KARZAI ORDERS U.S. FORCES OUT OF PROVINCE
"... Last week President Karzai banned Afghan forces from calling in US or NATO airstrikes on residential areas, following the deaths of 10 civilians on a raid in the eastern Kunar province... (This week)... Karzai... said that troops belonging to the U.S. military's special forces are “harassing, torturing and murdering innocent civilians... and ordered NATO's International Security Assistance Force to stop all special force operations out in Afghan's Wardak province and demanded that all U.S. special forces must be gone from the province within two weeks..."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/24>http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/24
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
U.S. LOST THE IED WAR
"... an ... important story has been quietly unfolding: the U.S. loss of the pivotal war of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to the Taliban... the U.S. troop surge could not reverse the very steep increase in IED attacks and attendant casualties that the Taliban began in 2009... the Pentagon’s Joint IED Defeat Organisation (JIEDDO)... spent more than 18 billion dollars on high-tech solutions aimed at detecting IEDs before they went off... (but) the Taliban simply produced and planted even larger numbers of bombs to continue to increase the pressure of the IED war...
"The counterinsurgency strategy devised by Gen. David Petraeus... pushed thousands of U.S. troops out of their armoured vehicles into (dismounted) patrols on foot in order to establish relationships with the local population... The main effect of the strategy, however, was a major jump in the number of “catastrophic” injuries to U.S. troops from IEDs...
"... an ... important story has been quietly unfolding: the U.S. loss of the pivotal war of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to the Taliban... the U.S. troop surge could not reverse the very steep increase in IED attacks and attendant casualties that the Taliban began in 2009... the Pentagon’s Joint IED Defeat Organisation (JIEDDO)... spent more than 18 billion dollars on high-tech solutions aimed at detecting IEDs before they went off... (but) the Taliban simply produced and planted even larger numbers of bombs to continue to increase the pressure of the IED war...
"The counterinsurgency strategy devised by Gen. David Petraeus... pushed thousands of U.S. troops out of their armoured vehicles into (dismounted) patrols on foot in order to establish relationships with the local population... The main effect of the strategy, however, was a major jump in the number of “catastrophic” injuries to U.S. troops from IEDs...
"A June 2011 Army task force report described a new type of battle injury – “Dismount Complex Blast Injury”– defined as a combination of “traumatic amputation of at least one leg, a minimum of severe injury to another extremity, and pelvic, abdominal, or urogenital wounding”... the number of triple limb amputations in 2010 alone had been twice the total in the previous eight years of war..."
Monday, October 8, 2012
AFGHAN GOV'T COULD COLLAPSE AFTER NATO LEAVES
"A new report on Afghanistan warns that the departure of Nato forces in 2014 could be followed by the government's collapse and even civil war... (because) the Afghan police and army are unprepared for security responsibility..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19868043>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19868043
"A new report on Afghanistan warns that the departure of Nato forces in 2014 could be followed by the government's collapse and even civil war... (because) the Afghan police and army are unprepared for security responsibility..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19868043>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19868043
Sunday, September 30, 2012
AFGHAN CASUALTIES OUTNUMBER U.S. BY 10:1
"As 2,000th American soldier killed in Afghanistan makes headlines, estimates put Afghan civilian dead at over 20,000... for every US soldier killed in a war that fewer and fewer seem willing to defend or explain, ten innocent Afghan civilians—doing their best to go about their under constant violent threat—are killed in war that eleven years later shows no sign of ending."
"As 2,000th American soldier killed in Afghanistan makes headlines, estimates put Afghan civilian dead at over 20,000... for every US soldier killed in a war that fewer and fewer seem willing to defend or explain, ten innocent Afghan civilians—doing their best to go about their under constant violent threat—are killed in war that eleven years later shows no sign of ending."
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
JOINT PATROLS CURBED
U. S. anti-Islam film part of reason
"Nato says it is restricting operations with Afghan troops following a string of deadly attacks on its personnel by rogue Afghan security forces... Fifty-one Nato troops have been killed by Afghan soldiers so far this year - 15 in August alone... Only large operations will now be conducted jointly, with joint patrols evaluated on a case-by-case basis... "events outside of and inside Afghanistan" related to the anti-Islam film were part of the reason for its restrictions on joint operations..."
U. S. anti-Islam film part of reason
"Nato says it is restricting operations with Afghan troops following a string of deadly attacks on its personnel by rogue Afghan security forces... Fifty-one Nato troops have been killed by Afghan soldiers so far this year - 15 in August alone... Only large operations will now be conducted jointly, with joint patrols evaluated on a case-by-case basis... "events outside of and inside Afghanistan" related to the anti-Islam film were part of the reason for its restrictions on joint operations..."
Monday, September 17, 2012
LAST GASP OF THE INSURGENCY
"US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has described attacks by members of the Afghan security forces on coalition troops as the Taliban's "last gasp".
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19627164
Reminiscent of...
"We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency."
--Marine Lt. Gen. John Sattler, Nov. 18, 2004, after the U.S.-led offensive against Fallujah in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0523-22.htm
"US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has described attacks by members of the Afghan security forces on coalition troops as the Taliban's "last gasp".
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19627164
Reminiscent of...
"We feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency."
--Marine Lt. Gen. John Sattler, Nov. 18, 2004, after the U.S.-led offensive against Fallujah in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0523-22.htm
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