looking at all that is going on in the United States today , it's really depressing .
Immigration is out of control , Afghan Military are coming here taking money and then disappearing to Canada , no jobs , Obama is Clueless , no end in sight ...
Where is that Handbasket at anyway ?
Foxnews
For the Afghan soldiers who have gone AWOL from an Air Force base in Texas, there's no place like Canada.
Since 2002, 46 Afghans have deserted their armed forces while in the U.S. for language and military training. Of those 46, roughly half--at least 22--have found their way north of the border.
They made the trip with the help of a network of people, including Afghans who left Lackland Air Force Base before them; a group of naturalized and undocumented Mexican women in Texas; relatives of current and former Afghan military students living in the West; and at least one Iranian taxi driver who runs a human smuggling business at the Canadian border.
The Afghans who have made it to Canada appear to be living comfortably there -- and many have put themselves on Facebook, where they connect with other Afghan dissenters and active U.S. and Afghan military personnel, including members of the Afghan military currently attending the Defense Language Institute at Lackland or receiving training at other military bases in the U.S.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Sophisticated Network Helps AWOL Afghans Make Trip to Canada
Friday, February 12, 2010
US and British troops encircle holed up taliban
US, British, Afghan troops completed a pincer maneuver that has left the taliban completed encircled in their last stronghold in Helmand province.
The taliban have nowhere to run in their burqas now. Soon our troops will tighten the noose and kill them all! God bless our troops and prayers they come home safely.
US Army soldiers from 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division take up positions in a village in Helmand province in support of Moshtarak. Source AP-->
Yahoo! News
NEAR MARJAH, Afghanistan – U.S. and Afghan forces ringed the Taliban stronghold of Marjah on Thursday, sealing off escape routes and setting the stage for what is being described as the biggest offensive of the nine-year war.[...]
In preparation for the offensive, a U.S.-Afghan force led by the U.S. Army's 5th Stryker Brigade moved south from Lashkar Gah and linked up Thursday with Marines on the northern edge of Marjah, closing off a main Taliban escape route. Marines and Army soldiers fired colored smoke grenades to show each other that they were friendly forces.
U.S. and Afghan forces have now finished their deployment along the main road in and out of Marjah, leaving the Taliban no way out except across bleak, open desert — where they could easily be spotted.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
8 taliban terrorist scum killed
From AFP
KABUL (AFP) — Afghan security forces backed by foreign troops killed eight Taliban-linked insurgents during operations in troubled southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, authorities said.
Seven rebels were killed in a sweep in the province of Uruzgan, an infamous Taliban hotbed near the Pakistani border, the interior ministry said.
Another militant was killed and a suspect detained during an operation in neighbouring Kandahar, the US military said.
US forces also said an air strike on Tuesday destroyed a Soviet-era "anti-aircraft weapon system" in Helmand, another Taliban flashpoint.
"Coalition Forces learned through villagers? reports that militants in Nad Ali had obtained a ZPU-1 anti-aircraft gun and were staging it on the back of a pick-up truck for use against friendly forces," it said.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Canadians return to base from Lashkar Gah
In early October the taliban launched a major attack on Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, which resulted in an EPIC Fail. Over 100 taliban were killed in the first assault and scores more killed after repeated taliban attacks on the city.
Here's an account of the battle from the eyes of Canadian troops.Canadian PressKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A small group of Canadian soldiers has finally returned to their base in Afghanistan after playing key roles in some of the heaviest fighting this fall.
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Details are now starting to emerge about the part about 30 Canadians played in the battle for Lashkar Gah, the capital of nearby Helmand province that was threatened by the Taliban late last month.
"(The fighting) was quite intense," said Maj. Steve Nolan, who commanded one of the mentorship teams working with a kandak, or battalion, of Afghan National Army soldiers.
Taliban fighters began to mass around Lashkar Gah around Oct. 12.
Afghan Gen. Sher Muhammad Zazai has said hundreds of Taliban fighters were involved, attacking the city on three sides. Nolan's team and their kandak, normally based in Kandahar province, were mobilized and arrived in the embattled city the next day as insurgents were attacking police outposts around the city.
"We pulled into Lashkar Gah in the dark and it turned into a combat mission right away," said Nolan. "As we were moving in, there was tracer fire moving over our convoy."On Oct. 17, the Canadian-mentored kandak was ordered to clear a swath of territory five kilometres wide and 10 kilometres long into the nearby village of Aynak - a maze of eight-metre deep canals, three-metre high cornfields, vineyards and narrow lanes lined by tall mud walls.
"There is no more complex terrain anywhere in the world," Nolan said.
Backed up by attack helicopters, the Canadian and Afghan soldiers advanced into repeated ambushes, coming under machine-gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire. Shots would be exchanged, then the Taliban would fall back to their next position.
"It's an all-day affair. There was always fire, or you always knew (every) 50 metres, that's where the next little contact would be."
There were no Canadian or Afghan casualties. Helmand's governor estimated 63 Taliban were killed.
Monday, November 3, 2008
10 taliban killed
From XinhuanetKABUL, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Afghan National Army (ANA) backed by air strike of the international troops have killed at least ten Taliban insurgents and detained five others in southern Afghan province of Zabul, said an official on Sunday.
