Martha Coakley’s Non-Existent Terrorists Wearing Explosive Vests Pull Off Brazen Daylight Kabul Attack
I think we have done what we are going to be able to do in Afghanistan. I think that we should plan an exit strategy. Yes. I’m not sure there is a way to succeed. If the goal was and the mission in Afghanistan was to go in because we believed that the Taliban was giving harbor to terrorists. We supported that. I supported that. They’re gone. They’re not there anymore.
Martha Coakley, January 11, 2009
Just seven days ago Martha Coakley, during a debate with Scott Brown, equivocally stated that the terrorists in Afghanistan are “gone”, and “they’re not there anymore”. If so, then how would Coakley describe the men wearing explosive vests who pulled the “brazen, daylight” attack on the center of Kabul today, which, according to the AP, “paralyzed the city for several hours”?
KABUL — Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault Monday on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings and gunbattles near the presidential palace and other government buildings that paralyzed the city for hours.
Afghan forces along with NATO advisers managed to restore order after nearly five hours of fighting as explosions and machine gunfire echoed across the mountain-rimmed city, sending terrified Afghans racing for cover. Twelve people were killed, including seven attackers, officials said.
More on other Martha Coakley “non-terrorist” attacks in Afghanistan, attacks which Coakley seems to believe were non-terrorist related from Hot Air:
The timing on this was rather poor, considering the deaths of eight CIA officers in Afghanistan just ten days ago at the hands of a suicide bomber. Jim clips together the suicide bomber’s valedictory message made just prior to his attack to underscore the point.
Just in case Hot Air’s pronouncement isn’t enough to sway opinion, how about a statement on the attack from the CIA, dated December 31, 2009:
CIA Director Leon E. Panetta informed the Agency workforce today that seven of their colleagues were killed and six others were injured on Wednesday at a Forward Operating Base in Khost Province, Afghanistan. The casualties were the result of a terrorist attack.
More from CBS News:
Al Qaeda: CIA Attack Was Revenge Killing
(CBS/ AP) A top al Qaeda leader Wednesday praised the Dec. 30 attack on a CIA outpost in Afghanistan and said it was to avenge the deaths of a Pakistani Taliban leader and two al Qaeda figures.
And,
The bomber, a Jordanian doctor identified as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, apparently was a double agent who had been invited inside the CIA outpost bearing a promise of information about al Qaeda’s second in command, presumed to be hiding in Pakistan.
Taliban attacks paralyze Afghan capital for hours
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