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NATO takes on Taliban in south of Afghanistan
Tajikistan News.Net
Saturday 5th December, 2009
A major operation has been launched in southern Afghanistan against the Taliban.
The operation named Khareh Cobra, or Cobra's Anger, involves 1,050 NATO troops, involing 900 U.S. Marines and sailors and British forces, together with 150 Afghan soldiers and police.
The U.S. forces in the main comprise Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 7 and 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion.
The offensive, targeting a Taliban stronghold in the Now Zad valley of Helmand province, is programmed to catch and kill insurgents, seize weapons and explosives, including landmines and improvised explosive devices, and disrupt drug-running. Helmand province generates the largest share of Afghanistan's opium crop, which supplies 90% of the world's heroin.
Prior to the Taliban taking hold in Now Zad, the city was the second largest in Helmand Province. The city is now deserted as inhabitants fled the fighting. U.S. Marines have a company stationed there, along with 150 Afghan soldiers and police.
U.S. Central Command Chief General David Petraeus told AP Friday the offensive will lay the groundwork for the arrival of some 30,000 additional U.S. troops, many of whom will be deployed in the south.
General Petraeus said the military has been working for months to extend security around key towns in southern Afghanistan, where the Taliban influence is strong.  Email this story to a friend
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Afghan Think-tank.
12-05-09, 08:55 AM |
U.S. troops spearhead NATO surge in Afghanistan
This is, again, a Cat & Mouse game between Allied forces and Talibans
whose god-father is Pakistani ISI. Pakistani Military Commandos in the covered name of Talibans, shall run-away and take shelter in other parts
of the country or hide themselves in Quetta, Baluchistan. The narcotic
business of Pakistani and their counter-parts - Afghani Mafias, shall be
disrupted for a while. It shall flourishis in the foreseeble future, no doubt.
Only if NATO forces take a rigid step against the Pakistani Military commandos (Talibans) in Afghanistan, the tables can be turned in favour
of NATO forces. Take the war in Pakistan. Start a counter insurgency in
Pakistan alongwith the surgical strikes against terrorist bases, Pakistani
military Garrisons along the border of Afpak. Persuade Balochs to join
the fight against Talibans and Pakistani Military who are the main brains
beyond to keep Afghanistan in stone age with their intention to enslave Balochistan which was illegally occupied by Pakistan in 1948.
Untill Pakistan is not broken and Baluchistan and Sindh and N.W.F.P. are
not given their Independence, Pakistan shall coninue to bleed
NATO/ISAF/Afghan forces in Afghanistan.
The present war in Afghanistan is more important than the previous war
against Soviet Union. IF Pakistan win this war in Afghanistan and NATO
forces are expelled with disgrace, the next target of Pakistan shall be
to Talibanize Central Asia and Middle-east. The whole world shall be
in danger by religious fundamentalists
It depends upon the decision of the world community, wether to encourge
Pakistan to emerge as super terrorist world power, like that of Germany of
Adolf Hitler, or to destroy it and break it,by giving rights to the
people of Baluchistan, Sindh, Pashtunistan, Balavaristan & Saraekistan.
( AfghanThink-tank )
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Anonymous
12-05-09, 10:46 AM |
very well said. This is a war against pak army under the name of taliban.
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Greethype
12-07-09, 08:44 AM |
U S troops spearhead NATO surge in Afghanistan
it sounds like they may have the right idea here. why keep sending our troops in to fight for a country that the leaders are giving away?
afghanistan is the worlds anus. give them an enema and be done with it.
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Kilemal
12-05-09, 04:54 PM |
Bravo
Well stated,sucinct and logical point of view. taliban/pac must receive their just desserts.
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` ~galljdaj+
12-05-09, 06:16 PM |
think tank is a big name!
In the 1990’s we here in the US allowed a 'think tank' called the PNAC, that has created worldwide havoc, from wars to ponzi schemes that have vaulted global warming, spread corruption world wide, and created massive depression that is just now starting to be understood.
So just who is the AfghanThink-tank? Where to we get to read their 'papers'?
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` ~galljdaj+
12-06-09, 08:23 AM |
Appears like the 'tank' is a Propaganda Machine
The Afghan think tank does not represent the Peoples or it would provide the Peoples with confidence as in transparentcy and truth.
In stead the tank hides like the anonymous cowards.
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nregistered
12-06-09, 10:36 AM |
Can you refute his post?
` ~galljdaj+;172310:
The Afghan think tank does not represent the Peoples or it would provide the Peoples with confidence as in transparentcy and truth.
In stead the tank hides like the anonymous cowards.
I see that you are once again name calling.
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911planet
12-06-09, 06:25 PM |
Decompose this
It is a valid viewpoint no matter what ghost holds the mouse. Intolerance is the seed of ignorance.
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waltky
12-24-09, 07:54 AM |
Corruption runs deep in Afghan gov’t.
:mad:
Corruption Ignored, Deplored In Afghanistan
December 23, 2009 - When the Obama administration formulated its new strategy for Afghanistan, it included certain demands on the government in Kabul. First and foremost was tackling corruption, a practice that seeps into virtually every aspect of life and leaves many Afghans angry and frustrated.
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Bribery and extortion — baksheesh and reshwat in the local language — have become routine. Mohammed Nazir Habibzoi runs a busy trucking company on the far edge of Kabul. His 250 trucks crisscross Afghanistan and the region, shuttling all sorts of supplies.
But it costs him, he says. For example, his company transports goods from Tajikistan to Kabul. To prevent his trucks from getting delayed at the border, Habibzoi says, the drivers have to pay customs officials. “Sometimes $50, sometimes $200," he says. “We also have to negotiate bribes at checkpoints along the way. If they ask for $100, we may settle on $50."
In 2005, Transparency International, a Germany-based organization that charts corruption in government, rated Afghanistan 117th out of 180 countries. Now, the group ranks Afghanistan second from the bottom — the only country deemed more corrupt is Somalia. Corruption, without a question, is a cancer that is eating through our society. - Ashraf Ghani, former Afghan finance minister
[url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121536680:
Paying Bribes A Necessity[/url]
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