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D. E. P.David J. Todd Jr., 36, of Marrero, La.; sergeant first class, Army. Todd was killed Wednesday when his unit was attacked with small-arms fire in Bala Murghab in Afghanistan's Badghis province, northwest of Kabul. He was assigned to the Afghan Regional Security Integration Command-West in Herat, Afghanistan.
Hace 48 horas, la ISAF y el ANA han eliminado a Kamal Saleem Atiya Fazli @ Abu Gharib Al Makki (Arabia Saudí, Makkah), comandante talibán en Farah.Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, led by Mustafa Muhammad Abu Yazid, has conceded the loss of a top military commander in the conflict-devastated Central Asian country.
Commander Abu Gharib al-Makki, hailing from Saudi Arabias holy city of Makkah, was killed in fighting with US-led coalition and Afghan troops, the organization said. The real name of the slain insurgent was Kamal Saleem Atiya Fazli al-Fazli. The military commander was killed in Farah province 48 hours ago, according to the al-Qaeda statement that gave no further details of the operation.Abu Yazid praised al-Makki as a brave commander and asked his family to pray for him and not to wait anymore for his return. The al-Qaeda in Afghanistan chief vowed to take revenge on US and Afghan forces.During the last two months, nine al-Qaeda militants have been killed in southern and southeastern Afghanistan, where insurgent-linked violence has spiked considerably.Abdullah Shami was killed in Paktia, Abu Sulaiman Alataibi in Zabul and Abu Khabab al-Misri killed in Wana (headquarters of South Waziristan Agency) in a missile attack by US drones.
Suicide bomber attacks Italian troops in Herat
Esta noticia es del día 1 de Septiembre, y nos habla de un grupo de talibanes que han apoyado al gobierno de Badghis. Bien por ellos.FIfteen Taliban fighters announced their support to the government in the northwestern Badghis province on Sunday.
Commander of the regional North Zone Army Crops Syed Aqa Andrabi told a press conference in Mazar-e-Sharif that the 15 Taliban fighters led by a locally known commander Mullah Ahmad Wardak surrendered willingly to local officials in Badghis.
The Taliban squad also surrendered 12 pieces of various arms to the government in Ghormach district where they were welcomed during a ceremony, said Andrabi.
The army commander told Pajhwok Afghan News that Mullah Wardak had a team of 30 Taliban, fighting the government in Ghormach, and that the remaining half of the group will also surrender soon.
Mullah Ahmad Wardak told Pajhwok Afghan News in Ghormach that they were fighting against the government since long alongside foreign militants.
He said Chechens Arabs and Pakistanis were also their comrades in the fight against the Afghan government and that the Pakistani government was largely supporting the militants.
He added that he surrendered to the government because he realized that war would further destruct this country and that they needed to join hand with the government to rebuild the country.
A member of the provincial council in Badghis who did not wish to be named said two other Taliban commanders also surrendered this week to the government.
He said the Taliban were under huge pressure in Ghormach in recent weeks since military operation against them was going on.
Pues eso, el jefe de inteligencia de la provincia de Nimroz ha muerto en atentado suicida.Afghanistan: Provincial intelligence chief killed in Taliban suicide bombing.
The deadly attack claimed the life of Nimroz province’s intelligence chief, Anwar Shah Khan
Pues todo eso nos implica a nosotros, ya que desde HETAT proporcionamos apoyo a Farah, Chaghcharan, Qala e Naw (Badghis) y la propia Herat.Violence has spread further west this spring and summer, with scores of deadly insurgent attacks recorded in Farah, Nimroz, Herat and Badghis provinces. Coalition forces have responded with a "decapitation" strategy aimed at eliminating low to mid level Taliban operatives through premeditated strikes and raids. Only yesterday, Coalition forces conducted a targeted strike against a Taliban command compound in neighboring Farah province, killing three Taliban commanders. Mullah Faizullah, the Taliban era deputy governor of Farah from 1996-2001 was believed to have been killed in the raid along with his wife and two children.
