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Nato admits mistakenly supplying arms and food to Taliban

guardian.co.uk — Afghan politicians have said they do not believe the drop was an accident. But they're crazy conspiracy theorists ofcourse...

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  • Look4Truth, on 04/20/2008, -13/+39Accident? Yeah sure, I believe that one...
    • markvand, on 04/20/2008, -4/+22It's an accident, just like the time they flew hundreds of Al Qaeda and Taliban members to Pakistan. Nato just makes a lot of accidents. They can sent a missile down your chimney but they can't drop arms on the right position...
      • gn0stik, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2Well if it's not ineptitude, then we've got countries hiding behind NATO, and using it to absorb blame for supporting terrorism. If that's the case then organizations like this shouldn't exist.
    • markvand, on 04/20/2008, -6/+24Or the time we let a top Taliban general go:
      http://www.prisonplanet.com/soldiers_say_us_let_ta ...
      We sure do make a lót of mistakes in Afghanistan...
      But remember, those are all mistakes, don't think anything else, if you do you're a conspiracy theorist.
    • Picaroon, on 04/20/2008, -12/+6Please let me know what evidence you have to the contrary (prisonplanet does not count)
      • yodaj007, on 04/20/2008, -5/+12And why does prisonplanet not count?
        • JointVenture, on 04/20/2008, -11/+8because prison planet says the world is being run by lizardmen.
        • metric7, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1No they don't, you would know that if you went there.
          • JointVenture, on 04/21/2008, -3/+1Trust me I went through my Freemason, Bilderberger stage when I was in my early 20's. I think its something a lot of people go through when they are searching for who they are. Much easier to sit back and think you have no control than go out and work hard. Didnt last long for me though.

            I know about prison planet.
      • bitcloud, on 04/20/2008, -2/+16it's funny the things that are considered conspiracy theory (CIA planes containing cocaine, NSA/AT&T wiretapping, Diebold hacking, political lobbying, international banking corporations controlling the economy through fractional reserve banking etc etc) for years until the washington post or the new york times decides to write an article about them... (then suddenly they are hot button topics for *presidential candidates*)

        and yet we still sit back pretending that these stories don't emerge from the grass roots....
        • Picaroon, on 04/20/2008, -7/+4No, it's the fact that for every story like that, there are over nine thousand that are complete utter *****.
          • supermanred, on 04/20/2008, -2/+4That's the same ratio as broadcast television news.
      • markvand, on 04/20/2008, -1/+4The fact that this seems to keep happening. As I mentioned before, we brought hundreds of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters to Pakistan, "by accident":
        http://tinyurl.com/3uwxhe
        Whenever US forces are close to catching Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban, he escapes because we decide to send some other group after him, or it takes hours to get approval to go after him: http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?enti ...
        Now what happens when we do catch a Taliban bogeyman? We release them:
        http://tinyurl.com/4324c7
        It's mainstream news we funded them until 2001. We're still funding them now, it's just by accident nowadays...
        • JointVenture, on 04/21/2008, -2/+1Maybe we embedded a microchip in Mullah so we could track him along with some of the other Al Cracky prisoners who have escaped.


          See how easy that was? Problem is you nutters never turn the conspiracy around so that it works for the other side.

          How about cheering for the good guys for once you *****.
          • markvand, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1If you mean people like Cindy Sheehan, Ron Paul and Cynthia Mckinney, I'm already cheering for them. Our troops aren't the good guys in this fight, nor are the Taliban. The good guys are the ones who want this endless war to stop.
    • somnambulator, on 04/21/2008, -0/+4How come an 'accident' like this (that will definitely involve somebody getting killed because of it) is 'just an accident' - 'a ***** up'.
      When a surgeon who makes a tragic mistake on the operating table feels the wrath of accusation and litigation.
      I think it's this world of double standards that's a ***** up
  • abszint, on 04/20/2008, -15/+6***** the mpaa
    • danarama, on 04/20/2008, -6/+3and the riaa and nato ... and noobs
    • DaDrake, on 04/20/2008, -8/+1Why are people actually digging him up? lol ...... god I love this community.... its like one big pot of irrationality.
  • pintomp3, on 04/20/2008, -5/+46they must have missed the memo, the US stopped supporting the taliban in the 80's
  • Alix7, on 04/20/2008, -2/+13Again?
  • sporad1c, on 04/20/2008, -10/+20I was in the army, I know the system, and the worst part is it probably was an accident. It almost be better if it had been intentional.
    • danarama, on 04/20/2008, -4/+9*****...if this was an 'accident' it's happened hundreds of times intentionally.
    • pagno, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1Ya, I was Army, too, I can see this happening.
      SGT: OK! Prepare to drop!
      PVT: Um, Sarge, this is the wrong spot..
      SGT: Beat your ***** face! On the palette! Ready.. drop!

