[QUOTE]The Taliban claims responsibility for the strike in the heart of the Afghan capital, saying 'heavy casualties' have been inflicted. The attack with rockets and automatic weapons appears to center on the well-fortified 'green zone,' where the U.S. Embassy and the headquarters of NATO forces are housed,
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A damaged vehicle is seen after a rocket-propelled attack. Taliban suicide fighters launched an attack on central Kabul, taking over a multi-storey building under construction near the diplomatic district in the Afghan capital and firing rockets in the direction of several embassy and NATO compounds. (Omar Sobhani / Reuters / September 13, 2011)
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan—
Insurgents staged a brazen attack Tuesday in the heart of the Afghan capital, firing rockets apparently aimed at the U.S. Embassy or the nearby headquarters of the NATO force.
Heavy explosions echoed near a central square, as terrified Afghans fled the sound of fighting. "Again, again!" said an elderly shopkeeper as he hastily rolled down the metal shutter protecting his carpet store and prepared to flee.
Insurgents appeared to have seized a tall building under construction as a staging ground for the attack with rockets and automatic weapons -- a tactic used previously in similar strikes elsewhere in the country. The targeted area is dense with diplomatic compounds and other foreign installations.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, which began in the early afternoon, saying "heavy casualties" had been inflicted.
The strike, which came two days after U.S. commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, appeared to center on the well-fortified "green zone" where the U.S. Embassy and the headquarters of NATO's International Security Assistance force are housed.
Helicopters could be heard circling overhead.
The capital, and the rest of Kabul province, are now nominally under the control of Afghan security forces, in line with a plan to hand over security responsibilities by 2014. But NATO troops respond whenever an attack of this magnitude takes place.
Earlier, traffic in the capital had been paralyzed by a relatively benign event: Afghan President Hamid Karzai visiting a local school. The stringent precautions, however, were an indicator of how dangerous it is for the Afghan leader to venture even a mile or two from his heavily fortified palace.
In Brussels, NATO vowed that the attack would not deter Western forces from an orderly handover of security responsibilities to Afghan forces as the West winds down its combat mission in Afghanistan -- a process known as "transition."
"Transition is on track, and it will continue," NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters.[/QUOTE]
6 causality's, one fatality have been confirmed by CNN.
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Westerners need to just get out of there and let them fight their own god damn war. Let them kill each other so there are less humans taking the planets resources. They are bred(brainwashed) to kill each other in the name of their gods.
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32267811]Westerners need to just get out of there and let them fight their own god damn war. Let them kill each other so there are less humans taking the planets resources. They are bred(brainwashed) to kill each other in the name of their gods.[/QUOTE]
That's nice :)
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Heard about this awhile ago. My father works there. He sent us an email this morning saying he's safe...
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32267811]Westerners need to just get out of there and let them fight their own god damn war. Let them kill each other so there are less humans taking the planets resources. They are bred(brainwashed) to kill each other in the name of their gods.[/QUOTE]
Hahaha, you're funny. [/sarcasm]
I'm all for stopping interventionism bullcrap but that's just cold DarkSpider.
Edit: Is it really in the authority of a single government to shift the fate of nations to suit their needs and interests?
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32267811]Westerners need to just get out of there and let them fight their own god damn war. Let them kill each other so there are less humans taking the planets resources. They are bred(brainwashed) to kill each other in the name of their gods.[/QUOTE]
Stormfront would welcome you.
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32267811]Westerners need to just get out of there and let them fight their own god damn war. Let them kill each other so there are less humans taking the planets resources. They are bred(brainwashed) to kill each other in the name of their gods.[/QUOTE]
You make me sick.
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32267811]Westerners need to just get out of there and let them fight their own god damn war. Let them kill each other so there are less humans taking the planets resources. They are bred(brainwashed) to kill each other in the name of their gods.[/QUOTE]I was going to agree with you until I read the second sentence. The west are only making things worse bombing civilians half the time but marking them as "suspected insurgents".
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32267811]Westerners need to just get out of there and let them fight their own god damn war. Let them kill each other so there are less humans taking the planets resources. They are bred(brainwashed) to kill each other in the name of their gods.[/QUOTE]
You know the embassy would still be there if we left. It's been there since the 40's. We had to close it down for 20 years but we reopened it after we rid kabul of the prior leadership.
