Posted on 10/31/2011 6:44:54 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2011 – Afghan and coalition forces killed 10 insurgents, detained one suspect and seized three weapons caches during operations across Afghanistan yesterday, military officials reported.
Coalition forces killed three insurgents in Kunar province’s Bar Kunar district. Two others were killed in the Qarghaee district of Laghman province during an airstrike. In the Khost district of Khost province, two other insurgents were killed after engaging coalition forces in a mortar attack.
In Kapisa province’s Tagab district, coalition forces killed one insurgent who was attempting to emplace an improvised explosive device. In the Mehtar Lam district of Laghman province, two insurgents were killed and one was detained during a firefight with Afghan and coalition forces.
Coalition forces in the Shemal district of Khost province seized an assault rifle, an ammo magazine, a shotgun, seven chest rigs and shotgun shells.
Coalition forces seized a 40 mm grenade launcher and three 40 mm rounds in the Bak district of Khost province.
In the Qarghah’I district of Laghman province, coalition forces seized one box of machine-gun ammunition, one hand grenade and 300 machine-gun rounds.
In Oct. 29 Afghanistan operations:
-- A combined force killed a Taliban leader and detained one suspect in the Sherzad district of Nangarhar province. The leader conducted ambushes against Afghan convoys. The force confiscated one assault rifle and a grenade.
-- A combined patrol killed an insurgent leader and two other insurgents in the Khash Rod district of Nimroz province. The leader was responsible for the intimidation of local civilians and assassinations of Afghan government officials. The patrol confiscated two assault rifles and ammunition.
-- In the Qalat district of Zabul province, a combined force captured a Taliban leader and detained two suspects. The insurgent leader coordinated attacks against coalition forces.
-- In the Kajaki district of Helmand province, a coalition force seized detonation cord, homemade explosives, 20 pressure plates, IED-making components, four 82 mm mortars, a grenade, one 107 mm rocket, some landmines and small-arms ammunition.
-- A combined force detained multiple suspects while searching for a Taliban leader in the Panjwa’i district of Kandahar province.
-- In the Manduzai district of Khost province, a combined force detained numerous suspects during a search for a Haqqani network leader. The force confiscated several weapons.
-- A combined force detained several suspects while searching for a Haqqani network leader in the Gardez district of Paktia province. The leader coordinates roadside-bomb attacks in the district.
In Oct. 28 Afghanistan operations:
-- A combined force captured two Haqqani network leaders and two suspects in the Sarobi district of Paktika province.
-- In the Kandahar district of Kandahar province, a combined force detained several suspects while searching for a Taliban leader.
-- A combined force detained two suspects in Helmand province’s Nawah-ye Barakzai.
-- In the Kahmard district of Bamyan province, Afghan civilians discovered three weapons caches containing one 85 mm rocket, one 82 mm recoilless rifle round, one anti-personnel mine, 120 40 mm grenade rounds, 101 grenades, 49 grenade fuses, 11 rockets, eight rocket-propelled grenades and 140 rounds of ammunition.
-- In the Pul-e ‘Alam district of Logar province, a combined force detained two suspects during a search for a Haqqani network leader. The leader directs attacks against Afghan forces.
-- A combined force detained one suspect and confiscated multiple rocket-propelled grenades during a search for a Taliban leader in Logar province’s Charkh district. The insurgent leader is responsible for multiple attacks across the province.
You could roll into a common market, kill everyone in sight, and hit an insurgent with every shot.
The body count theory eh? The problem is that more you kill, the more are recruited. The last ten years (plus the Soviet defeat) provide ample proof of that! Bring the troops home now! Nobody has ever conquered Afghanistan with the possible, and temporary exception, of Alexander the Great.
Well, my theory involves the decimation of every one of them. As you are so right to point out, the only way to “win” in Afghanistan is to kill them all.
Too bad we didn’t employ that tactic in Iraq. But 4500 dead soldiers and a trillion in wasted $$$ just so they can return to the way they have been for the last 1000 years was worth it. Definitely.
What makes me angry and ill is that Pakistan’s intelligence service created the Taliban for us during the Soviet invasion and they still support and supply it today and our Military and State Departments know this, but “ignore” that inconvient truth.
For some reason, we pretend to be allies with Pakistan, while at the same time spend trillions of dollars trying to prop up a turd world country with blood and money, fighting a force supplied and supported by Pakistan. Combine that with the “blind eye” we turn toward Afghanistans opium and marijuana crops, which go to fund the Taliban, and you have a purfect F....up.
If America was serious about this “War on Terror” we would obliterate the dens of terror, starting in Pakistan. Like others have pointed out, we could do so much more with bombs and leveling cities/villages/valleys then all of this “win their hearts and minds” crap. They are backwards islamic people who, even if they swear allegiance to freedom today, can very easily become a islamic terrorist tomorrow.
We are wasting the lives of our best and brightest, not to mention our money, trying to put a shine on this turd sandwich.
My nephew is one of The Leavenworth Ten. Like my my brother says and I completely agree, "While they were trying to win the hearts and minds of those people, they completely lost mine".
Kill them all? Including male babies in the womb? How far are you willing to take this? If you the answer is yes, we have very different views of what it means to be an American.
And I have no problem with your views. My only problem would be you standing in my way.
And just what does it take to be an “American”? You would not have, apparently, done too well in the South Pacific fighting the Japs in WWII. Get to know a vet that did that.
And I’m not saying it wouldn’t hurt my spirit, but when I look at my grandbabies, FTW and the PC bullshit shaping their future.
I suppose you like the fact we spent hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of AMERICAN lives to promote a POLITICAL agenda that only cost YOU and your PROGENY their heritage. And their future.
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