So let's pour MORE MONEY and MEN in there, huh?
After all, we gotta SEND a MESSAGE, right?
"French, Afghan troops try to seize valley for supply route; Area considered launching pad for militant attacks" ny Alfred de Montesquiou, Associated Press | November 16, 2009
TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan - Hundreds of French and Afghan troops pushed into a hostile valley in eastern Afghanistan yesterday where militants launch quick attacks, then disappear into hillside villages. The mission: secure the area for a planned bypass road around the Afghan capital to move supplies from neighboring Pakistan.
About 700 French troops, joined by 100 Afghan soldiers, moved into the Tagab Valley before dawn with more than 100 armored vehicles. US and French attack helicopters roared overhead as insurgent snipers fired from the roofs of houses onto the advancing column of vehicles. NATO forces have bases in the wide-bottomed valley, but they have had difficulty securing the mountainous area, which is connected by footpaths.
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I'll bet Taliban's are cheaper.
Just 30 miles from Kabul, the valley is considered a launching pad for attacks. In a neighboring valley last year, militants killed 10 French troops.
That is a LIE!!!!
Related: Fogging Up Friendly Fire in Afghanistan
Friendly Fire Killed French in AfghanistanOh, the FRENCH PEOPLE WANT OUT like the REST of US, huh?
“The objective is to clear the valley to be able to build the road and checkpoints financed by the European Union,’’ said Colonel Francis Chanson, head of France’s third Marine Infantry Regiment. Construction has already begun in one of the safer parts of eastern Kapisa Province.
The offensive, called “Operation Avalon,’’ was led by the Third Marine Infantry Regiment, with elements of the Second Infantry Regiment of the Foreign Legion.
Notice how they always come up with a nice-sounding name for mass-murdering slaughter?
Intelligence officers estimated there were 60 to 80 armed insurgents on the column’s path, said Captain Vincent, who went only by his first name because of French Foreign Legion anonymity rules. Insurgents could be seen firing on the column of vehicles and then sliding back into houses before attack helicopters could fire back. The reporter witnessed a man dressed like a farmer fire a rocket-propelled grenade at French troops, then drop his weapon and run into a field, where he disappeared into a group of villagers.
PREPARE YOURSELVES for the NEXT DESTRUCTION of an Afghan village by MISSILE FIRE, world! It's called LAYING the GROUNDWORK!!!
Related: Taliban I Told You So
Yeah, THEY HAVE the RIGHT to DEFEND THEMSELVES because THEY LIVE THERE!!!!
The forces retaliated with sporadic artillery shelling and helicopter-borne missiles as the fighting intensified later in the afternoon. There were no casualties immediately reported.
I stand corrected; they didn't wait, they just concealed it.
In Kabul, two rockets were fired at the military part of the city’s international airport last night, but did not cause any injuries, NATO said. At least one of the rockets struck inside the airport perimeter, NATO said....
Those Taliban sure are bad shots!
Separately in the eastern province of Paktika, which borders Pakistan, a joint NATO and Afghan force killed a group of militants while pursuing a commander tied to the militant network run by Jalaluddin Haqqani, NATO said. It did not specify how many were killed.
More BODY COUNT BULLS***?
Related:
"Haqqani.... credited with introducing suicide bombing to the region.... cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work.... He may have had a role in expediting the escape of Osama Bin Laden.... In July 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistan officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Haqqani. Haqqani has been accused of involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul...."
So we are CHASING OUR OWN ASSETS, huh?
Also see: U.S. Talking to Itself in Talks With Taliban
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday that the United States is limiting its goals in Afghanistan and demanding better accountability from President Hamid Karzai, and she tied additional US civilian help to results from Kabul.
Maybe his brother could help?
After a while you become sick of the constant s*** stream of bs.
Clinton, an influential voice in deliberations about whether to add large numbers of US troops to an unpopular eight-year war, said Karzai can do more to reduce corruption and go after those who may have looted US aid in the past.
See: The OverBearing Government of Afghanistan
I always assume this lady is plowed with drink now because she says the most idiotic things. How about LOOKING at the LOOTING back here, lady!?
“I have made it clear that we’re not going to be providing any civilian aid to Afghanistan unless we have a certification that if it goes into the Afghan government in any form, that we’re going to have ministries that we can hold accountable,’’ Clinton said. The Obama administration wants a tribunal to prosecute major corruption crimes and a new anticorruption commission, she said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.’’
Was she DRINKING on the SHOW or what?
This the SAME GROUP of folks VETOING ISRAELI WAR CRIMES RESOLUTIONS down in New York?!
Yup, BUSH is GONE but the AMERIKAN ARROGANCE is as STRONG as EVER!!!!!
President Obama is considering ways to link the coming troops and money decision to better government performance in Afghanistan.
How about APPLYING the SAME STANDARD to your OWN WAR-LOOTING GOVERNMENT, 'bamer?
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Is the blood worth it, America -- over a lie?
