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2007-03-26 India-Pakistan

Taliban 'invites Uzbek militants to Helmand'

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Posted by Steve 2007-03-26 07:40|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So a bunch of Wazoo dope farmers lit these guys up for a 4/1 kill ratio?
Sure. Send 'em over. We'll finish the job.

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-26 08:43|| 2007-03-26 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Sending them over to their cousins on the Afghan side of the border? Oh yes, the Uzbeks will get a warm welcome there... long before the British and Afghan Army units arrive. Isn't the tradition tea with the elders, then bashing in the guests' heads? the Uzbeks are still ahead on points -- 1500 tribesmen over the last two years plus 30 in the recent exchange -- and at least they know the terrain they're dug into.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-26 10:18|| 2007-03-26 10:18|| Front Page Top

#3 they wouldnt go anywhere near the ethnic Uzbek parts of Afghanistan - thats solid Northern Alliance territory for the most part, where the Taliban has no influence. They would enter the Pashtun south, where the Taliban would presumably use them as cannon fodder against coalition forces.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-03-26 10:22|| 2007-03-26 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 They have no place they are welcome, but we are the ones who no one likes?

Posted by plainslow 2007-03-26 14:00|| 2007-03-26 14:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Alone, no home, nobody wants em.....perhaps its time to institute a switch, a common meme amongst afghan clans, where they become members of whoever the apparent winners are going to be. Perhaps that is the real story here, already.

Posted by Hupoting Fillmore5426 2007-03-26 17:13|| 2007-03-26 17:13|| Front Page Top

#6 come on and die

Posted by sinse 2007-03-26 17:52|| 2007-03-26 17:52|| Front Page Top

#7 i'm not trying too be a dick head, but if they have lost 43 in 5 yrs thats nbot a bad total like thetaliban are taking, conciderign they are haign toom call in bacjup

Posted by sinse 2007-03-26 17:54|| 2007-03-26 17:54|| Front Page Top

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