Update from Afghan front of the War on Terror

[berserk]

KARACHI - The Taliban's spring offensive is in full swing, with almost daily attacks, including suicide bombings, in Afghanistan. More than 200 people, including 14 American soldiers, have lost their lives in the Taliban-led insurgency this year.

Thousands of new volunteers are pouring into the mountainous regions on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan to combat Pakistani troops on the one side and US-led allied forces on the other side.

Whether the Taliban inflict major losses on coalition forces this year or not, the International Islamic Front of Osama bin Laden has unleashed a battle from its new base - the "Islamic state of Waziristan" in North Waziristan. The strategy is to expand this base further, to the provinces of Paktia, Khost, Helmand and Zabul in Afghanistan. In many villages of these provinces, as in North Waziristan, the Taliban have paralyzed the writ of the Afghan state and have formed their own administrations, which include a Taliban judiciary, police and system of taxes.

On-the-ground contacts from North Waziristan tell Asia Times Online that as many as 27,000 fighters have grouped in the area. Of the fighters, about 3,500 are from Pakistani Punjab and Karachi and more than 10,000 from various districts of North West Frontier Province, while the rest are either local tribals or Afghan refugees.

Not on Fox News (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HD13Df01.html)

[Up_All_Night]

that McKinley general was on The Orielly Factor before talking about going into Iran and using the Afghanistan conflict as a "shinning" example of how smoothly things will go in Iran if they attack getting rid of the leaders and handing it back to the people.... I actually said, what the fuck out loud when he was talking about it.

[Nodbugger]

Lets see, 27,000 soldiers have managed to kill 14 out of 12,000 American soldiers. Some reason I doubt these numbers.

[Javaxcx]

More than 200 people, including 14 American soldiers, have lost their lives in the Taliban-led insurgency this year.

Christ, you couldn't even comprehend the second sentence Nodbugger.

[Nodbugger]

More than 200 people, including 14 American soldiers, have lost their lives in the Taliban-led insurgency this year.

Christ, you couldn't even comprehend the second sentence Nodbugger.

Yes, 200 people, probably meaning civilians, non-combatants, people that were targeted and killed, no apparent reason.

Apparently you can't comprehend shit.

[berserk]

Pardon. Qu'avez-vous dit?
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[Javaxcx]

Yes, 200 people, probably meaning civilians, non-combatants, people that were targeted and killed, no apparent reason.

Apparently you can't comprehend shit.

You have absolutely no comprehension of this conflict. The "good guys" have approximately 200 casualties (from hostle conflict) this year: Men, women, children, servicemen. Supposedly 14 of those 200 are American soldiers. 4 of the 200 those are Canadians; 3 soldiers. We have roughly 2200 soldiers in Afghanistan, you have 12000. The statistics (not based on any specific army) say that for every 2200 foreign soldiers, it can be expected that 3 will be lost by this time of the year. That means that America should have lost roughly 16 soldiers, thus suggesting that LESS then the probable number have actually died. There is absolutely nothing suspicious about those numbers, and for you to do so without any real reason other then your lack of understanding of mathematics is further proof of your idiocy.

Further, here is a link (http://icasualties.org/oef/byCountry.aspx?hndQry=US) suggesting that not 14, but 13 casualities have been in hostle situations in 2006. Not exactly what the original article has written, but the variance of a single soldier's nature of death can be expected when the casualty list for America hasn't been updated in over two weeks and the news is always skewwed slightly.

[asskickergod]

More than 200 people, including 14 American soldiers, have lost their lives in the Taliban-led insurgency this year.

Christ, you couldn't even comprehend the second sentence Nodbugger.

It's not a sentance. There is a comma seperating it so it's a phrase. And neither of you have any comprehension as to what the other is trying to debate. Nodbugger doubts the statistic that there 27,000 insurgents because for 27,000 soldiers to be only able to kill 14 is pretty pathetic. Nodbugger just can't articulate himself in any intelligable manner so you have to decipher what the meaning of his gibberish is. He of course has no understanding that insurgents mostly hide in the mountains and call themselves holy warriors because it makes them feel important. You are debating whether the death toll is acurate and bringing up a bunch of irrelevant numbers that he was not questioning in the first place.

[Javaxcx]

It's not a sentance. There is a comma seperating it so it's a phrase. And neither of you have any comprehension as to what the other is trying to debate. Nodbugger doubts the statistic that there 27,000 insurgents because for 27,000 soldiers to be only able to kill 14 is pretty pathetic. Nodbugger just can't articulate himself in any intelligable manner so you have to decipher what the meaning of his gibberish is. He of course has no understanding that insurgents mostly hide in the mountains and call themselves holy warriors because it makes them feel important. You are debating whether the death toll is acurate and bringing up a bunch of irrelevant numbers that he was not questioning in the first place.

Actually, I reckon I'm pretty much spot on when I tell him he has absolutely no comprehension of the conflict in Afghanistan. Further, seeing how the casuality report has quite a grand total of something like 350 American fatalities (hostle and non-hostle) casualties in Afghanistan since 2001, I'd reckon you're pretty spot on when you give an explanation for the number of "insurgents".

By the way, it is a sentence. It's got a subject, predicate, and necessary verb to do all the things that a sentence is supposed to do. I'm not quite sure why you thought otherwise. Maybe it's the water down south?