Hero Afghanistan soldier: I dug Taliban bullet out of my arm... and carried on fighting
By Rod Chaytor 4/11/2009
His extraordinary heroics sound like something out of a Rambo movie.
When Grenadier Guardsman Lewis Coulbert, 22, was shot in the left arm during a Taliban firefight he refused to quit the battlefield.
Bloodied and in agony, he poked around the wound with his fingers before plucking out the bullet.
He then applied a bandage, resumed his position and started shooting at the insurgents again.
What makes Guardsman Coulbert's actions even more amazing is that it was his first gun battle and tour of duty in Afghanistan.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Afghan policeman kills 5 British soldiers
Afghan policeman kills 5 British soldiers
By Elena Becatoros - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Nov 4, 2009 10:25:53 EST
KABUL — An Afghan policeman opened fire on British soldiers in the volatile southern province of Helmand, killing five before fleeing, British and Afghan authorities said Wednesday, raising concerns about discipline within the Afghan forces and possible infiltration by insurgents.
The attack Tuesday afternoon came a month after an Afghan policeman on patrol with U.S. soldiers fired on the Americans, killing two. Training and operating jointly with Afghan police and soldiers is key to NATO's strategy of dealing with the spreading Taliban-led insurgency and, ultimately, allowing international forces to leave Afghanistan.
Attacks such as these will heighten concern about the effectiveness of the Afghan forces.
Lt. Col. David Wakefield, spokesman for the British forces, told Sky News that the soldiers had been mentoring Afghan national police and had been working and living in the police checkpoint in Helmand's Nad-e-Ali district.
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By Elena Becatoros - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Nov 4, 2009 10:25:53 EST
KABUL — An Afghan policeman opened fire on British soldiers in the volatile southern province of Helmand, killing five before fleeing, British and Afghan authorities said Wednesday, raising concerns about discipline within the Afghan forces and possible infiltration by insurgents.
The attack Tuesday afternoon came a month after an Afghan policeman on patrol with U.S. soldiers fired on the Americans, killing two. Training and operating jointly with Afghan police and soldiers is key to NATO's strategy of dealing with the spreading Taliban-led insurgency and, ultimately, allowing international forces to leave Afghanistan.
Attacks such as these will heighten concern about the effectiveness of the Afghan forces.
Lt. Col. David Wakefield, spokesman for the British forces, told Sky News that the soldiers had been mentoring Afghan national police and had been working and living in the police checkpoint in Helmand's Nad-e-Ali district.
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/11/ap_british_soldiers_killed_110409/
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Gunmen storm UN guest house in Kabul, 12 dead
Gunmen storm UN guest house in Kabul, 12 dead
By RAHIM FAIEZ and AMIR SHAH, AP
KABUL -Taliban militants wearing suicide vests and police uniforms stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early Wednesday, killing 12 people — including six U.N. staff. It was the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine next month's presidential runoff election.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the early morning assaults, which also included rocket attacks at the presidential palace and the city's main luxury hotel.
The chief of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, said the attack "will not deter the U.N. from continuing all its work" in the country. One of the six U.N. dead was an American, the U.S. Embassy said.
The two-hour attack on the guest house where some 20 U.N. election workers were staying sent people running and screaming outside, with some jumping out upper-story windows to escape a fire that broke out. One American man said he held off the assailants with a Kalashnikov rifle until guests were able to escape.
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Gunmen storm UN guest house in Kabul
By RAHIM FAIEZ and AMIR SHAH, AP
KABUL -Taliban militants wearing suicide vests and police uniforms stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early Wednesday, killing 12 people — including six U.N. staff. It was the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine next month's presidential runoff election.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the early morning assaults, which also included rocket attacks at the presidential palace and the city's main luxury hotel.
The chief of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, said the attack "will not deter the U.N. from continuing all its work" in the country. One of the six U.N. dead was an American, the U.S. Embassy said.
