Mind-bogglingly astute observation: “The [NATO] soldiers have shaved their heads but when we see them washing they are still shampooing their heads, but they have no hair.”
Their charming and witty sense of humor: “Last year, after one attack near the town of Baramcha, there was the hand of one British soldier left on the field. We took it and we hung it as a souvenir in the room and sometimes we would shake the hand.”
Their silly harmless pranks: “We enjoy finding the [NATO] bombs unexploded. We have some guys with us, they are not Afghan, they use the bomb back on the British. I like to bury a gas canister on top of the bomb, the explosion is very large.”
Asking big and important questions: “When we go to a village at night the [NATO] soldiers come for us in helicopters. How can they see us? How do they know we are there? They have technology?”
On multiculturalism: “We have some other people with us, I can’t tell you where they are from but they don’t speak a language we understand.”
Taliban technology: “[We use] a bomb that recognizes the number [on a license] plate of a vehicle and only explodes with the number of the plate you put in a computer.”
