Mehsud Threatens to Attack Washington

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/03/baitullah_mehsud_tak.php

Baitullah Mehsud takes credit for Pakistan attacks, threatens US
By Bill Roggio
March 31, 2009 11:41 AM
Baitullah Mehsud, the Leader of Pakistan’s unified Taliban movement, threatened to attack the US and took credit for three recent attacks in Pakistan, including yesterday’s deadly military assault on a police training center in Lahore.

Baitullah claimed responsibility for the Lahore attack attack as well as suicide attacks against security forces in Islamabad and Bannu during interviews with Pakistani news outlets and international wire services.

“One attack was carried out just yesterday, the one carried out on the training center [in Lahore],” Baitullah told Aaj News. “The second attack that was carried out on the special branch of police …. near a hotel in the Sitara Market [in Islamabad] was also carried out by us. And the suicide attack in Bannu yesterday was also carried out by us.”

More than 30 police recruits and officers were killed in yesterday’s military assault on the Lahore police training facility. The same day a suicide bomber killed four security personnel and wounded three others in an attack on a military convoy in Bannu. A March 23 suicide attack outside of a Special Branch police station in Islamabad killed one policeman. Prior to the recent attack, Pakistani intelligence indicated Baitullah Mehsud dispatched more than 20 Uzbek and Paksitani suicide bombers to Pakistan’s major cities.

Baitullah said the attacks were in response to the US airstrikes targeting al Qaeda and Taliban leaders and operatives in Pakistan’s tribal areas, and promised to strike in the US.

“We have carried out all these suicide attacks to avenge the drone attacks being carried out in the tribal areas especially in the North Waziristan and [South] Waziristan,” he told Aaj News.

“There will be more such attacks,” Baitullah told AFP, including strikes inside the US.

“Very soon we will take revenge from America, not in Afghanistan but in Washington, which will amaze the entire world,” Baitullah threatened.

Head of BIA – Maulavi Mohammad Yaquob – Killed!

What is the BIA???  If this leader is so famous, why does Bill Roggio not speak of him in his Long War Journal, or note him in his wanted terrorist lists?  The main info I found was from the UN, which lists Yaquob as the head of the BIA.  So, what is the BIA?

Gary H. Johnson, Jr. (3/31/09, 2:50pmEST)

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090331/world/afghanistan_unrest

Afghan unrest kills mayor, 30 militants

KABUL (AFP) – The mayor of an Afghan city was killed in a bomb attack and 30 Taliban-linked militants died in a police operation, among separate incidents of violence reported in Afghanistan Tuesday.
The new bloodshed came as world leaders gathered in The Hague to focus on ways to help Afghanistan tackle a growing extremist insurgency and build stability.
Sakhi Amirullah Amiri, the mayor of Afghanistan’s eastern city of Khost, was killed as he was travelling home from work, police said.
“The mayor has been killed. Two of his nephews and two civilians were wounded in the blast,” said Khost province police chief Abdul Qayom Baqizoi.
The official’s body was badly damaged and one of his nephews was in critical condition, provincial public health director Amir Badshah said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Khost, which is on the border with Pakistan, has been hit by a series of militant attacks recently.
The Taliban, in government from 1996 until the 2001 US-led invasion, are leading an insurgency supported by Islamist militants across the border in nuclear-armed Pakistan.
The Afghan interior ministry said police had killed 30 rebels in an operation Monday in Uruzgan province that continued Tuesday in neighbouring Helmand province, another hotbed of Taliban activity.
“During this operation 30 enemies of peace and stability were killed and 17 were injured,” it said, adding that Mullah Mohammad Yaqoub, a “famous Taliban commander,” was among the dead.

Lugar backs Christopher Hill for Iraq Ambassador

Senator Lugar, who is a RINO, working across the aisle with John Kerry on the Afghanistan Pakistan plan to provide funding to the Taliban and the Regional countries to the tune of 15 to 20 billion dollars.

Note – 12:06pmEST FOX just noted that an additional $2.8 billion is going to counterinsurgency efforts in Afghan/Pakistan theatre.

Regardless, Christopher Hill is to be confirmed today by the Senate or later in the year.  It will be telling to see how much pull Lugar has on the hill, considering Senator Brownback’s possible decision to enact a “Hold” on the nomination.  If you add Lugar to Graham and McCain, you have a milquetoast response of “Well, we really need a man on the job…even though there may be a better man for the job, Hill is a strong candidate.”  Senator Brownback may be our only hope to block this nominee from flubbing Iraq as throughly as he botched North Korea. 

