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2021-08-28 Afghanistan

US says drone strike kills alleged planner of Kabul airport bombing

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 More details emerge on Pentagon drone strike believed to have killed 'ISIS-K planner'

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-28 00:09|| 2021-08-28 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Pentagon drone strike on Afghanistan ISIS stronghold kills man believed to be planner behind Kabul airport bombing that left 13 US troops and 170 Afghans dead

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-28 00:10|| 2021-08-28 00:10|| Front Page Top

#3 'A stupid and futile gesture'

Posted by Raj 2021-08-28 00:14|| 2021-08-28 00:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't believe a thing they say. No credibility. Zero. Nada. None.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-08-28 00:34|| 2021-08-28 00:34|| Front Page Top

#5 "See! I got them! We are avenged!' - Pretender Biden

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-08-28 00:40|| 2021-08-28 00:40|| Front Page Top

#6 yep raj

Posted by Chris 2021-08-28 00:59|| 2021-08-28 00:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Was his name Nakoula Basseley Nakoula ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-28 02:13|| 2021-08-28 02:13|| Front Page Top

#8 The unnamed ISIS-K planner was riding in a vehicle with one associate at the time of the strike, driving in an isolated area.

Don't insult our intelligence. We didn't all grow up taking methylphenidate.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-28 02:31|| 2021-08-28 02:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Uh, next time guys, if you're going to use a million dollar missile, try two for one!

Posted by Fleck Whusing1259 2021-08-28 06:02|| 2021-08-28 06:02|| Front Page Top

#10

At one time I would have danced a jig reading this...

But given everything we have seen by this Admin P.P. handling of this Withdrawn. The suspicious 1/2 of my mind is screaming.

Did it happen, or is it an Lame PR attempt to deflect from their total F-UP?

Posted by 2021-08-28 06:19|| 2021-08-28 06:19|| Front Page Top

#11 /\ I'll take 'deflect from their total F-UP' for $600. Alex.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-28 06:58|| 2021-08-28 06:58|| Front Page Top

#12 "The telescreen was silent for a moment. Winston raised his head again. The bulletin! But no, they were merely changing the music. He had the map of Africa behind his eyelids. The movement of the armies was a diagram: a black arrow tearing vertically southward, and a white arrow horizontally eastward, across the tail of the first. As though for reassurance he looked up at the imperturbable face in the portrait. Was it conceivable that the second arrow did not even exist?"

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-08-28 08:02|| 2021-08-28 08:02|| Front Page Top

#13 "an ISIS-K fighter thought to be involved in planning..." Thought to be involved? Thought to be involved??!!

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-08-28 09:55|| 2021-08-28 09:55|| Front Page Top

#14 /\ A drone strike on someone..... "thought to be involved."

If fok'ing don't work that way.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-28 10:02|| 2021-08-28 10:02|| Front Page Top

#15 More lies

Posted by Theque and Company1518 2021-08-28 10:17|| 2021-08-28 10:17|| Front Page Top

#16 It's curious little is mentioned about from where the drone was launched.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-28 10:40|| 2021-08-28 10:40|| Front Page Top

#17 A question about the Khaama Press article: They show the vehicle hit in the strike, and it looks like a golf cart.

Do the Afghans use golf carts in remote parts of Nangarhar province?

Posted by Spats Gravigum9743 2021-08-28 10:58|| 2021-08-28 10:58|| Front Page Top

#18 #17A question about the Khaama Press article: They show the vehicle hit in the strike, and it looks like a golf cart.

Do the Afghans use golf carts in remote parts of Nangarhar province?
Posted by: Spats Gravigum9743 2021-08-28 10:58

....As much as I hate to say this, it's entirely possible - USAF used basic issue golf carts to shuttle people or parts along flightlines and maintenance centers.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-08-28 11:08|| 2021-08-28 11:08|| Front Page Top

#19 Glad to see I'm not the only skeptic.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-28 11:49|| 2021-08-28 11:49|| Front Page Top

#20 I knew I could count on Rantburg to put it into proper perspective.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-28 11:50|| 2021-08-28 11:50|| Front Page Top

#21 Took how many years to get bin Laden? Took how long to have the intel and a guy like Trump willing to get Suliemani? And they got this guy in a couple days? Riiiiiiight...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-28 12:09|| 2021-08-28 12:09|| Front Page Top

#22 It's curious little is mentioned about from where the drone was launched.

I saw something about it coming from the Middle East, Skidmark, but I’m afraid I don’t have a link. No doubt there will be boasting about that in the near future.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-28 12:14|| 2021-08-28 12:14|| Front Page Top

#23 Maybe our partners in peace the Taliban told us *exactly* who the right guys were and where to find them.

Posted by Secret Master 2021-08-28 12:17|| 2021-08-28 12:17|| Front Page Top

#24 No doubt; probably of Northern Alliance stock.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-28 12:26|| 2021-08-28 12:26|| Front Page Top

#25 Klingon #1: Come on, Mahmoud. We need a name.
Mahmoud the Weasel: OK, OK. The guy you want is Mohamed Mohamed al Jihadi.
K#1: (looks at his notes) Your 5th cousin twice removed on your wife's side?
MtW: Yes, he is the one. A very bad man. He has been a grave disappointment to the family.
(later that day)
MtW: Honey, I'm home! (waves stack of US $20s) And I got the money for the new couch!

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-28 12:42|| 2021-08-28 12:42|| Front Page Top

#26 ^ LOL and sounds right.

One thing coming up this week in the MSM is that another stack of $20's will buy some footage of rescued Afghanis praising Mahmoud-al-Biden for their delivery. "You wlll give me all this money just to say Orange Man Is Bad? OK, Orange Man Is Bad. I want some singles with that, please."

Posted by Matt 2021-08-28 12:51|| 2021-08-28 12:51|| Front Page Top

#27 ^ It's gonna be a looong day of Snark O' The Day candidates if these are any indication

Posted by Frank G 2021-08-28 12:59|| 2021-08-28 12:59|| Front Page Top

#28
On a long and dusty road
to no particular where,
a nameless bastard drives.

Maybe an urgent batch to drop;
dried poppies, jutebags
and insipid desert chives.

But the Department of State
and some DoD prelate
have fired blind ginsu knives.

"Yaay! Our men are avenged!
And Rrrrobinette revenged,
with the lamentation of his wives!"

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-28 13:20|| 2021-08-28 13:20|| Front Page Top

#29 It's such a coup that DoD won't tell us the names of the targets...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-28 13:29|| 2021-08-28 13:29|| Front Page Top

#30 ^ Yeah, and it's not like it was in Europe.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-28 13:32|| 2021-08-28 13:32|| Front Page Top

#31 Throw the dog a bone.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-28 13:39|| 2021-08-28 13:39|| Front Page Top

#32 "That didn't take long but, Jen, can you tell us how long our intelligence has been monitoring this guy who they were able to finger and dispense with so quickly?"

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-08-28 18:38|| 2021-08-28 18:38|| Front Page Top

#33 Biden refuses to give the name of the targets which leads many to believe he is lying about their value.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-08-28 20:37|| 2021-08-28 20:37|| Front Page Top

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