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2003-09-02 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve 2003-09-02 9:16:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 UPDATE:

On Monday, a provincial religious leader, Mulvi Abdul Rahman, told AP that he had spoken to tribal elders in the area and asked them to pass along an offer on behalf of the Zabul governor to the Taliban: Lay down your weapons and we will allow you to return home.

Rahman said he had not received a response, but that negotiations to end the battle peacefully where ongoing.

Lay down your weapons and go home? What kind of surrender is that?

Any odds that negotiations will fail and we will go in and find that everyone as slipped away during negotiations?

Posted by GregJ 2003-9-2 9:41:55 AM|| 2003-9-2 9:41:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Who's gonna go in the cave to pass on the note?

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-2 10:00:24 AM|| 2003-9-2 10:00:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sgt. AT-4

Posted by Rafael 2003-9-2 10:13:22 AM|| 2003-9-2 10:13:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Here's a picture of him.

Posted by Rafael 2003-9-2 10:16:00 AM|| 2003-9-2 10:16:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Lay down your weapons ~~dig yourself out of the rubble~~ and we will allow you to return home?

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-2 10:26:50 AM|| 2003-9-2 10:26:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Lay down your weapons and go home? What kind of surrender is that?"

Maybe one were we're really interested in the leaders with them?

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-9-2 10:35:46 AM|| 2003-9-2 10:35:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Lay down your weapons and go home? What kind of surrender is that?

Our Afghan allies: "Show us the money, and we'll let you get away to fight another day."

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-9-2 10:58:52 AM|| 2003-9-2 10:58:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 UPDATE: Afghanistan's Taliban has sent 300 more fighters to the southern province of Zabul to help battle Afghan government and U.S.-led troops, a commander from the ousted militia said on Tuesday. Maulvi Faizullah, a senior Taliban commander involved in fighting in Zabul, said a fresh wave of militants had been deployed in Dai Chopan district to join up to 1,000 others who have been fighting in the area for the last eight days. The reinforcements were being led by former Taliban Education Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, Faizullah told Reuters. They had been sent from Khost province in the east bordering Pakistan, he said.

"Hello, Maulvi,,hello, hello, I can hardly hear you. Yes, we are driving the merkins and their government lackies back. Send us more troops and we can drive them back to Kabul. What's that? I don't sound the same? Er, I was wounded, yeah, wounded, I'm ok though. Hurry up or you'll miss our victory!"
SF trooper drops phone, turns to another.
"OK, LT, they're coming. Call in the BUFFs"

Posted by Steve 2003-9-2 1:07:37 PM|| 2003-9-2 1:07:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Napalm would be effective for caves, if you can identify the vents, if any. My friend used to fly P38s in the Pacific in WW2. In Borneo, they would have trouble with gun emplacements in caves equipped with blast doors. They would bomb all day, then when they stopped, enemy guns would start firing again. Then they decided to drop napalm over the whole mountain. So they dropped and dropped till the mountain was one big flame. After the fires went out....no more big guns. An examination of the caves after the bombing exposed hundreds of Japanese soldiers suffocated from lack of oxygen that the napalm fire took away. It works.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-2 1:55:29 PM|| 2003-9-2 1:55:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 We could do that, but the UN would complain about 'in-human' act of war.

Posted by Charles 2003-9-2 5:26:43 PM|| 2003-9-2 5:26:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Ok, so forget the Napalm. White Phos. would work in some cases.

Posted by Shipman 2003-9-2 7:23:51 PM|| 2003-9-2 7:23:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Ok, so forget the Napalm. White Phos. would work in some cases.

Posted by Shipman 2003-9-2 7:24:01 PM|| 2003-9-2 7:24:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 From a hosing standpoint, I suggest running a hose from the exhaust of any available internal combustion engine into the cave. Yearly, hundreds of Americans commit suicide in the garage using carbon monoxide. Nice quiet way for the mujihadin to slide in to a dirt nap the sleepy way.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-2 8:08:08 PM|| 2003-9-2 8:08:08 PM|| Front Page Top

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