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Afghanistan
Over 600 Suspected Taliban Killed in Southern Afghanistan
2006-07-25
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KABUL, Afghanistan —
More than 600 suspected Taliban militants have been killed since a U.S.-led offensive began last month in southern Afghanistan, a coalition spokesman said Tuesday. Col. Tom Collins said the 600 militants have died in combat since Operation Mountain Thrust started June 10. The offensive is aimed at crushing the deadliest spate of Taliban violence since the hard-line regime's 2001 ouster.
Maybe it's our Dread Spring Offensive instead of the Talibunnies?
More than 10,000 U.S.-led troops have been operating in former Taliban strongholds across southern Afghanistan. The region has witnessed the brunt of the deadliest upsurge in Taliban-led violence since the hard-line regime's 2001 ouster. The bloodshed also threatens to spread into previously calm western Afghan provinces.
If the bloodshed keeps spreading at this rate we may have to face the fact....we're winning
Posted by:Steve

#14  Pappy! i will be singing that all the rest of the day & probably tomorrow. :-)))))
Posted by: Adriane   2006-07-25 23:03  

#13  LOL, Pappy - it sings to me.
Posted by: cruiser   2006-07-25 20:32  

#12  Dead jihadis
Dead jihadis
Dead jihadis aren't much fun

They don't heed
The mullah's call
They don't blow up things at all
Dead jihadis aren't much fun
(oh no no)

They won't fight, they won't seethe
They'll play dead,
'cause they don't breathe
Dead jihadis aren't much fun

Dead jihadis
Dead jihadis
Dead jihadis aren't much fun.

A jihadi died late last Fall
He's still lying
in the hall
Dead jihadis aren't much fun
(no no no)

Mom cheers jihadi's days are through
he'll never kill
another Jew
Dead Jihadis aren't much fun

Dead jihadis
(dead dead dead)
Dead jihadis
(dead dead dead)
Dead jihadis aren't much fun.

[with apologies to Ogden Edsel and Dr. Demento]
Posted by: Pappy   2006-07-25 20:30  

#11  Don't forget, the Taliban take a lot of dead bodies with them when they retreat. This number may well only be those they dropped along the way because they had too many to carry. And, this only counts those who died in combat since June 10th as a result of Op. Mountain Thrust (bad, bad punster!). Lots of others died elsewhere, I'm sure.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-07-25 19:55  

#10  Plant them in the suspected poppy fields near the alleged suspected borders.
Posted by: Inspector Clueso   2006-07-25 19:37  

#9  Observing the appropriate islamic cultural traditions for so many dead muz.

We gotta be sensitive, don't you know.
Posted by: kelly   2006-07-25 17:49  

#8  "More than 600 suspected Taliban militants have been killed"

Now we're getting someplace....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-07-25 17:47  

#7  Wait a minute. 40 a day into a total of 600 is 15 days. What were they doing the other 30 days?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-07-25 17:00  

#6  I just wonder how long it will be until we give up the euphamisms and say "More than 600 suspected Taliban Pakistani militants..."
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-07-25 16:33  

#5  Few wounded I think. I haven't heard of many prisoners being taken.
Posted by: buwaya   2006-07-25 14:27  

#4  They've always been combat inefficient.
How many wounded with that 600 dead ?
Also, and more importantly, how many have gone back to poppy farming or fishing.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-07-25 14:25  

#3  Dick Durbin signed their death sentence. No Gitmo means no taking prisoners. Democrats wanting to save the terrorist's lives, actually ended up killing them. It was all a Jedi mind control thingy planned by Rove.
Posted by: Poison Reverse   2006-07-25 14:09  

#2  The coalition should make taking care of their bodies a big once-a-month affair, and the line of caskets should get all kinds of press coverage. Make a big production-line thing out of it. Land a couple of C5s in Pakistan and meet them with a fleet of forklifts where they haul palletload after palletload off to semi trailers for transportation to a mass grave because their names are unknown. Might drive the point home better that way.
Posted by: gorb   2006-07-25 13:50  

#1  OUCH! That is quite a body count for the taliwackers. How long before they are completely combat inefficiant?
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-07-25 13:43  

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