Airstrikes Kill 178 Afghan Rebel Suspects

Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2005 Jun 25 | Tomas Munita

[JOE6PAK]

MEN AT WORK!

[lilylangtree]

Good!

[ozzymandus]

A good start, anyway.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" bringing to 178 the number of insurgents killed in one of the deadliest bombardments by U.S. and Afghan forces since the Taliban fell in 2001."

Apparently this is a bad thing.
Not successful bombings, but , " deadliest."
It appears that this liberal writer is more concerned with the safety of the terrorists than he is in the US winning the WOT.
If Karl Rove is as smart as we think -he would market " Have You Hugged a Terrorist Today ? " bumper stickers.
He would make a fortune selling them to liberals in the MSM and the Democrat Party.

[DTogo]

"Our forces have collected the bodies of 76 more rebels from the battlefield," he said, adding that the corpses had been scattered across a wide mountainous area. "It's very difficult determining how many died when A-10 planes and other attack aircraft, as well as heavy machine guns, have been used against the enemy," he said. "Some of the bodies may also have been buried before we could count them."

Two arms/hands or two legs/feet = 1 "body"

Allahu Akbar! :)

[taxesareforever]

As Fred would say, "Yabba Dabba Doo".

[river rat]

""They have promised to help us track down the Taliban."

I wish he would have commented on how much he believed this "promise"....

Semper Fi

[WFTR]

We need to keep taking the war to the terrorists until all of them are dead or a remaining few surrender. We must force them to renounce all jihad and agree to live in peace with the West. If we are going to avoid future attacks, our desire to force them to leave us alone must be greater than their desire to do us harm. There is no safety in ever increasing "security" measures. Our only safety is in breaking our enemies. Those who say that we can't break the Muslims have already lost.

Bill

[LachlanMinnesota]

They were "suspected rebels"

They were not "suspected insurgents, they were proven insurgents, apparently...

[denydenydeny]

That's the way it's done.

But of course, the AP must find a way to shoehorn a completely irrelevant negative note into the story:

The increase in fighting has reinforced concerns [by whom? Moveon.org?] that the Afghan war is widening, rather than winding down. U.S. and Afghan officials warn things could get worse ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for September.

[Dog Gone]

Do you want to have a trial to determine this before dropping a bomb?

[fella]

The correct term should be brigand or perhaps filibuster in its' original meaning.

[Brofholdonow]

Was this a criminal matter? Did they read them their rights first?(sarcasim off)

[Brofholdonow]

I'm not that good at math. What is 178 times 72?

[LachlanMinnesota]

Certainly not, but I am wondering how they are willing to report on rebels as only "suspects" because the udstated accusation against the US is wthat we are willing to kill people we suspect are bad guys even if we do not know for certain. In my mind, that is the great unstated messagew of this story as foar as this reporter was stating it. He had to know the basis for the military attacks on these people, but he does not do anything to mimply that the US forces knew what they were doing. Why not just "rebels?"