Posted on 03/20/2006 4:59:20 AM PST by stm
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suspected suicide attacker triggered a car bomb near a convoy of French troops Sunday in southern Afghanistan, killing himself but injuring no one else, Afghan officials said.
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I hope he enjoys his 72 goats....
Sounds like he fell apart under pressure...
Out of respect to French soldiers serving in Afghanistan, I'll make no jokes about the French troops surrendering to the body parts.
That's not a sustainable business model. Gives new meaning to "Promotion by Attrition"!
ROFLOL..... Excellent !!!!
Damn I love these stories.
remote control detonation..these guys are convinced they can escape the explosions and many do not even know a bomb is in the car..too much propaganda about those willing to be sacrificed for allah.. heavy use of narcotics for those who are forced or willing to sacrifice themselves makes for poor coordination.
Looks like he just went to pieces . . . at the site of FRENCH troops.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Premature detonation. They have medication for that.
"It's so hard to find good help nowadays....all the good ones don't stick around."
Yeah. You'd think they'd go for experience.
Hope its a new trend...the loud bang with surely scare people
Two ways to look at it.
One, high explosive sets loose a flame front of 58,000 feet per second. No way that can keep up with retreating Frenchmen!
Two, and let's insult the guys that actually deserve it, only an Islamist could come up with a dumb-ass tactic like suicide bombing. You know, every civilised army in the world collects its lessons learned (and they share them; we had Russian lessons-learned articles going into Afghanistan and were very cognizant of their mistakes). The islamists, on the other hand, never learn more than one lesson, and if the guy gets debriefed at all, it's in Hell.
The Japanese already tried this, and if any of the Taliban could read, they might have learned that Kamikaze operations, unlike every other military operation in 5,000 years of recorded history, never improved. In fact, they became more futile and less effective as the war ground on.
The islamists are finding the same thing. Their suicide bombers are losing effectiveness at anything but suicide. The Afghans have a number of cruel jokes about the kind of village idiots that are recruited to be shaheeds for the Taliban.
d.o.l.
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Don't look now but you just did....ROFL!!!
"Bomber Botches Afghanistan Suicide Attack"
Title Update:
"Bomber Successful at Suicide, 'Attack' Part Needs Some Work."
Not like me to argue with you - but the Japanese Kamikaze attacks in the last year of the WWII sank more ships and killed more US Navy personnel than the entire Imperial Japanese Navy combined for the entire war. They were effective in killing - but unsustainable and did not stop the Allies (and probably made the decision for dropping the A bomb a whole lot easier).
D'oh! (But thank God no one was hurt that mattered).
I read somewhere that a suicide bomber detonated himself, and the people of his neighborhood used his head as an impromptu soccerball until the authorities took it away.
I love "stupid terrorist" stories.
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