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2007-06-19 Afghanistan

Police official says armed men crossed into Afghanistan from Iran

Herat. More than 20 armed men crossed the border from Iran into Afghanistan and entered an Afghan town, an Afghan police commander said in the first such blunt claim by a high-ranking Afghan official, cited by DPA.

Colonel Rahmatullah Safi - police commander in the three western provinces of Farah, Badghis and Herat - said that according to intelligence information, the group of armed militants crossed the border Monday in Farah's Anardara district. "Two pickup trucks with over 20 armed people riding in them crossed the border from Iran to Afghanistan," Safi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in his Border Police headquarters, 15 kilometres outside Herat city.

He said that according to the intelligence information, the men were heading toward the Zirkoh area in Farah province, which has been the site of escalating militant activity in recent months.

This comes at a time when the United States and its allies have put pressure on banks and oil companies to pull out of oil and gas projects in Iran. A US Treasury Department official has recently said, "What we're trying to do is make it difficult for Iran to use the global financial system."

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-06-19 07:34|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top
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#1 Enforce the borders! (Why does that phrase sound so frustratingly familiar?)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-19 08:11|| 2007-06-19 08:11|| Front Page Top

#2 i doubt anyones managed to enforce the borders in Afghanistan in the last 3000 years.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2007-06-19 09:33|| 2007-06-19 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 You know, if they got on the radio and told us about it, we'd blow the shit out of those guys and the border would be secure for the day.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-19 09:34|| 2007-06-19 09:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Taliban and Alqaida do not need men from Iran,They can manage how to deal with occupying forces.It is a propeganda,like the one about iraq.USA will leave Afghanistan with disgrace like Vetnam.

Posted by malik 2007-06-19 09:36|| 2007-06-19 09:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The same fate awaits those from Iran as the camel humpers from Pakistan. A painful death and an unmarked grave. About 100 each week. Americans will be deployed in Afghanistan with the consent of the Afghan government and people long after Iran no longer exists and the surviving Persian imperialists are starving in the mountains and their women sold to Azeris, Kurds, Baluchis, Uzbeks and even Arabs.

Your computer time is up. Go back to trying to sex with your sister.

Posted by ed 2007-06-19 09:48|| 2007-06-19 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Poor malik. What were his teachers thinking, when they told him he was capable of coherent thought? Inbreeding tells, as they say, and the grownups will never tell how many of his uncles and cousins are really his half brothers.

ed, I thought they had sheep and goats for that purpose in Pakistan; aren't camels a Gulf Arab vice?... Let's don't mention the large herds of wild camels roaming the wilds of Australia, lest poor malik do himself an injury in his indignation -- apparently the Arabs have a great deal of trouble getting theirs to breed,unlike the infidel Aussies.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-19 10:21|| 2007-06-19 10:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Taliban and Alqaida do not need men from Iran,They can manage how to deal with occupying forces.

Yes, they're managing quite well. All those dead and maimed, er, 'militants.

So when will you joining them? Or is your 'job' to sit at home in Pakistan and drool over the keyboard?

Posted by Pappy 2007-06-19 10:34|| 2007-06-19 10:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Internet jihad, Pappy, in accordance with the fatwah. Really, it's just as honourable as the real thing, and if poor malik dies while typing his drivel he'll go straight to Paradise and his 72 perpetual houris, not to mention the beautiful young boys with faces like pearls. Really.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-19 10:40|| 2007-06-19 10:40|| Front Page Top

#9 This is the same area where our Special Forces and Afghani troops killed over 100 AQ in April.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-06-19 10:49|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-06-19 10:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Does that make malik a chicken jihadi?
(Not bad served over couscous as I understand it.)

Posted by eLarson 2007-06-19 16:56|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-06-19 16:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Malik? Hello?

I just can't understand why these folks do not return to the 'Burg for further reasoned, civil discourse! Or is it civil, reasoned?

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-19 21:20|| 2007-06-19 21:20|| Front Page Top

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