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Afghanistan | |
'Do not send your children here. We will kill them' | |
2006-05-24 | |
Taleban fighters' WE RAN into the Taleban guerrillas only 24km (15 miles) south of the British base at Gereshk, half a dozen of them brazenly manning a checkpoint on a road to Lashkar Gah. They were bristling with weaponry and had belts of ammunition slung over their shoulders. They ordered us to stop, surrounded our four-wheel-drive vehicle and demanded to know who we were. There is another British base in Lashkar Gah, 30 miles to the south, and Camp Bastion, headquarters of the 3,400-strong British force in Helmand province, is not far to the west. But for now, at least, the Taleban are the law in this hot and dusty land. “This is my It was an encounter fraught with danger, but some name-dropping by The Times’s Afghan translator "Ever heard of Noam Chomsky?" saved the day. Soon these self-styled “soldiers of “Our country has been occupied by It was a message echoed later in the day by Mullah Mohammad Kaseem Farouqi, the Taleban commander in Helmand province, in probably the first interview he has given to the Western media. “My message to Tony Blair and the whole of Britain is, ‘Do not send your children here. We will kill them’, he told The Times by satellite telephone from a secret location. “I have between 2,500 and 3,000 ("men") fighting at the moment, but I have Jihadigram for Omar! Mullah Farouqi, 35, also claimed that Such claims are easily made, and Captain Marcus Eves, a spokesman for the British forces in Helmand, expressed confidence that the province could be wrested back from the Taleban. “It is early days, and at present there is a minority of people in Helmand who want this undertaking to fail,” he said. “Security doesn’t develop overnight, but given time and co-operation a stable Afghanistan will emerge.” But the Taleban are now mounting daily attacks on targets in Helmand and other Afghan provinces. Yesterday it emerged that British troops saw action on Saturday for the first time since their expanded force began arriving in Helmand province last month. A company of 120 British paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, backed by Apache attack helicopters from the Army Air Corps, helped to rescue Afghan troops who had walked into a Taleban ambush. One of the Apaches fired a single Hellfire antitank missile to destroy a French armoured vehicle to stop the Taleban capturing it. “The Afghans were in serious trouble until the British paratroopers arrived on the scene,” one military source said.
Back at the Taleban checkpoint the second-in-command drew no distinction between the departing Americans and the newly arrived British. “Bush and Blair are like the two | |
Posted by:ryuge |
#19 Send in Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. |
Posted by: Glains Threrese9277 2006-05-24 23:51 |
#18 Do not send your children here. We will kill them. Good advice - how 'bout well armed, highly trained, battle hardened troops instead? |
Posted by: DMFD 2006-05-24 18:55 |
#17 I think he's basically saying that although our adults are kicking his butt if we send children instead he'll really show us. Pretty pathetic. Islamic warriors seem to be windbags. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-05-24 15:10 |
#16 'Do not send your children here. We will kill them' Yup, they're gonna frickin' die laughing at your pathetic, spittle flecked, hyperbole spewing, dirt encrusted stone-age @sses. |
Posted by: Zenster 2006-05-24 15:00 |
#15 Soon these self-styled “soldiers of a moon God” had laid aside their Kalashnikovs and were giving us tea, boasting of their power in Helmand province They had realized they were comrads fighting for the same cause. |
Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-05-24 14:41 |
#14 'Do not send your children here. We will kill them' Yeah, if there's any of you left... |
Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-24 13:20 |
#13 So what's the kill ratio between 'our children' and these Lions of Islam these days? 40? 50? 60? dead 'Lions of Islam' to one 'child'? Unfortunately if one of these 'Journalists' does get harmed in a firefight they (and the MSM) will simply blame it all on Bush.... |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-05-24 11:23 |
#12 "I don't like Hip-Hop either, but it dose'nt make me as mad as these guys are" dunno about that :) the way they grab their crotches all the time and the growth in STD's .. wonder if theres a correlation between the two *chuckle* |
Posted by: MacNails 2006-05-24 11:04 |
#11 They send thier children off to blow themselves up. They want to kill our children. Why do they hate children so much? I don't like Hip-Hop either, but it dose'nt make me as mad as these guys are. |
Posted by: plainslow 2006-05-24 10:37 |
#10 We will also mix our metaphors like crazed beasts Heh. |
Posted by: Seafarious 2006-05-24 10:25 |
#9 'Do not send your children here. We will kill them' I think he means 'if your children are schoolgirls', given their recent track record against such hardened targets. |
Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-24 10:24 |
#8 Brazenly manning a roadblock. Until they hear a chopper or see a Humvee. Then they scurry away like roaches to strongarm the hicks in another town. These guys are a bunch of clowns. Our guys don't sound the least bit scared of them, neither do the Canucks or the Brits. |
Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-05-24 10:22 |
#7 Am I the only one that hopes that one of these "journalists" gets to see some live battle action while they are guests of the Taliban? I'd just love to see them write about what it's like to have shrapnel in your butt. |
Posted by: Apostate 2006-05-24 10:10 |
#6 When they are needed, I will order them to start... Apparently the Taliban doesn't subscribe to the leadership-from-the-front principle. |
Posted by: Matt 2006-05-24 09:55 |
#5 Translation: "If you keep sending your 'children' here, our ass is fried". |
Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-05-24 09:33 |
#4 Maybe we should respond to their endless pronouncements with jokes, like "How many Taliban does it take to screw a pig?", and "Why does wearing woman's clothing make Osama feel young again?" |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-24 09:10 |
#3 The Paras are the hard boys of the British Army. I'm sure they are looking forward to it. |
Posted by: phil_b 2006-05-24 07:58 |
#2 "We donÂ’t care if we win or lose." They know they have already lost. |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2006-05-24 07:43 |
#1 I don't think we had Apache Helos in the 19th Century. Sure we can give it another go if they can. Excellent doctoring of original.. ROFL. |
Posted by: Howard UK 2006-05-24 07:37 |