From AP, really shocking news that not everyone is fighting fair in Afghanistan:

KABUL, Afghanistan U.S. and Afghan troops repelled attackers wearing American uniforms and suicide vests in a pair of simultaneous assaults before dawn Saturday on NATO bases near the Pakistani border, including one where seven CIA employees died in a suicide attack last year.

Well, colour us all shocked that wearing the enemy’s uniform to gain an advantage in battle is against the Geneva Conventions. Surely the Taliban wouldn’t do a thing like that? Aren’t we always being told that it’s important that we all play nicely in this war? That we mustn’t do do anything that might actually help us win? Add that to…

The raids appear part of an insurgent strategy to step up attacks in widely scattered parts of the country as the U.S. focuses its resources on the battle around the Taliban’s southern birthplace of Kandahar.


Also Saturday, nearly 50 female pupils and teachers were rushed to the hospital after an apparent toxic gas attack at a Kabul high school, the government said. It was the second case of poisoning at a girls’ school in the capital this week. Officials suspect the Taliban, who oppose female education.

…attacking noncombatants and using toxic gas as a weapon of mass destruction. Hmmm. If we really must be there, can’t we take this slightly more seriously and start sticking electrodes on a few pairs of gonads to push things along a bit please?