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2003-11-30 Afghanistan

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Posted by Bulldog 2003-11-30 8:24:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When are we going to start taking these folks out?

Posted by raptor 2003-11-30 9:20:24 AM|| 2003-11-30 9:20:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like some 'individual ISI officers' need to be subjected to some aerial reconnaissance of the hindu kush, sans parachute.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-30 1:32:38 PM|| 2003-11-30 1:32:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 These ISI guys were doing the same thing with the Taliban even before we went into Afghanistan. Nothing will change until Musharraf will figure that he can purge the ranks of the ISI with these jihadi nutcase aiders and abettors. I wonder if that will ever happen. We are basically fighting our own money that has gone through Saudi Arabia and our own aid to Pakistan that has been siphoned off to these ISI members. This is very frustrating. In a strategic sense, it would be in the long run better to defeat them through starvation, so to speak, than to have to battle them tactically, with higher losses to our forces.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-11-30 4:04:13 PM|| 2003-11-30 4:04:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 We need to take a lesson from the Saigon cops, circa 1971. Lots of "cowboys" in Saigon used motorcycles to rip off people, steal things, and just literally make life as miserable as possible for as many people as possible. The Saigon police started using heavy crossbows with about 70 feet of 1/4" nylon rope attached to a piece of bamboo at each end. Shot one end between the spokes, and the other end would stop the rope. "Cowboys" (slang for gang members) would end up eating a piece of concrete, with their bike becoming an added part of them. Didn't stop the activity, but did slow it down, and got rid of a bunch of uglies from the streets. Problem is knowing who to use it against.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-30 8:35:43 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-30 8:35:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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