First American Casualty at Mazar-i Sharif

MSNBC | 11/25/01 | Self

[Mahone]

MSNBC just reported that we have had the first American Special Ops casualty in the revolt by the Taleban prisoners that were taken from Kunduz to Mazar-i Sharif.

[Mahone]

Now thankfully, they are saying on MSNBC that there has NOT been an American casualty. Thank you, Lord.

[Mr.Clark]

Good job MSNBC, way to check your sources before broadcasting false stories.

[LarryM]

I don't understand why we are bothering with prisoners.

[Oschisms]

Yeah, I didn't see any prisoners walking out of the WTC- I don't want to see a damn one walking out of Afghanistan.

[Dog]

Pentagon is denying the story.....No US Casualty!

[Rustynailww]

these prisoners may well be our downfall.

[SamAdams76]

Thank God it turned out not to be true. But if it was true that an American soldier was killed by Taliban POW's, I sure hope that the whole lot of them would be immediately dispatched to meet their "72 virgins." That would be a no-brainer.

[Mulder]

We should not be taking any of the sand goblins prisoner.

They have no regard for the basic rules of warfare, and therefore forfeit their right to surrender.

[milagro]

CNN was reporting this earlier. A CNN correspondent on the ground in Mazar-el-Sharif said that there were 2 American Special Ops guys caught in the "fort" where the Taliban prisoners were revolting. The reporter thought one had been killed because they had not had radio contact with him for several hours. The other they did not know about. Air strikes were called in. The reporter said he thought the revolt had been quelled--but a bunch of Taliban were killed, along with some NA troops--and the one American.

Hope the MSNBC report about there not being a casualty is accurate!

[Professor Jim]

I heard the Time reporter on the scene talking on CNN or FOX and he seemed pretty certain that one was killed, the other still in danger. He said that there were 7 air strikes on the rioting prisoners, hundreds killed in the firefight that preceded the bombing, all within hundreds of yards from where he was. Go figure!

[VA Advogado]

these prisoners may well be our downfall.

Some reports are that we are thinking of shipping/housing them in Guam. Can you imagine this cause being added to the anti WTO/Free Mumia movement? UGH

[ChaseR]

And the filthy scumbags at MSNBC - aren't dwelling on the over 5000 who died at the WTC! Slimy liberals at MSNBC have such short memories!

[mad_as_he$$]

My sources say the an AC-130 and some F/A-18's sent hundreds to their virgins. By the way I bleive that US ground sources are responsible for over 2000 Towe-a-ban and AQ deaths. We just aren't hearing about that.

[ChaseR]

off bold

[Lessismore]

shipping/housing them in Guam.

How about Johnston Island instead?

[financeprof]

Yeah, why send 'em to Guam? The citizens of an isolated island in SPAC, Tuvalu, are going to abandon it because it is uninhabitable (they claim b/c of rising sea levels due to global warming; skeptics say it's b/c the Tuvalese have despoiled it). I think this sounds like the perfect place for the "foreign" fighters--lots of sand, completely isolated, desolate. And what about Pitcairn Island (where the Bounty mutineers went)? Almost uninhabited, middle of nowhere.

[lavaroise]

Body bag thirst at MSNBC. Unrepentant sobs.

[John H K]

One thing to keep in mind..

The Media (and about 95% of the public, largely due to media and Hollywood idiocy) mistakenly think casualty = dead.

IN MILITARY USAGE CASUALTIES INCLUDE DEAD, MISSING, AND WOUNDED

It pretty much means anyone who can't fight. Someone with a non-fatal flesh wound in the arm would be described as a "casualty" by someone in the military. I have little doubt that confusion over this will arise over and over again, as it did in the Gulf War.