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2010-06-05 Afghanistan

Army plans $100 millon Afghanistan special ops HQ

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 So how do you hide a $100 million facility among adobe huts? And how do you prevent people from watching everyone who goes in/out?

Seems to me like "special operations" is becoming the conventional norm.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-06-05 00:52|| 2010-06-05 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Um, disguise it as a Starbucks?

Posted by JDB 2010-06-05 03:36|| 2010-06-05 03:36|| Front Page Top

#3 ...or a golf course.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-05 07:34|| 2010-06-05 07:34|| Front Page Top

#4 That's a hundred million we'll never get back, to build a place in a worthless hellhole. We'd be better off carpet-bombing cities with bundles of $100 bills.

Posted by gromky 2010-06-05 09:13|| 2010-06-05 09:13|| Front Page Top

#5 You all missed the critical keyword in that article: "northern". Now ask yourself why in the world would we want to build that facility in relatively peaceful "northern" Afghanistan?

I suspect that the purpose of this HQ has far less to do with a bunch of mud worshiping Taliban than "other activities".

Here is a map of Mazar-e Sharif, where the HQ is located. Close to the borders of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and, I might add, within view of any traffic to or from China, because of a mountain range.

http://www.maplandia.com/afghanistan/balkh/mazar-e-sharif/

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-05 10:24|| 2010-06-05 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh yes, missed Tajikistan in there as well.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-05 10:27|| 2010-06-05 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 And China has mining leases up that way ....

Posted by lotp 2010-06-05 18:13|| 2010-06-05 18:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Um, disguise it as a Starbucks?

The Horde doesn't have Starbucks, they have Timmy's.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-06-05 20:19|| 2010-06-05 20:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Giant fire hydrant in a land of incontinent dogs...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-06-05 20:41|| 2010-06-05 20:41|| Front Page Top

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