The two-hour attack on the guest house where some 20 U.N. election workers were staying sent people running and screaming outside, with some jumping out upper-story windows to escape a fire that broke out. One American man said he held off the assailants with a Kalashnikov rifle until guests were able to escape.
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Gunmen storm UN guest house in Kabul
Thursday, September 10, 2009
DoD IDs 3 Marines, corpsman killed in ambush
DoD IDs 3 Marines, corpsman killed in ambush
Staff report
Posted : Thursday Sep 10, 2009 20:29:58 EDT
Three Marines and a corpsman were killed early Tuesday during an hours-long shootout in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said.
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Report: Marines killed in ambush denied support
Staff report
Posted : Thursday Sep 10, 2009 20:29:58 EDT
Three Marines and a corpsman were killed early Tuesday during an hours-long shootout in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said.
Killed in the attack were
Gunnery Sgt. Edwin W. Johnson Jr., 31;
1st Lt. Michael E. Johnson, 25;
Staff Sgt. Aaron M. Kenefick, 30; and
Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class James Ray Layton, 22,
according to the Pentagon. Johnson and Kenefick were assigned to 3rd Combat Assault Battalion, based at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan. Johnson was assigned to 7th Communications Battalion, based at Camp Hansen, Okinawa. Layton deployed with the Marines as part of the Okinawa-based 3rd Marine Division.
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Report: Marines killed in ambush denied support
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Anderson Cooper talks to U.S. Marines in Helmand Province
A model for success? 3:10
CNN's Anderson Cooper talks to U.S. Marines in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, about the work they're doing to win peace.
At Patrol Base Jaker
Four U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan
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Four U.S. service members killed in fighting in eastern Afghanistan
Two people killed in explosion at Kabul International Airport, six wounded
Official: Suicide bomber struck near gate of military section of airport
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Four U.S. service members were killed in fighting Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
The deaths took place in Kunar province in what a spokeswoman called an "ongoing event."
Troop deaths have mounted in Afghanistan this year as American and other international forces have stepped up their fight against the Taliban.
August was the deadliest month for the U.S. military in the nearly eight-year-old war, with 52 fatalities. The four deaths on Tuesday bring the number of U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan to 13 in September.
Elsewhere, a suicide bomber killed two people and wounded six others Tuesday morning in the Kabul airport's military section, Afghan officials said.
U.S. and Belgian nationals were among the wounded, a Western diplomatic official told CNN. The victims were all civilians, the Interior Ministry official said.
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CNN's Anderson Cooper talks to U.S. Marines in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, about the work they're doing to win peace.
At Patrol Base Jaker
Four U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan
Story Highlights
Four U.S. service members killed in fighting in eastern Afghanistan
Two people killed in explosion at Kabul International Airport, six wounded
Official: Suicide bomber struck near gate of military section of airport
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Four U.S. service members were killed in fighting Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
The deaths took place in Kunar province in what a spokeswoman called an "ongoing event."
Troop deaths have mounted in Afghanistan this year as American and other international forces have stepped up their fight against the Taliban.
August was the deadliest month for the U.S. military in the nearly eight-year-old war, with 52 fatalities. The four deaths on Tuesday bring the number of U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan to 13 in September.
Elsewhere, a suicide bomber killed two people and wounded six others Tuesday morning in the Kabul airport's military section, Afghan officials said.
U.S. and Belgian nationals were among the wounded, a Western diplomatic official told CNN. The victims were all civilians, the Interior Ministry official said.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Training Afghans as Bullets Fly: A Young Marine’s Dream Job
While reading this article from Afghanistan I was troubled by what read.
“If you do what I do, then they think either you should have PTSD or you are some sort of psychopath.” PTSD is post-traumatic stress disorder.
