Ninety Percent Of Captured 'Taliban' Were Civilians

IPS News:

During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, Gen. David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular success for raids by Special Operations Forces: in a 90-day period from May through July, SOF units had captured 1,355 rank and file Taliban, killed another 1,031, and killed or captured 365 middle or high-ranking Taliban.

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Comments

[cocaine]

11:38 PM on 06/29/2011

Hey people, being civilian does not make them INNOCENT!!!!!!! Ive always said when you face them they smile and when you turn your back they shoot you.

[Observer111]

04:55 PM on 06/15/2011

it's not only 90% of captured by also 90% of k.illed. Way to go Team America

[GODLAKE]

09:57 PM on 06/14/2011

Historically Afghanistan was always a nightmare to conquer. No one ever succeeded. I wonder what made Bush think he could pull it off.

[Scojam]

10:16 AM on 06/14/2011

If you believed Mathew Hoh then many of the rank and file Taliban being encountered are really just local Afghans rising to the call when foreign troops enter their valleys. (Much the same as you would expect of Americans should America ever be similarly invaded). According to Hoh many of these people actually have no contact with the Taliban nor even with other Afgans just a few miles away.

[cocaine]

11:41 PM on 06/29/2011

HURRAY, some one figured it out.
Muslems declared war on us, they are muslem, duh they are the enemy.

[DrBlunt]

05:40 AM on 06/14/2011

Pathetic!

[yoyodyne666]

10:12 PM on 06/13/2011

same as it ever was same as it ever was ....

[Dredd]

05:31 PM on 06/13/2011

"He say one and one and one is three, put your arms around him you can feel his disease" (Beatles)

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2011/06/is-war-art-or-is-war-disease.html

[Media Basher]

03:21 PM on 06/13/2011

Patreus should be fired for this

[ewldest]

01:45 PM on 06/13/2011

More evidence that the US is only making enemies in the 'nation' we are supposedly 'building' (i.e. using for colonial-corporate profit). The shame continues. eventually we will bankrupt ourselves and there will be nothing of America but a memory - and if we keep engaging in useless wars, a very bad one.

[cocaine]

11:42 PM on 06/29/2011

wow, if only we could just shoot the enemy.

[Jordan Willis]

01:06 PM on 06/13/2011

Headline should read, "90 Percent of Captured Taliban Were in the Way of Corporate Profit." Let's not kid ourselves about this.

[1deepstar]

11:56 AM on 06/13/2011

So how many killed Taliban were actually civilians...? These guys should have been removed from command long ago... McCrystal for his lies about Pat Tillman and Petreaus for so much more... Basically, Bush and Cheney have stood down and are now dodging history's harshest judgments while Petraeus and McCrystal continue to commit war crimes....

[cocaine]

11:45 PM on 06/29/2011

What is wrong with you? civilian/taliban, potato/patoto, parts is parts, enemy is them

[trollistan]

11:36 AM on 06/13/2011

if they wont capture so called talibans their war will be over ! this is all shady.. common man can't understand this phenomena !

[cocaine]

11:46 PM on 06/29/2011

im with you. why dont they shoot them instead? ENEMY

[Giveadamn]

10:08 AM on 06/13/2011

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley

And more about lying than about telling the truth.

[Robert 999]

10:05 AM on 06/13/2011

The Kuran allows all Muslims to engage in armed Jihad in the infedel is showing aggression on their land,,,does this make all Iraqis, and Afghans enemy combatants? or justification to join the Taliban, or other organized groups?

[abby4ever]

10:11 AM on 06/13/2011

I don't know because, just as with Ch ristians regarding the teachings of the Bi ble, differfent mu slims tend to interpret the teachings of the Kuran in different ways.

[trollistan]

11:32 AM on 06/13/2011

well, Quran or kuran says when your very own existence is in danger in your homeland than u can fight a holy war known as jihad.

[librldem]

09:56 AM on 06/13/2011

His boyfriend told him he had to lose weight and sh-ut-up or walk! lol

[Grumpy Old Dude]

10:06 AM on 06/13/2011

ROFLMAO