ANA and international forces launched a joint operation Saturday morning to flush Taliban activities out of the remote and mountainous area of Daychopan district, Fazel Bari, the district chief told Xinhua.
"The combined force engaged militants with both air strike and ground fire killing at least 10 militants and wounding five," Barisaid.
"The five wounded were arrested on the spot," he said, adding "and there were no casualties on ANA or international forces."
Friday, September 5, 2008
Another Airstirke in North Waziristan
The airstrikes just keep coming. Predator drones fired three missiles at a compound in the village of Gorovek in North Waziristan. Reuters is reporting 5 terrorists killed. Reuters
In other related news NATO and Afghan forces killed 8 taliban in western Afghanistan. A taliban commander, hulam Farouq Niami, was killed in the air strike Reuters....
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Five Islamist militants were killed on Friday in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, in a stepped up campaign against militants near the Afghan border.he raid in Farah province was aimed at the house of a local Taliban commander who was among those killed, Ghulam Farouq Niami, an Afghan army commander for the western zone, said.[...]
Western military officials say Taliban fighters deliberately use civilians as cover, drawing coalition firepower against non-combatants in an attempt to reap propaganda gains.
Monday, September 1, 2008
220 Taliban Killed Since Aug 25th
Maybe the taliban should just stick to Olympic diving.
Thanks to Dr. Rusty Xinhuanet
KABUL, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and the U.S.-led Coalition forces have killed more than 220 militants during clean-up operations in southern Afghan province of Helmand since Aug. 25, said a Coalition statement released hereon Monday.
The joint forces were attacked repeatedly by militants with small-arms and heavy-weapons fire during multiple engagements while soldiers responded with small-arms fire, heavy-weapons and close air support, eliminating the militant threats, the statement said.
"Operations in the area lead to the discovery and destruction of multiple weapons caches including ammonium nitrate, 107mm rockets, motorcycles, 60mm mortar rounds and small-arms ammunition, it said
Thursday, August 28, 2008
28 Taliban Killed
Past couple of days have been hell for terrorists Reuters
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Afghan and international soldiers killed and wounded 18 insurgents in clashes in the district of Arghandab in the southern province of Zabul, the Defense Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
"Twelve dead bodies of the insurgents were left on the battlefield," it said. Soldiers also found 10 kg (22 lbs) of opium left by the insurgents.
In a separate incident, Afghan soldiers killed 10 insurgents, including drug traffickers, during a security operation in Girishk district of southern Helmand province on Wednesday, the Defense Ministry said in another statement.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Bad Day for Terrorists
A bad day for terrorists today. Up to 40 taliban were killed today in Afghanistan after they clashed with Afghan security forces. The security forces called in air-strikes to decimate the terrorists. And almost 50 taliban were killed by Pakistani forces near the Pakistani-Afghan border.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Sweet Revenge
30 more misunderstanders of islam find out there are no brown eyed virgins waiting for them on the other side. Fox News
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S.-led coalition said Thursday it had killed more than 30 insurgents in a battle in eastern Afghanistan, fighters an Afghan governor said were responsible for an attack that killed 10 French troops this week. Officials announced the deaths of six NATO soldiers in two attacks.
Lutfullah Mashal, the governor of Laghman province, said coalition bombs targeted fighters on the border of Laghman and Kabul provinces. He said the insurgents were fleeing the valley where Monday's attack on the French took place.Lt. Col. Rumi Nielson-Green, the top spokeswoman for the U.S.-led coalition, said the coalition was not "completely certain" that the militants were directly involved in the attack on the French.
"They were certainly at a minimum complicit," she said. "It doesn't matter if they were or weren't involved in an attack today, yesterday or on Sept. 11, 2001. We seek out terrorists and we will give them the option to be captured or killed or possibly flee."
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More than 30 militants were killed and one militant was wounded and taken for treatment after the clash, the coalition said. It said 200 civilians fled the area before the airstrike.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Canadian Troops Seize Drugs & Weapons in Afghanistan
In a secret mission that included Canadian troops, American, British and Afghan, an unspecified amount of drugs, weapons and bomb-making material were seized. Unfortunately no terrorists were reported killed in the operation. National Post
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Canadian soldiers appear to have caught the Taliban off guard in a large multi-national operation in the lawless region of western Kandahar province where insurgents have usually felt relatively safe.
In a secret mission that started last week, but was only just now made public, Canadians joined forces with American, British and Afghan forces to drive into the notorious Maywand district, a centre of Afghanistan's opium industry.
Military officials won't reveal how many troops are taking part in the ongoing operation but say they have so far seized large quantities of bomb-making equipment and drugs."Narcotics, weapons, all the paraphernalia you would associate with insurgents we did find out there,"
said Canadian Maj. Fraser Auld.
The operation is officially called "Roob Unyip Janubi" - or "Southern Beast" in Pashto -- but soldiers have already dubbed it "Ruby Januby."
Military spokesman Capt. Chris Quinlan said troops believe the Maywand District is where a large amount ofbombs get made before being shipped to other areas of the country.
