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Posts Tagged afghanistan
173rd Airborne Brigade Soldiers arrive at Forward Operation Base Joyce
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 2/Sep/2010 19:22
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrive to Forward Operation Base Joyce, Afghanistan in a CH-47D Chinook helicopter, Dec. 17, 2009 Photo by Sgt. Teddy Wade
Gates: the fight against corruption needs to be Afghan-led
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 2/Sep/2010 18:03
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks during the US Forces-Iraq change of command ceremony in Baghdad, Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010, as a new US military mission in Iraq was launched ending seven years of combat.(AP Photo/Jim Watson, pool)
“KABUL — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that while the fight against corruption must be led by Afghans, the U.S. is working on new ways to prevent millions of American dollars flowing into the nation from underwriting bribery and graft.
Gates spoke to reporters in the Afghan capital with President Hamid Karzai, who complained about the tactics of two Western-backed anti-corruption units that recently arrested one of his top aides on suspicion of bribery, likening them to heavy-handed Soviet tactics.”
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/02/5030932-us-def-sec-afghans-should-lead-corruption-fight
Marine gives life trying to save Afghan policeman
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 29/Aug/2010 20:00
Lance Cpl. Joshua S. Leventhal, a grenadier with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, completes Sgt. Joe L. Wrightsman’s battlefield cross by placing boots and identification tags on the monument during a memorial service at Patrol Base Jaker, Afghanistan, July 30. Wrightsman died supporting combat operations July 18.
PATROL BASE JAKER, Afghanistan — Cpl. Joe L. Wrightsman gave his life trying to save an Afghan policeman drowning in Afghanistan’s Helmand River July 18. And while the two would ultimately become victims of the powerful currents, Wrightsman’s actions weren’t in vain.
Failed attack: Taliban dressed in US uniforms attack Nato bases
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Aug/2010 18:21
Foreign and Afghan troops have repelled pre-dawn attacks on two bases in east Afghanistan from Taliban insurgents wearing US military uniforms.
Major Patrick Sheba, from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Kabul said at least fifteen insurgents were killed at one base and six at another.
The attacks targeted the US military’s Forward Operating Base Chapman and Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khost province near the eastern border with Pakistan, where coalition forces have been stepping up operations against a resurgent Taliban.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11122067
“War is Deceptionâ€, said Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
The art of taqiyya: religiously mandated lies, omission and deception to advance Islam.
http://sheikyermami.com/2010/07/26/war-is-deception-said-muhammad-prophet-of-islam/
Afghan Elemetary Education: For Soldiers
From Wired’s Danger Room
Right now, only 18 percent of those 243,000 cops and grunts have more than a Kindergarten-level ability to read. Which means they’ve got major trouble doing everything from keeping track of their gear to following a battle plan to getting paid, the general in charge of the NATO training effort says.
“We’re talking about giving them anywhere from between a first grade-level education to about a third grade-level education. For many back in America, that’s really hard to comprehend. And I understand that. It was for me, too.â€
Why do we have to find this information on a technology website? Why can’t the news networks do this kind of reporting? Why can’t the president explain that this is why it is taking so long for that backward country to pull itself out of the 3rd century?
Faith: Two-legged dog that learned to walk upright inspires veterans with debilitating war injuries
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 22/Aug/2010 22:36
Despite having only her hind legs, Faith the dog learned to walk and is an inspiration to wounded soldiers. Photo: YouTube
Faith is no ordinary dog. The labrador-chow mix was born missing one front leg, with the other so badly deformed that it had to be amputated when Faith was still a puppy.
Veterinarians suggested putting her down but Faith’s owner, Jude Stringfellow of Oklahoma City, instead taught the dog to walk on its hind legs.
Since appearing on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 2006, Faith has toured veterans hospitals in the U.S. to inspire servicemen injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, Faith is set to travel to the U.K. to greet wounded British soldiers returning from the war in Afghanistan.
