<![CDATA[DefenseLINK News: Coalition Secures Afghan Weapons Caches, Renders Aid:
He said the caches included 41 mortar rounds, 144 recoilless rifle rounds, and eight rocket-propelled grenade rounds in Uruzgan province, as well as 56 mortar rounds, 82 tank rounds and 100 RPG rounds found in Helmand province.
The lede is : “WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2005 – In the last 13 days, coalition forces have discovered 33 weapons caches throughout Afghanistan, said Maj. Steve Wollman, Combined Forces Command Afghanistan spokesman, today.” But when you find out he was talking about less than 500 rounds of various types of ammunition, you see the same phenomenon as the specious “body counts” of the Vietnam era. It’s all propaganda all the time with the Rumsfeldian Department of Defense.]]>