-Gary H. Johnson, Jr. (3/31/09, 12:13pmEST)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jJ1zqfVPlXbedUoX4hAoHCT6arxw

Iraq pick Hill faces Senate grilling
6 days ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Veteran US diplomat and North Korea point person Christopher Hill faces a Senate grilling Wednesday on his nomination to be ambassador to Iraq, as opposition to him taking the post seemed to wane.

One of his most vocal critics, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, promised Tuesday he would not block the nomination, highlighting the need to fill the diplomatic vacancy at a critical time.

“There are better choices out there. But at the end of the day we need an ambassador and, you know, he has many talents,” said Graham, who stressed Hill had proven “very knowledgeable about Iraq” when they met last week.

Hill was to go before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at 9:30 am (1330 GMT), bolstered by shows of support from top military commanders in the region and strong backing from the panel’s top two members.

US pushes new Opium Policy in Afghanistan

Why would it be important that the Department of Defense deemed this new policy, which is the backbone of the effort to cripple Al Qaeda’s financing in Afghanistan, a policy which must be revealed behind closed doors?

The operations chief of the DEA through last year, Braun, said that the DEA agents will increase in Afghanistan from 12 to 80.   If Obama’s strategy in the region calls the narcotics trade the major driver of corruption, why would they not just burn every single poppy?  If they are truly fighting a war, and our soldiers are in harms way, what good will tracking the financing elements through counternarcotics do to transform the industry of the Afghan people?

Matthew Levitt, who sits in Dennis Ross’ old think tank seems to believe that this methodology will localize the jihadists by removing their funding and making them easier to track. 

The fact that the operational policies were held behind closed doors shows that the US Officials like Adam Smith do not yet have a full plan and that they intend to coordinate the efforts here in the United States with an agenda that must remain, for the time being, private.  It could also indicate that testimony of undercover agents in the counternarcotics agencies are being heard.  Regardless, the lack of transparency in the policy at this stage calls credibility of the plan into question. 

Why?  The US counternarcotics squad is going to try to end corruption.  How is it possible to end corruption in an industry if the US and NATO are going to be enacting a plan while giving confidences to Taliban members that will have the opportunity to relay that info to Al Qaeda…all while the US public is kept in the dark about the process.  At the least, it guarantees that bloggers and reporters are kept in the dark and are unable to monitor the progress and success of the effort and inform the American people as to the success or failure of the Obama Administration.  At worst, this means that the U.S. has economic vested interest in maintaining the production of poppies in mercantile/colonial fashion for the Big Pharma industry and all of the investors in drug companies in America that are focused on monopolizing the market.  Either way, this backroom policy meeting is designed to keep America deaf, blind and dumb…and the reporters mum on the US representative players and interests and involvement on the issues of the Afghan Poppy trade, all while the US plans to impose wheat production on Afghan farmers and developing alternative wealth sources for the people ravaged by the drug trade and all of the negative aspects of Al Qaeda.

The policies guarantee a response from Muslim nations who seek to focus on reframing the issue in Afghanistan as an “occupation”.  This occupation mentality declares US and foreign presence as the age old problem, completely legitimizing the activities of the Taliban to force fundamentalist Islam.  A Presstv article following the AP report on the Obama policy reveals precisely this.

Gary H. Johnson, Jr. (3/31/09, 11:58amEST)

http://ktar.com/index.php?nid=45&sid=1111411
US launches new fight against Afghan drug trade
March 30th, 2009 @ 10:55am
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) – American authorities are planning a broad new campaign against terrorist financing networks in Afghanistan, sending in dozens of federal drug enforcement agents to help stem the country’s massive opium trade, the Associated Press has learned.

The surge of narcotics agents, which would boost the number of anti-drug officials inside Afghanistan from a dozen to nearly 80, would bolster a strategy laid out last week by the Obama administration to use U.S. and NATO troops to target “higher level drug lords.”

