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2011-04-25 Afghanistan

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Posted by phil_b 2011-04-25 01:16|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 ISAF was reported to have learned about the event via a Taliban new release. How thoughtful of the host nation to keep us informed on events taking place in "The Good War."

Posted by Besoeker 2011-04-25 07:33|| 2011-04-25 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 They just wanted to swim the river---to taste some peaches, Besoeker.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-25 07:36|| 2011-04-25 07:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Headcount come up a bit short last evening at the DFAC General Ghulam Dastageer Mayar? Please be sure to inventory the pick and shovel locker. Those damn tools are expensive, even though they are made in China. Nicely done you murdering bastids.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-04-25 07:50|| 2011-04-25 07:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Hundreds of meters? Forget inventories of the picks and shovels, how 'bout an inventory of the Bobcats and other earth movers?

Posted by Steve White 2011-04-25 09:59|| 2011-04-25 09:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Now you know what the Gazan Gophers have been doing since the change of power in Egypt - contracting to the Afghan Taliban.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-04-25 10:11|| 2011-04-25 10:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Another reason to implant RFID tags in the bodies of all the WoT perps captured at a minimum.

GPS transponders would be a good idea too!

If one can do implantable electronic body art - like this Phillips design one could do an implantable solar cell to power an implantable GPS.

Posted by Water Modem 2011-04-25 10:53|| 2011-04-25 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 the tunnel had been dug from the outside

Tunneled in, not tunneled out. But somehow those on the inside had gotten copies to all the keys to their comrades' cells in the meantime. Electronic tags, fingerprints, DNA on file -- possible if it's a DoD prison, but the Afghans are still working at the kind of basic level that allows for tunnelling up through the floor. I can't imagine that a modern American prison would be so poorly constructed, even in a far-off land.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-04-25 11:12|| 2011-04-25 11:12|| Front Page Top

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