"NATO Chief Warns of Threats to Afghan Mission"
".... The Afghan Defense Ministry said Thursday that Afghan and American-led coalition troops battled for five hours on Wednesday with militants north of Musa Qala, where Taliban militants were in control for much of 2007 before Afghan, American and British troops took the southern town and surrounding areas in Helmand Province in December.
The Defense Ministry said 30 people suspected of being Taliban fighters were killed in the operation, during which coalition aircraft bombed militant hide-outs. The coalition, reporting no casualty figures, said 11 militants were detained in Wednesday’s operation...."
"Suspected" Taliban fighters?
Well, where they or won't they?
And that's all the New York Times gives you, Week-Ender Shit-Eater?
When their little sister has this?
"Afghan insurgents step up attacks with more lethal bombs"
"by Jason Straziuso, Associated Press | February 22, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - A ruthless new generation of Afghan insurgents is casting aside Taliban doctrine that opposed killing large numbers of civilians, instead using more powerful explosives and packing bombs with ball bearings to maximize fatalities.
That's why I don't buy the Zionist-controlled bullshit, readers!!!!!
Just this week, some 140 people died in two bombings. Afghan security officials say the militants have started using C-4, a powerful explosive rarely seen before in Afghanistan.
Hmmmmmmm!
Military-grade explosives AFTER WE GOT THERE, huh?
STINK!!!
"It's not like Baghdad, but the terrorists are learning lessons from each other," said Abdul Manan Farahi, counterterrorism chief for the Interior Ministry.
The recent bombings are part of a bloody trend in the deepening Afghan conflict. Militants have stepped up attacks, and NATO has boosted its forces and taken the fight to the Taliban. Last year was the deadliest since the US invasion of Afghanistan, with more than 6,500 people, mostly Taliban fighters, killed in militant-related violence.
Both sides have caused civilian deaths. According to an Associated Press count based on figures from Afghan and Western officials, militants killed 480 civilians in 2007, while US or NATO action killed 360 civilians - many of them in air strikes.
Actually we have killed a hell of a lot more than that:
Afghanistan is the New Auschwitz
The United States and NATO have successfully worked to reduce civilian deaths since a spate of casualties in June drew stern warnings from President Hamid Karzai and outraged the Afghan public.
At the same time, a surge in suicide attacks in the past two years is increasingly putting Afghan civilians in the line of fire. There were six suicide bombings in Afghanistan in all of 2003 and 2004. Militants ramped up such attacks in late 2005 and they have been rising steadily since, culminating in more than 140 in 2007.
Sigh!
Yeah, never mind those UNDER-REPORTED, MASS-MURDERING NATO AIRSTRIKES!!!!
Afghanistan Bombings Up 20-Fold Since 2005
Thanks, Zionist-controlled War Daily!
Sunday saw the deadliest insurgent bombing since the Taliban's ouster from power in 2001, when a suicide attack killed more than 100 people at a dog fighting match near the southern city of Kandahar. The next day, 38 Afghan civilians were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a Canadian military convoy, officials said.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for Monday's attack, asserting that only police and soldiers were killed. But the spokesman denied the militia was behind Sunday's killings.
The Afghan government has not formally accused the Taliban of Sunday's attack. But Karzai's spokesman said the bombing had "all the hallmarks of previous attacks."
The Taliban insists it is avoiding attacks that target civilians.
But a militant spokesman said Taliban leaders have called on bomb-makers to raise the power of blasts against US and NATO military forces, which could increase the possibility that civilians will also be killed.
Reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar has in the past called on his fighters not to carry out attacks around civilians, apparently aware that such killings hurts the militia's cause. But a new breed of ruthless militants has replaced dozens of insurgent leaders who have been killed or captured.
So by taking out "old-guard" Taliban we are EMPOWERING even MORE RADICAL members?
Talk about FAILURE!!!!!!!
And how does western intel KNOW SO MUCH about the enemy, huh?
A recent analysis by NATO theorized that while the older Taliban leadership associated with Mullah Omar sought to avoid civilian casualties, "the new guys just don't care," said an official at NATO's headquarters in Kabul who asked not to be identified when revealing internal reports.
NEW GUYS must be WORKING FOR US!!
Talk about pushing propaganda!
The influence of one such commander, Siraj Haqqani, is growing, the US says. Haqqani, a Taliban-associated militant with close ties to Al Qaeda, is accused of coordinating beheadings and suicide bombings reminiscent of the deadliest days of the Iraq war."
Oh, here you go!!!
Yup, a NEW "Al-CIA-Duh" monster assuming command!
I'd laugh if the bullshit were not so irritating!!!!
