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2003-08-27 Afghanistan

Coalition Forces Drop Daisy Cutters On Taliban Base

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-08-27 20:12|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1778 views since 2007-05-07] Top

1 *Fingers Crossed*

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-27 8:14:49 PM|| 2003-8-27 8:14:49 PM|| Front Page Top

2 Egh. Not a MOAB, but we can hope they've got one handy.

Posted by Ptah 2003-8-27 8:25:49 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-8-27 8:25:49 PM|| Front Page Top

3 F-16's, A-10's, Harriers, Daisy Cutters (all plural) 14 dead. Bad counting or expensive kills?

Posted by Mr. Davis 2003-8-27 8:43:01 PM|| 2003-8-27 8:43:01 PM|| Front Page Top

4 Jihadis probably can't tell the difference between Daisy Cutters and JDAMs...they're all scary as hell when you're the one being targeted.

Posted by Watcher 2003-8-27 8:55:18 PM|| 2003-8-27 8:55:18 PM|| Front Page Top

5 F-16's, A-10's, Harriers, ....daisy cutters?
What's missing are the C-130's that would actually drop the daisy cutters, unless we're sending them by truck. There are always C-130's at Bagram, and I'm sure there are daisy cutters ready for use in the area. But, I'm with Watcher. If they really used daisy cutters again, we'd be hearing about it from a real source.

Posted by BossMan 2003-8-27 9:51:58 PM|| 2003-8-27 9:51:58 PM|| Front Page Top

6 We used a couple of daisy-cutters (25,000 pound HE gravity bombs - so-called 'dumb' stuff) in Vietnam and Laos. I've done some of the bomb damage assessments from those strikes. If they actually used one of those, there may be hundreds killed, and you'd never know, totally blown to pieces and spread as a thin, red jelly over the surrounding rocks.

We had a "before" and "after" shot of a drop on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. The "before" shot showed a small stream surrounded by 200+ feet of canopy - large and small trees, vines, and bamboo. The "after" shot showed a large circle completely devoid of plants, and a 10-foot deep hole in the streambed. Most of the trees - some up to six feet in diameter - were turned into toothpicks.

It's possible that if they did use it in Afghanistan, it may not have killed anyone. However, you should be able to quickly find all the gunnies in the area from the smell of the sticky brown stuff in their trousers.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-8-27 10:33:40 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-8-27 10:33:40 PM|| Front Page Top

7 So if we got Omar, how the heck are we going to ID the red stain on the wall as him?

Posted by someone 2003-8-28 12:00:21 AM|| 2003-8-28 12:00:21 AM|| Front Page Top

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