Afghans seek cures at shrine for Al Qaeda

[dArKeR]

Some men want to walk without crutches, and some women want to get pregnant. A few Romeos stand in front of the graves and ask for love. Others pray for the souls of the dead. Everyone has a wish at this Al Qaeda cemetery.

"I have an ache in my left leg," said Khanema, who like many Pashtuns has only one name. "I have a backache. Sometimes it hurts so much, I can't sleep. So I came here to pray to the martyrs. I came from Pakistan only for this shrine."

The men buried here at Martyrs shrine and another shrine nearby were killed in late 2001 during the U.S.-led war against the Taliban. On the second night of Ramadan, the fasting month for Muslims, U.S. forces bombed a mosque in the southeastern town of Khost. Dozens of Taliban and Al Qaeda members were killed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/20050612/ts_chicagotrib/afghansseekcuresatshrineforalqaeda

[soulcore]

1. well ... * IS a uniter.

Bringing em' together from far and wide.

[IndianaGreen]

2. and you cannot kill the dead, for they are already dead!

I never thought I would see the day that dead Al-Qaeda fighters will reach mythical proportions, but this speaks of the impossible situation we put ourselves when we decided to take over Afghanistan instead of going after bin Laden in the same manner Israel went after the Black September terrorists responsible for the Munich Olympics massacre.

[Brundle_Fly]

3. well there is no real military

spending on covert ops. Bush wanted a big time old school war, not some covert op to actually achieve goals..