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August 24, 2007
Accurate Bombing

Afghan bombing ‘most accurate ever’

The US military believes the Afghanistan air campaign was the most accurate ever …

BBC, April 10, 2002

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U.S. bomb kills 3 British soldiers in Afghanistan

Three British soldiers were killed by a bomb dropped by U.S. aircraft supporting them in a battle against Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, …

Reuters, August 24, 2007

Which of course brings back the question: Why are the U.S. and its NATO vassals fighting the Pashtuns?

Posted by b on August 24, 2007 at 13:56 UTC | Permalink
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$$$ in them their poppies.

Posted by: Dismal Science | Aug 24 2007 14:53 utc | 1

Not a hint of this story in the US media when I checked this morning…
Wonder if we’ll see an upturn – a surge, if you will – in these friendly fire incidents now that our Gordon is backing away from Iraq?

Posted by: Tantalus | Aug 24 2007 17:45 utc | 2

Brownie has promised to do a heck of a job in Afghanistan where troop levels are set to increase to 7800 by the end of the year.
In fact last Sunday’s ‘leaks’ in england when senior governmental and military figures let the media know Iraq was about to be yesterday’s news was accompanied with sidebars talking about the ‘just’ war that could be won in Afghanistan with troops redeployed from Iraq. So if some amerikan did get a hair up their ass about the english ‘cutting and running’ from Iraq and ‘accidentally’ drop a juicer on the limeys, they have probably made it easier for english anti-war activists to swing attention onto getting the poms outta Pathan country.
Both England and amerika have all volunteer armies so really when troops in either country’s force get killed or injured, they shouldn’t be allowed the privilege of being considered victims. Maybe if they were rescuing civilians from the floods which are becoming increasingly frequent occurrences, then they could be considered to be heroic victims of misfortune but when they are shooting the shit outta other people who happen to be going about their business in their country not amerika or england, they can all blow each other up in ‘blue on blue’ contretemps and I’ll throw a party to celebrate.
These english fuckers were trying to regain control of a piece of Afghani infrastructure from Afghani soldiers. Not Taleban since these local militias tend to be loyal to the local tribal leaders ahead of any centralised or remote leadership of whatever credo.
The english and the russians know this as I’m sure the amerikans do too.
Known since the days when Taliban were called mujahadeen and considered to be ‘goodfellas’ until of course they were revealed to be as averse to amerikan hegemony as they had been to english or russkie. That was when mujahadeen began to lose it’s cachet of bravery and goodness in the amerikan media.
Now they are all Taleban and are being killed in the areas close to where they were born. Murdered by ignorant assholes who were born thousands of miles away. If a few poms got kilt, how many Afghani peeps were wasted as well?
We’ll never know. If there is any headlines about those poor fuckers it will condemn them all as religious extremists and heroin /opium gangsters. There will be no evidence offered to support either slander, just as the fact that the two accusations are pretty much mutually exclusive will also be pushed aside.

Posted by: Debs is dead | Aug 25 2007 3:10 utc | 3

I was googling for news coverage of a recent Taliban raid, this one:
Two Afghans killed in Taliban raid on NATO base

Wed Aug 22
Taliban militants wearing Afghan army uniforms raided a NATO base on Wednesday, killing two Afghan soldiers and injuring 11 NATO troops, capping a day of deadly violence, officials said.
(snip)

But together with the above story I came across an article about a similar incident earlier this month, and it includes a curious detail.
Taliban stages brazen attack on U.S. base

August 8, 2007
A group of 75 Taliban militants tried to overrun a U.S.-led coalition base in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a rare frontal attack that left more than 20 militants dead, the coalition said in a statement.
The insurgents attacked Firebase Anaconda from three sides, using gunfire, grenades and 107 mm rockets, the coalition said. A joint Afghan-U.S. force repelled the attack with mortars, machine guns and air support.
“Almost two dozen insurgents were confirmed killed in the attack,” the statement said. Two girls and two Afghan soldiers were wounded during the fight in Uruzgan province, it said.
A firebase like Anaconda is usually a remote outpost staffed by as few as several dozen soldiers.
(snip)

This relatively new pattern of large scale base raids aside… What girls would that be in a “remote outpost”, and were they there of their own will?

Posted by: Alamet | Aug 25 2007 23:37 utc | 4

a cow-girl & a native princess?

Posted by: jcairo | Aug 26 2007 10:14 utc | 5

Report: 18 Afghan civilians killed

KABUL, Afghanistan – Witnesses said Sunday that clashes between coalition troops and Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan left at least 18 civilians dead. NATO officials, however, said no noncombatants were killed.
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Haji Abdul Manan Agha, the tribal leader from the area, said two homes were bombed by coalition forces late Saturday. “In one home 18 people attending an engagement party were killed, including women, children and men,” he said.
In the second house, eight Taliban were killed, he said. More than 30 people were wounded in both strikes, Agha said.
Mohammad Gul, a taxi driver who brought six wounded to a nearby hospital, also said that 18 civilians were killed in the clash.
Mohammad Nabi, whose relatives were among the wounded, said dozens of people were killed. “If the Taliban shoot at NATO or American convoys, than NATO and Americans come back and bomb all of the area,” Nabi said. “And when we bring our casualties to the hospital then they say they are Taliban,” he said.

Posted by: b | Aug 26 2007 16:49 utc | 6

Well – the Brits are bailing out of Iraq: British move out of Basra police center, Shiite militia moves it

Shiite militiamen from the Mahdi Army took over the police joint command center in Basra on Sunday after British soldiers withdrew from the facility and handed control to the Iraqi police, witnesses said.
Police left the building when the militiamen, loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, arrived, the witnesses said.
The British military disputed the reports, saying they had been in contact with the Iraqi general in charge of security in Basra, who has said the Mahdi Army was not there.
But the witnesses said the Mahdi Army emptied the building — taking generators, computers, furniture and even cars, saying it was war booty — and remained there in the early evening.

Still some 5,500 British troops sitting at the Basra airport without any use but for mortar target practice for the resistance.
Maybe they should go to Afghnaistan and get bombed there?

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