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2003-11-18 Afghanistan

US troops claim killing five Al Qaeda fighters

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-18 00:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Must have been another of those 'wedding processions' that always seem to shoot at U.S. troops.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-18 12:35:01 AM|| 2003-11-18 12:35:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Is your seester cherry-girl,Heffie.

Posted by Raptor 2003-11-18 7:27:31 AM|| 2003-11-18 7:27:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Jalali has expressed frustration with US âfriendly fireâ incidents in the past, including in April when the US military admitted it killed 11 Afghan civilians by mistake in an air attack near Shkin."

-Sounds like it was their mistake. Darwin award material......Let's see; war going on, its night time, you know American Warplanes are in the air loaded to the teeth....Cool, lets shoot off all our weapons in the air like a bunch of drunken banditos........

Posted by Jarhead 2003-11-18 8:54:11 AM|| 2003-11-18 8:54:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 sounds like the Governor and Police Chief of Paktika need to be watched very carefully

Posted by Frank G 2003-11-18 9:10:15 AM|| 2003-11-18 9:10:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's standard Muslim operating procedure to claim that all of their dead are civilians. This is why the US is alleged to have killed thousands of civilians in Iraq*. The Muslim standard is that Muslims are civilians if they're not in uniform, (and probably even if they are). To them, the civilian/military distinction doesn't apply to non-Muslims - all of them are legitimate targets, especially when Muslims are doing the killing. The philosophy can be boiled down to this - according to the Koran, all non-Muslims are going to hell, so offing non-Muslims merely speeds up the process a little.

* Would have been nice if we had, but getting blamed for things we had no part of, is galling.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-11-18 10:18:37 AM|| 2003-11-18 10:18:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Y'see, dem guys wid da turbans, dey wudn't no al-Qaeda. That wuz... ummm... my cousins from outta town. An' one o' my sisters."

I wish to apply for a scholarship to the Rantburg School of Snappy Dialogue.

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-18 7:43:31 PM|| 2003-11-18 7:43:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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