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Posts Tagged war on terror
New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 17/Oct/2010 23:19
‘Two recent news items emanating from the United States have begun to reverberate in Pakistan and give rise to speculation that growing American drone strikes and NATO helicopter attacks in that country may be the harbingers of far broader actions: Nothing less than the expansion of the West’s war in Afghanistan into Pakistan with the ultimate goal of seizing the nation’s nuclear weapons.
The News International, Pakistan’s largest English-language newspaper, published a report on October 13 based on excerpts from American journalist Bob Woodward’s recently released volume “Obama’s Wars” which stated that during a trilateral summit between the presidents of the U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan on May 6 of 2009 Pakistani head of state Asif Ali Zardari accused Washington of being behind Taliban attacks inside his country with the intent to use them so “the US could invade and seize its nuclear weapons”.’
Qari Hussain Mehsud, Taliban Leader Killed In US Drone Attack
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 15/Oct/2010 17:54
“Qari Hussain Mehsud, a top Taliban leader in Pakistan and deputy chief of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban has been killed by a US drone attack.
The drones hit a militant compound in Jungle Khel area near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency, killing four militants including Qari Hussain on October 7.
Qari Hussain Mehsud, specialty was training suicide bombers to conduct missions mainly in Pakistan.”
Capt. Emily Naslund, USMC
Emily Naslund in Iraq
Capt. Emily Naslund, the commander of the Female Engagement Team posted this to a Minnesota running blog back in 2008 when she was a 1st Lt. and deployed to Iraq
My job title is 1st Platoon Commander, Truck Company, I MEF Headquarters Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force. How’s that for a mouth full? I’m stationed at Camp Fallujah, Iraq which is located about 3km (or as we call it 3 clicks) east of the city of Fallujah, and about 24 clicks west of Baghdad International Airport.
I have 37 Marines under my charge and our mission is to conduct tactical logistics convoys all over Al Anbar Province to deliver supplies such as ammo, food, water, fuel, etc. – and for the Air Force Bases, ice cream. I have run well over 100 convoys, traveling around 17,000 miles on the Main Supply Routes of Iraq.
We are here on a year-long deployment, but since we showed up as the advance party, and are leaving with the last wave, my time spent in Iraq will be 13 month and 2 days by the time we leave. When I return home I plan on first sleeping for a week straight – waking up only to eat American (non-chow hall) food. Then, hopefully I will start training for a deployment to Afghanistan.
… My Marines are amazing, hard-working, and genuine people who continue to amaze me on a daily basis. Please keep them in your prayers. This year has been hard on them, but they still have challenges coming up. Getting adjusted back to life in the civilian world will be difficult and will take some time.
Thanks again for the support and Semper Fi,
1stLt Emily Naslund
“Top Gunâ€
Female Marines Make Combat Patrols
The official US MC policy is that females may not serve in the Infantry, Armor, or Artillery units. That policy has been altered to allow Female Marines to accompany patrols into the Afghan countryside in order to communicate with the local men and women in ways that local customs do not allow their male counterparts to accomplish.
Cpl. Christina Oliver, center, and other female Marines attached to a male battalion patrolled recently in Helmand Province.
From: New York Times
MARJA, Afghanistan — They expected tea, not firefights. But the three female Marines and their patrol were shot at late on a recent day, when a burst of Kalashnikov rifle fire came from a nearby compound. The group hit the ground, crawled into a ditch and aimed its guns across the fields of cotton and corn.
more from NYT
Audio Interview with VMI grad, Capt. Emily Naslund. CO of the Female Engagement Team in Helmund Province Afghanistan.
From: CNN Blog
Naslund and some of the other 39 women of the patrol are featured in a recent article by The New York Times’ Elisabeth Bumiller. They patrol various areas, including Marja, Afghanistan. “You’ve got 19- and 20-year-olds walking around in the world’s most dangerous place, knowing what could happen to them, and they’re willing to do that anyway, and they’re willing to do that with passion,†Naslund told the Times. This mission, she added, “is going to be the highlight of my life.â€
More on female warriors in Afghanistan from NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/world/asia/30marines.html
U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle Over Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 8/Oct/2010 22:36
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A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle from the 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, conducts operations over eastern Afghanistan, Nov. 26. Photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Keller
5th SBCT Troops Patrol Afghan West of FOB Ramrod Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 8/Oct/2010 22:34
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Spc. Lucas Yonkman of Alpha Troop, 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team inspects a digging device next to a large hole along with an Afghan national army service member. Photo by Sgt. Chris Florence
Dismounted Patrol near Combat Outpost Herrera
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 8/Oct/2010 22:31
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U.S. Army Sgt. Zachary Adkins, from Sweetland, W.Va., conducts a dismounted patrol with his platoon near Combat Outpost Herrera, Paktiya province, Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2009. The Soldiers were searching for sites from which the Taliban has been using to fire rockets at the outpost. Adkins is deployed with Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment. Photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith
Civil Military Support Team provide security during visit with Chief of Police Col. Abdul Rauf
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 8/Oct/2010 22:30
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U.S. Army Spc. Clarence Wright, an artilleryman with the Civil Military Support Team and an Andrews, S.C. resident, along with an Afghan National Policemen provide security during a visit with Chief of Police Col. Abdul Rauf, Ghulam Ali, Parwan province, Oct. 5. Korean Provincial Reconstruction Team Leader Won Hyuk Im visits with Col. Rauf to discuss further assistance with training the ANP. Photo by Spc Kristina Gupton
Sangin, Afghanistan: Taliban stronghold, “Afghanistan’s Fallujah”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 21/Sep/2010 01:11
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
“I’d tell anyone now don’t come here because I’d never want to come here again,” one soldier told me this summer at a Sangin patrol base hemmed in by all sides by insurgents.
