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2006-03-26 Afghanistan
Taliban commander in Helmand claims to have 600 suicide bombers
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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-03-26 03:17|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 thats him fooked then... and 600 less fruitcakes to worry about
Posted by MacNails 2006-03-26 03:32||   2006-03-26 03:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks for the heads up. Recruiting a little slow?
Posted by Perfessor 2006-03-26 08:59||   2006-03-26 08:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Taliban commander to US: "We have 600 suicide bombers"

US to Taliban commander: "We have 600 B52 bombers."
Posted by JFM">JFM  2006-03-26 09:40||   2006-03-26 09:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Taliban commander to US: "We have 600 suicide bombers"

US to Taliban commander: We have 50,000 girl pole dancers who can kick your ass.
Posted by RD 2006-03-26 11:19||   2006-03-26 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Good. Even these guys can't just keep brainwashing people at that speed for long.
Posted by plainslow 2006-03-26 11:39||   2006-03-26 11:39|| Front Page Top

#6 US to Taliban commander: We have 50,000 girl pole dancers who can kick your ass.

And that's just in Fort Lauderdale.
Semi-OT I wuz thinking (hush) prepaid 900# phonecards. Dumped like juche over the barren Afghan plains, like love Manna.
Posted by 6 2006-03-26 12:03||   2006-03-26 12:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Pashtun speaking hotties would be a bottleneck tho. Course I expect the fellas might wait in a phone queue tho.

Posted by Churchills Parrot 2006-03-26 12:05||   2006-03-26 12:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Damn, I'seem to have an albatross parrot hanging around my neck. I suspect fiendery.
Posted by 6 2006-03-26 12:07||   2006-03-26 12:07|| Front Page Top

#9 squawk!
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-03-26 12:25||   2006-03-26 12:25|| Front Page Top

#10 "900 British soldiers were slaughtered by 25,000 Afghan tribesmen at the Battle of Maiwand in 1880"
So they won with a 28-to-1 advantage on the field.
Of course the Brits didn't have cluster bombs in those days. Looks like the Taliban has forgotten the lessons of 2001.
Posted by Darrell 2006-03-26 19:36||   2006-03-26 19:36|| Front Page Top

#11 A reliable estimate of Afghan casualties in the 1880 battle is 3,000. If Mullah Razayar reads the following account, he may not want to repeat the battle on modern terms, even without air power involved:
http://www.britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/maiwand.htm
Posted by Darrell 2006-03-26 19:47||   2006-03-26 19:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Are suicide bom suits MOAB-proof?
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-03-26 20:20||   2006-03-26 20:20|| Front Page Top

#13 Funny thing about dime store thugs, they are all bluster and no balls. I suspect the Brits are well capable of dealing with these dead enders. They have learned a great deal from their experience in So. Iraq.
Posted by Captain America 2006-03-26 20:35||   2006-03-26 20:35|| Front Page Top

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