Otherwise, why would the Zionist-controlled MSM be reporting on it?
They have no problem ignoring so many things, so WHY NOW?
"Afghan and NATO forces drive Taliban from 4 southern villages; But insurgents continue to hold half-dozen others" by M. Karim Faiez and Laura King, Los Angeles Times | June 19, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - Explosions echoed through vineyards and pomegranate groves yesterday as Afghan and NATO forces backed by helicopter gunships recaptured at least four villages in southern Afghanistan that had been seized by the Taliban, Afghan authorities said.
At least three dozen insurgents, including a commander, and two Afghan soldiers were killed in fighting in the Arghandab district northwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said.
By day's end, the insurgents were still in control of about half a dozen villages, the provincial government reported.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan's volatile south, four British soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Helmand province, Western military officials said. It was the largest number of British troops killed in a single attack this year, reflecting growing Taliban prowess in preparing and planting powerful improvised explosive devices.
That's all right; Brownie sending help.
The British troop loss came less than a week after four US Marines were killed in a roadside bombing in Farah province - the highest American toll in an attack in Afghanistan this year.
And all the Afghans killed?
Analysts have said 2008 is shaping up as the most violent year since the toppling of the Taliban movement more than six years ago.... The offensive in Arghandab, one of the largest in months by the Western-led coalition, was expected to take about three days, the NATO command said in a statement.
Which is when the Zionist-controlled press will quit reporting on it, just watch!
Thousands of villagers had already fled Arghandab before the offensive began at dawn on Wednesday.
Great! Bush just added to his record totals!
Civilian witnesses who remained in the area described militants taking shelter in culverts and along riverbanks as helicopter gunships raked the area with gunfire.
A tribal elder in Arghandab, Haji Ghulam Farooq, said the insurgents, armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, were fleeing northward as Afghan and Canadian troops were moving in from the south on foot.
Taliban fighters generally shun full-on confrontations with the better-equipped Western-led forces, but insurgent commanders had expressed determination this time to hold their ground and strike next at the city of Kandahar itself.
But we are winning, we are winning, we are winning, we are... awww, forget it!
Can we COME HOME yet?
NATO officials continued to insist that the size of the Taliban presence in the area had been greatly exaggerated.
These the same NATO liars who lied about Taliban taking over the towns?
Just checking.
But villagers, local officials, and Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said the Taliban force numbered in the hundreds, which is considered a substantial concentration of fighters.
NATO estimated of the number of refugees fleeing also have been at odds with those of local officials. Brigadier General Carlos Branco, a NATO spokesman, had said a day earlier that villagers did not appear to be fleeing in large numbers, but witnesses described a panicked exodus of hundreds of farm families.
Who you gonna believe, NATO or your lying eyes?
Ahmed Wali Karzai, a provincial commissioner and a brother of President Hamid Karzai, put the number of those who had taken shelter in and near Kandahar at about 1,500 families, which would bring the total to at least 4,000 people.
4,000 more REFUGEES added to Bush's championship record!
The governor of Kandahar province, Asadullah Khalid, said that Afghan authorities had appealed for United Nations help in dealing with those displaced by the conflict.
The U.N.? WTF are they going to do?
Fighting also flared yesterday in Zabol province, which adjoins Kandahar province. Afghan authorities said at least a dozen insurgents were killed there.
In eastern Paktika province, two coalition soldiers were killed and 10 wounded when their patrol was attacked by insurgents, the military reported without specifying the nationalities of the Western troops involved."So the fighting is heating up everywhere, huh?
Actually, no, it's over!!!!
"Officials Report Routing of Taliban
"After a day of air strikes and ground operations against Taliban fighters, Afghan and NATO officials claimed broad success on Thursday, saying they had largely expelled the insurgents from the strategic Arghandab region near Kandahar, killing more than 50 of them....
I thought they said three days. How come we can't wrap up Iraq as quick?
Hundreds of Afghan and NATO troops, supported by armored vehicles and helicopter gunships, poured into the area Wednesday after the insurgents infiltrated 18 villages....
That number of villages keeps going up!
Helicopters flying over the Arghandab River valley fired rockets at Taliban positions a mile or so west of the river, indicating that insurgents were much closer to the district center than NATO and Afghan officials had previously acknowledged....
Sigh! Do I even have to say it?
Farmers trying to bring in the wheat harvest in this fertile valley said they had been ordered out of their fields by Afghan troops....
NOT TALIBAN?! This was just the suspicion I raised yesterday!
CUI BONO, hey?
One farmer, Abdul Khaliq, said that he had evacuated his family to the city the previous day but that he had returned to his village, Tabin, because the wheat was ripe.
“I am very worried about my wheat harvest. If fighting is prolonged, we will lose the harvest. ”
That just fits too well, readers.
Other casualties around the country indicated rising Taliban attacks across the south and southeast.... troops also clashed with Taliban fighters in the district of Maiwand, and that families had been displaced there as well.
More refugees for Bush's swelling total!
