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| Afghanistan: Taliban claim attack against NATO drone |
| 2009-10-14 |
| [ADN Kronos] Taliban fighters on Tuesday claimed they had shot down a pilotless NATO drone aircraft in Afghanistan's southeastern Khost province, Pajhwok Afghan news agency reported. Khost borders Pakistan's volatile northwestern Kurram tribal area. The news came as US president Barack Obama was reported to be sending an extra 13,000 troops to Afghanistan to combat the increasingly violent Taliban-led insurgency. The additional forces being sent to the war-wracked country in Obama's unannounced move are engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police, the Washington Post daily said on Tuesday, quoting US defence officials. The extra support troops come on top of the 21,000 combat troops authorised in March bring the total build-up Obama has approved for Afghanistan to 34,000. The buildup has raised the number of US troops deployed to the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan above the peak during the Iraq "surge" that former US president George W. Bush ordered, officials said. The deployment does not change the maximum number of US service members expected to soon be in Afghanistan: 68,000, more than double the number there when Bush left office, the daily noted. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 REDDIT > ASIA TIMES - AL QAEDA CHIEF LAYS OUT GUERILLA STRATEGY [Illyas Kashmiri is still alive]. WIthin a MIL SCOPE, KASHMIRI > IT WAS ALWAYS DESIRED/INTENDED BY HIM THAT THE US STEADILY INTENSIFY OR ESCALATE ITS COMMITMENTS IN AGHANISTAN = AFPAK ["Afghanistan Trap"], as Kashmiri is a dedicated student of the VIETNAM WAR + ANTI-US NVA General NGUYEN GIAP. KASHMIRI > his "Afghan Trap" has been entirely successful in baiting and entrapping the USA. ALSO, ARTIC > KASHMIRI DOES NOT RULE OUT "MUMBAI-STYLE" TERROR ATTACKS OR GREATER IN FUTURE AGZ ISRAEL ANDOR THE USA, AS PERTINENT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-14 22:47 |
| #5 Next headline of interest will be: "Taliban announce they can turn people into drones." |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-10-14 13:05 |
| #4 Whoop de fuckin' doo. They killed a 100k piece of equipment. That's what, about two weeks worth of boot camp for an actual soldier? Not to mention: NOT A PERSON. It's equipment write-off. At worst, one of Basquat's broken windows for the procurement process. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-10-14 11:05 |
| #3 Not much to boast about if you are on the receiving end of those drones. They take what they can get. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-10-14 09:58 |
| #2 Ouch, Free Radical. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-14 08:34 |
| #1 According to Xinhua, it was a technical malfunction. The ADN Kronos outfit can't be bothered to report the coalition statement, despite the fact that 1) there ARE going to be mechanical malfunctions with the kill-bots because of the number of hours they are in the air, and 2) the Taliban claim responsibility for hurricanes. Whatever. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2009-10-14 07:47 |