Gaddafi Throws Tantrum – Assad Incites Intifada

Gaddafi has always been a touch eccentric in his choice of words and extravagant in his posturing and it is obvious he wants to play the puffed up peacock so that Saudi Arabia will bribe him to side with it in a united Arab front against Iran’s growing ascendance to Nuclear Prominence and Shia Revolutionary Power.  This is normal Tribal politics at its most colorful in the Islamic world.

However, the interesting thing about this article is that Syria’s Assad says that he believes militants of the resistance should conduct attacks on Israel to “force” Israel to negotiate.  This is the leader of Syria, defacto exile home of the HQs of roughly 500 militant factions of the PLO and terroristic jihadi Islamic Supremacists of the world, including Hamas and Fatah.  When Assad speaks in such a fashion, he is obviously brokering for support from Saudi Arabia in the form of bribes, which will provide enough incentive for it to break away from Iran’s fold and join Saudi Arabi, which will allow the Muslim World to keep the charade of “peace” while bringing the symbolic Palestinian fighters into line with Saudi Arabian means and ways.  However, let’s look at this puzzle from another angle.

What if Obama said that America was going to pay mercenary forces like Blackwater or bribe Kurdish separatists or Baluchistani rebels to attack Iran to “force” Ayatollah Khameini to negotiate on its Nuclear program?  Let’s put the shoe on the other foot here for a second.  What would the European community say about that?   The entire world would be up in arms over the possibility of a full blown war, right?  So, where is the outrage and condemnation of Assad from the international community for inciting intifada against Israel and violent terroristic death to innocent Israelis?  Will it ever materialize in the MSM?  Is this possibly a double standard?  The Media will be tied up paying attention to the G-20 and Clinton’s handshake with the Iranian Foreign Minister, the rise of Netanyahu in Israel and a host of other situations…this comment of Assad will be conveniently buried by the volume of time.

 

Gary H. Johnson, Jr. (3/31/09, 4:28amEST)

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/world.aspx?ID=BD4A971035
31 March 2009
Angry ‘king of kings’ Gaddafi stalks out of Arab summit
FOREIGN STAFF

Doha
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi stormed out of an Arab summit yesterday after denouncing the Saudi king and declaring himself “the dean of Arab rulers”.
Gaddafi disrupted the opening Arab League summit in Qatar by taking a microphone and criticising King Abdullah, calling him a “British product and American ally”.
When the Qatari emir tried to silence him, Gaddafi, who is also the African Union chairman, insisted on being allowed to speak. “I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam (leader) of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level,” the Libyan leader said.

The Hisba – Introducing Imam al Mahdi Zed ibn Yahia

Res Ipsa Loquitor…

Public Duties in Islam: The Institution of the Hisba

by: al-Shaykh al-Imam Ibn Taymiya

Taqiya Translation from Arabic by Muhtar Holland
Introduction and Editorial Notes by Khurshid Ahmad

Transcribed Translation by Imam al-Mahdi Zed ibn Yahia with proper modifications* and casuistic exegesis**.

*Modifications amount to the replacement of the word “God” with the word “Allah” throughout the entirety of the Treatise in order to orient the work of the Shaykh of Islam in a manner fitting with the prescriptions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Sunna.  “Allah” is the name of the God to which Muhammad and the Islamic Faithful order their prayer and devotion…and dedicate their internal and external Jihads.

[A note to law enforcement agencies - please be advised that (unless the 1985 and 1987 translations of ibn Taymiya's Treatise "Public Duties in Islam" by The Islamic Foundation be an act of Taqiya) the lives of Muhtar Holland and Khurshid Ahmad may be in danger for their decision to exercise the innovation of translation of the name of Allah into the English idiom God.  As a matter of the Supremacy of Islamic ethics, to translate "Allah" into "God" is considered a jahaliya and innovation when translating the Qur'an into English, unless it be for deceitful means under threat of direct peril or as a matter of duress, to which witnesses must be brought forth upon trial.  According to the revivalist-oriented Fundamentalist Islamists of the world, this injunction of the Prophet Muhammad to reject innovation must be respected, and consideration for Fatawa for the death of both Khurshid Ahmad and Mutar Holland must be given cultural license throughout the Muslim Umma as fitting with the Sharia Laws and dictates of the Prophet and the salaf as relates to the measures of apostasy and the decisions of the Figh Council.  Morality is a matter of Public Duty in Islam, as the title of this work suggests; therefore, respecting the Law of Islam supercedes the laws and borders derived from the innovations of man - Fatawa respecting the death sentences of Apostates, according to this treatise is a matter of Allah's Rights, and perpetrators of such acts are merely those who hold the capacity to take action by the hand in completion of the Hisba, superceding the injunctions of manmade laws, borders or courts.] 