Is that what some of them really think? Or is it what they think we think about them? Or maybe it's just tough talk? We don't know but we do know how a lot of them come home. No, not all with the wound of PTSD, but far too many. We don't understand it anymore than we understand why it is that some neighborhood kid has it within them to join the military and be able to "do what they do" and like it. We don't understand it anymore than we can understand what makes a cop become a cop or a firefighter decide he wants to run into burning buildings for a living. We can't understand them because we are not them, we need them, constantly depending on them to do what needs to be done and then somehow, we end up forgetting all about what they did for us when they end up needing us.
The comment made is a truthful one. They don't all end up as psychopath or wounded, but they all end up changed by what they go thru. Some are made differently than the rest of us and we should thank God they are.
“If you do what I do, then they think either you should have PTSD or you are some sort of psychopath.” PTSD is post-traumatic stress disorder.
Is that what some of them really think? Or is it what they think we think about them? Or maybe it's just tough talk? We don't know but we do know how a lot of them come home. No, not all with the wound of PTSD, but far too many. We don't understand it anymore than we understand why it is that some neighborhood kid has it within them to join the military and be able to "do what they do" and like it. We don't understand it anymore than we can understand what makes a cop become a cop or a firefighter decide he wants to run into burning buildings for a living. We can't understand them because we are not them, we need them, constantly depending on them to do what needs to be done and then somehow, we end up forgetting all about what they did for us when they end up needing us.
The comment made is a truthful one. They don't all end up as psychopath or wounded, but they all end up changed by what they go thru. Some are made differently than the rest of us and we should thank God they are.
Training Afghans as Bullets Fly: A Young Marine’s Dream Job
By C. J. CHIVERS
Published: April 30, 2009
FIREBASE VIMOTO, Afghanistan — Three stone houses and a cluster of sandbagged bunkers cling to a slope above the Korangal Valley, forming an oval perimeter roughly 75 yards long. The oval is reinforced with timber and ringed with concertina wire.
An Afghan flag flutters atop a tower where Afghan soldiers look out, ducking when rifle shots snap by.
This is Firebase Vimoto, named for Pfc. Timothy R. Vimoto, an American soldier killed in the valley two years ago. If all goes according to the Pentagon’s plan, this tiny perimeter — home to an Afghan platoon and two Marine Corps infantrymen — contains the future of Afghanistan. The Obama administration hopes that eventually the Afghan soldiers within will become self-sufficient, allowing the fight against the Taliban to be shifted to local hands.
He woke the next day before 4 a.m. for a patrol. As he slipped into his ammunition vest, he groused that back home, when conversations drift to the war, the infantry too often is misunderstood. “You know what I don’t like about America?” he said, in the chill beneath lingering stars. “If you do what I do, then they think either you should have PTSD or you are some sort of psychopath.” PTSD is post-traumatic stress disorder.
He exhaled cigarette smoke. “This is my job,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with it.”
The war in Afghanistan defies generalization. Each province, each valley and each village can be its own universe, presenting its own problems and demanding its own solutions.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
UK:Soldier escapes death when Taliban bullet hits helmet
British
A British soldier serving in Afghanistan narrowly escaped death when a Taliban bullet passed through his helmet, but missed his head by two millimetres.
Last Updated: 12:21PM BST 20 Apr 2009
Private Leon "Willy" Wilson, 32, said he was left without a mark after the high-velocity round tore through his head protection.
The Territorial Army soldier, on attachment with 2nd Battalion of the Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters), was knocked flat on his back by the impact of the shot.
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A British soldier serving in Afghanistan narrowly escaped death when a Taliban bullet passed through his helmet, but missed his head by two millimetres.
Last Updated: 12:21PM BST 20 Apr 2009
Private Leon "Willy" Wilson, 32, said he was left without a mark after the high-velocity round tore through his head protection.
The Territorial Army soldier, on attachment with 2nd Battalion of the Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters), was knocked flat on his back by the impact of the shot.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Two schoolgirls blinded in acid attack in Afghanistan
Two schoolgirls blinded in acid attack in Afghanistan
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Men on motorcycle spray girls with acid from squirt guns, military says
No one claims responsibility, but network says Taliban suspected
Girls were prohibited from going to school under Taliban regime
Top U.S. commander calls insurgents "dishonorable"
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two men on a motorcycle used water pistols to spray acid on girls walking to school Wednesday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, blinding at least two of them, military spokesmen said.
