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| Afghanistan: Taliban announces new spring offensive | |
| 2009-04-30 | |
[ADN Kronos] The Taliban has announced it will launch a major new military offensive against foreign forces in Afghanistan from Thursday.
More than 25,000 extra US and NATO forces are due to arrive in the country this year in a bid to counter its increasingly ferocious Taliban-led insurgency. "As the US and NATO want to send more troops to Afghanistan, the Afghans too sense the need for a strong and robust operation to counter the new forces," Mullah Brodar Akhund, the Taliban's second-in-command, said in a statement. "The target of the operation will be military bases of invaders, diplomatic centres, military convoys, officials of the puppet government and members of the parliament," he said in a statement. Brodar said the operation, called 'Nasrat' (Assistance), would include an increased number of suicide attacks, ambushes and offensive assaults. His statement also called on the Afghan government, employees and security forces to stop working with the "puppet government." Haulage firms that transport military supplies for NATO troops and construction companies that build military bases in Afghanistan should halt their activities or face reprisals, the statement warned. It came the same day that a suicide car bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a convoy of the NATO-led ISAF's soldiers in northern Kunduz province, wounding five soldiers, according to an official cited by Pajhwok Afghan News agency. Also on Wednesday, Afghan forces backed by the US-led coalition troops killed an estimated 10 insurgents and detained two suspects in a battle that broke out during a patrol in southeastern Logar province, Pajahwok reported. Britain announced on Wednesday it would send 700 extra troops to boost security in Afghanistan during the presidential elections. The polls are being seen as a key test of democracy in the war-torn country. Australia's prime minister Kevin Rudd also said the government would send an extra 450 troops to Afghanistan, increasing its contingent there to 1,550. The new Australian troops will be mainly tasked with training the Afghan army in the southern province of Uruzgan. They include a temporary eight-month deployment of 120 soldiers for the period around the August elections, Rudd said. | |
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| #5 "Taliban announces new spring offensive.." Sometimes called the Spring cull.... |
| Posted by: Thonter Tojo4149 2009-04-30 15:40 |
| #4 Screw the Predators, where are the BUFFs? I'm sure a couple of runs over the Swat Valley, Wana, and several other places where the Talibunnies hang out would put a crease in the undershorts of quite a few "militants". |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-04-30 13:11 |
| #3 James bond quote, "Calm down, you only need one shot" |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-04-30 13:11 |
| #2 When you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-04-30 11:43 |
| #1 Those who wish to be shot, line up to the left. Those who wish to be blown to pieces by an airstrike, to the right. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-04-30 00:14 |