      That was metaphorical; naturally, they arent going to make a soldier do pushups when theres work to be done. But the overall consensus in the military is, "Aint my problem." Its a perfect mirror of American life: placate blame until its off youre back.
    • sporad1c, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Besides, soldier would have responded, "HOOAH SGT, If we drop here we can make back in time for hot chow!"
  • tracywood, on 04/20/2008, -12/+24Of course, anyone who reports the TRUTH these days instead of the "officials" tell us, is a crazy conspiracy theorist.
    • pagno, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2Just because youre paranoid, dont mean theyre not after you...
      • amdahlj, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1Just because they're after you, doesn't mean you're not paranoid...
  • Sokkratez, on 04/20/2008, -4/+12Can I get some fries with those RPGs? What? They're already in the other box? Dude, NATO is the tops!
    • Pake, on 04/20/2008, -1/+7It's the Adult Happy Meal we've been waiting on McDonald's to release for years!
  • mrzack, on 04/20/2008, -14/+2I KNEW IT!! Big Big Brother cannot be trusted. A Conspiracy is afoot.....
  • alanr19, on 04/20/2008, -7/+9So? The US armed, fed, clothed and trained them back in the 80s when the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan. At least NATO admits to its mistake.

    They've still got a lot of weapons and verterans left over from the occupation by the Soviet Union I'm sure.
    • Zap2, on 04/20/2008, -3/+6Um, America admits they support them in the 80s, or atleast its common knowledge
      • alanr19, on 04/20/2008, -1/+10But they never admitted it was a ----->mistake< ------

        Get it now?
        • bitcloud, on 04/20/2008, -1/+6no fair... you used logic and a rational argument!
    • Picaroon, on 04/20/2008, -7/+3Yeah, we helped them resist the USSR invasion. What's your point? People love to act like that's some secret conspiracy or something.
      • alanr19, on 04/20/2008, -1/+13Nobodys saying it was a secret or a conspiracy, the fact is that the same people the US trained are the same ones who trained and trained with the terrorists of today.

        Jeez what is it with Digg users today?
      • bitcloud, on 04/20/2008, -0/+7there's this saying see...