An Afghan schoolgirl sits in a hospital Wednesday after being sprayed with acid in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
U.S. Col. Greg Julian said Afghanistan's National Military Command Center told him that four girls were hurt in the incident. Two were blinded and remain hospitalized, and two were treated and released, he said.
The men escaped after the attack, and no one claimed responsibility for it, but Arab-language network Al-Jazeera said Taliban militants were suspected to be responsible.
The incident occurred about 8 a.m. near Mirwais Nika Girls High School in the Meir Weis Mena district.
Kandahar government spokesman Parwaz Ayoubi gave different figures on the number of girls injured, saying six were burned, one of them severely. He called the attackers "enemies of education."
Girls were forbidden to attend school under the Taliban, which ruled the country from 1996 to 2001, when U.S.-led forces removed them from power.
According to Al-Jazeera, the girls were attacked with battery acid. Two teenage sisters, one of whom suffered serious burns, were among the victims.
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Men on motorcycle spray girls with acid from squirt guns, military says
No one claims responsibility, but network says Taliban suspected
Girls were prohibited from going to school under Taliban regime
Top U.S. commander calls insurgents "dishonorable"
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two men on a motorcycle used water pistols to spray acid on girls walking to school Wednesday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, blinding at least two of them, military spokesmen said.
An Afghan schoolgirl sits in a hospital Wednesday after being sprayed with acid in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
U.S. Col. Greg Julian said Afghanistan's National Military Command Center told him that four girls were hurt in the incident. Two were blinded and remain hospitalized, and two were treated and released, he said.
The men escaped after the attack, and no one claimed responsibility for it, but Arab-language network Al-Jazeera said Taliban militants were suspected to be responsible.
The incident occurred about 8 a.m. near Mirwais Nika Girls High School in the Meir Weis Mena district.
Kandahar government spokesman Parwaz Ayoubi gave different figures on the number of girls injured, saying six were burned, one of them severely. He called the attackers "enemies of education."
Girls were forbidden to attend school under the Taliban, which ruled the country from 1996 to 2001, when U.S.-led forces removed them from power.
According to Al-Jazeera, the girls were attacked with battery acid. Two teenage sisters, one of whom suffered serious burns, were among the victims.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/afghanistan.acid.attack/index.html
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Afghan officials aided July attack on U.S. soldiers that killed 9
Afghan officials aided July attack on U.S. soldiers
By Eric Schmitt Published: November 4, 2008
WASHINGTON: An internal review by the American military has found that a local Afghan police chief and another district leader helped Taliban militants carry out an attack on July 13 in which nine United States soldiers were killed and a remote American outpost in eastern Afghanistan was nearly overrun.
Afghan and American forces had started building the makeshift base just five days before the attack, and villagers repeatedly warned the American troops in that time that militants were plotting a strike, the report found. It said that the warnings did not include details, and that troops never anticipated such a large and well-coordinated attack.
The assault involved some 200 fighters, nearly three times the number of Americans and Afghans defending the site.
As evidence of collusion between the district police chief and the Taliban, the report cited large stocks of weapons and ammunition that were found in the police barracks in the adjacent village of Wanat after the attackers were repelled. The stocks were more than the local 20-officer force would be likely to need, and many of the weapons were dirty and appeared to have been used recently. The police officers were found dressed in "crisp, clean new uniforms," the report said, and were acting "as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred."
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By Eric Schmitt Published: November 4, 2008
WASHINGTON: An internal review by the American military has found that a local Afghan police chief and another district leader helped Taliban militants carry out an attack on July 13 in which nine United States soldiers were killed and a remote American outpost in eastern Afghanistan was nearly overrun.
