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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghansitan; nato; taleban; taliban; terrorism; wot
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To: Stallone

Sometimes not necessarily in that order.


61 posted on 01/11/2007 6:29:04 PM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: jackv

God Bless your son (and all our troops)!


62 posted on 01/11/2007 6:30:43 PM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: killjoy
We are not fighting against Americans

Unfortunately, we are.

63 posted on 01/11/2007 6:58:52 PM PST by McGavin999 (Don't be a Freeploader, contribute to the upkeep of FreeRepublic)
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To: tgslTakoma

Thanks tgsl!! Thanks so much!!


64 posted on 01/11/2007 7:05:30 PM PST by jackv (just shakin' my head)
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To: jmc1969
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65 posted on 01/11/2007 7:10:06 PM PST by do the dhue (How come the Demorats have not fixed Iraq yet? They're inept!! Vote 'em out!!)
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To: tjd1454
Thanks for your good wishes tjd !

I enjoyed this friendship every time I was a guest in the US - I am very grateful for that.
66 posted on 01/12/2007 12:03:48 AM PST by Rummenigge (there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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To: killjoy

Actually, a large minority of Americans are the biggest obstacle to proceeding with and winning this war. They bathe in ignorance and thus accept and support insane arguments against this global war, and they vote. Puppets who vote. Liberalism is what will lose this war, and winning hearts and minds overseas is peripheral to and made much more difficult by it.


67 posted on 01/12/2007 4:33:14 AM PST by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: dennisw

The more dead Islamofascists, the more at least Americans may finally see that this is a war which is serious and deadly for their interests. I hope for B-52's bombing Anbar province to support our new 4000 troops disbursed their by the Prez.


68 posted on 01/12/2007 11:03:38 AM PST by phillyfanatic
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To: killjoy

The Brittish in Malaya is a common used example of succesful HAM COIN policy.

In other words, succesful HAM resulted in the Brittish being forced to withdraw from one of their imperial holdings. Even when succesful, HAM doesn't work.

This idea that an insurgency is at a basic level different from a conventional war is ridiculous. Caesar put down the insurgency in Gaul the same way we defeated the Nazis and the Japanese - through destruction of their military capabilities and wholesale slaughter of their civilian population.


69 posted on 01/12/2007 6:36:49 PM PST by NLB2
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To: NLB2
In other words, succesful HAM resulted in the Brittish being forced to withdraw from one of their imperial holdings. Even when succesful, HAM doesn't work.

Forced to withdraw? By who? By the time Templer left in 1954 the insurgency was broken. The elections in 1957 happened because the British were successful, not in spite of it.

This idea that an insurgency is at a basic level different from a conventional war is ridiculous. Caesar put down the insurgency in Gaul the same way we defeated the Nazis and the Japanese - through destruction of their military capabilities and wholesale slaughter of their civilian population.

That depends if you read Jomini or Clausewitz. Napoleon, and especially Mao, made Jomini irrelevant.

70 posted on 01/12/2007 7:31:44 PM PST by killjoy (Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
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To: jmc1969

i wouldnt mind seeing some pics of all these dead talibanies


71 posted on 01/12/2007 7:37:04 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: pissant
Yet people still buy into the enemy (MSM) propaganda.

Look at the silver lining. The Taliban fighters obviously watch and believe the reports they see on CNN. As long as they keep lining up to get into Afghanistan, our troops can continue to oblige them with an industrial strength ass whoopin' everytime. I say let's keep it up.

72 posted on 01/13/2007 10:02:09 AM PST by semaj (Just shoot the bastards!)
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