Every year since we kicked the Taliban out, the media has brought forth the dreary prediction of a "Spring Offensive" which will crush our forces, drive us before them, and hear the lamentations of our women.

Taste the crow, media. Feast on its succulent juices.

NATO-led troops killed 75 suspected insurgents on the first day of an offensive against Taliban militants in a valley in southern Afghanistan, a British military officer said Tuesday. The militants died Monday, when British, Danish and Afghan troops fought their way up the Sangin Valley in Helmand province, Maj. Dominic Biddick, who commanded a company of British troops in the operation, told The Associated Press.

How's that for Bush's Unilateralism Cowboy War?

Oh, here's the unilateralist approach:

On Monday, the U.S. military reported that 136 suspected militants were killed in three days of fighting in western Herat province -- the deadliest clashes in Afghanistan since January.

Thanks to scary brown people.

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Our Boy kicking ass from the air in Afghanistan. The Taliban can sneak in, but it's a bit tougher to sneak out after their lame ambushes.

Via The Telegraph: Caught in the middle of the Helmand river, the fleeing Taliban were paddling their boat back to shore for dear life.

Smoke from the ambush they had just sprung on American special forces still hung in the air, but their attention was fixed on the two helicopter gunships that had appeared above them as their leader, the tallest man in the group, struggled to pull what appeared to be a burqa over his head...

...By the time the gunships had finished, 21 minutes later, military officials say 14 Taliban were confirmed dead, including one of their key commanders in Helmand...

"Some of them were trying to get the heavy machine-gun up a small hill to engage us," Lt Denton said. "Capt Staley used the 30mm gun to take out the two guys who had taken off, and then we fixed on the ones with the heavy machine-gun. They were huddled around a large boulder and we shot them. We put as many rounds around it as we could, because if they got to it they could cause us trouble. But they never had a chance to set it up."

Using its cannon and then its rockets, the Apache finished off all the Taliban fighters it could find, then launched nail-filled rockets and dropped white phosphorous to destroy the motorcycles and the machine guns. After the shooting stopped, 12 Taliban were confirmed dead...

.....for now, the American airmen are not losing any sleep over it. "When you are on top of the enemy you look, shoot and it's, 'You die, you die, you die..."

If you are a Taliban fighter, get your affairs in order post haste.

Also see See-Dubya at Hot Air, Blue Crab Boulevard and Reihl World View.

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Openly Socialist NDP Party stabs covertly Socialist Labor Liberal Party in the back by siding with Conservative Party to block withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan.

I love it when they eat their own.

Money quote:

Dion also indicated that Canadian soldiers could be more profitably utilized in Afghanistan setting up democratic processes, a judicial system, a functioning economy.

"If we focus on the combat mission and we don't try to do the other things, what is being gained?"

Well, teh stoopid, if you don't kill the Taliban and Al Qaeda first, there won't be democratic processes, a judicial system, or a functioning economy.

Thanks to the scary brown person who lives in Canada for the email.

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Six Canadian soldiers make the ultimate sacrifice for freedom in Afghanistan.

We honor their sacrifice, pray for their families back home, and thank them and their buddies for serving alongside our people.

Thanks to GM.

Sgt. Donald Lucas, 31, of Burton, N.B.;
Cpl. Christopher Paul Stannix (reservist), 24, of Dartmouth, N.S.;
Cpl. Aaron E. Williams, 23, of Lincoln, N.B.;
Pte. Kevin Vincent Kennedy, 20, of St. Lawrence, Nfld.; and
Pte. David Robert Greenslade, 20, of Saint John, N.B.
Cpl. Brent Poland of Sarnia, Ont.

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his was just one of several signs in the past ten days that a creeping campaign to “Talebanise” Pakistan has spread from tribal areas on the Afghan border right to the heart of the capital. And to judge from the Government’s response, even here it is reluctant to confront the radical clerics who openly preach jihad (holy war) and defy the writ of the state.Read the rest here.

