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2007-05-07 Afghanistan
Cheap Afghan insurgency can last for a long time: Hekmatyar
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Posted by Fred 2007-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 In the DVD, Hekmatyar flatly rejected allegations by President Hamid Karzai and some US officials that the uprising is dependent on support from Pakistan, including its intelligence service.

No, really. Other then paying for my room service and my pay per view goat pr0n at the Peshawar Sonesta, they're no help at all. By Allah, I swear to you...
Posted by tu3031 2007-05-07 00:40||   2007-05-07 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Article: “The Americans know that roadside bombs used against their convoys cost only $100,” said Hekmatyar, who carries a multi-million-dollar US bounty on his head. “We need neither foreign support for materials and equipment or for expenses,” he said in the video. “If we are able to carry out at least 1,000 such attacks a year, it costs us only $100,000. We can carry on this war for a long time,” he added

The problem is that Taliban fighters need to eat. They also need to be paid. And if they die, death benefits need to be provided to the family. The dirty little secret of jihadism is large cash payments to the families of the deceased. End that, and the flow of fighters crashes. Not to mention the fact that we have an industrial economy's resources to draw on, whereas they don't even control Afghanistan.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-05-07 01:05|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2007-05-07 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Only as long as Pakistan.
Posted by Sneaze 2007-05-07 04:03||   2007-05-07 04:03|| Front Page Top

#4 if they die, death benefits need to be provided to the family.

And if they don't die but somehow all magically end up blind or otherwise effed up real bad?
Posted by gorb 2007-05-07 05:16||   2007-05-07 05:16|| Front Page Top

#5 All those things may be true - OK, they are true - but Hek and da boise can certainly outlast our friends in Congress.
Posted by Bobby 2007-05-07 06:20||   2007-05-07 06:20|| Front Page Top

#6 The Americans know that roadside bombs used against their convoys cost only $100,”

Yep, and bullets are around 60 cents, die in a hail of (Copper jacketed) lead.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-05-07 06:23||   2007-05-07 06:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Saving all that money doesn't mean shit if you get incinerated by a $50,000 , 5,000lb, marvel of western technology while squating in your mud house.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-05-07 07:45||   2007-05-07 07:45|| Front Page Top

#8 He does have a point. Low key terrorist and separatist attacks will be going on in Afghanistan and other places in the Arab world long after this war and most likely long after we are dead. They have been since the beginning of time and will most likely go on until the end of time.

That being said, I would like to end as many of the taliwackers as possible, as messily as possible before we hand over things to the Afghans.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-05-07 09:41||   2007-05-07 09:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Murder is bred into the bone with these people.
Posted by SR-71 2007-05-07 09:54||   2007-05-07 09:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Watched part of a Russian video on LinkTv last night. They were traveling through Afghanistan and trying to talk to the Mullahs.
In one town east of Herat they mullah's let them watch for three days while they had the debate if they should even talk to the Russian video crew.

All these mullahs siting around arguing jinn on the head of a pin stuff. Then about 1/4 of them got into a whirling dervish circle and end up in a trance state.

All this to decide if they would talk to a tv crew. I got bored and turned it off so I don't know if the ever did.

The point ends up being - These guys are wacko!
Posted by 3dc 2007-05-07 11:16||   2007-05-07 11:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh, and in that video, no where did I see anybody but guards working. Also, no plants anywhere just dust. Not even a vegie garden...
If they are not working at least they could be planting instead of drinking tea and having huge debates about whom to talk to.
Posted by 3dc 2007-05-07 11:36||   2007-05-07 11:36|| Front Page Top

#12 You get what you pay for.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-05-07 11:39||   2007-05-07 11:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Somewhere around the time of the whirling dervish, a machine gun should have made the final decision for them.

Oh, and they don't have to work. Every morning they tell their goat what they want for supper, and she passes the word to her human female subordinate.
Posted by wxjames 2007-05-07 11:41||   2007-05-07 11:41|| Front Page Top

#14 I guess Hek just wants to prove to his financial supporters that he gets real bang for the buck!

(Sorry, couldn't resist...)
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-05-07 12:00||   2007-05-07 12:00|| Front Page Top

#15 They do not have to outlast anyone more than Pelosi and Reid and Murtha.

Now how hard would that be?

That us why he is confident the tribes will fall in line behind him and support him locally. All he has to do is point to Iraq when someone brings up American support.
Posted by Spavise Grundy6517 2007-05-07 13:27||   2007-05-07 13:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Sounds like an offer to be properly bribed.
Posted by Shipman">Shipman  2007-05-07 17:07||   2007-05-07 17:07|| Front Page Top

#17 sounds like an offer for a 50 cal slug getween the eyes
Posted by sinse 2007-05-07 20:02||   2007-05-07 20:02|| Front Page Top

#18 Hek? Your troops throw grenades like little girls. Biaaaatches
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-05-07 21:26||   2007-05-07 21:26|| Front Page Top

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