[samtheman]

Heavy ``stick'' bombing by B-52s directed by U.S. soldiers on the ground has taken its toll on the Taliban according to aid workers in Islamabad who estimate that up to 300 Taliban wounded have been taken to Kabul military hospitals in the past week. Military experts in Pakistan said that with the number of wounded at that level, the number of dead would be between 30 and 50.

Who knows anything about these numbers? The only thing we can know for sure is that they are bare minimums. We know that the number of wounded can't be LESS than the 300 that the aid workers counted, but could be considerably more. Also, about this supposed ratio of 1/10 killed. Did that ratio hold true in WTC? I don't think so. Would it hold true if one of the rockets scored a direct hit on a dining hall crammed with soldiers? I don't think so. I think we can reasonably hope for a much higher scumbag bodycount than the press is willing to admit.

[D2BAH]

It strikes me as damned odd that every freakin "press" report we get seems able to specifiy how many pore civilians get killed by our carelessness and crumby, innacurate equipment, but we never hear ANYTHING that sounds like a reliable count of dead or wounded Talliboneheads. Why?

[Jack of Diamonds]

I would like to know how many of the cililians killed where "holy wariors" before they died.

[rstevens]

Yeah right. Like the statement: Taliban military complex hit, six civilians killed. Ha.

[going hot]

Who knows anything about these numbers?

Their extrapolations have no basis on fact.

In RVN, whole battalions of NVA were "simply vaporized, ceased to exist" according to later learned testimony from NVA regulars fortunate to survive B 52 hits.

The fact that there are 200-300 wounded could also be that these were the fringes, and everything in the middle was aerosolized.