Taliban fighters wearing US uniform in Kabul attack
Military.com reports that the Taliban who attacked the Afghan interior ministry yesterday were wearing the Universal Camouflage Pattern Uniforms of US Army troops.
The attackers were attempting to drive through a checkpoint into the government complex when they were stopped by Afghan security, he said.
“They were wearing old-style Army uniforms,” Nicholson said. “The good news is that the guards at the gate, the Afghan guards, immediately recognized these as old uniforms, called on them to exit the vehicle so they could be checked out and, at that point, the fighting started.”
Nicholson said he was told one of the attackers “detonated his suicide vest and actually killed himself and some of his colleagues as they were conducting the attack.”
“They never gained entrance to the MOI headquarters,” he said.
The Afghan special police reaction unit on “alert status inside the city quickly reacted and killed all these terrorists before they could gain entrance to the MOI,” Nicholson said.
Seven of the eight enemy fighters were killed in the attempted attack; one was taken prisoner, Nicholson said.
It’s difficult to imitate US troops when they change their uniform so often, I guess.
Thanks to Bobo for the link.
Category: Terror War
Guess it worked out the same for the Taliban as it did for the Germans who tried that same shit on the 101st during the Battle of the Bulge.
This could have all been prevented if only the Army had never went to Velcro stick-ons and stayed with sew-on patches and name tags./smile
Dumbasses.
Your comment prompted me to read about Operation Greif, the German plan to masquerade as American troops. For that I thank you. It’s helluva story. Some 16 Germans, disguised as Americans, were caught, tried and shot. Others who were captured and later tried were acquitted. The reason? Orders were given to the Germans by their commander not to engage with the Americans uniforms on out of concern that, if caught, they would be treated as spies. The Germans had more success than did the Taliban. The Germans didn’t begin their operation by blowing themselves up. Nor did they smell like goat love.
Though a lot of high-up nazis were pole-smokers, so they have that in common.
Early on (prior to 30 June 1934), by all accounts a fair number apparently were. Afterwards, not as many.
Yes, the Night of the Long Knives ended the pole-smokers in the SA (Sturm Abteilung), anyway.
What exactly is a pole smoker?
Never heard of that term.
MCPO,
“Pole smoker”, a cock sucking faggot
The Germans in World War II were not very good at impersonating Americans. It’s also been reported that they tried to land spies in the U.S. from submarines, but were usually tripped up by slang and oddball factoids. For example, you might ask a Nazi infiltrator the following question which apparently had one of two possible answers:
Question: “Who played second base for the Cubs in the 1932 World Series?”
Correct answers: “Billy Herman” and “Fuck if I know”…
Who played second base for the Cubs in the 1932 World Series? Hmmm. . let’s see. . . Ach Ja! Dat schwarzer athelete you guys had. . . Um. . .Jessie O-vens! Ja! Das ist gut!!
FBI, mister. Please come with me.
And you guys were complaining about how many times the uniforms change, e.g., with the way the wind blows???
Perhaps the madness was one method?
I wonder how many mounds of trash they dug through to get those uniforms and WHO were the dumbasses that threw them away whole?
“The Afghan special police reaction unit on “alert status inside the city quickly reacted and killed all these terrorists before they could gain entrance to the MOI,” Nicholson said.”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, you fleabag goat-fuckers!
Prolly bought ’em on EBay.
When I was demobbing from Iraq, whe had to turn in our FRACU’s because they weren’t authorized for wear in garrison. A couple of mine had my name tape, rank, and US Army sewn on them and when I asked if those needed to be removed I was told “No, these are going to be bundled up and destroyed”.
Six months later, a Scout Master from Maryland reached out to me on LinkedIN and asked if I was the “CPL Kane” who’d recently come back from a deployment to Iraq and if so he wanted to thank me for the donation of uniform tops, pants, boots, and other gear to his troop. He also asked me to pass along my thanks to the other soliders who’d donated stuff…
Two things I learned from that:
1) Lock down your fucking LinkedIN
2) Bundled up and destroyed doesn’t mean what I think it means
“You keep using that word …”
https://youtu.be/dTRKCXC0JFg?t=8
Great work by that Afghan sentry.
