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2007-08-07 Afghanistan

20+ Taliban Killed in Attempt to Overrun Coalition Base

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Posted by Glenmore 2007-08-07 13:26|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Unfortunately, about 2/3 of the attackers seem to have escaped. What's the normal wounded/killed ratio in fights like this? If it's 2:1, then pretty much all the attackers should be injured - let's hope for sepsis.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-07 13:33|| 2007-08-07 13:33|| Front Page Top

#2 rare frontal attack that left more than 20 militants dead

Someone still reading from the Dreaded Taliban Spring Offensive Playbook? Rumor has it they are going to do a sequel called "Die Faster". A much pithier title, IMHO.

Posted by SteveS 2007-08-07 13:47|| 2007-08-07 13:47|| Front Page Top

#3 If the Taliwhacker's keep this beat-down on the Coalition Forces going, they are going to run out of Taliwhackers.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-08-07 14:02|| 2007-08-07 14:02|| Front Page Top

#4 P'rhaps this means they've run out of properly trained strategists and tacticians, and are working on running out of improperly trained ones.

Posted by trailing wife on vacation 2007-08-07 14:21|| 2007-08-07 14:21|| Front Page Top

#5 "Unfortunately, about 2/3 of the attackers seem to have escaped"

Winter is coming on soon. The snow flies in those mountains by early September. The Talibunnies are now attempting to reduce their number in order to have enough food to eat over the winter.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-08-07 14:24|| 2007-08-07 14:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Cut off their winter escape routes starting now.

Oh, and start using square bullets. It may help with the wounded ones that are getting away. :-)

Posted by gorb 2007-08-07 14:27|| 2007-08-07 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Faith in Allan does not trump reality in physics.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-08-07 14:48|| 2007-08-07 14:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Altogether now. To the music of "Rawhide"

Probin, probin, probin
probin, probin, probin
probin, probin, probin
probin, probin, probin
Keep probin, probin, probin
Though the base is a holdin
Keep the talibunnies probin
Keep the talibunnies probin
Keep the talibunnies probin

Cavemen
Don't try to understand them
Just shoot, kill and shame them
Soon they'll be dead deep and wide.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-08-07 15:05|| 2007-08-07 15:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Jack is Back! -- I'll be singing that in my head the rest of the afternoon. One of the better ones!

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-08-07 15:40|| 2007-08-07 15:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Who opened up the Afghan Division of The Annual Darwin Awards?

Posted by BA 2007-08-07 15:52|| 2007-08-07 15:52|| Front Page Top

#11 I keep hoping that Taliban Adam was among the attackers.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-08-07 16:28|| 2007-08-07 16:28|| Front Page Top

#12 A. Talib Adam doesn't have the balls to fight.
B. I bet we got most of them. It's easier to count dead bodies than folks who ran away.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-08-07 16:45|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-08-07 16:45|| Front Page Top

#13 Let's also keep in mind that you want a few to run away. It's far more satisfying to find out where they run to than to kill them on the spot.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-08-07 16:59|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-08-07 16:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Amen Chuck they lose big time face back at camp when they try to claim to be "brave" in the face of the enemy.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-08-07 17:22|| 2007-08-07 17:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Actually, AoS, I DID check for duplicates just before posting, and it was not there yet. And it wasn't a 'refresh' issue, because when I next checked the page, this version was the only one there. Fred's popped in under it an hour or so later, I think. At least on my computer.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-07 18:28|| 2007-08-07 18:28|| Front Page Top

#16 They came on in the same old way...

Posted by OldSpook 2007-08-07 18:39|| 2007-08-07 18:39|| Front Page Top

#17 there's a lot more Talibs where they came from.

In yet another catastrophe for the Taliban, Pakistan announced that it would close all Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan by 2009, sending some two million Afghans back to Afghanistan. Most of the camps are in the tribal areas along the Afghan border, and have long been used as Taliban bases, and centers of Islamic radical activity.

Posted by tipper 2007-08-07 18:49|| 2007-08-07 18:49|| Front Page Top

#18 Come Mr. Taliban, tally me banana.

Posted by Ol Dirty American 2007-08-07 20:12|| 2007-08-07 20:12|| Front Page Top

#19 In yet another catastrophe for the Taliban, Pakistan announced that it would close all Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan by 2009, sending some two million Afghans back to Afghanistan. Most of the camps are in the tribal areas along the Afghan border, and have long been used as Taliban bases, and centers of Islamic radical activity.

Why would *we* wait until 2009? Why shouldn't *we* simply eradicate them now?

Posted by Crusader 2007-08-07 20:24|| 2007-08-07 20:24|| Front Page Top

#20 Because that's when President Obama said he'd start Obombing Pakiwakiland?

Posted by OldSpook 2007-08-07 21:31|| 2007-08-07 21:31|| Front Page Top

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