The Institution of the Hisba – Public Duties in Islam’s Editor’s Preface

Sooner or later the world might wake up to the fact that a worldwide Muhtasibate is on the grow.  Khurshid Ahmad is right in the center of the mix in Leicester, England.  The economic world of Shariah Compliance is currently in a state of upheaval and internal strife as the regulatory framework as the system of SCF seeks to go nationwide in its manifestations and paperwork.  The Muhtasib is the steward of the Muslim Economy, and the head of the institution of the Hisba.  The institution of the Hisba is derived from the Muslim Koranic injunction “enjoin good and forbid evil”.  The word enjoin means “to demand or command from a position of authority”.  The only Authority in Islam is Allah, Muhammad, and the rightly guided caliphs of the Sunna (and Imams in the Shia and offshoots), and their machinations in the Hadith, the ijma, and the scholarly parallels and ijtihads of accepted Muslim leaders.  Since there is a schism over the regulatory nature of the Hisba’s application at a worldwide level, the radicals have often declared their leadership and spiritual guides based on their knowledge of the figh and the Shariah mandates of the Hisba.  The Taliban in the Afghan/Pakistan region are “students” whose fundamentalist reading of the text of Islam is based on the “enjoin good and forbid evil” ethical guidance, expounded upon by the Shaykh of Islam, ibn Taymiya. 

The context of Jihad is the Hisba.  The fundamentalist reading of Islam is the Hisba.  Jihad is but the completion of the Hisba.  And the sooner the West realizes this fact, the sooner it can effectively communicate across the vast chasm that divides the Western world of reason from the Muslim world of divine aspirations and martyr rationales.  For a look into the regulatory ruckus in the Muslim world, simply take a research trail down the Khurshid Ahmad lane.  Ahmad’s Islamic Foundation in Leicester provides a powerfully clear window that might make one think that Osama bin Laden’s gripe with Saudi Arabia had more to do with the economic realm than the political aspects that are seen on the surface of the Islamists of today.  The following is the editor’s note at the beginning of Public Duties in Islam.  In the tabs above this post you will see “The Hisba” – that is the Public Duties in Islam’s Appendix essay by Khan, which exposes the true nature of the Muhtasib. 

This is only the beginning.  I have already reviewed the book Public Duties in Islam in the “Reviews” tab to the left.  I will be designing a lecture series to expose the true nature of the ideological nexus of deceit that is Jihad and Hisba.  Check out this Editor’s note by Ahmad and then consider the reason I am keeping an SCF Journal.  Shariah Compliant Finance ushers in Shariah Law. 

In the absence of a Caliph, a steward must arise – Muhammad was the first Muhtasib…the steward of modern Islam will arise in the Shariah Compliant Finance world, should fundamentalists be true to their nature…  The harsh Shariah Law of the Taliban is the application of the Hisba.  There is no moderate form of radical fundamentalist Hisba.  There is no such thing as a good Taliban – they are driven by the sole belief that it is their job to FORCE all men and women the world over to bow five times a day in worship of Allah, or to die by the sword of Islam.  The only other option is to live in dhimmitude by paying off the Muhtasib humbly for the right to live as a second class sharecropping slave.  This is the context of “Convert, pay the jizya or die” code of the Koran. 

The value of Hisba is simple – it provides the context of Islam’s radical fundamental readings and applications.

Takaful, Islamic Insurance, is the modern Jizya tax of dhimmitude.  To pay the jizya, modern businesses will pay Marine Takaful taxation to steer clear of the pirate attacks and their ramifications in worldwide trade.  All Shariah Compliant Finance loans must be insured through Takaful.  The AIG World of AIG Emaya is an obvious piece of the Islamization of America.   The Shariah Advisory Boards of the world are the attempt to establish a regulatory framework for all transactions to remain riba free.  Is the United States going to be forced to accept the dictates of the Shariah Advisory Boards to guarantee its AIG holdings?  Is it possible that David Yerushalmi’s case against AIG on the grounds that bailing it out with taxpayer funds violates the Establishment Clause of the United States is the only saving grace to come out of the AIG scandal?  Consider this as you strive forward and understand that there will be more to come.  My notes on the AAOIFI, the IFSB, the IZO, and other Muslim Organizations like the Figh Council in my SCF Journal Entries are the keys to establishing the connecting pieces of a puzzle whose picture the world cannot yet see - a burgeoning World whose economies and citizens end up enslaved to the heel of Talibans and at the cruel mercy of Shariah Justice.

