"US forces kill 19 Afghan militants" by Jason Straziuso, Associated Press | November 2, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - A series of operations by US forces in eastern Afghanistan targeted an Al Qaeda leader and a bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants, the coalition said yesterday.
I'm so sick of the "Al-CIA-Duh" propaganda, folks! Tired of the TONS of articles about them EVERY DAY in the Zionist-controlled, war-promoting, Muslim-hating, agenda-pushing, AmeriKan War Dailies!!!
Afghan police said they had investigated unconfirmed reports that civilians might have been killed and found that only militants died.
Karzai's puppet said that? Not what I heard.
The operations took place Friday in Nangarhar and Khost provinces, volatile regions along the Pakistan border. In the deadliest operation, the coalition said, it killed 10 militants during a strike against a bomb-making cell under the command of Jalaluddin Haqqani, a fierce militant leader believed to operate out of Pakistan.
You gotta love the subtle use of the language, no?
Wazir Pacha, the spokesman for Khost's provincial police chief, said a delegation of police had been sent to investigate whether civilians had been killed and had found no such evidence. The governor of Khost, Arsallah Jamal, said it was unlikely that civilians would have been in the region where the operation took place.
Translation: These guys are COVERING UP for the AMERIKANS!!!
Lieutenant Commander Walter Matthews, a US military spokesman, said his office had not received any reports of civilian injuries or deaths.
The knee-jerk denial, AS USUAL!!
"We go well out of our way to plan those operations and we do whatever we can to make sure we don't harm any civilians," he said.
That is such a DAMN LIE!!! Take a tour, will ya?
Civilian deaths have long been a problem in Afghanistan for US and NATO forces, and President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly pleaded with international troops to avoid such killings, saying they undermine support for the government and turn Afghans against the United States and NATO.
In a separate operation in Nangarhar, the US-led coalition said it targeted a known Al Qaeda leader believed to have helped move foreign fighters and weapons into Kunar Province. The coalition said militants engaged the force with gunfire. Troops returned fire and killed five militants, including an armed female, the coalition said.
BULL SHIT!!!
Afghanistan is enduring one of the most violent years since the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the Taliban. --more--"
Now, WHY does the Globe website CENSOR the rest that is IN my PRINTED PAPER?
More than 5,300 people have died in insurgency-related violence this year, according to an Associated Press count of figures from Western and Afghan officials.
Low-balled, ofcourse. I heard MILLIONS!!
Elsewhere, a Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said the militant group released two aid workers from Bangladesh whom they had kidnapped in Ghazni province late last month. Zabiullah said Bangladesh has no troops in Afghanistan and there was no reason to hold the men.
Now WHY would the ZIONIST, Muslim-hating, Boston Globe want to CENSOR THAT? Taliban ACTUALLY HUMAN BEINGS, huh?
Kidnappings in Afghanistan have skyrocketed over the past year. Some are carried out by the Taliban, while others are conducted by criminal gangs seeking lucrative ransom payments. --MORE--"
Yeah, uh, WHICH WESTERN GOVERNMENTS are funding those gangs?
Who are the Taliban, anyway?
"Something of a catchall term for loosely affiliated insurgents without a singular command structure. Often, the Afghan government favors the phrase 'enemies of the state' (New York Times July 24, 2007)."
"The Taliban is growing and creating new alliances not because its sectarian religious practices have become popular, but because it is the only available umbrella for national liberation," says Pakistani historian and political commentator Tariq Ali. "As the British and the Soviets discovered to their cost in the preceding two centuries, Afghans never like being occupied."
Also see: Afghanistan's Other Government
And today, readers?
"More and more, people here look back to the era of harsh Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, describing it as a time of security and peace."
Oh, oh, oh!!!! I'm so offended by the New York Times and its bullshit!
Oh, one more thing:
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
