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ATTACKERS (Taliban) ARE KILLED IN BOOBY-TRAP BID BLUNDER
Daily Mirror ^ | 1/10/07 | staff

Posted on 01/10/2007 6:06:45 AM PST by pissant

BUNGLING Taliban fanatics have blown themselves to pieces trying to set a booby-trap near a British base in the Afghan desert.

Little was left of the threeman terror cell after the huge blast near Camp Price. Marines from J Company, 4 2 Commando, are among 250 British troops at the base.

Commanding officer Major Ewen Murchison, from Bearsden, Glasgow, said: "It was what we would describe as an own-goal."

The Taliban were trying to lay a massive anti-tank mine, which dated back to the Russian occupation 20 years ago.

The blast could be heard over a mile away back at Camp Price. The accident has delighted the marines and their Afghan National Army allies, who could also have been victims.

Sergeant Syeed Din, from the Afghan unit attached to the Gereshk base, was among the first on the scene last week.

He said: "We collected their clothes, a turban and a Kalashnikov. Their heads were not present or their legs.

"Pieces were blown over a far distance. The mine had the power to kill for 100 yards. It was very powerful.

"It would have killed anyone in a vehicle going over it."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: deadjihadis; workaccident
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I'd like to see the video.
1 posted on 01/10/2007 6:06:46 AM PST by pissant
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Premature jihadulation


2 posted on 01/10/2007 6:08:20 AM PST by indcons (Kirk Herbstreit - loser extraordinaire and buffoon)
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To: pissant

I like the style the article is written. That's how wars used to be reported.


3 posted on 01/10/2007 6:08:42 AM PST by SolidWood (Sadr lives. Kill him.)
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"It was what we would describe as an own-goal."

Priceless.

4 posted on 01/10/2007 6:09:08 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: pissant

Terrorists are having a bad week. Heheheh


5 posted on 01/10/2007 6:09:21 AM PST by manic4organic
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"The accident has delighted the marines and their Afghan National Army allies"


6 posted on 01/10/2007 6:09:39 AM PST by pissant
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"It was what we would describe as an own-goal."

Ya gotta love the Brits.

7 posted on 01/10/2007 6:10:02 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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He said: "We collected their clothes, a turban and a Kalashnikov. Their heads were not present or their legs.

I'm not sure why, but I got a warm, fuzzy feeling when I read that.
8 posted on 01/10/2007 6:10:03 AM PST by Pox (If it's a Coward you are searching for, you need look no further than the Democrats.)
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The turban quote is priceless.


9 posted on 01/10/2007 6:10:43 AM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

10 posted on 01/10/2007 6:11:03 AM PST by batter ("Never let the enemy pick the battle site." - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: soccer8

bttt


11 posted on 01/10/2007 6:12:22 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: indcons

LOL


12 posted on 01/10/2007 6:12:38 AM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: pissant

This sort of thing is the origin of the phrase "hoist on your own petard".


13 posted on 01/10/2007 6:12:54 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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"It was what we would describe as an own-goal."

Brilliant. Too funny,

14 posted on 01/10/2007 6:13:16 AM PST by Beowulf
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Now that's funny.


15 posted on 01/10/2007 6:14:01 AM PST by SwankyC
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To: soccer8

May the good Lord take a likin to ya, and blow ya up REAL GOOD!

Missed that skit.

Oh, and 216 more virgins--think Helen Thomas cloned 215 more times would be acceptable?


16 posted on 01/10/2007 6:14:06 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: pissant
WHAT HAP...[BOOM!!]
17 posted on 01/10/2007 6:14:19 AM PST by RichInOC (SHAITAN: HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!! ALL YOUR SOUL ARE BELONG TO US. HA HA HA HA....)
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Do the Taliban qualify for Worker's comp?


18 posted on 01/10/2007 6:15:09 AM PST by Kenton (All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
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I can hear that announcer, "goaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal."


19 posted on 01/10/2007 6:15:28 AM PST by gate2wire
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To: OCCASparky

20 posted on 01/10/2007 6:15:59 AM PST by indcons (Kirk Herbstreit - loser extraordinaire and buffoon)
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