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| Afghanistan |
| Army plans $100 millon Afghanistan special ops HQ |
| 2010-06-05 |
| The Army is planning to spend as much as $100 million to expand its Special Operations headquarters in northern Afghanistan, evidence of its increasing reliance on covert operations. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #9 Giant fire hydrant in a land of incontinent dogs... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-06-05 20:41 |
| #8 Um, disguise it as a Starbucks? The Horde doesn't have Starbucks, they have Timmy's. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-06-05 20:19 |
| #7 And China has mining leases up that way .... |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-06-05 18:13 |
| #6 Oh yes, missed Tajikistan in there as well. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-05 10:27 |
| #5 You all missed the critical keyword in that article: "northern". Now ask yourself why in the world would we want to build that facility in relatively peaceful "northern" Afghanistan? I suspect that the purpose of this HQ has far less to do with a bunch of mud worshiping Taliban than "other activities". Here is a map of Mazar-e Sharif, where the HQ is located. Close to the borders of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and, I might add, within view of any traffic to or from China, because of a mountain range. http://www.maplandia.com/afghanistan/balkh/mazar-e-sharif/ |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-05 10:24 |
| #4 That's a hundred million we'll never get back, to build a place in a worthless hellhole. We'd be better off carpet-bombing cities with bundles of $100 bills. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-06-05 09:13 |
| #3 ...or a golf course. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-06-05 07:34 |
| #2 Um, disguise it as a Starbucks? |
| Posted by: JDB 2010-06-05 03:36 |
| #1 So how do you hide a $100 million facility among adobe huts? And how do you prevent people from watching everyone who goes in/out? Seems to me like "special operations" is becoming the conventional norm. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-06-05 00:52 |