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    Afghan police believe they have captured the Kabul al Qaeda cell. My sources in Kabul are skeptical. Eleven Taliban were killed by Afghan police during fighting in the south. ISAF and Afghan troops have launched Operation Wyconda Pincer in Farah province.

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    al Qaeda has conducted 3 suicide attacks in one day. Four Canadian soldiers were killed by a bicycle bomber in Pashmul. A suicide car bomber detonated at an ANA checkpoint in Kabul. The checkpoint was established to search for the car. Eleven were killed by a suicide bomber outside the main mosque in Heart. The target was the city’s police chief.

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    Canadian troops distributing gifts to children targeted by bomber, NATO says four of its soldiers killed

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    (Afghanistan) Troops help rebuild troubled province

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    (Afghanistan) Suicide bomber kills passer-by in Kandahar

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    NATO commander predicts 3-year Afghan campaign

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    Operation Medusa has ended. The Canadian Royal Regiment led the fighting, but British special forces played a key role in Operation Medusa, along with Dutch, Danish, U.S. and Afghan troops

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  • Operation Mountain Fury in Eastern Afghanistan

    Afghan and Coalition forces launch a multi-brigade operation in Paktika, Khost, Ghazni, Paktia and Logar provinces. Map of ISAF Mission in Afghanistan. Click to Enlarge. Afghan and Coalition forces have gone on the offensive in the southeastern provinces of Paktika, Khost, Ghazni, Paktya and Logar provinces. Over seven thousand troops are involved in Operation Mountain Fury, including a sizable contingent of Afghan security forces. “Approximately 4,000 Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police and Afghan National Border Police, along with approximately 3,000 U.S. Coalition forces in support, are conducting Mountain Fury in east-central Afghanistan,” according to the Combined Forces Command –…

    Operation Mountain Fury in Eastern Afghanistan
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    Tensions Overshadow Gains in Afghanistan

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    Al Qaeda, opium fuel Afghan fighting: Nato commander

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    NATO fears new front in Afghanistan – Farah Province

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    Blurring of enemy lines

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    Over 50 Taliban an 8 Afghan police were killed in battles across Afghanistan. Poland will send 1,000 troops to boost the NATO mission, while Latvia will send an additional 20. An aerial photograph of over 190 Taliban gathering at a funeral and the failure to strike calls the rules of engagement into question.

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    50 Taliban, 8 policemen dead in Afghanistan

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    Swedish troops come under fire in Afghanistan

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    Canadians near mop-up phase for Afghan operation

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    Afghan forces killed 26 Taliban rebels and captured 28

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    Taliban adopting Iraq-style jihad

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    Nato rejects appeal to boost Afghan troops

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  • The Great Taliban Turkey Shoot

    Coalition and Afghan Forces continue to decimate Taliban elements in southern and eastern Afghanistan Map of ISAF Mission in Afghanistan. Click to Enlarge. There is a hidden war being fought in Afghanistan, a war where NATO forces are playing a large role in combating Taliban forces outside of the view of the Western press. A little know fact is there are over 1,000 French troops in the region, including special forces units that are hunting al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the harsh mountains. Two French soldiers were recently killed fighting the Taliban. The French rarely release numbers of the…

    The Great Taliban Turkey Shoot
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    U.S. Forces capture HIG chief and al Qaeda ally Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Afghan and Coalition forces retake Garmsir in Helmand province, killing 20 Taliban. NATO requested reserve force of 1,000 troops over 18 months ago.

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    Afghan army recaptures district in S. Afghanistan

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  • Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Reported Captured [Updated]

    The initial report was incorrect, Hekmatyar has not been captured, see the correction for details. On the day of the fifth anniversary of the 9-11 attack, Coalition forces score a high value target in Afghanistan. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the commander of Hezb-i-Islami and ally of al Qaeda and the Taliban, has been captured during a joint U.S. and Afghan Army raid in “eastern Afghanistan.” Hekmatyar, contrary to his rhetoric gave up to the Coalition forces without a fight. Hekmatyar’s arrest is said to be part of an ‘ongoing operation.’ Hekmatyar has been designated by the U.S. Department of State as a…

    Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Reported Captured [Updated]
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    Sunday’s Taliban death toll has been revised upwards to 186 (see related post, which has been updated). Canada is sending an additional 15 tanks and 120 troops to Afghanistan. The Afghan Ambassador to the U.S. says Osama “is spending most of his time in Pakistan.” A suicide bomber strikes at the funeral of Hakim Taniwal, the governor of Paktia province, murdering 5 and wounding 10. Taniwal was killed during a suicide attack because “He’d managed to ease out a number of rather obnoxious militia.

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    Extending Canada™s mission in Afghanistan ‘right thing to do™

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    Afghan governor assassinated

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    Peace accord with the Talibans?

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    Ex-Taliban official tells of slay plot

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  • Canadian Forces Deal Taliban Another Blow in Kandahar (Updated)

    Operation Medusa nets another 186 Taliban; initial report of bombmaking cell in Kabul confirmed The Taliban in the Panjwai district west of Kandahar City have suffered another round of massive casualties. The Royal Canadian Regiment, combined with Coalition air power, killed 186 Taliban fighters dug into fixed positions in the Pashmul region during two sperate engagements, bringing the nine day total of over 510 Taliban killed and 80 captured in 8 days of Operation Medusa. These are massive losses for a Taliban force estimated at around 10,000 fighters (12,000 by the Taliban’s own count). The Canadian Army has suffered 5…

    Canadian Forces Deal Taliban Another Blow in Kandahar (Updated)
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    The Taliban, Regrouped And Rearmed

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