As one tipster jokingly said, here’s what the Afghan air force was going to do with those Super Tucanos that the U.S. Air Force was going to give to the Afghans.
From the Wall Sreet. Journal:
KABUL—The U.S. is investigating allegations that some officials in the Afghan Air Force, which was established largely with American funds, have been using aircraft to ferry narcotics and illegal weapons around the country, American officials told The Wall Street Journal.
Two probes of the Afghan Air Force, or AAF, are under way—one led by the U.S. military coalition and another by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, officials said.
Maybe that’s why the light attack contract was cancelled. (Ok, not really.)
Is anyone really that surprised to find that the Afghan military is running drugs? Wait a second, where else have I heard of an air force smuggling drugs in cargo planes?
And yes, that’s an Afghan air force C-27A in the pic above.
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If they are then they got the idea from us during Vietnam…..American Gangster anyone.
Can we say Air America Part 2 can we get mel gibson back in the air again
how about a movie on this:
http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/articles/Nima…
Central-bankster cartel hegemony
After Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan went under the New World Order umbrella, there were less than a half-dozen Nation States without a central bank controlled by the Zionist cartel. And, it won't be long before it's just Cuba and Panama are left to find their seat under the umbrella, unless of course, they are already so corrupted as to be insignificant in the banksters scheme of things. Darn shame the US pays about 3/4 of the costs in blood and treasure for this UN/NATO ponzi rip.
Forgot to mention that Syria and Iran are not Nations with central banks under Zionist control. Therein lies the rub.
It's not the Citizens of the US that want this march to hegemony – we really have no choice in being the beat cop for the World Order. Hey, they got a monopoly on our money Mar. 9, 1932 – it was only a matter of time before the tyrants had the absolute monopoly.
Talk radicals, talk banksters, talk world hegemony, but isn't there a pipeline waiting to go through to the med (for Israel/Zion)- maybe a narcotic pipeline as well as Afghan'n is the world's largest producer of opium and hash?
read it and weepvigilantcitizen(dot)com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-israel-supreme-court/
www2(dot)ministries-online(dot)org/biometrics/aglobgov3(dot)html
www(dot)abovetopsecret(dot)com/forum/thread564758/pg1
"money will always be able to corrupt every greedy person" Greed is a cancer to the world, not a particular place where greedy people live. If that is your rationale, what do you say about this country?
Greed is the blood that makes human society function. Ambition is the heart that pumps it through the body that is a country. Money and people is the oxygen and Nitrogen. In that regard, we are strong. That's why the USSR died. Right now the cancer are people like you who have nothing better to do than whine about it on Defense analysis blog. Change has to be all in or it won't happen. So your world without greed can't happen until I and the rest of the Jingos here agree. And we don't. Humans society only advances in in times of war.
That's what I say. Stick that starbucks and drink it.
what a load of nonsense.
you can do better than that.
Hate to let you in on the little truth about the cold war NickyT……the reason we won is not that we out Greeded the Commies…. its that we supplemented the profits to our defense industry by allowing the continual advancement of commercial technology and developed rampant consumerism to continue the trend.
What this does is drop the price considerably of those specialist goods that only the Military buys….can you say Cell phones? GPS? Go and look when the Military started really talking about the new Future Warrior concept. Now see how long it took for that tech to be built by the private sector, and how long the development periods are. How many generations of IPODs will come out between the outset of this project and having every US serviceman wired up.
One more though for you Nick…… the reason that we won, is that we can afford to purchase, through the private market, technological goods that would be cost prohibitive, at the scales of consumption used by the military, for them to produce . Go and look at how many individual cell phones were produced, compare that to the total number of hand held radios. We live in the post communistic age, it's a consumerist age! What the upcoming ideological war will be about is whether to allow the owners of industry to pollute and corrupt our political discourse to entrench their interests and deny technological advancement in key areas for the sake of continual profit.
I'd rather have a pbr…..
Afgan drug production has increased seven fold since we went in. Is the US so stupid as to not think they willl get the drugs out any way possible. And drug money will always be able to corrupt every greedy person they need to make it happen. Afganistan is a cancer to the world.
