Posted on 08/09/2006 1:37:47 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
US-led soldiers and warplanes killed 12 Taliban militants who ambushed coalition forces in mountainous eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said today.
Two US soldiers and an Afghan soldier were wounded in Tuesday's battle in the remote province of Nuristan which borders Pakistan, Colonel Tom Collins told a press conference in Kabul.
"There was a significant coalition engagement yesterday in Nuristan, in which enemy extremists attacked our forces with rockets and rifle fire," Colonel Collins said.
"Through the actions of our forces on the ground and the use of air support we killed 12 enemy extremists," Colonel Collins said.
He gave no further details about the wounded soldiers.
Nuristan is one of the provinces where Taliban-led militants are most active. It is a wooded mountainous area where they find it easy to hide.
Despite being toppled from power five years ago by the coalition, remnants of the Taliban regime have stepped up a deadly insurgency targeting foreign troops as well as the Afghan government.
The coalition is due to hand over control of operations in eastern Afghanistan to NAT0-led forces later this year. NATO assumed command in the troubled south last week.
Bloody good job well done!
Okay. In this piece they're "militants" or "extremists." On the Euronews yesterday Hezbollah were "activists."
I can understand the Euronews take. That's a supposedly neutral agency reporting events. What I don't get is the US Army's use of these terms. If they're shooting at our troopers, doesn't that imply they're militant or at the very least extreme? Why the dancing around? Can't we just call them "enemy", kill them, count heads and have done with it?
Whose sensitivities does the good colonel think he's soothing?
Stuff 'em! Call 'em terrorists and get it over with!
One issue that doesn't get much attention is that if we weren't in Iraq the same imported jihadis that have been making things difficult in Iraq would instead be in Afghanistan. I find it amusing that many on the left agree that going into Afghanistan was legitimate, but vehemently hold that Iraq was a mistake and is now a quagmire. The situation would be a lot more difficult in Afghanistan right now if we hadn't opened up another front in this war by toppling Sadam. We aren't fighting a standard war against a particular state or alliance of states. We are fighting a radical ideology that metastasizes across borders too easily.
Good point. The PC MC types are everywhere.
Isn't that twelve members of a wedding party, including women and children? At the seventeenth most holy site in Islam, of course.
You hit a very important point. I'd only add that if the general public was reminded that there is still a battle going on in Afghanistan maybe there would be a chance for them to connect the dots in the larger scope of this war we wage. But this tends to be the forgotten war unfortunately, and the public only consumes what's right in front of their noses as deemed suitable for them by the MSM.
BRAVO Coalition Forces! We've not forgotten your success, risk and sacrifice!
Apparently not.
General Armchair again...
No triple it and stack them like cord wood.
That is all ...
Out.
Of course it was a wedding party. B-40 rockets, RPG's, and AK 47's are customary at all weddings in remote areas. I guess Howard Dean knows all about these civil weddings and their am -Bush receptions. I am sure Murtha can tell us how he was wounded at such a wedding. Maybe if the troops were in OKI they could have killed have killed more bad guys?LMAO.
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