[Colorado Doug]

I like it!

[SpeakLittle_ThinkMuch]

Good catch! Made my day!

[tubebender]

Darn, don't you just hate it when that happens?

[ConservativeLawyer]

Memo to United States Air Force:

Bomb all you want, we'll make more.

[Salvation]

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

Now he knows how those people at the WTC felt. Counting to 5,000+ for Afghans.

[Fullmetaljacket]

The thing that gets me though is how this guy - Osama Bin Laden is still alive??? He just released another one of his videos last night.

We are undoubtedly winning the military war, but unfortunately, it appears we are losing the propaganda war, which is just as important. The problem is that most Islamic countries don't have a free press. While we probably shouldn't suspend bombing during Ramadan, giving the Taliban opportunity to regroup, we may have to in order to avoid further eroding our already fragile coalition with Pakistan and the other Muslim countries. It's going to be a tough call either way. Unlike some, I don't feel this is going to another Vietnam.


Those fuel-air bombs are pretty cool. I hope we use plenty of those on the enemy.

http://www.beyourowndetective.com

[Texas Mom]

I also enjoyed the article further down on the same page.

Brit deserts enemy

A BRITISH Muslim who went to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban has deserted after just one brief taste of battle.

Mechanic Abu Mindar, 26, from London, is now safely in Pakistan after nearly being shot dead in a skirmish with the Northern Alliance.

He would like to return to his wife and family in the East End, but fears he could be arrested for treason.

Mindar said: "Maybe I was naive but I was told there would be proper training.

"I thought I would be joining an organised military unit — but it was chaos. They are liars and lunatics."

Yasir Khan, 24, from Crawley, West Sussex, and three pals from Luton, have already been killed by a US rocket near Kabul.

Another Brit, a 21-year-old calling himself Abdul from Dagenham, is in Afghanistan where he boasts he will kill British soldiers.

Mindar decided to jet out to Karachi, Pakistan, after a British Islamic Group meeting in London. He was then driven to Afghanistan and early this week was taken to the front line.

Mindar went on: “We were driven for miles to what looked like the middle of nowhere.

“A commander handed me a Kalashnikov and gestured for me to fire at an enemy I couldn’t see because of a cloud of dust.

“There were other Taliban around and suddenly everyone started firing. I wasn’t used to handling a gun and the ricochet nearly tore the gun from my grasp. The fire arced up in the air, took off the top of a tree and nearly decapitated the others.

“The other side were firing and there was nowhere to take cover. Everyone was shouting, some got shot. I didn’t know what to do.”

During a 20-minute firefight three Taliban were wounded.

Mindar added: “Some of the others were shouting victory slogans but we hadn’t done anything except get ourselves shot.

“It wasn’t the danger I minded, I expected shooting. It was the recklessness of the Taliban and the complete disregard that they had for those who were fighting for them.”

[Mo1]

A TALIBAN survivor told yesterday how an entire unit was 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 were killed

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Oh ain't that a shame ...there was a land slide ..

So when is the next Taliban Bingo Night???

[Dano]

Now thats a great story.Maybe it will be in the New Yorker next Month.

[ConservativeyetHotChick]

"Taliban are buried alive" AHHHHH.....Nice headline to read on a Monday morning. Nice way to start the day! :-D

[MaxwellWolf]

..and I hope they are buried face down so they can't see Mecca. A fav tactic adopted by US in Phillipines was to bury the muslim insurgents in pigskin with the face down.

[JoeGar]

"The earth shook and it rained rocks and shrapnel. The hillside was falling on us."

Ahh, ARCLIGHT, sweet ARCLIGHT.

[brewcrew]

Sucks being on the business end of your enemy's weapons, doesn't it? Sorry, pal (not you, Doug), but you @$$holes picked on the wrong guy this time. And if you continue to hide behind women and children, YOU will be the ones responsible for their deaths. We've warned you, now it's time to come out and fight like men.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

No escape ... explosions on a mountain during bombing Rakhim said: “I could not see, I couldn’t breathe. Everything was in darkness. ...

At least you knew it was coming Rakhim..... and know this, it will continue to come until you "are" no longer.....

[AuntB]

"I could not see, I couldn’t breathe. Everything was in darkness. The earth shook and it rained rocks and shrapnel."

Sounds like eyewitness accounts of the WTC BOMBING! Oh, well!

[Cyber Liberty]

“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?

[ZULU]

Guess he knows what our people felt - too bad he survived!!

[VOA]

bump

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

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.

[Silly]

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...

[KLT]