Taliban vows revenge for Afghan shootings

The Taliban promised revenge Monday for the alleged massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by an American soldier, an incident which may pose the biggest threat yet to the shaky U.S. alliance with Afghanistan's government.

U.S. forces have boosted security in Kandahar province, where the shootings happened on Sunday. There is a fear of reprisal attacks against Westerners, but no widespread protests were reportedly early Monday morning.

The Taliban vowed revenge in a statement against what they called "sick-minded American savages" following the killings.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is demanding an explanation from U.S. forces into how this attack could have happened, and has called the incident, "an assassination," saying the killing of civilians cannot be forgiven.

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Bobseeks

While this is a terrible tragedy, the taliban is going to kill Americans no matter what, that is what they do. They are muslim murderers and oppressors.
DEFEATOBAMAIN2012

Your right! They need no excuse to murder, even their own.
And obama calls Americans warring people, who cling to their guns and religion.
- Myrtllinder
  
  Your are right , they do not need an excuse to to murder, even their own, When an American murders, not the same as killing in self defense, or in time of battle, but real murder, we are placing ourselves at the same godless level as the enemy.There is no excuse to do it, just because "the opportunity is there." If you have the love of JESUS CHRIST, within you you should not, ever take of such an advantage? to murder anybody, Christian or non-Christian. Only GOD has that right. to take a life!!!
DockyWocky

Maybe these Taliban threats are really an opportunity to go forth and waste a ton of Afghani Taliban instead of waiting around for them to pick their time and place.
All our troops have to do is go out after dark and shoot up, or even blow up average Afghani houses – they are apparently filled with Taliban forces once the sun goes down.
- bighoss
  
  Apparently you are either so infected with pseudo-patriotism or are so woefully ignorant of the circumstances of these heinous MURDERS, that you either do not care or do not know that a large number of those killed in this atrocity were CHILDREN! There is no reason to believe that an "average Afghan house" would be devoid of children. You, Docky Dimbulb, just might find yourself in sympathy with those who are condemned by Jesus:
  
  Matthew 18:
  
  5And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
  
  6But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
  - Bobseeks
    
    Once again the supporter of the mass murder of children exposes himself as a hypocrite. This man is guilty of a terrible crime but you and all democrats will answer for the brutal murders of over 40 million babies. Your hypocrisy stinks to high Heaven bighoss.
    - Vladimir
      
      What, no response, bighoss?
      - Bobseeks
        
        He hasn't been responding much lately, I think that jeffie has quit mentoring him.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Your delusion runs deep on so many different levels, bobbiesocks.
    - bighoss
      
      Once more, the hotly-pursuing, tunnel-visioned Bopseeks trundles out his all-purpose, oft-iterated guilt-by-association diatribe, ignoring the FACT that not all Democrats nor all Republicans hold to all positions allegedly associated with either party . But if that helps you avoid criticizing the infamous ideology of such miscreants as DockyWocky, then do whatchagottdo!
      - Bobseeks
        
        If you vote for a single democrat, you assume all the guilt of this anti-GOD, anti-life, anti-decency collection of the toxic waste of humanity.
  - Vladimir
    
    Bighoss, I've been looking for character names for my next novel. May I use Docky Dimbulb?
    - Bobseeks
      
      I like that, but could I suggest hippy hypocrite?
    - bighoss
      
      I hereby release all rights and interests, formal, informal, implied or express, to the use of said terminology by you or anyone else wishing to travel on the coattails of my creativity!
      - Bobseeks
        
        Creativity is right because you have to "create" what you say from the lies of the murdering lieberals. There is no truth in you, hypocrite.
  - Miss Arleen
    
    Bighoss, the key words in the scripture you gave are "those who believe in me." This scripture is a warning to those who would put a stumbling block in the way of somebody who is trying to walk with Jesus, the stumbling block being the 'offense', i.e. to entice to sin. Those children were not enticed, they were killed. Sorry hun, wrong scripture.
- Myrtlelinder
  
  We should remember that t every person in the world, every one who has ever live, those who are alive and those who will be born as well as those millions who are murdered before they are born will appear be for JESUS. Will we be ready to meet HIM?? A huge question that everyone of needs to answer. Of course, murdered babies and those who die before the know sin will be safe. The rest of us??
Dntmkmecomovrther

Hamid Karzai:"Afghan President Hamid Karzai is demanding an explanation from U.S. forces into how this attack could have happened, and has called the incident, “an assassination,” saying the killing of civilians cannot be forgiven."

Well, if the act is unforgivable, then he will have to accept from the US that it's also explainable AND expect no apology…why apologize to someone who is not going to forgive nor forget, but is going to try to kill you with a renewed vigor?

…Unless we all want to believe that this soldier's outburst/attack was a well planned 'Seal Team 6' operation with a team of one; with the intended outcome being that we get attacked en-mass by the taliban so that we can really 'mop up' the goat herders.

