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Seddique Mateen, who has been referred to as Mir Seddique in early news reports, hosted the “Durand Jirga Show” on a channel called Payam-e-Afghan, which broadcasts from California. In it, the elder Mateen speaks in the Dari language on a variety of political subjects. He doesn't always make much sense.
“Our brothers in Waziristan, our warrior brothers in [the] Taliban movement and national Afghan Taliban are rising up,” he said. “Inshallah the Durand Line issue will be solved soon.” The “Durand Line issue” is a historically significant one, particularly for members of the Pashtun ethnic group, whose homeland straddles the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Durand Line is that border. It is not clear whether the Mateens are Pashtun. The Afghan Taliban is mostly made up of Pashtuns. The line was drawn as a demarcation of British and Afghan spheres of influence in 1893. The British controlled most of subcontinental Asia at the time, though some parts, including what is now Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan, were only loosely held. The line was inherited as a border by Pakistan after its independence. Since it splits the Pashtun population politically, it is seen as a cause for their marginalization. Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in most of eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
"I order national army, national police and intelligence department to immediately imprison Karzai, Ashraf Ghani, Zalmay Khalilzad, Atmar, and Sayyaf. They are against our countrymen, and against our homeland," he says, while dressed in army fatigues. The most recent video on Mateen’s YouTube channel shows him declaring his candidacy for the Afghan presidency. The timing of the video is strange, as it came a year after presidential elections were held in Afghanistan. Mateen appears incoherent at times in the video, and he jumps abruptly from topic to topic. His use of Dari, instead of Pashto, the language of Pashtuns, was another strange element of his presentation, given that he is discussing issues of Pashtun nationalism. On Sunday morning, Mateen told NBC News that his son’s rampage “has nothing to do with religion.”
“We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident. We weren’t aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole country,” Mateen said. Mateen could not be reached for comment by The Washington Post. His cellphone has been switched off. | |||||
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #11 Actionable Intel is too valuable use. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-06-13 15:49 |
| #10 Incompetence, impotence, deliberate indifference? All of the above? Considering that a significant number of the armed opposition in the Bundy standoff have since been arrested (or killed,) one can make a reasonable summation. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-06-13 15:26 |
| #9 "This Politically Correctness bullshit is getting the wrong people killed." FTFY, CF. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2016-06-13 15:03 |
| #8 Actionable intel is worthless unless it is well, actioned. Probably not 'actioned' because the Manteens were muslims and thus 'off limits'. This Politically Correctness bullshit is getting people killed. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-06-13 13:48 |
| #7 Ditto TN. At this point, I'd be looking very, very hard at Mateen's father and his connections. That is.... if a resolution is actually desired. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-06-13 13:19 |
| #6 I have a feeling much, much more will be learned in the days and weeks ahead. Too many dead 'entitlement class' victims in this one. I would not be surprised to see some high-level retirements or resignations. FBI Director Comey and possibly John Brennan could be likely candidates. Concur on Comey. This will be the prime opportunity to get rid of a guy that may cause Hillary problems. Obama was parroting Brennan's exact words last night - he will not go anywhere. That said, the Feds have been consistently behind the curve on Nakoula and Eiad (the Fed prosecutors had Nakoula out as an informant on Eiad when he produced that Innocence movie that caused the riots) - Eiad was a criminal and apparent terror finacier; they screwed the pooch on the Tsaarnevs and the San Bernadino cell; and now the Mateens. I don't know how many times we can settle for excuses that they knew this could happen... Actionable intel is worthless unless it is well, actioned. The witches brew of the incompetence of our policy makers, impotence of weak kneed political minded prosecutors, and the resultant deliberate indifference of the crimint folks and some SACs (not all) equals blood in the streets. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2016-06-13 12:20 |
| #5 What is strange is a Taliban father and ISIS son... A) In Syria, North Africa and elsewhere we see lots of movement of jihadis between groups -- in Mali it's like keeping track of rock bands in the Monty Python skit, and B) the Taliban are the Afghan home team, while ISIS is definitely the international conglomerate. Papa was talking about home issues, Sonny Boy was embarked on world conquest. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-06-13 10:44 |
| #4 Reference #3. No one with that high a profile goes unnoticed. Nice home and cars Saddique. Your “The Durand Jirga, Inc.” non-for profit must be doing quite well. It will be interesting to see if, like Anwar al-Awlaki, Saddique Mateen's contact(s) in Afghanistan suddenly become candidates for house cleaning. I have a feeling much, much more will be learned in the days and weeks ahead. Too many dead 'entitlement class' victims in this one. I would not be surprised to see some high-level retirements or resignations. FBI Director Comey and possibly John Brennan could be likely candidates. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-06-13 10:41 |
| #3 P2K - concur. I am curious how a family whose father has a program on Youtube, that previously hosted the current Afghan president, now supports his Taliban warrior brethren - pontificates while wearing camouflage, and has a son that is obviously radicalizing...escapes scrutiny until after the fact. This also happened in San Bernadino. Incompetence, impotence, deliberate indifference? All of the above? |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2016-06-13 10:36 |
| #2 ..nah, they're not on 'home turf'. Awashed in a sea of kaffirs, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-06-13 09:49 |
| #1 His use of Dari, instead of Pashto, the language of Pashtuns, was another strange element of his presentation, given that he is discussing issues of Pashtun nationalism. Not strange - Dari is the language used by the Afghan government. What is strange is a Taliban father and ISIS son... |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2016-06-13 01:00 |