Pakistanis Leave for War Against US in Afghanistan

AP ^ | October 27, 2001- 8:57 a.m. ET | Associated Press

[Fzob]

I wonder what the Afghanistan word for "incoming" is:

Because that is what every convoy entering Afghanistan should be saying every five minutes.

[gaspar]

Repeat after me: Islam is peace; peace is war; war is good; good is paradise; paradise is Islam; Islam is peace, etc.

[Goatroper]

A good time for a cluster-bomb raid on a caravan.

[fso301]

Nothing here some cluster bombs can't deal with.

[mostlyundecided]

``I am an old man. I consider myself lucky to go -- and to face the death of a martyr,'' said Shah Wazir, 70, a retired Pakistani army officer. In his hands Saturday morning, he carried a French rifle from about 1920.

you've gotta be kidding. Looks like he's going to get lucky.

[arete]

``I cannot tolerate the bombing and the cruelty of Americans. I must go,'' said Mamoor Shah, a medicine salesman who, at 18, already has a wife and child. ``Muslims cannot keep silent.''

Good. We can get them all clumped together and send the whole fanatical smelly lot of them off to their promised land. The entire culture is based on hate. They build nothing and only wish to bring others down to their pathetic level. I have no problem with killing all of them.

Richard W.

[gaspar]

Picture this devotion to a cause and compare it with the response from the NATO nations.

[McGavin999]

Well, maybe it's best that they gather all these militants into one place so they can be picked off. I have a strong feeling these are the people in the bus the Taliban said we hit. These are the "civilians" the Taliban has been talking about.

[theflagwaver]

The prospect of an additional 100,000 joining the fight is truely disturbing. These will be many small groups that will not be easy to hit via air strikes. The Taliban and their allies are proving to be a more formidable foe than we thought. We better start fighting for real and stop bombing them with sheetcakes and canned peas.

[Landru]

The Associated Press, huh.
Figures.

Apparently, these 5,000 warriors never viewed pics of the Iraqi soldier's "caravan" caught flat-footed leaving fleeing Kuwait stuffed with booty after a few Apaches finished with 'em, eh?

There were an awful lot of martyrs charred remains scattered along that road...

[arete]

The prospect of an additional 100,000 joining the fight is truely disturbing

Well, they've been saying that we don't have many targets. These people are nothing more than cannon fodder and better they be out in the open in Afganistan than sitting across the border where we can't bomb them. You have to remember also that Muslims breed faster than cockroaches and that makes life very very cheap in that part of the world. What difference does it make to them if they have 12 kids that they can't feed of only 6 that they can't feed?

Richard W.

[MCH]

How they will get there, and what they will do upon arrival, is uncertain. Their way station before entering Afghanistan is Bajur, a borderland tribal village where volunteers from different area will come together this weekend.

Hmmm...

This sounds like a good carpet bombing target to me.

Hopefully Bajur will be nothing but a smoking hole after this weekend.

[El Pato Lukas]

This is one of the great differences in this clash of civilizations. We have specialized: we depend on professional soldiers with technological advantages and a doctrine of force protection. They are an undisciplined rabble. I'd bet they don't even have a fire department in many of their towns.

However, if transportation could be arranged and leadership issued the call, I think that a lot of Americans and Europeans would step up to the challenge ala Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders.

[willyone]

Not to overlook the anti American vermin on our college campuses. That is the part that really makes you wonder about the survival instinct being gone in some people.

[beatnik]

Oh my God, this latest development must have the pacifists in our administration like Colin Powell shitting their pants. "DOESN'T THE WORLD REALIZE THAT THIS IS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE A PHONEY WAR" A modern day Sitzkreig.

[Rain-maker]

Pakistan convoy reaches destination

[Rain-maker]

Pakistan convoy makes for thriving scrap metal business in Kabul

[drstevej]

One Tomahawk coming up for old Lucky.