'We Will Cut Them Until Iran Asks For Mercy'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-15-2006 | Massoud Ansari

[roaddog727]

"Can't we build a huge strategic toilet and just flush the middle east down it."

Wouldn't work. The middle east is already toilet-bowl central. Flushing it down would just churn the S##t.

[infowarrior]

Clearly the Shia don't qualify as infidels.

The Shia, and the Sunni, each consider the other group to be apostate, which is *worse* than being an infidel...

the infowarrior

[teenyelliott]

No, because crazy people never know they are crazy.

[teenyelliott]

So, they want to kill each other more than they want to kill us?

Islam. The religion of peace.

[asp1]

Scary, isn't it?

[Drew68]

Islam. The religion of peace.

*sigh* That's what everyone keeps telling us.

[RedRover]

Baluchistan is well suited to guerilla ops.

What's the area like? Similar to Hindu Kush? I don't know anything about this region.

[teenyelliott]

Yeah, and I throw up a little bit every time I hear it.

[Lancey Howard]

"We will turn them one against the other." - George W. Bush, addressing the nation following the terror attacks of 9/11/01

[JasonC]

Much flatter, desert plateau. Think badlands.

[JasonC]

There are mountainous portions, mind, but most of it is high desert plateau.

[Stultis]

If we haven't had operatives in Baluchistan sipping tea and handing out guns, ammo and dollars since about October 2001, and cross border training camps established since the conclusion of the Afghanistan War, I'd be damned disappointed.

[Talking_Mouse]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

No. The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Interesting! Thanks for posting.

[JasonC]

Here is a pic - Some archaeologist on a dig in Baluchistan

Pretty forbidding country, a lot of it. There are successive ranges between the coast and the northern mountains, like southern Arizona or southwestern New Mexico, say. There are wide sand deserts. There are high mountains in the north at the tri-border area where Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan meet. There are small fishing settlements along the coast, and villages dotting the interior wherever the land is fertile enough to support livestock.

[Stultis]

[indcons]

Baluchistan is a province in Pakistan. It borders Iran....the Baluchis are Sunni muslims of the Wahabbi kind.

[blam]

Sistan And Baluchistan

[RedRover]

Many thanks for the information! (By the way, the archaeologist on the dig in Baluchistan uses an interesting tool!)

It doesn't seem as if the Iranian forces are equipped to handle a fight in this terrain. I wonder if the kidnapped soldiers were the whole outpost on the border. As they say, one can only await further developments with great interest!

[RedRover]

Wow! Formidable place.