[WoodlandsTXFreeper]

About U.S. 1,000 troops go into Afghanistan. LET'S PLAY TWO!!

[July 4th]

The Daily Double. Saddam and bin Laden. Could you believe it if we got them both on the same day?

[InterceptPoint]

YES - Take that Tommy Dashole - Once again we prove that, unlike the libs, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

[lawnguy]

LET'S PLAY TWO!!

Good Line!

[Husker24]

Damn! your fast.

[speedy]

Great line -- and Ernie Banks would thank you, too.

[smith288]

"Im saddened, saddened and disturbed at the current administrations focus on terror.....huh? .... Oh fiddle sticks... we never win.."

[MinuteGal]

Where in Afghanistan?????

Leni

[CyberCowboy777]

What are they duing?

[Cool Guy]

Great timing.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Well, I'm going be watching the news all night.

[tubebender]

Oh Please BUMP...

[MJY1288]

How can this be? Ted Kennedy said we were focusing only on Saddam and ignoring Al-Qaeda !!!!!!!! < /sarcasm > Off

[jwalsh07]

Sheesh George W. Correleone is serious tonight. TOm Dashle better check for a horses head in bed with him.

[Salvation]

Two front war!

BTTT!

God bless our troops!

[The Louiswu]

[The South Texan]

U.S. Troops Raid Afghanistan for al-Qaida


BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) -- About 1,000 U.S. troops launched a raid on villages in southeastern Afghanistan Thursday, hunting for members of the al-Qaida terrorist network in the biggest U.S. operation in just over a year, military officials said.

Helicopters ferried troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division to the remote, mountainous area as the hunt for Osama bin Laden and his terror network intensified, according to U.S. military officials in Washington.

Military officials in Afghanistan confirmed the operation was underway, but would provide no details.

"I do not have anything to say about the Kandahar operation at this time," said Col. Roger King, U.S. army spokesman at the U.S. headquarters at Bagram.

The troops left from their base in Kandahar, the former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan.


Radio transmissions had been detected coming from caves above the villages, said military officials in Washington .

It was the largest U.S. military operation in Afghanistan since Operation Anaconda just over a year ago. That eight-day battle involved hundreds of Taliban and al-Qaida fighters against thousands of American and allied Afghan troops.

There have been a series of raids on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in the weeks since authorities captured al-Qaida's No. 3 figure, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in Pakistan on March 1. Authorities have said Mohammed is giving information to U.S. interrogators and have said some of the subsequent arrests came as a result of Mohammed's capture.

Mohammed, an alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, is being interrogated by American officials at an undisclosed location.

The agents who captured him in a suburb of Islamabad found computers, mobile telephones, documents and other evidence that could help lead to other al-Qaida members.

There have been increased attacks on Afghan government posts in southern Afghanistan in recent weeks. The authorities have blamed remnants of Taliban, al-Qaida and loyalists of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a renegade rebel commander labeled a terrorist by the United States.

[bluefish]

About U.S. 1,000 troops go into Afghanistan.

Maybe I'm ignorant, or not reading this correctly. What is the significance of this statement? We've had a ton of troops in Afghanistan, and they've been going after Al Quaeda, for a long time. What is different about this particular information sparse post that everybody is cheering about?

[CyberCowboy777]

Get 'em Dubya

[swheats]

but we were told we can't handle a two front war. The folks that undermine America's ability should be dealt with.

[FRgal4u]

wouldn't it be great to have nail Saddam and Bin Laden all in one week!!

With so many rumors of bin laden being captured by the pakis in the last few weeks, now I wonder if the US will use this campaign as a smoke screen to shield the pakis from the obl capture deal...or better yet, obl has been dead since tora bora...but no one wanna disclose that...and now with this big strike, drop a few bombs..and viola, obl is found dead in the caves...hehehehhe...