There is an expression in the UK ‘Not a Full Shilling’ that is used sometimes to describe a person who is somewhat lacking in intelligence
Such an expression might fit the likes of Mohammad Ashan, for instance.
A Taliban commander with . . .
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Let’s stop all this pussyfooting around with talk of Sgt Bales ‘allegedly‘ murdering 16 Afghan civilians – men, women, and children – in their beds
The Bastard slaughtered these people
He conveniently has amnesia for the period covering the killings
Since he was whisked away from Afghanistan and back to the USA, there have been a barrage of reports designed to evoke sympathy for Bales – he has been portrayed as an all-american good family guy, wouldn’t hurt a fly. Yeah, right – this is the guy who defrauded a couple of their life savings before he joined the US Army and was ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution (he has not repaid a single penny). This is the same guy ordered to attend anger management class after various violent scuffles with the law. Then there was a ‘hit and run’ incident
We’ve heard about his . . .
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The Pentagon has confirmed the vid of marines urinating of dead afghan fighters is genuine and identified some of the men filmed in the vid
A video has been posted online showing 4 US Marines pissing on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters.
The US is investigating the authenticity of the Vid amid fears that the vid will create a backlash against the US amongst Muslims which may endanger the lives of American personnel serving in Afghanistan
Now I’m not any kind of expert on geo-politics but if I was the american President and my country had spent years supporting a corrupt ruler in Afghanistan at the cost of thousands of injured and slain US troops and billions of dollars, I might be asking my officials to review current USA policy towards that country following comments by President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan that in any war between the USA and Pakistan, Afghanistan would support Pakistan against the USA.
see – http://tinyurl.com/6bhcwna
Hhmm. might not be such a good idea to be training all those Afghanistan forces to make them into more effective fighters after all ?
Just saying !!!
It is 10 years since the US and it’s allies invaded Afghanistan
The ostensible purpose ?
Partly to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden and to drive the Taliban from power
Well it took 10 years but bin Laden has been executed
The Taliban, however, have hardly been vanquished. True, with the help of the Northern Alliance, they were removed from power but they have not been defeated and are merely . . .
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Barack Obama intends to start withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan (coincidentally just before the US Presidential elections). Likewise, the UK intends to withdraw it’s troops soon too. Responsibility for maintaining security in Afghanistan will then fall on the shoulders of the Afghan security forces who have been trained by the USA and UK to fulfil that role.
It does not fill one with confidence for the future to learn then that 25,000 Afghan troops have deserted in the last 6 months !!!
Of course a large number of these ‘deserters’ may have . . .
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Several years ago, a large number of senior UK intelligence figures died when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed off the west coast of Scotland. It was a hard lesson to learn but since then care has been taken not to expose so many critical personnel to danger by having them travel together.
I was minded of this incident on hearing the news that a US chinook helicopter had been shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan with the loss of . . .
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We are supposed to be training up the Afghan Army to be able to take on and defeat the Taliban on their own – thus allowing our troops to withdraw from the country.
This vid shot by a BBC reporter in 2008 shows just how unprepared the Afghan Army is to take on the role envisaged for them.
One would like to think the Afghan Army is a more disciplined, professional force now than it was in 2008 – I fear though that it is not !
Seven UN workers and at least 13 other folk in Afghanistan were killed over the weekend in protests over the burning of the Qur’an by Pastor Terry Jones. Several hundred more were reportedly injured.
The causal link between Pastor Jone’s burning of the the Muslim Holy Book and the deaths of so many people is hard to argue against, but is . . .
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