Posted on 07/19/2009 1:15:27 PM PDT by Clive
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Troops from the Quebec-based Royal 22nd Regiment and their Afghan army allies "hit the jackpot" in a major combat operation that ended Sunday, discovering four factories used by the Taliban to make improvised explosive devices about 17 kilometres southwest of Kandahar City.
"The quality of stuff we took was absolutely impressive. We have taken away their capacity to make thousands of IEDs," said the lead author of the mission, Lt.-Col. Mike Patrick. He described the operation, which was dubbed Constrictor 4, as the most successful carried out so far this year in Kandahar to degrade the enemy's ability to fight.
As well as seizing suicide bomber vests and large quantities of explosive nitrates and accelerants, the troops found three 50-calibre Russian heavy machine guns, two 82mm bazookas, thousands of metres of commercial grade detonation cord and large quantities of ballbearings that can cause extreme bodily harm when packed into IEDs.
"It was one of those serendipitous moments when we thought we would find one thing and hoped for another and found it. Our success in this operation was a ‘10,' " the chief of operations for Canada's Task Force Afghanistan said.
"It was the difference between a Mom and Pop operation and the Mafia. It was a small assembly line. Mr. Ford would have been proud."
However, "regrettably," the four-day operation resulted in the 125th death of a Canadian soldier since Ottawa first sent troops to Afghanistan in 2002, Patrick said. Pte. Sebastien Courcy was killed Thursday morning when he stepped on an explosive that may have been an old Soviet anti-personnel mine while manning an observation post on a mountain overlooking the battlefield. . . .
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To Canada ....thanks . . . eh !!!
At the least the Canuks are out there helping us in this theater.
Thanks, guys. Heartfelt congrats to the Canadian Forces.
Prayers for Sebastien Courcy and his family.
Gratitude for Royal 22nd Regiment.
Can’t find those things in Canada, eh? No troops, no success.
I wonder if Obama will make them give it back?
OH, Ca Na Da!!
Is this "constitutional"?
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“Pte. Sebastien Courcy was killed Thursday morning
when he stepped on an explosive that may have been
an old Soviet anti-personnel mine while manning an
observation post on a mountain overlooking the battlefield...”
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God bless him and his family.
God bless our Canadian allies.
But credit where credit is due, the is feather #2 in the Canadian's cap this weekend. Good job guys.
Ok but when are we going after Omoslem’s buddies in Iran?
They’re the ones supplying all this crap!
Will our moslem president ever confront the moslems in Iran?
No.
Agreed. Prayers and gratitude.
Happy we could read about it. Not one U.S. media will carry this. Our allies do not exist for them.
Even if OUR guys found these caches, we wouldn't hear about it.
We are not allowed to read about and crow over our victories overseas. It is VERBOTEN!
Leni
Credit due for all your help.
I just think it’s a losing battle because of all the PC ways of fighting a WAR!
Thank you Canada!
I’ll have to send this to my sister who married a Canadian.
Prayers for the lost Canadian soldier.
Yay, Canada!
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