The Pentagon, Washington, D.C. BREAKING NEWS. Air Force officials point to the Kabul incident as justification for now changing BDU patterns every three months, or sooner if needed. According to a spokesperson who could not be identified because they were speaking off the record, “The Air Force was ahead of the curve all of these years in anticipation of just such a need.” “We can waste as much warfighter money as necessary to ensure our troops are vogue” s/he said.
And they got an anonymous medal for their speaking off the record.
Finally, stolen valor is treated with ferocity.
SPEW ALERT!!!
This week have been full of surprises. First I discover that Valerie Jarrett is black instead of Persian, and now that the policy of changing uniforms may actually work on our favor despite the expense.
I hear that she is the product of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes. OMG! Did I just say that? Yes. That aside, I turned that show Roseanne on for about 10 minutes when it first came out years ago. It took me 2 mins to dislike her, 3 mins to dislike the show, and the remaining 5 I was in the bathroom.
Did you just acknowledge to jerking off to Roseanne????
For 5 full minutes???
*pukes on the keyboard*
Actually, Yef, there are four things I do in my bathroom and that’s not one of them. Projection is a revealing bitch.
I know what Rosanne said about Valerie Jarrett was wrong, repugnant, vile, and whatever bad thing you can say about it. I get it. Rosanne said it and paid the price.
But goddammit, that was some funny shit!
Not at all sure what she said that was objectionable or why. Sure, I get that it has something to do with apes. Didn’t Charlton Heston star in the movie? Is that part of it? All I know about the movie is that there was an obelisk in it and something about apes communicating in a language we humans could not understand. Not my cup of tea, and I just don’t get how it is/was racist.
Whatever. Those of us who don’t hang around with racists cannot keep up with all the new meanings of words which have apparently become code for something. The only people I know who really are racists are lefties. It irks me that they have coopted the language.
Amen Brother. The lefties get to pick & choose, the right only gets to receive the results. What an upside down world this has become…..
If she had just worded it a little differently she would have been OK. She should have tweeted: “If Karl Marx and Huma’s mom had spawn = VJ.” Then she would have been good to go. At least she didn’t call her a muzzie loving porch monkey, cuz that would have been really offensive, despite what the hero of “Clerks II” said about that colloquialism.
I find what Jarrett has said about her religion and changing this country more disturbing.
You gave it more air time than I did. I don’t believe I even watched the opening commercial. Just something about her I cannot stand.
In the 8 (?) seasons she was on, I think I watched a total of 10 minutes. Yes, Club Manager, there is something about her I can’t stand as well. She’s an obnoxious, holier than thou slime ball.
She supposedly has spent the last few days sending hundreds of emails defending herself, apologizing
and otherwise trying to salvage her reputation. Doesn’t seem to be working.
Now, if she had said the same thing about, say, Condi Rice or prominent Conservative (if there are any) she would have gotten a pass. IMHO
Without question HMC.. if she’d been a leftist like, ooh, I don’t know, samantha bee…, and said that about Condi Rice, there would not be a single word about it in the media…
I learned that the left believes that the first daughter is a feckless c*** and that the president is into incest. But the uniform thing I already knew about they been doing that since at least 2008.
After iranian backed militia took captured Iraqi Army Humvees back to Iran it was only going to be a matter of time before they were used in attacks
The technical name for this type of war crime is “perfidy.” I can think of some other words to describe the war criminals who try to commit perfidy by wearing outdated uniforms.
I imagine the conversation went between Taliban commanders and their subordinates went something like this:
Taliban CDR: We have this stockpile of US uniforms. Wear these to attack.
Guy: But aren’t those old uniforms? The color is wrong.
Taliban CDR: Well… err… umm… I’m sure you’ll be alright.
Guy: ok…
Okay, so, for the fall pattern, you’ll be wearing mossy oak from Cabela’s.
Winter will be back to the chocolate chips camo from Desert Storm, so I hope you guys & gals saved those.
And for Spring next year, it’ll be the classic ‘fields of poppies’ based on Monet’s famous painting.
Also, this is TOP SECRET SQUIRREL stuff so don’t tell anyone about it right now.
I must be a morbid emeffer…I couldn’t help but stare at the corpses fingernails, and the lack of color due to no blood flow.
So another feel good story. especially the part wear the vest wearer got squirrely and offed himself and a few of his own. Good times, good times.
Sounds like they had Wiley Coyote along as the demo expert.
With Fire Marshall Bill Burns supervising
Surely the long hair and beard were a dead giveaway?
What? Too soon?