Not a Memory Hole. It's today.
And the NYT won't cover, of course.
They would rather print war-fomenting bullshit about people who are defending themselves.
"Afghan Ex-Militia Leaders Hoard Illegal Arms"
Where the next 9/11 is coming from, right lying shitters?!
Just setting up the propaganda for it, 'eh, Times?
And who exactly is arming them?
These guys?
Meanwhile, the MSM drops this story like a California wildfire!
"Coalition forces kill 80 Taliban fighters" by Jason Straziuso/Associated Press October 28, 2007
KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan yesterday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.
Also yesterday, suicide bomber wearing an Afghan security uniform detonated explosives at the entrance to a combined US-Afghan base in the east of the country, killing four Afghan soldiers and a civilian, and injuring six Afghans, officials said.
The battle near Musa Qala in Helmand province - the world's largest poppy growing region - is at least the fifth major fight in the area since Sept. 1. The five battles have killed more than 250 Taliban fighters, a possible sign that US or British forces could be trying to wrest the area back from Taliban militants.
By way of MASS-MURDER!!!!
The latest battle began when Taliban fighters attacked a combined US coalition and Afghan patrol with rockets and gunfire, prompting the combined force to call in attack aircraft, which resulted in "almost seven dozen Taliban fighters killed," the US-led coalition said in a statement early today.
don't want to kill them by air bombs anymore.
Or at all, for that matter!
For what? A lie?
The coalition said that four bombs were dropped on a trench line filled with Taliban fighters, resulting in most of the deaths. It said there were no immediate reports of civilian casualties.
Taliban militants overran Musa Qala in February, four months after British troops left the town following a contentious peace agreement that handed over security responsibilities to Afghan elders. Musa Qala has been in control of Taliban fighters ever since.
Situated in the north of Helmand, Musa Qala and the region around it have been the front line of the bloodiest fighting this year. It is also the heartland of Afghanistan's illicit opium poppy farms.
Days after Taliban fighters overran Musa Qala a U.S. commander pledged that Western troops would take it back. Nine months later, the town is still Taliban territory, a symbol of the West's struggles to control the poppy-growing south.
But a string of recent battles around Musa Qala, won overwhelmingly by American Special Forces, signal a renewed U.S. focus on the symbolic Taliban stronghold.
Then the U.S. must have murdererd a lot of innocent people!!!
Oh no!!!
Afghan commanders are holding talks with Musa Qala's tribal leaders to persuade them to expel the Arab, Chechen and Uzbek foreign fighters who roam its streets alongside the Taliban militants.
U.S. Special Forces soldiers accompanied by Afghan troops killed about 80 fighters during a six-hour battle outside Musa Qala on Saturday, the latest in a series of increasingly deadly engagements in Helmand province.
Maj. Chris Belcher, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition: "Musa Qala is part of the overall concept here, denying the Taliban the ability to control northern Helmand. Our goal is to stop them from accomplish are also active in the province."
I thought we were already winning this war. WTF?
U.S. military spokesman, Col. Tom Collins, days after the Taliban takeover:
"[NATO and Afghan forces would take back the town] at a time and place that is most advantageous.''
Lt. Col. Richard Eaton, a spokesman for British troops in Helmand:
"Nothing in Afghanistan is ever straightforward. You can't do everything simultaneously. That is not how a counterinsurgency works. As (the commander of NATO's forces in Afghanistan) has said, we will deal with Musa Qala at a time of our choosing.''
Eaton also did not rule out the possibility of future peace talks in the town, saying that the solutions to insurgencies are political.
When colonial murders talk peace, they have lost!
Brig. Gen. Ghulam Muhiddin Ghori, a top Afghan army commander in Helmand, said the foreign fighters are running training camps near Musa Qala to teach militants how to carry out suicide and roadside bomb attacks. But he said no big military operations are being launched to overtake the town itself because of a fear of civilian casualties.
Ghori told The Associated Press:
"Afghan and coalition forces have surrounded the Musa Qala district center. We have started negotiations with tribal leaders there to take over Musa Qala from the Taliban. The tribal leaders are also worried about these Taliban because the foreign fighters - Arabs, Chechens, Baluchs and Uzbeks - they are in Musa Qala.''
Violence in Afghanistan this year has been the deadliest since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. More than 5,200 people have died this year due to the insurgency, according to an Associated Press count based on figures from Afghan and Western officials.
No wonder the coverage has nearly disappeared.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez, declined to talk about Musa Qala at a news conference in Kabul on Sunday. Speaking on a separate topic, he said it could take between 18 months and two years for Afghan units to be able to conduct major operations on their own.
Rodriguez said Afghan forces excel at small-unit tactics and coordinating with the Afghan people but still need to improve their command structure, the use of air power, their logistics support and medical capabilities.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force, meanwhile, said an investigation into allegations of civilian casualties in Wardak province on Oct. 22 found that no civilians had been killed. A provincial council member at the time said 12 civilians had been killed, but ISAF said the investigation found that the allegations were "without merit.''
Pfffffttt! Fucking western cover-up.
No wonder Muslims are furious and hate us!!
We kill their kids and families, and then we say it never happened!
All based on the 9/11 lie!!
Therefore, our victims are complete innocents!
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is calling for the U.S. and NATO to cut back on airstrikes in the battle against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, saying too many civilians have been killed.
And that is OUR GUY!!! He must be worried!!
Taliban on the outskirts of Kabul or something?
"Preying on a weak government and rising public concerns about security, the Taliban are enjoying a military resurgence in Afghanistan and are now staging attacks just outside the capital, according to Western diplomats, private security analysts, and aid workers (Washington Post September 28, 2007 )."
Gotta love the lies, dontcha, readers?
Karzai, asked if he wants the use of airstrikes curtailed, told the U.S. news program "60 Minutes'' for a story scheduled to air Sunday night:
"[Six years after the U.S.-led invasion the Afghan people] cannot comprehend as to why there is still a need for air power. The United States and the coalition forces are not (killing civilians) deliberately. The United States is here to help the Afghan people. Absolutely. Oh, yes, in clear words and I want to repeat that, (there are) alternatives to the use of air force.''
I can not comprehend it either, sir.
And it absolutely is breaking my heart!
We are not there to help!
We are there to kill for Israel!
