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2008-07-24 Afghanistan

Afghan, NATO troops try to seize Taliban-held town

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-07-24 07:41|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 try Hmm.

an air strike on insurgents ... inside the village
So how's that brilliant plan working out?

Posted by ed 2008-07-24 09:47|| 2008-07-24 09:47|| Front Page Top

#2 try Hmm.

an air strike on insurgents ... inside the village
So how's that brilliant plan working out?

Posted by ed 2008-07-24 09:47|| 2008-07-24 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 patrolling the streets for some hours before withdrawing

What a lovely euphemism for "swaggering about town until they scurried for the hills ahead of the authorities".

I guess I should just be happy that they haven't started mixing up this particular game with the alternative of "ambush the hell out of the relief column on the road into town". I wonder why they haven't yet? Are we just not getting those reports?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-07-24 09:50|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-24 09:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I think we should have long ago issue out very simple commo devices, just a small box with a button on it. Then hand them out everywhere with instructions to hide the device, and that if the Taliban takes their town, to push the button, then hide it again.

And if NATO catches or kills any Taliban, whoever's box it was that alerted NATO discreetly gets money. No Taliban, no money.

If the Taliban want to play cat and mouse, this is the way to do it.

Let the Afghan army guys be the ones who hand out the boxes in the first place, and give them a percentage for every successful hit.

Turn it into a friggin' gold rush.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-24 11:05|| 2008-07-24 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 If Napalm was in play, a rush to the hills wouldn't be a good idea.

Posted by Flemble Henbane3490 2008-07-24 16:23|| 2008-07-24 16:23|| Front Page Top

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