[Montfort]

"The Taliban disarmed the Afghan population soon after seizing power in 1996 in attempt to restore peace in the war-ravaged country."

Always a good step for tyrants to take.

BTW, once they've killed the people they want to kill, they'll say these people were killed by US bombs. If they don't already have their required ZZTop beards, the Taliban will glue them on before displaying them to AL Jazeera, et al.

[Focault's Pendulum]

If they don't already have their required ZZTop beards

Please don't diss ZZ Top...the beards are way different.

[weegee]

Taliban soldiers are visiting residential neighborhoods, ordering people to report to armories to pick up weapons to fight the Americans, the agency said.

The Taliban disarmed the Afghan population soon after seizing power in 1996 in attempt to restore peace in the war-ravaged country.

The smartest move that these new "recruits" could do would be to turn those guns immediately on those that took them away in the first place and are now responsible for their homeland being attacked.