# Taliban Leaders Call Each Other Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taliban-leaders-call-each-other-names/362522 "2006-06-28T17:47:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taliban-leaders-call-each-other-names/362522/1 "2006-06-28T17:47:00Z")
Canadians Report Split In Taliban Forces > [@](#): > > ZAMTO KALAY, Afghanistan - Taliban fighters have had a falling-out in one of their strongest mountain redoubts in northern Kandahar province, with one faction apparently prepared to give up the fight against Canadian combat forces deployed in the area, coalition officials say. > > “What I’m seeing is very positive here. There has been a split in the local leadership,” said Lt.-Col. Ian Hope, commander of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry battle group. “There are indications that one group does not want to fight any more. **There have been yelling matches with words that are not characteristic in the culture.** That is tremendous for the people here and has really boosted our morale.”… Hmmmm… to be a fly on the wall, and find out just what “words that are not characteristic in the culture” are being yelled. I have this mental image of one of the Talibastards quoting the French knights from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taliban-leaders-call-each-other-names/362522/2 "2006-06-28T19:38:26Z")
**Princess Patricia’s** Canadian Light Infantry battle group? Not quite the same effect as Screamin’ Eagles or Death Devils I have to say. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taliban-leaders-call-each-other-names/362522/3 "2006-06-28T20:26:55Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > **Princess Patricia’s** Canadian Light Infantry battle group? > > Not quite the same effect as Screamin’ Eagles or Death Devils I have to say. I think they’re going for a sort of “Brigade Named Sue” effect. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taliban-leaders-call-each-other-names/362522/4 "2006-06-29T04:58:07Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I think they’re going for a sort of “Brigade Named Sue” effect. I just hope it doesn’t end up like the infamous 135th “Cookie Puss” Airborne Division—which was implicated in the torture, massacre, and ritual cannibalism of Vietnamese villagers. (Worse yet is that they were South Vietnamese. And it was in 1974.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taliban-leaders-call-each-other-names/362522/5 "2006-06-29T05:04:29Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taliban-leaders-call-each-other-names/362522/6 "2006-06-29T06:12:54Z")
Taliban A: You’re mother’s veil says NIKE! Taliban B: Well well well you’re mother doesn’t even wear a veil. T A: My beard is longer. T B: My sword is longer. T A: You allow muslim lands to be defiled by the non-believers. T B: YOU defile muslim lands. T A: You are still alive, coward. T B: [no response…]