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2006-11-26 Afghanistan

NATO says killed 55 Taliban in Afghan clashes

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-26 09:09|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Taliban and their Islamic allies stepped up a suicide attack campaign a year ago as the insurgency gathered fresh momentum...

...A quarter of the victims have been civilians, but hundreds of Taliban along with Afghan forces and over 150 foreign troops have also died in the violence....

The vaunted "taliwhacker uprisng". Let's see, kill ratio: 55 lions of islam to 1 coalition troop Friday and Saturday. However, Rooters sees the total this year as "hundreds of taliban" to over a 150 coalition. Given that the taliwhacker casualty figure is always greater as they drag some bodies and wounded out. Every engagement I read about the ratio is at least 10 to 1... sometimes as much as a 100 to 1.

Gee...is Rooters not telling the truth?

Posted by anymouse 2006-11-26 13:20|| 2006-11-26 13:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Today's magic number is 55.

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-26 14:05|| 2006-11-26 14:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Taliban spokesmen could not be reached for comment on their reported losses.

Hopefully it is because he got killed, too! :-)

Posted by gorb 2006-11-26 15:08|| 2006-11-26 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 55 less! Hooray!

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-11-26 15:44|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com] 2006-11-26 15:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm so cornfused! They keep talking about Afghans, and then say "people". The people of Afghanistan are Afghanis. Afghans are large, skinny dogs will long hair. Is Rooters that dumb, or is this a way to stir the pot a bit?

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-11-26 16:20|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-11-26 16:20|| Front Page Top

#6 OP:

Al-Reuters is trying to stir up PETA.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-11-26 17:39|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com] 2006-11-26 17:39|| Front Page Top

#7 And once again another good news story bout American forces killing off 55 of Muhamhead's camel riding terrorist. Another story that will NEVER be on the network news.

Double Spit!

Posted by Icerigger 2006-11-26 18:08|| 2006-11-26 18:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Is the number 55 special? Repeated here and in al Anbar.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-11-26 23:25|| 2006-11-26 23:25|| Front Page Top

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