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2005-08-12 Afghanistan/South Asia

U.S. says Taliban commander killed in Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2005-08-12 10:30|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 41 U.S. servicemen have died tying to help those assholes, I hope history shows them to be worth it. I think the Taliban must really have nothing better to do with their time than get killed 5 or 6 at a time, is there a running total of dead taliban since the invasion?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-08-12 11:58|| 2005-08-12 11:58|| Front Page Top

#2 I haven't been keeping one.

I think "Taliban" is a misnomer, though. I've started thinking of the whole bunch just as Pashtuns, and I might refine that further to just Wazirs.

I think right now we're at war with Waziristan (north and south and possibly west) in Afghanistan. Paul Maloney and Dan D. might have different opinions, but the evidence seems to say that's the case.

Posted by Fred 2005-08-12 12:28|| 2005-08-12 12:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Just that there's also a sizeable base that the bad guys have the Baluchistan as well. Most of the attacks against Shi'ites in the NWFP and that area aren't quite as senseless as they seem - they're designed to intimidate the Shi'ite minority against working with the US.

Also, keep in mind that for all practical purposes al-Qaeda and its local offspring are basically running these areas with the MMA serving as their legitimate cover. If the Pakistanis were willing to admit that they'd lost control of their own territory (which they have by any reasonable standard) then we could forego the niceties and launch a conventional military campaign to destroy the enemy infrastructure there.

Posted by Dan Darling">Dan Darling 2005-08-12 13:20|| http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com]">[http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2005-08-12 13:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Qari Amadullah should have taken his cue from mullah Omar..."Stay in the deepest side of the hole"!

Posted by smn 2005-08-12 14:58|| 2005-08-12 14:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I think the ISI is playing the same game in Waziristan that they have played in Afghanistan for the previous 20 years, and in Kashmir for the previous 15 years.

I would expect that the location of the entire Taliban leadership is known to the ISI, and the Jihadi training camps that were recently reopened in Mansehra are only a fraction of the training camps operating in other even more isolated locations.

I think Mullah Diesel probably revealed the scope of the support when he accused the Pak government of arranging trouble free infriltration of Jihadis from Waziristan into Afghanistan. Before he claimed he was 'misquoted' of course.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-08-12 20:02|| 2005-08-12 20:02|| Front Page Top

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