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Taliban blow up lorry carrying Christmas turkeys for British troops
DailyMail.com ^ | 19th December 2008 | staff writer

Posted on 12/19/2008 6:55:36 AM PST by yankeedame

Taliban blow up lorry carrying Christmas turkeys for British troops

Army chiefs have flown out a special consignment of Christmas turkeys to replace the ones destroyed when Taliban insurgents attacked a lorry packed with the birds bound for British troops....

The frozen birds were completely destroyed....en route from Pakistan to Camp Bastion.

The consignment of turkey roll breasts weighing 325kg was intended for soldiers stationed at Britain's main base in Helmand Province,...where...3,000 personnel will spend the festive season.


Dinner will be served: Replacement turkeys have been flown in...

Regimental Catering Warrant Officer Nick Townley, who is in charge of organising Christmas dinner for British troops in Afghanistan, said: 'Unfortunately one of our Christmas wagons got taken out so a lot of turkeys had to be flown in especially.'...


Gordon Brown addresses troops at Camp Bastion in Helmand
Province on Saturday. Up to 3,000 troops at the base will be
served Christmas lunch

On Christmas Day soldiers at the base will be able to tuck into the replacement turkey rolls as well as 135kg of roast pork, 424kg of gammon and 67.5kg of beef, topped off with 200 jars of cranberry sauce. Brussels sprouts will not be left off the menu - chefs will be preparing 62 boxes weighing a total of 148.8kg. There will also be 300kg of roast potatoes and 120kg of carrots.

And there will be 222 Christmas puddings, 37 Christmas cakes, and one mince pie and one After Eight mint each.

...But there will be no brandy for the Christmas sauce, with Camp Bastion a dry area. 'It wouldn't have made it in there anyway,' WO Townley joked.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: christmasiniraq; mohammedanism; mohammedanism122008; supplylines; taliban; uktroops
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Maybe it's the yankee in me but that's kind of an anemic looking bird.
1 posted on 12/19/2008 6:55:38 AM PST by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame

This means war...


2 posted on 12/19/2008 6:57:26 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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They were obviously targeting the pork and gammon, and hit the turkey by mistake.


3 posted on 12/19/2008 6:59:58 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: yankeedame

Now all the Whos in Whoville can have their roast beast!.............

4 posted on 12/19/2008 7:03:06 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: yankeedame

That looks more like a goose than a turkey...............


5 posted on 12/19/2008 7:04:42 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: yankeedame

They throw shoes and blow up frozen turkeys?....All I need to know about their sad ass world....


6 posted on 12/19/2008 7:14:16 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: yankeedame

A case of “turkeys” blowing up turkeys.


7 posted on 12/19/2008 7:15:24 AM PST by docbnj
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To: yankeedame

A case of “turkeys” blowing up turkeys.


8 posted on 12/19/2008 7:15:30 AM PST by docbnj
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'Unfortunately one of our Christmas wagons got taken out so a lot of turkeys had to be flown in especially.'

By helicopter?
9 posted on 12/19/2008 7:17:44 AM PST by Ragnar54
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I don’t know why they don’t just put ONE pork sausage in with every shipment of anything over there. Cheap and effective.


10 posted on 12/19/2008 7:19:56 AM PST by bboop (obama, little o, not a Real God)
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To: yankeedame

Also destroyed in the attack was a “surprise” shipment of Pork products (i.e. Bacon, Pork Chops) for the British Troops.

I would have to loved to add that to the news release just to see the look on the Islamic Terrorists faces..hehe


11 posted on 12/19/2008 7:24:07 AM PST by Huskr4Bush
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“I don’t know why they don’t just put ONE pork sausage in with every shipment of anything over there. Cheap and effective.”

Yep, that should work. Pork is their kryptonite :)


12 posted on 12/19/2008 7:24:07 AM PST by chickpundit (Palin '12)
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To: yankeedame

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.


13 posted on 12/19/2008 7:30:32 AM PST by stylin19a ( Real Men don't declare unplayable lies)
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To: yankeedame
"The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!"
14 posted on 12/19/2008 7:45:12 AM PST by agrace
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To: docbnj

Beat me by thiiiis much....tough fighters aren’t they? Or maybe, they just never learned how to defrost.


15 posted on 12/19/2008 7:52:13 AM PST by wizr (Merry CHRISTmas to our "one Nation under God.")
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To: yankeedame

Too bad those turkey’s were piglets.


16 posted on 12/19/2008 8:17:35 AM PST by tillacum (The most important part of CHRISTMAS, are the first 6 letters. MERRY CHRISTMAS.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

And they expect the Western World (us) to respect their Romudam.


17 posted on 12/19/2008 8:18:38 AM PST by tillacum (The most important part of CHRISTMAS, are the first 6 letters. MERRY CHRISTMAS.)
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Okay they don't like turkeys, send a lorry of hams to them. They would not dare blow that up and contaminate the landscape with bits of ham all over the neighborhood.
18 posted on 12/19/2008 8:22:28 AM PST by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: yankeedame
replacement turkeys

“Unfortunately, Taliban are not good eating.”

19 posted on 12/19/2008 8:24:50 AM PST by RichInOC (Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
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To: Ragnar54

O the Horror of it all! Frozen Turkeys blown to bits! Next time send Hams.


20 posted on 12/19/2008 10:02:20 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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