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Nato kills 150 Taleban fighters
BBC News ^
| January 11 2007
Posted on 01/11/2007 12:00:40 AM PST by jmc1969
Nato says as many as 150 Taleban militants have been killed in a battle in eastern Afghanistan.
An Afghan military commander said the battle was sparked when fighters crossed from Pakistan into Afghanistan's Paktika province.
The army responded with artillery and Nato forces with air strikes, he said.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghansitan; nato; taleban; taliban; terrorism; wot
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:00:40 AM PST
by
jmc1969
To: jmc1969
To: jmc1969
ANd this is the kicker, jmc. We've been literally slaughtering taliban by the 100s for the last 9 months (the start of their "spring offensive"). Yet the US MSM has been reporting it as "renewed bloodshed" or "spiraling violence" or "increased taliban attacks".
It's downright PREPOSTEROUS to slant their stories that way. Yet people still buy into the enemy (MSM) propaganda.
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:08:24 AM PST
by
pissant
To: jmc1969
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:09:04 AM PST
by
nopardons
To: pissant
We've been literally slaughtering taliban by the 100s for the last 9 months (the start of their "spring offensive"). Because body counts have very little meaning in counter-insurgency operations. It is all about hearts and minds. No counter-insurgency was ever stopped through military force alone.
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:11:25 AM PST
by
killjoy
(Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
To: killjoy
Does that mean that they should not bother to report our victories? Which we have each and every time we encounter the dirtballs?
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:13:47 AM PST
by
pissant
To: jmc1969
To: jmc1969
Wasted! Same as in Somalia. Bad week for Islamic psycho killers!
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:18:17 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Don't let your past become your future -- Georges Gurdjieff)
To: killjoy
This kind of thing would win hearts and minds.. but it's a shame, a real shame that we can only dream that you would see this on the front page of American newspapers..let alone foreign.
"As an Army convoy prepared to depart after dropping off blankets, an Iraqi boy came out to say goodbye clutching a stuffed toy--and an American flag."
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:18:32 AM PST
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless America and All who protect and preserve this Great Nation.)
To: killjoy
No counter-insurgency was ever stopped through military force alone.Maybe not, but what the heck. The more cockroaches we step on now, the less diplomacy (appeasement) we'll need in the future.
To: Lancey Howard
You either win their hearts and minds, or splatter them on the nearest rock. Same difference. A splattered brain pan is the same as a changed mind. (at least the shape is changed.)
This is supposed to be a war, not a family reunion. When we bombed the Germans and Japs into oblivion, they decided to be our friends. It does work. If they want to live and raise a family, then quit pi$$in us off.
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:29:18 AM PST
by
chuckles
To: jmc1969
Excellent work!
A British armored vehicle patrols on the periphery of the camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, January 10th, 2006
A British soldier from Peninsula company, which comprises of Territorial army reserve and Royal Marines, keeps watch on a watch tower at the camp Bastion, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, January 10th, 2007. The camp Bastion, which is the middle of the Afghanistan desert, locally called Dasht-e-Margo or 'the desert of death' houses some 3,500 British servicemen and provides logistic supports to all the troops for their various operations in Southern Afghan. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
NATO soldiers in Afghanistan. NATO-led and Afghan forces killed up to 150 insurgents spotted infiltrating Afghanistan from Pakistan. 1-10-2006 (AFP/File/John D McHugh)
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:31:08 AM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free)
To: chuckles
When we bombed the Germans and Japs into oblivion, they decided to be our friends. It does work. WWII was mostly a conventional war. Iraq/Afghanistan is not. They are both counter-insurgency operations. The same line of thinking does not work.
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:49:42 AM PST
by
killjoy
(Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
To: SeaBiscuit
This kind of thing would win hearts and minds.. but it's a shame, a real shame that we can only dream that you would see this on the front page of American newspapers..let alone foreign. I don't really care if it is in the US press. We are not fighting against Americans. It needs to be published in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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posted on
01/11/2007 12:50:49 AM PST
by
killjoy
(Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
To: chuckles
...we decided to be your friends when Ami Jeeps with chocolate and later Marshall appeared.
When we where send care packages from england although we knew they hardly got something to chew on either.
When we saw how the russians went on with their share.
When we were offered to be a part of civilization again.
Then we got friends.
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:17:55 AM PST
by
Rummenigge
(there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
To: pissant
Four Scourges of the Modern World:
1. Islamofascists;
2. Communists;
3. Democrats;
4. Liberal Media.
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:43:11 AM PST
by
Stallone
(War and Politics: When the Enemy begins to feel pain, they change their behavior to avoid it.)
To: jmc1969
Enjoy hell with mohammed(pig balls upon him).
To: jmc1969
Halleluja!!
My son is heading there day after tomorrow. The more dead enemy the better!
God Bless our Troops!!!
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posted on
01/11/2007 5:31:33 AM PST
by
jackv
(just shakin' my head)
To: jmc1969
This is good, at least to the extent we need to see some enemy body counts.
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posted on
01/11/2007 5:45:41 AM PST
by
MSF BU
To: jmc1969
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posted on
01/11/2007 5:45:59 AM PST
by
US_MilitaryRules
(Time to eradicated islambs and mooselimbs! GO PTSC)
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