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Excerpt - KHOST, Afghanistan (AFP) — Between 50 and 70 Taliban-linked militants were killed in air strikes by international forces in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, a provincial governor said. The militants had initially stormed a police post in Khost province near the border with Pakistan, killing two policemen, one of whom was beheaded, provincial governor Arsala Jamal told AFP. International military aircraft were called in to strike back, he said. ~ snip ~

Suicide bomber falls down stairs ... From correspondents in Khost, Afghanistan January 24, 2008 12:39pm Article from: Agence France-Presse A WOULD-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say. It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting it on in the southern town of Lashkar Gah. Yesterday's blast was in a busy market area of the eastern town of Khost, a deputy provincial police chief...

Yahoo! News and Reuters Al Qaeda escapee caught in Afghanistan: report 52 minutes ago KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Afghanistan have captured an al Qaeda operative who escaped from the main U.S. military prison in the country last year, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday. The man, identified as Abu Nasir al-Qahtani, was captured recently in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost, the News newspaper said, citing Taliban supporters in the Pakistani border region of North Waziristan. The U.S. military said on November 6 a "known al Qaeda operative and five other extremists" had been captured during an operation...

US Forces captured a 'known Al Qaeda terrorist' along with five other men, including Saudi and Pakistani nationals, according to a statement released by the Coalition today. The identities of those seized in the Khost City raid have been withheld pending the sensitive nature of the operationThe raid took place at a compound in Khost City. The statement indicated no shots were fired and no one was injured during the operation. Several women and children were present in the compound and a cache of military supplies was uncovered. The stash included armor piercing ammunition, grenades, AK-47 assault rifles and camera...

Gov. Marijadeen Patan of Khost Province (center left) helps hold a ribbon as U.S. Army Lt. Col. David A. Bushey cuts it during March 25, 2006, ceremonies marking the start of a project to rebuild the Matachena Madrassa, the largest religious school in Khost, Afghanistan. Bushey is commander of Task Force Wolfpack, composed primarily of soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 25th Field Artillery Regiment, part of the 10th Mountain Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, based in Fort Drum, N.Y. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Amber Robinson-Sonoda Governor, Khost Residents Celebrate Madrassa Project Start A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the start...

Khost Team Brings Medical Care to Afghan Village The Khost Provincial Reconstruction Team sent doctors, a dentist and a veterinarian, as well as medical personnel and interpreters, to assist Kaskai Kalay residents and livestock. By Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan KHOST, Afghanistan, Feb. 23, 2006 — Afghan and coalition medical personnel treated hundreds of people and animals during a Medical Civil Action Program visit to the village of Kaskai Kalay Feb. 15. "[Medical Civil Action Programs] and humanitarian assistance are extremely important to the people of Afghanistan. Providing medical care to the people and their livestock ensures they’re on the right...

KHOST PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Feb. 26, 2005) ... Only when the night’s reverie was split by the blaring sounds of psychological operations’ surrender appeals and the roar of Cobra gunships appearing a few hundred feet overhead, did the inhabitants realize they had been surrounded. By the break of dawn, the Battalion was well underway to completing one of its most successful operations to date in the region. “We moved over 44 kilometers at night, dismounted a few (kilometers) away, and surrounded the village where we believed the enemy to be hiding by moving in on foot. Our enemies had never seen...

With the turquoise dome of the shrine to the 18th-century father of the Afghan nation rising in the background, Muhammad Akbar paused, leaned on his pick and said that he had never before been asked to dig a grave in the sacred soil of this compound. The grave was for Azimullah Muhammad, an 18-year-old who a week ago was an unknown seller of plastic water jugs from a dimly lit stall deep inside Kandahar's main bazaar. Now he is Afghanistan's newest hero, to be buried alongside mujahideen heroes of the guerilla war against the Soviet Union. On Friday, television viewers...

Weblog The U.S. Government Builds a Mosque February 24, 2004 The U.S. Government Builds a Mosque. An Agence France-Presse dispatch, dated today, reads "Matachina: The Madrassa of Martyrs Rebuilt by the USA Remains Empty." It describes a mosque complex in a town near Khost in Afghanistan's southeast. The unnamed reporter tells of finding a stone stele by the side of the road announcing (I am translating here from French) the "Matachina Mosque, rebuilt in 2002 with the assistance of the American people." The U.S. government has helped pay for a mosque!? Apparently so. The news report explains that at least...

Rumors abound, Osama caught. Standing by for more...fingers crossed...

PESHAWAR – As many as 18 people, including six Pakistanis, were arrested on the first day of the renewed operation against suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban men in Khost area of Afghanistan on Thursday. The joint operation was launched by the US and Afghan forces in Bangi Daar and Gurbaz areas of Khost to capture the suspected elements. The reports from Waziristan and Kurram agencies reveal that the operation started in early hours of Thursday focused at Bangi Daar and Gurbaz areas. During the operation, the joint forces are going for identity search of the people with a view to arrest...

