The awful Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has urged Taliban rulers to form a broad-based alliance to fight the United States, saying that he and his troops are ready to join such a force.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/07/2001 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
The Frontier Post reports the Taliban are organizing suicide squads, "ready to lay down their lives in the war against the US." Interesting concept; the US Army has formations (called infantry) that are trained to kill the enemy, but we're obviously behind in having no units trained to kill themselves. Which brings up a further question: When they go through Suicide Troop School, do they flunk the course if they survive the final exam?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/07/2001 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
Gulgarai was one of the local Pashtun commanders who defected to the Taleban in 1997, allowing them briefly to capture Mazar. He had a bad reputation for Human Rights abuses and would probably have fought to the last, if necessary, because defection to the Alliance was not an option.
Reports of Gulgarai's death came after the Alliance said on Tuesday it had won control of three other districts, south of Sholgera, as a week of see-saw battles continued. But the Taleban have disputed this, and an official told the French news agency AFP that their forces were preparing to counter-attack. "God willing we will be able to recapture all lost territories in a very short time," he said.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/07/2001 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
As the U.S. geared up for military action in Afghanistan, US Army Chaplain Capt. Abd Al-Rasheed Muhammad questioned the permissibility of a fight against fellow Muslims.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/07/2001 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11124 views]
Top|| File under:
William Milton Cooper, 58, a wanted militia figure who vowed that he would never be taken alive, has gotten his way; he was fatally shot at his Eager, Ariz., home after confronting deputies and shooting one of them in the head.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/07/2001 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
In response to criticism of stupid statements by its foreign editor, Loren Jenkins, National Public Radio generously notes that it "would never knowingly compromise the security or safety of American military or national security operations by reporting information that would endanger them. The entire editorial team at NPR operates by this standard, and our reporting on the terrorism story and its aftermath reflects our careful editorial practices in this regard."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/07/2001 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
Federal officials are investigating Islamic money exchanges with offices in the United States that the investigators say funnel tens of millions of dollars to finance terrorist activities.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/07/2001 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
