[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 134 (Thursday, September 18, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H7863-H7864]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                  JIHADISTS KILLING AMERICAN SOLDIERS

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, an article today by Andrew McCarthy that I 
want to read in part:

       Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan . . . Bill Roggio reports 
     that jihadists have killed four American soldiers. Three were 
     killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul and the Taliban have 
     claimed responsibility. A fourth was killed in a so-called 
     ``green-on-blue'' assassination. He was an American there to 
     train ``moderate Islamist allies'' at a military base in 
     western Afghanistan, and one of these Afghans shot him dead 
     and wounded two others before finally being killed.
       It was the fourth green-on-blue attack this year. The last 
     one, in August, claimed the life of Major General Harold 
     Greene, the highest ranking American officer since the

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     Vietnam war to be killed in combat--being murdered by a 
     jihadist in an Afghan military base while training moderate 
     Islamists . . . Roggio observes the Taliban ``have devoted 
     significant efforts to stepping up attempts to kill'' U.S. 
     and allied forces.

  Mr. Speaker, this is outrageous. We don't need to be helping the so-
called moderate jihadists.
  And with that, I will insert the full article into the Record.

           [From the National Review Online, Sept. 18, 2014]

     Training `Moderate Islamists'--Four More Americans Killed in 
                              Afghanistan

                        (By Andrew C. McCarthy)

       Meanwhile back in Afghanistan . . . the Long War Journal's 
     Bill Roggio reports that jihadists have killed four American 
     soldiers. Three were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul for 
     which the Taliban have claimed responsibility. A fourth was 
     killed in a so-called ``green-on-blue'' assassination--i.e., 
     he was an American there to train our ``moderate Islamist 
     allies'' at a military base (in Western Afghanistan), and one 
     of these Afghans shot him dead and wounded two others before 
     finally being killed.
       It was the fourth green-on-blue attack this year. I wrote 
     here about the last one, in August, which claimed the life of 
     Major General Harold Greene, the highest ranking American 
     officer since the Vietnam War to be killed in combat--being 
     murdered by a jihadist in an Afghan military base while 
     training moderate Islamists is quite appropriately considered 
     combat (although being murdered at an American base while 
     preparing to deploy for combat against jihadists is 
     considered ``workplace violence''). As Bill explains, green-
     on-blue attacks are down, from a high of 44 in 2012, mostly 
     because of the U.S. draw-down and reduced ``partnering'' with 
     the ``moderate'' Afghan forces (because doing so has proven 
     perilous).
       Nevertheless, Bill observes that the Taliban ``have devoted 
     significant efforts to stepping up attempts to kill'' U.S. 
     and allied forces. Mullah Omar has bragged that the Taliban 
     ``cleverly infiltrated the ranks of the enemy'' in accordance 
     with a plan hatched in 2011. As I've noted before, the 
     Taliban knows our forces are leaving and wants to make it 
     appear that they are chasing us out of the country.
       Although the Taliban has never stopped conducting jihadist 
     terror attacks against our forces, President Obama released 
     five Taliban commanders from Guantanamo Bay in May, enabling 
     their return to the anti-American jihad. And now, as American 
     forces retreat from Afghanistan, our soldiers will be 
     assigned to train more ``moderate Islamists'' in Syria--which 
     apparently will not be a combat mission . . . unless the 
     trainees go green-on-blue.

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