Posted on 12/08/2007 12:25:58 AM PST by HAL9000
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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- The Afghan National Army, supported by international coalition forces, launched an operation Friday to recapture Musa Qaleh, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province.Wing Cmdr. Antony McCord, a NATO spokesperson, said coalition forces, including British, Danish and Estonian troops, were taken by helicopter to the edge of the town. “This operation will continue for the next few days,” he told journalists at Kandahar Airfield.
Afghan and NATO troops surrounded the town and launched air strikes to dislodge Taliban rebels who had been in control for 10 months, the Afghan Defence Ministry said. “Musa Qaleh is surrounded by our forces now and NATO air forces are striking some targets in the district," ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi told AFP.
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Wishing them good hunting.
Godspeed to our troops.
“Taliban insurgents stormed Musa Qaleh in Afghanistan’s main opium-producing area in early February, disarming police and taking over the district administrative centre from a tribal council.
In late March they hanged three men in the centre and entrances of the town, accusing them of spying for British forces.
The takeover followed a controversial deal about four months earlier which saw British forces withdraw on the request of tribal elders who said they would keep out the rebels and maintain the peace.”
” Azimi stressed that the operation to retake Musa Qaleh, 130 kilometres northeast of the main southern city of Kandahar, was launched at the request of the elders. “
Hopefully the elders have learned something.
Frag-em, Tag-em, and Bag-em.....
Hang em as they did the others. 10-1.
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