Gary H. Johnson, Jr. (3/30/09, 11:28pmEST)

Public Duties In Islam:  The Institution of the Hisba
Editor’s Preface
by: Khurshid Ahmad

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Mercy-Giving

The economic challenge of Islamic resurgence has many ramifications; one of them is to develop Islamic guidelines for economic management and policy making in a contemporary Muslim society.  Muslim economists and policy makers have a unique role to play.  On the one hand they have to study and analyse the problems faced by a contemporary economy and society, and on the other they have to delve into the sources and traditions of Islam to imbibe Islamic values and principles with a view to applying them in seeking solutions to contemporary problems.  An Islamic economy in the fifteenth century Hijra is going to be a new and modern experiment directed towards achieving the goals of Islam and translating its values and principles into contemporary practice.  The Qur`an and the Sunna are the primary sources for this guidance, yet light has to be drawn from the entire classical literature as well as from experiments made in the past.  Al-Hisba is one such institution which deserves to be examined carefully, both in theoretical as well as historical literature.  This is a topic on which quite a wealth of material is available, full of penetrating insights for the modern economists and policy makers.

USA Today Fosters Occupation Rhetoric in Afghanistan

After 8 years of war, the word “occupation” has not entered into the rhetoric of the anti-war crowd to a high degree in the effort to root out Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.  However, today’s USA Today article by Jim Michaels guarantees that the anti-war crowd’s rhetoric against the Afghanistan “Occupation” will begin to escalate to a fevered pitch as the Peaceniks of the media demand the immediate release of Obama’s exit strategy in the now regionalized Afghanistan-Pakistan confrontation. 

The section of Michaels’ article entitled “We’re going to stay” is a gift to the Islamist pulpits and the anti-war rumblings of the insane left like Code Pink and ANSWER. 

Interestingly, the article begins and ends by demonstrating the absurdity of the friendly approach of the new Afghan plan of Obama and walks the fence on the new understanding tenor of the forces in the region who seek to stabilize the battlezone into a utopia of wheat production.  However, the numbers don’t lie, so…below, I have placed the USA Today “occupation” jumpstart and the Brookings Institute’s answer to the situation via Michael O’Hanlon, whose new book about the cost of the wars in the Obama Age is being released in a couple of days to spice up the moves via Huffington Post and New York Times MSM.  No one is talking about the big black-gold gorilla in the room, however…the Opium trade is thriving…production has increased something like 75% in the last 5 years.  If you were a commodities trader and the orange market or the banana market production had increased to such an extent, you might be happy; however, while we were supposedly burning 10% of the opium crop every year in Afghanistan, the actual numbers do not lie.  Wheat?  That is America’s answer?  We are going to force wheat production in an occupation.

This move by Michaels and followed up by the Brookings Institution who backed the release of the new Army Manual for counterinsurgency FM 3-07 last Friday, gives rise to the spectacle of Judy Millers of the world heading to FOX to smile and wax philosophically about the challenge of dealing with governments that are in bed with the radical Islamic Supremacist Jihadists to a high degree, and rambling about the challenge of threading the needle through dialogue without bringing to the fore the reality of the absurdity of the proposition.

If you were to seek to establish the precedent for the United States creating a colonial enterprise in the Muslim World in order to blame America for all the problems that gave rise to Osama bin laden’s crews, this Obama method could provide no better fuel to the incitement flames around the world’s Muslim Streets.  The Obama plan is literally playing into the hands of the Radical Islamists’ until now untrue and revisionist accusation that the American Satan is attempting to establish tutelage and impose colonialism onto the Muslim people.   Obama’s administration plan in Afghanistan in tandem with the lefty press is playing right into the hands of our accusers.  This is the step in the dark…that moment when self-loathing and self-hatred takes a turn for the worse and gives rise to an internationally accepted anger at American policies throughout history in the region.  Obama has turned the Afghanistan sphere onto the rails of proof for Islamist Accusation.

