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"Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain..." (Qur'an 9:111)
"Suicide bombers try to storm American base," from Agence France-Presse, August 19 (thanks to JE):
SEVERAL Taliban suicide attackers tried to storm a US military base in eastern Afghanistan early today and at least six have been found dead, a provincial governor said.NATO's International Security Assistance Force confirmed that a US military base in the eastern town of Khost, 30km from the border with Pakistan, was under attack but could give few details.
"We have heard about suicide bombers on foot. They are receiving indirect fire,'' an officer in the ISAF media office in Kabul said....
"According to our reports about 30 Taliban tried to attack the Salerno base. They were fired at. We have found six bodies which were all wearing suicide vests,'' he said.
"Some of them have blown themselves up. Others are hiding in nearby houses and corn fields. The troops are searching for them,'' he said....
The attackers had also launched rockets at the base, an Afghan army officer said on condition of anonymity.
The new attack comes a day after a suicide bombing outside Camp Salerno killed 10 Afghan labourers and wounded 13 more.
Security forces were able to prevent a second suicide attack moments later, the US-led coalition and Afghan officials said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility.
Posted by Robert at August 19, 2008 7:52 AM
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The best jihadi is a dead one.
There is no glory when one is in the service of evil.
Pass it on.
Posted by: dgene![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at August 19, 2008 8:14 AM
In Afghanistan, as in Pakistan, as in the world, there is no end to this. One can either grasp this, and act to exploit the weaknesses in the enemy camp -- the Camp of Islam -- or one can continue to pretend that the problem is finite (even those self-consciously somber predictions of a "long war" or a "war that will last thirty years" still are not long enough; there is no end to Jihad; there is only containment, reducing the threat to manageable, endurable, proportions), that it is not about Islam but about a presumed (never explained) "perversion" of Islam, and that somehow, if Infidels only apply enough force and distribute enough money, all manner of things shall be well.
Nonsense.
The only way to deal with this problem is never to allow a triumph of Islam, never to think that Muslim appetites can be sated (they can, however, if demands are met here or there, be whetted), and to work to make Islam less attractive, both to the pool of would-be converts (in the West, and outside the West, as in sub-Saharan Africa), and to those already born into Islam, but with other identities to cultivate and cling to, -- as with the 80% of the world's Muslims who are not Arab, who may in some cases be open to the argument -- one which happens to be true -- that Islam has always been, and always will be, a vehicle for Arab supremacism.
There is so much that could be done, at such little cost. But it would require imagination, intelligence, knowledge -- and how much easier it is, for those lacking in these, to repair to those bombs and "boots on the ground" and the handing out of tens of billions. So much easier than studying a matter, and using brains in a different way than they are employed in moving tens or hundreds of thousands of troops, or stacking neatly the piles of hundred-dollar bills that are to be handed out like confetti to {Iraqis, Pakistanis, Afghanis, your favorite Muslim country to be rescued here}.
at August 19, 2008 9:01 AM
"Some of them have blown themselves up. Others are hiding in nearby houses and corn fields. The troops are searching for them," he said....
Will those who give the Taliban shelter be charged or will they be able to claim they were forced to do it?
Take a guess!
Posted by: PMK at August 19, 2008 10:30 AM
They got the suicide part right.......
Posted by: tanstaafl at August 19, 2008 11:08 AM
The Taliban also killed ten French soldiers in an ambush.
A hundred Taliban attacked them.
How do a hundred Taliban travel to a ambush spot in a war zone, without being detected?
Posted by: duh_swami at August 19, 2008 11:41 AM
How do a hundred Taliban travel to a ambush spot in a war zone, without being detected?
Posted by: duh_swami [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 19, 2008 11:41 AM
Easier than moving an entire corps from one location to another. I'm sure Saddam asked the same question in '91. It's easy once you know the patrol routine. Otherwise you do so very slowly so no one suspects anything.
Posted by: Kevin at August 19, 2008 12:04 PM
If the wannabe suicide bombers who ran away are hiding in cornfields and houses, I guess its tiime to flamethrower them.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at August 19, 2008 12:19 PM
If the wannabe suicide bombers who ran away are hiding in cornfields and houses, I guess its tiime to flamethrower them.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683
But how can we? It means we're "punishing the innocent" by destroying their crops and homes, giving them no reason to like us and every reason to join the jihadists. We're only adding more soldiers to the jihad by our actions!
(They get us coming or going!)
Posted by: PMK at August 19, 2008 12:38 PM
{Iraqis, Pakistanis, Afghanis, your favorite Muslim country to be rescued here}.
