Talibs Firing US-Bought Ammo At Troops

February 02, 1943
The Battle of Stalingrad
On this day in 1943, remaining forces of the German Wehrmacht surrendered to the Soviet army after being encircled in the city of Stalingrad. Of the surrendering 91,000 Germans, only about 5,000 ever returned.
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"By comparison, the contents of 15 recently captured Taliban Kalashnikov magazines, inventoried by the At War blog, revealed that the Taliban’s magazines were full with ammunition identical to that carried by the Afghan police. The Taliban and the Afghan police carry the same types and calibers of weapons. And with police ammunition evidently leaking to the insurgency, ammunition for AK rifles, PK machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades would seem in abundant supply, helping to limit the use of the Lee-Enfield line."