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2005-07-08 Afghanistan/South Asia
Al-Qaeda fighters returning to Afghanistan
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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-07-08 02:17|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "Come into my parlour," said the spider to the fly. After yesterday, the wisdom of letting AQ hard boyz get themselves killed by our professionals is very, very clear. And, like Iraq, this is an important step in the Afghanis seeing themselves as part of a nation, not just of the tribe they were born into. Good hunting, lads!
Posted by trailing wife 2005-07-08 06:57||   2005-07-08 06:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if this means they are getting hit hard in Iraq. It seems to have slowed down against our boys there, at least newswise. Maybe they are hoping it will be easier going in Afghanistan.
Posted by plainslow 2005-07-08 08:27||   2005-07-08 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 The US can just as swiftly shift forces into Afghanistan from Iraq or from the deployment cycle. So what's the advantage?

Maybe the locals are a lot less receiptive these days in Iraq. Terrorists getting their asses turned over to the local authorities faster than they can move them into country. The trouble is that the population in Afghanistan is smaller and thus less of a mass to hide among. Guess this means USAID has got to fund a lot of cell phone towers and make distribution of free phones. Advantage: Afghan citizens.

Further the terrain in Afghanistan compartmentalizes the battlefield more. I don't buy into the myth that somehow a muslim raised in Saudi [from which most of the terrorist seem to come from these days] is any better prepared to operate at 20,000 feet than an American. If they plan to use the Pak's as the new recruits from the NW Territories, that might be different, but simply makes it easier to end the game of sanctuary that they currently enjoy. However, no one said these people were among the best of Mensa. Those harboring these terrorist seem to suffer a lot these days. Guess its the NW Territories turn. Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people.
Posted by Chavish Grilet6152 2005-07-08 09:22||   2005-07-08 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The Pakistani gov is pushing the remaining 1 million refugees to return (almost 4 million already have). Of those remaining refugees, there is a higher percentage of Taliban symps than the previous returning refugees. Couple that with their madrassa raised, jihad indoctrinated cousins from Pakistan, and you have an opportunity to remove from the gene pool a lot of koran pollution. Any non Arabs/Chechens/Uzbeks pushed out by the Pakistani army are bonus targets.
Posted by ed 2005-07-08 10:19||   2005-07-08 10:19|| Front Page Top

#5 â€œWe still don’t have any concrete evidence which proves that there are foreign fighters among the Taliban,” Roy told AFP.

French guy, right?
I wonder if it's the water over there?
Posted by tu3031 2005-07-08 11:58||   2005-07-08 11:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, and don't forget the American Taliban doing time rather than hanging from a rope.
Posted by Chavish Grilet6152 2005-07-08 12:27||   2005-07-08 12:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Did I say that the tribal areas of Pakistan would be an excellent testing ground to confirm the current operational capability of our nuclear weapons? Hmmmm, I guess I did.
Posted by remoteman 2005-07-08 12:56||   2005-07-08 12:56|| Front Page Top

#8 As noted yesterday -

The deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu has been found for the first time in migratory birds.

It would be terrible if this showed up in the Pak tribal areas too.
Posted by Chavish Grilet6152 2005-07-08 13:01||   2005-07-08 13:01|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't think using nukes in the NWFP would do the kind of good you're thinking, remote. Napalm and cluster bombs work better, used in sequence. Napalm to cook all the goats, and cluster bombs to take out the idiots who come to the feast.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2005-07-08 14:52|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2005-07-08 14:52|| Front Page Top

#10 OP - I though you were an FAE man, second only to ArcLight, lol!
Posted by .com 2005-07-08 15:01||   2005-07-08 15:01|| Front Page Top

#11 .com - anything that does the trick. If things don't straighten out (in our favor) pretty soon, we're going to have to start playing "cowboys and muslims" - only THIS time, WE use the flaming arrows. And napalm bombs, cluster bombs, ap mines, and anything else that works. If Islam refuses to "live and let live", we'll see their side is the first to stop living.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2005-07-08 20:30|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2005-07-08 20:30|| Front Page Top

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