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Lazar
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Leaflet Fail

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From the Guardian:
A box of leaflets dropped by an RAF plane in Afghanistan landed on and killed a young girl, the Ministry of Defence said.

The box should have broken apart in mid-air but struck the young girl intact. She was taken to a hospital in Kandahar where she died. The leaflets were dropped over a rural area of Helmand province by an RAF C130 Hercules on June 23.
Yeah, we should have those hearts and minds in no time.
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Re: Leaflet Fail

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Well you could be more subtle about it: there's no need to beat them over the head with this stuff! :takecover:

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Re: Leaflet Fail

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Thats rather upsetting. So the box failed to do what it should have... in the US, that would be lawsuit time.
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stitch626 wrote:Thats rather upsetting. So the box failed to do what it should have... in the US, that would be lawsuit time.
Fortunately in Afghanistan you can just throw a couple thousand Afghanis at them and they'll go away. Not that any nation but Canada does that mind you, which is why they deliberately cause traffic accidents with our vehicles.
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Re: Leaflet Fail

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Captain Picard's Hair wrote:OK, give it to me!
Here you go.
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I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
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