It won’t work with these Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) guys. They won’t care about sacrificing their families. Everything is fodder for the Jihad.
They’re the ones who get ex-Taliban members joining them who think the Taliban are too soft, too concerned with running a country instead of exporting violence against the Western infidels.
I just hope this one doesn’t become apropos again.
That was the story yesterday. Today the story is “dehydration and exhaustion,” which usually means “He’ll be headed to drug and alcohol rehab as soon as we can get him to pack his bags.” I have no idea whether it means that with this guy, but how stable does he appear to you?
Great! Then extended families only produce one suicide bomber, ever. Tackles the supply chain at the source of the evil.
Having been to Afghanistan, admittedly a very long time ago, I saw very very little that was “controlled”.
BBC quote…
Things that make you go hmmmmmm.
What the heck are we blowing up that’s that big.
Humvee? Tank?
GQP is now demanding Biden announce extension of the deadline. Why? Because if he does it now, 5 days prior to the deadline itself, then the TAliban will go nuts NOW and ruin the next 5 days of evacuation. They don’t want 5 more days of successful evacuation. They want it to collapse NOW. Biden can spend the next 5 days not announcing an extension and then announce one on the 31st if he wants, but the GQP desperately wants this to escalate into an outright bloodbath RIGHT NOW.
Gawd I’m tired of that fad among the healthy. I had a couple of coworker friends (twins, I think) with celiac disease, so I understand there’s a need for gluten-free foodstuffs, but if you don’t have a condition that requires abstinence, why the hell is gluten-free so attractive? Next we’ll see packages of gluten-free carrots.
Jack LaLanne, who touted Yami Yogurt when yogurt was practically an underground delicacy (and who celebrated his umpteenth birthday by towing someone for about a mile, swimming with the rope in his teeth), favored a brand of bread with whole grains and vital wheat gluten. https://jacklalanne.com/
I’ve seen people who buy gluten-free everything noshing on lox and cream cheese on a bagel. Bagels require high-gluten flour. (They also need to be boiled before baking, but try to tell that to the purveyors of the same brands that call water bagels plain bagels.)
According to Mayo, rye and triticale both have gluten, and oats, although gluten-free, are often contaminated with it and even “gluten-free” oats can be harmful to some people with celiac disease. Gluten-free diet - Mayo Clinic
Timing’s off. Middle of the night there, just not the time for routine destruction. And right on the heels of the attack, I’m just a little bit suspicious that there’s more to this.
It’s a good plan, except that they’re located mostly in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, and they recruit from both Afghan and Pakistani jihadists. We managed that one hit on Bin Laden in Pakistan, but it will be dicey taking out more targets there without repercussions. Maybe we can just get India to declare war on Pakistan as a distraction.
That was the healthcare. Prevents stress-related conditions, you know.
Like what? They can’t hit us, and there’s really nobody in the region that they can reach that we care about deeply.
Maybe some families don’t share your confidence there will be swift retribution.
Helicopters and other military hardware we don’t want to airlift out.
My grandfather Strad had a sort-of hobby farm outside Oxnard (not the nice part of Oxnard, I’m talking about the onion fields!–thank you Lewis Black.) He had a sow for reasons that were never explained to me, and a bunch of laying hens. He also had a kitchen garden.
He kept the sow in a sty that was bordered by a fence protected by an inner electric fence. The sty was right next to the sweet corn. We came up to visit him from Riverside when the corn was ready to harvest. Apparently the sow had been eyeing the sweet corn, too. When we were out harvesting ears of corn, she backed up the far end of her sty, and lit out for the fence at a dead run, squealing all the way. My grandfather yelled at us to get the hell out of there, now!
She came through the fence will about as much ease as if it were paper, ran through a row of corn and went back at her leisure to pick ears of corn away from the stalks and eat them. My grandfather got a lead, clipped it to the ring in her nose and took her back into her sty clipping the lead onto a hook. Then he and my dad started repairing the fence.
Doesn’t match the description of big explosions shaking homes. Much simpler ways to disable the hardware.
From the BBC:
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, said the explosions were caused by US forces destroying equipment and said the city’s residents should not worry.
ETA: As for much simpler ways to disable the hardware, this is probably gear that we don’t want reverse-engineered by Russia or China. Might need a big boom for that.
Not at all. Seems kind of strange that someone else in your firm could misunderstand that much about his condition.