Before the illegal US invasion and occupation, Afghanistan wasn't producing as much drugs.
The American government is a cancer to the world.
Everywhere the US and the NATO have gone, the place and the people have become FAR worse off than before … Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya …
Yeah Germany, Japan and South Korea are just awful……
I'm not talking about WWII. NATO was established AFTER WWII.
You are welcome to do your own research and prove me wrong.
Korea was after WWII 1950-1953 just a heads up
I guess you just got proved wrong Passingby.
I'm in full agreement with you Passingby. Indeed the American government is a cancer to the world, and our malignant War Cancer is about to mestastasize in Iran. Fortunately for the rest of the world the American War Cancer is terminal and will eventually die an ignominious death while the rest of world breathes a heavy sigh of gratitude.
Because the UN has done such an outstanding job? Just saying…
in killing civilians, yes
Because they wouldn't be killed already through local nationals?
South Korea is one of richest countries on earth. We helped them.
We have helped many countries throughtout our nations history. You should
take some courses on American Military History.
LOL. you obviously never read any real history.
propaganda, yes. History? not a chance. Nice try though.
Yep, Zinn isn't on my reading list.
Nato? And what about Croatia-Kosovo? Kuwait (Desert Storm)? Lybia?…. Nevermind you must be very proud bout the achievements os Varsaw Pact, like Cuba, North Korea, Afganistan and Yugoslavia on the 80's…
blah blah blah… ok, so lets pretend the US is demolished, do you realize what sort of power vacuum would be created? We would only have another country assume the reigns, and you would hate and blame all the world's woes on them. No one wins; agree that people are cancer, and try to focus on things that make you happy.
you don't know what you are talking about. The US government has long been captured by special interests, greedy banksters and murderous death merchants (read US military industrial complex).
the world will be a much better place without the criminal syndicate led by the US.
there is a far more urgent and dangerous power vacuum for you to deal with – it lies in that space between your ears.
Can I get a "murderous American death merchant" t-shirt? I love the names you leftists people come up with.
I do wish idiots like yourself would spend a few years working in a factory in the PRC, or starving to death in North Korea. Might give you some insight.
Someone should calm down a little; if you expect people to hear you out and acknowledge what you say, you can drop the insults.
Yeah, there is corruption in the world, but I can guarantee you that the world's corruption doesn't rest solely in the hands of scheming rich Americans…. the scheming rich maybe, but they're not exclusively American.
Money has no nationality and it speaks in all languages, there are filthy Americans, Canadians, Venezuelans, Mexicans, Brits, Frenchmen, Russians, Somalis, etc. So if you remove this "American blight", it isn't going to do anything – someone else is going to come along and do something similar.
Prohibition doesn't work. The common sense solution would be to treat drugs the same way as tobacco and alcohol. Control it, tax it, do a hearts-and-minds campaign against it, treat is as a health and social problem, not as a crime. At a stroke, we'd get rid of a lot of crime at home and save other countries from being taken over by cartels. As it stands, prohibition is about 10 times more expensive (in terms of law enforcement, crime, health care, broken lives) than legalization would be. – Plus, as a bonus, our enemies in Afghanistan would be starved of cash. How about that! – I wonder how many politicians campaigning for prohibition are (secretly) funded by drug barons…
Taliban banned drugs in the '90s because it was un-Islamic. Once they disappeared the planting resumed. Taliban will settle scores again once the Americans are out, but need the money.
I think "I told you so" would be in order here. But, remember who it was that requested the Russians for added air assets in A' stan . . . remember NATO!? Shocker (NOT) . . .to whom!?
And, YOU think they are supporting US interests? (Insert meniachal laugh here)
The contract was not canceled because they would use the aircraft to smuggle drugs; it was canceled because they refused to cut the CIA in on the profits.
It's probably because of the amount of the cut demanded by the CIA and others in the loop.
The CIA operates like a mafia ( this might be too much of a compliment, as mafias seem to have much higher moral standards, relatively speaking.)
Although sometimes the most efficient way to defend yourself is to kill everyone that might be a threat…..
using your twisted logic, the Chicago mafias were entitled to kill the police as the most efficient way to defend themselves.
but then, you are a product of the most successful brainwashing machines in the world – the US propaganda apparatus.
