December 23, 2006
WHICH DAY OF CHRISTMAS DO YOU GET A HELLFIRE?:
U.S. strike kills Afghan Taliban leader (JASON STRAZIUSO, 12/23/06, Associated Press)
A top Taliban military commander described as a close associate of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar was killed in an airstrike this week close to the border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said Saturday. A Taliban spokesman denied the claim.Posted by Orrin Judd at December 23, 2006 11:31 AMMullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani was killed Tuesday by a U.S. airstrike while traveling by vehicle in a deserted area in the southern province of Helmand, the U.S. military said. Two associates also were killed, it said.
"On the seventy-second day of Christmas,
The U.S. gave to meeee...
Seventy-two virgins..."
I dunno, but I hear they found his turban in a pear tree.
Posted by: ghostcat at December 23, 2006 2:20 PMclose to the border with PakistanI know what the article says. I just wonder what side of the border he really was on. Posted by: Kirk Parker at December 23, 2006 4:21 PM
Good one ghostcat!
Posted by: erp at December 23, 2006 4:59 PMOn the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.
...
On the sixth day of Christmas,
my Air Force sent to me,
Osami's head in a pear tree
so, that would be the sixth day.
Wow, now they have "A Taliban spokesman". No doubt the AP has been using this fellow...
Posted by: darryl at December 24, 2006 2:23 AM