What is waiting for you, soldier:
"Suicide bombings in Kandahar kill 30" by Noor Khan and Kathy Gannon, Associated Press | March 14, 2010
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters, and two other locations late yesterday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.
The prison was the main target, but no prisoners escaped, Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s half-brother said. Ahmed Wali Karzai, a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said two of the explosions occurred near his home.
Oh, the drug-dealing, talking-to-the Taliban CIA agent?
Related: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Karzai's Kin
Never dried, did it?
MSM must have also "forgotten" about it, huh?
Wali Karzai said in a phone interview that Canadian troops had reinforced the prison with concrete blocks after a suicide attack in 2008 blew apart the prison gates and freed hundreds of criminals and suspected insurgents.
“They wanted to keep people busy in the city and break the prison, but the Canadians last time did a good job,’’ Wali Karzai said. “They did a lot of reconstruction so they couldn’t break the prison this time.’’
Looks like someone else will have to do the rebuild job this time.
One suicide attack struck at the front gate of the Kandahar police headquarters, causing casualties, he said.
“There are a lot of civilian causalities,’’ Wali Karzai said. “There are houses that have collapsed and businesses and people are still under the rubble. There was a wedding hall near the police headquarters and there was a wedding. A lot of casualties there from the explosions.’’
Then I very much doubt it was "terrorists," especially coming from the CIA mouthpiece.
"Now stop and think here for a moment. All revolutions depend on public support. Revolutionaries try to first win the people before they take on the government. So, no revolutionary goes out and murders civilians in cold blood. Did Washington and his men just mow down a marketplace of their fellow colonials for the heck of it? No, they did not. Washington and the Founding Fathers knew that their revolution to build a new country needed the support of those who would live in that country. This is true for every revolution in history. Therefore, these acts of terror being blamed on the insurgency must all be fakes, committed by intelligence agencies working for the governments to be blamed on the insurgents in order to destroy public support for the revolution." -- Wake the Flock Up
No one escaped?
Hmmmmm.
He said at least 30 people were killed and another 47 people were injured. Kandahar has a population of 800,000 and is the capital of Kandahar Province, the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban movement.
MSM has been making note of that all month as they lead the charge of agenda-pushing propaganda yet again.
Yeah, if we take Kandahar it will be a blow they never recover from.
That's the implication, and I'm having a MSM deja-vu again.
US, NATO, and Afghan forces are planning an offensive in Kandahar Province later this year, a follow-up to an ongoing military operation in neighboring Helmand Province. Thousands of troops worked for three weeks to seize control of the district of Marja from the Taliban.
Well, not really, but....
See: Marines Take Marjah
Yeah, they have set up a base of occupation. The fighting continues.
The Marja offensive is the first test of top Afghanistan commander US General Stanley McChrystal’s strategy to rout insurgents from areas, set up new governance, and rush in development aid in hopes of winning the loyalty of the residents.
Kind of squares nicely with the "reporting" we have been getting, hmmm?
Good thing those missile attacks on civilians are all forgotten.
Wali Karzai said local intelligence officials were tipped to the attacks in Kandahar.
Oh, the STENCH of a FALSE FLAG ATTACK!!!!
So it was a LIHOP, 'eh?
Kandahar Mayor Gulam Hamidi scrambled to send equipment to the explosion sites.
“Several buildings have collapsed, some houses, and some shops,’’ he said. “I am sending my equipment to help the police to try to dig through the rubble.’’
His daughter Ragina Hamidi, who runs a small women’s-only business in Kandahar, said she heard one small explosion followed by two larger ones and then a fourth.
Meanwhile yesterday, President Karzai backed off from a much-criticized move to control the previously independent monitoring body for upcoming parliamentary elections, offering to allow two foreigners on the commission.
Democracy advocates welcomed Karzai’s decision but said more must be done to avoid a repeat of last year’s presidential vote, which was marred by widespread ballot-stuffing accusations.
But, "Karzai can now claim a measure of political legitimacy through his reelection last year, as flawed as it was by fraud allegations."
Yeah, when we stuff a ballot box for you it isn't that big a deal.
Karzai spokesman Waheed Omar, who announced the decision yesterday, denied it was made under diplomatic pressure but said the president made the concession because the country is in a “transitional phase’’ to democracy.
The controversy over last year’s elections threatened the legitimacy of the Afghan government just as NATO made a workable administration the centerpiece of a new counterinsurgency strategy to salvage the eight-year-old war against the Taliban. Foreign nations with troops in the country are pushing for cleaner parliamentary polls to mitigate the damage.