Everything you say is only in your convoluted mind. You offer no facts. Not only that, but you ignore all of the good that the US has done. I bet you are one of those people who defend Russia running over the czechs with tanks, or the chinese Tinenmen Square, or how Syria is doing the right thing for its people. You are hypocritical and biased. As a matter of fact the only reason you come here is to argue, why?
I'm totally against Stalin and the former USSR in all their murderous campaigns against domestic and foreign dissidents, just as I'm totally against the war criminals in the White House and US Congress in all their murderous campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria … (too long to list)
Actually, NATO is headed by a Dane – go figure. All roads lead to Rome my friend. Check out the article at abovetopsecret (dot) com
Gregory Savage, forgot to mention that if you actually think the CIA operates as regular government agency instead of the murderous mafia entity it truly is, then do yourself and the US a favor, stay away from the voting booths, as you simply don't have sufficient IQ, real world knowledge and experience pick your representatives in the so-called US government. (it's really not your government right now)
NOT surprised. I really dislike the bums the Afghan armed forces are. They take free weapons from Uncle Sam and kill GIs with them. No surprised the Afghan Air Force is taking dope around and taking money from Taliban back drug makers. Time to leave them in there own stew.
by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Hillary Clinton is an interesting case study. She started four years ago as a charming Secretary of State, the smile on the snout to wipe out the snarl of her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice and four years on, she appears on camera butch, a trucker-type probably complete with tattoos, insolent, inconsequential and incompetent. We now understand Bill.
What happened to Hillary Clinton?
Her credentials for the position of Secretary of State were never that great; let us be honest: someone who lied on camera for all to see about getting off an aircraft in the middle of a war zone in Bosnia in the 1990s when in fact she arrived to a red-carpet welcome, complete with band playing… Since when is a red carpet and a band a war zone?
Right…
And now, the Chief of Diplomacy of the United States of America imitates her representative at the UNO, Susan Rice, in insolence, calling Russia and China "despicable" for spoiling her war plans in Syria (and beyond).
Insolence is indeed the mainstay and the keyword behind US diplomacy, intrusion ditto and hypocrisy has to be the toothpick in the throat of those who try to expound Washington's virtue on the world stage. And let us be perfectly frank. Hillary Rodham Clinton had a very easy passage before her as the outwardly visible sidekick of Barack Obama, elected after eight years of a Bush regime which confirmed all the worst nightmares of the conspiracy theorists. Did she pull it off? No she didn't.
For someone in her position, to label the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China as "despicable" because they exercised their right to block NATO's evil desire to make another Libya out of Syria, is a clear sign of how low US diplomacy has sunk. In fact, it is difficult to discern which of the last three Secretaries of State is worse: Colin Powell, with his lies at the UNO about Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction; Condoleezza Rice, with her justification of Georgia's murderous attack against Russians and now Hillary War Zone Clinton, responsible for Libya and desperate to press further eastwards as she holds the hands of those whose human rights records are…in a word…despicable.
Despicable are those Gulf Royals, unelected, but in power, and accepted without a word of contestation by Clinton and Obama and company, some of whom allegedly go to Morocco and perform the most horrific sexual crimes with boys and girls…despicable are the leaders of the Gulf States favourable to the USA and its allies siphoning off their resources, which have carried out the most draconian measures against their citizens.
No mention from despicable Hillary War Zone Clinton.
…
… continued
Despicable is the United States of America and its policy of torture flights, on which CIA operationals carried out barbaric acts against detainees; despicable it is to flout international law, invade sovereign states and destroy their civilian infrastructures with military hardware.
Despicable it is to maintain concentration camps, a festering wound on the collective face of humanity and a profound insult to human decency. Despicable it is to sodomise detainees; despicable it is to urinate in food, despicable it is to deprive detainees of sleep, despicable it is to water-board people, despicable it is to force Moslems to eat pork.
Despicable is Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, where the worst human rights violations in Latin America are perpetrated by the United States of America; despicable was Abu Ghraib concentration camp in Iraq, where the great American heroine Lynndie England was let loose on people who had been imprisoned without charge but hey! "just havin' fun". Despicable it is to detain people without due process, without access to a lawyer, without access to family visits and without even an accusation.
