets as a duty for Muslims around the world and the first to recruit Arabs. Osama bin Laden built the first of his camps inside Haqqani territory and staffed it with Haqqani veterans. In placing the Haqqani network not so much at the centre of the extremist nexus but at its origin, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Afghan and Pakistani militant groups. And it has obvious implications for the terms of any eventual peace settlement, which could well see the Haqqanis taking control of its south-eastern heartland. It is weaker in discussing the extent to which Pakistan and its ISI spy agency continue to run the Haqqanis, relying on historical accounts dating back to the anti-Soviet Jihad brought up to date with weakly sourced American allegations. To be fair, no one else has much of an insight into Pakistan's current attitude towards its long-standing allies. But it sets out clearly what should be a key question facing Western officials scrabbling for a face-saving peace deal: Can the Taliban of Mullah Omar sever its ties to al-Qaeda - a red line in any negotiation - when it is clear that the Haqqanis remain so close to bin Laden's terrorist outfit? Technically the Haqqanis have sworn loyalty to Mullah Omar and say they will stand by his decision but this book makes clear that it might not be as simple as that, and to give up al-Qaeda would change the trajectory of decades of history. "Ideological sympathy and shared support for the broader goals that al-Qaeda represents - surely held by at least some within the group - would be one important reason for not doing so, as would a desire to seek revenge for the losses that both groups have suffered over the last ten years," it concludes. It is difficult to conclude anything other than that prospects for peace remain dim. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/robcrilly/100218773/will-the-taliban-ever-sever-its-ties-to-al-qaeda-heres-why-the-omens-arent-good/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=313_1369587922 Detroit Iron Will the Taliban ever sever its ties to al-Qaeda? Here's why the omens aren't good afghanistan, haqqani network, Pakistan, Taliban Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:38:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=89c_1364903037 sahaafi_mujahid new release - 2013 &quot;caravan of the truth 2&quot; http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=89c_1364903037 sahaafi_mujahid Part 1 - Attacks against US &amp;amp; Afghan forces in Eastern Afghanistan (2013) afghanistan,attack,jihad,bm-1,spg9,b10,mortar,82mm,mujahid,mujahidin,rpg,paktia,paktika,logar,nangarhar,laghman,ustash yasir,ana,isaf,nato,usa fail Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:56:14 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ae8_1367070236 AEI According to SiteIntelGroup, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), recently released a Pashto-language video titled, "The Caravan of Truth," showing military operations and a suicide bombing in Afghanistan's eastern Logar and Paktia provinces by a TTP affiliate called the "Sa'ad bin Abi Waqas Front". One segment shows the fighters executing a man with a 82mm gun, after which a scene shows them shouting "long live" Mullah Muhammad Omar and Hakimullah Mehsud. http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/04/pakistani_taliban_active_in_lo.php http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ae8_1367070236 AEI Video: Pakistani Taliban active in Afghanistan Pakistan, Afghanistan, TTP, Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:14:43 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d6_1364436685 fdal THIS IS ONE OF THE AMERICA MONSTERS OF ALL TIMES !!! President Bush would have ordered an invasion of Iraq even if the CIA had told him that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday. In the build-up to the U.S. invasion in 2003, Bush and other administration leaders argued that Saddam should be removed from power because he had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and was actively seeking to build a nuclear weapon. Subsequent investigations concluded that he did not have such weapons, and in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Cheney acknowledged that, "clearly, the intelligence that said he did was wrong." Asked by "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert whether the United States would have gone ahead with the invasion anyway if the CIA had reported that Saddam did not, in fact, have such weapons, Cheney said yes. "He'd done it before," Cheney said. "He had produced chemical weapons before and used them. He had produced biological weapons. He had a robust nuclear program in '91." The U.S. invasion "was the right thing to do, and if we had to do it again, we would do exactly the same thing," he said. U.S. will being tested Cheney also said he was wrong when he said shortly before the invasion that U.S. forces would be "greeted as liberators." Instead, more than three years later, violent resistance to the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad continues, and more than 2,600 U.S. service members have been killed. "No doubt, we did not anticipate that the insurgency would last this long," Cheney said. The United States must stay the course, however, because while the situation is "difficult," it is significantly better, he said. Cheney acknowledged opinion polls that show that a majority of the U.S. public believes Iraq is a more dangerous threat than it was before U.S. forces invaded. "The people obviously are frustrated because of the difficulty, because of the cost and the casualties, but you cannot look at Iraq in isolation," he said. "You have to look at it within the context of the broader global war on terror. ... If Saddam Hussein were still in power, we would be in a vastly worse position." Advertise AdChoicesShould the United States pull out of Iraq, Cheney said, the governments of Iraq and Pakistan, which he said had staked their futures on the U.S. commitment, would conclude that "the United States hasn't got the stomach for the fight. Bin Laden's right, al-Qaida's right, the United States has lost its will and will not complete the mission." U.S. faces long haul in Afghanistan In neighboring Afghanistan, meanwhile, a U.S.