Posted on 05/30/2018 2:21:33 PM PDT by huldah1776
U.S. Marines in Afghanistan killed dozens of Taliban leaders last week using rocket artillery after tracking them to a meeting in volatile Helmand Province, according to the top American general in Afghanistan Wednesday.
U.S. Forces Afghanistan said more than 50 Taliban commanders, including the deputy Taliban shadow governor of Helmand was killed. Taliban leaders from six other provinces across Afghanistan were killed as well in the strike in the Musa Qala district of Helmand, according to the statement.
Twenty other Taliban leaders were killed in air strikes earlier this month by drones and Air Force A-10 Warthog jets based in neighboring Kandahar, which arrived earlier this year along with thousands of additional American troops.
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Nice JOB!!!!
When will the media start whining about civilian casualties? But they’d have to put Roseanne on the back burner to do that . . . Decisions, decisions!
Great news to start any day
Just 70? Must have been just a couple of boots, then.
OooRah!
Maybe that newish Excalibur GPS guided artillery munitions?
They are running out of virgins somewhere...
While I am all for vaporizing Taliban, I have distrusted enemy body counts since the Vietnam war.
Love wrapping up the day with some good news !
70. Nice round number.
I guess now they won’t have more chiefs than indians.
only 70? I want more coz we got a quota to meet by Christmas.
Takes time for the “comfort zone” you know that.
:^)
Maybe those guys ARE the virgins......
Kill one and ten more step up. This “victory” will be as effective in the long term as the rest. Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires for a reason.
Afghans killed some too:
https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/gunmen-dressed-as-us-soldiers-attack-afghan-interior-ministry-1.530091
“...The guards at the gate recognized that the uniforms were dated versions of those worn by U.S. soldiers and demanded the attackers exit the vehicle. That’s when the fighting started, Nicholson said, and one of the attackers detonated a suicide vest, killing himself and some of his fellow gunmen.
The Crisis Response Unit 222, a special police unit, responded to the attack and quickly killed the remaining assailants, Nicholson said.
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You and me both.
“Kill one and ten more step up. This “victory” will be as effective in the long term as the rest. Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires for a reason”
Our technology to indentify / kill the slime at standoff distance will continue to improve, theirs will not. Difficult but not a hopeless situation.
We fight civilized like.
Perhaps if the Chinese were turned loose, they could see fit to, as Genghis Khan did, kill every male taller than a cartwheel.
They could then replace all those missing Chinese women lost to the one-child policy with Afghani women.
And have some lebenstraum...
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