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2005-08-08 Afghanistan/South Asia

Eight suspected Taleban killed by US-led coalition, Afghan troops

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Posted by Steve White 2005-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Suspected Taliban?!??

If you are in southeastern Afghanistan with a bunch of rockets and machine guns you are not a goat herder, you are Taliban. What the hell else would you be?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-08-08 05:11|| 2005-08-08 05:11|| Front Page Top

#2 What the hell else would you be?

Elk hunter

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-08-08 08:14|| 2005-08-08 08:14|| Front Page Top

#3 What the hell else would you be?

Or maybe a wedding caterer.

Posted by PBMcL 2005-08-08 12:11|| 2005-08-08 12:11|| Front Page Top

#4 I still think they are SSABWA.

(simple shephereds albeit well armed)

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-08 12:11|| 2005-08-08 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5 The seemingly extraneous B is for Baluchistan, ancestral home of simple (albeit armed to the teeth) shepherds.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-08 12:13|| 2005-08-08 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 nice recovery, Shipster

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-08 13:33|| 2005-08-08 13:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Three years of training under the Masters Frank.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-08 15:19|| 2005-08-08 15:19|| Front Page Top

#8 What was the place in the old Caine & Connery movie of the Kipling story 'The Man Who Would Be King'? Kafiristan? (if I recall it correctly, it makes for a rather interesting translation - Infidel-Land?) I think I need to watch that movie again.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-08-08 16:04|| 2005-08-08 16:04|| Front Page Top

#9 If you are in southeastern Afghanistan with a bunch of rockets and machine guns you are not a goat herder

Herders needed rockets and machine guns when confronting the brutal afghhan wolf

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-08-08 16:50|| 2005-08-08 16:50|| Front Page Top

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