Taliban buried alive in mountains: Survivor

SIFY News ^ | November 3, 2001 | Staff

[stilts]

Kabul, Nov 3

"I thought I was going to die — the earth was raining from the skies," a Taliban survivor told the Sun while describing how an entire unit was buried alive in a strike by US B-52s.

Osman Rakhim, 23, said the explosions caused by the giant US bombers started a landslide on his mountainside position.

He said dozens of troops were killed when hundreds of tons of earth and rock came down on top of them.

Rakhim wandered away from the carnage in a daze and later surrendered to the Northern Alliance. He said a whole unit of fighters dug in behind him were buried.

Rakhim told the Sun: “I could not see, I couldn’t breathe. Everything was in darkness ... There were many, many bombs. The earth shook and it rained rocks and shrapnel.

“The hillside was falling on us. There were about 300 of us there dug in with sandbags. I have no idea how many were killed.

[JamminJAY]

Welcome to our world

Enjoy your journey to the next. Die diperhead maggots.

Jammer

[Redcloak]

...I have no idea how many were killed....

We obviously missed at least one. Those B-52 jockeys will have to work on that.

[nobdysfool]

Rakhim told the Sun: “I could not see, I couldn’t breathe. Everything was in darkness ... There were many, many bombs. The earth shook and it rained rocks and shrapnel.

Maybe now he knows what the people at the WTC site felt like....the ones who managed to escape when the towers collapsed. No sympathy for this guy, he got a taste of what his "fearless leader" and fellow muslims did to innocent people in New York City.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Fuel/air, my a** - use NUKES!!!

[TrueBeliever9]

>>>>He said dozens of troops were killed when hundreds of tons of earth and rock came down on top of them. <<<<

Sounds like what happened at the WTC and Pentagon!

[Campion]

Jihad is a two-way street.

[Travis McGee]

Mountainside positions don't seem so advantageious under B-52 attack.

[EdZep]

Those "virgins" must be workin' overtime in Paradise right about now!!!

Wait a minute... You seem to be saying that the virgins are actually "recycled," sort of cosmic reincarnations from a limited pool of Coslamic female flesh. I like it. The virgins aren't virgins. It would be even better if the reincarnated virgins had been pigs in their previous lives.

Socialists in Congress? Click on the zeppelin, Grasshopper.

[Let's Roll]

"Should have used a fuel/air! Then we probably would not have gotten the report."

Yes, but it uses so much fuel - do you think that stuff grows on trees or just comes up out of the ground? ;>

[Let's Roll]

Agree on your WJC answer - but it was the Constitution that kept him from becoming another Hitler etal. It certainly wasn't his own character or self-discipline.

[ScholarWarrior]

1000/1 = 5mm. A good start.

[Squantos]

NOTHING is advantagious during a B52 attack friend ...... Old, Awesome and deadly when fired up. Kinda like us :o)

Stay Safe TM !

[B4Ranch]

Trav, I think we are starting to work towards the magical 5000 number when we can start the "revenge killing". This is just a start that makes my coffee taste better.

[Abn1508]

I can't recall which German it was, but one of my favorite quotes from WWII was "The Americans used so much firepower, the sun was bleeding."

[Abn1508]

One portion of the quote was just _wrong_. It said that a Delta had said "we could lose a company." Delta doesn't _use_ companies, they use troops.

[gilor]

YES, I agree, maybe 1000 is a bit conservative how 'bout 10,000 per?

[Professor Jim]

Where is the Napalm?

[ChiMark]

correction; carpet of heavy shag earth over them. we're also burying their dead.

[ASA Vet]

[Professor Jim]

They blew up good! ... They blew up REAL good!

As I recall, it was:
"They blowed up good! ... They blowed up REAL good!"