Posted by: Hugh
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Why not "liberate" SOWdi Barbaria and liberate the oil while we are at it?
They owe us for the World Trade Center.
They have to pay 15/19 parts of the cost. They are a State entity whose citizens attacked us. They need to be held DIRECTLY accountable for this.
Thus KSA is the country I'd like to insert in those brackets.
Posted by: Ummah Gummah at August 19, 2008 12:43 PM
Spirit of 1683:
One problem, the west has long since stopped using the flamethrower. The US removed it in the 70's.
Posted by: Kevin at August 19, 2008 1:21 PM
One problem, the west has long since stopped using the flamethrower. The US removed it in the 70's.
I know that, and the trouble is, we're banning all sorts of munitions that we'll need to fight the Jihadis simply to please 'human rights activists'.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at August 19, 2008 2:07 PM
"One problem, the west has long since stopped using the flamethrower. The US removed it in the 70's."
Posted by: Kevin
Even more tragic than the loss of the flamethrower is the prohibition of the CLAYMORE MINE.
Our Infantry stripped of effective weapons, by no-nothing politically correct fools.
We have far to many idiots in far to many leadership positions.
at August 19, 2008 4:17 PM
I don't think the claymore was banned, those bans usually included buried type landmines.
Posted by: MorrisMinor at August 19, 2008 4:20 PM
Well, many dead for the glory of Allah. Praise, etc...
I thought human sacrifice was considered barbarian..?
Posted by: Henrik at August 19, 2008 6:00 PM
Muslims don't make images of 'allah'
but if you read C S Lewis's final Narnia book - "The Last Battle" -(written in 1956) you will find a description of the Calormene 'god' "Tash" which seems to me to be exactly what 'allah' might look like, if given a physical form as an idol. A devourer, a predator.
"While the dwarf had ben speaking, the day seemed to have changed. It had been sunny when they sat down. Now Puzzle shivered. Jewel lifted his head uneasily. Jill looked up.
"It's clouding over,' she said.
"And it's so cold', said Puzzle.
"Cold enough, by the Lion!' said Tirian,..'And faugh! what foul smell is this?'
'Phew', gasped Eustace, 'It's like something dead. Is there a dead bird somewhere about? And why didn't we notice it before?'
With a great upheaval Jewel [the unicorn] scrambled to his feet and pointed with his horn. 'Look!' he cried, 'Look at it! Look at it!'
Then all six of them saw it, and over all their faces there came an expression of uttermost dismay.
"In the shadow of the trees on the far side of the clearing something was moving. It was gliding very slowly Northward. At first glance you might have mistaken it for smoke, for it was grey, and you could see things through it. But the deathly smell was not the smell of smoke.
"Also, this thing kept its shape instead of billowing and curling as smoke would have done.
"It was roughly the shape of a man but it had the head of a bird; some bird of prey with a cruel, curved beak.
"It had four arms which it held high above its head, stretching them out northwards as if it wanted to snatch all Narnia in its grip; and its fingers - all twenty of them - were curved like its beak and had long, pointed, birdlike claws instead of nails . It floated on the grass instead of walking, and the grass seemed to wither beneath it...
'What was it?' said Eustace, in a whisper.
"I have seen it once before,' said Tirian. 'But that time it was carved in stone and overlaid with gold and had solid diamonds for eyes. It was when I was no older than thou, and had gone as a guest to the Tisroc's court in Tashbaan. He took me into the great Temple of Tash. There I saw it, carved above the altar.'
'Then that - that thing - was Tash?'...
'Where has it - he - the Thing - gone to?' said Jill.
'North into the heart of Narnia,' said Tirian, 'It has come to dwell among us. They have called it, and it has come". END QUOTE.
(By the way, the same book contains a chilling description of 'interfaith' fudging - those who have infiltrated Narnia promote their conquest by conflating the names of the Narnian 'Aslan' and the Calormene 'Tash' to create a composite term, "Tashlan".
The supreme irony of Lewis's series is that he takes what I think is a Turkish word - 'Aslan' - to describe one who is, quite obviously, the manifestation, in Lewis's fictional world, of the holy one whom Christians know as Lion of Judah who is also Lamb of God - e.g. at the end of 'Voyage of the Dawn Treader', where the characters encounter a vision of a lamb which is then revealed to be Aslan the Lion).
Lewis's "The Last Battle" would make scary reading for any British or Western European kafir today; for the process by which the Calormenes infiltrate Narnia has, today, a real-life parallel.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at August 19, 2008 7:53 PM
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