Footage Shows Taliban Handling US Weapons, Ammo
US Has No Idea Where Taliban Got Them
In footage broadcast today on al-Jazeera, members of the Taliban insurgency
in Afghanistan were shown handling weapons and ammunition, including mines, which bore US insignias on them.
The Taliban reportedly acquired the weapons from US bases attacked in October in the remote Nuristan Province and the footage was apparently taken in this region, which the US has largely abandoned.
NATO spokesmen confirmed that the equipment shown appeared to be American, but said they had no idea where the Taliban could’ve gotten them. The US insists that forces took all the equipment with them when they abandoned the bases.
Nuristan’s provincial police chief disagreed, however, saying that the US had definitely left ammunition at the base. NATO says it has no intention of conducting any investigation over the footage, though this may well change if American anti-personnel mines start showing up in insurgent attacks.
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generalissmo x
November 11th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
sure, maybe it's captured equipment. it could also be equipment supplied by the cia to keep this pointless conflict going on perpetually. anyone who doesn't think we're playing both sides of this conflict is an imbecile. people talk about oil or natural gas but its about the opium. the cia pushes the crop through central asia into the balkans and onto the u.s. the drug cash is what's propping up wall street and its no coincidence every SEC chairman has also worked for the cia. these corporate f*cks could give a rat's sack about afganistan.
MvGuy
November 11th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
W0W, it that really true generalissmo x That ALL SEC "chairmen" are X secret police/gov. ?? !!
I know you are correct that the co has a long narco past.. In Vietnam they were transporting opium & or heroin for the [or that is the claim] Vietnamese.. The neocons were very cocaine busy when they were wreaking havoc [17,OOO campesinos MURDERED] in Central America, not to mention their proxies killed an ArchBishop Romero… znd several churchwomen…. PLUS the TONS of coke they brought home to finance their contras.. Now their portfolio is Afghanistan….!!!!!
paulBass
November 11th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
maybe one of the us/nato convoys didn't pay their tolls and taxes to the taliban and had to pay with their cargo.
Sheridan
November 12th, 2009 at 1:53 am
You're so naive. Have you forgotten Vietnam and the Phoenix Program? How the CIA dressed their Nung mercenaries in black pajamas to resemble Viet Cong and then supplied them with M-16's? It's Vietnam all over again.