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2007-06-19 Afghanistan

Taliban Overrun Southern Afghan District

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-06-19 04:24|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Civilians ought to flee when there's a battle going on. That is if they are civilians.

Posted by treo 2007-06-19 10:57|| 2007-06-19 10:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Misleading headline and reporting... (par for MSM)

Reading the first couple paragraphs, you would believe that the whole district had been abandonded and the field left to the taliban. Later on we get hard facts, and we see that the good guys lost 17 out of 100 fatalities and in another paragraph ther were 35 police killed (likely including the above mentioned 16)

As a matter of fact, it is so out of control and the enemy so vast in number that there have been 8 planes on combat sorties since sunday (less than 2 a day)...

OMG... get Harry Reid on the bat-phone. The US has lost another one.

Posted by Abu do you love 2007-06-19 11:03|| 2007-06-19 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 and Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, contributed to this report.

I take it we can credit Mike for compiling all all these reports into a proper AP Quagmire story?
Keep ya head down Mike. War is hell. And have another cold one on me...

Posted by tu3031 2007-06-19 11:23|| 2007-06-19 11:23|| Front Page Top

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