Posted on 07/09/2008 6:10:32 AM PDT by gpapa
KABUL (AFP) — More than 400 militants have been killed in a 10-week-old operation led by US Marines in a remote district of southern Afghanistan but fighters remain in the area, a commander said Wednesday.
Marines and British troops under NATO command in late April launched the operation in Garmser district, a desert area on the border with Pakistan described as an insurgent "logistics hub" and key opium-producing centre.
Citing figures from Helmand province governor Gulab Mangal, the Marine commanding officer in Afghanistan told reporters in Kabul that more than 400 Taliban-linked rebels had been killed.
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Whoa.
that is great, at this point if they get Bin Ladin the dems will still complain about it.
I think the west is going to have a presence here for the next hundred years if not longer. Until radical Islam ceases to exist as a motivating force, there will be a neverending source of fighters to put down.
As titles go, this one is a bit hard to read and seems to be a sentence fragment.
Should it have been: ‘Marines say 400 militants killed in Afghan operation’ ?
The Ruskies killed a million and still got their butts kicked.
Militants.
When you bring out the Helmand's, you bring out the best!............
Is this it?
KICK’N a^%!!!!!
Good! no GREAT news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marines doing what Marines do best.
I don’t find this in our papers. So, of course, it’s great news for the US.
Good news! 400 dirt bags who will never again try to kill Americans.
Awesome
Great news!
Sure sounds like it.
Of course they will complain about it! Bin Ladin is the Democrat's HERO. He stood up to the evil that is the United States. I have no doubt that most of the D.U./Kos/moveon crowd would shake his hand, hug him or give him a bj if they ever met him.
you're right, once he is dead they will no doubt worship him like che, someday a future democrat may even have his picture up in their campaign headquarters
The Taliban’s spring offensive is sinking like a rock! Awesome news!!
Here’s a link to a cool video showing the workings of a SHOT SHELL from a TANK.
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=170421&ESRC=army.nl
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