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Afghanistan
Arms, Not Guerrillas Found in U.S.-Led Afghan Sweep
2003-07-25
EFL
U.S.-led forces on a big sweep in southeast Afghanistan found caches of hundreds of rockets and other weapons but are yet to find Taliban or al Qaeda guerrillas, the U.S. military said on Friday. The armaments were found by special forces in the Zormat region of Paktia province bordering Pakistan during operation Warrior Sweep, which began on Tuesday. The operation has also involved U.S. airborne and Italian mountain troops, as well as 1,000 soldiers from the fledgling Afghan National Army on their first major combat operation.
A belated welcome to our Italian friends.
Colonel Rodney Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, said this week the aim was to aggressively seek out and attack Taliban, Al Qaeda and other anti-coalition forces. Asked on Friday whether the coalition forces had found any guerrillas, he replied: "No, there has been no contact."
However, he added: "The operation is going well."
The bad guys are there, just haven’t turned over the right rock yet.
Davis said the arms caches discovered, one of which was found in a Islamic seminary, or madrassah, included machineguns, hundreds of shells, rockets and mortar bombs and thousands of rounds of machinegun ammunition.
Standard issue for a Islamic religious school.
Posted by:Steve

#5  Certainly, if anything has been learned in the WoT, all sweeps for asshats and arms must start with the places run by the asshats. Doh! Uh oh - hang onto your hats - someone will call it profiling - so there will be a hue & cry from the PC-phools...
Posted by: PD   2003-7-26 12:01:36 AM  

#4  I like the booby trap idea. Then when it goes boom, we can say "Gee, isn't that a shame, the little darlings blew themselves up playing with their explosives"....and we get rid of some of those PreCabrian life forms that call themselves...."human"???
Posted by: SOG475   2003-7-25 2:46:08 PM  

#3  I like snellenr's idea of the webcam. Hell, we can set up watches on Rantburg, then we can notify Bagram HQ with high priority emails when we see suspicious activity....
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-7-25 1:54:54 PM  

#2  Boobytrap it, then leave it in place... maybe install a webcam, just to help identify the remains...
Posted by: snellenr   2003-7-25 12:19:51 PM  

#1  I would've cleaned out the weapons and ammo and then blown the "madrassah" off of the f**king planet.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-7-25 10:41:10 AM  

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