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2005-07-31 Afghanistan/South Asia

Huge Weapons Cache Seized in Afghanistan

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Posted by too ture 2005-07-31 12:04|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 First of all, these weapons are probably left over and in some Soviet built bunker. Second, the reason the Talbs and the Al-Q have been dying like flies is because they have been rousted from Pak. They can't go into villages alone or in small groups, so they have to stay in the mountains in bands of brigands from platoon to company size. Most if not all of the company sized groups have been eradicated, which just leaves these brigand platoons.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-07-31 13:47|| 2005-07-31 13:47|| Front Page Top

#2 The raid in Ghazni province's Khogyani district Saturday netted some 2,000 surface-to-surface rockets, 3,000 mortar rounds, 500 artillery shells and 100 boxes of anti-aircraft bullets,

Must be a really, really big wedding...

Posted by Raj 2005-07-31 16:42|| 2005-07-31 16:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Very likely these were left over from the Soviet period. These rockets were the principal offensive weapons of the Afghan resistance, used to bombard Soviet bases with dozens or hundreds fired per attack.

Whats interesting is how few have been used over vs US/Afghan govt forces since 2001. Onesey-twoseys, when used at all.

The other reason for doubting that this is new stock is the very size of the find, maybe a couple of hundred tons of munitions. Thats a lot of truckloads/packmules. The ISI built a system in the 80's capable of sneaking that much stuff into the country, but it was expensive. These days ?

Posted by buwaya 2005-07-31 18:17|| 2005-07-31 18:17|| Front Page Top

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