Afghan and American forces had started building the makeshift base just five days before the attack, and villagers repeatedly warned the American troops in that time that militants were plotting a strike, the report found. It said that the warnings did not include details, and that troops never anticipated such a large and well-coordinated attack.
The assault involved some 200 fighters, nearly three times the number of Americans and Afghans defending the site.
As evidence of collusion between the district police chief and the Taliban, the report cited large stocks of weapons and ammunition that were found in the police barracks in the adjacent village of Wanat after the attackers were repelled. The stocks were more than the local 20-officer force would be likely to need, and many of the weapons were dirty and appeared to have been used recently. The police officers were found dressed in "crisp, clean new uniforms," the report said, and were acting "as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred."
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
As Taliban overwhelm police, Pakistanis hit back
As Taliban overwhelm police, Pakistanis hit back
By JANE PERLEZ AND PIR ZUBAIR SHAH
Citizens have been encouraged to form posses of their own in a sign of the shortcomings of Pakistan's police forces.
By Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah
Published: November 1, 2008
SHALBANDI, Pakistan: On a rainy Friday evening in early August, six Taliban fighters attacked a police post in a village in Buner, a quiet farming valley just outside Pakistan's lawless tribal region.
The militants tied up eight policemen and lay them on the floor, and according to local accounts, the youngest member of the gang, a 14-year-old, shot the captives on orders from his boss. The fighters stole uniforms and weapons and fled into the mountains.
Almost instantly, the people of Buner, armed with rifles, daggers and pistols, formed a posse, and after five days they cornered and killed their quarry. A video made on a cellphone showed the six militants lying in the dirt, blood oozing from their wounds.
The stand at Buner has entered the lore of Pakistan's war against the militants as a dramatic example of ordinary citizens' determination to draw a line against the militants.
But it says as much about the shortcomings of Pakistan's increasingly overwhelmed police forces and the pell-mell nature of the efforts to stop the militants, who week by week seem to seep deeper into Pakistan from their tribal strongholds.
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By JANE PERLEZ AND PIR ZUBAIR SHAH
Citizens have been encouraged to form posses of their own in a sign of the shortcomings of Pakistan's police forces.
By Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah
Published: November 1, 2008
SHALBANDI, Pakistan: On a rainy Friday evening in early August, six Taliban fighters attacked a police post in a village in Buner, a quiet farming valley just outside Pakistan's lawless tribal region.
The militants tied up eight policemen and lay them on the floor, and according to local accounts, the youngest member of the gang, a 14-year-old, shot the captives on orders from his boss. The fighters stole uniforms and weapons and fled into the mountains.
Almost instantly, the people of Buner, armed with rifles, daggers and pistols, formed a posse, and after five days they cornered and killed their quarry. A video made on a cellphone showed the six militants lying in the dirt, blood oozing from their wounds.
The stand at Buner has entered the lore of Pakistan's war against the militants as a dramatic example of ordinary citizens' determination to draw a line against the militants.
But it says as much about the shortcomings of Pakistan's increasingly overwhelmed police forces and the pell-mell nature of the efforts to stop the militants, who week by week seem to seep deeper into Pakistan from their tribal strongholds.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Hero marine who threw himself on grenade to receive George Cross medal
Hero marine who threw himself on grenade to receive George Cross medal from Queen
A Royal Marine who threw himself on a hand grenade to save his comrades is to receive the George Cross medal at Buckingham Palace.
By Chris Irvine
Last Updated: 6:56AM GMT 30 Oct 2008
L/Cpl Matthew Croucher is only one of a select group of 20 living recipients of the medal, awarded for acts showing the same degree of heroism as the Victoria Cross.
He will receive his award from the Queen on Thursday morning.
L/Cpl Croucher, 24, was part of a company of 40 Commando sent to investigate a suspected Taliban bomb-making factory near the town of Sangin when he set off the trip-wire that unleashed the grenade.
