EXCLUSIVE: Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base

Fox News ^ | June 17th, 2010

[TaraP]

A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from a Texas Air Force base where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English, FoxNews.com has learned.

The Afghan officers and enlisted men have security badges that give them access to secure U.S. defense installations, according to the lookout bulletin, "Afghan Military Deserters in CONUS [Continental U.S.]," issued by Naval Criminal Investigative Service in Dallas, and obtained by FoxNews.com.

The Afghans were attending the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The DLI program teaches English to military pilot candidates and other air force prospects from foreign countries allied with the U.S.

"I can confirm that 17 have gone missing from the Defense Language Institute," said Gary Emery, Chief of Public Affairs, 37th Training Wing, at Lackland AFB. "They disappeared over the course of the last two years, and none in the last three months."

Each Afghan was issued a Department of Defense Common Access Card, an identification card used to gain access to secure military installations, with which they "could attempt to enter DOD installations," according to the bulletin. Base security officers were encouraged to disseminate the bulletin to their personnel.

[maica]

If seventeen ‘students’ have decided to take a walk into the good life, how many Afghanis have been brought to this Language Institute in the past two or eight years?

[kimmie7]

ping

[El Gato]

Yeah - back in 2008!

What you talking about?

Published June 17, 2010 | FOXNews.com

[Cindy]

See post no. 68.

[El Gato]

Oh, they are probably just out sacrificing a goat on some hill or another expressing their rich Afghan culture.

If they want goat, called cabrito if it's baby goat. they just have to go to the West side and find a hole in the wall restaurant. Unleavened bread too, (called tortillas). They'd fit right in.

[AliVeritas]

ping

[Gondring]

Navy Missing Mini Subs

These get lost all the time. In fact, I know someone who works with them who has learned not to get his hopes up when one is found because it's often not one of his.

A naval exercise losing four? I wouldn't get wound up.

[concerned about politics]

They have security badges that give them access to secure U.S. defense installations, can speak English, and are pilots.

If I lived in a major U.S. city right now, I'd be ducking.

[I can just imagine what kind of freedoms would be lost with a crises like this. Oboma would throw a party. A housing crash right before the election led to an economic take over. Swine flu scare lead to Oboma Death Care. The oil spill to Cap and Tax. I wonder what they have planned for a terrorist attack. Total marshal law forever? (Let's a pray they catch these guys before they give Oboma another opportunity)]

[El Gato]

Afghanistan has an air force? We’re training them to be pilots? How stupid is our government?

Yes they do, and yest we are. Iraqis too. Remember it was the Norther Alliance that did most of the ground pounder fighting during the early days of the war there, with US special forces acting as liason to the heavy firepower. In fact, well before 9-11 *they* would have popped bin Laden had we given them the go ahead. Billy Jeff couldn't be bothered to come to the phone.

It was Northern Alliance Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum that told the Taliban " America is so determined, they bring their women to kill the Taliban. You’re so pathetic. It’s the angel of death raining fire upon you.” Then the "Angel of Death", a USAF weapons officer on an AC-130, first told them, with General Dostum translating, exactly what she was going to do to them, then she and the rest of the crew did it.

(as of 2008) Captain Allison Black, the Angel of Death. One of them anyway. :)

Another descrition. The following is from "The Hunt For Bin Laden - Task Force Dagger, by Robin Moore, pg. 99..

Dabbling in psychological operations, the (Special Forces) team asked TASK FORCE DAGGER to give them an AC-130 gunship for a few nights. Once again, the weapons release officer was the efficient and attractive Air Force captain named Allison. When the bird came overhead, TIGER 01 would announce to the Taliban in Dari and Arabic that the "Angel of Death" had arrived and she had something to give them. Ally would then follow on the Taliban's command frequency, speaking with her soft, sensuous voice in English, calmly explaining to the enemy that she knew how they treated women, so it was only fair that she get an opportunity to repay their kindness. More than a few SF operators got a woody listening to her sultry description of the havoc that was about to be unleashed. Then, Ally voice would abruptly disappear as the Spectre's 105mm cannons and mini-guns would let loose, wreaking death and destruction of biblical proportions on the Taliban's trench lines.

[Tennessee Nana]

Lackland...

Yes there were pilots from Iran when I was there in 1972..

They were Moslems...some of the young girls in my group thought they were cute and would sneak out at night to play...

[concerned about politics]

Sub Spotted on the Coast of Florida - Navy Missing Mini Subs

Wow. These could blow up an oil rig, like the one in the gulf.
ODD - the 17 are just now being reported missing after 2 years. Why bring them up now?

[infidel29]

Isn’t killing infidels in the name of allah a “moral goal”?

[El Gato]

That's nice, but he's probably lowland Pakistani. The Afghans are much more western looking.

But the Taliban are from the South of the country, and might tend to look a bit more like hill country Pakistanis Plus they have lots of "foreign" fighters, who are not Afghan at all, some are Al Qaeda, others are free-lancers.

[El Gato]

See post no. 68.

Yes, I saw that, but the *story* is still breaking today, not over the last two years. Lots of stories don't break until well after the events they report.

But it does throw a different light on the story, 17 over 8 years. No big deal, I'm surprised it's not more. Probably got lost in the titty bars, and decided it was so much nicer in Texas. Afghans are pretty European looking, save some have a little darker skin. They'd fit right in in Texas or New Mexico, and will likely never be found, unless they want to be.

[El Gato]

They have security badges that give them access to secure U.S. defense installations, can speak English, and are pilots.

Not unless they change the names. Ever gate guard in the southern half of the country will be looking for them.

[Candor7]

They are all driving taxis in Dallas.And they all are named Mohammed or Hussein.

[21twelve]

“Not unless they change the names. Every gate guard in the southern half of the country will be looking for them.”

BTW - have we heard anymore about the couple that tried to get their car full of weapons onto that army base?

[Irenic]

Isn’t killing infidels in the name of allah a “moral goal”?
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I see your point.

These 17 would be infidels, no?

They’ve betrayed Afghanistan or the USA...or both.

So, it would be a “moral goal” to kill them while screaming LaLa candy-bar?

I suppose we really should get the National Science Foundation to study this first, just to be sure.

[surroundedbyblue]

I’m ready to flip over this....WHY THE HELL ARENT THE OTHER NETWORKS CARRYING THIS STORY?????? Seriously, who the hell is running this country? I know we have a douchebag in the WH but has everyone else lost their minds? I cannot believe that this isn’t all over every website & TV station! Gggrrrrrrr!!!!

[IrishPennant]

Wabbir season

Duck season

Wabbit season

Duck season

Afghany season

"BAM"