"So we certainly anticipate that seizing bomb making supplies in Maywand will have an effect on what will show up in Zhari in the future," he said.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Afghan Forces Repel Attack by 100 Taliban
100 Taliban savages attacked an Afghan government centre, but fled after losing nearly one-half of their number. CTV
The above pic requested by GM
H/T: GM
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Afghan forces aided by U.S. troops and aircraft have repelled a Taliban attack on a government centre in the country's east.
About 100 insurgents carried out the attack, and more than 50 of them were killed, authorities claimed Sunday.
Two Afghan police also died, with four others wounded.Militants attacked the government centre from four directions, said Arsallah Jamal, the province's governor.
NATO said the troops called for air support and got it in the form of heavy machine gun fire from helicopters.
"Some insurgents attempted to take cover in a nearby building that helicopters then struck with missiles," it said in a statement. "The number of insurgents killed is in double-digit figures."
Some of the attackers fled into Pakistan.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
34 Terrorists Killed
The Afghan army reported 34 terrorists killed when they were ambushed on a highway in Southern Afghanistan. Reuters
It's good to see the Afghan army holding it's own against the terrorists.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan soldiers killed "dozens" of militants, including foreigners, in a clash on a highway in southern Zabul province on Thursday, the defence ministry said.
The clash broke out following reports of an ambush by the insurgents in Zabul, the ministry said in a statement.
"Thirty-four bodies of terrorists, among them a number of foreigners, have been collected from the battlefield," it said, adding some ammunitions were also seized.It did not say if there were any casualties among the Afghan troops. The interior ministry said police forces were also involved and put the number of Taliban deaths as high as 70.
If confirmed, the losses would be the bloodiest for the militants in a single day in recent weeks in Afghanistan.
A provincial police official put the Taliban death toll at 37 and said two soldiers were wounded.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
30 Taliban Killed
Hadn't had one of these posts in a while. Reuters
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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces backed by airpower have killed or wounded more than 30 Taliban insurgents in fighting in the west of Afghanistan, a senior police official said on Tuesday.
There has been a sharp rise in violence in Afghanistan in the past two months as the summer fighting season gets into full swing. Security analysts predict July could be the worst month of violence since the Taliban relaunched their insurgency in 2005."So far more than 30 Taliban insurgents have been killed or wounded in the operation," Yawar told Reuters. "The toll might be more than 30 because the operation is ongoing."
A U.S.-led convoy was engaged with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades on Tuesday morning in Bala Boluk, a U.S. military spokesman said.
Air strikes were called in but no munitions were dropped. The U.S. military could not confirm if there were any Taliban dead, the U.S. spokesman said. International forces do not usually give casualty figures for insurgents.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Canadian and Aghan Soldiers Launch Counter Attack
It's time whup some taliban ass. CBC
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Canadian and Afghan troops moved into the forests and orchards surrounding the city of Kandahar on Wednesday, battling with Taliban fighters who infiltrated the area, officials said.
At least two Afghan soldiers and several Taliban fighters were killed in the hour-long firefight, said the CBC's Paul Hunter, who witnessed the battle in the Arghandab region, about 15 kilometres northwest of Kandahar.
"We watched the soldiers march towards these orchards. Shooting broke out. The Taliban fired at them, they fired back. You had a helicopter overhead, firing toward the ground," Hunter said.He said Canadians are playing a secondary role in the battle, acting as mentors to soldiers in the Afghan National Army, which is in a building process. Two Afghan battalions participated in the Arghandab attack, but one of them was forced to retreat after coming under heavy fire.
"This whole process is about teaching the Afghans how to set up an army. About half the Afghans turned and fled, so there's clearly some work to be done," Hunter said. "It wasn't a complete success today, but I suspect they'll be back at it again. It was quite an operation by the Afghans and supported by the Canadians."
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Afghan Troops Ready for Bulk of Fighting
US general, General Robert W. Cone , believes that by mid 2009 the Afghan forces will number 80 000 and will be able fight in most operations against the taliban. Reuters
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Afghan army could by early next year be leading the vast majority of military operations against enemy insurgents in the country, the U.S. soldier in charge of training them said on Thursday.
Major General Robert W. Cone said Afghan authorities aimed to have 80,000 trained personnel ready by early 2009, compared to just over 57,000 now, as part of an effort to share more of the burden of fighting with NATO countries.
Asked what that meant for Afghan forces' ability to lead operations against Taliban and other insurgents, Cone told a news conference at NATO headquarters:
"I would say leadership certainly of most operations and probably, depending on their readiness, tending towards virtually all operations."That will lift a significant amount of the burden from ISAF forces," he said of NATO's International Security Assistance Force, which commanders currently say numbers around 50,000.
Cone, who leads the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) training effort, said Afghan troops had led around half of 180 joint operations with international forces in the early months of this year.
However, Afghan forces remain short of aircraft, and Cone acknowledged it could be another five years before they could conduct all their own air operations.
"The hardest part is the dropping of bombs from the air. That will require significant training and we are thinking 2013 is when the Afghans will be capable of doing that," he said.
