Afghans Demand End to Bombing

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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> >    Heard on the news tonight that the "interim Afghan
> >    government" was
> > demanding an end to the bombing in 3 days, and that all
> > troops leave in 6 months.

On 28 Dec 2001, at 23:16, Jon Beets wrote:
> Can you show a reference to this?  Everything I read today
> said tribal leaders from the Paktia province were wanting
> the bombing to stop... I read nothing about the interim
> government stating it...

I noticed that the people complaining about the bombing wore
black turbans and long beards.  There are a lot of folk in
Afghanistan who are apt to call in airstrikes whenever they
see a bunch of people with black turbans and long beards. 

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