There's very little good news from Pakistan these days. Time is on the side of the Taleban, and as y'all know, Pakistan has nukes. So if the Taleban take over Pakistan (which is getting more likely with time), they'll have nukes. And once the Taleban has nukes, al-Qaeda will have nukes. And once al-Qaeda has nukes, all bets are off.

h/t: Glenn again.

UPDATE: Too late?

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1 Pakistan is nothing more than a pseudo-country carved out of the ancient India civilization by a bunch Muslim bigots.

The name itself is a made-up one also which means "The province of the clean" since Mo-slimes consider non-Muslims unclean.

For this reason, not only is Pakistan not going to confront Islamists;
in fact quite the opposite, Pakistan needs Islamism to justify its
existence.

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at April 06, 2007 11:30 AM (EdIIN)

2 My trigger finger is starting to itch.  Sounds like a little "civil engineering" of the mountain range (and surrounds) with some thermal "imaging" might help improve the quality of the neighborhood.   A sort of urban renewal.

Posted by: Bert at April 06, 2007 11:35 AM (0FGKd)

3 Trusting Pakistan is trusting muslims. You just can't do it. We are at war with this gutter religion.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 06, 2007 07:44 PM (NU+M0)

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In typical fashion, the major networks have expressed no interest in the following story. While they endlessly drone on about IED attacks in Iraq, or a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, nobody mentions the astounding fact that women are serving in the new Afghan army.

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From worsening Taliban rallying point border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan:

Hundreds of militants fired rockets, killed one security official and kidnapped a school principal Wednesday in a northwestern town where police had slain two men accused of recruiting students for suicide attacks, police said.

The overnight raid underlined the strength of the militants and the weakness of Pakistani authorities in a swath of territory along the Afghan border where Taliban guerrillas fighting in Afghanistan find sanctuary. The United States fears al-Qaida is trying to regroup in the same area.

Several hundred gunmen launched the attack in Tank, a town in North West Frontier Province, sparking an hours-long battle that left at least one member of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary dead...

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According to AKI:

American troops in Afghanistan arrested on Thursday the deputy head of the Taliban fighters active in the Pakistani tribal area of Waziristan, according to a report on the Arab satellite television channel Al Jazeera. A unit of US special forces penetrated the town of Loramani in Waziristan which border Afghanistan, capturing the Taliban leader Mullah Hakimallah Mansub.

If true, this is a good catch.

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(Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan) From an undisclosed location, Taliban spokesman Mullah Hayat Khan said, "We wanted to target ... Cheney." Fortunately, the Taliban was unsuccessful.

From The Age:

A suicide bomber killed up to 10 people outside the main US military base in Afghanistan in an attack aimed at visiting Vice-President Dick Cheney, but Cheney was not hurt in the blast.

An American soldier and a South Korean who was part of the US-led coalition were killed, as was a US government contractor whose nationality was unknown, officials said. NATO put the toll at four, including the bomber, and 27 wounded.

Local police said 10 people died.

The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the bomber knew Cheney was visiting the sprawling Bagram Airbase, about 60 km from Kabul.

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My Master Rusty Says, "The way I figure it, when Bill Roggio says something is important, I'm pretty sure he's right.

Via Bill Roggio: The Pakistani government is preparing to cede the Federally Administered Tribal Agency of Bajaur to the Taliban. Jan Aurakzai, the governor of the Northwest Frontier Province, has informed the media that a 'peace deal' fashioned after the Waziristan Accord is imminent, Dawn reports.

Bajaur has long been an al-Qaeda command and control center. The Taliban and al-Qaeda funnel their northern Afghanistan operations from Bajaur. Afghanistan's Kunar province, which sits just across the border from Bajaur, is one of the most violent provinces in Afghanistan.

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Kim du Toit posts an inspiring story of an Afghan the GIs call "Rambo":

We have actually given him a couple of sets of the new ACU uniforms (the new Army digital camouflage) with the name tag RAMBO on it. His entire family was killed by the Taliban and his home was where our base currently resides. So this guy really had nowhere else to go.

