They deserve eternity with that.
Posted on 09/09/2006 11:11:41 AM PDT by exg
Taliban in Panjwaii on verge of collapse: NATO Updated Sat. Sep. 9 2006 1:45 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Insurgent fighters in a Taliban stronghold are being pounded by NATO forces and are on the verge of collapse, said the commander of Canadian forces in southern Afghanistan on Saturday.
Backed by U.S. and British air power, Canadian and Afghan troops took turns moving through former insurgent outposts in the Panjwaii region, where Taliban are engaging in a "last stand," according to Lt.-Col. Omer Lavoie
One U.S. soldier was killed Saturday in a rocket attack -- the first casualty alliance forces have suffered during Operation Medusa since four Canadians died last week and another was killed in a friend-fire incident.
NATO said 20 to 30 Taliban were killed Saturday, but the tally could not be independently confirmed.
Lavoie told The Canadian Press that advances by Canadian-led international troops from the north of the Taliban stronghold, along with a firm stand to the south, are punishing the insurgents.
"There's good indication that they are on the brink of collapse in a number of different areas," Lavoie said.
"Like most insurgents, they don't have the sustainment ability to have long, protracted engagements. What we see is mostly hit-and-run tactics."
NATO's commander in southern Afghanistan, meanwhile, said allied forces have no intention of allowing the Taliban to escape, despite reports from local officials of an escape route to the west.
"We've got the Taliban surrounded," said Canadian Brig.-Gen. David Fraser after a tour near the frontlines Saturday.
"We don't want to squeeze them out. We're around them, and they've got choices to make."
On Friday, Canadian foot soldiers were sent scrambling for cover under a bridge as rocket-propelled grenades flew past overhead and landed a short distance away, reports CP.
Small groups of Taliban fighters were testing the troops, triggering fiery exchanges and heavy bombardment.
"As you can tell, we are answering back with authority," said Lieut. Jeff Bell, a platoon commander with the Royal Canadian Regiment based in Petawawa, Ont., who was among the first wave of soldiers to move ahead.
Military officials are revealing little about the operation. Many details cannot be reported by The Canadian Press under the embedding agreement that allows reporters to accompany Canadian troops on the front lines.
More troops needed: general
A Canadian general, meanwhile, has told NATO chiefs that at least 2,000 more allied troops are needed to quell the Taliban insurgency.
Gen. Ray Henault, chairman of the NATO military committee, called Afghanistan the most complex mission NATO has ever undertaken.
He told NATO military chiefs in Poland that alliance forces in Afghanistan are meeting more resistance than anticipated. He said will appeal formally to the alliance's council on Monday for member nations to commit more troops.
Henault said so far, only 85 per cent of forces required for the mission have been supplied by the 26 member states.
With files from The Canadian Press and The Associated Press
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Outstanding!
Keep pounding the bastards! We CAN win this U.S.-Jihadist War if WE don't Outsource the fighting to Local Tribesmen/N.Alliance & Area Warlords (read: Tora Bora). Do what Needs to be Done.
Beat them Now, before Winter sets in! (Especially in The Hindu-Kush region.)
"Backed by U.S. and British air power, Canadian and Afghan troops took turns moving through former insurgent outposts in the Panjwaii region, where Taliban are engaging in a "last stand," according to Lt.-Col. Omer Lavoie "
I wonder if the Russians ever thought the tribals were down to their "last stand?"
I wonder why Pakistan cannot or will not eradicate the tribals?
I wonder about the high-tech stuff we heard about in the weeks after 9/11/2001? The devices, which could detect heat in caves, and the aerial photography which could read license numbers? The technology that was to be the difference, between the Russian failures, and what were to be the American successes?
Why did we stop the hard bombing, in the mountains?
That's because they keep leaving the words 'Taliban terrorist' out of the sentence.
Afghanistan is out of 'Taliban terrorist' control. Pelosi's leftist leader pal to the north, Jack Layton, is so upset that Canadian troops are killing off Taliban, that he want's to call the Canadian troops terrorists now. I guess the left consider them (Taliban) future voters.
By any standard I can think of we have been very successful in Afghanistan. We are supposed to defeat every single fighter in just a couple of years?
because it would cause a revolt in Pakistan. So he gave them their own country instead. Now Bush can attack this new Taliban country without having to enter into Pakistan. It was a good move, I think.
This is much bigger news than the media would lead you to understand. The Afghan jerkoffs demonstrate impressive skill and organization as small unit fighters. Killing these scum in large quantities is a tremendous blow to their networks. A lot of terrorist experience and skill is about to be sent to Haji Heaven (aka Hell) to meet their 72-year-old Virginian.
They deserve eternity with that.
We stopped the effective bombing because Al Qaeda is hiding among the civilian population. And when they are attacked, Al Qaeda evacuates their casualties and then lets the media publicize the civilian ones to aid in the organized mob riots on other Pakistani cities.
This all in the hope to finally kill Musharaf and take the controls of the world's only Islamic state with atomic weapons.
Makes you wonder just how much of this could be confirmed.
I don't care much for writers who add this little missive, as if our allies were sure to lie to them.
Then they print as gospel anything uttered from the mouth of terrorists. Just give 'em a tape and they'll air it uncut.
NATO said 20 to 30 Taliban were killed Saturday, but the tally could not be independently confirmed.
Makes you wonder just how much of this could be confirmed.
I don't care much for writers who add this little missive, as if our allies were sure to lie to them.
Then they print as gospel anything uttered from the mouth of terrorists. Just give 'em a tape and they'll air it uncut.
You are getting some excellent answers, and I hope you are listening.
LLS
This is exactly why I don't get too upset when the press catches one in the back.
LLS
We don't like to see the press get one in the back, but I do know what you mean. And I don't think they mind much at all seeing our guys getting it in the back, the way they act. They for sure don't mind giving it to our nation in the back.
Yo, Allah. Order up a load of vergies.
I agree. Use the MOAB instead.
Is it safe however?
Perhaps Senate hearing are in store for the use of MOAB's.
Good Lord all mighty!
Me thinks I am turning to stone now!
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