Posted on 09/19/2007 5:41:55 PM PDT by SmithL
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban fighters carrying machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades used children as human shields during a battle in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, forcing U.S.-led coalition soldiers to hold their fire for a time, the coalition said.
The clash in Uruzgan province began when more than 20 insurgents attacked a joint Afghan and coalition patrol, the coalition said in a statement.
As aircraft prepared to bomb the site, "coalition forces as well as the aircraft identified several insurgents in one compound using children as human shields," the statement said. Ground troops and the aircraft withheld fire to avoid injuring the children, it said.
The soldiers did fight the insurgents when they tried to flee the compound, and more than a dozen suspected militants were killed, the coalition said. The report, which was impossible to verify independently, did not list any casualties among troops or civilians.
Maj. Chris Belcher, a coalition spokesman, said Taliban militants have used children as shields before. In June, insurgents forced women and children into a canal in Uruzgan while battling coalition forces, and many of the human shields died in the crossfire, he said.
"If you look at some of the actions where the Taliban have had women and children carrying ammunition for them, where they've used civilian houses, and now in this case they're using children to shield themselves, I'd say that shows they really don't care about Afghans," Belcher said.
The U.S.-led coalition and the NATO force in Afghanistan themselves were strongly criticized earlier in the year by President Hamid Karzai and others for causing civilian casualties in airstrikes on suspected militant locations. The number of such casualties has dropped recently.
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The penultimate Culture of Death.
You only have one son, and you want him to BlowUp right... right???Money back guarantee if not completely satisfied... or if he lives. 
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It sure would be nice to get some pictures of these animals doing this.
MorOn.org’s DemocRATS basically do the same thing. They push through their Communist agenda by telling the moron voters we need to do it “for the children.”
Video the vile deed. Buy every second of broadcast time available in the entire Muslim world. Show the video non-stop.
Hard choice. But was it a good one? Hope so. Time will tell.
Shoot high.
Because the KNOW we will NOT fire.
Where are a dozen champion snipers when you need them?
The Soldiers of Allah: Plumbing new depths of depravity, cowardice, and contemptibility every day. And all in service of such a noble cause.
They are lowlife cowards with a totally worthless culture. If every one of them would disappear from the planet, would anything worthwhile be gone?
At least these particular bastards won't be doing this again.
Killing women and children by the 100’s of thousands - didn’t prevent us from bombing German or Japanese cities..
Did it?
Why are Muslim “innocents” of more concern that the German and Japanese “innocents”...
Nits become Lice.
Americans don’t have the stomach for such warfare anymore, and it isn’t necessary with new weapons. Do you believe this type of bombing and firestorms would garner respect or outrage the entire world.
Americans don’t have the stomach for such warfare anymore, and it isn’t necessary with new weapons. Do you believe this type of bombing and firestorms would garner respect or outrage the entire world.
Americans don’t have the stomach for such warfare anymore, and it isn’t necessary with new weapons. Do you believe this type of bombing and firestorms would garner respect or outrage the entire world?
These non human beings are absolute MONSTERS!!!!
Because there wasn’t TV, INTERNET and out of control journalists in WWII. And we didn’t have an active Democrat Fifth Column in the US in WWII.
Frankly, I've seen little benefit from our overly long and expensive in blood and treasure pursuit of the "world's respect"..
Consequently, I am no longer interested in the respect of the world or how much I "outrage" the perpetually outraged as much as I'm devoted and interested in survival of the Republic, our Western Civilization and my family and friends.
By now, we KNOW who our friends are..
They are the nations who share our love of civilization and individual freedom..
Many of them are standing with us on the battlefield...
The rest, I care little about their "outrage"..
Do you respect the U.N.?
Do you require or prefer the "love and admiration" of the majority despot nations at the U.N. -- or would you prefer to take whatever steps are necessary to ensure the peaceful survival of your children and grandchildren?
Have you seen the U.N. or the "World" heaping outrage on the lunatics of the Islamic world who have been blowing up children, women, hospital patients, etc, etc......
Have you seen the U.N. or the "World" recoil in horror at the 9/11 attack, the Chechen massacre at the Russian school, the frequent beheading of hostages, the assassination of foreign leaders who oppose the Islamanazi assault of their neighbors, threats of genocide frequently made by Islamanazis against Israel and that great Satan - America?
War was declared against us, and the enemy is conducting that war through the terrorist activity of ideologues -- with the Nations supporting them attempting to remain off our target list...
We did not initiate this fight..
We will lose the fight if we don't make the price of Jihad an unbearable nightmare which threatens to hurl their "civilization" back to its 7th century base...
We need to win this war, by the total and absolute defeat and devastation of the enemy.
I have NO doubt, the Islamists will launch devastating attacks against whichever city they can succeed in attacking..
I also have no doubt that the impotent and corrupt U.N. and the "world" will quietly and diplomatically "protest" -- but tread carefully so as to not enrage the victor whom they fear..
Personally, I would rather be alive and feared - than dead and "respected" by those I hold in contempt...
I am painfully aware that I'm in the minority....
That really disturbs me - fearing that the naive fools and cowards in this country are going to lose this war without a fight which UTILIZES OUR STRENGTHS...
I resent what that means to me and mine.....and I'm too damned old and tired now to fight another foreign campaign..
However, if we continue along our current course - I have no doubt the fight will soon be brought to me -- right here on my street... Sooner than some may imagine, I fear.
Sorry but I think world respect is important. Germany and France have elected polar opposites to previous Arafat-loving regimes. The Muslims are doing a terrific PR hatchet job on themselves in Europe. France has started expelling them. Yes, the UN is full of crap but at least the Security Council is no longer on the take from Saddam. Palestinians have lost the “pity” they once enjoyed.
Islamic fighters have never once defeated our soldiers in a skirmish.
Overall, democracy is on the march and global capital is growing at the fastest rate ever. There are reasons to be cheerful instead of fearful. Your granddaughters will never submit to sharia.
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