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2008-04-28 Afghanistan

U.S. Marines join Brits fighting Taliban in Helmand

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Posted by Fred 2008-04-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Heroin factories dot Taliban controlled areas. If Taliban wasn't using derivative revenues, then they wouldn't exist. So much for them being ethical Muslims. I would napalm the fabrication plants.

As for Karzai, he has twice lectured the US against air bombardment of Helmand. It is time for him to shut up.

Posted by McZoid 2008-04-28 04:18|| 2008-04-28 04:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe he likes to party with a little horse on the weekends.

Posted by Black Charlie Gleter4126 2008-04-28 07:20|| 2008-04-28 07:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Weren't the poppy fields established by the British Raj as the base of the opium trade?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-28 12:04|| 2008-04-28 12:04|| Front Page Top

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