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Afghanistan
Trapped Like Rats!: 200 Talib surrounded
2007-04-23
Afghan forces have trapped up to 200 Taliban fighters in a southern village, possibly including the militia's military commander,
(Mullah Dadullah?)
demanding they surrender or come under attack, Afghan officials said Monday. Afghan police and government officials said the suspected Taliban fighters were surrounded as they gathered for a meeting in the mountain village of Keshay in Uruzgan province on Saturday.

Provincial police chief Gen. Mohammad Qasim Khan said NATO troops were also involved in the siege, but NATO spokeswoman Lt. Col. Angela Billings said she had no such information.
Yup.
Khan told The Associated Press that Mullah Dadullah, a close aide to Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar, and other regional Taliban commanders were at the meeting when the village was surrounded. The security forces were still positioned around the village on Monday, he said. "We are trying to get him to surrender and to arrest these Taliban without fighting," he said.
Why? Whack the whole bunch.
Abdul Hadi Khalid, the deputy interior minister for security, told a security commission in parliament on Monday that it was "possible that Mullah Dadullah is among" those who were attending the meeting. He said Afghan officials had demanded that the Taliban surrender or face military action. He did not mention any deadline for negotiations. A Taliban spokesman in the south could not immediately be reached for comment.
He's at the meeting, too?
Khan said the Taliban fighters had gone into hiding in villagers' homes.
"Wot the...? Hey! Youse can't come in here!"
"Shuddup! Where's yer wife's clothes?"
After a winter lull in violence, Afghan, NATO and U.S.-led forces have stepped up operations in recent weeks, hoping to pre-empt a feared spring offensive by militants that threatened the already shaky grip of President Hamid Karzai's government. Killing or capturing Dadullah would be a major victory for the Afghan government and its foreign backers. A NATO airstrike killed senior Taliban commander Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani in southern Helmand province in December.
Posted by:mojo

#20  DMFD, that picture is so "spooky"!
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-23 19:49  

#19  
Posted by: DMFD   2007-04-23 19:35  

#18  Dust off a MOAB, there should not be one coalition soldier to lose his life over that scum. Move'm back and...HeadsUp!!
Posted by: smn   2007-04-23 18:04  

#17  Bacon grease, Apostate. Bacon grease.

We can only hope...but it actually sounds too good to be true.
Posted by: anymouse   2007-04-23 17:07  

#16  "If he surrenders, then we should shave his beard."

Amen to that. Then slap on some Old Spice and rub in a hooker's tits.
Posted by: Apostate   2007-04-23 16:44  

#15  the best ratio would be about 198 dead, 2 surrendering

you don't need the same intell 200 times - twice would be enough (ok maybe 3 or 4 times)
Posted by: mhw   2007-04-23 16:36  

#14  "Abdullah, my brother! Fancy meeting you here!"

"Mahmoud, my old friend. Why are you here with the traitors and the forces of the Great Satan?"

"Oh, them? Why, I'm not really with them at all, Abdullah. It's just a way for me to steal back the millions that the Great Satan has taken from the Islamic peoples."

"Ah, I see. So, Mahmoud, you're not here to arrest me or demand I surrender?"

"Me, old friend? Of course not! You there, minion of Satan! Yes, you! This is my old friend Abdulla al Waziri al Mohammed al Dubari. He is an old friend of mine and you can trust him. He is not Talibani, no, sir. Let him pass."

"Thank you, Mahmoud. I trust we will see you at the meeting this weekend? Perhaps together we can behead an infidel spy?"

"Of, course, Abdullah, my brother. I will be at the meeting and I'm sure we can find an infidel spy to behead. Perhaps that old baker down in the village of al Dakira?"

"Oh, yes, he would make an excellent choice! Until this weekend then?"

"Until this weekend. Go in peace, my brother."

"Go in peace, old friend. Allah Akbar!"

"Allah Akbar!"

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2007-04-23 15:56  

#13  How about a 1 hour interval to think it over? I do not want to see another Konduz or Mazar-e-Sharif goat rope. The enemy respects power and force. And a saturation bombing of 200 rats would send a better message than anything else. Time is NOT on our side in these situations.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-04-23 15:54  

#12  How about a combined indirect fire demonstration ?
Posted by: wxjames   2007-04-23 15:49  

#11  GMTA
Posted by: crosspatch   2007-04-23 15:31  

#10  And "Remember Tora Bora" is their battle cry!
Posted by: crosspatch   2007-04-23 15:31  

#9  Remember Tora Bora. If they have enough moola, the mullahs will get away.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2007-04-23 15:30  

#8  Hudna in 10 ... 9 ... 8 ...
Posted by: doc   2007-04-23 15:25  

#7  If he surrenders, then we should shave his beard.
Posted by: danking_70   2007-04-23 15:23  

#6  It's worth making a surrender demand. If they surrender:
-- the Taliban cannon fodder remaining in the field realize that all that "fight to the death" rhetoric from Dadullah is BS;
-- we can interrogate Dadullah and maybe he fats out the other Talibunnies;
-- even if he doesn't, we can spread the rumor that he did, and thereby increase the enemy's FUD factor; and,
-- fewer friendly casualties that way.
Posted by: Mike   2007-04-23 15:13  

#5  12, 24, 36, 48, 96.8 rule in effect.
Posted by: RD   2007-04-23 15:09  

#4  "We are trying to get him to surrender and to arrest these Taliban without fighting," he said.

How about you bomb the shit out of them and count the pieces?
Posted by: tu3031   2007-04-23 15:09  

#3  Regrettably, yeah, it'll either be the salt, or in a couple days, we'll hear that they "melted away..."
Posted by: Woodrow Ebbealet7622   2007-04-23 15:09  

#2  Ummm... BIG grain of salt.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2007-04-23 15:01  

#1  Three words: Take no prisoners.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-23 15:00  

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