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Dec-18-2006 23:44printcomments

Precision Air Strike Against Insurgent Command Post

There is nowhere for them to hide from the combined strength of the Afghan National Security Forces and ISAF

Kandahar, Afghanistan
Insurgent command and logistics post was plummeted in an isolated area of the Panjwayi district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan

(KANDAHAR, Afghanistan) - Overnight, ISAF forces launched a precision air strike against a known insurgent command and logistics post in an isolated area of the Panjwayi district of Kandahar province.

The precision-guided munitions impacted on target, completely destroying it with no collateral damage. This strike is part of Operation Baaz Tsuka, the on-going operation to remove remaining insurgents from the Panjawayi and Zahre districts.

“The main aim of Operation Baaz Tsuka is to work together with tribal elders and district leaders to provide vital assistance and targeted development directly to the people of Zahre and Panjwayi districts,” said Maj. Gen. Ton Van Loon, a NATO commander in the south of Afghanistan, in a news release.

This precise strike is similar to the successful destruction of another insurgent command post on the night of December 13th. “This second surgical strike in the last five days clearly shows the insurgents that there is nowhere for them to hide from the combined strength of the Afghan National Security Forces and ISAF,” said Squadron Leader David Marsh, ISAF’s southern command spokesman.

Such a show of force comes at a critical time. According to CanWest News Service, 26 male Afghans were executed by Taliban in Panjwayi District on Monday, and their headless bodies hanged for public display in an effort dissuade local people from cooperating with NATO soldiers.

Warning notes were pinned to the headless corpses, advising any Afghan who assists coalition forces now mounting a major military campaign in Panjwayi District will meet the same fate.






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Ehsan Azari, Sydney-based Afghan jo December 21, 2006 1:04 am (Pacific time)

US Know Thy Real Enemy! Copyright © Ehsan Azari, Afghan journalist One thing that can arguably help the US is to stop being fooled by Pakistani generals and mullahs. Pakistan is an invention of the British Raj and from day one since it was created tried to milk everyone and everything under the son. Duplicity and cheat is the reason Detre of Pakistan when it comes to Afghanistan. For the past thirty and so years, Pakistan used Afghanistan and its tragedy as a golden and historical opportunity. Pakistan stolen billions of dollars that were given by the West, which were meant for the Afghan refugees. If you scratch a Pakistani general underneath you will have a hiding mullah. The real power in this country is the infamous ISI, a state within a state; so, it makes little difference who is ruling in Islamabad, a general, a mullah, or a woman with Holy Wood makeup. In September the ISI by using mullahs stroke a peace deal with Al-qaida, although in media report the deal is dubbed a deal with the tribal Pashtuns. Go to Waziristan, north and south, you will see Al-qaida and Taliban empire flourishing. This is an area that is the abode of drug cartels, weapon smugglers, terrorists and a legion of ISI spy who pretend to be devoted mullahs of Islam. Pashtuns are the first victims of Pakistani generals and dark mullahs, whose satanic duplicity has changed the tribal areas to the medieval land of the world. This area is turned into a crematorium of the Pashtuns. Pakistan knows very well that Islamic extremism and Al-qaida terrorism are the only strategic weapons upon which they can rein in the unruly Pashtuns. The Bush’s administration has a tragicomic approach to Pakistan; it is tragic that Washington deny the root of the problem. The laboratory of Islamic terrorism is Pakistan, its ISI and JUI-led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman who last week said that he holds the key to peace in Afghanistan. Rahman and his maddrassas are run a satanic machine of terrorism. The Taliban is a production; the whole movement is a cause. The approach is comic, because a handful of Pakistani officials are fooling Washington just as you deceive children with toys and empty promises. Washington must make Pakistan realise that the real problem in Afghanistan is under the ISI’s thumb. The success of the US relies on making Pakistan recognise that that it has own the cause-and-branch root of the Taliban. Breaking the ISI and replace, it with a responsible government institution is vital for the success of the US in Afghanistan. Failing to do this will fuel more and more Taliban insurgency. The war against terrorism and the Afghan war can only be won in Pakistan. You can kill as many Afghan, as you like, but you will produce more enemies, and gain a bad name. If you destroy the machinery that produces insurgency and Taliban, you will be the winner. So the US must know its real enemy. The real enemy is on your table, dinning with you, playing golf and cricket with you, grab your tax-payers’ money, and as the darkness falls, he kills your young boys in the deserts, mountains, and poppy orchards of Afghanistan.

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