CIA blunder sparked Taleban revolt that became a mass suicide

thetimes.co.uk ^ | 11/28/2001 | OLIVER AUGUST

[breakem]

Not to mention the great job we did of searching these guys and removing their weapons.

[LS]

Mistake, maybe. But the result is there are several hundred fanatics who had once vowed to kill Americans who won't have that opportunity now. Don't wait for me to shed a tear.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I hate to say it, but I think we have another Darwin Award nominee.

[Ronin]

AC130 Spectre attack helicopters flew overhead five times, hovering and firing at close range.

Blimey! A C-130 that hovers.

Sheesh! After reading that I gave up on the rest. This was obviously written by some idiot taking notes from a cell phone call.

[TomGuy]

According to reports a couple of days ago, the riot began while journalists were interviewing prisoners. The prisoners took the opportunity to rush them and the guards, gaining the guards' weapons.

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[TomGuy]

Follow up: The guards were Northern Alliance. The 2 CIA agents were in a different part of the compound when the riot broke out. (If I remember right from previous reports.)

[dighton]

... their decision triggered a revolt that became the single bloodiest engagement since the Afghan war began.

IMO, inflammatory and unsupported by evidence.

[Rodney King]

Ridiculous to call it a blunder. For all one knows these guys were planning on revolting the whole time, and just decided to do it while they were arms length from an American.

[spunkets]

It's was a talibunny op. The N.Koreans did the same thing during the Korean War. It was planned and staged by the talibunny command for it's propaganda value. Whether they succeeded or not in the escape, they get the propaganda they're after. The outcome realized lets the leftists run with the propaganda ball too.

[RippleFire]

What happened to the eye witness account that said it was a Guardian reporter who was getting beaten up and the two CIA men intervened?

[Draco]

Glad the press knows so much about this it calls whatever happened (and I doubt we know even half) to incite this "uprising" that it was caused by a "CIA blunder." How about crazed suicidal malignant human dung, i.e., al-Queda?

[Revolting cat!]

An interesting story, not enough detail on how it really started. Note to self: don't judge based on incomplete, unreliable evidence. Buy yourself a beer if you succeed.

[headsonpikes]

Interesting. No tears here.

"Smoke 'em out; hunt 'em down; kill 'em all."

Remember?

[Travis McGee]

The "surrendering" Talibs from Kunduz knew the old fort very well, and knew that if it could be taken from inside, they would be able to stage a long and bloody siege, an "Alamo", on their way to meeting allah.

They got their wish.

[surfer]

You have no idea what your talking about...you are relying on the media's interpretation of the events. The CIA officially has recogonized only 78 losses since the company's inception, 1947. Pretty good record. They have a tough job to do...let's not play into the garbage media and their agenda!

[Travis McGee]

Who knows what really sparked it? Even if it was 2 CIA guys in civvies, do you think they pulled out CIA credentials and introduced themselves as "company men"?

The point is, these Al-Qaida and Taliban are death wishing fanatics on a psychological hair trigger who can be set off by a simple question "why did you come to Afghanistan".

Regardless of how it played out, who would want to see these human time bombs paroled and free to continue their Jihad to kill Americans?

[lelio]

Hmmm, we say that we're not going to take al-Q prisoners and we're stuck with some Taliban ones. Surprisingly they revolt and we have to kill them. Just makes you saying "hmmmm"

[Jeff Head]

You'd think the two of them would have had additional (NA) security with them on the inside amongst hundreds of belligerent prisoners who had already proven (the night before) that they had some weapons and were willing to commit suicide to take others out.

I'd think there was more to the story of how it went down with "Mike" ... but then again, perhpas not.

Either way, he was an American who died at the hands of these animals in the line of duty. God rest hi soul and God bless his family.