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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban 'occupy' Afghan army check-post |
| 2007-07-15 |
| A Taliban spokesman claimed on Saturday that they had occupied an Afghan security force check-post after a three-hour fight in the Lal Pura area of Nangarhar province late on Friday. “Mujahideen (holy worriers) have also seized a huge quantity of arms, including anti-tank rockets, anti-aircraft guns and wireless equipment, after they overran the check-post,” Abu Nauman told Daily Times via telephone from an undisclosed location. He said the Taliban militants escaped in the mountains of the border with the weapons as “war booty” and torching the check-post. There was no independent confirmation of the claim nor did he give any death toll of either side. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Brought to by the Taliban Information Agency, the inventors of the Infidels Are Killing Civilians and Looking Up Our Women's Dresses press release. Afghan Army equipment: Heavy Arms * Dragunov SVD sniper rifle * PK series MGs * RPG-7 Anti-tank weapon * Browning M2 heavy MG * SPG-9 Recoilless Rifle * 82mm Medium Mortar * D-30 122mm howitzer * M114 155 mm howitzer Not much in the way of antitank or anti-air. I'll even bet the RPG-7 warheads are the antipersonnel variety. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-07-15 01:54 |
| #1 Hopefully we aren't arming vehicle checkpoints with AA items. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2007-07-15 01:39 |