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2007-10-04 Afghanistan

Taliban tell Asia Times Reporter - Big push into Afghanistan after Ramadan

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Posted by 3dc 2007-10-04 11:14|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 So let me get this straight, they are announcing a major trans-Durand Line offensive ... to commence sometime after 10 October? That would be the best thing since they invented rolled toilet paper! A group camped in a frozen landscape in the dark of night sticks out like a neon sign in the infrared. It would be like target practice. Bring it on!

Posted by crosspatch 2007-10-04 11:39|| 2007-10-04 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 "Yes...on October 13th, Achmed is going to step out of the cave and fire -TWO- not just one but -TWO- full magazines in the direction of the infidels."

"But your cave is more than a hundred miles from the nearest Coalition base."

"Well, if we got any closer, they might shoot back."

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-10-04 11:41|| 2007-10-04 11:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like disinformation to me. Nobody can be that stupid. Maybe hoping to infiltrate beforehand & try to ambush supplylines for the inevitable reception deployments?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-10-04 12:52|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-10-04 12:52|| Front Page Top

#4 UAVs with Hellfires. Lots of them. Loitering over the border after Ramadan. Is there some compelling reason why we don't just mine the hell out of all passes on Afghanistan's entire eastern border?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-04 13:28|| 2007-10-04 13:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Ah, yes. I remember their fearsome "Spring Offensive".
I'll bet they do too...at least those who actually survived it.

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-04 13:33|| 2007-10-04 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6 This might actually be the time to roll out Old Patriot's wish for the BUFFs and ArcLight ...

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-10-04 15:09|| 2007-10-04 15:09|| Front Page Top

#7 "UAVs with Hellfires. Lots of them. Loitering over the border ~~after Ramadan~~ starting now, just like they will be."

There - fixed that for ya', Zen.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-04 15:30|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-10-04 15:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Works for me, Barbara!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-04 15:44|| 2007-10-04 15:44|| Front Page Top

#9 We need to have a mountain lion breeding program and , in future years, release thousands along the Afghan/Paki mountain borders creating a living smart mine barrier.

Posted by 3dc 2007-10-04 16:31|| 2007-10-04 16:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Wut? There's a border surveyed by Roger Roger Vadim?

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-10-04 17:06|| 2007-10-04 17:06|| Front Page Top

#11 They have the financing, from Saudi Arabia. They have the numbers, from UN terror "refugee" camps.
They have the Collabos, in the Karzai government and its heroin industry backers. They have the human shields, that NATO won't touch. They have the explosives, manufactured in Iran.

Posted by McZoid 2007-10-04 18:57|| 2007-10-04 18:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Iff true, this article IMO again shows me that its indeed premature to label Radical islam as defeated. THE ONLY REALISTIC OR PRAGMATIC
"MARKER" OF DEFEAT WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL DEMOCRATIC REGIME CHANGE + GOVERNANCE IN THESE REGIONS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-04 19:52|| 2007-10-04 19:52|| Front Page Top

#13 Joe, are you channeling Karl Rove again?

Posted by BA 2007-10-04 20:47|| 2007-10-04 20:47|| Front Page Top

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