Monty Python Hired to Run Afghan Follies - Part Duex

We are going to help pay for Russian helicopters to Afghanistan. If you wrote this five years ago, the producers would say: "no way - who'd believe it?"

clipped from www.afghanconflictmonitor.org Russia to Deliver 21 Transport Helicopters to Afghanistan EXCERPT: "Russia will supply Afghanistan with 21 Mi-17 Hip military transport helicopters, an Afghan television channel reported on Monday. According to Tolo television, the contract is worth $300 million and was concluded with the approval of the сentral command in Afghanistan. Russian envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told RIA Novosti on Monday that NATO had yet to agree on the exact delivery date of some time in July, although the alliance has voiced the need for Russian transport helicopters a long time ago.