“Faith seems to inspire these young men,” Stringfellow tells Britain’s Sun. “It’s very emotional watching them respond to her. She shows what can be achieved against great odds.”
http://theweek.com/article/index/206223/faith-the-dog-that-inspires-wounded-soldiers
4 US soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 22/Aug/2010 15:06
KABUL, Afghanistan – Four U.S. troops were killed in fighting in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Sunday, and a former guerrilla leader who battled Soviet invaders decades ago was killed by a roadside bomb in the country’s north.
Three of the U.S. casualties died in insurgent attacks and one was killed by a homemade bomb, NATO said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100822/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan;_ylt=AimUqSrP5OZlMnsgYruGr4B0fNdF
Next target of the US military: “Taliban is the home team here.”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Aug/2010 13:38
The 101st Airborne's 2-502 and their Afghan Army partners operate in a district which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
“As Lt. Col. Peter N. Benchoff prepares for an assault next month into the birthplace of the Taliban, he doesn’t sugarcoat the hurdles his troops face in this crucial swath of southern Afghanistan.
“Security sucks. Development? Nothing substantial. Information campaign? Nobody believes us. Governance? We’ve had one, hour-long visit by a government official in the last 2 1/2 months,” the battalion commander says. “Taliban is the home team here.”
“Here” is 116 square miles (300 square kilometers) of Zhari, a district just west of Kandahar through which the insurgents funnel fighters, drugs, explosives and stage attacks into the city.”
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/22/4949561-next-us-target-the-birthplace-of-the-taliban
President Bush welcoming soldiers home at DFW
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 20/Aug/2010 16:41
As 145 soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan walked through the double doors in Terminal D at DFW Airport last week for two weeks of R&R, they were greeted not only by their families, but by former president George and Laura Bush.
Why the Afghan surge probably will not succeed as well as the Iraq surge
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 17/Aug/2010 21:49
by Omar
“Afghans, while not necessarily fond of the Taliban actions, do not seem to see huge differences between Taliban and government control. In fact sometimes they prefer the former as the Taliban can be better at governance and creating working relations with the population, largely because the government is so incompetent and corrupt. Read the rest of this entry »
7 Special Forces soldiers to get Silver Star for Afghan valor
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 17/Aug/2010 17:58
“Even though the enemy was firing from just 10 feet, Roland immediately climbed out of the relative safety of his armored vehicle and started attacking enemy fighters in a nearby wadi, or dry streambed.
He and his fellow soldiers killed two of the enemy and cleared the rest of the wadi of enemy attackers, all while under fire from snipers. Their actions meant the enemy was no longer a threat to his unit’s rear flank.
Afghan boys greet a combined special operations force
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 17/Aug/2010 17:48
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Afghan boys greet a combined special operations force during an Afghan National Army-led counter-narcotics operation in northern Zabul, April 10. The Afghan National Army-led narcotics operation, in concert with Drug Enforcement Administration and assisted by U.S. Special Operations Forces, was to investigate the presence of facilities and re-engagement with villages in the province. (U.S. Navy Photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist (SW) Jeremy L. Wood) (Released)
Afghan Presidential Decree Bans Security Firms
Posted by Gary in News, Threat Watch on 17/Aug/2010 15:50
From: Star Telegram
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s president issued a decree Tuesday ordering private security companies to disband by the end of the year, drawing a warning from the United States that the move could delay reconstruction and development assistance programs.
Taliban stone Afghan couple to death for adultery
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 17/Aug/2010 00:59
Taliban forces have stoned a couple to death for adultery in a public execution.
Amnesty International condemns first confirmed stoning in Afghanistan since fall of the Taliban in 2001
Militants ordered the stoning after a married man and a single woman in Dasht-e-Archi district, Kunduz province, were accused of eloping.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/16/taliban-couple-stoned-afghanistan
Dedication, Perseverance, and Discipline
MMA fighter and Army Ranger Tim Kennedy talks about dedication, perseverance, discipline and a 3-day gunfight.