The Taliban Prison break!

[Starsoul]

I just found this so cool! So hard to imagine how all this got done?

Around 541 members of the Taliban, including military commanders, escaped from Kandahar city's main jail via a 320 metre-long tunnel.

A Taliban official on Monday confirmed the overnight escape, boasting that the prison break had been "very well-planned" and that it was five months in the making, Al Jazeera's Qais Azimy, reporting from Kabul, said.



Taliban stages mass jail-break in Kandahar - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English

 

[Philos]

Starsoul,

I've got a soft spot for the Taliban. The idea of skinny, bearded, guys on mopeds evading US predator drones just seems so gutsy. One said that if a drone comes, you jump off the bike and let it go on and the drone will hit the bike and not him.

The jailbreak is another example of their guts and skill. I'm sure there are similar souls in the Appalachians.

Alex.

 

[Bismillah]

I've got a soft spot for the Taliban. The idea of skinny, bearded, guys on mopeds evading US predator drones just seems so gutsy. One said that if a drone comes, you jump off the bike and let it go on and the drone will hit the bike and not him.

How about mind altered bushmen kidnapping children, strapping them to bombs, and instructing them to blow themselves up in the middle of friday prayer at a mosque?

Or a group of men using dull knives to behead captured policemen.

Burning down and bombing schools?

Assassinating minorities?

They are the scum of the Earth.

 

[Bismillah]

The article itself is surprising but I think what isn't being discussed is most likely corruption within the system such as the prison itself. I find it hard to believe all 500 inmates fled down a tunnel without any guards noticing, the influence of these groups is shocking.

 

[Marble]

Starsoul,

I've got a soft spot for the Taliban. The idea of skinny, bearded, guys on mopeds evading US predator drones just seems so gutsy. One said that if a drone comes, you jump off the bike and let it go on and the drone will hit the bike and not him.

I found something interesting about predator drones here[url].
Anyway, that looks more like a predator plane than a predator drone, a drone is something I imagine as very small.
Does anybody know how such a predator drone looks like and what it is supposed to do?

 

[Bismillah]

They are used for surveillance and often carry missiles and are heavily used in Afghanistan and illegally used in the NW Provinces of Pakistan. They stated goal is to target militants of course, it is very debatable the number of innocents they kill and whether these deaths can be ethically termed "acceptable" by both the U.S and Pakistani Governments.

 

[Sunstone]

How about mind altered bushmen kidnapping children, strapping them to bombs, and instructing them to blow themselves up in the middle of friday prayer at a mosque?

Or a group of men using dull knives to behead captured policemen.

Burning down and bombing schools?

Assassinating minorities?

They are the scum of the Earth.

Yeah, but they mean well.

 

[Sunstone]

Does anybody know ... what it is supposed to do?

I doubt I know everything the Predators are tasked with doing, Marble, but I have heard some are unarmed and tasked with reconnaissance, and some are armed with hellfire missiles and tasked not only with reconnaissance, but also with killing people -- often military or political leaders.

By all accounts, the armed Predators have not only proved highly effective at killing enemies, but it seems they have also proved even more effective at killing noncombatant bystanders. For that reason, many people feel it is very problematic whether it can be said they are being used in an ethical manner.

 

[Sunstone]

By all accounts, the armed Predators have not only proved highly effective at killing enemies, but it seems they have also proved even more effective at killing noncombatant bystanders. For that reason, many people feel it is very problematic whether it can be said they are being used in an ethical manner.

Yeah, but they mean well.

 

[sandandfoam]

By all accounts, the armed Predators have not only proved highly effective at killing enemies, but it seems they have also proved even more effective at killing noncombatant bystanders. For that reason, many people feel it is very problematic whether it can be said they are being used in an ethical manner.

I imagine the Taliban (for whom I have no time at all) find these things great as a recruiting tool.

 

[Sunstone]

I imagine the Taliban (for whom I have no time at all) find these things great as a recruiting tool.