        "violence begets violence"
      • markvand, on 04/20/2008, -0/+7We're the ones who caused that invasion. Our country started funding the radical muslims before the Soviet Union invaded: http://www.counterpunch.org/brzezinski.html
        The plan was to make the Soviet Union fight a war of attrition it could not win, in the cold remote mountainous landscape of Afghanistan. It caused millions of civilian casualties, the birth of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a civil war that continued until the early 90's, and a child mortality rate of 31%, but that's irrelevant. What matters it that we destroyed the Soviet Union...
    • DaDrake, on 04/20/2008, -8/+1Not to mention, its fairly easy to support the US response. The US simply had bigger fish to deal with and the Soviet Union was a threat to all Eastern Europe. I am glad the USSR fell and that can be contributed to US efforts in Afghanistan.
      • alanr19, on 04/20/2008, -2/+6Way to go completely off-track their sport. Good job.
      • amirman, on 04/20/2008, -1/+6yeah an the vietnam war helped stopped communism too. LOL
      • Jashobeam5, on 04/20/2008, -2/+1Good luck convincing public school grads who are under 30 of how much of a threat the Soviet Union was. They don't remember the constant fear of them attacking the US. I wonder if the truth of the Cold War even makes it into history classes these days.
        • sodade, on 04/21/2008, -0/+3I'm 40 and I remember all the ***** propaganda. The "truth" of the cold war is that the MIC used the boogeyman to steal over 50% of our tax revenues.
  • doctechnical, on 04/20/2008, -3/+9NATO. Unless you're talking about an anime or something.
    /capitalization nazi
  • patpl22391, on 04/20/2008, -2/+13It just shows the incompetence of bureaucracy. The U.N. "Oil-for-food" scandal happened because there is no oversight of these organizations yet American taxpayers foot the bill for these pathetic bodies. NATO wouldn't even act on the genocide in Kosovo in 90's because they can't act with one mouth, they always need to look to Washington for leadership. I don't believe they aided the Taliban on purpose, it is just the failure of large organizations to do anything right.
  • Diderotten, on 04/20/2008, -4/+9What kind of spin are we going to hear when the mainstream media finds out about this?
    • amirman, on 04/20/2008, -1/+5alliances are communist. fox news tonight.
  • nickrct, on 04/20/2008, -5/+12Your shipment of FAIL has been delivered
  • Picaroon, on 04/20/2008, -7/+3While we're at it, let's call all of the cases of friendly fire conspiracies too.
  • harrisbradley, on 04/20/2008, -1/+4Wise Urkel once say, "Oops, did I do that?"
  • rento, on 04/20/2008, -1/+5What a bunch of idiots.
  • tracywood, on 04/20/2008, -6/+6Wow, the nice government men are really out in force on Digg today. You might want to not Digg down the posts so much, it makes it look kinda obvious what ya doing!
  • fr3ddie, on 04/20/2008, -0/+4FTA: "it was a *****-up" ? lol
    • Cattywampus, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Next time I make a mistake at work I'll tell the boss it was just a *****-up., and watch what his reaction is.
  • enumerate, on 04/20/2008, -0/+3Did he say it was a "*****-up?"
  • drfluffer, on 04/20/2008, -7/+0I wouldn't be surpirsed if some bleeding-heart liberal did it.
    • logpony, on 04/20/2008, -1/+4I know right? If only we could get every single person on the planet to subscribe to one ideology instead of trying to interact and act as foils to one anothers propositions... well... the world would be perfect wouldn't it?
  • numbnuts, on 04/20/2008, -7/+2"They're crazy conspiracy theorists of course" ... LOL .. you posted this on the right network ... Diggtards are rampant "conspiracy theorists" ha ha ha .. just watch
    • Diderotten, on 04/20/2008, -0/+6I think he was being sarcastic...
    • ciaran036, on 04/20/2008, -2/+5I think you'd qualify to be a "diggtard" then...
  • ciaran036, on 04/20/2008, -6/+13“If you want to control the
    game, you have to control all sides and this structure allows that to happen”

    “the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes a plan to start a third world war either by stimulating the Muslim world into a Holy War against the West or by using China to cause global conflict. Maybe both.”
    David Icke, 1998.

    Afghanistan is huge. It is absolutely ridiculous to suggest that this was an accident or mistake. A plane wouldn't go anywhere near a Taliban controlled area unless without the intention to do so. No pilot or navigator could be that stupid. And conveniently, it contained rocket propelled grenades and ammunition as well as food and water.

    Nick Rockefeller said to Aaron Russo before 9/11 that they would go into Afghanistan and pretend to look for enemies that they know they wouldn't find. He said he'd use Afghanistan as the opportunity to take their oil. Aaron Russo, before he died, has went on the radio and told people about what Nick said - look it up if you don't believe me.
    • JointVenture, on 04/20/2008, -4/+7OMG , you just quoted David Ickes, the man who thinks we are controlled by Lizard people.

      You make scientologist look good.
      • LokitheComplex, on 04/20/2008, -1/+4I guess diggers don't know who David Icke is.
        • markvand, on 04/20/2008, -0/+2I know the man, but the 3rd alinea still justifies a thumbs up in my opinion.
      • DestroyFascism, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1Its a metaphor retard..
      • ciaran036, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1Is that all you know about David Icke? Personally, he doesn't give enough evidence that there are aliens controlling us but for all the other things he has said he has been spot on.
    • fuzzmeister, on 04/21/2008, -1/+4"He said he'd use Afghanistan as the opportunity to take their oil."

