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2007-07-19 Afghanistan

Afghan Rebel Leader Reportedly Declares Cease-Fire

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-19 10:01|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar

#1 my Jaw just dropped, this has gotta be a weasel move...?

Posted by RD 2007-07-19 10:13|| 2007-07-19 10:13|| Front Page Top

#2 ..we wait for futher details..

Posted by RD 2007-07-19 10:15|| 2007-07-19 10:15|| Front Page Top

#3 US is building a fortification that just happens to overlook the vally where Hek's forces are hiding in Pakistan. Attempts to keep locals from contributing labor are failing - some are intimidated by Hek and radical leaders, others like the pay.

Hek's hiding places are growing fewer in number and lesser in security right now.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-19 10:17|| 2007-07-19 10:17|| Front Page Top

#4 ~~vally~~ valley

Posted by lotp 2007-07-19 10:23|| 2007-07-19 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe he finally figured out why his buddy Dadullah never calls him back...

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-19 10:28|| 2007-07-19 10:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Gimme an H, gimme a U, gimme a D, gimme a N, gimme a A, what do you have?????

HUDNA, HUDNA, HUDNA!!!!!!!

Must be running low on cannon fodder and ammunition as well as hiding places.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-07-19 10:43|| 2007-07-19 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Eyebrows raised right up into my hairline, they did.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-07-19 10:46|| 2007-07-19 10:46|| Front Page Top

#8 To paraphrase AlanC:

No ~~Coke~~ Truce, ~~Pepsi~~ Hudna.

[/Belushi]

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-19 11:10|| 2007-07-19 11:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Hasn't this guy always been kind of a phony? Always on the periphery of things but never really the main man? Never really sure whose side he's on. Strong enough to be a nuisance but nothing more? Generally untrustworthy? Correct me if I'm wrong but that's always the impression I've gotten.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-07-19 11:33|| 2007-07-19 11:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe he's got bad knees. Really, sneaking around those rocky hills, day and night, running here, crouching there, takes its toll. The old guy prolly needs a good recliner, a beer, and a remote.

Posted by wxjames 2007-07-19 11:37|| 2007-07-19 11:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Keep hitting them. No mercy. No hunda.

You fuckers sowed the wind, now reap the whirlwind.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-07-19 11:47|| 2007-07-19 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 During the Soviet invasion he spent more time fighting Massood than teh Soviets. And having his ass handled. Then the ISI tried to use him against Massood but after another defeat they dropped him and brought Mullah Omar.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-07-19 12:08|| 2007-07-19 12:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Let me put it another way:

Any Western military commander found agreeing to even the remotest kind of truce, ceasefire or other form of temporary halt to hostilities should be courtmartialed on the spot. There is no such thing when fighting Islamic terrorists and to even think so physically endangers all troops under one's command. This needs to become SOP. Islam must be subjected to continuous and unrelenting pressure until it cracks like the glass-jawed bully it is.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-19 12:20|| 2007-07-19 12:20|| Front Page Top

#14 This is surrender under the cover of the "political activity".

Make it permanent and keep up the good work!

Posted by Angavigum Oppressor of the Leprechauns7589 2007-07-19 12:39|| 2007-07-19 12:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Problem is, truces do not go thru the military, they go through the idiots at State.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-19 13:07|| 2007-07-19 13:07|| Front Page Top

#16 they go through the idiots at State.

We're all doomed, DOOMED I tellz ya'!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-19 13:20|| 2007-07-19 13:20|| Front Page Top

#17 Must be running low on cannon fodder and ammunition as well as hiding places.

I blame it on the dreaded Afghan Winter™ Oh wait, it's summertime? If that d@mn George Bush would've signed Kyoto, we'd no longer have to fear the dreaded Afghan Winter™

Posted by BA 2007-07-19 13:29|| 2007-07-19 13:29|| Front Page Top

#18 Yup - Hudna. Time to hit 'em hard.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-07-19 13:33|| 2007-07-19 13:33|| Front Page Top

#19 SOP for insurgencies that are losing: Say you will negotiate and use the political process until you can regroup.

Posted by D. R. M.">D. R. M. 2007-07-19 14:28|| http://trinitariandon.blogspot.com/]">[http://trinitariandon.blogspot.com/] 2007-07-19 14:28|| Front Page Top

#20 I don't recall seeing your nym before, D.R.M. Welcome to Rantburg!

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-19 16:55|| 2007-07-19 16:55|| Front Page Top

#21 ... the rebel leader says members of his group are refraining from violence and have "assumed political activity."

I thought violence was political activity in them thar hills.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-07-19 17:47|| 2007-07-19 17:47|| Front Page Top

#22 What the Hek?
What? The Hek?
What the? Hek?

(with apologies to Richard Brautigan)

Posted by Trout Fishing in America Shorty 2007-07-19 18:15|| 2007-07-19 18:15|| Front Page Top

#23 Ceasefire? Okay, let's get together and negotiate. You won't need a change of turbans.

Posted by McZoid 2007-07-19 20:35|| 2007-07-19 20:35|| Front Page Top

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