Rambo fearlessly ran to the vehicle, reached thru the window and jerked the suicide bomber out of the vehicle before he could detonate and commenced to putting some red pipe to his heathen ass. He detained the guy until the MP got there. The vehicle only exploded when they tried to push it off base with a robot but none was hurt.

I’m still waiting for someone to give this guy a medal or something. Nothing less than instant US citizenship or something. A hat was passed around and a lot of money was given to him in thanks by both soldiers and civilians that are working over here.

I guess I just wanted to share this because I want people to know that it’s working over here.

They have tasted freedom. This makes it worth it to me.

JOHN W. HUNT, CPT, US ARMY Operations Officer Bagram Afghanistan

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I'm not sure how this is even possible but I have to admit if the Taliban are this ballsy then a troop build up in Afghanistan is definitely needed:

Taliban to Open Schools in Afghanistan (Fox News):

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Taliban's governing body decided to open schools in the areas controlled by the militants in Afghanistan, the purported chief spokesman for the hardline militia told The Associated Press.

Abdul Hai Muthmahien said that Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders decided that from March, Islamic education will be provided in at least six southern provinces — first for boys and later for girls.

"The U.S. and its allies are doing propaganda against the Taliban," Muthmahien said in a phone call to an AP reporter from an undisclosed location late Saturday. "Taliban are not against education. The Taliban want Shariah (Islamic) education."

Now wait a second, the Taliban are going to educate girls? Well, that is a step forward in a sense because prior to the US invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11, women were not allowed to go to school in Afghanistan. But, let's look at Shariah law for a second and see what they'll really be learning:

Servitude - "The woman cannot marry without the consent of her guardian. If she marries, her husband becomes her new guardian."

Reverence for Men - "A woman who wishes to be divorced needs the consent of her husband."

You're Not Worth Looking At - "And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their khumur over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or their sons..."

The list goes on and on but those are just the highlights for women. If you're not a Muslim then you're truly screwed and have to live by those laws anyway in a Shariah system. But Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance, so long as you abide by their rules. Shariah law is the law of Islam; what it does to women is enough to make me not want to have it on this planet.

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It's just not been a good week to be a terrorist. What, with their poor performance in Somalia and now this!

Reuters via WaPo: But a senior Taliban commander who declined to be identified confirmed Osmani had been killed.

"He has died. We got this information on the day of the strike but our leadership ordered us not to disclose it," the commander, speaking by telephone, told a Reuters reporter in the Pakistani border town of Chaman.

"He was not only an experienced military commander but also good in making financial transactions for us. He had good contacts," he said, without elaborating.

"His death will have some bad impact on our movement for some time," he added.

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1 Guess allah was not on his side
 
Maybe allah was the one who fingered his position to the infidels.
 
Let me guess, no virgins either.

Posted by: Fred Fry at December 27, 2006 03:02 PM (JXdhy)

2 I hope some maggots got some good use of him.

The power of stateless Islamic terrorists is always slight. It is Sharia states, combined with the state financed terror that poses the more serious threat in my opinion.

Iran, Indonesia (is there really any doubt), Pakistan (if we arent watchful), and my all time favorite 'Great Satan' Saudi Arabia. The Saudi's are the ones I'm most upset with. I believe they are the worst exporters of 'hate' ideology.

I'm still waiting for a standard method to seperate 'moderates' from enemies. I think we should make a list of minimum requirements that establish a Muslim, as being moderate by an acceptable measure. Maybe we can have a post dedicated to just that discussion?

Happy New Year.
USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at December 27, 2006 05:19 PM (2OHpj)

3 "I'm still waiting for a standard method to seperate 'moderates' from enemies. I think we should make a list of minimum requirements that establish a Muslim, as being moderate by an acceptable measure."

How about "Do you support the initiation of force against others?"

Some will lie. But then, if they later do commit violence, we have evidence of their failings either way. Getting individuals on the record as denying the politics of force commits them, and removes the subsequent endless yammering.

