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2006-01-25 India-Pakistan
Al-Qaeda in complete control of Waziristan other than Wana, Miramshah
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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-25 01:14|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 All this has been done with the complicity of Pakistan. What the hell is Bush going to Pakistan for?
Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-01-25 03:10||   2006-01-25 03:10|| Front Page Top

#2 This pisses me off to no end too, since we didn't destroy their training camps in Afghanistan just so they could set them up all over again. The longer those camps are active, the longer the war is going to go on.

Time for Pappy's B-52 boxes then.
Posted by RD 2006-01-25 03:23||   2006-01-25 03:23|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm not saying this article is wrong, but Asia Times is a notoriously anti-US publication which tends to hype the capabilities of the jihadi forces. A week before the Taliban fell they were boasting about how fucked up US military strategy in Afghanistan was.
Posted by Apostate 2006-01-25 06:31||   2006-01-25 06:31|| Front Page Top

#4 This article is probably painted pro al Qaeda, so believe only half of it. They seem to be stepping up activities in Afghanistan, so I believe they do have renewed training, but nothing a few well placed snipers can't reduce. I doubt they have enough concentration to waste a bomb on. Don't forget, we have drones watching, so our side knows the facts on AQ.
Posted by wxjames 2006-01-25 09:28||   2006-01-25 09:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Reminds me of a passage on the battle of Gallipoli. The Ozzies were shooting up a Turkish attack as each man climbed to the top of the trench across No Mans Land. It dawned on the Ozzies to let them all get up first, allowing the Turkish officers to act as beaters making sure each formation was in place. The Ozzies would then cut them all down, except for the officers who'd provide another assemblage for butchery.

Let them mass. Watch their behaviors. Set up a good kill zone.
Posted by Angineng Whomonter7804 2006-01-25 10:25||   2006-01-25 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 George Bush has already given the militants the best training ground they could have wished for.

Its called Iraq.

Nice one George. That ranks alongside your father giving Bin Laden training and money to fight a non existent communist threat.
Posted by Thrimble Glith4421 2006-01-25 14:53||   2006-01-25 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL, TG! I'd recommend a course in Crticial Thinking, but I'd bet the prerequisites would make that a non-starter.
Posted by .com 2006-01-25 15:06||   2006-01-25 15:06|| Front Page Top

#8 I enjoy reading the Asia Times almost daily. For the same reason I enjoyed watching Bagdad Bob during the Iraq Invasion of Bagdad.
Posted by junkirony 2006-01-25 15:09||   2006-01-25 15:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey Thimble Glitch,
Please stop repeating urban legends that were debunked several years ago. The CIA never gave any money to Bin Laden, largely because his anti-American views were known even then. The money he got was stickly from private Saudi donations -not part of the joint CIA-Saudi project.
As for Iraq, these guys are not living long enough to be a problem. They last only a few weeks before the become "human DNA" or deserting and coming home complaining about lousy working conditions.
The Europeans keep complaining about Super-terrorists coming back from Iraq, but nobody can point to a living breathing example.

Al
Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al  2006-01-25 15:10||   2006-01-25 15:10|| Front Page Top

#10 America's Pacific Island-hopping Campaign was an excellent training ground for Japanese Banzai charges. Fucking Roosevelt & Truman.
Posted by .com 2006-01-25 15:15||   2006-01-25 15:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Now Thimble you forgotten most of the rest of the story - please include....
The war is about: (please pick iv for your next post)

a) oil
2) profits
iii) Haliburton
d) tax cuts for the wealthy
5) Global Warming Climate Change
vi) Enron's homeless
g) faith based protestant insanity
8) Skull and Bones again
Posted by 6 2006-01-25 15:54||   2006-01-25 15:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Heh, 6. ;-)
Posted by .com 2006-01-25 16:00||   2006-01-25 16:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Thrimble Glith4421 IP Location:
GB(GB) United Kingdom, Lambeth, H1

One of London's more illustrious citizens, I see.

Posted by Pappy 2006-01-25 18:47||   2006-01-25 18:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Hey, if these wankers are massing in storm troop parade rank and file formations, bring in a few mini-gun choppers and toss some raw hamburger around. Pakistan is one of our very worst enemies. So long as they continue to drag their heels on just about every critical topic under the sun, their sh!thole country is our private shooting range.
Posted by Zenster 2006-01-25 19:13||   2006-01-25 19:13|| Front Page Top

#15 We are just keeping the Paki/Islamic nukes on a leash until we can deal with them. Perhaps we can decapitate Iran, glass over Waziristan, and destroy the Paki/Islamic nukes all in one massive attack. A three-fer, while only riling the Arab Street(TM) once. Useful for reducing our nuke stockpile a little bit too. Then we can have a "Bush Doctrine" -- no Islamic nukes anywhere, ever.
Posted by Darrell 2006-01-25 19:25||   2006-01-25 19:25|| Front Page Top

#16 Lambeth Palace?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-25 19:46||   2006-01-25 19:46|| Front Page Top

#17 Right, Lambeth Palace. The Archbishop of Canterbury just got a Dell, dude!
Posted by Darrell 2006-01-25 19:51||   2006-01-25 19:51|| Front Page Top

#18 Got tossed from the pub for being a wanker.
Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-01-25 20:02||   2006-01-25 20:02|| Front Page Top

#19 Don't you think it's about time we field tested the MOAB?
Posted by DMFD 2006-01-25 20:18||   2006-01-25 20:18|| Front Page Top

#20 Is it true that the AB of C is taking George Galloways place in the house?
Posted by 6 2006-01-25 20:21||   2006-01-25 20:21|| Front Page Top

#21 MOAB test? Lets try this one:
http://upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060120-070112-5273r
Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-01-25 20:33||   2006-01-25 20:33|| Front Page Top

#22 I don't quite get this. they're testing in Singapor ? I would feel better if only America and it's closest allies ever saw this gun.
More reason to focus on small unit warfare.
Posted by wxjames 2006-01-25 21:41||   2006-01-25 21:41|| Front Page Top

#23 I agree wx....5 minutes of ammo is a bit expensive.
Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-01-25 21:52||   2006-01-25 21:52|| Front Page Top

#24 Inspector Clueso
I've been wanting to invest in them for years but their stock doesn't perform. I am curious what the problem is. Maybe it is demoing in places not in Echelon.
Posted by 3dc 2006-01-25 23:27||   2006-01-25 23:27|| Front Page Top

#25 funny thread, wait till i tell AL.
Posted by Max Planck 2006-01-25 23:41||   2006-01-25 23:41|| Front Page Top

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