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2006-07-24 Afghanistan

Hundreds of Taliban Attack Afghan Government Building

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Posted by Steve 2006-07-24 15:21|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Okay, now I'm expecting a real nice big fat body count here, like 80 dead Talibanis before this one's over.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-07-24 15:51|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-07-24 15:51|| Front Page Top

#2 A five-hour gunbattle? Now *that's* Islamic!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-07-24 15:54|| 2006-07-24 15:54|| Front Page Top

#3 What did the building ever do to them?

Posted by Captain America 2006-07-24 16:04|| 2006-07-24 16:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks like there will be a fire sale on used pickup truck parts in Farah.

Posted by ed 2006-07-24 16:09|| 2006-07-24 16:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Afghanistan province map:

http://tinyurl.com/jjmqv

Appears to be about a 60 mile drive back to Helmand.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-24 16:18|| 2006-07-24 16:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Hundreds of Taliban fighters attacked a western Afghan government building...

Maybe they were just inpired by the old Klingon battle cry: "It's a good day to die!"

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-07-24 16:25|| 2006-07-24 16:25|| Front Page Top

#7 400 talibani, 5 hours of shooting, and only 3 police officers are killed?

Good God, who trained these guys, the same ones who trained shooters in 'The A-Team'?

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-07-24 16:47|| 2006-07-24 16:47|| Front Page Top

#8 They got away? Why didn't NATO launch helicopter gunships at the escape column of pickups? And where did they get the trucks?

Posted by Griper Whegum8464 2006-07-24 17:00|| 2006-07-24 17:00|| Front Page Top

#9 ...who trained these guys?

They are self taught!

Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-24 17:11|| 2006-07-24 17:11|| Front Page Top

#10 The pickup trucks and the Paki gunnies in them are courtesy of the ISI, #9. Pakistan is packed with Japanese light pickup trucks, and the Waziris just need to be pointed in the proper direction to go die for Islam.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-07-24 17:45|| 2006-07-24 17:45|| Front Page Top

#11 "A five-hour gunbattle? Now *that's* Islamic!"

You bet your sweet ass it is! The LAST thing you want to be is effective!!

And what is this shit about killing civvies? Don't these people have any sense at all!?!? Don't answer. They love their kids (like we do) but can be 'influenced'. Sounds to me as if this is all pre-planned! The obligatory civilians killed/wounded for the BBC/CNN.

These people are pissing me off, and I'm going to Afghanistan soon to HELP these dumbfucks, So Help Me God! They are dying of arsenic poisoning, plus high concentrations of bac; killing their children. Bad water. They know it, can't help it.

Last time I was there was the 70's. Hasn't changed.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2006-07-24 20:44|| 2006-07-24 20:44|| Front Page Top

#12
Under the Taliban, the Saudi government sent 400 pickup trucks to al-Qaeda with the purpose of deflecting criticism of the House of Saud, to approved enemies. Prior to that, the Sauds - who had recognized Taliban, while senior clerics labeled that ideology, authentic Islam - had pressured the Taliban to deport Osama bin Laden back to the Kingdom for jihad re-conditioning. After 9-1-1, the al-Qaeda leadership escaped to Pakistan in those Toyotas, and the House of Saud bought the absence of Western scrutiny by lowering the price of crude (in November 2001, we saw the lowest oil prices in the past 20 years). We shouldn't be indulging so-called allies, who want terror as long as it is directed at correct enemies.

Posted by Griper Whegum8464 2006-07-24 20:54|| 2006-07-24 20:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Looks like there will be a fire sale on used pickup truck parts in Farah.

No bolts, but plenty of nuts! :-)

Posted by gorb 2006-07-24 21:19|| 2006-07-24 21:19|| Front Page Top

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