Posted on 11/03/2001 1:09:43 AM PST by 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.
You do that by breaking areas such as Afghanistan back up into their original tribal regions. Such people are very capable leaders at the local/tribal level, but wholly out of their depth for any sort of national, centralized government.
Scrap their current centralized government (ie., Taliban) and remind each tribe that if they try to expand their post-Talban tribal borders, that the U.S. and/or the UN will come back in and smash them. This keeps future conflicts much smaller and much more manageable.
It also plays to their strengths. Afghan tribes have survived for millenia. They know how to govern themselves at that level, so let's help them return to that state again. There are 12+ distinct ethnic groups in Afghanistan, all with historical tribal lands. Most people in their tribes never leave those lands in their entire lives, anyway.
For ambassadors to other foreign nations, let the tribes rotate amongst themselves for the various talent to be exported over time.
But OBL and the taliban islamic forces? Hate. Good. I am glad they were buried alive and I hope it was a slow death.
Not nice to hate? Maybe. But then I watch the well known freeper video: A Good Reason to Hate
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."
Ahhhh......nice.
Excellent.
Let's Roll!
Oh, boo-hoo. Wait'll the B-52s really start raining bombs down on them. The intensity of bombing is nowhere close to where it could be.
Interesting, the burying alive angle . . . That was a Mujahideen specialty used against Rooskies.
Guess they'll have to think twice about digging in on hillsides from now on.
LOL. Beat me to it. Salute!
Yeah. His/her name was Klinton!
Only instead of snow, we would be moving entire mountainside slabs of rock and dirt and rubble.
GOD is an American
David Bowie
"...Either that or the spirit of God seeking justice. Probably the latter."...AAABEST
I thought about that a little more and how the Lord frequently refers to men as sheep. In Hebrew and Greek, 'sheep' is not a very flattering term to describe our character. Considering how the fundamendalist Islamic terrorist begins his position by seeking to serve God, but rejects God's plan in ALL things for the arrogant personal judgment of man, IMHO, I wouldn't be too surprised if He might refer to these terrorists as "diaperheads".
A profound notion.
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