grenade attack in afghanistan

fsstnotch · #1 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 11:17 AM

This is horrible! one of our convoys is stuck in a ditch, a crowd builds and what happens? Some idiot has to try to kill everyone! I love the report given to the media by the locals.... ".... they saw a U.S. soldier fire a grenade launching weapon. Others said they saw a soldier reach into his pocket and throw a grenade."

3 US soldiers wounded in this incident! This kind of thing makes it impossible for us to win the locals over!!! They will certainly believe the media before believing the truth. This was a russian grenade......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7YecnYBn_4

Oh, and apparently, we have to resort to putting this stuff on youtube to keep people from believing that we would do this.

bomelia · #2 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 12:16 PM

Stay safe Notch, and we will keep passing this stuff around for you.

Basturds all of them.

Mike

4RE KLR · #3 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 04:53 PM

It is good that no one was killed. At least that is what I understand.

Stay safe man,

and thank you for doing what you do for us all. If it were not for you and the rest of America's Best, our children would not sleep peacefully at night.

Jamo · #4 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 05:13 PM

Starting to sound like South Central...

fsstnotch · #5 (**permalink**) 06-13-2009, 02:32 AM

STeve, actually i believe reports are 2 dead (both locals) and 30-50 wounded. There are several thing that bother me with this video... First, the soldiers don't appear to feel any threat = BAD! They will hit you when you are relaxed. 2nd, by letting the locals gather in a mass crowd like that, it was just asking for something bad to happen. luckily for the crowd and our guys on the ground, it wasn't a suicide bomber or a car bomb because the damage would have been much worse! I think the reason it wasn't such an attack is because the bad guys were hoping it would do a little more damage and make Us look bad. We are trying to win these villages over and they like to take any chance possible to try to instill doubt in the villagers. They know that if we win the villages over, it means they can no longer be harbored in those villages. They can no longer collect tax from those villages. The TB was hurt BADLY in the finance department this spring when we seized hundreds of tons of their opium seeds that would have turned into drugs and sold to fund their cause. With more men on the ground, we are also able to crack down on the lumber trade that is another of their big revenue sources.

4RE KLR · #6 (**permalink**) 06-13-2009, 02:44 PM

Sorry to hear that. I guess I missed the locals getting killed in the incident.

fsstnotch · #7 (**permalink**) 06-13-2009, 10:00 PM

Ya, it may not have been reported because they were locals?? I dunno.

Scott S · #8 (**permalink**) 06-15-2009, 07:41 AM

Who or what was getting the video?

Scott S