He jumped on the hand grenade, part of a Taliban booby trap, during an operation in Afghanistan earlier this year.
He had less than seven seconds to make up his mind about whether to risk sacrificing his own life to save his friends, and chose to save his colleagues.
Speaking after the incident in February in Helmand province, he said: "It was a case of either having four of us as fatalities or badly wounded or one."
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A Royal Marine who threw himself on a hand grenade to save his comrades is to receive the George Cross medal at Buckingham Palace.
By Chris Irvine
Last Updated: 6:56AM GMT 30 Oct 2008
Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher, pictured holding the backpack he was wearing when he jumped on the grenade, will receive the George Cross from the Queen. Photo: PA
L/Cpl Matthew Croucher is only one of a select group of 20 living recipients of the medal, awarded for acts showing the same degree of heroism as the Victoria Cross.
He will receive his award from the Queen on Thursday morning.
L/Cpl Croucher, 24, was part of a company of 40 Commando sent to investigate a suspected Taliban bomb-making factory near the town of Sangin when he set off the trip-wire that unleashed the grenade.
He jumped on the hand grenade, part of a Taliban booby trap, during an operation in Afghanistan earlier this year.
He had less than seven seconds to make up his mind about whether to risk sacrificing his own life to save his friends, and chose to save his colleagues.
Speaking after the incident in February in Helmand province, he said: "It was a case of either having four of us as fatalities or badly wounded or one."
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Monday, October 20, 2008
Claims of alleged proselytising are not new in Afghanistan
October 21, 2008
Claims of alleged proselytising are not new in Afghanistan
Tom Coghlan in Kabul
Christians in Afghanistan are a very small and beleaguered minority. Although SERVE Afghanistan, the aid agency Gayle Williams worked, is a Christian charity, its chairman, Mike Lyth, insisted that the organisation does not engage in missionary work.
“We definitely have a policy of no proselytisation, but acting out of the love of Christ for people. We have a policy of not (preaching Christianity), so she certainly wasn’t involved in that," he told The Times.
“She was only doing missionary work if that means living a Christian life and helping disabled people.”
However, claims of alleged proselytising have surfaced before in Afghanistan. In September 2001 eight foreign aid workers were arrested by the then Taliban government and charged with trying to convert Afghans to Christianity. Other Christian based aid agencies were closed at the time on Taliban orders, including SERVE Afghanistan.
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Claims of alleged proselytising are not new in Afghanistan
Tom Coghlan in Kabul
Christians in Afghanistan are a very small and beleaguered minority. Although SERVE Afghanistan, the aid agency Gayle Williams worked, is a Christian charity, its chairman, Mike Lyth, insisted that the organisation does not engage in missionary work.
“We definitely have a policy of no proselytisation, but acting out of the love of Christ for people. We have a policy of not (preaching Christianity), so she certainly wasn’t involved in that," he told The Times.
“She was only doing missionary work if that means living a Christian life and helping disabled people.”
However, claims of alleged proselytising have surfaced before in Afghanistan. In September 2001 eight foreign aid workers were arrested by the then Taliban government and charged with trying to convert Afghans to Christianity. Other Christian based aid agencies were closed at the time on Taliban orders, including SERVE Afghanistan.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4982250.ece
Friday, September 26, 2008
Why does McCain never remember Afghanistan?
Again, while listening to the presidential debate, McCain keeps talking about what will happen if we pull troops out of Iraq but never notices that is exactly what he did when he wanted them pulled out of Afghanistan and sent into Iraq. Why does he keep missing this? Al-Qaeda was not in Iraq but they were in Afghanistan and now they are more numerous and powerful than they were in 2002!
Again, McCain brought up his "support" for veterans but he has a proven record of failing veterans. Why didn't Obama bring that up since he is on the veteran's committee? Is he too nice to state the truth on this? McCain's record on veterans is almost as bad as his record on POW/MIA's accounting. If you look up his record, compare it to what he claims, then you see that he can lie with absolutely no problem at all just as he did when he talked about Palin's record.
