Thanks for that helpful contribution. It’s past your bedtime.

http://www.cic.nyu.edu/afghanistan/docs/gregg_sep_tal_alqaeda.pdf

Actually the Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11…and they don’t particularly like Al Qaeda. You need to read more.

Not the same as breaking the no comment on operations policy Paul. Not the same thing at all.

Nice story Reid. Got any evidence to back it up?

No but if you factor in the tribal retribution mindset in the Taliban, is the scenario far-fetched? Bearing in mind this IED did happen after the incident where our patrol took prisoners in the original squirmish and handed them over.

There was a reason why even Hulun didn’t capitalise on the SAS’ antics

Pretty sure it was Helen Clark that walked onto the marae at Te Kaha just behind our VC winner, not John Key, just mentioning thats all

What about this don’t you guys get. There was a reason why even Hulun didn’t capitalise on the SAS’ antics. Key, the idiot, decided to do it because it was “boyishly exciting” and “cool” in both his and voters eyes, but he, and most voters, failed to recognise this is Pandora’s Box. You can’t open it a little bit. Fucking d’oh.

What this coverage and whole incident from when it first happened for Key misplayed his publicity hand re: SAS there too, till today shows, is that the public are incredibly naive about the threat profile represented by the modern world. Incredibly naive. If anyone doesn’t think all of this story from when it started up to today, with Key’s naive release, hasn’t penetrated to the most evil people on the planet, they’re kidding. So they’re looking at this and wondering, should we make an example of this, or not.

Let’s not discuss specifics of what they could or could not do but it’s a fact that the highest levels of you know who would have been made aware of this from the first incident. For the killing of ours was revenge for taking some of their prisoner. It was a revenge killing. Now it’s just been escalated by killing someone who has no doubt extremely rare skills which always brings serious attention. This is the security reality. So what Key has done has painted a target on us, which they may or may not chose to enact at any time into the future. Der. And he didn’t even have to, if he’d kept to the same wise policy as practised by every single one of his forebears.

Because if he’d never talked about the SAS he wouldn’t ever have announced the prisoners that were captured for which our soldiers were killed in retaliation.

It is a study in failure with no redeeming features at all. The war is unnecessary and pointless. We have failed and failed miserably.

Our people have done what we asked of them and often more. I am not having “a dig” at our service people, only the idiots who sent them there.

Fickle buggers those Yanks, they pulled the same stunt on their mate Saddam. This changeable and unstable behavior should serve as a caution to the, strict Muslim, Sharia law, major financier of global Islamic extremism and US ally, Saudi Arabia. (Its also where Osama Bin Laden came from, not Afghanistan.) The Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11 and have attacked no one outside of their own boarders.

Except that they’re the virgins, and a pack of seven infidel homosexuals relieve them of their arse cherries, and it happens all over again the next day…

Just perhaps it was more the PM down playing any NZ involvement and showing the Taliban that it was locals who did the job, thereby taking some heat off our troops and maybe making them less of a target so they can operate a bit more discreetly which is how they operated before it became fashionable for their every bowel movement to be on the news. Just perhaps, maybe