2005

Wow, perusing the news coming out of Afghanistan, I came across several articles.
One is dated December 29, and describes how two would-be suicide bombers accidentally blew themselves up while strapping on their explosives. More’s the pity.
Next, from the Conservative Voice, Coalition Air Crews Fly Support Mission, also dated December 29, from the American Forces [...]

And if you just look at it slightly below the surface, how does somebody get Shim’s and Boykin’s private numbers at the Pentagon? What do you do? Do you call information and say “I’d like to talk to general Shim.”? He was calling direct. And if they were merely making contacts — let’s say Amy decided to call and say, “I have captured a terrorist”. Do you think that the Pentagon would then call Bagram base and say, “go meet Amy out in the middle of the desert! She’s going to turn a terrorist over to you.” I mean, it’s with the slightest bit of evaluation, their statements are nonsense. Perhaps that’s why they wanted it tried in an Afghan court where there wouldn’t be any sort of scrutiny?

If you’re looking for pieces on Jack Idema and his team, please click on this link.
Over at the Devil’s Kitchen (he’s a chef, in case anyone’s wondering, and a fine chap), an amusing exchange between people in support of Idema and a fellow who calls himself tinyjudas. Tinyjudas is in the UK, and so [...]

Here’s an interesting article from the CBC from AP and Noor Khan:

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) – A top Taliban commander said more than 200 rebel fighters were willing to become suicide attackers against U.S. forces and their allies, a claim dismissed as propaganda Monday by Afghanistan’s government, which said the hardline militia was weakening.
bwahahahaha! Read [...]