From the BBC:
Taliban demand air strike inquiryYet somehow so deliciously right. I just can't decide.
The Taliban have called for a UN and human rights investigation into an air strike in Afghanistan on Friday that killed dozens of people.
The independent Afghanistan Rights Monitor group says up to 70 civilians died in the Kunduz province raid. The Nato air strike targeted fuel tankers hijacked by the insurgents. The BBC's David Loyn in Kabul says the Taliban call is a change to its usual policy of opposing all foreign involvement in Afghanistan...
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It's as if they grabbed the baseball bat from our grasp and are now hitting us with it!
Oh dear....as if I wasn't disillusioned enough with the world....
I fear that the word "Taliban" has come to mean any Afghan who doesn't work for a western aid organisation.
This is what I think happened; a bunch of local bandits stole two oil tankers. However, the vehicles got stuck on a muddy road, and the bandits asked some locals to help push the tankers.
However, NATO decided that crime couldn't go unpunished, sent out a bomber, and wasted 90 Afghans.
In death, the bandits became Taliban fighters, though I do wonder if in life, they would have recogized this title.
Chutzpah.
When you lose the upper hand over the Taliban on the issue of military tactics and human rights, you know you're in trouble.
"...and the bandits asked some locals to help push the tankers. "
And by removing all the fuel, they were just, umm, 'lightening the load'...?
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