Taliban Poison Kabul Juice Supply
This morning I received the following threat warning from an ISAF friend who gets these kinds of things daily:
…the ANP [Afghan National Police] have begun removing all types and brands of juices from local markets. Allegedly, the Taliban has poisoned a number of juice containers and placed them in the distribution circuit within Kabul city. It is our recommendation that the purchase of any consumable liquid items from the local economy immediately desist. Any of these items which have been purchased within the past three days should be promptly disposed of at this time.
These kind of threat warnings come in all the time, usually having to do with possible suicide bombings or insurgents posing as police. Nothing generally comes of them, but all the same, I think I’ll stick with whiskey for the next few days.
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Well I guess it’s better safe than sorry. as a side note.I see 24 ANP loaded up trucks with ammo, machine guns,heavy weapons and join up with local Taliban.to give them a hand.
Do you know anything of the happenings in Nuristan Province?
Just got caught up with these last 3 posts, P.J. and I have to stop and thank you again. It is so great to be able to tap into what ordinary people are talking and speculating about in Kabul.
P.J. O’Rourke and Robert Fisk have written, at different times and about different places east of the Mediterranean, about the endless rounds of rumour that circulate in conflict zones.
The removal of all that juice from the shelves may be a lot of wasted time and money and fear from nothing more than an aggressive rumour…but nobody, understandably, wants to take the chance.
The only cure for rumour-mongering is a really good and healthy press that is respected and trusted when they chase such things down…or show they can’t.
In a conflict zone, of course, the press are relentlessly used by both sides to spread disinformation and the price is that nobody trusts any information – or, rather trusts their next-door-neighbour’s story they got from a friend of a friend, as much as they trust press releases from “CentCom”.