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Taliban launch wave of attacks in Afghanistan's Kandahar
Reuters ^ | Sat May 7, 2011 2:06pm EDT | By Ismail Sameem

Posted on 05/09/2011 2:51:52 AM PDT by Cindy

SNIPPET: ""If these attacks were aimed at seizing control of Kandahar city, as the Taliban proclaimed, they failed," a senior official from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) told Reuters, on condition of anonymity.

Shooting erupted after the first explosion hours earlier and insurgents opened fire from a five-storey shopping mall toward the governor's fortified compound, from where security forces returned fire as black smoke rose over the city."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; globaljihad; kandahar; mall; malls; shoppingmall; taleban; taliban

1 posted on 05/09/2011 2:51:56 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy
Round up all suspected taliban and their supporters... execute all of them... all family members... anyone associated with them... mine all mountain passes... poison the poppy fields... pull all of our troops out and bomb or hold drone air strikes against all enemies that raise their head. Rinse and repeat until the land is barren or pacified.

LLS

2 posted on 05/09/2011 4:44:36 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!)
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To: LibLieSlayer
What, you actually want to win?
3 posted on 05/09/2011 4:49:59 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Ladies and Gentlemen the _resident of the untied States!!)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Yes I do... and I want to destroy islam and mecca and medina too.

LLS


4 posted on 05/09/2011 5:27:55 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!)
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