[Reader-list] SAS soldier talks about training Afghan soldiers

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SAS soldier speaks up on training the Afghans: apparently these guys 
are just 1 step shot from wearing stillsuits...

"Once identified, the Russian soldiers were sitting targets. 
We trained the Afghans in "shoot and scoot"; they would lay a 
little ambush, let rip and disappear. They picked it up 
quickly. Before long, they had learnt to let the Russian convoys get
halfway up a pass and then blow a hole through their middle. 
The lucky ones died instantly. The unlucky ones were chopped to 
pieces in the aftermath. In the Hindu Kush, don't expect to 
appeal to the Geneva convention."

See the following url for the entire article:
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa02023.html
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