Official: Coalition helo drop supplied Taliban

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Official: Coalition helo drop supplied Taliban
By Jason Straziuso - The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Apr 13, 2008 15:10:17 EDT

KABUL, Afghanistan — A coalition helicopter trying to supply Afghan police with munitions dropped supplies in the wrong location and Taliban fighters later recovered the weaponry, an intelligence official said Sunday.

A member of parliament, however, said he didn’t believe the arms drop was an accident.

Amrullah Saleh, the head of Afghanistan’s intelligence service, told a parliament security committee “coalition forces” intended to place weapons, ammunition and food at a police checkpoint in a remote section of the southern province of Zabul in late March.

“By mistake it was dropped somewhere far from the checkpoint. Later the Taliban came and they picked it up,” Saleh later told reporters.

In his testimony he said a “small box” had been dropped but did not say how many weapons were inside.


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