A los nuestros sin duda también les vendrá de fábula esa carretera, y os vuelvo a recomendar seguir este blog, y en este caso, este artículo titulado: Ruta Qala-i-Naw/Bala Murghab/Ghormach Ruta Qala-i-Naw/Bala Murghab/GhormachConstruction work on a 32-kilometre road connecting Qala-i-Naw with Qadis district started in the northwestern Badghis province officials said on Saturday.
They said the project will benefit thousands of people of both the areas.
Construction work on the road that will be constructed with the fund of Public Works Department allocated for development started early this morning, Provincial Governor Muhammad Ashraf Nasiri told Pajhwok Afghan News.
He informed the project will be completed during one year by private Construction Companies, where 45 small and large bridges will be also built on will benefit thousands of people the road. The road will be asphalted by other organizations after completion of its paving, he hoped.
Haji Abdul Matin, representative of the area people expressing his happiness about the road said people were facing difficulties during transportation; construction of the road will be a resolution of a great problem of the locals.
Y por último: Felicidades a La Legión (aunque atrasadas)El honor es para vosotros piedra angular de vuestra existencia. Acabamos de condecorar a ocho legionarios que se han destacado por su valor. Uno de ellos, con carácter extraordinario: el coronel Pérez García, a quien conozco bien porque estaba al mando en Qal’eh-ye now, cuando visité Afganistán.
Afghanistan: Soldiers desert army to join Taliban
Kabul, 9 Sept. (AKI) - A senior Afghan army official and 50 soldiers have reportedly abandoned their uniforms and joined the ranks of the Taliban.
Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf announced the move in a statement published on jihadi internet forums on Tuesday.
"At 10 a.m yesterday, the deputy general of the border guards, Nur Ahmad Khan Bahlawan joined the ranks of the mujahadeen together with 50 soldiers as a result of a secret relationship established for some time with the men from Nu castle in the region of Badghis."
According to the Taliban, the deserters reportedly brought two rockets and three sub-machineguns as well as a quantity of money.
The official was working with the soldiers as border guards.
Y, por último, algo que podría ser muy preocupante (esta información es de El Tirador Solitario):Bomb kills 2 in western Afghanistan
By AMIR SHAH – 6 days ago
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A roadside bomb killed two people in western Afghanistan on Monday in the same province where insurgents also attacked two Americans training the police force, officials said.
The target of the attack was the chief of Shindand district of the western Herat province, said Rauf Ahmadi, the region's police spokesman.
The bomb was placed on a motorbike and missed the district chief but killed two people, including his son, who was ridding in a separate vehicle. Ahmadi said. Seven other people were wounded.
Separately, gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying two Americans involved in training Afghan police, as they traveled from Islam Qala, the border point between Afghanistan and Iran also in Herat province, said the provincial border police chief Rahmatullah Safi.
The American's were not harmed in the Monday attack, but their bulletproof vehicle was damaged, Safi said.
In the eastern Khost province U.S.-led coalition troops detained eight militants Sunday during two raids targeting militants associated with Siraj Haqqani, the son of longtime warlord Jalalludin Haqqani.
The U.S. has called Siraj Haqqani a ruthless new brand of militant leader and last year announced a $200,000 reward for his capture.
American troops have launched a number of operations against his network in the east of the country, where number of insurgent attacks have been on the rise.
Haqqani, a Taliban-associated militant with close ties to al-Qaida, is accused of masterminding beheadings and massive bombings. He is believed to be in Pakistan's tribal areas.
More than 4,100 people, mostly militants, have died this year in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press.
Pd: En el informativo de Tele5 de las 21:00 se han podido ver los UAV Searcher Mark II J en Herat.UN OFICIAL DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ACUSA A TROPAS PAKISTANIES DE AYUDAR A LOS TALIBANES
Según el oficial estadounidense Tte. Coronel Chris Nash, durante Junio de 2007 tropas de Pakistán realizaron diversos vuelos en helicóptero para reabastecer a los talibanes durante unos combates contra tropas de la coalición internacional.
Estas declaraciones vienen a enrarecer aún mas las relaciones entre los Estados Unidos y Pakistán, después que el Presidente Bush autorizase a sus militares operar en Pakistán sin consentimiento previo de este país.
