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Mullah Omar orders the talibans to leave Kandahar
AFP via teletranslator.com
| On Friday, November 16th, 2001 - 5:58 pm GMT
Posted on 11/16/2001 1:24:41 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: Orangedog
Wasn't that hither and thither?
To: SamAdams76
...the Taliban are up to something.
I'm with you. Hopefully, we both are wrong. However, I wouldn't put it past a cornered dog to do something incredibly evil--especially if it means taking out Allied soldiers as well as all of those Afghans who were wildly celebrating the departure of the Taliban. An outfit like Al Q'eda (sp?) wouldn't think twice about ruining Afghanistan's environment with a dirty bomb. What does it care? The real fanatics are made up of Arabs, Chechens and Pakis who are heading into the "free areas" of Pakistan to await something. I don't like the feel of it. It's not like fanatics to give up so quickly and retreat, no matter how superior our airpower and NA troops appear to be. It's too easy.
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posted on
11/16/2001 1:24:45 PM PST
by
demnomo
To: HAL9000
HEY MULLAH, DON'T FORGET YOUR EYE!
To: SamAdams76
I can't help having a nagging feeling that the Taliban might be up to something.Agree. Perhaps they are still fighting the last war and are expecting to do better fighting in the mountains. They haven't exhibited much strategy thus far, but this seems too easy.
To: demnomo
There's only one problem with your theory. Omar and Osama baited the US to bring on the ground troops. We didn't. If Osama uses the "dirty" bomb, all he'll get is a few of our SpecOps, the NA, and civilians. Moreover, without the US first using the "dirty" bomb, the rest of the world will be against Osama's dirty deed. The Talibums are not in a good position right now (understatement) and are looking at spending a very LONG winter in very unlavish accomodations.
To: SamAdams76
Maybe, but then again, if they don't control the cities, what keeps them in power?
To: HAL9000
Another brilliant piece of strategy, indeed. Time for another Pat Buchanan column telling us how tough things are going to get now that Omar has suckered the US military into a trap.
To: Zorobabel
Also being reported on Fox by Linda Vester and John Gibson.
To: colorado tanker
Mullah Omar: Taliban, why are you running?
Taliban: Cuz I can't fly!
To: HAL9000
10:33 PST ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has agreed to leave his headquarters at Kandahar and turn over the southern Afghan city to two local Pashtun leaders, the Afghan Islamic Press said Friday.
The Pakistan-based agency said Omar agreed to leave Kandahar within 24 hours and head for the mountains following discussions with "close friends and army commanders."
Under the deal, control of the city will pass to Mullah Naqibullah and Haji Basher, the agency said. The two are locally prominent former commanders of Afghan resistance forces in the war against Soviet invaders and are not members of the Taliban.
Basher is close to Yunus Khalis, a Pashtun leader who took over the northeastern city of Jalalabad this week. Pashtuns are Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, and served as the backbone of the Taliban's harsh five-year regime.
The report could not be independently confirmed.
Hamid Karzai, a Pashtun leader who has been trying to organize a Pashtun uprising in the south, told CNN that the Taliban leaders had no place to go if they left Kandahar.
"They will find it very hard to find an escape route," said Karzai, adding that Taliban leaders would be offered amnesty if they surrendered and gave up their weapons.
"We have offered them amnesty, of course," he said. "If they do not fight and lay down their arms, they will be saved," he said.
He said he had a report from one of his people that there was "serious turmoil" in Kandahar. He said some Taliban troops tried to leave the city to the north and were met by villagers who tried to stop them.
To: colorado tanker
If Omar is announcing "evacuation," his troops have probably been pushed out already by Pushtun militias.
Maybe when he mentioned evacuation he was talking about the bodily reponses his commanders.
To: financeprof
LOL!
To: Common Tator
The USA fights a lot smarter when smart people are in charge.Carter and Clinton appointed and promoted in political people. Reagan and the Bush administrations put in smart people. Political people, in persuint to pleasing the masses usually make stupid, unpractical choices. I'll take smart every time.
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posted on
11/16/2001 1:24:58 PM PST
by
oyez
To: alloysteel
Will they call the new country Aztlanistan?
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posted on
11/16/2001 1:24:58 PM PST
by
Ol' Sox
To: Go Gordon
without the US first using the "dirty" bomb, the rest of the world will be against Osama's dirty deed.Personally, I don't think Osama, or the Talibums care what the rest of the world thinks, that's part of the nature of fanatics. It wouldn't surprise me if they had a boobytrap somewhere. I hope I'm wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me. But I think (hope) that our leaders are considering this option as well.
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posted on
11/16/2001 1:24:59 PM PST
by
P8riot
To: HAL9000
this deal smells...
To: Ol' Sox
No, Californistan
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posted on
11/16/2001 1:24:59 PM PST
by
P8riot
To: HAL9000
BTTT for more info.
To: Salvation
Yomiuri News in Japanese is also carrying it on the web, from Afghan Islamic Press. (Omar said to retreat, to leave Kandahar in 24 hours for the mountains in the east). If true, I don't know if they will really get that far. Right now it is the middle of the night there, fyi (not that this would ever deter the American fighting man).
To: HAL9000
Guess Mullah Omar is not free to accept that anchor job with CNN, right? Or is he going to be the replacement for Little Katie Communist on the NBC Today show. No, I have it wrong again, he's going to be the new press secretary for Hillary Bad HairDay Clinton in her NYC office.
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posted on
11/16/2001 1:25:00 PM PST
by
jrlc
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