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British Commando Killed in Raid to Free Kidnapped Reporter
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Posted on 09/09/2009 1:03:26 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

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To: myknowledge
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/hell-no-i-wont-go/

The “driver/translator” was actually an Afghani Journalist Student who studied in Germany. He wrote that article 7 days ago before he was killed. Sultan M. Munadi sounded like a decent human being who loved his country.

“Those times are past now. Now I am hopeful of a better situation. And if I leave this country, if other people like me leave this country, who will come to Afghanistan? Will it be the Taliban who come to govern this country? That is why I want to come back, even if it means cleaning the streets of Kabul.”

21 posted on 09/09/2009 7:07:42 AM PDT by ahe
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To: myknowledge

Do you know if it was 22SAS or are you speculating?


22 posted on 09/09/2009 7:54:57 AM PDT by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America.)
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To: Leisler

“No reporter is worth a soldiers life.”

Amen to that.


23 posted on 09/09/2009 8:09:56 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The next Revolution will be peaceful if possible; other than peaceful if necessary.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

The New York Time reporter WAS NOT worth the life of this Heroic British Commando. To the British family who scarified so much for so little, you have my deepest heartfelt condolences. I would like to thank the Soldier for doing his duty. He is an example to the metro-sexual, hypocritical liberal news organization, whose member he helped rescue. May his heroic death serve as a learning moment to these cowardly, selfish, short sighted, lying, progressive basturds.


24 posted on 09/09/2009 8:20:56 AM PDT by Chgogal (American Mugabe, get your arse out of my bank, my car, my doctor's office & my elec. utility.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
I'm really sorry to hear about the death of that British trooper.I just hope it was worthwhile rescuing that New York Times reporter.after-all the disparaging articles they have written about the U.S.military.

I personally would have let the Taliban have him.

25 posted on 09/09/2009 8:21:57 AM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the Dogs.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Wonderful. Now the NY Times reporter can trash the soldier that died for him.


26 posted on 09/09/2009 8:33:45 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters
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To: ahe

>>”Sultan M. Munadi sounded like a decent human being who loved his country.”

HIS life may well have been worth the risk. But his death was inevitable, if premature. As someone who could read and write, AND anti- Taliban, he would have been marked for death as soon as we leave — just as the Khmer Rouge did in Cambodia. Starting with anyone who wore glasses, i.e. an obvious intellectual.

DG


27 posted on 09/09/2009 9:00:27 AM PDT by DoorGunner ("...and so, all Israel will be saved")
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To: Leisler

Those who appreciate the work of Michael Yon might not agree with you...


28 posted on 09/09/2009 10:54:56 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: naturalman1975
Serendipity! May I refer you to a post I wrote just yesterday.

<smile>That sounds like an outstanding school.</smile>

I am quite frankly shocked that a school like that exists today. But perhaps Australia will survive long after America falls. Thanks for quoting the poem. I have seen references to it but never read the full poem until now. Yes, I think it rings true today, particularly if someone can accept the unvarnished truth. All cultures are not equal. Some are superior to others. Hierarchy is not a four-letter word.

29 posted on 09/09/2009 2:13:13 PM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

RIP.


30 posted on 09/09/2009 3:08:31 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: astounded

My information is it was SBS, but that’s just a strong rumour, not confirmed fact.


31 posted on 09/09/2009 5:35:22 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

that reporter was in all likelihood not worth the loss of that commando’s hangnail

sad..very sad


32 posted on 09/09/2009 5:36:31 PM PDT by wardaddy (Bro has stumbled mightily but the media will rebuild him....)
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Looks like a victory for the Taliban! We sacrifice two DECENT people to save one dirty JOURNALIST.


33 posted on 09/09/2009 6:39:08 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: stripes1776
Hierarchy is not a four-letter word.

No, but "rank" is. As in, "rank order of dominance" -- which is the social order that our Patriots rebelled against in trhe 1770's, and which the Pioneers rebelled against when they crossed the Appalachian Mountains and passed out of contact with the old, "deferential society" of the Eastern Seaboard states. They would rather plunge into a wilderness and deal with the Creeks, the Shawnees, and the Hurons than suffer any longer the pretensions of lawyers, doctors, and businessmen with money in the bank.

That is your liberty heritage. Not primogeniture and social Darwinism, which is just the SOS from the last 8000 years.

34 posted on 09/10/2009 12:45:17 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
No, but "rank" is. As in, "rank order of dominance" -- which is the social order that our Patriots rebelled against in trhe 1770's, and which the Pioneers rebelled against when they crossed the Appalachian Mountains and passed out of contact with the old, "deferential society" of the Eastern Seaboard states. They would rather plunge into a wilderness and deal with the Creeks, the Shawnees, and the Hurons than suffer any longer the pretensions of lawyers, doctors, and businessmen with money in the bank.

The revolution of 1776 was against a crown, not against a hierarchy of ideas. The US is still fundamentally English, animated by ideas that only an English-speaking people could articulate and promote to regulate the affairs of its citizens. As for the people who colonized the Midwest and West, they colonized as English-speaking Americans, not Indians. Those pioneers might have lived simply, but they subscribed to a hierarchy of ideas that made superior to the Indians. And no apologies necessary for being superior.

35 posted on 09/10/2009 1:08:39 AM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: TXnMA
It's like the corruption of the word, 'liberal'. I have to go with what people think of as now a days, 'reporter'. I don't put Yon in that sub group of hacks and leftist water carriers.
36 posted on 09/10/2009 4:50:00 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: naturalman1975

I read today it was Royal Marines and Parachute Regiment flown in US craft (probably 160th SOAR).


37 posted on 09/10/2009 5:59:01 AM PDT by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America.)
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To: astounded

Thanks.


38 posted on 09/10/2009 3:25:45 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (--Still not Halloween yet--)
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