We are not long from complete and utter surrender and self flagellating payment of reparations the Muslim World over.   The Engagement, Reconciliation, Regionalization model of promised failure has now merged with the denial of the public media’s propaganda teams from the NGO world.  Look out world, War is on the horizon in a big way. Obama has guaranteed backlash from every radical avenue possible in less than 3 months on the job.  Bravo, Mr. President.  Bravo.

All that is left is the destruction of the capitalist model and the rise of worldwide Shariah Compliant Finance and Shariah Law and order is just a hop skip and a jump away.  The Dhimmipolitik of President Barack Hussein Obama knows no bounds.

Gary H. Johnson, Jr. (3/30/09, 4:25pmEST)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-29-afghanistan_N.htm?csp=34
Afghan strategy a matter of trust
By Jim Michaels, USA TODAY
BAKWA, Afghanistan — Haji Gran, a 70-year-old poppy and wheat farmer, wants a pump for his well.
U.S. Marine Sgt. Joshua Randall has an answer: “If (you) start telling us where the Taliban is and where they’re placing bombs on the road, I can start asking for water pumps,” he tells Gran and his family through an interpreter.

Gran, wearing a white turban and shalwa kameez, the local dress of loose pants and shirt, says he will be glad to provide information about the Taliban. “The bombs are not good for us either,” he says.

There are smiles and handshakes all around as Randall’s Marines climb back into Humvees and head off on another bone-jarring drive across fallow and drought-hardened fields to the next compound.

Randall’s approach is at the heart of the Afghanistan war strategy that President Obama announced Friday. The additional troops Obama is sending to Afghanistan will focus not on battling Taliban insurgents face-to-face, but on improving security in far-flung villages such as Bakwa by winning the trust of the local population, one farmer at a time.

Christopher Hill – New Iraq Ambassador???

Have you heard about the Christopher Hill nomination for the Iraq Ambassadorial job?  You know, I read a whole lot.  I research like crazy.  I cover multiple papers and look in all sorts of compilations and for the last month I have been piled up just trying to catch up with everything that is going on. 

But you would think that the nomination of Christopher Hill to the top spot in the Iraq Diplomatic endeavors of the United States at the close of the brutal campaign in the region would be front page news Tomorrow!!!  Today is the 30th, tomorrow the Senate is going to either move to accept or deny the position.  So, why so quiet, media?  
 

American Sharecroppers: Tim Geithner’s Toxic Predatory Plan

American Sharecroppers:  Tim Geithner’s Toxic Predatory Plan
by: Gary H. Johnson, Jr.
March 30, 2009

An Op-Ed in Reaction to http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2009/0327_geithner_plan_young.aspx

On March 27th, 2009, H. Peyton Young of the Brookings Institution released a summary of the Geithner plan of action to remove toxic assets from the US Banking world.  The Summary was entitled, “The Geithner Plan and the Taxpayers’ Curse”.  In it, Young noted that the taxpayer had a long road to travel in which it would, in most scenarios, wind up with the short end of the stick.  He described the manner in which the Treasury was determining the value of assets based on an equation of Variance.  The Equation looks like this: V = (H+L)/2.  What this means is that the uncertain value of homes and properties that the US Government and taxpayer is investing in is based on the actual value when purchased fluctuating between the High value (H) and the Low value (L).  Therefore, the expected variable Value (V) of a property is worth half of the low and the high put together, since it is a toss up which side of the coin it will land on at the market.  In other words, a house can be worth $150,000 for a High and $50,000 for a Low and the Value of the Asset will be found to be $100,000.  Pretty simple, right?  Well, Young then notes that the US Government (you know, the taxpayer) is investing 85% in the property from the gun, and splits the risk in the final 15% with the taxpayers so that the taxpayer might earn rewards for the possibility of a rising market and thriving economy should that somehow come to pass.  This basically means that in a $100,000 Variable Valued Asset like the one demonstrated above, the United States Government has bought the property at 85%, the US taxpayer then becomes a partner and invests 7.5% while private investors purchase tranches of property to assume the remainder of the risk in what will be called equity stakeholdings.  This basically means that the US Taxpayer is on the hook for 92.5% of the investment and earns rewards on 7.5% in a hocus pocus show of rationale that would have brought a tear to Stalin’s eye.