Afghan Children Locate Weapons Cache

Defend America ^ | May 25, 2005 | Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan

[AZHua87]

The children reported the location of a cache to New Zealand soldiers working at a Provisional Reconstruction Team site near Bamian.

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, May 25, 2005 — Afghan children and local police led Coalition forces to three rockets and a missile May 24 near the town of Bamian.

The children reported the location of a cache consisting of a rocket-propelled grenade, three mortars and approximately 40 small-arms rounds to New Zealand soldiers working at a Provisional Reconstruction Team site near Bamian.

"These children were doing the right thing by reporting these munitions to Coalition forces," U.S. Army Maj. Michael Hicks,

As the children took Coalition ------

[A CA Guy]

Good for them.

[Right Wing Assault]

The al-Qaeda Effers will probably track these kids down and kill them and their families. Because Allah told them to, of course.

[geopyg]

Reminds me of the story of the Iraqi girl that sat in the middle of the road. The humvees would swerve around her. Finally one of our guys stops to get her safely out of the road. She was sitting in front of a mine. She had received a teddy bear from one of our troops a few days earlier, and didn't want her new friends to get hurt.