The United States military says it came under heavy fire from insurgents as it searched for a Taliban commander and weapons caches and called in airstrikes, killing 136 Taliban fighters.
But the villagers denied that any Taliban were in the area. Instead, they said, they rose up and fought the Americans themselves, after the soldiers raided several houses, arrested two men and shot dead two old men on a village road.
After burying the dead, the tribe’s elders met with their chief, Hajji Arbab Daulat Khan, and resolved to fight American forces if they returned. “If they come again we will stand against them, and we will raise the whole area against them,” Hajji Daulat Khan warned. Or in the words of one foreign official in Afghanistan, the Americans went after one guerrilla commander and created a hundred more.
hats off to the courageous villagers.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
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It would take a Pepe to believe that shit about "no taliban" in the area. But then he thinks Sharia is Justice and Dhimmi is Freedom
Why don't we trade Pepe to the Taliban for two apostates and three female schoolteachers? He can instruct his soulmates on the Quranic Geology of the stones they use on that saucy 12 tear old lass who rejects Al PPs amour impropre
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