“This place is different to anywhere else; really it’s a Taliban stronghold,” he added.
The town is likely to remain a Taliban redoubt because it always has been and there is little desire, or resources, to tackle Sangin’s problems. The centre for the narcotics trade and a hub for warring tribes the complexities of Sangin’s problems are deep.
But the town is also the testing ground for the Taliban where an average of 400 external fighters come each year to “earn their stripes” and the fighting is of an intensity not found anywhere else in Helmand. On average there are 15 small arms fire contacts a day and 15 IEDs found a week.
No wonder then that troops nicknamed Sangin the “bastard child of Helmand” or “Afghanistan’s Fallujah”.
School – and hopefully a Future – Built for Afghani Children
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 8/Sep/2010 01:37
Students watch as one of their peers read from the board on the first day of school at the new Marjah Central High School, Helmand province Afghanistan, Sept. 5. The school is a symbol of the growing influence the Afghan government has in the Marjah District. Photo by Lance Cpl. Jeremy Fasci
Counterinsurgency
This past weekend former Australian Army officer David Kilcullen was on C-SPAN talking about his new book Counterinsurgency.
Freelance Journalist Released in Afghanistan
Posted by Gary in News, Threat Watch on 7/Sep/2010 17:47
Freelance Japanese journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka, himself a Muslim, was released Saturday after 5 months of captivity in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan.
From: The Japan Times
Kosuke Tsuneoka
During his five months in captivity, he said he never met anyone who supported the government led by President Hamid Karzai.
Financial aid from overseas, including Japan, is spent on government-controlled areas, which amounts to only 10 to 20 percent of the country, which is widening the wealth disparity, Tsuneoka said.
One of the captors told him there is no hospital in Archi, a town in Kunduz Province, where he stayed. “He asked me, ‘Can’t Japan help us?’ “
General David Petraeus initiates plan to begin to “thin out” his forces.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 5/Sep/2010 18:42
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (r) is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, 2 Sept 2010
“The commander of U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan said Thursday that he has asked his officers to provide “initial assessments” of where he can begin to “thin out” his forces.
General Petraeus said he asked his staff to make plans to reduce their forces in relatively stable areas…
Petraeus is up against a deadline set by President Obama to begin a U.S. troop withdrawal next July.
The general indicated he does not expect to send home large units or to hand over large areas to Afghan security control. Rather, he said, at the beginning of the process, he will do what the United States did in Iraq and elsewhere – gradually reduce the U.S. troop presence in specific areas.
“You thin out, you don’t just sort of hand them the baton and say, ‘It’s yours,'” he said.
U.S. officials say the initial withdrawal will be small and that additional drawdowns will be based on security conditions in each part of the country.”
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Petraeus-Plans-for-Start-of-US-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan-Next-Year-102096528.html
American soldiers helped Iraqi troops repell major attack in Baghdad
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 5/Sep/2010 16:58
Reporting from Baghdad —
“American soldiers helped Iraqi troops battle insurgents in downtown Baghdad on Sunday, repelling a major attack in the heart of the capital city five days after President Obama declared an end to U.S. combat operations.At least 18 people were killed and 39 injured in the midday attack in which a group of suicide bombers and gunmen attempted to storm the Iraqi army’s headquarters for eastern Baghdad, located in a former Ministry of Defense building in a busy market district alongside the Tigris River.
No Americans were among the casualties, said military spokesman Lt Col. Eric Bloom.
“Soldiers living and working at Old MoD provided suppressive fire while IA [Iraqi army] soldiers located the two terrorists that entered the compound,” he said in an e-mail. The firefight lasted “a few minutes,” he said.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq-attack-20100906,0,6013303.story
Good news! Michigan Muslim “probably not a terrorist”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 31/Aug/2010 23:50
The New York Times reports:
WASHINGTON — American law enforcement officials said Tuesday that they believed that two Yemeni men detained in Amsterdam after unusual items were found in their luggage had no connection to terrorism…
Though no explosives were found, investigators considered the possibility that the men might be conducting a test run for a terrorist attack, officials said.
By Tuesday, that possibility was all but ruled out. Neither man was on any terror watch list or had any known history of militancy.
A search of Mr. Soofi by airport security screeners in Birmingham, Ala., as he waited to board a flight to Chicago on Sunday found that he was carrying $7,000 in cash and that his luggage contained a cellphone taped to a bottle of Pepto-Bismol, three cellphones taped together and several watches taped together, officials said. The bag also contained pill bottles, a box cutter and three large knives, according to an internal Transportation Security Administration report.
None of the items violated the restrictions for checked luggage, and Mr. Soofi was allowed to fly to Chicago.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/world/europe/01plane.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
My favorite part was, “Neither man … had any known history of militancy.” They are followers of a militant ideology that teaches its followers to kill infidels. How stupid are we?