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Taliban buried alive in mountains: Survivor
SIFY News ^ | November 3, 2001 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; avalanche; avalanches; battleofafghanistan; taliban
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To: flaglady47
Osama, step right up and kiss my royal Irish ass Ballad
The Ballad of Mike Moran NYFD, by Vetnet and doug from upland
Mike Moran is new FReeper royal IA.
royal IA FReeper Profile Page

181 posted on 11/03/2001 10:09:36 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: The Raven
"One at a time, starting with Afghansistan....we need to put a few checks & balances in their governments."

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.

182 posted on 11/03/2001 10:22:15 PM PST by Southack
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To: Nick Danger
The center of Mohammed is HAM.
183 posted on 11/03/2001 10:22:25 PM PST by SevenDaysInMay
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To: doug from upland
How about "Freak out"?
184 posted on 11/03/2001 10:45:20 PM PST by connectthedots
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To: doug from upland
I got it. The Supremes "Ain't no mountain high enough, to keep me from getting to you babe..."
185 posted on 11/03/2001 10:49:39 PM PST by connectthedots
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To: doug from upland
substitute the "to you babe" with "bin Laden"
186 posted on 11/03/2001 10:53:46 PM PST by connectthedots
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To: stilts
No author, wish FR would track these bogus posters down. Can you?
187 posted on 11/03/2001 10:58:51 PM PST by col kurz
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To: stilts
I have never felt any hatred toward America's enemies. The Russians were, and the chinese are strategic enemies. But I never felt any bad feelings toward them, just that we needed (or need) to beat them.

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

188 posted on 11/03/2001 11:00:58 PM PST by TheLooseThread
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To: col kurz
No media puke would let a story like this go out without his name {in bold) on it...
189 posted on 11/03/2001 11:02:44 PM PST by col kurz
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To: stilts
I love to read articles like this.
I would like to read articles like this all week long.

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.

190 posted on 11/03/2001 11:05:25 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Deb
Maybe the brave Taliban firefighters and police officers will spend weeks digging these guys out of the rubble hoping to find someone alive

Excellent.

191 posted on 11/03/2001 11:09:11 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Joe 6-pack
"We will, we will ROCK YOU!"
--Queen

Let's Roll!

192 posted on 11/03/2001 11:10:32 PM PST by bdeaner
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To: stilts
There were many, many bombs.

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.

193 posted on 11/03/2001 11:13:28 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Travis McGee
Mountainside positions don't seem so advantageious under B-52 attack.

LOL. Beat me to it. Salute!

194 posted on 11/03/2001 11:19:08 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: The Raven
THE RAVEN WROTE: "Can you remember a US President the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot?"

Yeah. His/her name was Klinton!

195 posted on 11/03/2001 11:22:28 PM PST by Concerned
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To: LibWhacker
We need to get some geologists on the Air Force targeting teams. Maybe they can point out some fragile slopes and peaks for planned avalanches, using B-52s the way the ski patrol uses little air cannons.

Only instead of snow, we would be moving entire mountainside slabs of rock and dirt and rubble.

196 posted on 11/03/2001 11:38:14 PM PST by Travis McGee
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To: bdeaner
I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of Americans

GOD is an American

David Bowie

197 posted on 11/04/2001 12:10:55 AM PST by E.Allen
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To: kiwi
I am up late, so I am having a little difficulty understanding your response to my sarcasm. Would you care to go a little more in depth?
198 posted on 11/04/2001 2:16:41 AM PST by Brad C.
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To: AAABEST
"If he ain't no fundamentalist or terrorist, let him put down his Kalishnikov and get back to goat-herding. Otherwise, I ain't got no spare humanity left for that diaperhead."..Laz

"...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.

199 posted on 11/04/2001 3:03:06 AM PST by Cvengr
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To: Professor Jim
Thanks Prof....I am sure you are correct.
200 posted on 11/04/2001 4:38:29 AM PST by RippleFire
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