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2008-12-23 India-Pakistan

Twin drone strikes kill 5 Punjabi Taliban

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Posted by Fred 2008-12-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Gotta love it. Computerized flying machines controlled from the other side of the world running Wild Weasel missions against cave men.

Posted by ed 2008-12-23 01:13|| 2008-12-23 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 How are things in Ghawakhawa?
Is that little goat still leaping there?

Posted by .5MT 2008-12-23 07:10|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-12-23 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Rather expensive in terms of R & D, training, & mission cost for victories like this. Can we maintain such a cost/benefit ratio for as long as it would take to win? It's all a matter of Will.

Posted by Glenmore 2008-12-23 10:18|| 2008-12-23 10:18|| Front Page Top

#4 It's all a matter of Will.

Right now, Will's highly peeved. He needs to start adding a second/third drone to attack the funeral processions of dead Taliban with napalm. Things would get rather quiet very quickly. Smelly, too, with all those corpses that don't get buried.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-12-23 12:03|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-12-23 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 My patience with Pakistan and its tribal areas is running a bit thin. I am feeling less and less humanitarian, less and less compassionate. Each day we see evidence that they are either complete f**ktards or just plain evil. The area needs to be cleansed of this filth. Pronto.

Posted by remoteman 2008-12-23 13:12|| 2008-12-23 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Last time i saw a pick up 'camouflaged' with mud and grass it took 2 wreckers to pull it from its swamp of concealment. it was 'camouflaged' up to its axles, so it was....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-12-23 13:43|| 2008-12-23 13:43|| Front Page Top

#7 This seems to be a recurring event. I am surprised that these taliban soldiers were out in the open. I'm even more surprised that they could fight off the taliban without killing innocent civilians.

Posted by Herman Sholunter9941">Herman Sholunter9941 2008-12-23 15:16|| http://www.holidayfastcash.com]">[http://www.holidayfastcash.com] 2008-12-23 15:16|| Front Page Top

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