Despicable it is to arm terrorists overseas, as was the case in Libya and as is the case in Syria. Despicable, then, if we analyse with a modicum of intelligence, is Hillary R. Clinton and the hellhole that she represents.
To prove my point, in how many of the human rights violations mentioned above were Russia and China involved?
None.
Thank you. I rest my case. Hillary War Zone Liar Clinton: YOU are despicable.
What the hell are you going on about? When some ***hole is captured after shooting at, you don't owe him a lawyer, visits from his family, or good food. They're lucky their not treated as non-uniformed fighters were in WWII.
William Crook, spare me your ignorant, barbaric philosophy. Learn something new. Here …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm8-COJwzis&NR…
Gee those C27s look like something that could be really useful for the US army.
To bad the AF won't let it have any.
I suppose the Army can pay the Afghans to "smuggle" in supplies the AF is unwilling to transport.
The Army can fly fixed wing prop planes. Didn't know that until I caught a ride on a Ohio Guard flight with Warrants for pilots. I think the Army can't have armed ones is what they are not allowed to have.
The Air Force is getting ready to "Stand Down" some C27's.
I know the Army could use some.
Interesting, the Main MSR(s) from Pakistan are closed. Their is a transportation/logistics problem with the USAF flying aireal resupply, and the longer overland routes into Afghanistan. So how is it, that these guys, have enough time on their hands to do this?
I ain't surprised, all were doing is training the enemy in the long run. Lets just nuke the god forsaken crap hole.
does America have to do everything
Air America with the locals doing the drug running all over again. Who couldn't have seen this coming. Get out of there as soon as we can with the best deal we can get. Just fly drones to whack the bad guys, and leave the rest of that hell hole for them to deal with on their own. There is a reason they hate, and kill each other. Its a hell hole, like all places like that it breeds seriously POed folks looking for a reason to hurt others instead of helping their own.
like nyc and la lol
How can this be? Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't drug smuggling/possesion of drugs/narcotics a direct violation to Islamic law? This is supposed to be punishable by death, according to Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.
you're kidding, right?
murder, kidnapping, etc are all against Islamic law. (which some translate as "submission to God.")
You just rationalize around it. It's killing the enemy, not murder. It's taking a prisoner, not kidnapping, etc….
But yeah, drug running was an execution offense when the country was Taliban ruled, now the taliban uses it for fundraisng…
I can't wait…leave and take our toys with us.
Dear Rob:
After the Russians left that was the fall of the USSR no ?
Pam
How about a bigger shocker? Here …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvay28lZiHU&fe…
The greatest thing about a "War on Terror" is … you can ALWAYS find new terrorists if you look hard enough. S'pose that's what DHS is hoping for? Coming to a town near you soon.
re: defensetech(dot)org/2012/03/09/shocker-afghan-air-force-investigated-for-drug-running/?comp=1198882887570&rank=3
No need to look for terrorists. Just create them out of thin air by propaganda and false flag operations. Once your soldiers are on foreign soil as invaders, the local people will defend themselves. Now you can label them all as "terrorists". It's just that simple – it's the strategy used by the U.S., the UK, France and Israel.
The Afghan presidency could be involve.
The funniest thing is that 30% of Taliban funding comes directly from the US. The brutes take our money laugh at us and then beat us .
I want MY Plane back. I'm sick and tired of seeing MY Money going to these animals
by "animals" you mean the criminals running the CIA (and the US govt) and the thugs working for the CIA???
if so, then not only are you NOT getting your money back, you will be sending them more money (both with and without yourself knowledge) in the years to come.
(what's wrong with my fingers!!) meant to say " … both with and without your consent or knowledge) in the years to come. "
Pick up a old copy of Fletcher Prouty's Secret Team. Go see where your money was going back then, and draw your conclusions about where it would go now.
After Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan went under the New World Order umbrella, there were less than a half-dozen Nation States without a central bank controlled by the Zionist cartel. And, it won't be long before it's just Cuba and Panama are left to find their seat under the umbrella, unless of course, they are already so corrupted as to be insignificant in the banksters scheme of things. Darn shame the US pays about 3/4 of the costs in blood and treasure for this UN/NATO ponzi rip.
