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2009-07-21 Afghanistan

Van Doos 'hit the jackpot' with Taliban bomb factories

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Posted by Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-07-21 07:34|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Attaboys. On reading the headline, I thought some Dutch band was getting rich with a new Eurotrash disco hit.

Posted by ed 2009-07-21 08:46|| 2009-07-21 08:46|| Front Page Top

#2 The regiment is nicknamed the Van Doos, a corruption of vingt-deux, French for "twenty-two.
(Royal 22e Régiment)

Posted by Willy 2009-07-21 12:05|| 2009-07-21 12:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Troops from the Quebec-based Royal 22nd Regiment and their Afghan army allies...a company of soldiers from the U.S. army's 2nd battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment operating under Canadian command ...a civilian helicopter under contract for NATO forces in Afghanistan crashed at Kandahar Airfield...Capt. Ruben Hoornveld, a Dutch NATO spokesman at the base...Russia's Interfax news agency described the helicopter as an Mi-8 transporter, operated by a Russian firm

The unprecedented cooperation is ironic. The desolate dustbin of Afghanistan has one thing Iraq and North Korea doesn't--poppies. How are they going to divvy up the spoils of war?

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-07-21 12:25|| 2009-07-21 12:25|| Front Page Top

#4 On reading the headline, I thought some Dutch band was getting rich with a new Eurotrash disco hit.

Now that you mention it, "Taliban Bomb Factory" would be a good name for a symphonic death metal act.

Posted by Mike 2009-07-21 15:45|| 2009-07-21 15:45|| Front Page Top

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