16 Aug

Coalition On Offense In Tora Bora

Looks like the coalition is doing some damage in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan:

US and Afghan forces searching for militants on the Pakistani border have inflicted heavy casualties on al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters, officials say.

The governor of Ningrahar province said that the operation in Tora Bora was going "very well" and that al-Qaeda and the Taleban had suffered heavy losses.

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The US military said that "al-Qaeda and other violent extremist fighters" had been engaged in the fighting during a "combined arms assault using precision munitions".

There were no substantiated reports of civilian casualties in the fighting, a statement said, contradicting earlier reports that many civilians had been killed.

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In an interview with the AFP news agency, Capt Bowman said that the object of the offensive was to disrupt al-Qaeda and other militants who were massing in the region.

Pakistan is meanwhile reported to have deployed troops on its side of the border to prevent militants escaping from the US-led offensive.

"It has been done over the past three days and it was done in co-ordination with allied forces in Afghanistan," a security official told the Reuters news agency.

Shocking that the BBC didn’t label the Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters as civilians as the MSM as been known to do lately.  Always curious how all the dead "civilians" were males in 20′s and 30′s. but hey, they were only sunbathing right?

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Curt served in the Marine Corps for four years and has been a law enforcement officer in Los Angeles for the last 20 years.
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2 Responses to Coalition On Offense In Tora Bora

  1. Wow…only 5 years too late. Pop the corks…

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    Yeah, not like we kicked their asses 5 years ago and have been ever since. Oh, I forgot, your a DummiesU alumni where America bad, al-Qaeda good! Because at least they don’t torture their prisoners…..

    I’m surprised you can even get your pants on in the morning.

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