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32267811]Westerners need to just get out of there and let them fight their own god damn war. Let them kill each other so there are less humans taking the planets resources. They are bred(brainwashed) to kill each other in the name of their gods.[/QUOTE]
wow ok
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32267811]Westerners need to just get out of there and let them fight their own god damn war. Let them kill each other so there are less humans taking the planets resources. They are bred(brainwashed) to kill each other in the name of their gods.[/QUOTE]
If we did that, it would be the fall of Saigon all over again.
Except with much bloodier reprisals.
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Thanks for making my post the focus of this entire thread. I feel I have succeeded in my endeavors to spread my opinion.
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32268385]Thanks for making my post the focus of this entire thread. I feel I have succeeded in my endeavors to spread my opinion.[/QUOTE]
Is it "Opinion" or is it Trolling.
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32268385]Thanks for making my post the focus of this entire thread. I feel I have succeeded in my endeavors to spread my opinion.[/QUOTE]
The only thing you've succeeded in spreading is your idiocy.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;32268426]The only thing you've succeeded in spreading is your idiocy.[/QUOTE]
Do explain. We'd save money and resources at the cost of a few million sand lickers. You can't force peace onto a culture that has war and suppression ingrained at the core of its functioning.
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[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32268445]We'd save money and resources at the cost of a few million sand lickers.[/QUOTE]
Now, is that a high or low cost?
At the same time, I can't fathom why the ones who want to live in peace don't move away from that hostile region of earth. I guess it's because their religion tells them to stay in the line of fire. That's archaic thinking for you.
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[QUOTE=NoDachi;32268468]Now, is that a high or low cost?[/QUOTE]
It depends how much they value their own lives. Clearly they don't value themselves that much because they choose to live in a warzone.
It's similar to how we use lab rats instead of humans in experiments. We perceive a lab rat to not think much about its own existence. It's probably the same way with them as they think they get to fuck 72 virgins if they blow themselves up.
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32268471]At the same time, I can't fathom why the ones who want to live in peace don't move away from that hostile region of earth. I guess it's because their religion tells them to stay in the line of fire. That's archaic thinking for you.
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It depends how much they value their own lives. Clearly they don't value themselves that much because they choose to live in a warzone.[/QUOTE]
Where would people from a region with the worlds lowest GDP move to exactly?
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32268471]It depends how much they value their own lives.[/QUOTE]
I was asking you.
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32268445]Do explain. We'd save money and resources at the cost of a few million sand lickers. You can't force peace onto a culture that has war and suppression ingrained at the core of its functioning.[/QUOTE]
What the fuck is wrong with you?
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32268471]At the same time, I can't fathom why the ones who want to live in peace don't move away from that hostile region of earth. I guess it's because their religion tells them to stay in the line of fire. That's archaic thinking for you.
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It depends how much they value their own lives. Clearly they don't value themselves that much because they choose to live in a warzone.[/QUOTE]
The people that died were Afghan civilians in line to apply for a US visa... Afghans are good people and they are our ally. They want the taliban gone but lack the resources.
[QUOTE=DarkSpider;32268445]Do explain. We'd save money and resources at the cost of a few million sand lickers. You can't force peace onto a culture that has war and suppression ingrained at the core of its functioning.
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What an ignorant thing to say.
Not to forget that we "westerners", namely the US and the Brits, secondly all nations trading with them made Afghanistan what it is today by our stupid politics in the last 100 years.
[QUOTE]It's similar to how we use lab rats instead of humans in experiments. We perceive a lab rat to not think much about its own existence. It's probably the same way with them as they think they get to fuck 72 virgins if they blow themselves up.
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Some advice uninstall your computer
I completely understand why they do it though. I don't support it, but I do understand it.
Maybe if I was born there too, I'd fight against the oppression too.
how is that photo relevant? A photo of the US embassy in Kabul would be more fitting than ANA troops fiddling around with disassembled M2s.
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Just want to put it out there. Those are Afghan National Army troops. Not Americans or anything like that. Most people don't know so I thought I'd add that. I think it's a stock image. They're friendlies. It looks like they're getting ready to go to the range, or learning something, moving something, I don't really know but the caption about a damaged vehicle is ridiculously wrong.
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What's with the Browning on the bottom, it's shroud is tiny.
Oh wait, duh, they're being cleaned :v:
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;32269641]ANA troops fiddling around with disassembled M2s.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;32272640]Those are Afghan National Army troops. [/QUOTE]
thanks for explaining the acronym bro.
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