Nice work, Larry! It is typical of how the press works nowadays that no CNN reporter apparently could be bothered to do the hour or so of legwork required to show that the Taliban was full of shit. I dare say a short interview with Loud Engineering would result in a quick identification of the components.

Finding U.S. made aircraft parts laying around (the parts we are seeing need not have been found in Afghanistan--they could easily have been crated in from any part of the Mideast) is not that difficult, considering the vast number of aircraft and spare parts sold to various countries over the years. Odds are excellent that this stuff came off a scrap pile somewhere.

This is a non-story, and another example of our media serving as a propaganda mouthpiece for the Taliban.