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2010-02-20 Afghanistan

US Marines seize Taliban headquarters, IDs, photos

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Posted by Fred 2010-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Mods, another cleanup on Aisle 1 over here, too!

Posted by gorb 2010-02-20 02:29|| 2010-02-20 02:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Diplomas? Since when did terrs need diplomas? What's next? Permanent privileges at the Arab Afghan Fiends Exchange Service? Butt stickers for camels?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-20 02:38|| 2010-02-20 02:38|| Front Page Top

#3 "Geeze, what an ugly brute!"
"Don't talk that way about my dog!"
"I was talking to the dog..."

Posted by mojo 2010-02-20 04:40|| 2010-02-20 04:40|| Front Page Top

#4 WTW!? Graduation diplomas? Grades too I suppose, so they can apply to the Ivy's. Interest free, public service/no payback loans from POTUS for post graduate degree programs, courtesy ...........

12 to 1 ratio? Unacceptable. Get those afghans on their feet, on point, reverse those figures - NOW! Fix that.

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2010-02-20 05:18|| 2010-02-20 05:18|| Front Page Top

#5 #5 WTW!? Graduation diplomas? Grades too I suppose, so they can apply to the Ivy's. Interest free, public service/no payback loans from POTUS for post graduate degree programs, courtesy ...........

In keeping with the high standards of White House privacy and ethics, no public disclosure of actual classes taken or grades please.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-20 05:32|| 2010-02-20 05:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Would a nicely worded letter of recommendation from Professor Bill Ayers get me in that terrorist graduate school?

Posted by JDB 2010-02-20 05:45|| 2010-02-20 05:45|| Front Page Top

#7
...official Taliban letterhead stationery...

Uh, yeah!

Posted by Parabellum 2010-02-20 09:18|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-02-20 09:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Diplomas? Since when did terrs need diplomas?

Because they aren't actually 'terrs'? Look up the Taliban's origins.

Somebody spent a lot of time setting up an organization geared for both recruiting people outside of the religious-fanatic mode, and self-promoting public relations. Othewr groups are doing so as well. Recall that Al Qaeda established a 'life insurance' compensation program for their members. Hamas hands out payments to surviving family members. Of course they still do the usual intimidation stuff with villagers, etc.

Think of them all as a cross between a corporation, organized crime, gangs, the Tammanys, and the marxist 'liberation' groups we saw in Vietnam and Africa.

Posted by Pappy 2010-02-20 10:31|| 2010-02-20 10:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Charlie is in Afganistan?

Posted by bman 2010-02-20 12:01|| 2010-02-20 12:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Think of them all as a cross between a corporation, organized crime, gangs...

Look for the Service Employees International Union to start a recruiting drive.

Posted by SteveS 2010-02-20 12:05|| 2010-02-20 12:05|| Front Page Top

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