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Mullah Omar interview

Rob1855 — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:31:38 -0800

"We are hunting Americans like pigs" -- A chat with Taliban leader Mullah Omar

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:52:05 -0800

Jesus christ. If this is real, it's pretty scary stuff.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:52:38 -0800

When do "they" hunt pigs?; "dogs" would fit better.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:52:42 -0800

This interview kind of reminds me of this article from The Onion.

By: MrLint

MrLint — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:53:35 -0800

"Did you flee to Pakistan? I am not sure. Perhaps! The border between the two countries is so contiguous" a contiguous border between 2 adjoining nations.. i wonder what they will think of next.

By: hoskala

hoskala — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:03:06 -0800

I met him months ago and we are in contact with each other. He is very much alive and kicking. This is a joke, yes?

By: agregoli

agregoli — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:03:42 -0800

Who hunts dogs? Pigs sounds fine to me. You know, contextually.

By: darren

darren — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:10:40 -0800

hoaxfilter.

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:16:53 -0800

Dogs? Pigs? How about "wabbits?"

By: xmutex

xmutex — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:23:11 -0800

What he really needs to do is start a punk rock band.

By: techgnollogic

techgnollogic — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:24:26 -0800

No, I think he means "We are hunting Americans like pigs [hunt Americans]," (Read: not very well at all).

By: eatitlive

eatitlive — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:43:06 -0800

What he really needs to do is start a punk rock band. Like the Burka Band?

By: found missing

found missing — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:44:02 -0800

Pigs hunt truffles well. Maybe he meant, "we are hunting Americans like pigs hunt truffles."

By: techgnollogic

techgnollogic — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:48:41 -0800

Silly Omar, those are mushroom clouds.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:49:29 -0800

No, I think he means "We are hunting Americans like pigs [hunt Americans]," (Read: not very well at all). He may be a big talker but on the other hand he has been fighting modern armies all his life... And how well did the Soviets do against the mujahedin again? Think on that before talking too big back at him.

By: coelecanth

coelecanth — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:49:36 -0800

Maybe he just read Lord of the Flies. It certainly seems like he's living in it.

By: agregoli

agregoli — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:50:17 -0800

People hunt pigs! That's all I'm saying.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:04:28 -0800

944 days, 5 hours, 17 minutes, 10 seconds

By: Postroad

Postroad — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:14:34 -0800

Aood Muslim would not hunt or get near either pigs or dogs.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:26:45 -0800

This was my thought, too, Postroad. They're both très tref.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:28:20 -0800

It makes as much sense as kosher pork rinds.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:29:50 -0800

propagandafilter

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:15:14 -0800

Um, so let's see, he's hunting pigs that happen to have machine guns, air support, tanks, bombs and grenades? Good luck. And Muslims don't need food? I want my check to Oxfam back!

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:22:14 -0800

StillthinkaddingfiltertotheendofeverythingiscleverwhenIreallyjustsoundlikeatoolfilter

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:40:32 -0800

But saying, I for one welcome our new Mullah Omar Overlords is still funny, right? Its so hard to keep track of what's cool and what's a tool.

By: skallas

skallas — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:45:03 -0800

Are we assuming Omar is speaking english here? You could blame a translator for the english idioms and sayings, if its true that is.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:33:38 -0800

If the Taliban are "hunting Americans like pigs", would the converse of this be : "The Americans are hunting the Taliban like dogs" ?

By: fletcher

fletcher — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:49:38 -0800

we will chase them like rats through the tundra

By: biffa

biffa — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:30:38 -0800

And Muslims don't need food? I want my check to Oxfam back! Wow, that's great, I've been knocking back Oxfam as a Xtian charity, if i can get both bunches - smashing!

By: donth

donth — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:12:12 -0800

Ethan P. has truly gone too far this time.

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 03:36:00 -0800

If americans are pigs, could we use our fallen comrades against them like this.

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 03:37:11 -0800

on second, thought that might be not go over well with US citizens, but an interesting similarity in us being an unclean animal. Although if the same logic applies the people who downed the planes on 9-11 get no harem.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 03:57:09 -0800

sourbrew - That "Philippine terrorism solution" sounds good, but it's complete historical BS. Actually, the US dealt with the Philippine revolt (it wasn't "terrorism" because the Filipinos were rebelling against US rule and fighting for independence - by the same token, the US founding fathers were "terrorists") by killing an enormous number of people. In some provinces, the US army troops killed all the males while in others, nearly everyone (men, women and children). There were US Congressional inquiries about the excessive violence used to suppress the revolt, but I don't believe that anyone was ever substantially punished for the near-genocidal levels of bloodshed. That was a good sounding urban legend there, but it's so historically wrong that it makes me cringe. Anyway - of course humans are "unclean" ; as with any top-of-the-food chain animal, toxins tend to build up in the fat tissue. What I find funny about this post is Mullah Omar's awareness of American cultural taboos. Notice that he did NOT say "We will hunt them like goats" or "We will hunt them like yaks".

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:24:49 -0800

I was trying to find a story that i thought i had read suggesting that israel was considering doing the same. That was the best i could come up with.... still its an interesting idea, and obviously the previous part is urban legend.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 06:27:56 -0800

And, who knows ? I have read historical accounts of similar tactics, tactics which mess with people's deap-seated religious taboos to instill terror. If the Americans catch Mullah Omar, they'll probably serve him some nice cutlets and then reveal later on that he had just eaten dog.

By: matteo

matteo — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:27:26 -0800

JULES A sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie. I'll never know 'cause even if it did, I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I don't wanna eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense to disregard its own feces. VINCENT How about dogs? Dogs eat their own feces. JULES I don't eat dog either. VINCENT Yes, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? JULES I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy, but they're definitely dirty. But a dog's got personality. And personality goes a long way.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:32:52 -0800

"Remnants of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban have killed a top intelligence chief and captured three districts near the border with Pakistan, a spokesman for the Islamic militia said yesterday."

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:28:47 -0800

Those are some pretty fucking fierce "remnants". Can I buy "remnants" like that at my local garment store?