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  • Barge Matal Afghanistan

    03/09/2010 8:54:41 PM PST · by Sax · 3 replies · 259+ views
    Our Troops ^ | Aug 09 | SPC Murray
    Just another modern media version of our boys in the trenches, produced by the boys on the ground.
  • Four Canadian soldiers and one Canadian reporter killed and five injured in an IED strike

    12/30/2009 4:54:01 PM PST · by Clive · 11 replies · 796+ views
    DND/Canadian Forces ^ | 2009-12-30 | (press release)
    Four Canadian soldiers and one Canadian reporter killed and five injured in an IED strikeCEFCOM NR - 09.034 - December 30, 2009OTTAWA – Four Canadian soldiers and one Canadian reporter embedded with Joint Task Force Afghanistan (JTF-Afg) were killed, while four other Canadian soldiers and one Canadian civilian official were injured in an IED incident in Kandahar province, on Wednesday December 30, 2009. The incident occurred 4 km south of Kandahar City at approximately 4:00 p.m., Kandahar time, Wednesday afternoon as a result of an improvised explosive device attack on an armoured vehicle during a patrol. We will not release...
  • Honoring the Contributions of Poland in Afghanistan and Iraq (U.S. House of Representatives)

    10/04/2006 10:45:46 AM PDT · by lizol · 2 replies · 229+ views
    U.S. Embassy Warsaw ^ | 25 September 2006
    Embassy Events 2006 Statement Honoring the Contributions of Poland in Afghanistan and Iraq Made in the U.S. House of Representatives 25 September 2006 On September 20, Representative Daniel Lipinski of Illinois made a statement on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives honoring the contributions of Poland in Afghanistan and Iraq. “Poland has been a steadfast ally of the United States, and I thank the Polish people and government for their friendship,” said Representative Lipinski. Representative Lipinski recently met with the Chief of General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, General Gagor, during his visit to the U.S. Full...
  • Germany in the Cross-hairs

    08/21/2006 6:30:52 AM PDT · by Red6 · 50 replies · 1,237+ views
    Der Spiegel ^ | 21. August 2006 | Yassin Musharbash
    (Machine Translated) *Critical excerpts of the text: Till this day Islamic terrorists have not succeeded yet in striking in Germany. But mean the mess according to unanimous expert's opinion nothing. Above all not, because it already three attempts given hat: In 2002 one wanted to commit an Abu Mussab al-Sarkawi attached terror cell posters against Jewish and putatively Jewish equipment in Berlin and in the Ruhr area. In 2003 Tunisian Ihsan Garnaoui should have planned to explain a poster in the midst of a demonstration in Berlin. In the end of 2004 lifted security services a group of Kurdish Iraqis...
  • US accused of airstrike cover-up (huge barf alert)

    07/29/2002 9:44:14 PM PDT · by GaryMontana · 1 replies · 123+ views
    Times on Line ^ | July 29 2002 | Dumeetha Luthra
    AMERICAN forces may have breached human rights and then removed evidence after the so-called wedding party airstrike that killed more than 50 Afghan civilians this month, according to a draft United Nations report seen by The Times. A preliminary UN investigation has found no corroboration of American claims that its aircraft were fired on from the ground, and says there were discrepancies in US accounts of what happened. If the findings are upheld by a second, more detailed, UN investigation, they will cause huge embarrassment to the Pentagon. UN sources said that the findings pointed to an American cover-up, and...