Tag: Afghanistan

French troops 'ran out of ammunition' in Afghanistan

* You can’t make this s*#t up:

Ten French soldiers killed by Taliban fighters last month in Afghanistan were woefully ill-equipped, according to a report citing a classified Nato document.

There are nearly 7,000 French and German troops in Afghanistan [EPA]

 

By Henry Samuel in Paris/Telegraph UK

* Al Jizz: French Protest Afghan Deployment

The “secret” file quoted by a Canadian newspaper said that the French troops ambushed on Aug 18 in a valley east of Kabul did not have enough bullets, radios and other equipment to sustain them through two days of fighting.

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Beggar Jihad kills 21 in Afghanistan

* From the ‘poverty creates terrorism’ department:

HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) — A Taliban suicide bomber dressed as a beggar blew up an Afghan government building Saturday, killing six people, as two NATO soldiers and a dozen other people died in more unrest, officials said.

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U.S. forces and Afghan police kill over 20 Taliban

Reuters

U.S.-led soldiers, backed by air support, and Afghan police killed more than 20 Taliban fighters in two separate clashes, officials said on Sunday.

A U.S. military statement said its forces killed more than 10 insurgents during an operation in the southeast province of Khost on Saturday, and did not mention any casualties on its side.

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Hamid knows who is to blame: the Brits!

President Karzai

Hamid Karzai blames Britain for Taliban resurgence

 Security analysts in Afghanistan say the situation has become ’even more dire’

Dean Nelson, South Asia Correspondent/Times Online

The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has blamed Britain for the resurgence of the Taliban and its growing activity in large tracts of the country.

His remarks, made to Afghan MPs, follow a clash with Gordon Brown over the Kabul regime’s links with warlords and drugs barons.

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(French) EU stooges get cold feet over roasted Taliban

 EU ‘consternation’ over Afghan civilian deaths: Brussels

The News

* These EU-wankers in Brussels are so full of s#*t  it makes you wonder if they still live on the same planet. Lets hope the whole circus explodes anytime soon…

BRUSSELS: The French presidency of the European Union on Monday expressed “consternation” after Afghanistan said that more than 90 civilians were killed in US-led air strikes last week.

Brussels said it had “learnt of the high number of civilian deaths with consternation,” according to a statement.

The Afghan cabinet had earlier demanded a renegotiation of agreements regulating the presence of international troops in Afghanistan, seeking a halt to air strikes on civilians, illegal detentions and unilateral house searches, a statement said.

The US-led coalition says Friday’s strikes were targeted at Taliban rebels and 30 of them were killed, although it is investigating claims of civilian casualties.

“The solution is not only military,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also said Monday, eight days after 10 French soldiers were killed during ground fighting in Afghanistan.

Whole lotta shakin' in Afghanistan

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“Wave of suicide bombers” tries to storm US base in eastern Afghanistan

“Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain…” (Qur’an 9:111)

By RAHIM FAIEZ  The Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan

Suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. military base near Afghanistan-Pakistan border in a daring attack on a major American installation, officials said Tuesday. Six insurgents detonated their vests after being surrounded.

* Suicide bombing in Pakistani hospital kills at least 23

The attack came a day after a suicide bomb outside the same base killed 10 civilians and wounded 13 others. The fighting was still going on early Tuesday, said U.S. coalition spokesman 1st Lt. Nathan Perry. There have been no American deaths, he said.

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Taliban 'used civilians as human shields' when British attacked

* Traditional Muhammedan warfare. Why is anyone surprised?

Telegraph UK By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent

Taliban forces deliberately used a compound sheltering civilians for an attack that led to British troops bombing the home and killing an Afghan woman and two children, defence sources said.

* Leave or face more deaths, Taliban warns Canada

Royal Military Police investigators have begun collecting evidence on the incident in which three guided missiles were fired into the building that resulted in three civilians dead and four injured.

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'There is no humor in Islam…'

Picture of the week: Afghanistan

While the Taliban burn schools and murder aid-workers, there are signs that even soldiers of Allah may have a propensity for the lighter side of life, if only they were free to follow their whims instead of Islam. The balloon man above is is an outstanding example of the entrepreneurial spirit in abject surroundings…

Schools, shops blown up in Swat

The holes of Peshawar…

CHARSADDA/SWAT: Two girls’ primary schools and forty-two CD shops were blown up on Friday. A private TV channel said that Ikram and Qalandar Khan CD markets on Madyan road in Mingora were blown up by unidentified militants. Three bombs exploded in a girls’ primary school near the Swat police station. The school building was completely destroyed, while the nearby buildings of a basic health unit and a tehsil office were damaged. In a separate incident, militants destroyed another girls’ primary school situated on Maichi road in the Shabqadar area. Daily Times

Afghan children raped 'with impunity'; Sharia law prevents accusers from coming forward

* We’ve had many nutroots and Muhammedans who gleefully smear Catholic priests for child abuse. These people ignore the fact that child-abuse is against the law, and when the church tries to cover it up, these scandals usually blow right out in their faces.

 

* Quite different in Islam:

 

Qur’an 24:4 says: “And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony – They indeed are evil-doers.”

Muhammad announced the “four witnesses” revelation in Sura 24 in order to exonerate Aisha of rumors of adultery, thus supplying a the provision in Sharia law that has served to protect perpetrators of sex crimes. Together with the attitude taken toward women and girls as possessions, it is not difficult to see why “women and girls, especially young girls, are the most unprotected people of Afghanistan.”

Ironically, the suggested solution will undoubtedly be more Sharia, to solve problems created by Sharia.

“Afghan children raped with ‘impunity,’ U.N. official says,” by Atia Abawi for CNN, August 7:

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