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Huge anti-Taliban operation under way in Afghanistan(11,000 Coalition troops involved)
AFP ^ | 06/14/06

Posted on 06/14/2006 12:31:19 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Huge anti-Taliban operation under way in Afghanistan

6 minutes ago

Coalition and Afghan forces are conducting their biggest counterinsurgency operation since the Taliban regime fell in late 2001 and are preparing to move into new insurgent strongholds, the coalition announced.

The campaign, named Operation Mountain Thrust, was launched in southern Afghanistan in mid-May, coalition spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Paul Fitzpatrick told AFP. Information about the campaign had been under wraps.

Involving 11,000 coalition troops -- including from Britain, Canada and the United States -- as well as Afghan soldiers, it is the biggest operation against the Taliban since the movement's government was toppled in late 2001.

"We have been conducting Operation Mountain Thrust since mid-May, disrupting the Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, specifically their leadership," Fitzpatrick said on Wednesday.

"We are moving to the next phase of the operation in the northern provinces of southern Afghanistan," he said.

There was no specific date, he said. "There is no grand landing like Normandy Beach. This is part of a continuing campaign."

The operation was timed to coincide with the looming transfer of command in southern Afghanistan from the US-led coalition to NATO's International Security Assistance Force, he said.

It was intended to "set the conditions" for the transfer due in late July or early August, he said.

There was a dramatic upsurge in insurgency-linked violence in southern Afghanistan in mid-May with Taliban fighters taking on the security forces in some of their biggest battles in years.

The security forces in turn launched major strikes. About 400 people, most of the insurgents, were killed in a roughly two-week stretch.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghan; afghanistan; coalition; gwot; mountainthrust; oef; taliban
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To: MinorityRepublican; Grandma Pam
The French are there with us...in case you missed it France lost two Special Forces troopers recently clearing a cave complex.

So lets not be hasty in knocking them this morning.

They have been kicking butt in Afghanistan since this thing started.

21 posted on 06/14/2006 4:08:50 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog

I did miss that fact, so I apologize for my meanness.


22 posted on 06/14/2006 4:18:44 AM PDT by Grandma Pam
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A 19 year-old friend-of-a-friend lost his arm, was seriously wounded by shrapnel, and was badly burned in Afghanistan yesterday. So sad. The price of freedom can be - and is - very high...
Lord, please watch over, bless and protect our troops, and inspire those who lead them.


23 posted on 06/14/2006 4:27:06 AM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: TigerLikesRooster; GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; ...
Canada ping!

Please FReepmail me to get on or off this ping list.

24 posted on 06/14/2006 4:39:00 AM PDT by fanfan (I wouldn't be so angry with them if they didn't want to kill me!)
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To: Grandma Pam
Yawn... the Germans are almost always entering Paris - there's a famous German military march titled "The Entry into Paris" which was played by allied bands as they entered Paris in 1815!
25 posted on 06/14/2006 4:42:38 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: JustTheTruth
"Lord, please watch over, bless and protect our troops, and inspire those who lead them."
I second that.
26 posted on 06/14/2006 4:54:09 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Allegra

Oh, that just rocks. Good luck on that, and be sure to put me on the ping list for your FReep report.


27 posted on 06/14/2006 5:01:49 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

WTG!


28 posted on 06/14/2006 5:02:37 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve.)
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To: Coop

29 posted on 06/14/2006 5:03:33 AM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Good post. Perhaps a lot of fresh faces moving in from Iran over a period of time are going to find themselves popping up daisies over the next few months.


30 posted on 06/14/2006 5:05:28 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...

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31 posted on 06/14/2006 5:33:03 AM PDT by Clive
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To: TigerLikesRooster; All

I don't believe it's coincidental Mogadishu was claimed by the islamites a few weeks ago. How do you spell "run like a little girlie!"?


32 posted on 06/14/2006 5:40:22 AM PDT by olde north church (Stop the Illegal Alien Protection Act of 2006)
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To: jbeachgrl5
Excellent. Good hunting!

Keep'em dying boys!

06 will turn out to be the worst year on the Taliban and al-Qeada elements in Stan since their removal in late 01 - (and it is only going to get worse over the next several months).

33 posted on 06/14/2006 5:45:41 AM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Not a good day to be a terrorist?


34 posted on 06/14/2006 5:51:46 AM PDT by SelectiveJNJ
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To: BIGLOOK

no future there.


And that's why we (the civilized world) will win.


35 posted on 06/14/2006 5:59:19 AM PDT by Valin (http://www.irey.com/)
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To: olde north church

How do you spell "run like a little girlie!"?

John Kerry.


36 posted on 06/14/2006 6:01:09 AM PDT by Valin (http://www.irey.com/)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Heh heh. Some politician or other was using the surge in Talibunny violence to show why Iraq is distracting us from the war on terror. I remember now: the politician was Murtha the Moron and the interview was the day Zarqawi's extermination was announced. Looks like they've had this handled for a while.

Strange innit, how much more our military on the ground knows than aging veteran politicians who're sagging in the polls so badly that they switch sides?

37 posted on 06/14/2006 6:12:43 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Drugs? Illegals? Legalize and Tax 'Em All, Right? Right??)
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To: Allegra
The media has really cranked up the anti-war propaganda ever since then too, and with some success. Say, I hope you do manage to have a chat with that reporter...and give us the gory details. We'll have a thread on it!

O'Reilly (the creep) was complaining this morning - during an interview with another talking head - that progress won't have been made in Iraq until reporters can go across the street for a cup of coffee. He's never supported going back to Iraq, and he knows no more about what is happening there or the presiden't reasons for going than the idiot interviewing him. The media is cranking up another notch.

38 posted on 06/14/2006 6:21:32 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Drugs? Illegals? Legalize and Tax 'Em All, Right? Right??)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I can hear it now...

"The worst violence since the fall of The Taliban"
39 posted on 06/14/2006 6:28:25 AM PDT by KoRn
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To: lonevoice

Thank you to our troops overseas and to all of our allies who are there to stand with us. God speed.


40 posted on 06/14/2006 6:28:36 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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