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2021-03-06 Afghanistan
Highly Educated Afghan General Aims to Reform, Strengthen Security Forces
Sami Sadat, 35, has studied in Poland, Germany and Britannia and, along with military training, has also studied management and administration.
[ToloNews] Sami Sadat, a young general heading the Army’s 215 Maiwand Corps in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, is making efforts to bring reform to the security forces and to prepare for the fight against the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
as the warm-weather "fighting season" approaches.

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Gen. Sadat, in an interview with TOLOnews, said Helmand is one of the main Taliban hubs where an al-Qaeda presence is seen, but added that his forces are fully prepared to face the forces of Evil if the peace efforts do not end in a reduction in violence.

Local officials said five out of 14 districts in Helmand, including Musa Qala, Baghran, Disho and Khanashin, are out of the government’s control.

The Taliban launched major offensives in eight other districts of Helmand, including the city of Lashkargah, five months ago, during which some territory fell to the murderous Moslems, but the government has now deployed Gen. Sadat, one of the youngest generals, to the southern province to thwart the Taliban’s threat.

"We will retake the territories, but they have lost their key commanders and they will not get them back," Gen. Sadat said. "Therefore, the situation is in our favor on the battlefield. We are moving in the right direction. The security forces' casualties have reduced significantly, even to zero, I can say. The Taliban casualties have increased."

Sadat, 35, has studied in Poland, Germany and Britannia and, along with military training, has also studied management and administration.

Gen. Sadat believes that Helmand has strategic importance from a military point of view both to the government and the Taliban. According to him, complex activities by drug networks, its borders with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Pakistain and the presence of al-Qaeda are main challenges for Helmand and the south of the country.

"Al-Qaeda has established many training hubs for the Taliban in Helmand. In other words, the Taliban--al Qaeda cooperation has increased in Helmand over the last year," he explained.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
some army officers said that corruption, weak management, delay in supplying army forces in remote areas are some of the main problems that have existed in the 215 Maiwand Corps for years.

"He (Sadat) has achieved progress in Helmand over the last two to three months of his appointment. He takes part in operations himself," said Ezatullah Musazai, an army officer.

"So far, during his appointment, he has given a harsh response to the enemy and he will have more achievements going forward," said Mohammad Yahya, an army officer.

Helmand has witnessed heavy festivities between the government forces and the Taliban over the last few months in which the security agencies have said that dozens of Taliban fighters, including their commanders, have been killed.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Arithmetic on the Frontier
A great and glorious thing it is
To learn, for seven years or so,
The Lord knows what of that and this,
Ere reckoned fit to face the foe --
The flying bullet down the Pass,
That whistles clear: "All flesh is grass."

Three hundred pounds per annum spent
On making brain and body meeter
For all the murderous intent
Comprised in "villanous saltpetre!"
And after -- ask the Yusufzaies
What comes of all our 'ologies.

A scrimmage in a Border Station --
A canter down some dark defile --
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail --
The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!

No proposition Euclid wrote,
No formulae the text-books know,
Will turn the bullet from your coat,
Or ward the tulwar's downward blow
Strike hard who cares -- shoot straight who can --
The odds are on the cheaper man.

One sword-knot stolen from the camp
Will pay for all the school expenses
Of any Kurrum Valley scamp
Who knows no word of moods and tenses,
But, being blessed with perfect sight,
Picks off our messmates left and right.

With home-bred hordes the hillsides teem,
The troopships bring us one by one,
At vast expense of time and steam,
To slay Afridis where they run.
The "captives of our bow and spear"
Are cheap, alas! as we are dear.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-06 03:20||   2021-03-06 03:20|| Front Page Top

#2 "OK, I'll save us. I brought some Powerpoints"
Posted by Frank G 2021-03-06 06:37||   2021-03-06 06:37|| Front Page Top

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