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SOLDIER WANT TO LIE WEAPON IN URUZGAN, TALIBAN CHEERFULLY

Harald Doornbos,

BEIRUT (GPD) – A Dutch soldier has beginning April per misfortune its weapon in the grass let lie town in Uruzgan near a Taliban. Because of this the Taliban sees to now over an utmost modern Diemaco C7 semi-automatic machine gun, including a telescope, six warehouses with ammunition and a helmet.

This says a very trustworthy source that anonymous will remain opposite this paper.

The incident played self off near the town Surkh-Murghab, where on 4 April of this year Dutch soldiers and their partners of the Afghan National Army in an ambush were enticed through the Taliban.

During the fights, at the end of the noon, hit a Dutch soldier wounded as consequence of splinters that from a machine gun flew that were fired through someone else Dutch soldier. In an attempt the wounded soldier in safety to bring, tried Dutch colleagues to drag him direction an armored vehicle. Meanwhile taliban fighters in the direction of the Dutchmen fired.

One of the Dutch soldiers, an ill person caretaker, thereupon its weapon did can help finished in an attempt the wounded colleague better. In the chaos of the fight the soldiers together with the wounded soldier in the armor vehicle leapt. Short on that came the ill person caretaker behind it that he be weapon in the grass wanted to let lie. It was however too late and too dangerously back then to turn.

It goes around a new Diemaco C7, a semi-automatic machine gun. On the weapon, a standard telescope sat assembled, to use is through which it also as a sneaking shooter gun. Aside from the weapon, the soldier forgot also six warehouses with ammunition (180 bullets) and a kevlar helmet.

The Diemaco C7 is of Canadian make and becomes uses through the Dutch army. It is a new, shortened version of the M16. With the telescope on it is it, according to the website of the ministry of Defense, effectively till on 550 meters. It can, fire on automatic position, three bullets. On handmatige position and with the extra telescope, the weapon becomes uses also as sneaking shooter gun. In the warehouse, thirty bullets sit.

After the Dutch soldiers the safety of their basis, named Poentjak, reaches had, could a Dutch sneaking shooter the spot see where the left behind weapon gear lay. Later on walked an Afghans child from the town to that spot. Then the child the weapon and the rest of the things picked up. After that walked had been fired on he back to the town, from where the Dutchmen before that day.

The incident not known was made in April by the Ministry of Defense. Defense spokesman Robin Means however affirms the message. "A weapon rid hit is naturally always boring," according to Means in a reaction on Tuesday. "Only there was no talk of intention and happened it during a sore hectisch incident," means Means. According to the spokesman, there has been ordered after that a new weapon for the ill person caretaker.

Certainly the fact, that the Taliban sees to now over an utmost modern weapon, a worrisome aspect appears. "The Taliban will there not the war with will win," means a military specialist, "Only it is smartly annoyingly that a Taliban sneaking shooter now between the 100 and 200 turn can shoot on Dutch or American soldiers."

Harald Doornbos

Posted by Harald Doornbos ate 3:30 AM