Doubtless. There are many people who think we are recruiting the next generation of Taliban more effectively than they can recruit themselves. An argument I think has some merit.

 

[LuisDantas]

Ain't that the truth? How anyone can expect those statements of arrogance and instruments of expensive and indiscriminate death to help in bringing peace is beyond me. "Pax" is not peace, and yet it seems that the American government has been attempting to sell it as such ever since the original Afganisthan and Iraq invasions.

 

[Starsoul]

Starsoul,

I've got a soft spot for the Taliban. The idea of skinny, bearded, guys on mopeds evading US predator drones just seems so gutsy. One said that if a drone comes, you jump off the bike and let it go on and the drone will hit the bike and not him.

The jailbreak is another example of their guts and skill. I'm sure there are similar souls in the Appalachians.

Alex.

I agree..

 

[Badran]

Starsoul,

I've got a soft spot for the Taliban. The idea of skinny, bearded, guys on mopeds evading US predator drones just seems so gutsy. One said that if a drone comes, you jump off the bike and let it go on and the drone will hit the bike and not him.

The jailbreak is another example of their guts and skill. I'm sure there are similar souls in the Appalachians.

Alex.

The only reason there is anything that might impress you about them is their extreme motivation. Why would you be impressed however by someone extremely motivated to do evil?

How aren't you overridden by disgust with what they do?

What value or matter does their supposed skill have when its used in destroying lives? Its disturbing to have any sort of positive feelings towards them that might affect your whole judgment of them, if it does that is and i didn't misunderstand.

 

[Badran]

They are the scum of the Earth.

I agree. It doesn't get any worse than this.

 

[beenie]

How about mind altered bushmen kidnapping children, strapping them to bombs, and instructing them to blow themselves up in the middle of friday prayer at a mosque?

Or a group of men using dull knives to behead captured policemen.

Burning down and bombing schools?

Assassinating minorities?

They are the scum of the Earth.

Agreed. Any small minority of well-intended members is far out-shadowed by the majority of the evil ones. Nope, no soft spot for me. My aunt dedicated the last 20 years dealing with refugees who escaped the claws of the Taliban. The stories she tells are heart-wrenching.

The article itself is surprising but I think what isn't being discussed is most likely corruption within the system such as the prison itself. I find it hard to believe all 500 inmates fled down a tunnel without any guards noticing, the influence of these groups is shocking.

Corruption is so wide-spread in Afghanistan/Pakistan it's beyond ridiculous.

The only reason there is anything that might impress you about them is their extreme motivation. Why would you be impressed however by someone extremely motivated to do evil?

How aren't you overridden by disgust with what they do?

What value or matter does their supposed skill have when its used in destroying lives? Its disturbing to have any sort of positive feelings towards them that might affect your whole judgment of them, if it does that is and i didn't misunderstand.

Agreed. They're gutsy and motivated, but I can't get past the wrong that they do.

 

[kai]

It would be impressive if it was done under the noses of the Guards but i suspect it was done with collusion of the very people who are supposed to take over security.

 

[beenie]

It would be impressive if it was done under the noses of the Guards but i suspect it was done with collusion of the very people who are supposed to take over security.

that's a guarantee.

 

[England my lionheart]

Starsoul,

I've got a soft spot for the Taliban. The idea of skinny, bearded, guys on mopeds evading US predator drones just seems so gutsy. One said that if a drone comes, you jump off the bike and let it go on and the drone will hit the bike and not him.

The jailbreak is another example of their guts and skill. I'm sure there are similar souls in the Appalachians.

Alex.

I've got a soft spot for the Taliban too,its under a pile of Manure because it matches what they have between their ears,its sad the part a Mosque in Britain played in recruitment of these scumbags,i'm sure most Muslims would condemn such behaviour apart from admirers of skinny bearded Guys who kill people just for going to school.

 

[tumbleweed41]

They are the scum of the Earth.

Amen!