Posted on 12/12/2001 3:43:50 AM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS -- OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM 12/12/01
Milawa Valley, Tora Bora, Freedom, Continued Food Maldistribution, Brave Military
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REPORT FROM THEATRE 1 - AFGHANISTAN
WAR FOR ENDURING FREEDOM 12/12/01
Multiprong final attack on Usama - War at Tora Bora
Milawa Valley Battles into More Caves, Omar's Home Taken, Continued Freedom in Afghanistan
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Somewhere near the North Arabian Sea, on the USS Peleliu,
antiTaliban soldiers recover after surgery.
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Camp Rhino - 15 MEU 26 MEU Resting, Weapons cleaning, and Alert.
Marines Returning from reconnaissance
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Target: Multiprong attack against Usama, located near Tora Bora and Waziri Gorge.
Pro-US forces near Tora Bora, in the White Mountains, continue advancing ridge to ridge
taking caves, munitions, and supplies left behind.
Pro-US fighters in, and looking across, Milawa valley.
After the "daisy cutter" and other bombs, what remains are the skeleton of an Afghan forest.
Near an ex-Al Qaida building and a firing range,
a cave is filled with useful munitions.
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Far North of Kabul, at, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III lands relief at the airport.
This large cargo of food supplies was bought by the children of the United States for the freed children of Afghanistan.
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North of Kabul, a soldier stands guard.
Near Rabat, Northern alliance fighters smile victorious.
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In Kabul, Marines hold the US Embassy.
In Kabul, continued serious food distribution problems result from the single-point ticketed system.
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In Kandahar, Omar's House and the Airport are thoroughly taken.
In Kandahar, Mullah Omar's family compound bombed [12/11/01].
Inside Omar's residence, an Afghan soldier surveys the family area, as crowds look into his bedroom.
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Somewhere near Kandahar airpport, the SAS arrives making this a D notice situation.
At Kandahar airport, Afghan fighters loyal to Gul Agha arrive.
Some of the Afghan fighters loyal to Gul Agha take control of the governor's mansion.
At Kandahar airport, a fighter loyal to Hamid Karzi also arrives. Ordnance lies on the ground.
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In Herat : Art Flourishes with Poetry reading as just-freed ex-prisoners Arrive
In Herat, a Poetry reading to the Literature Society, the first since the demise of the Taliban.
In Herat : Return of 800 Prisoners held by the Taliban until Kandahar fell.
Released 2 days ago from the Kandahar prison,
a Northern Alliance man, held for five years, now receives a flower.
Deputy Governor Deputy of Herat, Haj Mirabdolkhalegh,
shakes hands with a Northern Alliance fighter returning to Herat after his liberation from a Kandahar Taliban prison
by the United States of America and its allies.
Another freed-prisoner is awarded money, perhaps as compensation after his 4 year imprisonment.
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In Mazar-e-Sharif, a Northern Alliance warrior kicks a fallen Taliban brought to justice.
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REPORT FROM THEATRE 2 - NEAR ISRAEL 
ENDURING FREEDOM 12/12/01
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Near south Gaza, home owner inspects mortar shell damage,
which wounded two children at the Israeli settlement of Neve Dekalim [southern Gaza].
Palestinian police inspect retaliation damage to their police post hit by missiles
fired by Israeli helicopter gunships near Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza following the mortar shell damage in Gaza.
Vigilant Israeli sentry at the Kalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem.
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WAR FOR ENDURING FREEDOM
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Remember why we are there:
1) TODAY:
2) FOR ENDURING FREEDOM:
So far, some of those freed by the United States of America and its allies.
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END OF TRANSMISSION 12/12/01 .......... K
Isn't that basically how a dictatorship works.
Otherwise, great post. Loved the ones of the freed prisoners, especially the women prisoners. BUMP
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| EDS NOTE: THIS PICTURE MAY HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AS IT WAS SENT VIA NAVY COMUNICATIONS--U.S. sailors play a game of basketball in the hangar bay where aircraft are maintained aboard the USS Roosevelt Wednesday Dec. 12, 2001, in the Arabian Sea. Sailors aboard the ship have been working on a reversed schedule starting their day at 6 o'clock pm and finishing around 7 o'clock am to provide continuous support to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ed Wray, Pool) |
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| U.S. Marines, building a detention facility outside the walls of Camp Rhino in Southern Afghanistan, speak to someone in a green metal container December 11, 2001. According to Marine officials, the only detainee at Camp Rhino is American Taliban fighter John Walker, who is classified as a battlefield detainee until his status is changed by the highest levels of government. (Dave Martin - Pool/Reuters) |
That, along with booby traps, has been my greatest concern for members of our military who are searching "abandoned" or recently evacuated caves. Great post.
This is what I heard on NPR the other day. Various aid organizations have very quickly hired hundreds of Afghan women to go house to house and distribute ration tickets. These newly hired aid workers were trained poorly and hastily. Some of the women aid workers were only giving out one ration ticket per house; some were giving out one ticket per family per house (many Afghan families share the same house), and some were even giving out one ticket per person. Naturally chaos has been reigning ever since, and the women of the various houses are extremely upset when they find that they only got one or a few tickets while their neighbors got more. I don't know how this is going to get resolved...
"Liberalism" is simply an attempt to support one's own self-esteem by joining a like-minded crowd bent one disrespecting their betters with second-guessing and double standards.
Teddy Roosevelt must have had such people in mind when he said, "It is not the critic who counts . . .".
How ironic that Taliban Johnny would find himself imprisoned in one of the very same containers in which so very many prisoners of the Taliban froze and starved to death over the years! BTW everyone, this guy was very recalicitrant before, and I would take any "information" he gives us with a VERY large grain of salt.
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