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09-14-03, 08:18 PM
Battles rage across Afghanistan
Monday, September 1, 2003 Posted: 0622 GMT ( 2:22 PM HKT)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Casualties are mounting in Afghanistan as U.S.-backed Afghan forces fight their most deadly battles against Taliban rebels since the regime was ousted in late 2001.
The U.S. military says four suspected al Qaeda fighters and two U.S. soldiers were killed in fighting in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province on Sunday.
Meanwhile, as many as 1,000 U.S.-backed Afghan forces are fighting a similar number of Taliban guerrillas in the rugged mountain peaks of southern Afghanistan, according to wire reports.
Afghan officials said more than 40 Taliban fighters were killed in an attack in Zabol on Monday. The Pentagon has put the death toll at 14. (Full story)
Backed by American Special Operations troops and U.S. Air Force airstrikes, the clashes in Zabol have led to the deaths of as many as 90 Taliban fighters in a week, an Afghan official told Reuters news agency.
Much of the bloodshed has been blamed on the militia, which has declared a "jihad," or holy war on foreign troops, aid organizations and their supporters, and seems to be regrouping.
The fighting is the worst wave of violence and involves the largest concentration of fighters from the hardline Taliban regime since it was driven from power by a U.S.-led campaign.
Afghan officials say their intelligence indicates more than 250 Taliban reinforcements have arrived from the neighboring district of Mizan.
U.S. deaths
A U.S.-led coalition is helping Afghan forces.
In Eastern Afghanistan, three American troops were attacked while on an overnight combat mission outside Shkin, in the province south of Kabul, U.S. central command said in a statement on Sunday.
It did not say who the suspected assailants were, but recent attacks on Afghan government forces in Paktika have been blamed on Taliban guerrillas crossing from Pakistan.
A quick-reaction force from a nearby American base responded to the attack, but it is not clear how many suspected al Qaeda fighters were involved.
Two U.S. soldiers died after fighting the unknown attackers, and a third coalition soldier was in stable condition after being evacuated to Bagram Air Base. (Full story)
A recent upsurge in attacks by the Taliban -- the Islamic militia that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 -- has wreaked havoc in Afghanistan.
Numerous Afghan police and soldiers have been killed as they hunt for hundreds of militants.
A U.S. Special Operations soldier died Friday from injuries received in a separate incident -- an accidental fall during a night combat assault in the province of Zabol, southwest of Kabul, according to Central Command.
More fighting was reported in the same area again on Saturday. (Full story)
The U.S.-led coalition has around 11,500 soldiers hunting for remnants of the Taliban and the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden it once sheltered.
The Bush administration is expected to announce in coming weeks a major increase in aid to Afghanistan in an effort to boost reconstruction in the country.
Related citations:
Taliban regrouping (http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/08/afghanistan.taliban/index.html)
Afghanistan is desperate! (http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/07/otsc.amanpour/index.html)
Yum! the situation is seemingly getting worse and worse. The Afghani ppl have now had ample time to have a safe and secure nation. Yet even Kabul (only patrolled city) is still unsafe, and there are constant assinations, and attempts on pro-US government officials. The country is having a resuragance of Talibano's in Herat, and seemingly in the East on the Pakistani border regions whose borders are notoriously porous. It seems the US has bitten a apple that is really rotten here. Afghanistan is ruled by association, what I mean by that is some warloads are allied with the US and get cred. the question becomes what will happen when the US and the Afghani government have to actually attack these former allies for a united Afghanistan. That of course assumes that Karzai is elected, and of course that the Afghani ppl want it. I really feel that the US and the world community are lost in Afghanistan there is no plan. Like Iraq I think the situation will only get worse. Nothing has been accomplished in Afghanistan, illegitimate government, Taliban still around, Omar and Bin Laden dancing in Pakistan. Progress Ameircan style::rolleyes:
And before I hear any comparison to Japan or Germany remember this:
) Both countires were westernized prior to WWII (yes even Japan).
ii) Both had a history of home grown democracy.
ii) The political phil. of both states were throughly routed, Bath'ism is not.
iii) There leaders killed themselves, or were killed. *thus resolution.
iv) In Japan there was a authority higher then the US the emperor who in return for amensty would accept American occupation.
v) Both countries were completely and utterly destroyed.
vi) They started their wars and they knew they wraught them on themselves.
vii) There was a PLAN to leave these countries! *scandalous.
viii) There was polticial will on the part of the home countries to re-build these countries.
ix) The US wasn't the only one to "rebuild" nations.
x) There religions don't speak of Jihad, or Fatwah against infidel's on there lands.
xi) Most political opponants were killed in purges in the 30's and 40's, thus there was one line which most followed.
