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Occasional Reader1/06/2009 7:04:19 am PST

Good morning (as the case may be), my Zionist Honco Homies.

And now it’s time for…

More Adventures in IslamoMathe-Magicland!

Taliban claim to have killed 5,220 foreign troops in 2008

The Taliban claims its forces last year killed 5,220 foreign troops, downed 31 aircraft, destroyed 2,818 NATO and Afghan vehicles and killed 7,552 Afghan soldiers and police.

Though third-party observers can rarely confirm casualty claims on the Afghan battlefield from the Taliban, the Afghan government, the U.S. or NATO, the Taliban’s 2008 numbers would appear to be far from the truth.

NATO’s member countries announce all troop deaths, providing names, ages and hometowns and how the soldiers were killed. According to an Associated Press tally of those announcements, 286 foreign military personnel died last year in Afghanistan, including 151 Americans and 51 Britons.

It’s a quagmire of the mind!