Those darned Taliban

[Roger Baker]

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Now I ask you. Why won't those pesky Taliban stand up and fight like men?
But they only scurry away instead of surrendering like they promised to 
do.
Makes me feel like getting really mad or something.

-- Roger


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,615461,00.html

...This was vividly demonstrated during the surrender of Kandahar. Hours 
after the deal
was agreed foreign forces slipped out of the city, to the fury of Hamid 
Karzai, who brokered
the deal, and US forces camped outside the city. "The Taliban ran away 
with their weapons,"
he said. "Basically they have just run away. The leaders and the 
soldiers - they have all run
away from the city."...It was unclear however what would happen to 
Mullah Omar next. Khaled
  Pashtun, spokesman for the anti-Taliban warlord Ghul Agha who controls 
part of southern
Afghanistan, told Channel 4 news that he was in a "friendly environment" 
and would not be
arrested unless the new Afghan government expressly demanded it. That 
will depend on
whether or not the government is prepared to do the Pentagon's bidding...

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Taliban stand up and fight like men?

But they only scurry away instead of surrendering like they promised
to do.

Makes me feel like getting really mad or something.


-- Roger



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...This was vividly demonstrated during the surrender of Kandahar.
Hours after the deal 

was agreed foreign forces slipped out of the city, to the fury of
Hamid Karzai, who brokered 

the deal, and US forces camped outside the city. "The Taliban ran away
with their weapons," 

he said. "Basically they have just run away. The leaders and the
soldiers - they have all run 

away from the city."...It was unclear however what would happen to
Mullah Omar next. Khaled

 Pashtun, spokesman for the anti-Taliban warlord Ghul Agha who
controls part of southern

Afghanistan, told Channel 4 news that he was in a "friendly
environment" and would not be 

arrested unless the new Afghan government expressly demanded it. That
will depend on 

whether or not the government is prepared to do the Pentagon's
bidding... </fontfamily>
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