Monday, September 1, 2003 Posted: 0622 GMT ( 2:22 PM HKT)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Casualties are mounting in Afghanistan as U.S.-backed Afghan forces fight their most deadly battles against Taliban rebels since the regime was ousted in late 2001.
The U.S. military says four suspected al Qaeda fighters and two U.S. soldiers were killed in fighting in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province on Sunday.
Meanwhile, as many as 1,000 U.S.-backed Afghan forces are fighting a similar number of Taliban guerrillas in the rugged mountain peaks of southern Afghanistan, according to wire reports.
Afghan officials said more than 40 Taliban fighters were killed in an attack in Zabol on Monday. The Pentagon has put the death toll at 14. (Full story)
Backed by American Special Operations troops and U.S. Air Force airstrikes, the clashes in Zabol have led to the deaths of as many as 90 Taliban fighters in a week, an Afghan official told Reuters news agency.
Much of the bloodshed has been blamed on the militia, which has declared a "jihad," or holy war on foreign troops, aid organizations and their supporters, and seems to be regrouping.
The fighting is the worst wave of violence and involves the largest concentration of fighters from the hardline Taliban regime since it was driven from power by a U.S.-led campaign.
Afghan officials say their intelligence indicates more than 250 Taliban reinforcements have arrived from the neighboring district of Mizan.
U.S. deaths
A U.S.-led coalition is helping Afghan forces.
In Eastern Afghanistan, three American troops were attacked while on an overnight combat mission outside Shkin, in the province south of Kabul, U.S. central command said in a statement on Sunday.
It did not say who the suspected assailants were, but recent attacks on Afghan government forces in Paktika have been blamed on Taliban guerrillas crossing from Pakistan.
A quick-reaction force from a nearby American base responded to the attack, but it is not clear how many suspected al Qaeda fighters were involved.
Two U.S. soldiers died after fighting the unknown attackers, and a third coalition soldier was in stable condition after being evacuated to Bagram Air Base. (Full story)
A recent upsurge in attacks by the Taliban -- the Islamic militia that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 -- has wreaked havoc in Afghanistan.
Numerous Afghan police and soldiers have been killed as they hunt for hundreds of militants.
A U.S. Special Operations soldier died Friday from injuries received in a separate incident -- an accidental fall during a night combat assault in the province of Zabol, southwest of Kabul, according to Central Command.
More fighting was reported in the same area again on Saturday. (Full story)
The U.S.-led coalition has around 11,500 soldiers hunting for remnants of the Taliban and the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden it once sheltered.
The Bush administration is expected to announce in coming weeks a major increase in aid to Afghanistan in an effort to boost reconstruction in the country.
Related citations:
Taliban regrouping (http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/08/afghanistan.taliban/index.html)
Afghanistan is desperate! (http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/07/otsc.amanpour/index.html)
Yum! the situation is seemingly getting worse and worse. The Afghani ppl have now had ample time to have a safe and secure nation. Yet even Kabul (only patrolled city) is still unsafe, and there are constant assinations, and attempts on pro-US government officials. The country is having a resuragance of Talibano's in Herat, and seemingly in the East on the Pakistani border regions whose borders are notoriously porous. It seems the US has bitten a apple that is really rotten here. Afghanistan is ruled by association, what I mean by that is some warloads are allied with the US and get cred. the question becomes what will happen when the US and the Afghani government have to actually attack these former allies for a united Afghanistan. That of course assumes that Karzai is elected, and of course that the Afghani ppl want it. I really feel that the US and the world community are lost in Afghanistan there is no plan. Like Iraq I think the situation will only get worse. Nothing has been accomplished in Afghanistan, illegitimate government, Taliban still around, Omar and Bin Laden dancing in Pakistan. Progress Ameircan style::rolleyes:
And before I hear any comparison to Japan or Germany remember this:
) Both countires were westernized prior to WWII (yes even Japan).
ii) Both had a history of home grown democracy.
ii) The political phil. of both states were throughly routed, Bath'ism is not.
iii) There leaders killed themselves, or were killed. *thus resolution.
iv) In Japan there was a authority higher then the US the emperor who in return for amensty would accept American occupation.
v) Both countries were completely and utterly destroyed.
vi) They started their wars and they knew they wraught them on themselves.
vii) There was a PLAN to leave these countries! *scandalous.
viii) There was polticial will on the part of the home countries to re-build these countries.
ix) The US wasn't the only one to "rebuild" nations.
x) There religions don't speak of Jihad, or Fatwah against infidel's on there lands.
xi) Most political opponants were killed in purges in the 30's and 40's, thus there was one line which most followed.