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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan-NATO raids kill, capture Taliban commanders |
| 2011-12-30 |
| NATO says joint raids with Afghan forces have killed at least three and captured 11 Taliban commanders and facilitators who provided logistical support and weapons to insurgents. Friday's statement from the coalition says an operation earlier this week in Bakwah district in Farah province resulted in the killing of a senior insurgent leader and two of his commanders, as well as a "number of additional insurgents." Early on Friday, NATO and Afghan troops captured 11 Taliban fighters or sympathizers in five separate operations across the country. Nighttime kill-and-capture raids, in which a number of civilians have died, have become a flashpoint for anger over foreign meddling in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai has demanded that foreign troops stop breaking into homes. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 I hope we don't stop the nightime raids!Wasn't anything learned from the Vietnam war about micromanaging war in far away theatres from washington by civilian politics? |
| Posted by: chris 2011-12-30 10:20 |
| #2 Why are they capturing any of them? What do they hope to do with them? They generally know nothing that can't be squeezed out of them in 10 minutes, and they can't give them to the Afghan government which will just let them go. And we don't want them, either. Just hire some "international contractors" to manage them, paid out of some slush fund, and then ask the contractors to lose their "files" about the prisoners in a fire, just before they leave the country. No accountability. No problem. "We have no names for these Taliban, as they refused to identify themselves, and the contractors assured us they were well taken care of. No idea what happened to them. We assumed they were eventually released and went home." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-12-30 09:23 |
| #1 What's his name is going to beat the Taliban the Chicago way. He'll call em up for a peaceful gathering, get em all in one room and do the Chicago thing with baseball bats and small caliber handguns... |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-12-30 09:18 |