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2006-09-18 Afghanistan

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Posted by Oztralian 2006-09-18 05:22|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The BBC managed to report this without mentioning the child casuaties. Can't be to judgmental.

Posted by phil_b 2006-09-18 05:50|| 2006-09-18 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 No Taleban prisoners. Not ever again. At least not after any interrogation.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-18 06:29|| 2006-09-18 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Subhuman cowards, these are the brave lions of islam. This is what you can expect from the Taliwhackers if they ever get a foothold in your area. Attractive, isn't it.

Posted by Thomort Flomoling3198 2006-09-18 06:53|| 2006-09-18 06:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Once again, If you are among muzzies, do not bunch up, do not wait in lines. Keep a distance between each other when in a public area. Do not attend funerals, sales, sporting events, theaters, churches, restaurants, or clubs.
Your life is in danger. If you remain silent, you will hear them seething. Do not smile or laugh.

Posted by wxjames 2006-09-18 10:02|| 2006-09-18 10:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Are taliban mostly afghans or pakistanis????

Posted by Cheregum Crelet7867 2006-09-18 11:08|| 2006-09-18 11:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Are taliban mostly afghans or pakistanis????

A mix, with a spineless core of Arabs.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-18 12:10|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-18 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 The Lions of Islam^TM...Mo-ham-head's finest...are doing what they do best: Committing suicide and homicide simultaeously on innocent women and children.

I am sure the demon allan is pleased.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-09-18 12:20|| 2006-09-18 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Killing children and shooting nuns in the back--does their bravery know no bounds?

Posted by Dar">Dar 2006-09-18 12:26|| 2006-09-18 12:26|| Front Page Top

#9 How low and cowardly can you possibly get. Willing to kill children to get a soldier or two, who's trying to do some real good in the community. It really is hopeless. These brainwashed fools have to be eliminated.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-18 12:44|| 2006-09-18 12:44|| Front Page Top

#10 No Taleban prisoners. Not ever again. At least not after any interrogation.

Rather than go through all the fuss with the torture while interrogating them, just remind them that there are two ways to die . . . . Which way will be decided after your info checks out.

Posted by gorb 2006-09-18 12:49|| 2006-09-18 12:49|| Front Page Top

#11 The Taliban are a creation of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, designed to take over Afghanistan for Pakistan, which has historically desired Afghanistan as a place of retreat ("defence in depth") against invasion by India or China. Taliban means students because they were gleaned from amongst the Pashtun lads memorizing the Koran in Pakistani madrassahs. The Pashtun tribal territory lays on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border, and they are all cousins of course, so it was easy for them to gather support for taking over Afghanistan in the 1990s, and now as they raid across the border in their attempt to drive out NATO. Early on most of the Taliban were local Afghanis, but now the majority are sweepings from the madrassahs on the Pakistan side of the border, as far as I can tell. With, as Rob Crawford says, a sprinkling of Arab financiers and glory seekers.

Or at least that's my understanding. Additions and corrections by those who know more gratefully appreciated.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-18 13:26|| 2006-09-18 13:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Willing to kill children to get a soldier or two, who's trying to do some real good

More like:

Willing to kill whoever's trying to do some real good.

Don't be too restrictive with your definitions, SOP/35Rat.

At the end of the main war, I was criticized for insisting that the captured Taleban forces must not be folded back into Afghan society. People said that many of them had been impressed into service or were needed to jumpstart Afghanistan's rural economy. I felt they needed to be placed in internement camps that were completely staffed by armed women military police who imposed hard labor and rigorous conditions in a shoot to kill environment.

I am sick to death of bleeding hearts.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-18 13:36|| 2006-09-18 13:36|| Front Page Top

#13 The BBC, however, did mange to get this little snark in the second sentence in the article: The blast came a day after Nato said it had driven the Taleban from Panjwayi.

The deeper they get, the harder they dig.

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-18 13:37|| 2006-09-18 13:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Just one more reason to ARCLIGHT the entire NWFP and surrounding areas. If there are no madrassas, no students, and no one else with the spare time to commit such offences, they will cease. An ARCLIGHT strike leaves a 2x4-mile field of SMALL toothpicks.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-09-18 14:56|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-09-18 14:56|| Front Page Top

#15 Old Patriot, your suggestions about relandscaping the NWFP make more and more sense each passing day.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-18 15:01|| 2006-09-18 15:01|| Front Page Top

#16 Zenster, I realize a lot of people make this error, including the MSM, but the Taliban stronghold is in the Federally Adminstered Tribal Areas and not the NWFP (which for the most part is not on the Afghan border and where it is on the Afghan border is not populated by Pashtuns).

Posted by phil_b 2006-09-18 18:42|| 2006-09-18 18:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Thank you for clarifying phil_b. All well and fine, let's bounce the rubble in FATA. Pakistan is no longer of any use to us, pending conflict with China or no. If Pakistan is molten glow-in-the-dark slag, China won't be going there anyway.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-18 22:39|| 2006-09-18 22:39|| Front Page Top

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