Pffft!
I've kind of stopped caring about elections.
I figure the only legitimate ones are the ones the Zionist press is screaming fraud over.
That is the way you must read an AmeriKan newspaper these days -- like a negative of a photograph.
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"Taliban call bombings a warning to NATO; Say insurgents are prepared for battle in heartland" by Noor Khan, Associated Press | March 15, 2010
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban yesterday called their deadly bomb attacks on the southern city of Kandahar a warning to NATO’s top general that the insurgents were ready for the war’s next major offensive in their heartland.
The series of bombings that demolished buildings and killed dozens — including 10 people at a wedding — prompted the provincial governor to plead for more security in the area. Fearful residents said they had no confidence that either government or foreign troops can protect them.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi, in a telephone interview, said the Saturday night attacks proved the insurgents were still able to operate despite the buildup of Afghan and international troops in preparation for a push into Kandahar province.
Then TRACE the CALL!!
A Taliban-linked website called the attacks in the south’s largest city a “warning’’ to NATO’s General Stanley McChrystal, who has said coalition forces will target Kandahar later this year after driving the insurgents from a key stronghold in neighboring Helmand province....
Related: Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Yeah, a website said.
Amazing considering the intolerance of Muslims in that area who hate television and music.
Kandahar provincial Governor Tooryalai Wesa told reporters that he had asked the central government in Kabul for more Afghan troops to protect the city in the run-up to the expected offensive in the province, which is the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban. He also said he wants to coordinate with NATO forces to improve security....
Again with the "spiritual birthplace."
Kandahar city, population 800,000, was the seat of government for the Taliban when it ruled Afghanistan, imposing its vision of Islamic theocracy for five years before being toppled by US-backed forces in 2001.
Related:
"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."
Yeah, somehow the war-promoting, agenda-pushing, Muslim-hating AmeriKan MSM always forgets that fact.
The province of the same name is the insurgents’ base, and militants control most villages surrounding the city. Residents said Sunday that Taliban can also operate freely in Kandahar city....
“Last night was like doomsday for all of Kandahar’s people,’’ said Mohammad Anwar, a 30-year-old shopkeeper, whose relative lost a son in the attacks. He said residents blamed the United States and international forces for not battling the militants strongly enough.
Where it should be placed.
“It is difficult for us to bear this kind of situation anymore,’’ Anwar said.
“We don’t know the aim of these people,’’ he said, referring to the insurgents. “Are they trying to kill civilians or eliminate the system? The government is too weak to control these kind of attacks.’’Well, when they are CIA or Blackwater teams they ARE the GOVERNMENT, aren't they?
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And MORE SECURITY on the way, cui bono?
Oh, we were building up anyway, right? This just helps further the cause.
"More police headed for Kandahar; Afghan officials fortify area after Taliban attacks" by Rahim Faiez, Associated Press | March 17, 2010
KABUL — Afghanistan’s government will provide more than 1,000 police reinforcements for the southern province of Kandahar in response to Taliban attacks that killed dozens of people there ahead of a coming offensive on the insurgent stronghold, an official said yesterday....
Gee, sort of backfired on the Talibs, huh, cui bono?
Kandahar’s governor, Tooryalai Wesa, asked for more police after multiple bombs over the weekend killed at least 35 people in Kandahar city. The Taliban called the attacks a warning that they are ready for the war’s next phase.
Afghan and NATO troops are planning to move into Kandahar, the Taliban’s spiritual birthplace, later this year after securing another stronghold in neighboring Helmand Province. The southern push is part of a new counterinsurgency strategy and follows President Obama’s decision to send 30,000 new American troops to Afghanistan to reverse insurgent gains.
Some of the 1,100 new Afghan police in Kandahar will come from the capital, Kabul, and some will be recruited and trained locally, Wesa said. It will take a few months to put the new forces in place....
And then they should be READY to be PART of the OFFENSIVE, cui bono?
Honestly, readers, this crap is getting to transparent even for the concealing, agenda-pushing papers.
General David Petraeus, predicted that 2010 will be a difficult year and that the fighting in Afghanistan will probably get harder before it gets easier. He told the US Senate Armed Services Committee he expects American forces to reverse the momentum gained by the Taliban....
Who really cares what some lying general has to say anymore?
So WHEN WE LEAVING, Dave?
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Oh, right, we are getting IN FURTHER!