Según este oficial, en Junio del año pasado el equipo de Marines en misión de entrenamiento que mandaba y miembros de la policía afgana mantuvieron fuertes combates contra los talibanes en una zona de las montañas de Tora Bora. Fue durante esta acción cuando los helicópteros pakistaníes habrían reabastecido a los talibanes en su base. Confirma que ni el ni ninguno de sus hombres vio a estos helicópteros, información que consiguió desde varias fuentes, todas ellas afganas.
Si es que no solo tenemos que luchar contra elementos talibán, sino contra miembros "extranjeros" de Al-Qaeda, grupos de narcotraficantes, elementos tribales, y servicios de inteligencia enemigos (iraní y pakistaní)Eleven Afghan Policemen Killed In Taliban Attack
September 21, 2008
KABUL, (Reuters) -- Taliban insurgents have attacked an Indian construction project in the western Afghan province of Herat killing 11 Afghan policemen and wounding several others, a provincial official said.
Violence has hit its worst levels in Afghanistan since the Taliban were overthrown in 2001. At least 2,700 people including 1,100 civilians have been killed this year, aid agencies say.
While insurgents have been active in the south and east of the country, violence in recent years has spread to the north and west.
"Eleven guards and two Taliban were killed last night when a group of insurgents attacked Salma Dam in Cheshti Sharif district," said Farad Khamedi, the administrative chief of a neighbouring district. "The dam is under construction by Indian engineers but no Indians were killed or wounded", he said.
The Afghan government has repeatedly accused Pakistan's spy agency of supporting militant attacks on Indian construction projects in Afghanistan, an accusation Pakistan denies.
India is one of the biggest aid donors to Afghanistan.
Several Indian construction and telecommunications workers have been killed or kidnapped in Afghanistan, where India has pledged about $750 million in aid for construction projects.
Y ahora dos artículos interesantes:As an interim measure, I've asked for expanded authority from NATO to permit ISAF attack of drug laboratories and drug trafficking facilities, not the farmers. Xinhua
Y el segundo (mucho más amplio) es del Telegraph británico, publicado hoy, que nos habla del anterior individuo, sus relaciones con el ISI y CIA, el Mullah Omar...KABUL, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- The U.S.-led Coalition forces detained three suspected Haqqani militants including two commanders, during operations in eastern Afghan province of Khost on Tuesday, said a Coalition statement released here on Wednesday.
"The operation targeted a known Haqqani commander and subcommander in Sabari district, both suspected of coordinating and conducting IED (Improvised Explosive Device) and suicide attacks," the statement said.
These commanders are also believed to finance and facilitate the movement of foreign fighters into Afghanistan, it said.
Multiple AK-47s, other small arms and military style clothing were found and destroyed to prevent future use, it added.
Jalaludin Haqani, who served as a minister and chief of army staff during Taliban regime in Afghanistan, is a close aide to Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar and has been leading Taliban fighters in east Afghanistan to mount pressure on Afghan government and international troops deployed there in the post-Taliban nation.
Conflicts and spiraling insurgency have claimed the lives of over 4,000 people, mostly militants, so far this year.
The US must broker a power-sharing agreement with the head of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, in order to establish peace in the region, the Governor of Pakistan's lawless border areas has said.
By Isambard Wilkinson in Peshawar
The Telegraph (UK) / September 25, 2008
Owais Ghani, who governs the North West Frontier Province and its adjoining tribal areas, is the most prominent figure to date to publicly advocate holding talks with militant commanders leading the insurgency against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
His thinking reflects that of the conservative hardcore of Pakistan's military hardliners who are accused by Western intelligence operatives of supporting the Afghan Taliban as a "hedging policy" to maintain influence in Afghanistan.
"They have to talk to Mullah Omar, certainly – not maybe, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Haqqani group," Mr Ghani told The Daily Telegraph in an interview in Peshawar.
"The solution, the bottom line, is that political stability will only come to Afghanistan when all political power groups, irrespective of the length of their beard, are given their just due share in the political dispensation in Afghanistan."
