Yup, Iraq is a surge success, all right!
Yesterday, it was Afghanistan:
Top Officials Greet Gates in Kabul With Pleas
Desperate pleas, I'll bet!
"Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates heard appeals on Tuesday from Afghanistan’s most senior government and military leaders for more money, weapons and security trainers as 2007 brought the greatest spike in insurgent violence since the Taliban and Al Qaeda were routed six years ago.
To emphasize what Afghan and American officials call a major success story, Mr. Gates flew to Khost Province along the Pakistan border, his helicopter skirting saw-tooth peaks covered with snow, to meet tribal leaders and local commanders. Suicide bombs detonated somewhere in the province once every week last year, but the number has dropped to once a month.
Mr. Gates praised cooperation among American military, provincial government officials and Afghan security forces as “a model of a concerted counterinsurgency effort that he said “is having tangible results.”
Across the province, American troops have been deployed out of a large hub to a number of satellite camps where they live alongside Afghan security forces, American diplomats and aid officials.
An AFGHANISTAN SURGE? I never heard about that!
Of course, that coincides with the worst year in Afghanistan for American deaths!
Uh-oh!
Mr. Gates also sat with tribal elders in the nearby Tere Zayi district center. There, the American military is taking lessons from the successful campaign to organize local sheiks against Al Qaeda in Anbar Province in Iraq, and is working with local tribes in the counterinsurgency effort in southeast Afghanistan.
Senior American commanders here expressed concern that Al Qaeda, perhaps pushed out of Iraq by the “surge,” is trying to return to its former base and instigate violence in Afghanistan.
Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez:
“Suicide bombers were basically nonexistent here three years ago. That has continued to grow over the past three years. We believe it’s the violent extremists that are behind that, led of course by Al Qaeda and associated groups.”
Gee, "Al-CIA-Duh" gets around like a French prostitute, huh, readers?
I am SO SICK of the WAR PROPAGANDA, readers!
To hell with AmeriKa if they allow this shit to continue!
So why did the Times split this article off, readers?
"A suicide car bomber crashed into a two-car NATO convoy on the Kabul airport road on Tuesday morning, wounding 22 Afghan civilians on their way to work.
A statement issued by the International Security and Assistance Force, as the NATO military forces in Afghanistan are known, confirmed that the attack had taken place. The statement said no soldiers had been wounded.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, said by telephone that the group was responsible for the attack. He said the bomber was a Kabul University student named Shukrullah.
Most of the wounded were passengers on a minibus that was passing at the time of the explosion, according to Ali Shah Paktiawal of the Kabul police.
Mohammed Asif, a shopkeeper who saw the explosion:
“There was a big flash followed by a huge and thick smoke and a very strong explosion.”
Another witness, a man named Gulzad, said:
“I saw a man in a brown Corolla car that crashed his car with two white Land Cruisers, but caused severe damage to a minibus that was passing. I saw eight people who were injured in the minibus. Two of them were women.”
Gulzad said he was waiting for a bus to take him to his shop in the Kabul bazaar when the attack took place.
Gen. Carlos Branco, a Portuguese officer who acts as a spokesman for the NATO forces, in a statement:
“These barbaric suicide bombings rarely cause I.S.A.F. casualties, but almost always result in indiscriminate innocent civilian casualties."
And CUI BONO?
Any airstrikes or Taliban killed, MSM?
Or where there absolutely no AmeriKan or NATO operations yesterday?
And how come the Globe reported none of this, readers?