KHOST, AFGHANISTAN (April 27, 2003 6:07 p.m. EDT) - For the past year, Hazratuddin Habibi has been the intelligence chief of Khost, appointed by President Hamid Karzai to keep an eye on Taliban or al-Qaida activities in this crucial province along the Pakistani border. Hazratuddin, a former intelligence chief for the Taliban known by his first name, was certainly qualified for the job. But colleagues in the central government's intelligence agency, Amniat, and in other military departments began to notice that raids on Taliban hideouts were coming up empty. Arrests of al-Qaida suspects went awry. It occurred to local political...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Dedicated hater of the West with a taste for high living Al-Qaeda's 'chief executive' is the son of a preacher who grew up harbouring a deep resentment that found its murderous expression on September 11, reports Jenny Booth. His capture deals a blow to Osama bin Laden's capacity for attack By JENNY BOOTH SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) Pg. 17 March 02, 2003, Sunday KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED, the terrorist mastermind arrested in Pakistan yesterday, is believed to have been involved in planning every significant al-Qaeda attack...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 11/4/02 - Baghdad,Kandahar,Khost,Kuwait,Nablus,Sulaymanyah BREAKING: Kandahar - Green from US Funding BREAKING: Khost - More exothermic munition reduction BREAKING: Kuwait - Restricted area for war games 'Eager Mace' BREAKING: Baghdad - Trade Fair, the Saudis and Austrians Nablus , Sulaymanyah, Tehran ========= Kandahar, Afghanistan ========= BREAKING: GREEN IN AFGHANISTAN - FUNDED BY THE USA In Kandahar, a pomegranate and fruit farm funded by the USA. Near Kandahar. In Kandahar, at the Eid Mosque. It was begun in 1997 by Taliban Mullah Omar Construction continues unlike that of the WTC which was destroyed by...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 11/1/02 - Khost, Gaza, Ramallah, Ayoub & Canada, Hermesh BREAKING: Gaza - terrorist bomb blows up the terrorists and their supporters BREAKING: Khost, US heroes on the trail of Taliban BREAKING: Ramallah, terrorists and murderers of Americans mock the US with a Statue of Liberty BREAKING: Tel Aviv Hezbollah terrorist Faouzi Ayoub under a fake US passport, actually working with Canada. BREAKING: Hermesh - Arafat's monsters murder two girls and a woman. BREAKING: Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakstan Turkey - elections Sunday 10/3/02 ========= Khost, Afghanistan ========= BREAKING: In Khost, tireless US heroes...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/15/02 - Denpasar, Bali, Bashir, Khost, Rafah, Egyptian tunnels, Yevul BREAKING: Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, vibrant lives dead, grief BREAKING: Khost, 35 trucks of weapons confiscated BREAKING: Rafah, Gaza Strip tunnels to Egypt closed BREAKING: Yevul - Attack from Egypt aborted Cianjur - Perp Abu Bakar Bashir, leader of the Jemaah Islamiah terrorists Arafat and the International Communist Organizations =========== Bali, Sanur beach =========== Sanur beach, Bali, in 1999. ========= Bali, Denpasar and Kuta, Indonesia ========= Immediately after the explosion In Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, SF and local heroes survey and inspect the site...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan, Oct 12, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- U.S. troops have found two warehouses filled with a staggering arsenal believed to belong to a maverick Afghan commander, the military said Saturday. The smaller of the two caches found Friday filled 35 trucks and ranged from machine guns to 120mm rockets and mortar rounds, Col. Roger King said. Troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division were still counting the larger find. The warehouses were found in the southeastern city of Khost after Afghan officials tipped off U.S. forces. King said the weapons were believed to belong to Bacha...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. special forces soldiers in eastern Afghanistan were attacked at dawn on Friday with 107mm rockets and heavy machineguns, but suffered no casualties, the U.S. military said. The U.S. forces returned fire in the battle at a base near Lwara that lasted between one and two hours, military spokesman Colonel Roger King told reporters at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. King said no U.S. personnel were killed or wounded. He said an unknown number of attackers fired six 107 mm rockets and a hail of heavy machine gun fire that forced the U.S. forces...

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft were scrambled after at least ten rockets were fired at airfields near the city of Khost in the southeastern Afghanistan that are bases for hundreds of American troops, officials have said. The firing started at the city's old and new airfields at 11 p.m. on Sunday and continued intermittently until dawn on Monday said Asmat Gul, the head of intelligence in the city. He said the rockets had missed their targets, but it was unclear if there had been any casualties. U.S. helicopters and planes were scrambled shortly after the attacks. According to...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/5/022 BREAKING: Kabul >110 Pakistani Taliban prisoners released, BREAKING: Khost, night visioned SF, Incoming 107mm, AT-4 anti-tank weapons, Afghan dervish, market, Afghan girls and women freed by the USA but reburq'd by the UN and local opinion, Kandahar, weapons cache, Blue Mosque, discrimination at the clinic Mazar-e-Sharif, Perp Mullah Omar REMEMBRANCE: Pentagon, World Trade Center =========== Khost =========== Near Khost, 80 miles southeast of Kabul, through night vision optics, US Army Special Forces and Afghan Military Forces (AMF) take a home of an Al Qaeda cell in Ayul-Khei. In Khost, US Army...