British soldiers found an Aston Villa tattoo on the body of a dead Taliban fighter in Afghanistan, British newspapers reported earlier this week. Of course, for Birmingham City supporters, this is reason enough to deploy nuclear weapons against the Taliban. It’s more unclear what this means for Taliban-al-Qaida relations, given that Bin Ladin is an [...]
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Posted: 3rd August 2008 by Will McCants in Afghanistan, art, Travel RoutesTags: Afghanistan, Bin Laden, forum fighter, graffiti
I’ve found a very interesting nugget for tomorrow night, but in the meantime here are two bits of debris: First is a July 31st announcement on the Firdaws forum that one of its members, Khattab al-Thaqafi, traveled to fight in Afghanistan. Thaqafi, we are told, contributed a great deal on the Internet and to Jihadi [...]