More deaths in fierce Afghan fighting

[justinsb]

More deaths in fierce Afghan fighting

Afghan and US forces are on a major offensive since Tuesday


Afghan forces scouring mountains in the country's south have found the bodies of another 76 suspected rebels, bringing to 178 their death toll in some of the deadliest fighting since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

"Our forces have collected the bodies of 76 more rebels from the battlefield," ministry spokesman Zahir Marad said, adding that the corpses had been scattered across a wide mountainous area in and around the Miana Shien district of Kandahar province.

Fifty-six suspected rebels have also been captured since Tuesday in a blistering barrage by Afghan and US forces against rebel camps, Marad said.

American spokesman Lt Col Jerry O'Hara said Afghan forces had taken the lead in the operation.  He said there had been no major fighting in the region since Thursday.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5569513E-ECC1-44B5-95E6-844C48513227.htm

[LynnTheDem]

1. Afghanistan, Cheney's Great Success Story.

No major fighting since Thursday.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Who said that Iraq will be a success like Afghanistan?

I don't think our troops can handle anymore successes!

When is the American people going to realize that the reason these insurgencies won't go away is because of our military presence in those two countries?

[LynnTheDem]

3. Cheney did, 2 days ago.

[unhappycamper]

4. Shades of the Five O'Clock Follies. n/t

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. I wonder how many women and children were among the 76 dead?....

And how many of the 56 "suspected" rebels are actually just local Afghans trying to mind their own business?

We heard this language nearly every day during the Vietnam War.