Night of fear and fire as US soldiers strike

The Times (U.K.) ^ | 11/24/2001 | CATHERINE PHILP AND SHAHZADA ZULFIQAR

[BARGE]

We shopuld have killed the drivers.

[Alas]

. But while their lives were spared, their livelihoods were not. Without the money to replace the tankers, the drivers are out of work. “How will they feed their families now?”

So, he could better provide for his family if he were dead?

But then who would petey jennings interview to show how mean our US troops are?

You know, between the fbi, abortionist, and petey jennings, we had enough threats to the nation, it is nice to have the taliban, finally a group, we can shoot at.

Nukem

[Alas]

We have yet to prove that our boys are any tougher than the Ruskies were. Truth hurts, so keep on yelping.

Sorry, but we have already done in a month what the russians couldn't do in five years. We have absoulutey destroyed their ability to hold on.

Nukem

[IronJack]

You ARE aware that the "yelping" comment was not mine, but one to which I was responding ...?

[NeonKnight]

bump

[walden]

"Keep these morons the freak out of my beloved country!"

I really hate to say it, but I'm with you. God knows we have enough home-grown idiots, we certainly don't need to import them.

[Polybius]

“This is cruel and excessive,” Aktar Mohammed said.

In the third paragraph, when he thought that he was being woken up by a fellow Afghan, he expected to die within seconds. Now that he knows it was Americans that spared his life, their conduct becomes "cruel and excessive".

[Alas]

Sorry, I am now. Made me mad, responded without really thinking about who said it first.

Nuekm

[a history buff]

Aren't the NA and Iran close?

[MLedeen]

The Iranians pretended to be anti-Taliban, all the while supporting bin Laden. They pick and choose among the various tribes, trying to expand their influence throughout the country. Their main man in Afghanistan was Hekmatiar.