[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.

[fso301]

Nothing here some cluster bombs can't deal with.

[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.

[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...

[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.

[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

[Sabertooth]

The call for holy war came this week from Sufi Mohammad, an outspoken Muslim cleric who runs a madrassa, or religious school, in nearby Madyan. He exhorted ``true Muslims'' to mass and prepare to go to Afghanistan -- to repel any U.S. ground incursions.

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.

And the cleric's message -- that, despite its insistence to the contrary, the United States is waging war on Islam itself -- hits home.

``This is a strange occasion of world history,'' Mohammad said Friday. ``For the first time, all the anti-Islamic forces are united against Islam.''

All part of bin Laden's possible strategy behind 9/11.

Afghanistan has special significance to the world of militant Islam. It was once called Khurasan, along with parts of Iran and Pakistan. Muhammad said: "If you see the black flags coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice, for that is the army of the Imam al-Mahdi and no one can stop that army until it reaches Jerusalem." That is one reason Osama bin Laden chose it as his base, or al-Qaida.

Mohammed's Prophecies
of the Imam Mahdi

Will Osama Appear In Pakistan?

Keeps your eyes peeled for jihadin carrying black flags.

[Fulbright]

The Coalition's current strategy and tactics do not work for me.

[XA-3Whaler]

"Potential terrorist please stand up and be counted!" LOL!

[Ranger]

Watch, I'll bet we don't bomb this caravan of 'civilians' coming to fight us in a holy war. We're fighting this whole thing with a thumb up our behind. If we were really serious, this column would be wiped out from the air today. But watch, it won't. The Pakistani government will let the column in though their 'closed' border, we'll let it drive on unmolested. Then two days from now the Pentagon will say that they didn't attack the column because they didn't get orders in time or some other BS.

[thecanuck]

Everything is unfolding according to plan. The rats are coming out of their holes to fight a "weak" US response. Is that the whites of their eyes we are seeing? Sweet.

[StormEye]

"``I'm going. My mother sent me to fight for our faith,'' said Farooq Shah, 21, a student from Buner, 50 miles away. When she told him to go, he had no Kalashnikov. So she went out, sold her jewelry and bought him one."

Just try to get a machine gun in America. It seems that Pakis have a lot more freedom concerning gun ownership than we do here in America. Look at the forms and BS people have to go through just to carry a concealed handgun for protection. It seems to me the US government doesn't trust its own citizens.

[NYpeanut]

In his hands Saturday morning, he carried a French rifle from about 1920

Omar Klampett declares jihad. The mental picture is just too funny. I wonder if he thinks he's getting virgins, too.