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.

[Tribune7]

It sounds almost like a 110-story building fell on them.

[Cuttnhorse]

Swingj,
That photo of the house roof barely showing above the landslide looks an awful lot like the Slide Mountain landslide that occurred in the 80's south of Reno, Nevada. True??

[Ditto]

"..wait till they find out they are 72 virgin goats,"

From the looks of some of these guys, they might prefer the goats.

As to what a Buff raid can do, these guys should have checked with those few NVA who survived operation Linebacker. A B-52 raid is a 'life altering' event. I'd rather get nuked and get it over with fast.

[Fiddlstix]

FDR and Clinton might have come close had they been entrusted with the same power.

You forgot to include LBJ

[ecomcon]

I like that.

[Real Cynic No More]

"Maybe the brave Taliban firefighters and police officers will spend weeks digging these guys out of the rubble hoping to find someone alive."

Didn't Saddam Hussein make the statement near the end of September that the reason so many died in New York was because the Americans didn't know how to rescue them? That if his people were there helping, many would have been saved? Well, he now has his chance. Let him go to Afghanistan to "rescue" those poor, innocent Taliban who got buried by the carpet bombing!

[moodymare]

For some reason, I just don't believe this guy.

[Alas]

"...Actually, if the president and we really want peace in Israel and the Middle East, what we need to pray for is that the Gospel of Jesus is preached over there and that they come to know the Lord as their own personal Saviour. For as long as the Jews and the Arabs continue to ignore the Lord and instead worship mammon in one form or another, they will continue to kill one another and end up spending eternity together with their god satan. For that's what satan does, he gets his people fighting and killing one another to insure hatred and a soul harvest for himself. So, when we drop food for those in Afghanistan, we should include a Christian Bible in thier language..."

Alas

[riri]

Can you remember a US President the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot?

No, but I can name a former attornexy general and a junior senator that come pretty close!

[riri]

thats attorney general

[ecomcon]

Amiguismo.

That's a little Espanol for "F.O.B."?

[Ditter]

Your sarcasm is delicious. ;9]

[mlocher]

i guess that the afghans are smarter than the iraqis. this guy surrendered to the opposition and not a tv reporter.

[P-Marlowe]

If Mohammed can't come to the mountain, then we'll bring the dam- mountain to Mohammed.

[aculeus]

And how did the civilians in WTC feel as it collapsed?

[alnick]

“I could not see, I couldn’t breathe. Everything was in darkness"

Reminds me of the aftermath of the WTC collapse.

[Nick Danger]

Take the mountain to mohammed..."

We have a winner!

[VA Advogado]

Can you remember a US President the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot?

Clinton(s)?

[Polybius]

This can't be true. Our liberal news media is telling us that our conduct of the war is a failure as the war should have already been won in four weeks. The media wouldn't lie about a thing like that. < /sarcasm>

[copycat]

No problem. They stay virgins. That's when the "martyrs" find out they've really landed in Hell.

If someone says "Die for me, and I promise you'll have 70 virgins when you reach paradise" and you believe him?...

...maybe you are just to stupid to breed and it is right that you should be removed from the gene pool with all due haste.