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Afghanistan
Taliban to Brits: 600 Bombers Await You
2006-03-25
The senior Taliban commander in Afghanistan's lawless Helmand province has vowed to unleash a brigade of 600 suicide bombers against the British Army when it arrives in the area this summer.

Boo!

In a rare interview given at a hideout on the Pakistani border, Mullah Razayar Noorzai said the chance to take on British troops was a "great honour". Taliban commanders had already recruited hundreds of willing martyrs for suicide operations, he claimed, aiming to repeat the notorious defeats inflicted on British troops in Afghanistan during Victorian times.


Mullah Razayar Noorzai
A price of $2,000 (£1,150) has also been put on the head of any captured Westerner - a bounty that threatens a re-run of the Iraq-style kidnappings and beheadings.

"We are happy that they are coming to Helmand," said Mullah Razayar, who lost a leg while fighting the Russians in the 1980s. "It is both a trial and a great honour for all Muslims. We will now get a fair chance to kill them.

"We have already prepared 600 suicide bombers alone for the Helmand, and you'll see that we will turn it into their graveyard."

Posted by:Captain America

#6  A brigade of losers, sent to lose, proud to lose, going to lose. Only 600 more losers to go boom, but it's a start on a banner year.

Mullah Razayar "Stumpy" Noorzai will be in the hideout scribbling more recruitment cartoons/posters.


Posted by: Inspector Clueso   2006-03-25 22:27  

#5  Big difference between then and now, my dear Mullah: then the British army was at the far end of a very long supply line, burdened by women, children and other dependents, and surrounded by a united and vicious enemy. Nowadays the British troops are amongst the hardest of the hard boys (in the nicest possible way, of course), unburdened by anything nonmilitary (excepting always the occasional newsie), have supply lines measured in hours by air, and are surrounded by a population divided into enemies, allies, and those who just want to live quietly for a change. Oh, and their spokes-Mullah is hiding in the barbarous border territories, instead of comfortably ensconced in his home village amongst his wives, children, brothers, nephews and goats. You may want to take these little changes into account as you calculate your future victories, sirrah! (How many fingers and toes equals 600, anyway?)
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-25 21:56  

#4  Taliban? you mean yale?

Taliban this.
Posted by: newc   2006-03-25 21:35  

#3  Western society to the Taliban- Bring it on Bitch! Give us a reason to enter total war with you dirt bags!!!!!!
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-03-25 21:26  

#2  Are you sure they would be offended?
Posted by: anon   2006-03-25 21:21  

#1  I wish somebody, anybody, would make a sneering comment to one of these jacknapes, questioning their manhood, their bowel control, and suggesting the women of their tribe give them a spanking.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-03-25 21:15  

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