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2005-04-07 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-04-07 12:14:27 AM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Like many ultra-conservative rural Pashtuns, Nikbin has an abiding hatred of foreign troops in his land

Interesting. How about Arab, Chechen Izzies, do they count?

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-07 10:25:50 AM|| 2005-04-07 10:25:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Come on Sobiesky, you can't expect them to be logical about it. The poor beasties have too much time on their hands to "tink". Nikbin could get off his duff and try to come into the 21st century but playing would-be mud hut mullah is more fun to him.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-07 10:46:10 AM|| 2005-04-07 10:46:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "The Taliban are neither weakened nor will any one of them surrender arms to the infidels. The reports of surrenders are just propaganda by the occupying infidel forces," Mullah Dadullah, one of the most-wanted Taliban commanders, told Reuters by satellite telephone.

Satellite phone, eh?

I hope someone at the CIA is going through Reuters phone accounts and call records.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-04-07 10:56:19 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-04-07 10:56:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I have a feeling that the US is going to use the old tried and true method for dealing with them, much like they used to settle the Apaches. Food, and plenty of it. There is nothing that insurgents, mafias, renegades and other troublemakers hate worse than prosperity.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-07 11:37:59 AM|| 2005-04-07 11:37:59 AM|| Front Page Top

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