ATTACKERS (Taliban) ARE KILLED IN BOOBY-TRAP BID BLUNDER

Daily Mirror ^ | 1/10/07 | staff

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BUNGLING Taliban fanatics have blown themselves to pieces trying to set a booby-trap near a British base in the Afghan desert.

Little was left of the threeman terror cell after the huge blast near Camp Price. Marines from J Company, 4 2 Commando, are among 250 British troops at the base.

Commanding officer Major Ewen Murchison, from Bearsden, Glasgow, said: "It was what we would describe as an own-goal."

The Taliban were trying to lay a massive anti-tank mine, which dated back to the Russian occupation 20 years ago.

The blast could be heard over a mile away back at Camp Price. The accident has delighted the marines and their Afghan National Army allies, who could also have been victims.

Sergeant Syeed Din, from the Afghan unit attached to the Gereshk base, was among the first on the scene last week.

He said: "We collected their clothes, a turban and a Kalashnikov. Their heads were not present or their legs.

"Pieces were blown over a far distance. The mine had the power to kill for 100 yards. It was very powerful.

"It would have killed anyone in a vehicle going over it."

[pissant]

I'd like to see the video.

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Premature jihadulation

[SolidWood]

I like the style the article is written. That's how wars used to be reported.

[Larry Lucido]

"It was what we would describe as an own-goal."

Priceless.

[manic4organic]

Terrorists are having a bad week. Heheheh

[pissant]

"The accident has delighted the marines and their Afghan National Army allies"

[cinives]

"It was what we would describe as an own-goal."

Ya gotta love the Brits.

[Pox]

He said: "We collected their clothes, a turban and a Kalashnikov. Their heads were not present or their legs.

I'm not sure why, but I got a warm, fuzzy feeling when I read that.

[pissant]

The turban quote is priceless.

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[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[savedbygrace]

LOL

[DuncanWaring]

This sort of thing is the origin of the phrase "hoist on your own petard".

[Beowulf]

"It was what we would describe as an own-goal."

Brilliant. Too funny,

[SwankyC]

Now that's funny.

[OCCASparky]

May the good Lord take a likin to ya, and blow ya up REAL GOOD!

Missed that skit.

Oh, and 216 more virgins--think Helen Thomas cloned 215 more times would be acceptable?

[RichInOC]

WHAT HAP...[BOOM!!]

[Kenton]

Do the Taliban qualify for Worker's comp?

[gate2wire]

I can hear that announcer, "goaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal."

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