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2006-05-18 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve 2006-05-18 09:34|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Taliban: The Short Bus Riders of Jihad...

Posted by tu3031 2006-05-18 10:03|| 2006-05-18 10:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Ya, you can buy more ~~suckers~~ men, but they won't last long either. Nor will your cash.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-18 10:07|| 2006-05-18 10:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like the ISI will be working on IED manufacture with their students from now on then...

Posted by Howard UK 2006-05-18 10:26|| 2006-05-18 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 They may have another point there where they mentioned that the Taliban who fight are not doing so in their own neighborhood. This also probably means that when they run across the border, it is not towards Paks that know them or like their tribe. Which might explain the unfriendly greeting.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-18 11:01|| 2006-05-18 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 You have to love islamofascism. Create a religious climate that encourages it's "best and brightest", most loyal adherents to kill themselves in hopes of glory. As far as I can tell it's a fairly novel approach, historically speaking.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-05-18 14:17|| 2006-05-18 14:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Despite having the advantage of surprise, they have encountered a largely hostile, and well armed, population that fights back.

"Attention, townspeople! We are the Taliban. We have come to take your tv's and force everyone into the mosque five times a day at gunpoint. Any man who trims his beard or woman without a sack on her head will be beaten for the glory of Allah. Any questions?"

<Bang. Bangety-bang.>

"Ouch. Run, Mahmoud! Run!"

Posted by Baba Tutu 2006-05-18 16:21|| 2006-05-18 16:21|| Front Page Top

#7 "As far as I can tell it's a fairly novel approach, historically speaking."

Nationalism pretty much did in many of the best and brightest of U.K. and Europe during the first World War.

Posted by Fordesque 2006-05-18 18:43|| 2006-05-18 18:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Mouse, don't forget the Japanese Divine Wind was nasty.

Posted by bombay">bombay 2006-05-18 23:41|| 2006-05-18 23:41|| Front Page Top

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