New York Times coverage:
Boston Globe coverage (owned by the New York Times):
"75 Taliban are reported killed in separate Afghan clashes; Six civilians also slain in fighting" by Brian Murphy/Associated Press September 22, 2007
KABUL, Afghanistan - Heavy battles punctuated by air strikes killed 75 suspected Taliban and at least six civilians and a US official yesterday accused Iran of supplying roadside bomb components to militants to get US soldiers out of the region.
Admiral William Fallon said Iran is providing development assistance in western Afghanistan, which he called helpful. But he said Iran's Revolutionary Guard is also supplying roadside bomb parts for the type of bombs found in Iraq known as explosively formed penetrators.
The United States also has accused Iran of supplying the armor-piercing bombs to insurgents in Iraq. Iran has denied the charges.
"The Iranians are clearly supplying some amount of lethal aid," Fallon said. "There is no doubt . . . that agents from Iran are involved in aiding the insurgency."
Fallon said Iran is trying to ensure that it has a role in the region's politics. "And I think they put a priority on causing us as much frustration as they can," he said. "I think it's all aimed at embarrassing us and one of their long-standing aims is getting us out of the region."
NATO's International Security Assistance Force has said that three shipments of weapons emanating from Iran have been intercepted in Afghanistan since the spring. The latest was intercepted in the western province of Farah on Sept. 6.
Fallon said the United States was carefully watching the flow of weapons from Iran, and that border interdiction efforts may have to be increased.
Air strikes were called in against "anticoalition militants" in the Garmsir district of Helmand province early yesterday, killing about 40 fighters, the coalition said. Soldiers found more than 20 rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition, and land mines in the militants' compound, it said.
Women and children were among the six civilians killed in separate fighting in Helmand province's Gereshk region on Wednesday after Taliban fighters fled from NATO forces and sought shelter in homes, said Gereshk district chief Abdul Manaf Khan.
Taliban fighters attacked coalition forces from a housing compound that was later targeted in an air strike. ISAF said it was unaware civilians were in the area, but acknowledged civilian casualties.
In another newly reported battle, more than three dozen Taliban fighters were reported killed in a clash Wednesday in Uruzgan province, the coalition said.
The fighting began when Afghan and coalition troops spotted a dozen insurgents planting roadside bombs, sparking a 14-hour battle that included air strikes against Taliban fighters taking cover in village homes, it said.
Separately, a bombing in Kabul targeting a French military convoy killed one soldier and an Afghan civilian and, hospital and NATO officials said.
The blast blew the windows out of a civilian bus and set at least one vehicle on fire."
Amazing how the death toll can drop in a day, huh?
International Herald Tribune coverage (owned by the New York Times):
"American commander accuses Iran of arming Taliban" by Associated Press Friday, September 21, 2007
KABUL: A top U.S. military commander accused Iran on Friday of supplying powerful roadside bombs to militants in Afghanistan and said the United States would "act decisively" if the cross-border flow continued.
Fighting in the violence-plagued south, meanwhile, killed 75 Taliban and at least 6 civilians, and a suicide car bomb in the capital killed a French soldier and an Afghan bystander.
Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command, said the Revolutionary Guard in Iran was supplying Afghan rebels with parts for the sophisticated and deadly roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators, which have also been used in Iraq.
"The Iranians are clearly supplying some amount of lethal aid," Fallon said during a trip to Afghanistan.
He said there was "no doubt" that "agents from Iran are involved in aiding the insurgency."
Fallon said the United States was carefully watching the flow of weapons from Iran. His aides said later that his comments were not meant as a threat of military action against Iran but as a suggestion that border interdiction efforts might need to be increased.
Iran has denied that it is supplying arms to fighters in Afghanistan.
Fallon said Iran was also providing development assistance in western Afghanistan, which he called helpful, and he said Iranian activities inside Afghanistan were meant to ensure that Iran had a role in the region's politics.
"And I think they put a priority on causing us as much frustration as they can," he said. "I think it's all aimed at embarrassing us, and one of their long-standing aims is getting us out of the region."
NATO's International Security Assistance Force has said that three shipments of weapons from Iran have been intercepted in Afghanistan since April. The latest was discovered in Farah Province in the west Sept. 6.
NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, General Dan McNeill of the United States, told The Washington Post in an interview published Friday that the Sept. 6 shipment probably had been sent into the country with the knowledge of the Republican Guard and possibly with the knowledge of the Quds Force, the country's elite covert military arm.
U.S. military leaders have long said that Iran is supplying weapons to militants in Iraq, who use them against U.S. forces there.
Afghanistan has seen its heaviest fighting this year since the expulsion of the Taliban regime in 2001. More than 4,400 people have died in insurgency-related violence around the country, official figures indicate.
The bomb attack Friday in western Kabul was directed against a convoy of French troops traveling in armored vehicles. It killed one soldier and an Afghan civilian and wounded many other Afghans, hospital and NATO officials said. The blast blew the windows out of a civilian bus and set at least one vehicle on fire.
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France condemned the attack as "cowardly and odious."
"More than ever, I remain determined to pursue the fight against terrorism," Sarkozy said.
Fighting in the south has killed about 75 Taliban militants in 48 hours, the U.S.-led coalition said.
On Wednesday, NATO began a new operation in Helmand Province, which has seen the heaviest fighting in Afghanistan this year.
Airstrikes were called in against "anti-coalition militants" in the Garmsir district early Friday, killing about 40 fighters, the coalition said. Soldiers found more than 20 rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and land mines in the militants' compound, it said.
Six civilians, including women and children, died in a separate battle in the Gereshk region of Helmand Province on Wednesday after Taliban fighters fled from NATO forces and sought shelter in the civilians' homes, said the Gereshk district chief, Abdul Manaf Khan.
The increase in violence came as Afghans observed the UN-backed International Day of Peace on Friday. Marches and celebrations were held around the country and a UN spokesman, Adrian Edwards, called the number of Afghans participating "remarkable."
"I think there are two very different stories going on here," Edwards said. "One is about peace, one is about conflict."
See why I don't want to do this anymore, folks?
These lying shit Zionist rags are like this all the time, on every issue.
Just another pack of shit NaZionists liars and myth promoters!
I began this blog one year ago with the Times' shit coverage on Ahmadinejad's speech at the Council of Foreign Relations.
(Gee, where was the criticism then?)
There WAS NONE for speaking at the Globalist CFR. The Times described Ahmadinejad as "oozing polite hostility."
How do you do that, or is that just more shit NaZionists bias from the rectal sucking Jew York Times?
As you can see -- ONE YEAR LATER, readers -- nothing, NOTHING has changed with the SHIT ZIONIST WAR DAILIES!!!
As far as this year, I WANT TO HEAR WHAT Ahmadinejad has to say, and am LOOKING FORWARD to his 60 Minutes interview -- even though I know Scott Pelle will be asking hatchet job questions and the translations will be suspect.
If it were Bush and more of his MASS-MURDERING, WAR-CRIMINAL LIES, I wouldn't watch.
So WHY DO THIS?!
I sit here again after ten or so days, with the SHIT NaZionist lies drafted and saved!
Just sick of taking up my whole day -- nay, LIFE -- REFUTING SHIT NaZionist LIES!!!!!!!!!
Since I tore down the year's worth of posts, the reposting has been unfocused, incomplete, and unenthusiastic.
Because I'm sick of being fed shit lies.
Having to repudiate and repudiate shit lies has gotten to me!
WHY continue to enrage and anger myself by being here?
Amurkns seem perfectly happy to eat and drink Zionist diarrhea, so FUCK THEM!!!!
FUCK AMERIKA, and FUCK the STOO-PID FUCK AMURKN PEOPLE of whom:
"Well over half (57 percent) say they do not like learning about political issues in other countries!!!!!"
Eat your war dead, drink their blood, and smile, SMILE, for the shit dictator and his fucking lying mass-murdering wars!!!!
I don't GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU, this SHIT COUNTRY, or SHIT MEDIA ANYMORE!!!
SUFFER, DUMB-FUCK AMURKNS!!!
SUFFER and EAT YOUR WAR DEAD!!!!!!!!!
EAT UP, stoo-pid, uncaring, STINK-FUCK AMURKNS!!!!
