Almost Two Years After They Were Defeated, Thousands Join The Talibans New Jihad

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9-7-2003 | Massoud Ansari

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[Jeff Head]

Great, let them all come together, out in the open, forming up into large formations...larger than we have ever seen before...and make Jihad against the U.S. Army, the U.S Marines, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy.

It will allow us to clean up this mess much quicker and in numbers. Best thing they can do.

[A CA Guy]

We need to break out more bombs.

[freeangel]

"those who care nothing for their own lives"

As a matter of fact, U.S. forces don't much care about the taliban lives either. 'Hope every one of those pigs gets roasted.

[Poohbah]

US Marine with a Mark 19 AGL:

"You guys wanna play games? You ******* wanna play games? Well, say hello to my little friend here!"

[billbears]

Siddiqullah is one of many hundreds - possibly thousands - of young men who have been recruited to the Taliban to join their guerrilla war against government and allied forces. At 24 and recently engaged, he has put his life on hold to wage a holy war on "infidel" forces occupying his country.

Guess there wasn't an exit strategy there either....

[RLK]

The more things change, the more they remain the same. Mohammedism is intrinsically intractable. That has not changed, and never will.

[Poohbah]

The Pakistani Air Force was probably working for the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence service. Whether it was the boss-man at ISI, working his game, or someone else who had his own agenda...that's anyone's guess.

A semi-common mistake in international relations case studies is to assume that the "Stans" (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, and, for wall we know, Lemonade Stan) have coherent governments that act as unitary, rational-minded entities.

Over in that neck of the woods, intrigue and back-stabbing isn't just something to do, it's a way of life.

[thinktwice]

Socialists seek first power, for the supposed benefit of " The People."

Only problem is that once socialists achieve power (Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Clinton), all they have time to oncentrate on is keeping power -- to the detriment of all "The People" enslaved within their power.

[RLK]

Great, let them all come together, out in the open, forming up into large formations...larger than we have ever seen before..

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It won't happen. They are fighting smart, employing guerrilla warfare.

[Jeff Head]

LOL!

Like I said, if they want to get it out in the open for a stand-up fight...bring it on.

A few thousand of them tried that last time and they got a 1st class ticket home to Allah so he could settle them down.

[dinok]

Good...now that they are out of the closet...lets kill'em and do humanity a service.

[Jeff Head]

sometimes spending days travelling on foot through the desert

Well, if hundreds, or maybe thousands of them are doing this...the result will be the same.

[dighton]

[jwalburg]

This ought to help out a little:

India Israel pact

[NutCrackerBoy]

They are fighting smart, employing guerrilla warfare.

The Afghani government soldiers themselves are sure to be better equipped. And do I understand correctly that more and more of the "foreign" peacekeeping in Afghanistan is being turned over to Germans and others?

For various reasons, if it is US/UK alone, we won't be able to sustain in both Afghanistan and Iraq and ... wherever. However, if several countries are commited long term, and yes the UN (shudder), to containing this guerilla warfare, I think the experience of the Russians need not necessarily be repeated.

[alancarp]

Almost two years after they were defeated, thousands join the Taliban's new jihad"

Somehow, I doubt that their Class of 2003 will be planning any future class reunions.

[yooper]

Islamic bug light. CYA