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Afghanistan
Taliban humor: >55 US soldiers killed/37 injured during operation Al-Fath in Helmand battle
2010-05-12
Horse excrement, but hilarious, and here it is. Link even includes picture of Apache helicopter as proof that Chinook helicopters were shot down.
As many as 55 Americans have been killed and 37 terribly injured with their three Chinook-like helicopters shot down in clashes with Mujahideen in Helmand's Nowzad district through much of Monday, Mujahideen officials said. According to the details, the deadly battle erupted as about hundreds of American soldiers, airdropped by some 20 helicopters into the different areas of Nowzad district, wanting to carry out a large scale operation in the area, came under simultaneous attacks by Mujahideen from every directions that caused a daylong face-to-face fighting which started on Monday afternoon and continued till late night hours, in which the enemy, after suffering deadliest losses and severest damages, fled the areas carrying the engines of the helicopters shot down by Mujahideen during the fighting along with them, while the wreckage of the struck helicopters including their wings and other parts of the helicopters and the mutilated parts of the bodies of the American soldiers still exist at the sites. No Mujahids have, by the virtue of Allah's bounty and His mercy, been harmed, while Mujahideen have taken the abondoned arms and ammo. Jahidic officials say it is the first operation which has been so much perfect and successful since the invasion of US cowardly troops in 2001, and one of the luckiest operations since the operation al-Fath (The Victory) commenced throughout the country.
Whatever the case, this is the kind of propaganda that keeps 'em coming. We need to do something about this. Sending them pictures of their charred dead would be a good start.
Posted by:gorb

#9  Don't they still have that Crazy Canadian Jihad Unspun chick over there? Sounds like they gave her a job.
Posted by: tu3031   2010-05-12 19:02  

#8  plus the article said the troops where scampering away carrying a chinook engine. I'm no expert but I would guess that a chinook engine is pretty damn large. And I stayed at a Holiday Inn last nite
Posted by: chris   2010-05-12 18:22  

#7  Because this fairy tale has them winning?
Posted by: gorb   2010-05-12 13:14  

#6  Other than the fact that the report is sheer "Baghdad Bob propaganda"... how can we be sure it's propaganda? just askin'
Posted by: Mike Hunt   2010-05-12 12:54  

#5  And our side would have at least one injured if it went up against the Borg.
Posted by: gorb   2010-05-12 12:49  

#4  Can anyone tell me if they think our side does the same thing?

Please restate the question, Just asking. What thing do you mean? The Taliban don't have helicopters to be shot down, unless the ISI has given them some. Our press releases don't contain run-on sentences, although I wouldn't mind if our writers employed a more lyrical style... And our side doesn't lie about damage inflicted on the enemy, or cut off heads with rusty swords, although this particular Talib press release didn't mention that activity favoured by their membership.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-05-12 11:51  

#3  I would like too meet the soldier who waas carrying a Chinook engine while fleeing.
Posted by: chris   2010-05-12 11:32  

#2  Can anyone tell me if they think our side does the same thing?
Posted by: Just asking   2010-05-12 11:05  

#1  So they have their own MSNBC.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-05-12 09:00  

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