Posted by: a reader at December 27, 2006 06:40 PM (fJcsd)

4 Weaver,

A moderate Muslim is one who would fine or jail you for sharia law infractions rather than kill you. A Hobson's choice at best. Almost all Muslims I have ever known would like to see Sharia Law instituted worldwide.

As you might expect, the fate of non-Muslims is always dependant on the ruler at hand in the Islamic system, and one who is brutal is likely to kill with impunity. So it is with Sharia Law. It provides for just that eventuality. You're screwed if you are a non-Muslim.

Posted by: templar knight at December 27, 2006 07:22 PM (634o6)

5 Wasn't the Establishment Media crowing about a Tallywhakerban resurgence just last week?


I guess Osmani didn't get the news.

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at December 28, 2006 12:50 AM (abVz3)

6 Boy is this going to piss the dems off. Stand by for attacks telling us how ignorant we are.

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From a CENTCOM press release:

KABUL, Afghanistan – Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, a senior member of the Taliban’s inner circle, was killed Dec. 19 in Helmand Province.

Credible intelligence led Coalition Forces to Osmani’s location near the border with Pakistan. His vehicle, traveling in a deserted area, was destroyed by a Coalition air strike, instantly killing him and two unidentified associates.

“Osmani was in the top ring of the Taliban leadership and he was also a close associate of Osama bin Laden and Gulbuddin Hekmatyr,” said Col. Tom Collins, Coalition spokesperson. “His death is a major achievement in the fight against extremists and their terrorist networks.”

Osmani was the Taliban’s chief of military operations in the provinces of Uruzgan, Nimroz, Kandahar, Farah, Herat and Helmand. He played a central role in facilitating terrorist operations involving Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Haqqani Network, to include IED and suicide attacks, kidnappings, numerous atrocities against innocent civilians, and direct attacks on Coalition, NATO, and Afghan forces, Collins said.

The Associated Press story about Osmani's death is full of references to the US "claims," as if the wire service, especially after the Jamil Hussein fiasco, has the credibility to question CENTCOM.

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Inspired by Zawahiri’s message to fight for Jesus, Nato forces immediately went out and killed a bunch of Taliban. Allah gave a statement saying, “Despite the Taliban’s frequent murdering in his name, Murder is still against his will and the disappointed Taliban souls were sent strait to hell.” When asked for comment Jesus Christ said, “I know them not.”

Irish Examiner: As part of Baaz Tsuka, ISAF forces have launched several air strikes against Taliban command posts, killing a number of senior Taliban leaders.

“Taliban leaders are fleeing or being killed, and the Taliban soldiers don’t know what to do,” Nugee said. “Like any organisation, if you take out the head, often the body doesn’t know what to do.”

He said the operations are ongoing, but so far the joint forces have cleared three villages of Taliban.

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Greg at the Political Pit Bull has the skinny on a Pakistani ISI agent with possible Al Qaeda ties being arrested by Afghan authorities.

Go check it out.

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Normally the Taliban behead a man for allowing his wife to teach girls evil satanic algebra. But in this case the Taliban were both merciful and creative, they spilled his guts out on the ground and then used motorbikes to draw and quarter him.

Independent News: The gunmen came at night to drag Mohammed Halim away from his home, in front of his crying children and his wife begging for mercy.

The 46-year-old schoolteacher tried to reassure his family that he would return safely. But his life was over, he was part-disembowelled and then torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes, the remains put on display as a warning to others against defying Taliban orders to stop educating girls.

Mr Halim was one of four teachers killed in rapid succession by the Islamists at Ghazni, a strategic point on the routes from Kabul to the south and east which has become the scene of fierce clashes between the Taliban and US and Afghan forces.
The day we arrived, an Afghan policemen and eight insurgents died during an ambush in an outlying village. Rockets were found, primed to be fired into Ghazni City during a visit by the American ambassador a few days previously.

