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Taliban attacks Afghan capital, U.S. Embassy
CBS News ^ | September 13, 2011

Posted on 09/13/2011 3:01:25 AM PDT by xjcsa

A complicated attack involving multiple gunmen and apparent suicide bombers was underway in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday morning, and it appeared to be focused near the U.S. Embassy.

CBS News staff in Kabul reported hearing heavy gunfire and at least seven explosions, some of them large. The situation was described as "chaotic", and it remained unclear how many people were wounded.

A Taliban spokesman claimed there were several militants inside at least one building near the embassy district in Kabul, and that the targets of the attack were Afghan government ministries and the intelligence services.

The Taliban's primary website ran a statement Tuesday morning saying "Operation Martyrdom" was underway in the Afghan capital.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; kabul; taliban
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1 posted on 09/13/2011 3:01:33 AM PDT by xjcsa
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To: xjcsa

This can’t be true! Bambi announced only yesterday that the Taliban were just another Muslim political movement and we were letting them set up permanent “political” headquarters in some Arab country (Qatar, I think).

Could Bambi be wrong???


2 posted on 09/13/2011 3:08:59 AM PDT by livius
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To: xjcsa

Obama’s new best buddies, they’re gonna be allowed an embassy and Obama’s going to open relations with them.


3 posted on 09/13/2011 3:09:57 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama: the Unholy Won.)
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To: livius

What, the smartest being on the planet, wrong!?


4 posted on 09/13/2011 3:11:37 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama: the Unholy Won.)
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To: xjcsa
Meanwhile:

U.S. backs move to let Taliban open headquarters in Qatar in the hope of ending war in Afghanistan

5 posted on 09/13/2011 3:15:22 AM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks xjcsa. Xuan Loc redux.


6 posted on 09/13/2011 3:24:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xjcsa

Afghanistan’s record as an Empire killer is stellar.


7 posted on 09/13/2011 3:28:27 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: xjcsa
We've lost Afghanistan. (Not our fault. The place is a rock pile.) Let's kill as many of the mongrels as possible on our way out of the place. While we're at it, let's get out of Pakistan as well.
8 posted on 09/13/2011 3:32:11 AM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: xjcsa

I don’t think it’s possible to turn backwards savages into civilized people with a functioning and healthy country. “Nation building” is a waste.

Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.


9 posted on 09/13/2011 3:33:57 AM PDT by Rammer
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To: Rammer

“I don’t think it’s possible to turn backwards savages into civilized people with a functioning and healthy country. “Nation building” is a waste.”

It is possible but it requires a couple generations to do it. They also have to want to do it.


10 posted on 09/13/2011 3:42:46 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

As long as Islam is around, they’ll never do it. We had our big chance in Iraq to prevent them from enshrining Islam in their constitution, and we didn’t do it...and now it is rapidly turning back into a nest of squabbling Muslims killing each other and hating the Great Satan, and Mookie is offering to give us safe passage on the way out if we promise to go quietly.

Same in Afghanistan. If we had really enforced a secular government and given those forces a chance to get stronger, things would be different. But we bowed before Islam and let the islamists gain power again and this is the result.


11 posted on 09/13/2011 3:46:54 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius

It’s sad that they are killing each other. Not so sad that we should continue to sacrifice our young people to save them.

The key question is whether or leaving would make America less safe. I don’t see Afghanistan or Iraq having an impact on that anymore.

Considering Egypt and the rest of North Africa is going under the thumb of the radicals.


12 posted on 09/13/2011 3:50:25 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: xjcsa

Tet offensive. Theatre. They lose big, but they make our front pages.


13 posted on 09/13/2011 3:53:18 AM PDT by cmj328
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To: Rammer

I don’t know, the Japanese were pretty savage at one time.


14 posted on 09/13/2011 3:57:15 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: livius

Obama has proved repeatedly that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.


15 posted on 09/13/2011 3:59:03 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The Obama Administration is unprincipled, corrupt, and corrupting.)
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To: popdonnelly

The ultimate brain trust comprised of the most intelligent beings on the planet (nobama, lunch bucket joe and hitlery) continue to amaze me with their successful WTF foreign policy. What geniuses!!!! Why...who are we uninformed ingrates to doubt their methods and intentions as they obviously have great success?


16 posted on 09/13/2011 4:11:11 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: xjcsa

Bet Barry is in his “war room” with his Muzzie Brotherhood pals figuring out how the US can hand over Afghanistan to the Taliban. The Taliban is obviously just another revolutionary movement.../sarc (More like a bowel movement!)


17 posted on 09/13/2011 4:17:54 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: Rammer; driftdiver
I don’t think it’s possible to turn backwards savages into civilized people with a functioning and healthy country.

Somewhere in the book, "The 5,000 Year Leap," I recall reading how our founders truly debated if the people of the colonies were actually "moral enough," to even have freedom. I found that thought or idea extremely interesting in the context of what we now call Nation Building.

The entire Middle East has been turned upside down by this idea of bringing democracy to them. For all the claimed horrors of all these newly deposed dictators; the people themselves are finding the culture is not yet 'moral enough' to have freedom and democracy.

Which in the scheme of their precious islamic religion they are only finding death, destruction, mass murder and horror. Until they come to terms with the reality that islam as being imposed in the Middle East is immoral, they shall not be able to have democracy nor freedom.

Instead they will have this gross distortion of the progressive left's idea of an Arab Spring. Democracy and freedom is not rising in the Middle East, nor can America with its military might and good intentions create it for a people not moral enough to have it.

18 posted on 09/13/2011 4:27:32 AM PDT by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: driftdiver

“Considering Egypt and the rest of North Africa is going under the thumb of the radicals.”

Their radicals and our radicals working together for one cause.


19 posted on 09/13/2011 4:28:41 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: jakerobins

Russia announced yesterday that there will be no sanctions against Syria. Yesterday 4 American troops landed in Libya after we were promised that no American boots will be in Libya. Yesterday, Turkey retrofitted its F16 aircraft to identify Israeli planes as foes. Yesterday, Israeli evacuated it’s embassy in Egypt. Yesterday, Russia acknowledged that if the Palis ask for a nation, they will approve. Yesterday, china recognized the Libyan rebels as the legitimate government.

Yesterday, Obama went around the country, telling people that theAmerican taxpayer will be fleeced even more so that the unions can contribute to Obamas 2012 presidential aspirations.

If that all happened yesterday, imagine what can happen today.


20 posted on 09/13/2011 4:29:26 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Sarahcuda in 2012. Nothing but Net!!!)
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