Canadian troops advance on Taliban

Globe and Mail (Toronto) ^ | 2006-09-06 | Graeme Smith

[Clive]

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[samtheman]

Canadian soldiers are sure proving themselves in Afghanistan. The good Canadians must be proud. The evil Canadians must be squirming.

[IrishMike]

“The guys are chomping at the bit,”
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The lads from up North are doing well, not much news in the drive by MSM, but there a lot of Taliban meeting their 72 virgins over the last couple of weeks.
The more the merrier.

[sgtbono2002]

While they are up there they should be spraying agent orange or something of the sort on those Poppy fields.

[GMMAC]

Some photos & details of another 50-60 Islamofascist vermin dispatched to Hell here.

[IrishMike]

Thanks for the link.

Didn't 200 of the weasels meet their maker last week through the weekend ?
with another 100 or so the week before ?

[mkjessup]

Globe and Mail Article:

PANJWAI DISTRICT, AFGHANISTAN — Canadian troops pushed deep into the warren of fields in Panjwai district Wednesday morning, hunting Taliban under bright moonlight after enduring hours of co-ordinated attacks by the insurgents.

Toronto Red Star Version:

PANJWAI DISTRICT, U.S. OCCUPIED AFGHANISTAN -- The autonomous district of Panjwai was invaded by Canadian troops Wednesday morning, after being pummeled for hours by crack Taliban fighters in a night-long series of co-ordinated defensive actions. It was unclear how many casualties would be suffered by Canadian Forces.

Globe and Mail Article:

The soldiers crept forward on foot, into terrain so difficult that armoured vehicles could not advance for fear of getting stuck in the rutted fields, irrigation trenches and dry canals.

Toronto Red Star Version:

The Canadian invaders were forced to advance by foot, into hostile terrain easily traveled by the Taliban, but too great a challenge for modern armoured vehicles prone to getting stuck in the local terrain.

Globe and Mail Article:

It was the first major incursion by either side in the past 24 hours, in the continuing struggle for control of Panjwai district. Operation Medusa, launched four days ago to control the volatile region southwest of Kandahar city, has settled into a siege, with hundreds of Canadian troops and their allies encircling about 700 insurgents who fiercely defend their foothold near Afghanistan's second-largest city.

Toronto Red Star Version:

In the past 24 hours, Operation Medusa appears to be stalled as hundreds of Taliban fighters continue to defy and defend their territory from the Canadian Forces who are attempting to take control of the disputed region southwest of Kandahar.

Yep, that sounds about right for the Toronto Red Star.

[lentulusgracchus]

A mobile phone belonging to one of the detainees started ringing during the initial questioning, Major Abthorpe said. A military interpreter answered the call, and discovered that he was talking with a senior Taliban commander.

WUPS! BUS-TEDD!!!!

LOL!!

[lentulusgracchus]

Thanks for the examples -- the Star really is foam-at-the-mouth partisan for the bad guys, isn't it?

What on earth could be their rationale? These plug-uglies are the guys who beat women like a drum and blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas, as well as sacking and wrecking priceless art objects from Afghan museums -- some of them Greek pieces dating to the time of Alexander. These guys are scum, brigands, barbarian knuckledraggers -- and the Star is taking their part against Canadians?

Just unnnn-believable.

[LibLieSlayer]

"Later in the evening, a plume of fire and smoke could be seen rising several storeys high as the battles apparently destroyed a school building."

That would be the taliban ammo dump! GOD bless our Heroes and the Allied Heroes!

LLS

[lentulusgracchus]

While they are up there they should be spraying agent orange or something of the sort on those Poppy fields.

Nah, just sock 'em with some fuel-air explosives.....what doesn't get uprooted will get scorched and shriveled, and what doesn't get scorched will get blown down onto the ground.

That, or just have some guys sprint through the fields with flamethrowers, getting a good fire going. Same diff.

[airborne]

Thank you Canada!

[fanfan]

Canada ping.

Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.

[kerryusama04]

I wish we could figure out how to not shoot the good guys. Maybe give them IFF? Many thanks to Canada for their help and condolences for their sacrifice.

Did anyone else notice that the bad guys have cell service?

[mkjessup]

Thanks for the examples -- the Star really is foam-at-the-mouth partisan for the bad guys, isn't it?

Let me quickly clarify, those Red Star versions I cited were my own creations, I basically "ghostwrited" what we could expect from that left-wing rag, that was my early morning subtle satire at work.

But I wouldn't be surprised if some low level staffer at the Star lifted those paragraphs verbatim and published them! LOL

[COBOL2Java]

Good job, men. Thanks for your service to your country and to the cause of freedom!

What the liberals miss in all of this is that our coalition forces are becoming battle-hardened, experienced in the ways of asynchronous warfare, and wizened to the strategies of these IslamoNazis.

[GMMAC]

Not surprisingly, Katie Couric's initial lead-off story last night on CBS News was "the resurgence of the Taliban".

"resurgence" ???
Seemingly, at the rate our boys are exterminating the vermin, "resurrection" is rapidly becoming the more accurate term for Couric & the rest of the msm to employ when wishfully hoping for any rising by the Taliban - LOL!

[IrishMike]

Not surprisingly, Katie Couric's initial lead-off story last night on CBS News was "the resurgence of the Taliban".

"resurgence" ???

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al-Qaeda and the Taliban are MSM comrades.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"U.S. forces taking part in the battle said Tuesday they had killed between 50 and 60 suspected Taliban militants. "

Someone will have to explain to me what other kind of militants are there in Afghanistan.