NATO will take fight into southern Afghanistan, says U.S. commander

[Gloria]

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NATO will take fight into southern Afghanistan, says U.S. commander

Friday, December 30, 2005 Posted at 6:26 PM EST

Associated Press

Kandahar, Afghanistan — A U.S. commander expressed confidence Friday that NATO-led peacekeeping troops will aggressively keep up the fight against insurgents when they take over control of southern Afghanistan from American troops in the spring.

Maj. Gen. Jason Kamiya, the U.S.-led coalition's operational commander, also called a recent rise in suicide bombings a sign of the insurgency's increasing desperation over Afghanistan's successful parliamentary elections in September and other democratic advances.

“As we approached the elections I think the enemy realized what was at stake,” Gen. Kamiya told reporters at the U.S. base in Kandahar, a southern city that was the former stronghold of the ousted Taliban religious militia.

NATO foreign ministers approved plans earlier this month to send up to 6,000 mostly European and Canadian soldiers into volatile southern Afghanistan, while about 10,000 NATO troops continue to watch over the north and west.


The expansion, which is expected to begin in May, will free U.S. forces to focus on counterinsurgency operations against Taliban and al-Qaida fighters along the country's southern and eastern frontier with Pakistan, where insurgents are most active.

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[Brundle_Fly]

1. SO EUROPE AND CANADA

are cleaning up Bush's f*cked up effort to cature or contain OBL and the finish the war he claims to have won against the taliban, how fitting.

I have no problem with these countries finishing the job, but I think a president should be the one to win the war against the country that attacked him. To at least have some sort of "caring" about the matter.

sickening

Oh yeah, he is fighting a war against his own, forgot.

[Ben Ceremos]

3. Afghanistan

DID NOT ATTACK THE USA! The 9/11 scam attack was a black op/pilots were overwhelming linked to Saudi Arabia. I don't care for the Taliban, but what about sovereignty? One day the USA will be receiving payback for all the plots and campaigns worldwide, and I don't imagine anyone will be worried about the sovereignty of the USA.

[Ben Ceremos]

4. Afghanistan

DID NOT ATTACK THE USA! The 9/11 scam attack was a black op/pilots were overwhelming linked to Saudi Arabia. I don't care for the Taliban, but what about sovereignty? One day the USA will be receiving payback for all the plots and campaigns worldwide, and I don't imagine anyone will be worried about the sovereignty of the USA.

[madeline_con]

2. "... a recent rise in suicide bombings.." Death throes redux. n/t