The Afghans have been corrupt, and incorrigible for 2 millennia. How about we either finish the job or come home now?
- maddad53
  
  In total agreement, Screw Karzai, pull out of Afghanstan immediately and let that wantabee Obama Karzai start looking for an out with the billions he has stolen from the U. S. .Sorry to the Afghan folks, All I can say is grow a pair and take charge of your country.
Dale

Well because of the moslem mindset pray that we don't apologize to them for the incident. That is just throwing gasoline on the fire when you apologize to a moslem. they think that shows any sign of weakness. Instead tell them if that is retaliation for them hiding osama bin laden for seven years, causing America to spend a high number of human lives and treasure trying to find him. He was the one that killed innocent civilians in 911 attack in the first place.
msjallen

We are NOT winning the war in Afganistan or Iraq and never will. We can give them all the modern ways of life that we have but they do NOT want them. They are satisfied with the way they live their lives and we need to leave them to their own ways. Our young American men and women who are fighting and dying for our freedom in those God-less lands need to come home and protect our country. We are no longer affective in their country. We have too many who have been severly wounded that are not even being taken care of by our government. We should not waste another drop of blood of our soldiers trying to protect our enemies from themselves. Let them take care of their own problems and if they try to harm our country then bomb the h*** out of them.
sharkeye

There is no proof the killings were done by Americans, just look at the history of Hitler and how deceiving he was, I think this same skeem of events follows the taliban deceivers. Kill your own and blame it on someone else so war can continue.
- bighoss
  
  Oh, get your head out of the sand and face reality. Our own military has conceded that these atrocities were indeed perpetrated by an American Green Beret soldier. They would have no reason to do this if there was even a shred of doubt as to how this happened.
http://twitter.com/lambsev11 @lambsev11

Send the Gospel, not the Military. I say we remove the troops and bomb them with Gospel tracts, and Bibles, literally using aircraft. But then Obama has declared us a non Christian nation… One day:

Revelation 11:15
[And the seventh angel will sound;] "and there [will be] great voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.'"
bighoss

I suspect that when the facts are known, it will be found that the American Green Beret/Special Forces soldier who perpetrated this atrocity will be found to have been a victim of something that is altogether too common in the volunteer army that has been used to prosecute this war and the other unjust war this nation has pursued in Iraq, namely extreme mental stress largely induced by multiple deployments. We have used reserves and the National Guard more extensively that was ever anticipated and than has ever been done in any past military operations. The reason for this is that this nation has fallen prey to the corrupt neoconservative doctrine that we are somehow destined to be the policeman of the world and to exert our (allegedly) superior military strength anywhere and everywhere it is deemed "necessary" by the military-industrial-oil-and-gas consortium that actually controls this nation's decisions in matters of warfare and empire building. Notwithstanding this untenable commitment, for political reasons we still rely on an all-volunteer army. Thus, when committing to multiple conflicts, we have no choice but to rely over and over upon the same young men and women to fight the wars initiated under the influence of Big Oil and Neocon political influence.

A part of the strategy of continuing this protracted charade is to continuously praise these troops as the best-trained, most committed, most courageous Americans who ever donned battle dress. And while they are to be praised for their courage and steadfastness, they are nevertheless the victims of powerful political-economic forces concerned primarily not with national defense, but with the defense of their own wealth and influence!

Yes–GET OUT of Afghanistan and GET OUT of Iraq, both being places where we never should have gone in the first place, and particularly Afghanistan. Santayana was dead on the mark when he wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." We foolishly embarked on a futile attempt to prevail in Afghanistan and we have met with the failure
that has typified the history of other failed military misadventures in that chaotic third-world hell hole!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Afghanist…
- Bobseeks
  
  Then call your satanic hero maobama and tell him to get our troops out of this muslim cesspool. He should be able to do that unless he also is tool of that lieberal boogeyman the "military-industrial-oil-and-gas consortium that actually controls this nation's decisions". While your at it, ask him for your "Lieberal Hypocrite of the Year" medal.
  - Vladimir
    
    Bobseeks, ask bighoss how he can justify being a socialist and a Christian at the same time. I think the contradiction is having an adverse effect on his reasoning based on the creeping rage in the tone of his posts.
    - Bobseeks
      
      You are right – an extreme case of cognitive dissonance resulting in a complete loss of reasoning skills.
Myrtlelinder

I believe that day will be soon, just after the tribulation is finished, done with!
aceituna

Are we getting closer to the Judgment Day?
http://google.com Bob

First of all the US SOLDIERS have been send over there TOO MANY TIMES, TOO MUCH MENTAL STRESS.
AFGHAN'S KILL AMERICA SOLDIERS, AMERICA SOLDIERS KILL AFGHAN'S. AMERICA SOLDIERS KILL TALIBAN FOR SPORT GET THE PICTURE. I don't thank anyone is worried about TALIBAN threats. WE have them living in holes like rats now. They get a new LEADER WE kill him no problem.
Wilbert Jennings

Muslim means to summit not attack and kill. The Taliban is outraged because something has happened to them that they didn't do to their own people. Muslims kill 3000 plus in the towers and many more in other attacks on Americans and their allies. Recently afganistians attacked and killed American soldiers because old Korans were destoyed not as an insult but because they were old and marked up. Where is the outrage of Americans demanding justices for their deaths? I don't justify the killing of an unarmed enemy not to mention women and children. The Vietnamese boby trapped thier own women and children much like the taliban buying the lives of their own people's young men and women to commit suicide by setting off the bombs taped to their bodies.This soldier is said to have had a severe brain injury and we sent him back into combat, Where is the blame for this? Who do we apologize to? Do we kill him because something snapped? Get out of these places we loose lives, and go bankrupt trying to help people that are pretending to like us.