Posted on 03/21/2009 6:10:07 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
Scores of Taliban fighters and several Afghan officials were killed in fighting throughout Afghanistan. The violence marks the opening of the spring fighting season in Afghanistan as the Coalition and the Taliban surge forces for what is expected to be the toughest year of fighting since the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
The largest battle took place in the Gereshk district in the southern province of Helmand on March 19. Afghan soldiers and their Coalition advisers conducting "combat reconnaissance in an area of known militant presence" took fire from Taliban fighters and engaged, the US military said in a press release. The Afghan forces returned fire and routed the Taliban force. Thirty Taliban fighters were killed and one Afghan soldier was wounded in the firefight.
The same day, the Taliban killed a member of parliament, the highway police chief, and three bodyguards in an IED attack on a convoy in Helmand province. MP Dad Mohammad Khan "was known for his long opposition to the Taliban, which dated back to the hardliners' time in government between 1996 and 2001," The Associated Press reported. He served as the province's intelligence chief before being elected to parliament in 2005.
Helmand has been active the past several days. On March 18, a US airstrike killed two senior Taliban leaders in the Now Zad district. Helmand province is one of the most violent in Afghanistan as the Taliban have taken advantage of local support and the opium drug industry to maintain a foothold in the province. The US Marines killed more than 500 Taliban fighters in Helmand province after surging into the region in 2008.
In the northern province of Jozjan, the Taliban killed several senior district leaders during an ambush, according to a report in Pajhwok News.
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Regardless of what any of us think of the Commander-in- Chief of the moment, we are at war (even if the C-in-C might candidly disagree). Among those thinks we owe our troops is to stay informed about where they fight.
Ping!
Prayers for our Troops!
Time for some well placed carpet bombing!
Word up!
Ping
Take no prisoners!!!
Precisely, my son is over there and I pray for him every day!
No sense giving the folks at ACORN more folks to register to vote in 2010.
My “Word up” was sincere. I pray for them all and am thankful for their service.
Yup! ;-)
God Bless him!
From a link within the article. The alphabet has interviewed the enemy?!
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=7112835&page=1
As am I, our sons and daughters are defending liberty overseas to keep things safe for us over here. God bless them all!
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