{"id":1040,"date":"2002-05-20T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-20T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2002-05-20T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-20T22:43:00","slug":"those-wiley-aqt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/05\/20\/18\/43\/those-wiley-aqt\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Wiley AQT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So like pretty much every regular military commander before him faced with a guerilla war (in this case, commanding the Brits in Afghanistan against the  &#8220;Al Qaeda\/Taliban &#8220;AQT&#8221;) Brigadier Roger Lane has complained that <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,3604,718663,00.html\">the AQT are &#8220;not showing a predisposition to reorganise and regroup <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Afghan%20War\/This%20futile%20campaign.html\">to mount offensive operations against us&#8221;. They just won&#8217;t come out to play.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Spotting &#8220;Taliban targets&#8221; is apparently difficult. Some sources say the current Operation Condor began when the Americans bombed a wedding party that was shotting its AK-47s into the air as a salute and now, of course, you&#8217;ve got pissed-off Afghans and Westerners hunting each other through the mountains.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,3604,718663,00.html\">Anthony Loyd, the Times correspondent, concluded recently that if you carry a weapon in the wrong part of Afghanistan and point it at one of the coalition special forces, you will inevitably die quickly and once <\/a><a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Afghan%20War\/This%20futile%20campaign.html\">you&#8217;ve been shot, you are AQT by definition. Given that half the male Afghan population is armed, and used to using weapons liberally, there is ample scope for shooting shepherds.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So like pretty much every regular military commander before him faced with a guerilla war (in this case, commanding the Brits in Afghanistan against the &#8220;Al Qaeda\/Taliban &#8220;AQT&#8221;) Brigadier Roger Lane has complained that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}