100 Dead Afghans - be happy?
Report from top US News Agency - MSS [Military Spokesman Said ]
independent: More than 100 Taliban fighters have been killed so far in the biggest offensive against the former rulers of Afghanistan since they were overthrown in 2001, US commanders claimed yesterday.
The most successful action in the three days of Operation Mountain Thrust was an overnight bombing raid against a compound in Uruzgan province, in the lawless central highlands of Afghanistan. More than 40 Taliban fighters were said to have died in what was described as an attack on a meeting of insurgents in a "known enemy camp", including a bomb-making team, local financiers and commanders.
"Coalition forces tracked the development of this meeting until there were more than 50 extremists gathered before attacking the compound," said a US military spokesman, Lt Col Paul Fitzpatrick. "The compound was severely damaged, and we anticipate most of those present were killed." Read more
db:"Most successful action ...40 dead" Three cheers for the US bombers. If they had killed 400 would that make it ten times as successful? And 4,000? 40,000? When the Soviets were bombing these people [i.e. Afghans] to support their puppet government the world called the victims 'freedom fighters'. Now 'we' bomb them to support 'our' puppet government and they have become subhuman - what the NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called the other day 'the spoilers'. There is not one decent, family loving, god fearing Afghan out there apparently. They are all scum - and when they get slaughtered we must cheer. Robert Fisk's reporting is so much better than this sort. And the Independent lock him behind a $$$ firewall.
independent: More than 100 Taliban fighters have been killed so far in the biggest offensive against the former rulers of Afghanistan since they were overthrown in 2001, US commanders claimed yesterday.
The most successful action in the three days of Operation Mountain Thrust was an overnight bombing raid against a compound in Uruzgan province, in the lawless central highlands of Afghanistan. More than 40 Taliban fighters were said to have died in what was described as an attack on a meeting of insurgents in a "known enemy camp", including a bomb-making team, local financiers and commanders.
"Coalition forces tracked the development of this meeting until there were more than 50 extremists gathered before attacking the compound," said a US military spokesman, Lt Col Paul Fitzpatrick. "The compound was severely damaged, and we anticipate most of those present were killed." Read more
db:"Most successful action ...40 dead" Three cheers for the US bombers. If they had killed 400 would that make it ten times as successful? And 4,000? 40,000? When the Soviets were bombing these people [i.e. Afghans] to support their puppet government the world called the victims 'freedom fighters'. Now 'we' bomb them to support 'our' puppet government and they have become subhuman - what the NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called the other day 'the spoilers'. There is not one decent, family loving, god fearing Afghan out there apparently. They are all scum - and when they get slaughtered we must cheer. Robert Fisk's reporting is so much better than this sort. And the Independent lock him behind a $$$ firewall.
posted by exoplanet at 11:05 PM
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