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Dec-10-2006 22:18TweetFollow @OregonNews ANA, Coalition Forces Engage Insurgents During ISAF OperationsSalem-News.comUPDATE: International Security Assistance Force- Afghanistan
(BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan) - In two separate incidents Sunday afternoon, Afghan National Army (ANA) and Coalition forces, in support of ISAF operations, engaged and defeated a number of insurgents. Near Sperwan Ghar in Kandahar province, insurgents were engaged by ANA and Coalition forces with small arms and close air support. Battle damage assessment determined that there were no injuries to ANA, Coalition forces, or local civilians during this engagement, however one insurgent was wounded. In the Tagab valley of Kapisa province, ANA and Coalition forces engaged insurgents as they patrolled through a bazaar and nearby compound. One insurgent was killed and there were no injuries to ANA soldiers, Coalition forces, or local civilians. Pictures from Afghanistan by Tim King: View Photos From Tim King's time in Afghanistan | More Afghanistan War photos Articles for December 9, 2006 | Articles for December 10, 2006 | Articles for December 11, 2006 | Support Salem-News.com: googlec507860f6901db00.html Quick Links
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Henry Ruark December 14, 2006 11:34 am (Pacific time)
Ehsan A, et al: Thanks for insider insight, from which we learning much. Hang in there...took us over 200 years to build democracy and we still need further work, too.
Ehsan Azari, Sydney-based Afghan jo December 11, 2006 12:06 am (Pacific time)
Pakistan and the Afghan War © Ehsan Azari Pakistan has had a major share in bloodshed and destruction of Afghanistan in the past 30 years. Pakistan's shameless meddling in Afghanistan produced more destruction in Afghanistan than the Russian invasion. Pakistani Inter-service Intelligence, in a clandestine operation now continues to supervise Taliban's military operations in Afghanistan. In order to hide its operation, Pakistan draws on its own Islamist parties for its meddling. Pakistani ISI has two heads, one is represented by a duplicitous general and the second is symbolized by a bag of lies mullah. It sends generals to Washington and London to show a false loyalty of Pakistan in war on terror. And the turbaned mullah is sent to the Taliban ad the terrorists for giving assurance that it is a true sponsor and supporter of terrorism. The funny side of the story is that Washington and London has been turning blind eyes to Pakistan's luceferous duplicity, and double game in war on terror. Mr. Bush has always flatters General Musharaf by calling him his loyal ally and even the only bulwark against the Islamists in his broader war on international terrorism. In addition the US provides Pakistan with an annual $3 billion in military and other aid. This is Bush’s award for a criminal general and his illegal regime to kill more American young soldiers, destroy Afghan villages, and massacre thousands of Afghan children, women, and elderly people. This is really a mystery of Bush’s administration as how it is being fooled by Pakistani mullahs and generals who in a concerted and top secret program manipulate the instability in Afghanistan, and support the most retrograde and medieval Islamic groups. If Mr. Bush really is concerned with the American increasing loss of lives, and war on terror, he must be furious first and foremost with Pakistani ruling generals and mullahs. Pakistan virtually helps militarily and financially and even legitimizes the medieval Taliban and their terrorist guests the very people Mr. Bush claims to eradicate. Pakistan sees Al-Qaida and Taliban its potential asset that can serve as a free army both in its internal and external politics. Inside Pakistan, the Islamists parties that now rule Pakistan north-western provincial government help the ruling generals to crash any voice for democracy and human right. In the meantime, the same Islamists serve as a cheap army to secure geopolitical and regional claims of the regime. The newest ploy of the regime is to build a fence along its border with Afghanistan, apparently to prevent Pakistan’s territory from using by the Taliban. Pakistani foreign office in a statement said, “To ensure that Pakistan’s territory is not used for violence inside Afghanistan, there should be selective fencing of the international border of Pakistan and Afghanistan and selective mining as well.” I would not be surprised if Pakistani generals manage to pocket millions of dollars from Mr. Bush’s administration as assistance for building the fence. This fence is nothing more than a joke. First, Pakistan is unable to fence those hot spots of cross-border violence, because it is geographically impossible. Second, Pakistan doesn’t have control over many of its ragged border areas. Pakistan’s peace deal with the Taliban’s controlled north and South Waziristan on Sept. 5 is an example of how this country is playing a double game of helping half-heartedly the US in its war on terror, and recognizing Taliban’s rule over its own territory. Go to Waziristan and see on your naked eyes, scores of Taliban and Al-Qaida training camps, laboratories of heroin and a very dangerous network of international arm smuggling. Yesterday, thousands of Pushtuns living in Pakistani side of the Durand line took to the streets and called for an immediate cessation of Pakistan’s meddling in Afghanistan. Is there solid evidence then this of Pakistan duplicity in war on terror? Scores of Pakistani Jehadists have been captured from time to time in Afghanistan who testifies with evidence of ISI active and direct involvement in violence and insurgency in Afghanistan. God alone knows when the West will be awakening to its slumber. If Mr. Bush is serious in his war, he must know that the Afghan war can only be won in Pakistan, and nothing else!
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