| Submit your comments on this article |
| Afghanistan |
| Taliban Terror Effort Falters |
| 2006-07-17 |
| July 17, 2006: The Taliban Summer offensive continues to fail in spectacular fashion. While the Taliban war parties still roam southern Afghanistan, terrorizing tribesmen, closing schools and driving out government officials, Afghan and Coalition troops continue to catch up with the Taliban and kill them. The results have been disastrous for the Taliban, who have lost over a third of their gunmen in the last few months. The word is getting around that, if you join the Taliban fighters, you eventually get blown up, or shot, by the foreign troops. This is causing desertions, and more difficulty for Taliban recruiters. It's the Afghan custom, to desert a faction that appears to be losing. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Of course, gromky, but it isn't nearly as fun if one dies ineffectively, eg all of us dead but the infidels only got a little splinter, or we're running around the countryside all hot and hungry, while they camp on the hillsides above and shoot us down... and the world media doesn't even notice. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-07-17 15:13 |
| #4 Uh...count me wrong, but everything I've heard says that martyrdom is a sweet reward for God's fighters. Besides, the Taliban aren't Afghan these days, they're Pakistani tribesmen. |
| Posted by: gromky 2006-07-17 12:29 |
| #3 Rob Crawford, The media would be accused of treason if they helped their enemy (the west). |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2006-07-17 12:17 |
| #2 The results have been disastrous for the Taliban, who have lost over a third of their gunmen in the last few months. Hmmmm... 33% casualties. Where's the MSM on this story? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-07-17 11:30 |
| #1 It's the Afghan custom, to desert a faction that appears to be losing. Not just Afghan, in that part of the world. Strong horse/weak horse? I can live with that. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-07-17 11:12 |