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2008-03-25 Afghanistan

Seven mine clearing staff shot dead in Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2008-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 This kind of attack must really win the hearts and minds of the population. Afghanistan must have about the highest proportion of one-legged kids in the world already.

Posted by Menhadden Snogum6713 2008-03-25 07:35|| 2008-03-25 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 UN personnel getting Killed?
Look for an immediate UN withdrawal.
(That's their MO, other people get killed, not the UN "Peacekeepers")

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-03-25 07:44|| 2008-03-25 07:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Just the sort of targets the Lions prefer. Unarmed work teams, who can only try to flee before they're wiped out.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-03-25 08:58|| 2008-03-25 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 If the perps are caught, drop 'em in the middle of a mine field and tell 'em to find their own way out. If the make it, shoot them dead...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-03-25 10:57|| 2008-03-25 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Cambodia has the largest population of one legged people thanks to Pol Pot and Jane Fonda.

Posted by bman 2008-03-25 11:07|| 2008-03-25 11:07|| Front Page Top

#6 These deminers are all Afghans paid by international orgs.

Posted by ed 2008-03-25 11:07|| 2008-03-25 11:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Is it required that the deminers be unarmed?

Posted by trailing wife 2008-03-25 22:32|| 2008-03-25 22:32|| Front Page Top

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