The US become the victim (prey) in Afganistan!!! :
...... the U.S. military may have unwittingly become prey to misinformation from local tribal chiefs and their cohorts.... ....., just settling old scores and revenge..... ......There are so many people who have satellite phones...these satellite phones appear(?) to have been distributed rather indiscriminately....
So it looks like while the USA just quietly minding its own business ( i.e. rearranging rocks in Afganistan using special explosives and laser technology)when those evil tribal leaders abused the good heart and naivity of the CIA and the US military intelligence and using the satellite phones ordering a bombing raid on their neighbours...
Is not that hearbreaking ?
It is so unfair... While the US people working so hard to be able to support their humanitarian rock re-arranging missions over the world, some people are just abusing the system. It is almost as bad when children calling the fire brigade when there is no fire and then just laugh around the corner.
And the sad thing that this is an epidemic... Already happend a week before. An other bogus phonecall resulted 60 Afghan elders got killed on the way to see the new president. The intelligent intelligence insist that they are sure that it was Taliban ... or ... Al Qaeda ... or the seven dwarf .... or .... anyway some bad guys from a cave or mine.... You know these satellite phones not always very clear.
Maybe some security procedures should be introduced, like when someone calls the bombing hotline to bomb their neighbour, they sould ask 'are you sure?' or something like that....
It could save many expensive taxpayer-financed bombs and all the troubles of take off the heavy B52-s, pushing butons on the latest high tech game-boy, washing hands after and so on...
The original Reuters report spoke of a cameraman, who was evidently out of film since he failed to take photos of what the Reuters reporter had described.
The bitterness of your blame-America-first comments betray your own "envy" of something. Power?
To start your post by comparing a sympathetic sentence in a mildly sympathetic article during war time to Stalin's state controlled media is the epitome of stupidity. I wonder how many hours you spent preparing for this big moment. {smile}
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Get lost.
Send this lameo to tend camels in Afghanistan. If the women were "much better dressed than anywhere else in Afghanistan", then it's pretty clear they could be considered the elite Taliban of the area who were accustomed to much better than the peons whose necks they used for boot scrapes. Do these Liberal anti-American rags think this is the 70's where people never read between the lines?
God Bless America