But, as in the rest of Afghanistan, it is the civilians who are bearing the brunt of this conflict. At the village of Qara Bagh, the family of Mr Halim are distraught and terrified. His cousin, Ahmed Gul, shook his head: "They killed him like an animal. No, no. We do not kill animals like that, it would be haram. They took away a father and a husband, they had no pity. We are all very worried. Please go now, you see those men standing over there? They are watching. It is dangerous for you, and for us."

Fatima Mushtaq, the director of education at Ghazni, has had repeated death threats, the notorious "night letters". Her gender, as well as her refusal to send girls home from school, has made her a particular source of hatred for Islamist zealots.

"I think they killed him that way to frighten us, otherwise why make a man suffer so much? Mohammed Halim and his family were good friends of ours and we are very, very upset by what has happened. He came to me when the threats first began and asked what he should do. I told him to move somewhere safe. I think he was trying to arrange that when they came and took him," she said.

Also See: Prairie Pundit and Hyscience.

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Thanks to Fred Fry in the comments, we get this gem of an article from Canada's Globe and Mail. It's worth reading the whole thing.

Like Fred posted, this excerpt is particularly interesting:

"If we attack the Canadians, they call for aircraft and bomb everything in the area. The U.S. only tried to kill the Taliban. The Canadians try to kill everybody."

Here's what I see. I see a group of savvy media manipulators trying to get out the message that Canadian troops are even worse than American troops.

I see an attempt to shock what they obviously view as a far more compliant population of media watchers into erupting into protest. I also see an attempt to replicate in Canada what we will soon see here. Hearings, subpoenas, and a general bogging down of the war effort.

I also see desperation. Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan is pretty much off the political radar in the U.S. The Pelosis and Murthas aren't calling for withdrawal from Afghanistan.

So all these losers have left is trying to convince the populations of our NATO allies that they, like us barbaric Americans, are nothing more than blood soaked oppressive butchers. A lame attempt to replicate the propaganda from Iraq.

Sorry, chums. Canada is even more hard to rouse from slumber than we are, but when we get together in a war, you're screwed.

I'll go out on a limb and guess that there's far more Canadians taking pride that their boys are bombing you into the Stone Age than not.

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HOOPLA!!!

Scroll, scroll, scroll...

Afghanistan is suffering its heaviest insurgent attacks since a U.S.-led military force toppled the Taliban in late 2001 for harboring Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden.

Remember my post about Hamid Mir appearing on Beck's show?

Was warned to not embed with NATO troops in Afghanistan anymore.

There is no timeframe for any attacks, inside U.S. or Afghanistan. Backs up 300 suicide bomber claim by saying that shortly after he returned to Pakistan, suicide attacks began in Afghanistan, which is true.

Most of these attacks have, indeed, been suicidal. The title of the post is "dig deep." If you follow the news, you don't have to dig too far.

So, based on this, should we ascribe credibility upon Hamid Mir?

Not necessarily.

But, it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.

Update: Crap. I forgot. Death to America.

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A man who was persecuted under Taliban rule in Afghanistan sends the fruit of his labor as a gift to President Bush. The gift is a thank you for helping to liberate him from that intolerant Islamic regime. Under the Taliban harassment and murder of the Hazara was a popular pass time.

The Southern Illiniosan: MARION(IL) - Grayson Gile may have completed his broader mission in Afghanistan as a member of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force, but he returned stateside with a mission of a more personal nature.

Gile's mission - one he chose to embrace - involves a very special rug handcrafted by an Afghan man anxious to show his gratitude to President George W. Bush for this country's efforts to bring democracy to Afghanistan.

The colorful and beautifully crafted rug was hand-knotted by an elderly Hazara man from Kabul. The Hazaras, believed to be descendants of Ghengis Khan, were one of the most persecuted ethnic minorities in the Middle Eastern country prior to the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance's war with the Taliban.

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(Kandahar, Afghanistan) In unusually heavy fighting yesterday in southeastern Afghanistan, the Taliban suffered appropriately heavy losses.

