Yes, we are winning because we are killing more people than "they" are!
Read the piece through, and watch how the Zionist-controlled, war-promoting, agenda-pushing AmeriKan War Daily minimizes Muslim deaths and U.S. war crimes.
"Coalition says 55 militants killed; Air strikes pound Afghan border" by Stephen Graham, Associated Press | June 24, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led forces rained fire for two days on militants near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, killing about 55 insurgents, officials said yesterday. The battle underscored how fighting with Taliban militants is escalating.
The battle in eastern Paktika province was the second in the past week to reportedly inflict major casualties on militants, who Afghan officials insist are swarming in from strongholds in Pakistan.
Pakistan's government yesterday reiterated an offer to fence the craggy, 1,500-mile frontier - a project begun but abandoned last year amid criticism that it would only enrage the tribes who straddle the frontier and among whom the Taliban find many recruits.
Yeah, enrage the tribes because that border was arbitrarily imposed by colonial Britain -- taking into account NOTHING about the people who LIVE THERE!
You know, the SAME DEAL the KURDS GOT in the Middle East after WWI!
The battle in Paktika began Friday morning, when militants armed with rockets and guns ambushed troops from the US-led coalition patrolling a road in Ziruk district, the coalition said. The troops returned fire and called in air strikes.
Yeah, but we are winning.
The inherent nature of the bias is clearly visible: "ambush" is a racist term that was applied to what Native Americans did to defend themselves from the English invaders.
I'm not surprised, readers, not coming from a Zionist War Daily.
Is kicking down doors and hauling away menfolk to torture chambers considered an "ambush?"
Case closed!
Fighting continued until Sunday morning, and the majority of the deaths were from the air strikes, said Captain Christian Patterson, coalition spokesman. About 55 militants died, 25 others were wounded, and three were detained, he said.
Patterson said no coalition troops died, but declined to say if any were wounded.
It was not possible to get independent confirmation of the death toll, but
But the AmeriKan MSM will SHOVEL IT as TRUTH anyway! Pfffftttt!
The clash was the second in a week to inflict heavy casualties on insurgents, who have little answer to Western airpower....
Translation: WE ARE SLAUGHTERING THEM!!!!
And that INCLUDES CIVILIANS (keep reading).
The SITE Intelligence Group said the Taliban posted statements on the Internet yesterday disputing the death toll in Arghandab. SITE, which monitors militant websites, said the Taliban postings reported six Taliban killed and three wounded and that the other bodies were civilians.
Pffft! Well, we KNOW THAT IS GARBAGE PROPAGANDA!!!!
Also see: The Wizards at S.I.T.E.
The latest deaths means that June is already the bloodiest month this year.... For the year to date, the tally is nearing 2,000, most of them militants.
Violence was escalating because of stepped-up military operations by the more than 60,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, said Mustafa Alani, director of security and terrorism studies at the Gulf Research Center based in Dubai.
Alani said the Taliban were exploiting anger at reports of civilian casualties in military operations and successes such as a mass jailbreak in Kandahar to recruit new fighters.
The insurgents have become more adept at Iraq-style guerrilla tactics, including roadside bombs, he said.
"The number of casualties is not a measure of victory or defeat for them," Alani said, referring to the Taliban. "Those people are viewed as martyrs."
NATO said its forces prevented four militants from planting a bomb on a road in eastern Nangarhar province yesterday, but denied reports that two civilians died. After a gunbattle, it said the troops called in air support, killing one militant. The others fled.
However, Zalmay Dadak, mayor of Khogyani district, said coalition fire during the overnight operation also hit a house in a village, killing a man and his son."Yeah, save that for LAST!
And don't touch upon this at all, 'eh, Globe?
"American Envoy Is Linked to Arms Deal Cover-Up"
"An American ambassador helped cover up the illegal Chinese origins of ammunition that a Pentagon contractor bought to supply Afghan security forces, according to testimony gathered by Congressional investigators....
The United States ambassador to Albania endorsed a plan by the Albanian defense minister to hide several boxes of Chinese ammunition from a visiting reporter. The ammunition was being repackaged to disguise its origins and shipped from Albania to Afghanistan by a Miami Beach arms-dealing company.
The ambassador, John L. Withers II, met with the defense minister, Fatmir Mediu, hours before a reporter for The New York Times was to visit the American contractor’s operations in Tirana, the Albanian capital, according to the testimony. The company, under an Army contract, bought the ammunition to supply Afghan security forces although American law prohibits trading in Chinese arms...."
Support the Troops! Break U.S. law!
Mr. Mediu ordered the commanding general of Albania’s armed forces to remove all boxes of Chinese ammunition from a site the reporter was to visit, and “the ambassador agreed that this would alleviate the suspicion of wrongdoing.”
.... At the time of the meeting, the company, AEY Inc., was under investigation for illegal arms trafficking involving Chinese ammunition. On Friday, the president of the company, Efraim E. Diveroli, 22, and three others were charged with selling prohibited Chinese ammunition to the Pentagon that they said was made in Albania.....
Embassy staff members seemed sympathetic to the Albanians’ alarm. The day after the November meeting, the embassy’s regional security officer, Patrick Leonard, wrote an assistant an e-mail message obtained by the committee: “NY Times just arrived today and might be doing a story on this and it might get ugly. Ambassador is very concerned about the case.”
When The Times published its article on March 27, it was quickly forwarded to embassy officials. In an e-mail message to several embassy officials, Mr. Leonard said that the article focused on the arms company’s dealings. “No mention of Embassy involvement — thank God!”
So when do the war-crimes trials start, Times? And how come they never mentioned that the ammo destined for U.S. troop or Afghan army was DEFECTIVE?
Sigh.
This is more bullshit fooleys, and I wonder what the Times angle is here.
Also see:
The War, the Truth, and the New York Times
