Do it, Squadfather needs a little dose. He thinks they have the right idea.
Alright trab, here's one that happened two weeks ago.
We have several interpreters (Terps) who work for us here at the firebase. All of them live down in the local village. Our best Terp, Wali, lives with his wife and 4 children in a two room mud shack on the outskirts of the town. His place is actually pretty nice by Afghan standards, cause he has running water at his house...no electricity, but he does have water. Anyway, the Taliban show up at Wali's house about 0300 one morning and tell him that if he doesn't quit working with the infidels, and join the Taliban, that he and his family will suffer. Well, Wali tells these guys to pound sand up their asses - a phrase he no doubt learned from us - and get the hell out of his house. Two days latter his 8 year old daughter comes up missing from his house. Wali reports this to us, and we start looking around town, and ask a lot of questions....Next day, a little arm shows up on Wali's porch. We now start doing house to house searches, kicking doors of anybody we even suspect of being Taliban....Next day, the other arm shows up. We extend our search to the outlying area around the village...Next day, a leg shows up at his house. By now we have an entire USAF STS Team and two Army SF units looking for these fuckers. Problem is, no one wants to talk, and no one has seen a thing. Even if they did know something, they weren't gonna' tell us due to fear of the Taliban....Next day, you guessed it, the other leg shows up. That afternoon the little girl was dumped off, still alive, at the village hospital. They brought her to the firebase because the doctors downtown are not equipped to handle something like that.
When they brought her in, I can't even begin to describe her condition. The fuckers had used surgical tubing to tie off above each of her stumps so she wouldn't bleed out. Our doctors aren't sure what they used to cut off her limbs, but they think is was something like a hacksaw blade. The little girl will never be able to tell us, because the Taliban cut her tongue out before they dumped her. She couldn't talk, but she could scream...and it was a weird, other worldly scream...the kind of scream you don't get out of your head. Our doctors stabilized her and cleaned up her stumps as best they could, and we got her to Bagram via chopper. They were planning on sending her to the big military hospital in germany until she recovers.
The Taliban keep her alive because they knew that killing her would have been the best thing they could have done for her. In this country she is doomed to live out the worst life possible...she will never find a husband, never have children, and be at the mercy of a society that can't even take care of it's self for the rest of her life.
That's how the Taliban operate... I can promise you, if we ever get our hands on the Taliban cell that was responsible for that little girl....well, this is a public forum, so I think I'll leave it at that.
Slim
