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Heavy Taliban Losses Affect Recruiting, Possibly Tactics, General Says
American Forces Press Service ^
| July 26, 2005
| Donna Miles
Posted on 07/26/2005 4:04:21 PM PDT by SandRat
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The coalition has received reports that the Taliban is attempting to recruit 14- to 16-year-olds to their cause because "older and wiser" Afghans simply are "not buying into their rhetoric," Conway said.What else is new,.... Yet another violation of the rules of war.
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posted on
07/26/2005 4:04:22 PM PDT
by
SandRat
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Drafting teenagers into the Taliban.
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posted on
07/26/2005 4:04:55 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
"older and wiser" Afghans simply are "not buying into their rhetoric," Conway said. Very good news
To: SandRat
When will ABC/CBS/NBC report about the failure of Taliban recruiters to make their quotas this quarter?
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posted on
07/26/2005 4:07:59 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
To: SandRat
I was about to say, this is hardly a new tactic among the Islamofascists.
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posted on
07/26/2005 4:08:41 PM PDT
by
Dolphan
(It's the 99% of Mohammedans that make the other 1% look bad.)
To: Joe 6-pack
To: SandRat
So they are destroying their own future by getting their young teens killed...
I am not surprised.
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posted on
07/26/2005 4:09:29 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Sent all the MSM to Afghanistan to roam the countryside until they can get the quotas and performance to quotas for the Taliban. It would make for interesting reportage.
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posted on
07/26/2005 4:12:58 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Don't Tread on Me; Live Free or Die)
To: SandRat
They'll run out of them too.....
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posted on
07/26/2005 4:17:13 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Suicidal Blond Twin Kills Sister By Mistake!)
To: Joe 6-pack
when you see the devil ice skating?
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posted on
07/26/2005 4:19:52 PM PDT
by
rwa265
To: SandRat
Drafting teenagers into the Taliban.Sounds exactly like the last days of The 3RD Reich.
To: Joe 6-pack
ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/Maher/John Stewart..etc..
..are the *ENEMY* trying their best to
make us lose, and to get our troops killed.
Our troops *should* shoot them when they see them
"in country"!!!
To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Yes, the Islamist hero Hitler did this too. Just before he put a bullet in his own head.
To: SandRat
The coalition has received reports that the Taliban is attempting to recruit 14- to 16-year-olds to their cause because "older and wiser" Afghans simply are "not buying into their rhetoric," Conway said. Dude, you are taking on the US Military. Winner of WWI, WWII.
You must be motivated by the 72 virgin story, you silly little 3rd world illiterate fool.
To: SandRat
I wonder if Katie Couric will bemoan the loss of "the cream of Afghanistan's youth."
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07/26/2005 4:53:02 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
To: SandRat
I can only guess the frustrations of trying to get suicide bombers to re-enlist.
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07/26/2005 4:55:17 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
To: SandRat
What about the drugs. Taliban, especially in Afghanistan, must be hooking some of their stooges on drugs, yet no one wants to discuss it.
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posted on
07/26/2005 5:00:06 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(Honor - Dignity - Courage)
To: SandRat; All
Nice to see Tailban reach out to young people NOTTT
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posted on
07/26/2005 5:26:04 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
...so they've resorted to recruiting young teens to join the fight. Are they 'recruiting' like Hitler's Army did in WWII ie: Put a gun to their heads and say "You can die fighting Americans or you can die right here, right now".
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07/26/2005 5:42:04 PM PDT
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hattend
(Alaska....in a time warp all it's own!)
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Taliban members who face off against coalition forces or the Afghan National Army are facing heavy losses, so they've resorted to recruiting young teens to join the fight, the Joint Staff's operations director told Pentagon reporters today. Marine Lt. Gen. James Conway spoke following a July 25 incident that involved heavy fighting in a small village west of Deh Rawod in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province. The incident, which left one U.S. soldier and an Afghan National Army soldier dead, took a considerable toll on the enemy, the general said. Some press reports claim as many as 50 insurgents were killed, he said. "My observation, tracking this day in and day out, is that virtually every time the Taliban come up against our regular forces or those of the Afghan National Army, they are losing pretty badly," Conway told reporters.
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posted on
07/26/2005 9:06:22 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
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