Hold fire at Taliban fighters: they are attending a funeral

Source URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/17/wafg17.xml
Posted at: http://www.air-attack/com/news/news_article/2084

The American intelligence officers monitoring the satellite feed from an unmanned spy plane at their base in Afghanistan could hardly believe their eyes.

An estimated 190 Taliban fighters were lined up in tightly packed formation, captured in the crosshairs of a gun sight — as the picture shows.

Rarely in the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan are so many Taliban fighters gathered together on open land. The target was too tempting to ignore: all it required was authorisation for the Predator drone to launch an air strike.

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