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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

Suicide bomber not participating in after-action review

KABUL, Afghanistan – A Taliban After-Action Review (AAR) being conducted following a failed car-bombing in the Kabul International Zone is not going well, since the suicide bomber involved in the attack refuses to take part, Duffel Blog has learned.

Sources confirmed that Taliban Commander Mustafa Kardowi is flummoxed by deficiencies that he wrote down while observing the unsuccessful attack and would very much like to work through them with the personnel involved.

“I made a Powerpoint and everything,” Kardowi told Duffel Blog, standing at the podium in a mostly empty room, with a few Taliban lieutenants shifting nervously behind the projector. “But this fucking guy isn’t participating.”

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