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2004-01-31 Afghanistan

US unsure if Afghan blast was an accident

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-01-31 1:43:27 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Booby Trap!" was my first reaction when reading this story the other day. Hope the investigation saves lives when future caches are found.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-1-31 8:09:39 AM|| 2004-1-31 8:09:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ghazni provincial Gov. Haji Asadullah Khan said an American patrol had happened across an arms cache dating from the struggle against Soviet occupation in the 1980s. He said the American soldiers were collecting the ammunition when one "went off by accident." "Iâm sure it is not a Taliban conspiracy," Khan said.

This guy's a little too vehement - what would he know that the GI's on the spot don't? He's either hiding something, or blowing smoke - with Afghans it's hard to tell which.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-1-31 9:56:15 AM|| 2004-1-31 9:56:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I dunno, some of them engineers is crazy. And EOD work is never safe, especially with crappy warsaw pact ammo thats a few decades old.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-1-31 11:59:59 AM|| 2004-1-31 11:59:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Whose to say that ammo dumps weren't booby trapped during the Soviet occupation?

Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-31 7:09:31 PM|| 2004-1-31 7:09:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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