Again, McCain brought up his "support" for veterans but he has a proven record of failing veterans. Why didn't Obama bring that up since he is on the veteran's committee? Is he too nice to state the truth on this? McCain's record on veterans is almost as bad as his record on POW/MIA's accounting. If you look up his record, compare it to what he claims, then you see that he can lie with absolutely no problem at all just as he did when he talked about Palin's record.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
3 Canadians die in Taliban attack 5 soldiers wounded in ambush
3 Canadians die in Taliban attack
5 soldiers wounded in ambush in Kandahar
Scott Deveau , Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, September 03, 2008
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Three Canadian soldiers died Wednesday when their vehicle came under attack by insurgents in the volatile Zhari District of Kandahar province.
The deaths of corporals Andrew (Drew) Grenon, 23, and Mike Seggie, 21, and Pte. Chad Horn, 21, infantrymen with the 2 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry from CFB Shilo, Man., brings the military toll in Afghanistan to 96 since 2002.
The Taliban have already taken responsibility for the attack. The ambush comes on the third day of Ramadan, which many had felt might cause a slowdown in the fighting here in Afghanistan.
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5 soldiers wounded in ambush in Kandahar
Scott Deveau , Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, September 03, 2008
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Three Canadian soldiers died Wednesday when their vehicle came under attack by insurgents in the volatile Zhari District of Kandahar province.
The deaths of corporals Andrew (Drew) Grenon, 23, and Mike Seggie, 21, and Pte. Chad Horn, 21, infantrymen with the 2 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry from CFB Shilo, Man., brings the military toll in Afghanistan to 96 since 2002.
The Taliban have already taken responsibility for the attack. The ambush comes on the third day of Ramadan, which many had felt might cause a slowdown in the fighting here in Afghanistan.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Afghanistan attack on New York National Guard soldiers
If you still cannot understand what the cause of PTSD is in our troops and citizen soldiers, read this and then if you still don't understand, you never will.
Insurgency’s Scars Line Afghanistan’s Main Road
By CARLOTTA GALL
Published: August 13, 2008
SAYDEBAD, Afghanistan — Not far from here, just off the highway that was once the showpiece of the United States reconstruction effort in Afghanistan, three American soldiers and their Afghan interpreter were ambushed and killed seven weeks ago.
The soldiers — two of them members of the National Guard from New York — died as their vehicles were hit by mines and rocket-propelled grenades. At least one was dragged off and chopped to pieces, according to Afghan and Western officials. The body was so badly mutilated that at first the military announced that it had found the remains of two men, not one, in a nearby field.
The attack, on June 26, was notable not only for its brutality, but also because it came amid a series of spectacular insurgent attacks along the road that have highlighted the precariousness of the international effort to secure Afghanistan six years after the United States intervened to drive off the Taliban government.
Security in the provinces ringing the capital, Kabul, has deteriorated rapidly in recent months. Today it is as bad as at any time since the beginning of the war, as militants have surged into new areas and taken advantage of an increasingly paralyzed local government and police force and the thinly stretched international military presence here.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
NATO forces abandon Afghan outpost after deadly attack
Is Afghanistan turning into Vietnam? Take a hill, see men die, give up the hill only to have to take it back again? 9 lost their lives defending it and 15 were wounded. The Taliban took it back.
NATO forces abandon Afghan outpost after deadly attack
July 16, 2008
NATO said Wednesday it had abandoned an Afghan outpost days after it was stormed by militants who killed nine US soldiers.
The soldiers pulled out of the outpost in Wanat village in northeastern Kunar province on Tuesday, Afghan officials said.
"We are confirming that we have vacated our combat outpost at Wanat," NATO spokesman in Afghanistan, Mark Laity, told AFP.
"All these kinds of outposts are temporary. They serve a purpose and when we consider appropriate we will move them," he said.
The area has since been taken over by Taliban militants, an Afghan official said.
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