      You obviously have no idea what you're talking about, because Afghanistan has absolutely 0 oil.
      • ciaran036, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1Sorry, he actually mentioned Afghanistan AND Iraq - and what he was talking about was the oil pipeline which they gave the go ahead to a day after the invasion of Afghanistan.
    • DestroyFascism, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1It has land blocking the Caspian sea oil and Northern Iraq Oil for piping to Europe. No need to mention what the core of engineers are doing in Afghanistan though.
      • ciaran036, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1What are the corp of engineers doing in Afghanistan?
  • bobburn, on 04/20/2008, -6/+2The guardian...facts?.. this is a joke right?
  • iAlex, on 04/20/2008, -7/+9NATO is crap. Imperialistic fascists. It is a disgrace how Europeans and Americans let these fascists be in handle of Europe and the Western World, and go and bomb Iraq and Afghanistan and do other imperial motives. It is so stupid how people think the Iraq War and Afghanistan War was only because the fascists in America wanted it. No. It is also because the European Bilderberg fascist elite wanted it. See http://www.bilderberg.org/nato.htm for more information about NAZI NATO. "SS Oberstgruppenfuhrer Paul Hausser, WWII 'Das Reich' Division commander and SS general, publicly stated that NATO grew out of the international brigades of the SS quoted by A.J. Barker in 'Waffen SS at war'". ""SS Oberstgruppenfuhrer Paul Hausser was unquestionably the ablest military commander in the Waffen SS. After the war he sought to reestablish the reputation of the SS and claimed that the foreign units of the SS were really the precursors of the NATO army."
    Taken from pages 24/25 of 'Waffen SS at War' by A. J. Barker, Ian Allen Ltd., 1982, ISBN 0 7110 1099 4"
    You must understand that the elite creates the enemy, as with the taliban, and then they come to fight them, so people think the establishment is good. They build up Al Qaeda, the Talban, the Nazis ( http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-hitler.html ) and they come with their solution. They create the problem, then they come with their solution. An example is the Nazis, they created it ( http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-hitler.html ) and then they fought them and created the United Nations so they could start their goal of World Government. Also these elites makes USA take all the blame for the Iraq War, Afghanistan, so people all over the world will hate Americans, for the elites do nasty stuff in America's name.

    Zbigniew Brzezinski ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski ), Barack Obama's foreign policy advisor, basically created the Taliban. "After 9/11 Brzezinski was criticized for his role in the formation of the Afghan mujaheddin network, some of which would later form the Taliban and would shelter Al Qaeda camps". You should know that Obama is just a puppet, for whatever motive these fascists have. He is a great tool for them, because they have made him like a rockstar for the voters, and most people will not look into his record, and see that he voted to reauthorize the PATRIOT ACT, which should say to you: DO NOT vote for this man.

    So what can you expect under Obama? More NATO imperalism but it will of course be in a much more clean way than under George W. Bush, move to a World Government to solve the so called "Global Warming", because in these elites views', a global world government with bureaucrats must fix all the problems, not sovereign and independent governments. In EU they indoctrinate the kids that the United Nations, will fix Global Warming, and only world government can do this. Al Gore and Obama are of course big there, because people have seen how ignorant Bush have been. They also learn people in EU that UN is the good guy, and USA is the bad guy who causes all the problems (Iraq, Afghanistan etc) when in reality they are the same elites who are in control of both.

    The people of Europe needs to wake up, these EU fascists will destroy the sovereign states of Europe, and make it EU into one state, with the disgusting bureaucrats and elites in control. Did you know that the Lisbon Treaty allows the Death Penalty in EU?
    http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog/_archiv ...
    "And this is not in the treaty, but in a footnote, because with the European Union reform treaty, we accept also the European Union Charter, which says that there is no death penalty, and then it also has a footnote, which says, “except in the case of war, riots, upheaval” – then the death penalty is possible." So when people are sick of these elites, they will kill all their enemies and dissidents and call it riots, terrorists or something like that.