Forgot to mention that Syria and Iran are not Nations with central banks under Zionist control. Therein lies the rub.
It's not the Citizens of the US that want this march to hegemony – we really have no choice in being the beat cop for the World Order. Hey, they got a monopoly on our money Mar. 9, 1932 – it was only a matter of time before the tyrants had the absolute monopoly.
Talk radicals, talk banksters, talk world hegemony, but isn't there a pipeline waiting to go through to the med (for Israel/Zion)- maybe a narcotic pipeline as well as Afghan'n is the world's largest producer of opium and hash?
Well said. I hope that Russia, India and China would supply weapons and troops to Iran and make it Vietnam 2.0 or 3.0 if the countries is attacked / invaded.
damn me again … meant to say " .. if the country (Iran) is attacked / invaded."
Things that Third World Nations use US supplied transport planes for:
—flying refugees to safety
—flying relief supplies to flood victims
—flying crack troops to battle terrorists
or
—-Flying heroin runs to benefit the ruling family
—-Flying Russian hookers to "party" with elderly generals
—-Flying Rolls Royces from the UK to the government palace
Vote how you like
I think heroin to benefit generals and Rolls Royces is likely.
Not a third world country, but spain used C-130s to move Spanish gold (extracted from the New World and on the blood of Aztecs, Incas et al) recovered from a shipwreck back to Spain.
this is gona create some competition… i think now the zetas and the mexican cartels are gona start some shit with these guys
Afghans do heroin. Mexico is on the cocaine/marijuana circuit.
There was an effective Afghan air force well before the greatest force for god on earth showed up. Mind you they didn't know how to fly 'American-style'. That training only took a decade.
How long will it last after the masters of space and time go home? About as long as it takes to get Russian equipment, but no longer than the South Vietnamese outfit.
that's the UN vs NK, USSR, PRC
geezz
you guessed wrong AGAIN, Peetorian
Only in your mind, *********
No, at least not in the massive numbers as a result of US led UN intervention to stop the North from overthrowing the vastly corrupt, vastly unpopular regime in the South.
Not sure if trolling or a communist…
Ok, that's it. You have officially become anoying.
neither
no he just likes it in the butt.
Thanks a lot. Well, the US government (more accurately, the real, shadow power that controls the US govt) knows that its demise might be near. The crooks are passing all kinds of police-state laws (Obama already signed a big one) that will give them full "legal power" to arrest and detain without trial anyone who tries to counter them.
Knowing that the Internet presents a formidable anti-government power, prominent political whores (e.g. Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman) are working to seek unrestrained government power to monitor, trace, censor, even arrest, and prosecute internet users who spread dissent or organize protests against the government.
Meanwhile, private prisons (under the auspices of FEMA) are quietly mushrooming across the country.
William Crook, here is a short clip to keep idiots like you entertained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzdr-wzE2OA&fe…
Really? Posting 9/11 conspiracy theories?
I don't think I've posted anything from the 9-11 Commission Report.
Are you sure you understand the term "Conspiracy Theory"????
Let me guess. All orchestrated by the evil Zionists in control of everything?
Can't you crackpots even come up with some new and interesting insane ideas? Try linking it to Nigeria, aliens, and Stalin's death.
How 'bout just admitting the central bankster cartel – monopoly begets monopoly. And, don't forget their masters . . the reptilians. Ostrich!
William Crack, put the crack pipe down. Too much crack-induced Hallucination is bad for ya. Don't guess. You ain't got the necessary equipment for that.
William C, here is more good stuff for you. Watch and learn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiFnci6qPwE&fe…
it doesn't matter who heads the NATO – a brit, a dane, a pole, or a hole. The attack plans and strategies are all decided by The Interests (aka The Establishment) … just as it doesn't matter who's in the White House – a Democrat or a Republican, White or Black. The Establishment controls them all.
The US is NOT a democracy in the real sense of the word. Only the most naive, gullible and ignorant voters think their votes mean anything.
I agree with you on this one.