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Afghanistan
US drone crashes in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan
2016-02-22
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A U.S. Air Force drone has crashed in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan without causing any injuries, it has been reported.

The MQ-9 reaper drone has reportedly crashed at a base in Kandahar Airfield late on Saturday with the U.S. military officials saying 'hostile fire was not a factor."

The officials have further added that the an investigation is underway to ascertain the cause behind the incident.

The U.S. Air Force has stepped up air campaign against the anti-government armed bully boy groups in Afghanistan during the recent months, mainly using the armed drones to suppress the activities of the bully boys.

According to reports released earlier this month, the U.S. forces in Afghanistan carried out at least 20 Arclight airstrikes targeting the loyalists of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terror group in Afghanistan during a period of 3 weeks.

The increase in raids by U.S. forces in Afghanistan followed by the B.O. regime's grant of new authority last month, allowing the U.S. commanders in Afghanistan launch Arclight airstrikes against bully boyz in the same way that the military targets fighters linked to al-Qaeda.

The move by the B.O. regime followed shortly after the U.S. Department of State designated the Khorasan branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) as a terrorist organization.

Posted by:Fred

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