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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan commission says US troops took fire first |
| 2008-08-31 |
| KABUL, Afghanistan - A newly released report says an Afghan army commander told a government investigative commission that U.S. and Afghan troops came under fire first from an Afghan village where the commission says scores of civilians were killed. The commander told the commission that shots were fired from Azizabad in the early morning hours of Aug. 22. But the report, released by the office of President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, does not specify who fired the shots. The commission found that 90 people were killed in the Azizabad operation, a finding backed by a preliminary U.N. report. The report also says all the victims were civilian. The U.S.-led coalition maintains that 25 militants and five civilians died. The U.S. is investigating. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #8 Check the air in the tires. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-08-31 17:52 |
| #7 Maybe if you put the batteries in backwards it would work again. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-08-31 16:15 |
| #6 Living in this age of wonder as we do, y'all need to get one of them new digital surprise meters with the auto-ranging feature. No more bent needles and you don't have to put a big nail in the fuse holder like with the olden kind. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-08-31 15:53 |
| #5 You're all wrong: the SurpriseMeter™has an auto-shutdown feature that prevents damage from EBPs. We just didn't bring it out 'cause we already knew what the reading would be. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-08-31 15:45 |
| #4 No. The Surprise Meter was hit with EBP* and smoked. *EBP---Electro Bozonic Pulse, the only known countermeasure is a stout heart, an iron will, and a platoon of clinical psychologists in reserve. Oh, and some automatic weapons and ammo. Can't forget that. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-08-31 14:32 |
| #3 Nah, the Surprise Meter's arrow wrapped around the negative stop peg six or seven times, that's all. Fred will have it fixed as soon as he gets a bigger crowbar. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-08-31 13:45 |
| #2 It probably warped the bourdon tube when it went into the "negative surprise" zone. Plays bloody hell with some instruments. |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-08-31 13:14 |
| #1 Fred, Is the Surprise Meter in for re-calibration or something? |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-08-31 10:34 |