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Taliban are buried alive
Sun ^ | Mon, Nov 5, 2001 | JOHN ASKILL

Posted on 11/04/2001 4:14:32 AM PST by Colorado Doug

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To: Colorado Doug
“I thought I was going to die — the earth was raining from the skies.”

Sounds like your average account of being in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11. Payback's a real bitch, isn't it?

81 posted on 11/05/2001 9:41:57 AM PST by Cyber Liberty
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To: Colorado Doug
Guess he knows what our people felt - too bad he survived!!
82 posted on 11/05/2001 9:45:09 AM PST by ZULU
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To: LTCJ
Mindar said: "Maybe I was naive but I was told there would be proper training.

Question: If he had received proper training, he would have stayed?

83 posted on 11/05/2001 9:45:23 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum
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To: Focault's Pendulum
I think his surprise wasn't the training, but the fact that there are some pretty dog-gone serious people shooting at him while he was trying to figure out what end of thing goes up to his eyeball.
84 posted on 11/05/2001 9:54:00 AM PST by Cyber Liberty
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To: Colorado Doug
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85 posted on 11/05/2001 9:55:03 AM PST by VOA
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To: Texas Mom
It was the recklessness of the Taliban and the complete disregard that they had for those who were fighting for them.”

I'm a little confused here! Was this Mindar fighting WITH the Taliban or with the British troops against the Taliban?

If fighting with the British against the Taliban, how stupid is he to expect that the Taliban would give a hoot about those they are fighting against or even those who were fighting for them.

I think this guy has NO IDEA whose side he is on. And from what he said here, he's real dumbo! This is WAR, what the heck did this guy expect - tea and crumpets?

86 posted on 11/05/2001 10:01:30 AM PST by TexanaRED
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To: Colorado Doug
Reuters version:

From JOHN ASKILL in Afghanistan. A TALIBAN survivor told yesterday how an entire unit of civilians was were buried alive in a carpet-bombing strike by B-52s. Terrified Osman Rakhim, 23, revealed the shattering explosions caused by the giant US bombers started a landslide on his mountainside position. And he confessed: “I thought I was going to die — the earth was raining from the skies.” Dozens of troops civilians were killed when hundreds of tons of earth and rock came avalanching down on top of them. Rakhim, who wandered away from the carnage in a daze and later surrendered, heard screams for help as a whole unit of fighters civilians dug in behind him were buried. No escape ... explosions on a mountain during bombing Rakhim said: “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 civilians there dug in with sandbags. I have no idea how many were killed.

87 posted on 11/05/2001 10:08:01 AM PST by Boss_Jim_Gettys
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To: Joe 6-pack
HAHAHAHAHA! best funny of the day....
88 posted on 11/05/2001 10:11:37 AM PST by reflecting
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To: Boss_Jim_Gettys
LOL! Very good.
89 posted on 11/05/2001 10:11:40 AM PST by CWOJackson
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To: randog
That quote could have come from Liberty street, couldn't it?
90 posted on 11/05/2001 10:13:04 AM PST by blue jeans
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)
What happened to the virgins waiting?!!! I thought these guys welcome death?!!
91 posted on 11/05/2001 10:28:59 AM PST by longfellow
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)
What happened to the virgins waiting?!!! I thought these guys welcome death?!!
92 posted on 11/05/2001 10:29:26 AM PST by longfellow
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To: Hat-Trick
Or..."making a mountain out of a mohammed"

or...mounting mohammed B52 style...

93 posted on 11/05/2001 11:05:17 AM PST by ThomasMore
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To: Colorado Doug
There were many, many bombs. The earth shook and it rained rocks and shrapnel. “The hillside was falling on us.

Compared to hell, this was a walk in the park...

94 posted on 11/05/2001 11:07:34 AM PST by Silly
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why are we bombing Afghan villages? I thought we were trying to hunt down and kill terrorists? So far, in this "war against terrorism," we still haven't managed to kill one terrorist. But we've demonstrated superb skill in bombing Red Cross aid centers and Afghan civilians.

This "war on terrorism" has turned into a war against the Afghan government, which until recently was receiving millions of dollars in U.S. aid. If we were truly serious about going after governments whose countries are the breeding grounds and paymasters for terrorists, why aren't we bombing Saudi Arabia (the center of radical Wahabbism) and Egypt? The terrorists who struck this country were Saudi and Egyptian nationals, not Afghans or Talibans.

This war on terrorism is a fraud. We're not hunting terrorists; we're engaged in nation-building. In other words, we're once again meddling in the domestic affairs of another country and making plenty of enemies in the process.

Our imperial leaders in Washington will never learn. They insist on sticking this nation's collective hand into every hornets' nest from Tel Aviv to Kabul, and then they wonder why we get stung. If the U.S. government is serious about fighting terrorism, it should start by putting an end to its arrogant, bullying foreign policy -- an in-your-face, high-handed attitude that breeds anti-American hatred around the world. We've given a lot of people in the Middle East and now central Asia plenty of reasons to hate our guts. And as we've seen, some of those angry people are driven to suicidal acts of revenge.

If we're serious about getting Osama bin Laden, let's issue letters of Marque (Letters of Reprisal) and post a $1 billion reward for his capture -- dead or alive. Short of committing hundreds of thousands of troops to a ground war, we're not going to flush him and his lieutenants out of their mountain lairs in Afghanistan. Even if we manage to defeat the Taliban (a highly unlikely scenario), we'll merely succeed in replacing one gang of misfits with an even more brutal gang of Northern Alliance thugs and cutthroats who terrorized the populace during its reign of anarchy. The Taliban actually brought stability to the region.

I don't want our young servicemen to die in a nation-building scheme that will pave the way for some bloated multinational petroleum company (Onoco) to run a pipeline across Aghanistan to a port in Karachi, Pakistan. There's more to this "war" than meets the eye.

95 posted on 11/05/2001 11:09:55 AM PST by Un-PC
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96 posted on 11/05/2001 11:10:31 AM PST by KLT
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)
I'm sure we will see a full report, including an on-camera interview with this guy, on the evening news. Not! Maybe an AP story running above the fold in the major U.S. dailies? Not!

Oh well, I'll guess we'll just have to find the transcript of the Pentagon's daily briefing on the internet. Maybe.

97 posted on 11/05/2001 11:11:50 AM PST by agave
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To: TexanaRED
"I'm a little confused here! Was this Mindar fighting WITH the Taliban or with the British troops against the Taliban? "

I inderstand it to read, he was fighting WITH the Taliban.

98 posted on 11/05/2001 11:45:41 AM PST by Texas Mom
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To: Colorado Doug
Osman Rakhim? Durn, sounds like we missed one. Hey Osman, wait around, we'll be back. We'll send you on your way to your virgins, post haste.
99 posted on 11/05/2001 11:54:36 AM PST by mnrep
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To: Colorado Doug
Hmmmm....though I think it wasn't the same as two 110 story towers falling upon themselves. Nor as a few floors of an office building collapsing or a aircrash in a field in Pennsylvania. Did all this raining earth also contain thousands of gallons of buring jet fuel?
100 posted on 11/05/2001 12:04:19 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen
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