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Gordon Brown has now came out today and told The Commons it was the Taliban who shot the five of them, when it was thought that it was just a 'rogue' Afghan policeman who carried out the act.
I didn't see PM Questions, but did he happen to give any evidence as to it being the Taliban? I'm only going on the BBC reports and it doesn't look to be conclusive at all, and comes across as Brown using this as a way to continue to keep troops in Afghanistan to fight the faceless Taliban enemy.
I didn't see PM Questions, but did he happen to give any evidence as to it being the Taliban? I'm only going on the BBC reports and it doesn't look to be conclusive at all, and comes across as Brown using this as a way to continue to keep troops in Afghanistan to fight the faceless Taliban enemy.
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support for the troops in afghanistan is still over 50%. Brown inherited this sh1t and there is no way out
50% my b0ll0x, where u get that figure from, let the backward feckers kill each other.
Give the Taliban ASBOs and pull the troops out, problem solved imo.
I'm just wondering if anyone quizzed him on it. The BBC report reads as if he just said that the Taliban had taken responsibility for it and everyone accepted that as fact.
if you can believe the mail
Taliban claim responsibility for attack which left five dead, eight wounded
First victim named as Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37
British military and Afghan police continue manhunt for gunman
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225090/Five-British-soldiers-killed...
Taliban claim responsibility for attack which left five dead, eight wounded
First victim named as Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37
British military and Afghan police continue manhunt for gunman
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225090/Five-British-soldiers-killed...
so the killer hasn't been caught?
are there eyewitnesses?
how do they know if perp is afghan/taliban?
are there eyewitnesses?
how do they know if perp is afghan/taliban?
No, at a check-point, and by running away I imagine.
*Inside a base and he escaped? How?
He ******** shot everyone
He ******** shot everyone
how did he shoot so quickly and no one managed for shoot him?
Well we don't know!! Maybe a couple were having a snooze. Bit unfair to speculate on the ability recently murdered servicemen to defend themselves!
Didnt mean to speak ill of the dead, just something doesnt seem right as im certain all 5 would of had a pistol.
it's quite simple... pull all the troops out .... then drop an atomic bomb on the whole lot of them
Fair enough kf, the details are scarce. I can see how it would be difficult for one man to kill four armed men standing facing him at a checkpoint, so I doubt those are the circumstances.
Right, no more serious threads for me tonight, it's football time!
Well, he probably just stood behind them and opened up. Simple. They'd have been riddled before they knew what was happening.
The AK47 is an automatic weapon with a cyclic rate of 600 rounds-per-minute
The Magic Flea 04 Nov 14:09
support for the troops in afghanistan is still over 50%. Brown inherited this sh1t and there is no way out
yer, and the same they say about immigration
support for the troops in afghanistan is still over 50%. Brown inherited this sh1t and there is no way out
yer, and the same they say about immigration
kingfisher 23 - I dont want to get in an argument about it, but its pretty understandable how he could get away with it.
A dozen squaddies sitting around scratching their rses getting shot at by a "friendly" wouldn't have known what hit them.
A dozen squaddies sitting around scratching their rses getting shot at by a "friendly" wouldn't have known what hit them.
wur 04 Nov 19:37
So, a 5 second burst would be 50 bullets
wont fire that many because you could not load 2 full mags on in that time
So, a 5 second burst would be 50 bullets
wont fire that many because you could not load 2 full mags on in that time
Of course it does beg the question should they have all been sitting around. I dont trust them and wouldn't. Id always have a couple of blokes "locked and loaded"
Did you read the report referenced above?
The British soldiers had laid down weapons and removed their helmets and body armour as proof of their trust in their hosts, local officials in the village of Shin Kalay, Nad-e'Ali district.
The gunman - named only as Gulbuddin - had climbed on to a roof before peppering the courtyard of the compound below with bullets
The British soldiers had laid down weapons and removed their helmets and body armour as proof of their trust in their hosts, local officials in the village of Shin Kalay, Nad-e'Ali district.
The gunman - named only as Gulbuddin - had climbed on to a roof before peppering the courtyard of the compound below with bullets
you can never trust them people, i say get the troops out and let them fight and kill each other like they have done for years, they know nothing else
GET THEM OUT!! 300 countries in the world, its not our problem. Close our borders and let them drown in their own filth.
My brother-in-law will be one of the guys carrying one of the coffins. He was due to replace one of the guys killed, next week. His best mate. This is just too much. When will karma slide a razor up Blairs rectum ? Hope it is very very soon.
Sorry to hear that, spassky. I think all you and your brother-in-law can say is, "There but for the grace of God go I"...
quietgenius 04 Nov 19:53
Did you read the report referenced above?
The British soldiers had laid down weapons and removed their helmets and body armour as proof of their trust in their hosts, local officials in the village of Shin Kalay, Nad-e'Ali district.
I'm not going to say what soldiers should have done, but if that was me, in a war zone, I wouldn't trust anybody further than I could spit.
Did you read the report referenced above?
The British soldiers had laid down weapons and removed their helmets and body armour as proof of their trust in their hosts, local officials in the village of Shin Kalay, Nad-e'Ali district.
I'm not going to say what soldiers should have done, but if that was me, in a war zone, I wouldn't trust anybody further than I could spit.
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