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2016-06-13 Home Front: WoT

Mateen's father hosted TV show, was Taliban supporter

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Posted by Steve White 2016-06-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#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|| 2016-06-13 01:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-06-13 09:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-06-13 10:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-06-13 10:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-06-13 10:44|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-06-13 12:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-06-13 13:19|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-06-13 13:48|| Front Page Top

#9 "This Politically Correctness bullshit is getting the wrong people killed."

FTFY, CF.

Posted by Barbara 2016-06-13 15:03|| 2016-06-13 15:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-06-13 15:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Actionable Intel is too valuable use.

Posted by Shipman 2016-06-13 15:49|| 2016-06-13 15:49|| Front Page Top

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