Posted on 11/19/2001 7:58:46 AM PST by ASaneGuy
Northern Alliance has achieved total victory in Kunduz, the Afghanistanic city bordering Tajikstan. 30,000 Taliban soldiers surrendered unconditionally after negotiations. The surrender will be carried out under the supervision of the UN.
Kunduz is an ethnic Pashtun enclave of about 60,000 people surrounded by Uzbeks and Tajiks, who make up the bulk of the Northern Alliance. The Taliban mostly consist of Pashtuns, who dominate southern Afghanistan.The above information comes from the Fox News Website. I really question that 30,000 number. Would mean half the people around Kunduz were Taliban soldiers (minus the 2000 or so foreign Arabs). When this fight started the Taliban only had 45,000 troops counting foreign Arabs. So according to this report, every remaining Taliban soldier was at Kunduz?!? I have to put this report in the questionable category, till its substantiated by a more reliable source.
If the surrendered forces are tried in a NA military tribunal and found guilty of war crimes, then the NA can execute them and claim international legitimacy for doing so. But killing all of the foreign forces based on the fact they are foreign would be, um, mean. The New York Times would be outraged.
I am sure that the NA doesn't concern itself most with the threat of tribunals prosecuting them for how they treat the Arab & Pakastani thugs. But it is the only shred of good news extracted by the surrounded forces. The Al Qaeda "folks" were holding the Talebans hostage. That has crumbled. If we are lucky, at least the foreign troops will be placed in POW camps to rot for a few decades.
UN Rescues 30,000 Taliban Hostages Surrounded by Infidel. Setting Taliban free allows for a "full and fair" war.
Your posts use the same language as your screen name, I'll grant you that.
This article is just Moscow propaganda, so my criticism is directed at them. I'm hoping that there is no truth to it. Rummy wouldn't let it happen.
Cheers!
LOL!
Who says I don't believe in Infinite Justice?
The NA seems to try to weed them out.
Reports from last week stated that the Al Qaeda foreigners had executed Afghani Taliban that had tried to surrender. Hopefully, the Afghani Taliban have learned their lesson and will help the N.A. do a lot of "weeding" before the U.N. gives the Al Qaeda terrorists safe passage out of Afghanistan.
Here's the deal, surrender or you're dead. They took the deal.
Hilarious!
I say snuff the 'tubbies too. 'Tis better to err on the side of too many than too few.
Ah, yes, the "quagmire" the media were also quick to predict, after only a couple weeks of war. Then there was their suggestion that we could't win in Afghanistan because the Soviets couldn't do it. My favorite was the whopper about Taliban retreat being nothing but a new, clever Taliban strategem. And now thousands of them have unconditionally surrended, diabolically luring us into a false sense of victory. They've really got us now!
After negotiations? Doesn't sound "unconditional" to me...
Well... Maybe they negotiated for a while, realized it was useless, and gave it up. At least I hope that's what happened.
Of course every "unconditional surrender" contains the implicit condition of being allowed to live.
Intelligence value, then execution.
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