Charles Johnson reports that the beverages of choice for some Islamic extremists are camel's milk, and camel's... urine.

Well, if you can't tell mammary output from bladder output, maybe it's not surprising that you can't distinguish a skyscraper from a runway. Or your ass from a hole in the ground.

NBC News has learned that for the first time, U.S. Air Force F-15?s used thermobaric weapons Saturday against caves south of Gardez. Two of the extremely accurate, 2,000-pound thermobaric bombs were dropped into caves in eastern Afghanistan where al- Qaida and Taliban fighters were believed to be hiding, U.S. defense officials said.

The thermobaric warhead is designed to penetrate deeply into caves or tunnels, creating many times the normal pressure to propel the explosives further inside the cave and kill more people. The weapons contain ?fuel-rich? warheads that can fill tunnels with fireballs.

Hope they've restocked the virgin supply.

I love this kind of weaponry. Thermobaric, I mean. Fuel-rich warheads. Frightening.

FYI: Flit's Bruce Rolston had some great posts on thermobaric warheads awhile back.

Bruce has actually relinked to those December posts:

JG