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2006-12-05 Afghanistan

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Posted by tipper 2006-12-05 03:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article: More than 4,000 people, mostly civilians, are believed to have died in fighting this year, including more than 100 foreign soldiers.

Don't waste our time linking to Asia Times articles.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-12-05 04:24|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-12-05 04:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, is there a picture of an ACME BULLSHIT Meter available?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-12-05 05:50|| 2006-12-05 05:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, I thought there were some interesting details underneath the propaganda. Of 4000 dead, only 100 foreigners? Jihad tourism isn't as popular as it used to be, at least not in Afghanistan. And it doesn't seem to be as popular in Iraq, either. So where are the maddened masses of wannabe jihadis going to get their fix, one is forced to wonder? Or, perhaps, is it a truly radical fringe, not 10% any longer of Muslims, perhaps well under 1% after four years of excitable lads disappearing into the maw of the Crusader war machine? Of course, I haven't gotten to page 2 of the article yet...

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-05 06:51|| 2006-12-05 06:51|| Front Page Top

#4 "excitable lads disappearing into the maw of the Crusader war machine"

haha TW , literacy genius at work. You just missed the at the end :)

Posted by MacNails 2006-12-05 06:54|| 2006-12-05 06:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Those military details are why we decided not to publish this article.

Posted by NYT News Board">NYT News Board 2006-12-05 06:55|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-12-05 06:55|| Front Page Top

#6 How the Taliban prepare for battle:

1. Complete last will and testament and execute in the presence of two disinterested adult witnesses

2. Write check for life insurance premium and deposit in the mail so it is postmarked before the due date

Posted by Mike 2006-12-05 07:10|| 2006-12-05 07:10|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought it was that they attached many pieces of paper to their clothes so their parts could be identified for burial.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-12-05 07:28|| 2006-12-05 07:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Thank you, MacNails dear. I had some poetry published once, when I was but a slip of a schoolgirl, and clearly never got over it. ;-)

Mike, don't forget:

3. Make video wearing conventional jihadi costume, in which all is concealed but the whites of one's eyes. Don't worry, it should only take 20 or 30 takes to get through the traditional lines without muffing it: "I am ___ ibn _______ al _______ al __________ the Jihadi! (So your parents will be able to recognize you when the cassette appears in their mailbox) I give my blood and my life for Allah and the Caliphate! When I send the Crusaders and the Hinjoos to Hell, Allah will put burning coals in the their bellies, while I cavort with my allotment of 72 cow-eyed young virgins!... or is it raisins? God, I hope it isn't raisins..."

"Take 31!"

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-05 07:30|| 2006-12-05 07:30|| Front Page Top

#9 "Excitable lads disappearing into the maw of the Crusader war machine."

Dang. That *is* catchy, almost like an advertising slogan.

"We're the Taliban, and we've been sending gullible young to their horrible deaths for years now. Hate you life? Hate your parents? Want to have sex with 72 scantily-clad virgins? Then join us today!"

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-05 08:26|| 2006-12-05 08:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Want to have sex with 72 scantily-clad virgins, who look like Shakira?

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-05 08:27|| 2006-12-05 08:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Want to have sex with 72 scantily-clad virgins, who look like Shakira?

But smell like Arafat on a 3-day bender?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-12-05 08:41|| 2006-12-05 08:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Can't download Google videos? Can only play their lame feeds?

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-download-google-video.html

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-05 09:08|| 2006-12-05 09:08|| Front Page Top

#13 1,455 Talibs and their buddies so far.

Reading the NATO web site, it does appear that some of our allies, though reluctant to engage in combat, have no trouble blowing away any Afghan drivers that get too close. The site reveals about one incident a week where tailgating is a capital offense.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2006-12-05 09:31|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2006-12-05 09:31|| Front Page Top

#14 In a war zone, getting too close without a good reason probably is a capital offense, all the more so with the invention of Islamic autos-da-fe (homicide bombing by vehicle as an act of sacrificial martyrdom).

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-05 10:44|| 2006-12-05 10:44|| Front Page Top

#15 For shame, Anguper Hupomosing9418! I had to read to the end of your post to fully grasp the subtlety of that pun! And technically in two languages, too -- is auto da fe Latin or Spanish?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-05 12:05|| 2006-12-05 12:05|| Front Page Top

#16 "Auto de fe" in medieval Spanish means "act of faith"

Posted by Mullah Richard 2006-12-05 12:26|| 2006-12-05 12:26|| Front Page Top

#17 Nothing new, TW. We used to do the same thing in Vietnam, only it was a couple of shots into a 3-inch mat in the tailgate of the truck. The bike-boys would move back 20 or 30 feet after a round was fired. We had one incident where the round passed all the way through the padding, went through both pieces of the tailgate, and hit some Vietnamese motorbike, killing a chicken. The chicken cost 40P (about 35c), but the poor guy that fired the round was charged $123.50 to replace the tailgate.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-12-05 13:31|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-05 13:31|| Front Page Top

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