Afgan insurgents using US ammunition

[ck4829]

Television footage broadcast Tuesday showed insurgents handling what appears to be U.S. ammunition in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan that American forces left last month following a deadly firefight that killed eight troops.

The U.S. military said the forces that left the area said they removed and accounted for their equipment.

Al-Jazeera broadcast video showing insurgents handling weapons, including anti-personnel mines with U.S. markings on them. The television station reported that insurgents said they seized the weapons from two U.S. remote outposts in Nuristan province. It was unclear when the video was filmed.

Nuristan was the site of an Oct. 3 battle in which some 200 fighters bombarded a joint U.S.-Afghan army outpost with small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and mortar shells. Eight U.S. troops died — as well as three Afghan soldiers — in one of the heaviest losses of U.S. life in a single battle since the war began.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091110/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

[unhappycamper]

1. Use of captured weapons is expected.

Take a look at the US military carrying around weapons to plant on dead people. We did the same shit in Vietnam.

IIRC, the AK-47 is a favorite.