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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Taliban armory: Rocks, potshots and drawings By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA,Associated Press Writer - 1 hour 31 minutes ago Send IM Story Print BADULA QULP, Afghanistan – The bullet made a zipping, or fizzing sound. American soldiers, relaxing beside their vehicles and backpacks without body armor or helmets, looked around, bewildered. A moment passed. Then another zip, fizz. And another. "They're shooting at us," a soldier said incredulously. Laughing, giddy almost, they moved behind an armored vehicle that shielded them from the fields to the west. Somewhere out there, a sniper was trying to kill them. He was far enough away for the gunshot to be inaudible, or he may have been using a silencer. The fight in southern Afghanistan between insurgents and NATO troops, along with Afghan forces still learning on the job, is not a conventional war. A lot of it is harassment, the deadly kind. The Taliban shoot, drop their weapons and walk off. They plant roadside bombs and disappear. They know that they will lose a head-on clash with Western firepower. "We have all this great technology and everything," said U.S. Army Capt. Michael Kovalsky of Fords, New Jersey. "We overlook the little things like a piece of garbage in a tree," which is sometimes used by insurgents to mark the location of a bomb. As U.S. Marines press the Taliban in a five-day-old offensive against their stronghold of Marjah, insurgents are resorting to tactics that worked for them against the Soviet Army in the 1980s. Or much further back. Alexander the Great, the British Empire _ Afghanistan has known many invaders throughout history. The insurgents of today have radios and cell phones, but little more in the way of a sophisticated communications network. When Kovalsky's Alpha Company of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Stryker Brigade moved into the Badula Qulp area, northeast of Marjah, last week, they occupied an abandoned Taliban compound. On some walls, they found cell phone numbers, possibly of insurgents, and drawings of American Chinook helicopters and other military hardware, said 1st Sgt. Gene Hicks of Tacoma, Washington. The pictures appeared to provide a crude "running log" of American military strength in the area that could be consulted by other fighters as they moved from compound to compound, Hicks said. The Taliban are patient and crafty when they plant roadside bombs, one of the biggest threats to American forces. They often do it in stages to avoid detection, according to American forces. One man will drop off the explosives; the next day, a man will put in the charge; a day later someone will link up the materiel for detonation, and finally an insurgent will leave a marker _ sticks across a path, a bundle of hay or rocks on the track. Sometimes, they plant bombs _ IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices _ under puddles in the road. Or they create their own puddle, pouring water on the road to soften the earth for digging. An insurgent's bomb marker "could be anything. That's the difficulty of it," Kovalsky said. A rag on a branch could be a locator. "Then again, who knows?" Kovalsky said. "On a windy day, it could have been somebody's garbage blowing around." Alpha Company suffered casualties when it arrived in Afghanistan last year; the losses of new units are often higher when they first deploy because of inexperience. Alpha became battle-hardened in Maywan province and the Arghandab river valley of Kandahar province, other nesting grounds for the insurgency. They have yet to suffer a casualty in their current mission in support of the Marine offensive in Marjah. Alpha Company's commanders say they have noticed that Taliban cells operate locally, without much coordination with other groups of fighters, and that their leaders are, for the most part, not in the area. Meanwhile, American technology _ much of it high in the sky _ scores successes, and falters at times. An Associated Press reporter and photographer accompanying a recent patrol heard a large explosion, one of many in the area. Soldiers said a Reaper, a pilotless reconnaissance aircraft with a weapons system, had killed a man who was apparently planting a bomb in the road. The Stryker infantry carriers, designed for urban and open areas, can clock 110 kph (70 mph) on a highway. But they have had some trouble operating along a narrow canal road in Badula Qulp. The earth has caved in under at least three vehicles, pitching them at sharp angles in the mud and requiring hours to winch them out. Instincts and experience, wedded to technology, help the Americans. One night, a gunner studying the thermal imaging screen of a Stryker's weapons system spotted a man crouching and acting suspiciously in a field beside a compound. He was sure the man was planting a bomb. Hicks took a look at the screen. Then the man stood up and wiped his hand on a wall. The sergeant had seen the same when he was deployed in Iraq. The man was no bomber; he was just going to the toilet. 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