COALITION SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES CONDUCT RAID, KILL ENEMY LEADER (Afghanistan, Friday)

CENTCOM ^ | August 30, 2004

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

	NEWS RELEASE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND 7115 South Boundary Boulevard MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101 Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894

August 30, 2004
Release Number: 04-08-92

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


COALITION SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES CONDUCT RAID, KILL ENEMY LEADER

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN – Coalition Special Operations Forces and Afghan military forces raided an anti-coalition compound and killed a senior enemy leader in a mission Friday in Zabul Province, Afghanistan.
During the well-planned strike mission, an enemy regional leader, known as Rozi Khan, was killed after he opened fire during the surprise strike.

Coalition SOF and Afghan military forces conducted a cordon and search mission after receiving intelligence reports of Taliban activity in the Zabul Province area. Coalition forces engaged about 23 guerillas during an approximately hour-long firefight.

Khan is allegedly responsible for numerous attacks on coalition forces, laying of mines, kidnapping of non-governmental organization and road workers, and recruiting of enemy insurgents. Khan was found with large sums of money, including nearly $10,000 in U.S. dollars and Pakistan rupees, an AK-47 assault rifle, six magazines of ammunition and a pistol.

"Khan posed a serious threat to the security of Afghanistan," said a Coalition official involved in the planning of the operation.

There were no Coalition casualties resulting in the firefight. About 22 insurgents were captured and two were held for questioning.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Coalition Special Operations Forces and Afghan military forces raided an anti-coalition compound and killed a senior enemy leader in a mission Friday in Zabul Province, Afghanistan.

...Khan is (was) allegedly responsible for numerous attacks on coalition forces, laying of mines, kidnapping of non-governmental organization and road workers, and recruiting of enemy insurgents.

 

  

 

Good news, ping!

[Coop]

Hearty round of applause!!

[2banana]

This will be reported by the main stream press as an innocent Afghan farmer killed by out of control American forces...

[Coop]

For more good news from that part of the world:

Man arrested over suspected links with Al-Qaeda in Swat
Pakistan Times Northern Areas Bureau Report

SWAT: Three people were arrested in an operation in Swat in which one is suspected for links with Al-Qaeda.

Security agencies, Punjab elite force and Swat police in a joint operation launched late Saturday night raided a house in the Tehsil of Matta in Swat and arrested three people there.

According to sources one arrested person might have links with al-Qaeda.

A suspected militant accused of involvement in two failed assassination attempts on Pakistan's President was arrested near a remote northwestern village Sunday, an official said.

The suspect, identified as Omar Rahman, was captured by Pakistan's authorities along with two family members during a raid near Sawat, 180 miles north of Peshawar, said the official to a foreign news agency.

Authorities seized assault rifles and bomb-making material from the suspect's home, the official said.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf escaped unhurt in both attacks in December 2003, when assassins tried to blow up his motorcade near the capital, Islamabad. The first attack didn't injure anybody, but 17 people died in the second.

Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in its war on terror.

Rahman's arrest came 10 days after Pakistan published photos of six terrorist suspects including Abu Faraj al-Libbi, a Libyan accused by Musharraf of orchestrating the assassination attempts. Rahman's photo was not among those distributed.

http://www.pakistantimes.net/2004/08/30/top4.htm

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks, Coop!

AFGHANISTAN DUTY — U.S. soldiers from Company B, 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, Virginia National Guard, stop to check their map during a patrol outside Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 25, 2004. The unit is stationed in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Christopher Kaufmann

www.defendamerica.mil

[Straight Vermonter]

The terrorist scorecard is updated. Keep tabs on the captured, the dead and those you wish were dead.

[Unicorn]

Follow the money!!!!!!!!

[Former Proud Canadian]

Great work. Lots of these clowns still "at large" or "in Iran". Could it be that Iran is harboring these guys?

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[AdmSmith]

About 22 insurgents were captured and two were held for questioning.

If they are captured should they not be questioned or if they are held are they not captured???

[shield]

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[BushisTheMan]

Every day it's one or two caught in Afghanistan. And the RATs keep on saying that it's all about Iraq.

We need to support our troops by writing newspapers and asking why they aren't publishing more about this good news.

The MSM is disgusting. Bless our troops in Afghanistan. They are doing a magnificent job.

[blackie]

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[Boot Hill]

“If they are captured should they not be questioned or if they are held are they not captured???”

The CENTCOM news release could have been a little more precise, but I suspect that "two were held for questioning" meant that two were kept for questioning by our forces and the remainder were turned over to Afghani forces.

--Boot Hill

[Boot Hill]

8	“The suspect, identified as Omar Rahman, was captured by Pakistan's authorities along with two family members during a raid near Sawat, 180 miles north of Peshawar...”

Swat:   A populated place located 162 km (101 mi) NNE (020º) from Peshawar, along side the Panjkora River in the Swat District of the NWFP. Its precise location can be found on the map below at the intersection of two lines, one drawn between the towns of Tal and Dir, and the second line drawn between Drosh and Madyan, in the upper center of the map.

multimap.com

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The above map came from MultiMap.com. Click the logo on the left to visit the best site on the internet for accurate and detailed maps of the entire world.

 
To orient yourself regionally, find Peshawar on the map of Pakistan, below and in the map above.

--Boot Hill

[Dog]

Thanks dude!!

[nuconvert]

Thanks. I missed this story earlier.