    Welcome to reality.



    • fuzzmeister, on 04/21/2008, -0/+3Everybody loves a copy-paste diatribe.
  • Cattywampus, on 04/20/2008, -0/+5This incident would be a good thing *if* the weapons were the obsolete East European ones that we bought from that arms company run by a 22 year old.
    • HystErica79, on 04/21/2008, -0/+0That story sure disappeared quickly...
  • novenator, on 04/20/2008, -2/+7Thank you conservatives and republicans for getting a rag-tag band of islamic fundamentalists off the ground, providing many millions of dollars, advanced weaponry, training, and logistical support. Reagan thought that his mission from god was to destroy the evil communist Soviet Union. Congrats, well done, you and your co-sonspirators have given us the Taliban along with Al Qaeda, and dozens of other terrorist groups. You gave us Saddam Hussein, then started a war to topple him. Now you are selling 40 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia. This airlift may have been a mistake, but a pattern of behavior has already been established.
    • elliotys, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2Whoa, whoa, whoa, that is far to accurate of a depiction of what actually happened to be on digg.

      FYI: Remember Oliver North, the turds on TV with his own show now.
    • odigity, on 04/21/2008, -1/+4This isn't a partisan thing, you blind fool. This kind of ***** has been happening for 60 years under both parties - the main policies and MO never change with who's in office. The major parties are a show to keep you rooting for one puppet or another, so you can "throw the bastards out" every term or two.
      • elliotys, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1The reason why IT IS a partisan thing, is because this administration today runs around like they are King ***** of ***** Mountain when it comes to foreign policy and fighting terrorism. They act like they never make mistakes, and that these people hate us purely for our freedom, and that is *****. They know damn well (maybe I am giving Bush too much credit), our foreign policy, for that region, is divisive too say the least. Your right, this shouldn't be a partisan thing, but this administration has succeeded in making it one with their incompetence and hypocrisy.
  • JointVenture, on 04/20/2008, -2/+1Hmm, who knows lets play the conspiracy out and say that embedded in those arms were tracking devices, or messages to Taliban infiltrators, or poison food, or. and then and then and then.

    Could be anything, nobody here knows what the ***** happened.
  • kylere, on 04/20/2008, -3/+1Does this publication have an editor? N.A.T.O. not nato. I find it hard to believe that anyone educated enough to write for a paper has missed out on that one simple fact. Yes, I am being a bit of a nazi about it, but when illiteracy hits our journalists we may as well give up.
    • GregLoire, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1No, "NATO" is correct. Please reference AP style just a bit before you go spouting ignorance. Longer acronyms almost always have the periods omitted, and some of the shorter ones do too ("UK" vs. "U.S.").
  • Jude007, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BisS5JxeUW0&feature ...
  • odigity, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1Everything makes more sense after reading this book called 'How the World Really Works':
    http://www.amazon.com/dp/0964084813/
    • sfacets, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1How the world really works? You get dugg down.
      • odigity, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1Thanks...

        (you forgot to smash my mailbox)
  • elliotys, on 04/21/2008, -0/+3Do people have any idea how many pallets of weapons, we supplied, that are missing and unaccounted for just from the Iraq war alone? Always remember that the USA is by far the premiere weapons dealer in the world. I'm not necessarily saying that being the weapon super power of the world is a bad thing, it is what it is.
  • jonpotz, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1In your Taliban controlled area, droppin you goods.
  • sndream, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1Considering how many British and Canadian soldiers got killed by American Army though friendly fire, I truly believe it's a mistake. US Army even shot down an British Tornado jet in Kuwait!!!
  • warringgael, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2One more reason to "Avoid foreign entanglements"- you know, the foreign policy espoused by Washington and Jefferson. Currently, it goes by the name "dishonorable surrender".
  • MoroMou, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1An "accident"? LOL
    C'mon this isn't the first time NATO's supplied the Taliban, now is it? cf the 80s
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