[janus]

Did Lawrence of Arabia have a camel named Osama bin Laden ?

[Bogey78O]

They'll die like the rest. They have 5,000 soldiers that are well trained. We have about 100,000.

[brat]

Every nation has its psychopaths....Bin Laden seems to have found many of them. Who could delight in butchering a human being but a creature.

[El Gato]

T389 plane from America

??? Was it a T-38, unlikely or a T-39, which also seems unlikely. Muj wouldn't have much use for either I would think.

[El Gato]

The 55 Brigade is now helping retreating Taliban units to hold their positions. Many are dug in on the front lines north of Kabul facing the Northern Alliance.

Good, they are perfect targets for heavily loaded B-1s and B-52s in those trenchs. A trench is no match for a 500 pound Mk-82 GP bomb, let alone 50-80 of them, and that's from just one airplane. (84 Mk 82s for B-1B, suprisingly only 51 for B-52H, although older models could carry more see FAS Site) Makes a nice linear target too, perfect for "carpet bombing".

[PA Engineer]

Many proudly carry battle scars from the time when they fought against the Russians.

Yeah right. And by now what is the code name for a bunch of old Talaban. How about operation "Vioxx".

[Dan Day]

In contrast, many of the extreme Wahhabi Arabs come from isolated, culturally homogenous societies and often refuse contact with non-Muslims. They have attacked Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority of Hazara tribesmen, inspired by religious rather than political differences.

Let's not mince words. They have done more than "attack" Hazara, they have massacred and butchered them:

This is one of 300 Hazara tribesmen massacred by the Taliban in January 2001 at Yakawlang. The image is from a video taken by a local cameraman and released by Human Rights Watch.

[Valin]

Nobody expects them to give in and many will gladly die at their posts.

No problem, Always happy to oblige.

[Semper911]

Thanks for posting this. Geez, I thought they were a just a bunch of idiots riding around on camels using 15 year old Russian surplus.

I have not heard the tally of the number of troops we have sent over. Is 100,000 the current count?

Remember during the Gulf war, the big news of each day was the exact number of troops that were being deployed? Maybe that was psy-ops on GHW Bush's part -- trying to scare the Iraqis before we started the ground war.

And do you remember what a big deal it was when the ground war actually started? Now that it has begun in this war, there is hardly a mention of what is going on. All the cable news stations want to talk about is *bleep*ing anthrax. And it is even worse because it is a weekend, and all the stations are on autopilot.