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NATO invent cities to liberate!

  • 02-04-2010 10:48am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭


    The Washington Post reported Feb. 22 that the decision to launch the offensive against Marjah was intended largely to impress US public opinion with the effectiveness of the US military in Afghanistan by showing that it could achieve a "large and loud victory."

    Counterfire.org

    An NWO of idiots perhaps. :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Torakx


    I highly doubt they went in there without a single scout, map or satelite photo.
    Must be another reason they are moving in.Possibly setting up a more permanent base?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    Torakx wrote: »
    I highly doubt they went in there without a single scout, map or satelite photo.
    Must be another reason they are moving in.Possibly setting up a more permanent base?

    I'l give you a little hint as to what they're after in the Hellmand Province


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    I'l give you a little hint as to what they're after in the Hellmand Province

    The Stranglers have gone to Afghanistan?:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Torakx


    Lol golden brown indeed.
    I guess its a possibility since afghanistans opium productions been up 80% or so since the US arrived.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭thecommander


    Torakx wrote: »
    I guess its a possibility since afghanistans opium productions been up 80% or so since the US arrived.

    Really? Where was that?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Torakx




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Hashish and Opiates. Apparently 10% of the worlds illicit opuim comes from there. It's also a source of income for the Taliban.

    The spanish tried to get the framers there to grow pistachio nuts instead! Thing is they take nearly ten years to cultivate.


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