Quote Originally Posted by omarali50 View Post
are you saying someone in Kabul is in love with the figure "30"? How does ISAF know how many taliban died in such and such attack?
It does raise a lot of questions. To get this level of fidelity between the reported numbers, it must be at the ISAF/USFOR-A level. In the vast majority of these strikes, I find it doubtful that anyone was counting bodies afterward.

I can tell you that in Pakistan the PAF's figures for airstrikes are more varied, but totally unreliable. My friends tell me that they make up the figure almost literally by pulling it out of a hat (or their ass, as the case may be). I find that the taliban themselves are much more scrupulous about reporting losses (though they in turn exaggerrate their successes by factors of 100 or more)...
I think you're pretty spot on there.