Taliban military positions were hit over the weekend with 15,000-pound "Daisy Cutter" bombs, the most powerful non-nuclear bombs in the U.S. arsenal. Suburbs of Mazar-e-Sharif and parts of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan remained targets of Monday's bombings. Takhar and Kabul were also pounded with explosives. They killed... ummm... lemme count... more than four.
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Pakistan's International News says that Arabs and not the Afghan Taliban fighters are controlling important parts of the country and fighting major battles on frontlines.
The Taliban still have all the liberty to frame their own rules and apply on the locals but these rules do not apply on the Arabs. "The Arabs are the real fighters who are repulsing the attacks of Northern Alliance and US allies on Kabul and Mazar -i- Sharif," a foreign non-Arab fighter who, for the last three years, worked as cook with Arabs, told The News during a chat.
Before the attacks, the Taliban had all powers but then the scenario suddenly changed and the Arabs emerged in the country as the real rulers, he said. Locals admit that as compared to the Taliban, the Arabs fight more bravely. "That's why, not a single Arab has been arrested by Northern Alliance or other opponents," they said.
"The Sheikh", Osama Bin Laden, has the last word on all matters and no one can disobey his orders. Majority of the NGOs working inside Afghanistan are either directly supervised or funded by Arabs nationals. Just goes to reinforce my opinion that we're fighting a war against colonialism. Who'da thunk it?
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Northern Alliance forces said they had taken Zari, Keshendeh and Aq-Kupruk, key locations around Mazar.
The fall of Zari, Keshendeh and Aq-Kupruk districts, reported by commander Atta Mohammad's force, took the opposition coalition a step closer to the key northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Atta's spokesman, Mohammad Ashraf Nadeem, said the three districts had fallen in heavy fighting in which 200 Taliban were killed and 300 had surrendered.
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More people joined the "national conversation" on whether non-cooperative terrorist suspects should be tortured. Common sense says no, no, a thousand times no -- as policy. Common sense also says that, unofficially of course, if they were to fall down the stairs a few times or walk into a door here or there, no one would really care. I think it was Jonah Goldberg who brought up the subject of "unofficial rules" in NRO about six months ago.
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Saudi Arabia is thinking about its role in Afghanistan after the current crop of murderers and thugs is disposed of. Certainly they've done one helluva job to date.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
