[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]

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.