Diggers kill Taliban leader

news.com.au ^ | 11th January 2009

[naturalman1975]

AUSTRALIAN special forces troops have killed a Taliban leader believed to have orchestrated the rocket attack that killed an Australian soldier in Afghanistan last weekend. Private Gregory Sher, whose funeral will be held in Melbourne today, died when a rocket struck the remote patrol base in the Baluchi Valley of Afghanistan's restive Oruzgan Province where he and other special forces soldiers were harbouring.

Defence head Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, on a visit to troops in Afghanistan, said the special forces troops had just finished a successful operation that resulted in the death of a number of Taliban insurgents and the capture of two.

Unfortunately it also resulted in the death of Private Sher, the eighth Australian soldier to die in Afghanistan.

As a member of the part-time 1 Commando Regiment, he was also the first reservist to die in Afghanistan.

[LeonardFMason]

Don’t get mad. Get even. Thank you Australia’s finest.

[ScreamingFist]

"They went into an area this guy was the leader. They got him.'' Australian special forces have killed or captured more than a dozen Taliban leaders in the province in the past six months.

I know two things about Aussies. Don't try to out drink them, and don't piss off the Diggers.

[SandRat]

Waltzing Matilda

[Vaquero]

I dont suppose they mean those 1960’s, San Francisco types?

Congrats Aussies!!!! good work boys.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Thanks Diggers! I’m glad you’re on our side!

[maclay]

Wow, digg.com users are really stepping it up a notch. ;-)

[Karliner]

Talitangos should have listened to the old Bob Dylan song, " Don't follow Talitango leaders, buy yourself a couple goat parking meters..."( or something like that).

As the Aussies sometimes say, "Dead Set mates."

[csvset]

I liked the last line of the article.

"Our aim is to keep whacking them and disabuse them of the notion that they can exist there at all.''