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US Marines kill more than 70 Taliban leaders in Afghanistan
FoxNews ^ | May 30, 2018 | Lucas Tomlinson

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; helmand; oef; taliban; trumpgwot; usmc; winning
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To: huldah1776

Nice JOB!!!!


21 posted on 05/30/2018 3:04:00 PM PDT by Professional
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To: huldah1776

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!


22 posted on 05/30/2018 3:10:13 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: huldah1776

Great news to start any day


23 posted on 05/30/2018 3:16:27 PM PDT by Lee25
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To: huldah1776
WINNING!!!

24 posted on 05/30/2018 3:18:47 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: huldah1776

Just 70? Must have been just a couple of boots, then.

OooRah!


25 posted on 05/30/2018 3:22:51 PM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: huldah1776

Maybe that newish Excalibur GPS guided artillery munitions?


26 posted on 05/30/2018 3:31:01 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: huldah1776

They are running out of virgins somewhere...


27 posted on 05/30/2018 3:32:14 PM PDT by databoss
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To: huldah1776

While I am all for vaporizing Taliban, I have distrusted enemy body counts since the Vietnam war.


28 posted on 05/30/2018 3:41:11 PM PDT by FXRP (Just me and the pygmy pony)
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To: huldah1776

Love wrapping up the day with some good news !


29 posted on 05/30/2018 3:51:33 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: huldah1776

70. Nice round number.

I guess now they won’t have more chiefs than indians.


30 posted on 05/30/2018 4:00:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: huldah1776

only 70? I want more coz we got a quota to meet by Christmas.


31 posted on 05/30/2018 4:03:26 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
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To: Chauncey Gardiner
The Muslim Brotherhood just went apeshit.

I see what you did there.
32 posted on 05/30/2018 4:05:47 PM PDT by tenger (If we don't stay on 'em, they'll get it wrong. - Joe Soucheray)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner
The Muslim Brotherhood just went apeshit.

I see what you did there.
33 posted on 05/30/2018 4:05:47 PM PDT by tenger (If we don't stay on 'em, they'll get it wrong. - Joe Soucheray)
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To: MGunny

Takes time for the “comfort zone” you know that.

:^)


34 posted on 05/30/2018 4:06:43 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: databoss

Maybe those guys ARE the virgins......


35 posted on 05/30/2018 4:08:02 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: huldah1776

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.


36 posted on 05/30/2018 4:19:52 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!w)
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To: huldah1776

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.


37 posted on 05/30/2018 4:23:24 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: FXRP

You and me both.


38 posted on 05/30/2018 5:00:04 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Seruzawa

“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.


39 posted on 05/30/2018 5:24:47 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: DAC21

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...


40 posted on 05/30/2018 5:56:04 PM PDT by null and void (Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
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