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2004-04-01 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-04-01 1:45:13 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yep, Bring your your bad asses. Your not going against soviets anymore and you RPGs are crap. Your funding is going away and your cadres are led by morons with a koranic education. So fuck@@f and die. Like cord wood.

Posted by Lucky 2004-04-01 1:56:15 AM|| 2004-04-01 1:56:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 [Troll droppings deleted]

Posted by Murray TROLL 2004-04-01 8:01:19 AM|| 2004-04-01 8:01:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 1. Eurasianet says the Uzbek troubles are the result of local tensions, not international at all
2. Atimes say attackers are a Sufi org - yet cooperating with Osame, Hekmatyar, ISI and other pro-Wahabi elements - seems unlikely to me - any other evidence for this?

3. Article mentions 43 dead, as if this were a danger sign - IIUC most of these dead were terrorists (I assume Jihadis)

4. No real evidence that this is connected to an attack in Afghan, other than the old (and unproven) connection to Hekmatyar.

So what the basis for the headline? :

Assertion - there will be a new wave of attacks in afghanistan. Why? there has been a wave of bloody attacks in Uzbek, these were done by the Sufis, and the Sufis are connected to Hekmatyar and ISI.

But A. The attacks in Uzbek have failed thus far and the blood has been the attackers. B. The attribution to Sufis is unproven C. The Sufi connection to HIA is unproven D. Even IF the attacker WERE Sufis connected to HIA, this would hardly show that new attacks in Afghanistan are likely.

Another piece of entertaining Asia Times speculation.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-04-01 11:06:12 AM|| 2004-04-01 11:06:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Side note: Asia Times was the source that put Fallujah's population at 500K when I googled for it yesterday - more than double almost all other sources' estimates. A Paragon of truth, they are...

Posted by .com 2004-04-01 1:47:58 PM|| 2004-04-01 1:47:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 2,000 Marines will welcome them with open arms.

Posted by Raptor 2004-04-01 4:39:18 PM|| 2004-04-01 4:39:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]

Posted by Fred TROLL 2004-04-01 8:01:19 AM|| 2004-04-01 8:01:19 AM|| Front Page Top

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