Hahahaha! Sorry, couldn't help myself but I would give anything for a video of this! A large crew of Taliban were planting an IED in Helmand province when it went off a little ahead of schedule and 10 of the ragheads were killed. Note in the excerpt from Khaleej Times here that the reason for so many Taliban killed is the greater size of the IEDs they are planting:
I think this is an interesting point that the more advanced and deadly IED's are now being used in Afghanistan while they have been in use in Iraq for quite some time. It shows to me that there has been some movement of jihadists from the Iraq War over to Afghanistan and at the same time, it makes me wonder about some Iranian influence in these IED's - whether it be some training or the materials that go into the bombs.
But either way, if the Taliban can consistently blow themselves up when setting these things, I'm all for that result!
Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan lawmaker, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taleban, officials said on Saturday.
In neighboring Helmand province, militants planting a roadside bomb detonated the device prematurely, killing 10 Taleban, said police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal.
The fact one bomb killed so many men appears to reflect the increased size of bombs Taleban fighters have been using in recent months. The bigger bombs long used in Iraq but a fairly new phenomenon in Afghanistanare shredding through heavily armored U.S. and NATO vehicles and killing multiple soldiers in one attack.
I think this is an interesting point that the more advanced and deadly IED's are now being used in Afghanistan while they have been in use in Iraq for quite some time. It shows to me that there has been some movement of jihadists from the Iraq War over to Afghanistan and at the same time, it makes me wonder about some Iranian influence in these IED's - whether it be some training or the materials that go into the bombs.
But either way, if the Taliban can consistently blow themselves up when setting these things, I'm all for that result!
10 Taleban killed while planting bomb
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan lawmaker, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taleban, officials said on Saturday.
The gunmen killed parliament member and former military commander Habibullah Jan after he visited an Afghan army compound in the Zhari district of Kandahar late Friday, said Kandahar provincial council member Bismillih Afghanmul.
Zhari is a volatile part of Kandahar contested heavily by militants and Canadian forces over the last two years.
Taleban fighters have frequently targeted Afghan officials, but Jan's death was the first of a parliamentarian in months.
In neighboring Helmand province, militants planting a roadside bomb detonated the device prematurely, killing 10 Taleban, said police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal.
The fact one bomb killed so many men appears to reflect the increased size of bombs Taleban fighters have been using in recent months. The bigger bombslong used in Iraq but a fairly new phenomenon in Afghanistanare shredding through heavily armored U.S. and NATO vehicles and killing multiple soldiers in one attack.
The deaths came the same day that the U.S. military said airstrikes by its attack helicopters hit two vehicles carrying insurgents in eastern Afghanistan.
Nuristan's Gov. Tamim Nuristani said by telephone that 22 civilians were killed in the strikes in the Waygal district on Friday, including a woman and a child.
But a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said Friday the airstrikes in Nuristan province hit militants who earlier attacked a U.S. military base with mortars.
The helicopters identified the militants' firing positions, tracked them down and destroyed the vehicles they were traveling in, said 1st Lt. Nathan Perry.
These were combatants. These were people who were firing on us," Perry said. We have no reports of noncombatant injuries."
He gave no account of casualties in the vehicles.
2 comments:
It is so bad that we are killing morons.
sigfried,
Technically on this one we didn't kill 'em! hahaha
I remember reading an article where a U.S. commander had detailed how much destruction the Taliban had done to Afghanistan while in power and that the Afghan troops were so much harder to train than the Iraqi ones because the Taliban had basically shut down all of the schools in the country.
:Holger Danske
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