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Reuters: 20-25 thousand Afghan troops on Paki border
Reuters | Sep 17th, 2001

Posted on 09/17/2001 4:10:03 AM PDT by 12B

It's just a red bullet headline on my Reuters terminal. No text. Following headline says Paki troops are moving in response. I'll look for a link.


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To: surfer
Yes it certainly did...I hope you don't think I believe otherwise.

God bless you and God bless America.

21 posted on 09/17/2001 4:35:34 AM PDT by mitch5501 (Jesus is Lord)
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To: mitch5501
Certainly would make it easier if they would all just gather in one place for us....bombing them hiding in the mountains would be much harder
22 posted on 09/17/2001 4:39:05 AM PDT by freeper12
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To: Nita Nupress
Let me see if I can find one. I need one, too!
23 posted on 09/17/2001 4:41:21 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Nita Nupress
Start here:

Middle East Maps

25 posted on 09/17/2001 4:45:59 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: DistantVoice
You think Japan has been "westernized"? Sorry. You have no idea about what's under that westernized veneer.

Whatever it is, it works for me.

26 posted on 09/17/2001 4:48:00 AM PDT by Clinton's a rapist
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To: freeper12
The land routes from Afghanistan into Pakistan are through mountain passes ...excellent for a guerilla war but put Afghanistan at serious disadvantage if they think of taking on Pakistan in a conventional ground war...particularly with almost no air cover.
27 posted on 09/17/2001 4:50:08 AM PDT by spokeshave
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To: 12B
The Afghans do understand one thing - the best defense is a good offense. This is going to be messy, I'm afraid. The whole world deserves it. God have mercy on America, and grant us undeserved success. Maybe we will emerge stronger than ever.
28 posted on 09/17/2001 4:50:23 AM PDT by agrandis
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To: Nita Nupress
Map of Middle East
29 posted on 09/17/2001 4:50:39 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: Nita Nupress
Afghanistan Maps

This whole site seems to be VERY good!

The University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

30 posted on 09/17/2001 4:50:44 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin
One thing that has been bothering me is China's limited border with Afghanistan. It's rugged country, all right, but it's still summer, and I wonder if Ben Laden is already staying at a military base in Western China somewhere.
31 posted on 09/17/2001 4:54:03 AM PDT by agrandis
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To: MadIvan
One thing they have had issued to them, a reverse gear in their combat boots. Patten was given to Say-Dam 'Who dune it' and he passed it on to them.
32 posted on 09/17/2001 4:54:04 AM PDT by gulfcoast6
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To: Howlin
Operation Noble Eagle geography lesson #1-
Afghanistan and Pakistan are NOT in the middle east - they are in Asia.
33 posted on 09/17/2001 4:54:22 AM PDT by error99
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To: 12B
So this is, what, 25,000 towelheads waving sticks and throwing rocks for Allah? Against the well-armed and well-trained Pakistan military?
34 posted on 09/17/2001 4:55:32 AM PDT by gopgen
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To: 12B
NUKE EM.
35 posted on 09/17/2001 4:58:53 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: MadIvan
In contrast to the Afghanis, Pakistan has a modern, professional army. The word "slaughter" springs to mind.

INsert the word "the USSR" for "Pakistan" above, and you could have said that in the 80s. Of course, the Afghans were fighting in their own territory then. But every Pakistani I have ever known is a pansy (of course, students in the USA are often pansies). But the key factor, as always, is motivation. I don't think Pakistan has the will to fight the Afghans right now, but the Afghans have their back to the wall, and an underdog, protect-home mentality right now. If they were to penetrate into Pakistan very far, that might change, not to mention the US would probably fairly wipe them out from the air in Northern Pakistan. Just thinking out loud.

36 posted on 09/17/2001 5:00:05 AM PDT by agrandis
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To: tm22721
Airdrop McDonalds (capitalism) and DSS dishes (MTV will destroy from within)
37 posted on 09/17/2001 5:00:28 AM PDT by KneelBeforeZod
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To: MadIvan
Do not underestimate the fighting capability of the Taliban... they are probably the closest things to barborous hordes that exist on earth today... they, in battle, have shown they show no respect for life, their own or others...

IN the past Afghanistan did beat back the British and the Russians... they have incredible resolve... they are extremists.

We should be arming and mobilizing the groups that opposed and dispise the taliban as much as anything else... they fight with the same style and determination, and can take them out.

I have no doubt we can destroy the taliban... but don't think for one minute that they will be less determined and tenacious than the Japanese were in the south pacific... They will fight to the last man.

38 posted on 09/17/2001 5:01:49 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: tm22721
We will occupy and totally westernize the Middle East as we did Japan.

Perhaps we could act as a Republic, rather than as an empire. Or perhaps we could start a new website called "freeempire"

39 posted on 09/17/2001 5:02:57 AM PDT by Beenliedto
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To: Howlin
I was thinking last night that we need a "international battlefield." I keep having to find up to date world maps and memorize the countries and who lives where........I'm continaully relearning geography. It would be so much easier if all these skirmishes could all fight in the same place.

Oy vey!

Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

40 posted on 09/17/2001 5:03:01 AM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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