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2004-12-02 Afghanistan/South Asia

Spy plane crashes into French school in Kabul

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Posted by Seafarious 2004-12-02 11:53:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mon Dieu! Unmanned drones--why do zey 'ate us?

Posted by Dar 2004-12-02 12:08:08 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:08:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 the French-funded Istiqlal high school

Home of the Fighting Weasels?

Posted by Mike 2004-12-02 12:14:12 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:14:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Getting some close-ups of the enemy, eh?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-02 12:17:02 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:17:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 AI on board? Briefly self aware, perhaps?

Posted by Bulldog 2004-12-02 12:44:27 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:44:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Mike told

Yhe French-funded Istiqlal high school Home of the Fighting Weasels?

In fact it was there where Commander Massoud went to high school. Commander Massoud was the ablest of the Afghan resoistance leaders againt the Soviets and the one who ever opposed to the Taliban and held them at bay until his assasination two days befotre 9/11.

Posted by JFM 2004-12-02 12:48:51 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:48:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Now that's trivia!

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-02 12:50:35 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:50:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Sorry, JFM, just having a little fun there. Massoud was one of the good guys, and any institution should be proud to have his like as an alumni.

Posted by Mike 2004-12-02 12:53:59 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:53:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Dang! Intel says that Koran teacher's classroom had the window OPEN!

Those kids will think it was just a metallic bird... Allah Akhbar, Baby!

Posted by BigEd 2004-12-02 12:55:51 PM|| 2004-12-02 12:55:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 DynCorp, codename PLANET. Sounds SciFi. Now if only we could contract out a few malnourished ethiopians and paint them grey.

Posted by Whutch Hupegum7189 2004-12-02 1:18:07 PM|| 2004-12-02 1:18:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 My last boss in the Air Force runs the Air Force drone program from Kuwait. He has lots of amusing stories, most of which can't be repeated for security reasons. We had a great gab-fest when he was out at Carson for a demonstration. Predators forever!

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-12-02 1:19:01 PM|| [http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2004-12-02 1:19:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Actually, he said his name was Captain Planet, but that got lost in translation.

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2004-12-02 3:25:51 PM|| 2004-12-02 3:25:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Picture looks a lot like an old Luftwaffe insignia. What you guys been up to?

Posted by Weird Al 2004-12-02 5:10:15 PM|| 2004-12-02 5:10:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Massoud held the Taliban at bay?!?! He was cornered in the Panjshir mountains and couldn't move until the day the AQ whacked him. Only after the U.S. flooded the place with funds and soldiers did they move out of their redoubt.

Posted by gromky 2004-12-02 10:05:12 PM|| 2004-12-02 10:05:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 A little glue, some feathers, and voila!

Posted by .com 2004-12-02 10:21:36 PM|| 2004-12-02 10:21:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Gorgeous picture, .com! Y'know, with the great strides being made in DNA research these days, it may not be long until such a bird actually flies through school windows.... d'you suppose they'll get to have teeny, tiny missiles, too? Imagine how much a raptor would enjoy seeing things go boom ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-02 10:54:53 PM|| 2004-12-02 10:54:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Lol! :-) You're right about raptors - I dunno if they'd choose to give up tearing via beak 'n claw, though. When I was a kid, my brother and I rescued 2 baby red-tails who'd fallen out of their nest in a storm. "Mom" raised such a ruckus zooming around squawking that we were able to find them. She almost took my head off on one pass, heh. They were doomed, so we took 'em and raised 'em for about a month. Chopped chicken hearts mixed with Alpo. When they could "perch" and started growing perm feathers, we gave them to the Forest Park Zoo in Ft Worth, TX. They were cool, but shredded your fingers during feeding time - which had to be by hand - swallowing up to the 2nd knuckle - their instincts allowed no other way, heh. I've always loved birds of prey.

Posted by .com 2004-12-02 11:08:31 PM|| 2004-12-02 11:08:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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