Taliban To Germany: Leave Afghanistan Or We'll Attack Oktoberfest

The Christian Science Monitor:

The Taliban have a new target: beer and bratwurst.

In perhaps their most bizarre threat to date, Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have threatened to bomb the Oktoberfest festival in Munich, Germany, which attracts millions of visitors ever year, along with several landmark buildings and government officials.

Read the whole story: The Christian Science Monitor

Comments

[S1m0n]

02:07 AM on 09/29/2009

Imagine that! They're taking the war that Germany's helping to wage on them personally. What a bunch of killjoys! Can't they take a joke? What's a few incinerated children among friends?

[Balzac]

09:18 PM on 09/28/2009

Wait, I confused Baitullah Mehsud with Hakimullah Mehsud. I didn't realize Baitullah was accused of plotting the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. If that was the case, I'm glad Baitullah is dead.

[Balzac]

09:12 PM on 09/28/2009

Does the "Taliban" really exist? Who is this threat attributed to? Hamid Karzai can have him arrested. If he resists arrest, he can be shot. What "Taliban"? I think it's a made up group. I think the reporters in the west keep saying "Taliban, Taliban, Taliban", and that's why they haven't gone away.

First of all, don't capitalize "Taliban". It means "student". Secondly, choose a generic term to refer to Islamic extremists. Stop acting like they're all one group in agreement. You have different ethnic groups in Afghanistan. Uzbeks, Pashtuns, etc. Then get back to personality. Baitullah Mehsud was not a Taliban leader. He was the latest "David Koresh" of Afghanistan.

Maybe we can afford to back off of the feminist "angstivism" in exchange for more cooperation with Karzai's government. So he was a cantankerous, dirty old Afghan warlard. Should Baitullah have been killed for it? Perhaps not. Zawahiri is worse because he's an Egyptian terrorist in Afghanistan. Maybe Baitullah could have been useful against Zawahiri. Why not stop killing Afghans and focus exclusively on individual foreign terrorists, such as Zawahiri?

[Zen0469]

08:23 PM on 09/28/2009

Beer and bratwurst are well known staples for a successful Oktoberfest.

If Osama does not fancy beer and bratwurst, I'm sure that the accomodating Germans, filled with good cheer and overabundance of Gemutlichkeit, will be happy to allow him to bring goat stew to the Oktoberfest. No need to get all snippy about your ethnic tastes, Osama.

[WarSkeptic]

07:31 PM on 09/28/2009

Seems like a fair deal to me, and is pretty much the standard peace offer made everywhere
You stop killing us and we'll stop killing you. Pretty basic stuff really

I'm unclear what's so bizarre about it

[CrittersRTasty]

06:38 PM on 10/27/2009

Just so I understand- are you saying that if militant Islamic terrorists stop killing Europeans, then Europe will stop killing Afghans? or are you saying that if the Germans pull out of Afghanistan, it will end terrorism?

[FloresdelaHoz]

06:03 PM on 09/28/2009

I have live and worked in Germany. Awesome people. The German race conquered all of Western Europe. Their descendants created the greatest empires in history (Visgoth Celtic-Iberians, Anglo Saxons, Franks).

Once upon a time only a mad man would threaten Germany. Todays Germans have lost their fighting spirit.

[hamchunk]

10:37 PM on 09/28/2009

Because they have been cowed by an activist, politically correct agenda to believe the German culture is something to not be proud of, yet extolling the "virtues" of multiculturalism.

I, too, lived in Germany for many years. Average Germans are very fed up with being squeezed to the benefit of immigrants that will not assimilate and have an utter contempt for their culture.

[Ginger5]

05:46 PM on 09/28/2009

Now there we go lets antagonize the militaristic germans

[smpj]

05:52 PM on 09/28/2009

They've had their tail between their legs for the last 64 years. With so much to atone for, they aren't the type anymore to go looking for a fight.

[Joethepauper]

05:34 PM on 09/28/2009

Come-on! There's a bigger party goin' on at the Kabul embassy, complete with anal shooters and coconut husk cod pieces, and it's closer! Don't threaten Oktoberfest, or we'll crack-down on your goat orgies!

[smpj]

06:04 PM on 09/28/2009

No matter what, if they're stridently involved in goat orgies, it might be wise to leave those festivities well enough alone .

[smpj]

05:13 PM on 09/28/2009

The Taliban is always looking for a reason to crash a good party. Seems the last 8 years has tempered their minds not a whit. It's still their way or the highway. Well Mr. President,, I guess we'll just have to keep those drones aloft over Afghanistan & Pakistan.

[jweider]

05:10 PM on 09/28/2009

Has the Taliban stopped to consider that the US still has nuclear missiles parked in Germany?

[smpj]

05:49 PM on 09/28/2009

They know we're going to keep them 'parked'. Those things are unusable anymore except to the crazed and suicidal.

[MrBwood]

04:57 PM on 09/28/2009

now them"s fightin words

[rbchilds]

04:52 PM on 09/28/2009

There are several things in life you should never do:

1. Pull on Superman's Cape
2. Tug on the mask of the Lone Ranger
3. Pi** into the wind
4. Eat yellow snow
5. Come between a German and his bier. Das es Verboten.

[patriotic008]

04:54 PM on 09/28/2009

ha ha ha

[Bitsko]

05:13 PM on 09/28/2009

ROFL! Ya ya!

[Forester]

04:45 PM on 09/28/2009

Having briefly study Buddhist iconography (yes, in a liberal arts college). I do recall that, if depicted at all, was only depicted as a wheel in the earliest icons, and only when it spread from India did local artists start with the wide range of iconography. Idol worship is specifically discouraged in the original teachings of Bodhisattva/Buddha, but humans being what they are, needed something physical to pray to.

[Forester]

04:54 PM on 09/28/2009

woops, meant to post this to wizeguye below
sorry

[GetACluepeople]

04:43 PM on 09/28/2009

I believe those are fighting words!

[Bitsko]

04:39 PM on 09/28/2009

The Taliban and Al-Queda sound more and more like the HuffP0 tro//s every day.