[MissAmericanPie]

I realize it may take some time to frisk thousands of POW's for grenades and other weapons but I sure hope they have an assembly line way of doing that in safety.

I thinks it's nuts that some are allowed to surrender keep their guns and join the side of the Northern Alliance without so much as the blink of an eye. It's so weird.

[spycatcher]

Yeah, that was a sloppy operation by the NA. They aren't used to taking prisoners

It was reported weeks ago (by Sebastian Junger I think) that this is common in Afghanistan, to "surrender" as a tactic to trick the other side. That's why the losers often get slaughtered.