Whops! "You mean we aren't supposed to supply the Taliban?"

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Mr. Rictus said:
Nato admits mistakenly supplying arms and food to Taliban
Anil Dawar and agencies guardian.co.uk, Friday April 18 2008

Nato forces mistakenly supplied food, water and arms to Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials today admitted.

Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from a helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province.

The coalition helicopter had intended to deliver pallets of supplies to a police checkpoint in Ghazni, a remote section of Zabul late last month.

By mistake they were dropped some distance from the checkpoint where it was taken by the Taliban, the Internal Security Affairs Commission of the Wolesi Jirga — the Afghan parliament's lower house — was told.

Hamidullah Tukhi, a local politician from Zabul, told the parliamentary commission that the consignment had been taken by a local Taliban commander.

A Nato spokesman said the pallets were carrying rocket propelled grenades, ammunition, water and food.

Afghan politicians have said they do not believe the drop was an accident.

Nato's General Carlos Branco blamed it on "human error" when the navigator confused two very similar grid references.

A spokesman at Nato headquarters in Brussels denied the suggestion the alliance had deliberately armed the Taliban. "We are aware of it but we are not fired up about it. It sounds like someone made a mistake. It was a cock-up rather than a conspiracy.

"The forces on the ground are working to get the message across that we do not deliberately supply the Taliban with arms."
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where is your source for this?
 
Dirty Shoez

Dirty Shoez

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KrypticFlowz said:
No I'm not really serious, but thats a pretty big fuck up don't you think?
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See the above comment about "nuclear warheads". Some people don't know what the hell they're talking about.

In this case, we go from "Supplying the Taliban".....to dropping something in the wrong location, then having it be recovered by the Taliban. Big difference.

How many airdrops do you think the US Army has done since 2003? How many a day do you think happen? How big of a fuck-up could it be if we haven't heard of this happening at least once a week or once a month, with hundreds or possibly thousands of these things happening every year?

Is 99.9% not a good average to you? Would you like to tell me a more acceptable percentage?

I don't expect you to answer that though. Thats a GOM-level question, where only radicals are allowed and all dissenting opinion is to be exterminated and removed at once.
 
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