# SAS skirmishing with Taliban - any news ?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 23, 2001, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sas-skirmishing-with-taliban-any-news/83326 "2001-09-23T12:23:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sas-skirmishing-with-taliban-any-news/83326/21 "2001-09-24T04:16:30Z")

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I imagine that the SAS are fully equal to any special forces units the US can put together, plus the UK has a much longer history of involvement in the area, much better understanding of the people. The Brits have always been much better at that sort of thing than the US. I guess you learn a few things after running that empire for a couple of centuries.

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sas-skirmishing-with-taliban-any-news/83326/22 "2001-09-24T04:31:02Z")

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Am I going to be the first hounded down? Sure, we like our info first up and the best. But “Loose lips sink ships.”

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sas-skirmishing-with-taliban-any-news/83326/23 "2001-09-24T04:48:21Z")

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I’m not at all sure what I meant by that - disregard if you can.

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sas-skirmishing-with-taliban-any-news/83326/24 "2001-09-24T08:22:30Z")

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Whatever happened to the Ghurkas? Wasn’t the mere mention of their name enough to make grown men tremble? I don’t seem to recall them being Muslim.

Anyway, just curious.

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**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sas-skirmishing-with-taliban-any-news/83326/25 "2001-09-24T10:18:34Z")

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Ghurkas… the good kind of fanatical soldier.

Send in the Irish Rangers. They’re so good you never heard of them. And at least we’d drink them under the table.

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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sas-skirmishing-with-taliban-any-news/83326/26 "2001-09-24T11:01:12Z")

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Ghurka’s are Nepali’s and not muslim.

They have been gradually reduced as part of the British military for a long time.

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