dailymail.co.uk - 12/4/2008
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By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 1:04 PM on 03rd December 2008 They drink too much and they're too fat to fight, that's the damning conclusion of German parliamentary reports into the country's 3,500 troops stationed in Afghanistan. While British and U.S. troops in the country face a ...
abcnews.go.com - 12/8/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban hold a permanent
presence in 72 percent of Afghanistan, a think-tank said...
on Monday, but NATO and the Afghan government rejected the report, saying its figures were not credible. The findings by the International Council ...
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Taliban in 72 Percent of Afghanistan, Think-Tank Says
timesonline.co.uk - 12/3/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
First they were accused of not wanting to
fight. Then they were blamed for failing in their...
main mission to train the Afghan police. Now Germany s battered military reputation has received a further humiliating blow. According to official reports ...
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German soldiers deemed 'too fat to fight'
in.reuters.com - 12/9/2008
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in.reuters.com —
By Golnar Motevalli KABUL, Dec 7 (Reuters) -
Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar urged Western forces on...
Sunday to take a "golden opportunity" to leave Afghanistan before thousands of their troops were killed in the Islamist group's renewed ...
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Taliban urges Western troops to leave Afghanistan
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Jules Crittenden —
... german soldiers The German soldier in Afghanistan downs 25 bottles of wine and 485 pints of beer a year.* This follows news that your average goose-stepper is too fat and lazy, sausage-addicted, and his mission to train Afghan cops is a “miserable failure.” Daily Mail : They drink too much and they’re too fat to fight, that’s the damning conclusion of German parliamentary reports into the country’s 3,500 troops stationed in Afghanistan.… The statistics only add to the embarrassment of the country’s federal army, Bundeswehr, after a report earlier this year found troops to ...
German Soldiers Are ‘Too Fat To Fight’ Taliban Because They Drink So Much
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Mail Online
03rd December 2008
They drink too much and they’re too fat to fight, that’s the damning conclusion of German parliamentary reports into the country’s 3,500 troops stationed in Afghanistan.
While British and U.S. troops in the country face a strict ban on alcohol, their German comrades are allowed two pints a day.
The stunning statistics reveal that in 2007 German forces in northern Afghanistan drank 1.7million pints of beer and 90,000 bottles of wine.
The ...
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