The governor's remarks are likely to cause controversy among Pakistan's allies in the US-led "war on terror" and at home where the ruling Pakistan's People's Party is opposed to the Taliban.
Mullah Omar went into hiding during the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. British intelligence believes that he has his headquarters in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan.
In 2006, Mr Musharraf acknowledged that some retired Pakistani intelligence officials may still be involved in supporting their former Taliban protégés whom they worked with during the 1990s when Pakistan helped the movement sweep to power in Afghanistan.
Jalaluddin Haqqani is a veteran commander of the American-backed Afghan war against Soviet invasion in the 1970s and 1980s, and developed links with Osama bin Laden during that period.
Haqqani has had close links with the CIA and Pakistani intelligence agencies, notably the military Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The New York Times reported in July that the CIA had given the prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, evidence of the ISI's continued involvement with Haqqani, who is now leading militants against coalition forces in Afghanistan, along with evidence of ISI connections to a suicide bombing at the Indian embassy in Kabul that killed nearly 60 people on July 7.
The Hezb-e-Islami, the Mujahideen faction of the former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, was one of the groups which helped end the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan but has had links with Pakistan since 1978.
But in the civil war that followed in the early 1990s, his group of fundamentalist Sunni Muslim Pashtuns clashed violently with other Mujahideen factions in the struggle for control of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The Hezb-e-Islami was blamed for much of the terrible death and destruction of that period, which led many ordinary Afghans to welcome the emergence of the Taliban.
Some of his party members are part of the Afghan parliament and he is said to have taken part in back-channel negotiations with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai.
Mr Ghani said that all three militant commanders were in Afghanistan.
"They are a power group that has to be preserved to seek political solutions we would not destroy them because then you are contributing to further instability," he said.
He denied that Pakistan "wants the Taliban back".
He added: "No sir, we have no favourites in Afghanistan."
Mr Ghani said that West must accept that the "Mullah is a political reality".
However he denied that Pakistan is supporting them by pointing out that it had handed over key Taliban ground commanders operating in Helmand province where British forces are based.
Senior American commanders and policymakers are considering a shift in strategy in Afghanistan. The chairman of the US joint chief of staffs, Admiral Mike Mullen, recently said that failure there was possible and "time was running out".
Mr Ghani said: "You are headed for failure. I think Afghanistan is practically lost. It is compounding our problems."
The governor added that the West must hold talks with the Taliban as al-Qaeda was regrouping from Iraq to Afghanistan. Russia had begun to supply weapons to militants and that the Afghans were intolerant of foreigners on their soil and so were staging "a national uprising".
"To eliminate the Taliban you have to slaughter half the Afghan nation," said Mr Ghani.
President Karzai routinely renews his call for peace talks. Members of a cross-border Afghan-Pakistani tribal council agreed last year to pursue talks with the Taliban.
The initiative received initial encouragement from the Taliban but its leadership then set preconditions for the 50,000 US and Nato troops to be withdrawn and Islamic law to be restored to the country.
Washington rejects talks with the Taliban maintaining that America will not negotiate with "terrorists".
Mr Karzai and the United Nations have stipulated that a key condition for peace talks is that the Taliban must accept the constitution that was signed by Mr Karzai in 2004.
It is doubtful that the America's allies in Afghanistan-which is formed among ethnically distinct groups from the Pashtun Taliban, the Northern Alliance, would accept such talks.
Mr Ghani said that Mr Karzai "does not represent any power group – tribal, religious or political and therefore like the people in his government he is dependant on foreign power. He is therefore an obstacle to dialogue and peace."
He described Pakistan's military strategy as one of containment. "We are not looking for quick fixes. We want to hold it to a level where we can just tolerate it until Afghanistan settles down," said Mr Ghani.
When asked about allegations that Pakistan has used the Taliban to retain its influence in Afghanistan, Mr Ghani replied: "We could counter that by saying India uses the Northern Alliance."
kilo009 escribió:
-El Alijar cifra (leer artículo para que veáis la poca vergüenza de nuestro MDE) en 60 las bajas causadas a los talibán por tropas españolas este año, yo opino que van unas cuantas más.
