US jets accidentally fire on Northern Alliance positions

Jang breaking ^ | 1830 PST

[Int]

US jets accidentally fire on Northern Alliance positions

(Updated at 1830 PST)
BAGRAM: United States fighter jets on Monday mistakenly fired on opposition posts during their third raid on Taliban frontlines north of the Afghan capital Kabul, said a report quoting witnesses.

Four photographers were in an opposition post when two F-16's screamed overhead.

They said they saw at least two bombs land near opposition posts and another bomb hit a Taliban controlled area near Qalai Nasru, west of Bagram airbase and situated some 45 kms north of Kabul.

[Int]

This AFP article mentions the photographers' names

[sharkdiver]

hahahahahahahahhahahah......The British and The Germans hiding. If memory serves the americans were the front line forces throughout most of the war when the "BRITISH" couldn't even manage a beachhead into Europe and were playing a defensive game until the USA jumped the big pond and took the fight to Germany..hahahahahahahahahahahah

[John Jorsett]

When I was working on a new submarine communication system, I was monitoring an exercise. One sub 'sank' a merchant vessel that had the misfortune to look like a hostile. The subs response: "war is hell". I hope that they're a little less casual about it if it ever happens for real.

[NeonKnight]

Duh, when the Americans are firing 99% of the ordinance, it is only math that they are the most likely to have the most wayward ordinace. do I need to show you before and after pics to convince you of the accuracy of American ordinance?

[madrussian]

Yeah, they all look the same...

[Rokke]

Thanks for the link. Two things: 1. There are no F-16's in Afghanistan (maybe they were F-18's). 2. If the photographers were 75 meters from where one of the bombs hit, they most likely wouldn't have survived. The smallest ordinance our jets carry contains 500lbs of high explosive. Anything within 500 meters probably won't survive. Unless of course, they were under cover, in which case they couldn't have seen the jets to begin with.

[R_Kangel]

Sorry, my last pic didn't load.

DOH!

[J Jay]

Those Northerners shouldn't be wearing Taliban "uniforms".

[JoeGar]

As a former fighter-bomber pilot, I am not surprised at any errant bombs when the dropping aircraft are observing a 15,000-foot "floor" on their activities. If you want to know what you are dropping on, you need to get down low amongst the trees where you can see things with human eyes.

[mad_as_he$$]

Hey wack job - with nukes you don't always get points for accuracy. We are the predominate military in the world. Do you think that the raghead with a RPG is more accurate than an F-16? By the way I don't buy this story for a minute. 16's aren't in the ATO yet as far as I can tell.

[rmvh]

Re your #29

I do no hate Americans. I feel for almost all Americans almost what I feel for the Caribbean Indians, as Colombus arrived on the scene. Short time later they were wiped out from the face of the earth. I feel sadness.

Try some reality and less emotion. The national and native boundries of the earth constantly change...Americans did not invent this. People who are lazy gert run over by people who are inventive. Its the story of humanity and without it we would all be living in caves.

America, because of education and freedom, is the greatest nation on earth and I love it!

The Arabs have always been an indolent people and without oil there would be no high living and jealous Arab upper class existing on the backs of their uneducated people. Islam made it worse for it provided a ghastly politcal system that teaches that it is perfectly acceptable to target and kill innocent people. What scum!

[Doctor Freeze]

Tell the Northern Alliance to get out of the way! Incoming!!!