Crawling out of hiding from a cave in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden looked at the midnight sky for but 30 seconds before running back inside as quickly as he could. The coward of all cowards didn’t want to take a chance on being spotted by a Predator drone over his cave.

Aside from his rushed once-a-night stroll, the only news about bin Laden in the news recently is that he is accusing NATO troops of killing women and children.

“You … attacked and killed women and children on purpose,” CNN quotes the audio from a recorded message reportedly made by bin Laden. When was it made? No one knows. In fact, there aren’t any references to any events on the recording, so this could be a recording that is several years old, or even one made prior to the [1] September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

This very comment — from bin Laden — makes me laugh. In fact, it riles me up that the [2] video released by NATO yesterday on [3] YouTube about a planned assault on a few Taliban nuts. NATO had sent choppers to the area to wipe out the Taliban idiots, and just before the choppers attacked, someone from inside the mud building brought a small child outside and had the child stand at the door. No, not as a guard, but rather as a human shield.

If NATO is killing children and women, it is probably children and women who have weapons or munitions on their bodies. Anyone — man, woman, child — healthy, young, old, or invalid — if they have a weapon, a grenade, a vest packed with explosives, or anything else that could harm individuals, in my book that person is as good as dead. I would have no hesitation in putting a bullet in the head of the person.

The problem with the U.S. and NATO, though, is that if civilians — folks who are unarmed — are in an area, the troops have this hesitancy in engaging the enemy unless fired upon. If you look back over history, even in World War II, the U.S. and its Allies bombed cities, factories, and yes, “innocent” civilians were killed.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, much like it was in Vietnam, the “innocent civilian” is often the enemy. If you watch the video released by NATO, you will see that a male Taliban nut is fully armed, walking toward a bicycle, and then wraps himself in a burqa, disguising himself as a woman. Since it is against the rules or laws or whatever of Islam, you are not supposed to ask a woman to show her face — or body — to prove “she” really is a she and not a he.

Here in the U.S., though, Muslims feel they have some inherent right to have state issued identification cards and driver’s license photos taken showing nothing more of the person’s face — the supposed woman’s face — than someone of a four inch wide by two inch high hole in the burqa that is not covering the person’s eyes. Sorry, but that does not prove who you are, nor does it do what a photo is supposed to do: help identify you.

What should NATO and U.S. troops do? Whatever they need to do in order to prevent harm to others or injury or harm to themselves. If that means an attack helicopter fires on a mud building while the Taliban conveniently place a child outside, so be it.

Osama bin Laden, the man who claims to have been the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, killed innocent civilians — men and women alike — that day. His Taliban and al Qaeda nut jobs that attack cities, destroy mosques (Muslim churches, I guess) by mortar, and have people blow themselves up in crowded markets — killing women, men, children — has nothing to complain about. If bin Laden were worried about women and children being killed, he would not have his wimpy, spineless nut jobs place a kid at a door while there is a meeting going on inside, hoping the presence of a child will protect the people inside from an attack.

Put me in the chopper, give me control of the cannons, and let’s see if anything’s standing when the smoke clears. Then again, in order for the Taliban to protect that child until it is an adult, perhaps becoming a Taliban nut job, as well, leave the kid far away from your meetings. Stop being cowards and hiding behind human shield. Real mean aren’t scared to die, but then again, no one ever said al Qaeda or Taliban morons, nor their fearful leader, bin Laden, were real men.

Next time NATO knows the location of a meeting, send in the U.S. Marines. Whichever one has a team closest should go. They will know what to do — and make sure the job is done. Forget all the NATO huff-and-puff because that house of mud is still standing for Pete’s sake.

2 Comments To "Osama bin Laden kills children and women for fun"

#1 Comment By sfcmac On Friday, November 30, 2007 @ 9:34 am

#2 Comment By Dave J. (Scoop0901) On Sunday, December 2, 2007 @ 1:22 pm