-backed government is facing its worst surge of violence in the nearly five years since the United States booted out the militant Islamic Taliban government, and Cheney said Western forces would likely be fighting a nationwide insurgency for "some considerable period of time." Appearing on "Meet the Press" on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, Cheney similarly defended the U.S. military performance in Afghanistan, contending that "we are much better off today because Afghanistan is not the safe haven for terrorism that it was five years ago." Insurgent leaders there are proving unexpectedly dangerous because they have changed their tactics, abandoning direct attacks on military units in favor of a guerrilla-style hit-and-run approach, he said. The new approach makes it vital that the American public remain committed to the U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, Cheney said, because the insurgents are willing to absorb heavy losses in a long battle of attrition. "They can't beat us in a stand-up fight, but they're also convinced they can break our will," Cheney said. He acknowledged that U.S. and Afghan forces, now joined by NATO forces, were "still in the fight for Afghanistan" almost five years after U.S. forces invaded to remove the Taliban for harboring al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. NATO said Sunday that 94 militants were killed in the Panjwayi and neighboring Zhari districts overnight, raising the toll from a counterinsurgency operation now in its ninth day past 420. Six NATO soldiers and 14 members of the British crew of a reconnaissance plane have also died. Meanwhile, in eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bombing killed three people Sunday, including the governor of Paktia province, and wounded three others, police said. The U.S. military said Saturday that a suicide bombing cell targeting foreign troops was operating in the capital, Kabul. The warning came two days after a car bomber rammed into a U.S. army convoy near the U.S. Embassy, killing 16 people, the worst such attack in the capital. Other topics In the hour-long interview, Cheney also: Said he still disagreed with the Supreme Court's decision in June that the administration overstepped its authority in holding suspected terrorists without trials or the protections of the Geneva Conventions. He would not discuss specific treatment of detainees but said information gleaned from interrogations "helped us prevent attacks against the United States." Refused to criticize plans by Republicans to spend millions off dollars on negative campaign ads against Democrats. "I hope our guys have good, hard-hitting advertisements. Certainly, the opposition does," he said. He predicted that Republicans would keep control of both House and the Senate. Called his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who is awaiting trial in the CIA leak case, "a good man ... entitled to a presumption of innocence." Cheney would not comment on what his own role in that case may have been, saying he was likely to be called as a witness in Libby's trial. Said that he had not been hunting since a Feb. 11 hunting trip in Texas when he accidentally shot lawyer Harry Whittington in the torso, neck and face but that he intended to go hunting again. "I don't know that you ever get over it," he said. "Fortunately, Harry is doing very well." The Associated Press contributed to this report. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d6_1364436685 fdal Cheney: WMD or not, Iraq invasion was correct Cheney: WMD or not, Iraq invasion was correct Thu, 24 May 2012 10:55:47 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ced_1337871168 sahaafi_mujahid ... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ced_1337871168 sahaafi_mujahid NEW GIFT - Powerful IED Destroying RG-31 in <span class="highlight">Paktia</span> (NO SOUND) afghanistan,ied,attack,rg-31,mujahid,mujahidin,paktia Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:43:58 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=88b_1322563000 sahaafi_mujahid .. narrowly missed this time.. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=88b_1322563000 sahaafi_mujahid NEW GIFT - Uzbek Mujahidin shooting at AH 64 Apache in <span class="highlight">Paktia</span> afghanistan,uzbek,mujahidin,mucahidlar,mujahid,ah 64,apache,paktia,shot down,shooting,rocket Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:38:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=10c_1314624172 sahaafi_mujahid by haqqani group..sorry sound is damaged.you can see seized hummvee and much of weapon.. question : where are isaf/nato forces? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=10c_1314624172 sahaafi_mujahid Exclusive GIFT - Parade of Mujahidin after attack on ANA Outpost in <span class="highlight">Paktia</span>(Sadda bazar.K.A).Mobile movie3gp afghanistan,mujahid,mujahidin,paktia,zindabad,seized,hummvee,ana,isaf,nato,ambush Tue, 09 Aug 2011 06:56:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b71_1312887168 sahaafi_mujahid ... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b71_1312887168 sahaafi_mujahid US Military Outpost after BM-1 rocket attack - <span class="highlight">Paktia</span> afghanistan,bm-1,attack,rocket,mujahid,mujahidin,paktia,usa,us,nato,isaf