September 21, 2007
IS IT REALLY A "FIERCE CLASH"...?:
Fighting Leads to Deaths in Southern Afghanistan (KIRK SEMPLE, September 21, 2007, NY Times)
About 40 Taliban fighters and at least four civilians have been killed in fierce clashes in southern Afghanistan...In Helmand Province today, a combined team of Afghan and NATO security forces encountered a Taliban hideout and called in an airstrike that killed about 40 insurgents, military officials said. On Wednesday, NATO forces killed “more than three dozen insurgents” during a 14-hour gunbattle in western Uruzgan Province, the NATO command said. The military’s reported death tolls were not immediately verifiable.
...when the kill ratio is 0-40? Posted by Orrin Judd at September 21, 2007 6:19 PM
0-40. Pretty good. Even better than the original Mahdi Army at Omdurman. One supposes that they forgot their "bullets bounce off" ju-ju.
Posted by: Lou Gots at September 21, 2007 7:24 PMIt is pretty fierce -- for those on the Taliban's side.
Posted by: Ibid at September 21, 2007 8:05 PMSo a fierce slaughter, rather than clash.
Posted by: oj at September 21, 2007 8:57 PMCan't see how we had 0 casualties. There had to be some sprained right index fingers.
Posted by: pjbbuzz at September 22, 2007 12:44 AMOJ:
True, although actually I was thinking of the Times.
Posted by: Ibid at September 22, 2007 8:35 AMMaybe the Times had an embed with the Taliban?
Posted by: ratbert at September 22, 2007 2:41 PM