NA back to their old ways of raping, excecuting and pillaging

[faded glory]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!

FG AGREES WITH MARK L that the N.Alliance are nothing but thugs and war criminals



But unlike mark I realize it has to be done. A full scale Coalition invasion was definetaly out of the question.

[Adam Smith]

MarkL:

Is THIS the CNN article you were referring to?? Note a couple of important qualifications in bold below:

TERMEZ, Uzbekistan (CNN) -- Northern Alliance fighters have killed as many as 600 people since they seized the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif on Friday, Western officials in the Uzbek border town of Termez have told CNN.

CNN has not been able to independently confirm this information, but Western officials who have daily contact with personnel in Mazar-e Sharif say that the majority of those killed are Pakistani and Kashmiri fighters as well as family members of Chechen fighters who have sided with the Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Western officials say about 100 men are in custody.

Chegitz:

I haven't heard of any Taleban intiated genocide.

Unfortuantely THIS BBC article (mentioned by Mobius?) provides a recent example.

The BBC has confirmed that the central Afghan town of Bamiyan was totally destroyed by the Taleban before they fled over the weekend.

Evidence has also emerged of Bosnian-style ethnic cleansing in the region involving the execution of hundreds of local ethnic Hazara men.

As if the Taliban's mercilless application of the most rigid interpretation of Islamic law were not enough...

edit:
None of this should be interpreted to mean that the NA even faintly resemble saints. The NA to a man need to be made to understand immediately, if they do not already, that it is in their long-term best interest to behave in a civilized manner.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
BTW, apparently 'Taliban' appears to be the correct spelling - nothing comes up when you search for definitions with 'Taleban'...

It's an anglicization issue.

They spelled it "taleban" on their now-defunct website.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


You live in Mexico, bro.

I cross into the US four-five times a week for work, and have to produce ID, am subject to search, background check, wants and warrants check, anytime I go across. I've actually been searched just once, checked out for W&W four times, but generally just have to waste time waiting in line with the peasants, on foot or in cars.

That's why I now cross on my mountain bike, because cyclists can cut to the front of the lines, and get processed through like cars, but without trunks and fender wells to search.

Most of the stuff that PATRIOT potentially effects I have in the US (websites, mail servers, telephones). When in the US, my wife, her family, and lots of our friends are non-resident aliens, and are technically covered under the relevant provisions of PATRIOT dealing with aliens.

There's also no Fourth Amendment or Habeus Corpus here, so if the gringo Feds really had a hard on for me for some reason, they could nicely ask their compadres Méxicanos down here, and get our house searched and me delivered and anything they wanted impounded seized and delivered. It just doesn't happen, though. Police here (especially Federal police like the PFP and PGR) have virtually no checks on their authority, but they really don't go out of their way to **** with people very often at all.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Adam Smith
Chegitz:
Unfortuantely THIS BBC article (mentioned by Mobius?) provides a recent example.As if the Taliban's mercilless application of the most rigid interpretation of Islamic law were not enough...

[TCO]

Originally posted by faded glory
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!

FG AGREES WITH MARK L that the N.Alliance are nothing but thugs and war criminals



But unlike mark I realize it has to be done. A full scale Coalition invasion was definetaly out of the question.

It's going to take a while 'til Mark learns that the old "guilt trip" trick ain't working.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by faded glory
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!

FG AGREES WITH MARK L that the N.Alliance are nothing but thugs and war criminals

But unlike mark I realize it has to be done. A full scale Coalition invasion was definetaly out of the question.

It's this kind of thinking that got us bombed.

[Transcend]

It took 7 million dead Germans to get to Hitler and 2 millions dead Japanese to get the Japanese War-Hawks. I bet at least half of those people can be called "innocent" by today's standard. If we can get Al Qaeda and Taliban at a cost of only few thousand "innocent" lives, it's definitely worth the war.

[TCO]

No we got bombed because we are the symbol of the West. And we'll show them what they're messing with. "Let's roll!"

[Giancarlo]

Right on, GP... and it won't stop with the Taliban, next is Saddam Hussein. He needs an early retirement. The Western World can eliminate any terrorist supporting government whenever they want.

Mark L, shut up, you do not represent any views besides that of the taliban.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Giancarlo
The Western World can eliminate any terrorist supporting government whenever they want.

So I take it we'll be targetting the US next, as the biggest sponsor of international terrorism?

[drake]

not again che please

[chequita guevara]

I can't help it. Gian just make me want to bash him over the head with facts.

[Garth Vader]

I can't help it. Gian just make me want to bash him over the head with facts.

Facts are to Gians head like a nerf ball is to my ass. They just bounce off without making any kind of impression.

[Ramo]

I can't say I'm surprised about this, though...

I haven't heard of any Taleban intiated genocide.

IIRC, there was an incident in Mazar al-Sharif a while back where the Taliban slaughtered a few thousand of the locals.