Being in Afghanistan

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
20/5/20

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

http://www.crisisstates.com/Publications/dp/dp18.htm

Pakistan's ISI collaborates with the Taliban

Directly or indirectly the ISI appears to exert significant influence on the strategic decision-making and field operations of the Taliban; and has even greater sway over Haqqani insurgents. According to both Taliban and Haqqani commanders, it controls the most violent insurgent units, some of which appear to be based in Pakistan. Insurgent commanders confirmed that the ISI are even represented, as participants or observers, on the Taliban supreme leadership council, known as the Quetta Shura, and the Haqqani command council.

What a mess...

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

And Pakistan's justification for funding and supporting the Taliban.. they see them as an important force and ally in a post NATO Afghanistan to help keep the Indians from controlling Kashmir

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

as long as it's a War on other people's terror this is what you get

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Can't all these arseholes take a month off? It's the WC ffs.

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

kiwi pie wrote:

Can't all these arseholes take a month off? It's the WC ffs.

I doubt the Taliban follow or play football... tho on a side note are men frm religions that usually require turban wearing allowed to remove them for sports cause I'm not sure how a Turban and a moving ball wd aerodynamicly contribute to efficient heading

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

stealthkiwi wrote:

kiwi pie wrote:

Can't all these arseholes take a month off? It's the WC ffs.

I doubt the Taliban follow or play football...

Osama Bin Laden was often sighted at Highbury in the mid 90s during the last days of the George Graham era.

So you're wrong.

Three for me, and two for them.

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Buffon II wrote:

stealthkiwi wrote:

kiwi pie wrote:

Can't all these arseholes take a month off? It's the WC ffs.

I doubt the Taliban follow or play football...

Osama Bin Laden was often sighted at Highbury in the mid 90s during the last days of the George Graham era.

So you're wrong.

*sigh* Osama Bin Laden is part of Al Qaeda not the Taliban. They are actually seperate organisations and tho have overlapping areas they are different like squares are from rectangles. The taliban is stricter and combine sharia with Pashtan tribal codes.

Under the Taliban regime, Sharia law was interpreted to forbid a wide variety of previously lawful activities in Afghanistan. One Taliban list of prohibitions included: pork, anything made frm human hair, satellite dishes, cinematography and equipment that produces the joy of music, pool tables, chess, computers, vcrs, lobster, nail polish, firecrackers. They also prohibited employment, education and sports for women, dancing, clapping during sports events, kite flying, and depictions of living things, whether drawings, paintings, photographs, stuffed animals, or dolls. Men were required to have a beard longer than a fist placed at the base of the chin. Conversely, they had to wear their head hair short. Men were also required to wear a head covering. I doubt football is unfun enough for them to allow patronage

that Osama Bin Laden likes footy isn't unsual as he spent a lot of time in England (unlike most of the locals fighting in afghanistan) but I think he prob has bigger priorites at the moment like staying uncaught and his health

seriously Buffoon... if it had been anyone but me you prob wdn't have bothered even posting but you're like an annoying little sister in the way you're always trying to score points

stealthkiwi2010-06-15 14:22:43

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I respond to each post on it's individual merit.

I think you are a little paranoid.

Three for me, and two for them.

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Buffon II wrote:

I respond to each post on it's individual merit.

I think you are a little paranoid.

& my post did have individual merit but you responded to say it was wrong and now that I have backed up my post and shown that you yourself are wrong you're focusing on my supposed paranoia lol instead of apolagising or admitting your error. thats ok i'm just gonna pretend you don't exist so attack my posts as you please in future

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

ginger_eejit wrote:

And Pakistan's justification for funding and supporting the Taliban.. they see them as an important force and ally in a post NATO Afghanistan to help keep the Indians from controlling Kashmir

that's depressing

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Nuke 'em all, start over again. It seriously couldn't be worse, could it?

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

stealthkiwi wrote:

kiwi pie wrote:

Can't all these arseholes take a month off? It's the WC ffs.

I think you missed the sarcasm

Allegedly

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Tegal wrote:

stealthkiwi wrote:

kiwi pie wrote:

Can't all these arseholes take a month off? It's the WC ffs.

I doubt the Taliban follow or play football...

I think you missed the sarcasm

I think you missed the joke

but hey what took you so long annoying little sister no.2
such a pity Frankie Mac is in Sth Africa or we cd have had the whole 3 witches join in the jump on SK's posts simply cause they dislike her *yawn*

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I think you are a little paranoid

Allegedly

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl2616

NYT reporter defends Afghani minerals piece, lashes out at critics[/quote]

and then...

[quote]Risen's piece quickly drew fire from online reporters and writers (including this one), who pointed out that many of the story's purported revelations about Afghanistan's mineral reserves had been previously reported. They also questioned the timing of the story, coming as it did on the heels of a series of troubling reports about the stability of the Karzai government and one day before Gen. David Petraeus was scheduled to testify before Congress about the war.

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

We have killed taliban that, once inspection of the body has been carried out, have found to have football tattoos of England teams, i.e one with aston villa on his leg found not so long ago.

So you can bet they do follow the football.

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