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2007-02-27 Afghanistan

Suicide Bomber Hits Bagram during Cheney Visit (latest details)

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Posted by Omavimble Hupaviting9816 2007-02-27 04:24|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Doesn't sound like they were after Cheney at all, sounds like the target was the "Afgan Laborers" all along, it makes more sense, boom the hired help and cripple the base , now the Afgans will be much more reluctant to work for the EEvul 'Mercans.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-27 10:00|| 2007-02-27 10:00|| Front Page Top

#2 NBC had a report on this early in the morning, as the trailing daughters got up for school. They showed the Google Earth view of Bagram base.... the whole base, not in close-up detail or with a descriptive tour. Should I be upset, or was there not enough detail to be useful to bad guys?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-27 11:40|| 2007-02-27 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 No, Don't be upset, the bad guys have computers and Google Earth Too, they'll look it up themselves.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-27 11:57|| 2007-02-27 11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Suicide Bomber Hits Bagram during Cheney Visit

Suicide Bomber related:

Here is another example of a great low-tec system complimenting our other tools which protect against SplodyDope VBIEDs.

check out this video [8.80MB] of a VBIED pick up truck [GMC/Chevy?] in western Iraq.

Watch the soldier standing just opposite the HESCO Barrier when the SplodyDope goes up.

also check the guy on the roof ;-)

/hope the link stays up..

Posted by RD 2007-02-27 12:12|| 2007-02-27 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 I believe that the soldiers in the video are Iraqi troops.

Posted by RD 2007-02-27 12:14|| 2007-02-27 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Thank you, Redneck Jim. I really don't have the energy to be that angry just now, and I was trying very hard only to be quietly livid. It wouldn't do for Mr. Wife to get back from his conference to find I'd destroyed his television.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-27 12:17|| 2007-02-27 12:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Suicide-happy Islamists have learned that one of their kind made the VPOTUS of the world's greatest power duck for cover. IMO most will likely NOT care whether Cheney was actually the primary target; or an accidental/incidental one. They're gonna be inspired to [repeatedly] emulate this feat, espec agz numero uno POTUS Dubya,
"inspirations" or renewed enthusiasm which Radical Leaders will use to their ideo advantage, ESPEC IFF "MAHDI/IMAM IN SPRING 2007" IS A NO-SHOW OR A "LAS VEGAS"-style LOUNGE BUST-UP.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-27 22:00|| 2007-02-27 22:00|| Front Page Top

#8 "Doesn't sound like they were after Cheney at all, sounds like the target was the "Afgan Laborers" all along"

Right - it was pure coincidence that the Vice President of the United Staes just happened to be near their real targets, Afghan laborers.

Posted by Hank 2007-02-27 22:37|| 2007-02-27 22:37|| Front Page Top

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