US says 4 helicopter engines worth $13 million missing in Afghanistan-Pakistan region

[babylonsister]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/06/us_4_helicopter_engines_worth.php

US: 4 helicopter engines worth $13M missing

US says 4 helicopter engines worth $13 million missing in Afghanistan-Pakistan region

Staff
AP News

Jun 18, 2008 09:47 EST

The U.S. military says four helicopter engines worth $13 million are missing in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.

U.S. spokeswoman Lt. Col. Rumi Nielson-Green says the helicopters were being shipped overland from the U.S. base in Bagram to a seaport for shipment back to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

She says the parts went missing sometime before the 101st Airborne's arrival in Afghanistan in April.

Nielson-Green says the parts were being shipped by a Pakistani trucking company, but it is not clear where they disappeared.

The U.S. is not disclosing what kind of engines they were.

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Try China.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. ...

:evilgrin:

[Parche]

3. My Nephew Is In The 101st Working On Those Helicopters In Afghanistan

I wonder what happened.....:shrug:

:hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. The Pakistanis saw a bootleg copy of "Iron Man" and had an idea.

Now we're going to have to fight terrorists in super motorized exo-skeleton armor. Great, just great...

[Indenturedebtor]

6. HAH I had the same thought

Don't we use helicopter engines to run our tanks as well? These are pretty useful powerplants no?

And why just the engines?

[tuckessee]

5. No big deal.

The chumps at home will pay for more.

[Fridays Child]

7. Bush isn't stepping up the hunt for Osama. He's just delivering chopper parts.

The bin Laden family never had a better friend.

[babylonsister]

8. Makes me wonder; how in the hell do you lose 4 helicopter engines? nt

[IDemo]

12. Easy, you just put them in the same drawer as the car keys

Or in the laundry basket.

[Fridays Child]

13. i'm always missing at least one helicopter engines, when I take them...

...out of the dryer.

[IDemo]

15. and then you're stuck going out in public with mismatched helicopter engines

[Fridays Child]

16. LOL!

Damn. I hate it when that happens. :rofl:

[onethatcares]

17. same way you mistakenly move nuclear weapons around the country

sheesh, it's not like they're marked or labeled or anything like that.:wtf:

[arcadian]

9. They're in that cave where Bin Laden isn't hiding.

The one that he used to bring the most powerful superpower in the history of the planet to it's knees. They are probably next to that crate full of old boxcutters.

[ColbertWatcher]

10. Military parts missing under the GOP's watch?

Sounds like F-14 Parts Warehouse is back in business...

[Sunspot]

11. Times of India report

Is there something the MSM is not telling us again?

"ISLAMABAD: Taliban militants in Pakistan's restive
tribal belt captured three 

US military choppers while they were being shipped in a
dismantled state from 

Peshawar to Jalalabad in Afghanistan and sold one of the
helicopters for 

several hundred thousand dollars, a media report said on
Wednesday. 

Pakistani officials confirmed the development while the US
embassy 

spokesperson refused to comment, saying the information
"appears to be only 

hearsay," The News daily reported."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Taliban_seize_3_US_military_choppers_in_Pa

k_tribal_belt/articleshow/3141857.cms

[Catherina]

14. Thank you and welcome to DU. Fixed your link

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Taliban_seize_3_US_military_choppers_in_Pak_tribal_belt/articleshow/3141857.cms

It was kind of obvious but I'm glad to have the confirmation you posted.

:hi: