Taliban whopper: claim 5,220 foreign troops killed


World | 206538 hits | Jan 05 3:13 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have long exaggerated their military successes, but their recent claim that they killed more than 5,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan last year may be the militia's most startling yet.

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  1. by roger-roger
    Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:18 pm
    Sounds like they have been playing too much call of duty.

  2. by Anonymous
    Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:20 pm
    Damn Conservative government :twisted:

    they've been lying to us :lol:

  3. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:20 pm
    Smoking too much of the local flora, I'd say. I guess if you smoke enough opium one American or Canadian seems like 20.

  4. by avatar StuntmanMike
    Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:28 pm
    It sounds laughable but it's not. That claim isn't aimed at people here in the west. It's aimed at Urdu and Pashtun Afghans and Pakistani tribesmen who don't have the same access to information that we do, and don't have the capacity to view such claims critically.

    If it was commonly understood that the Taliban losses are so one-sided in their battles with coalition forces, it would make the Taliban look weak. And nobody wants to appear weak in that part of the world. Image is half the war.

  5. by ridenrain
    Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:11 am
    They have it from a very high authority source...

  6. by avatar SigPig
    Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:24 pm
    ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL

    Whoever they have counting for them should be fired immediately.



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