Andy and Pinto Nag sent us links to a BBC article which reports that a British Army working dog has been captured by the Taliban.
They said the dog, apparently called Colonel, was wearing a GPS tracking device, a torch and small camera.
The small reddish-brown dog was paraded for a Taliban cameraman, reports the BBC’s David Loyn in Kabul.
The Taliban said the dog was taken during a night raid in Laghman in eastern Afghanistan in late December.
The insurgents also showed off captured weapons of a type frequently used by American special forces.
This brings the war to a whole new level in my mind. If they harm one hair on his head….
There’s video at the link of the little fella.
I thought they couldn’t touch dogs, because they are “unclean”?? Oh, it’s only when they want to claim offense that it counts? Got it.
this is why we need military working pigs
Your language on this one was so much milder than mine, Jonn..*&^%$#@!!!!!!
Said it before, I’ll say it again, there is just no humanity, decency or honor among Muslim extremists. Bring this dog home!
In the slightly paraphrased words of Robert Downey Jr. when he was The Dude Playing The Dude Disguised As Another Dude:
“Pump the brakes, Achmed. You about to cross some mothafuckin’ lines!”
Shit just got real!
@2 Ever heard of the Bat Bomb Project during WWII? Granted, it didn’t work very well at the time, but imagine if they deployed a swine-based derivative of that concept! Pick a village that’s Taliban-friendly, air-drop a bunch of starving, ravenous hogs wearing explosives on 3-hour timers, record the whole show from a UAV, and ask the rest of the Islamic world, “Anybody else want to fuck with us?”
Is PETA going to go on a commando rescue raid?
Because they have the GPS Grid… they can send Super Secret Squirrel Private First Class William Derek Church as an embedded sniper/Ranger. Those Taliban must pay!
I hope that dog bites the fuck right out of some of those cave dwelling bastards.
I’m all for sending William Derek Church there. His loud mouthed bovine bride can be his battle buddy.
@11 Just An Old Dog, sorry you forget…they hate pork! 😀
Seriously, can a chopper stop by the Waffle House in Lenoir, NC and hoist William Derek Church out of his chair?
This is Defcon 4.
He wanted to renew his Halo Certification. This is Waddling Willies Chance!
Sniper shot, without a spotter from a mile out.
Done. Just feed him is all the pay he requires!
It must have been one hell of a battle for the dog’s handler to let that happen. He must be distraught.
What #14 said. That MWD is a servicemember with rank and a last four as far as I’m concerned. If they have the GPS location, go get him!
Yea, and just where was his ‘handler’ anyway? Nice lookin’ out Wanker!
@7: YESSSSSSSSS. Another good way to solve the wild hog problem – or at least export it to those assholes.
Well if we have not yet targeted them with the Trident II D5, then this should do it. Give them 24 hours to return the dog unharmed and then turn AFG into a glass parking lot if they don’t.
If the taliban caught this dog in December, it’s already dead. Afghans are not dog lovers.
@14. Or badly wounded. Or dead.
According to this CNN report, the dog is a Brit MWD, not a US MWD.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/06/world/meast/afghanistan-taliban-claim-military-dog/index.html
Too bad we don’t have tracking devices in the dogs!
@14 @20: Handler did not survive the direct fire engagement from what a source knowledgeable about the incident told me. Dog ran away and subsequently captured by the savages.