Suspected Terrorists, Journalists and Possible Events Michael Ubaldi, July 19, 2005.
The enemies of Afghan freedom added to their overflowing library of military and political defeat: a ranking Taliban thug and his henchmen were scooped up in a Peshawar raid by Pakistani authorities. Although General John Abizaid, speaking on a Fox News report by Pentagon correspondent Bret Baier, publicly believes Islamofascists to be planning acts of violence and intimidation against the country's first fair vote for a legislative body, he remains confident in Afghanistan's native and Allied defenders ability to protect the country from an enemy that could not deliver last fall or this spring — bringing another democratic triumph.
In Herat today, a terrorist properly detonated his explosive attire by killing no one but himself. The Associated Press reported the news under the headline "Suicide Bomber Kills Self," but Reuters, solipsism's templar, refused to judge the thermogenetic passage into alleged paradise by the accounts of mere eyewitnesses with a dozen pieces of ex-terrorist in their possession — and settled with the appropriately reserved "Suspected Suicide Bomber Dies in Afghan Blast."
How is the success of a nation measured by those beyond it? Investment and trade, the rise of both witnessed in Afghanistan. |
|
