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Afghanistan
Four Talibs banged
2003-08-02
BAGRAM AIR BASE: US coalition forces killed up to four Taliban or Al Qaeda fighters during a clash in southern Afghanistan while Afghan troops unearthed a massive ammunition dump. “An estimated four anti-coalition fighters were killed last night (Thursday) after a larger group fired on Special Operations Forces on patrol north of Kandahar,” Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Lefforge told reporters at Bagram Air Base.
It's only an estimated four Bad Guys. I guess that's the smallest number that could be formed with the pieces they've got. I do wish either that LTC Lefforge had finished that sentence or that the reporter had written it down...
Two AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships were called in after the patrol came across 10 “anti-coalition fighters,” he said, referring to Taliban and Al Qaeda remnants.
"I dunno which they were. They wuz wearin' turbans and shootin', that's all I know..."
The fighters dispersed when helicopters arrived but the patrol then came under attack from another group of 15 gunmen on a ridge north of the main southern city of Kandahar. “The AH-64s were vectored to the ridge line and engaged the enemy fighters with its turret gun, killing four in the fight,” Lefforge said, adding that four bodies were found.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#16  Ah, yeah - 14 hrs ahead of CA - that's the ticket. His server is on East coast. I'm +11 and you're -3 = 14. Shit. Finally. BTW, I've inverted my days and nights here- cuz I'm not working and just feel like it, so it's past my phreakin bedtime. Later!
Posted by: ·com   2003-8-2 11:33:13 PM  

#15  are you sure *?
Posted by: Frank G   2003-8-2 11:18:09 PM  

#14  So I'm 11 hrs ahead of the Rantburg server, wherever it is. Comparing your clock to server post time will tell you the rest for realtive diff between our locations. On first blush, I think I'm 15 hrs ahead of CA, not counting any Daylight Savings foolishness.
Posted by: ·com   2003-8-2 11:11:54 PM  

#13  Frank G - If CA, then you're GMT-8 - so 15 hrs diff when talking Standard Time, the Daylight Savings Time really screw it all up. My local time is 10:08AM - lessee what the server stamps the response at... (I know, don't end sentences with prepostions - fuck it!)
Posted by: ·com   2003-8-2 11:05:56 PM  

#12  take Fred's comment time and subtract 3 hrs for pacific coast time lol...
Posted by: Frank G   2003-8-2 10:39:17 PM  

#11  CA (San Diego home - Family in NV) is 1 hr ahead of Continental/Mountain, so you must be + 8 PST?
Wild Turkey fog settling in.......
Posted by: Frank G   2003-8-2 10:36:36 PM  

#10  Watcher / CGeib - I appreciate knowing the truth. Now I will kick a little tail by email... the guy who sent it to me claimed "insider" status. BS artiste. And you never know - till you know... Thx!!!
Posted by: ©   2003-8-2 10:18:44 PM  

#9  Sorry PD, those ARE Russians getting it in Chechnia. Saw it when it first came out...
Posted by: Watcher   2003-8-2 9:39:45 PM  

#8  Frank G - I'm in Thailand - GMT +7 which is currently 11 hrs ahead of the east coast - and 13 ahead of you out there in the Mountain Zone (NV is MT, right?).

So Rantburg rolls over at 11:00 AM for me.
Posted by: The Artiste PD™©   2003-8-2 8:15:17 PM  

#7  PD - man! you guys in the east post early - Fred's daily clock rolls over 9PM PDT - what time is that in your hood? Thai was it?
Posted by: Frank G   2003-8-2 7:21:10 PM  

#6  PD - exemption granted, exceptional enthusiasm noted. stand down soldier ;-)
Posted by: Frank G   2003-8-2 7:19:56 PM  

#5  Well, it certainly looks like a Russian BTR, to me.
Posted by: CGeib   2003-8-2 4:40:11 PM  

#4  I have been in SaoodiLand™ (which means not living in The Real World) for 3 of those and was unaware it was common, as well as described otherwise - my apologies. Thx.

Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along...
Posted by: PD   2003-8-2 3:18:22 PM  

#3  fwiw: this file has been floating around for at least 4 or 5 years. I think I saw on Strategypage.com that it's actually Russian troops getting hit by Chechens, although I don't know how certain they were.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-8-2 3:13:11 PM  

#2  Oops - I forgot to mention the file size is 337K and, I hope it's obvious, you need PowerPoint to view.
Posted by: PD   2003-8-2 2:55:41 PM  

#1  Hmmm. Mebbe LtCol Lefforge would enjoy this little image seq taken by an American SpcOps a little earlier in the Afghan scrimmage. His job was to do the laser designation of the target. Try counting the bodies from the parts in this one. :-> I particularly enjoyed the secondary explosion... a grenade or RPG round, perhaps?

www.amble.com/images/taliban_attack.ppt
Posted by: PD   2003-8-2 2:52:26 PM  

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