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2007-01-21 India-Pakistan

Baitullah vows 'bloodier' spring offensive in Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 'Baitullah vowed to avenge Tuesdays airstrike. They launch airstrikes on us and we respond with suicide attack,' Yeah go ahead, we get to reuse our weapon delivery system.

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-21 20:12|| 2007-01-21 20:12|| Front Page Top

#2 If it gets any more bloody for the Taliban, they will be re-enacting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Kamikazees aside, what military tactics have the Taliban demonstrated any mastery of? They are desperate enough to be attacking in the winter, when all of our technological advantages come into play; they have lost at least 2900 troops in no win situations, without even taking and holding a single town; and they are facing ever-improving local troops in the form of the Afghan Army. About the only thing the Taliban has going for it is the high number of dirt-stupid Paki teenagers they can pay/brainwash/recruit into their cannon fodder units.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-01-21 20:32|| 2007-01-21 20:32|| Front Page Top

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