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| Rockets Hit Kabul; No Casualties As Usual |
| 2004-02-04 |
| Two rockets were fired at the Afghan capital Tuesday, one slamming into a cemetery and a second hitting a nearby hillside. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The first rocket struck about 9:45 p.m. at the cemetery in northwest Kabul, injuring no one, police said. They didn’t even kill any of the dead people. As police and reporters went to the area and inspected the crater caused by the first attack, a second rocket whizzed overhead, Hek’s boys continue to demonstrate their impeccable targeting! |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 JFM, would ISI training have resulted in passable gunnies? I am impressed with the descriptions I have read of the training of the glacier fighters on both the Indian and Pakistani sides. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-2-4 7:48:33 PM |
| #6 Superhose, part o bthe explanation is that getting close enough to do damage on American troops is far harder than firing at Russian conscripts who in addition didn't have the electronics for locating sources of enemy fire. The Taliban were mere bullies, madrassa students not real fighters. The resistance people and specially Massood's men were on another class. About the people of UBL's camps, my reports is that Afghans had a poor opinion of them as fighters: they told the only thing they were good at was at having themselves pictured over a background of Afghan mountains. That and torturing prisonners with a savagery who was far beyond Afghan practices. |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-2-4 3:20:27 PM |
| #5 The only explanation that I can think of for the Afghans ejecting the Red Army is that Afghanistanis must have received more outside aid than just some Stinger missiles. The UBL's camps must have turned out fighters that were capable of hitting something. Maybe the Pakistanis were running camps at the time, or Pakistan redressed veterans from the glacier fighters as mujahadim. Maybe the CIA was in there. Regardless, the guys with ability and backbone are dead or gone - possibly taking an evacuation flight back to Pakistan. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-2-4 11:13:07 AM |
| #4 Dan- Newsweek once called the Taliban 'a cross between the SS and the Marx Brothers.' I think they were pretty accurate there. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-2-4 10:10:06 AM |
| #3 Amen, Dan. I seem to remember the voluminous press reports and armchair analysts declarations regards the incredibly tough "Afghan fighter" - superman, he was. In the face of real troops, we find he is, basically, a chump with a gun - for sale... and I guess just about everybody in the countryside plays this game, since it's pretty hard to scratch out a living in a rock garden. Terrorizing the Kabulies seems to have been very simple: show up with a bunch of ragtag pseudo-gunnies armed with AK-47's and you rule. The fact that they can have 2 hour firefights at 20 paces with no casualties seems to have been lost somewhere along the way. Pfeh on these imagined super-fighters and the press corp's gullibility. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-2-4 9:41:05 AM |
| #2 Hek's boyz once again demonstrate their unrivaled accuracy. How this band of maroons ever ended up terrorizing the country during the early 1990s boggles the mind. |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-2-4 1:13:50 AM |
| #1 AQ wants the WoT to still be fought in a sand pit. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-2-4 12:41:32 AM |