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New U.S. Operation Against Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
islam-online ^ | August 23

Posted on 08/23/2002 9:29:51 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo

Additional reporting By Hosbanullah Motawakil, IOL Afghanistan Correspondent

PESHAWAR, August 23 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – American troops, along with coalition forces and Afghan militias, launched a new military operation against remaining Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in southeastern Afghanistan. The campaign includes conventional as well as special forces.

U.S. special forces storming a suspected Al-Qaeda location

The operation, continuing for the past two days, has targeted Zurmat district, 27 kilometers (15 miles) west of the provincial capital Gardez, a Pakistan-based private news service said.

The U.S.-led coalition forces and the Afghan militias started a new operation in southeastern Afghanistan aiming to kill or capture fighters of Al-Qaeda and Taliban or those who are helping them, said Lieutenant Colonel Roger King, spokesman of the U.S. Army and the coalition forces in Bagram military base.

Afghani Defense Ministry Mohamed Fahim said that these operations are a part of the military treaty between Afghanistan and the American forces, adding that these operations are powerful, fast and continuous.

Hundreds of military vehicles, covered by military planes and helicopters, arrived in Paktia and the neighboring provinces of Khost, reported the Pakistani paper, Al-Mashriq, Thursday, August 22.

U.S. troops have started house-to-house searches to search the area for Taliban and Al-Qaeda suspects, it said.

The U.S. forces targeted Zurmat because the area is considered a base for pro-Taliban commander Maulawi Saifur Rehman Mansoor, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported Tuesday, August 20.

Mansoor fought against U.S. and allied forces during their operation to round up Al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives in the Shah-I-Kot valley in March this year, it said.

The paper added that the U.S. forces have moved large amount of weapons a ammunitions to a warehouse in Paktia they had earlier seized from Taliban.

Paktia ruler, Raz Mohamed Dilly, confirmed the arrival of the American troops to his province, adding that they arrested two men, while they failed to find a third one described as ‘important’.

The operation follows recent attacks on coalition forces by Al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects in the region, including rocket attacks on Khost airport.

Al-Mashriq also said that 19 soldiers from the coalition forces, including two Americans, were killed when the base of the U.S. forces in Gardez, in Paktia province, was hit by a remote controlled missile


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1 posted on 08/23/2002 9:29:51 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
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To: Bad~Rodeo
LOL! Nice photo of a shoot house. I guess their official photographer never "got a shot off" in theater so they had to resort to file footage of special operators in training.
2 posted on 08/23/2002 9:33:35 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: TADSLOS
My thought exactly. From the angle of this shot, the photographer would have to be standing up on a box, shooting down...not exactly the position a photo journalist would put themselves. Most combat shots are from a much, much lower angle.
3 posted on 08/23/2002 9:38:25 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
My thought exactly.

Not to mention the plywood walls and F type silouhette full of bullet holes in the bottom left hand corner...

4 posted on 08/23/2002 9:41:44 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: Bad~Rodeo
This is a file photo


Members of the U.S. Army's Special Forces train at Fort Bragg in this November 21, 2001 file photo. The Pentagon plans to send a team of experts to Fort Bragg to investigate whether the recent killings of four women there, allegedly by their Army husbands, are connected, defense officials said on August 22. Of the four soldiers who allegedly killed their wives, three were special operations servicemen who had recently returned from tours of duty in Afghanistan. (Robert Padgett/Reuters)

5 posted on 08/23/2002 9:43:00 AM PDT by CanadianFella
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To: CanadianFella
I was thinking that the construction of that structure didn't look like the usual Afgani building style.
6 posted on 08/23/2002 9:46:37 AM PDT by R2
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To: CanadianFella
LOL~, I know i know but what do you expect from islam-onlineL~
7 posted on 08/23/2002 9:47:14 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
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To: Bad~Rodeo
aiming to kill or capture fighters of Al-Qaeda and Taliban

Kill would be better

8 posted on 08/23/2002 9:53:46 AM PDT by paul51
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To: R2
mud brick rubble and circus tent awnings
9 posted on 08/23/2002 10:02:59 AM PDT by DancesWithTrout
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To: Bad~Rodeo
May God protect our troops...
10 posted on 08/23/2002 10:06:50 AM PDT by smiley
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To: DancesWithTrout
~LMAO~...great tag..L~
11 posted on 08/23/2002 10:07:30 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
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To: TADSLOS
I thought that was the Houston Police entering a Sonic.
12 posted on 08/23/2002 10:39:19 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic
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To: Doctor Stochastic
I thought that was the Houston Police entering a Sonic

LOL! Good one.

13 posted on 08/23/2002 10:44:51 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: Bad~Rodeo
Thanks Bad~Rodeo.
14 posted on 08/23/2002 10:48:33 AM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: Snow Bunny
S~
15 posted on 08/23/2002 11:17:20 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
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To: TADSLOS
Nice photo of a shoot house.

How do ya like that 4x8 sheet of Georgia-Pacific plywood?

16 posted on 08/23/2002 11:22:14 AM PDT by angkor
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To: Bad~Rodeo

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17 posted on 08/23/2002 12:10:31 PM PDT by B-Cause
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To: Bad~Rodeo
If that is a suspected Al Qaeda location they are storming then Al Qaeda's living standards are improving.
18 posted on 08/23/2002 12:31:35 PM PDT by VaBthang4
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To: angkor
How do ya like that 4x8 sheet of Georgia-Pacific plywood?

Those evil lumber companies will sell their wares to anyone.

19 posted on 08/23/2002 12:36:55 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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