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2005-11-01 Afghanistan-Pak-India

RPG apparently fired at U.S. military quake relief helicopter

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Posted by john 2005-11-01 16:33|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 send in Gunships with em too take out the rpg men, second thought just dont bother giving em anything.

Posted by Shep UK 2005-11-01 16:48|| 2005-11-01 16:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Good luck with that malnutrition thing. Let us know how you make out with the UN running in your supplies. Bye now...

Posted by tu3031 2005-11-01 16:50|| 2005-11-01 16:50|| Front Page Top

#3 All they get are UAV drones from this point forward.

Armed with Hellfire missiles.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-11-01 16:50|| 2005-11-01 16:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Well that's gratitude for you. Maybe next time we'll just sit out the aid thing...

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-01 17:38|| 2005-11-01 17:38|| Front Page Top

#5 "The blast was huge enough to kick up dust which the pilot probably misunderstood as rocket fire," he said.

I'm inclined to think Army helicopter pilots can differentiate between 'dust' and a self-propelled projectile. It's that training thingy. Sorry, General: what you're selling, I'm not buying.

Posted by Raj 2005-11-01 17:52|| 2005-11-01 17:52|| Front Page Top

#6 When you lie as often and as consistently as Pak spokesmen, this comes automatically.

His problem is this, the village is on the LOC, manned by more than a hundred thousand Pak troops.
Yet jihadis are everywhere.

Posted by john 2005-11-01 18:05|| 2005-11-01 18:05|| Front Page Top

#7 B-A-R is right on. RPGs and other ordinance fired at our helicopter mercy flights are grounds for termination of said flights. We are fighting a war in Afghanistan, not Kashmir. Pull the plug on the Paks if this happens and tell the world, and cc Kofi, too, why we are doing it.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-11-01 19:45|| 2005-11-01 19:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Drop leaflets requesting the villagers to identify those who atttempted to interfere with providing their relief. If there is no action, switch over our food aid to nothing but diet grape soda and unsalted rice cakes then tell them they can haul it in on donkeys.

These ingrates can go screw a knothole.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-01 21:17|| 2005-11-01 21:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Why do our countries continue to help these ungrateful, arrogant a!@#$%&s. Call me insensitive but i just dont care about the victims of this disaster. Not a cent out of my own wallet will be contributed to them. The same thing happened in Indonesia, the world came to it's rescue and all they ever done was complain about how the infidels are on their land. My govt. is still sending millions of dollars to Indo. and all they do is spit in our face. Millions of dollars is going to a corrupt government, i wonder where the money will end up?

Probably back on our home soil in the form of a terrorist attack.

Posted by God Save The World AKA Oztralian 2005-11-01 22:53|| http://travis.acahosting.info/]">[http://travis.acahosting.info/] 2005-11-01 22:53|| Front Page Top

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