Afghan police seized about 700 homemade bombs, hidden in orange crates, being smuggled into Afghanistan from Pakistan on Sunday, the government said. A range of wires and fuses was also found among the improvised explosive devices, discovered in the Kunar province on the border with Pakistan, the interior ministry said. One person was arrested, a ministry spokesman said.
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#1 Good Lord! 700? Help me out here guys --- if we lay 700 bombs (forget all those details you guys always seem to know, just use some size these terrorist would use)... if we lay these bombs out, end to end... what kind of length would that be?
I know this is lots and lots and lots of bombs.... but being a visual person... some kind of length does help..
Great job, Afgans!
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#2 If you stacked 'em vertically, prolly about the height of the Bamiyan Buddha statues the Taliban blew up...
#3 Rocky wants to know the same thing Sherry. ":-)
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#4 Sherry, they look to be about 2 feet long, therefore, end to end they would stretch 1,400 feet. Or, slightly more than a quarter of a mile.
One thing sure, that's a lot of dead and maimed.
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#5 Nobody can tell me that that stock wasn't prepared in plain view of Pakistan's terrorist infested forces. Yet we give them billions of dollars each year.
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#6 We lost four soldiers today in Afganistan to bombs like these. RoP indeed.
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#7 Yet we give them billions of dollars each year.
For the moment. Let's not ask the troops to take on too much at one time, and Pakistan isn't the most urgent or important battlefield, for all their pride in the nukes they have but dare not use. Nor is Afghanistan any longer an important battlefield, important as it may appear to Pakistan's ISI; we've achieved our goal there of eliminating the Al Qaeda base of operations, and need now only deny them the possiblity of re-establishing themselves.
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#8 well then they should STFU when a predator does their work for them ..... complaining = sour grapes or they're on the wrong side
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Afghan police seized about 700 homemade bombs, hidden in orange crates, being smuggled into Afghanistan from Pakistan on Sunday, the government said. A range of wires and fuses was also found among the improvised explosive devices, discovered in the Kunar province on the border with Pakistan, the interior ministry said. One person was arrested, a ministry spokesman said. 