From ContraCostaTimes.com:

Some of the fiercest violence since the Taliban's ouster in 2001 erupted across southern Afghanistan, with militants battling U.S. and Canadian forces, detonating car bombs and attacking a small village. Up to 105 people were killed, officials said Thursday.

Much of the violence occurred in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, where thousands of extra NATO troops are scheduled to deploy this summer to counter an increasing number of attacks from a stubborn insurgency.

The Taliban death toll from fighting Wednesday night and Thursday ranged up to 87, U.S. and Afghan officials said. Also, 15 Afghan police officers, one American civilian, a Canadian soldier and an Afghan civilian were killed in the attacks.

Notably, the Afghan National Police (ANP) demonstrated its ability to make the Taliban flee during the attack on government headquarters in Musa Qala in Helmand province. According to British military spokesman, Capt. Drew Gibson, the British helped evacuate casualties and let the ANP forces do the fighting to prove their abilities. I'm happy to relate that their performance was assessed as admirable.

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(Kandahar, Afghanistan) Two Taliban commanders were among 11 enemy killed by Afghan police during fighting in the Panjwai District about 20 miles west of Kandahar. According to Mohammad Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for the Kandahar provincial governor, the battle was a big victory even though five policemen were killed.

From Reuters:

Ahmadi said among the 11 Taliban killed was a provincial-level commander, Mullah Abdul Baqi, and a district-level commander, Mullah Abdul Manan.

Manan was responsible for a spate of attacks, including suicide bomb blasts, rocket attacks and the burning of several schools, Ahmadi said.

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Ealier today I had this link saying coalition forces stomped 20 Taliban into the ground.

Guardian UK : KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Coalition forces killed between 15 and 20 militants in fighting over the weekend in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, the U.S. military said Monday.

A coalition patrol on Saturday attacked militants carrying assault rifles and grenade launchers, who were ``moving with the intent to set up an ambush'' in the province's Sangin district, a military statement said.
No coalition forces were hurt, it said.

Reuters :"Our convoy using night-vision optics on their vehicle were able to see three vehicles preparing for an ambush," Canadian spokesman Major Marc Theriault said of the Saturday night clash.

The convoy was travelling to a remote base in the Sangin district of Helmand province when the insurgents were spotted, he said.

Canadian forces attacked and destroyed the three vehicles which contained 15 to 20 insurgents, he said. No Canadians were hurt.

Updated : Canadians targeted by the enemy looking for revenge and thankfully none were injured. The terrorists did manage to murder one innocent old man though. Way to go Taliban murderers of helpless old men. Your cowardly method of attack reaps you shame.

Canada.com :KABUL (CP) - Three Canadian coalition members were hit by an improvised explosive device - or roadside bomb - near Kabul on Tuesday, but escaped without injury, the military said.

The unidentified attacker was driving a white car that exploded about 100 metres from the convoy, spraying shrapnel over a wide distance, Parwani said.

Several reports said Canadian soldiers were also involved in that attack, although none were injured.

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(Angoor Ada, Pakistan) Here's a gruesome reminder that the Global War on Terror is far from over.

From DailyTimes.com.pk:

Suspected tribal militants beheaded a cab driver in South Waziristan for being a "US spy" and a frequent visitor to an American military base in Afghanistan, official sources told Daily Times on Wednesday.

The body of the man, identified as Khan Mati, was found on Tuesday near Angoor Ada, the last Pakistani town before the Afghan border in South Waziristan, sources said.

Mati, who had been missing since April 17, was believed to be a frequent traveller to the US military base in Macha Dadkot in Paktika province in Afghanistan. He is the second taxi driver to be abducted and killed in Angoor Ada over suspicion of being a US spy.

Sources said that Haji Omar, the Taliban chief in South Waziristan, said that "we do not waste bullet on such suspects and prefer beheading them."

And, all the while, Sen. Dick Durbin claims the U.S. is the bad guy and Yale University recruits students from the Taliban. The leftists have turned America into bizarro world.

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