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| Talibs bump off some farmers |
| 2005-05-19 |
 Five Afghans, three of them working on an opium crop substitution project, were killed yesterday in a Taleban ambush, a provincial official said. The five were traveling in a vehicle in Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan, when gunmen attacked, said provincial official, Muhayuddin Khan. "This was carried out by Taleban insurgents," Khan said. Troops have been sent out to search for the rebels, he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 what caused such purity to those lady killers Clearly I was committing typing while sleeping; as a result my grammar was shot to hell. Were it not I, I'd be laughing at me right now. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-05-19 18:55 |
| #3 Aahhh. I wondered at the time what caused such purity to those lady killers. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-05-19 12:29 |
| #2 No. The Taliban only started cracking down when they had several years of inventory in storage. The uncontrolled poppy growth was severely depressing prices the Taliban were getting. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-05-19 07:17 |
| #1 Remember the olden days, when the Taliban were so pure that they killed farmers who dared plant opium poppies? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-05-19 06:10 |