Posts Tagged ‘Taliban’
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
The hits just keep on rolling…
KABUL, Afghanistan – Insurgents firing rockets, mortars and automatic weapons launched a ground assault Saturday against NATO’s biggest base in southern Afghanistan, wounding several coalition troops and civilian employees in the second such attack on a major military installation this week, officials said.
A Canadian Press news agency report from the Kandahar Air Field said artillery and machine gun fire reverberated through the base, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of Kabul, several hours after the attack began. Militants unleashed rockets and mortars about 8 p.m. (15:30 GMT) and then tried unsuccessfully to storm the northern perimeter, officials said.
Um, sure is a good thing we didn’t send as many troops as General Petraeus requested otherwise the Taliban might not feel so emboldened as to directly attack the two largest US Military bases in Afghanistan. I think it’s about time to a) give the man the troops he needs to attain stability in the country, b) give the force protection folks on the bases (including the average Joes on the ground) the freedom to defend their bases without fear of repercussions, and c) start taking base security seriously like they did in the earlier years of the war. US military bases in combat zones aren’t just make-work program implementation stations for local nationals, they are the axles upon which the wheels of war roll.
Tags: Afghanistan, attack, Kandahar, Kandahar Air Field, Taliban, Terrorists
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Okay, this is what I’ve gotten from my source on Bagram about the attack the other day and it was confirmed as good poop by another guy I know on Bagram. From the eyes on the ground…
I personally was woken up at around 0345 by the sound of close AK fire. There were around 15 AAF going for ECP 1 with a VBIED and suicide vests… which turned out to be the successful diversion. Apaches were in the air within minutes of all hell breaking loose at ECP 1 but in the interim somewhere between 7-10 AAF with grenades and RPGs made it through the first perimeter fence by Coyote Creek on the North side close to the SF compound. Air cover was already in the air and they were stuck in no man’s land so they went for the final perimeter fence and started tossing grenades over the Hescos trying to hit the living areas (which in my opinion are obviously too close to the fence line). Guys from 173rd and a couple Sr NCOs coming through BAF on R&R put together a team and shot 1 AAF with a stack of RPGs and 3 others with suicide vest that were in the process of breaching the perimeter…At least one had made it through and was killed within moments and the other died stuck in the wire. One of the towers was also breached (although [unconfirmed] rumor has it the AF tower guard, who man the tower with a ANA partner, fled his post…not sure if that is true or just standard AF bashing) All the big stuff was over with by 0630, SAF continued throughout the day. The scary part was how close these guys came to really doing some damage…They were literally within 25 yards of housing areas. Force Protection on BAF is a joke…Simple things like not allowing the vegetation to grow 3 ft high up to the perimeter fence, not having living areas within grenade throwing distance of the weak perimeter and other common sense stuff.
If not for the quick thinking of a few take charge NCOs and a few guys they were able to scoop up, we would have been screwed. Some of those guys wound up badly injured, but they held the (thin) line.
Oh and there were obvious signs that there was a large force forming up for something and probes for the last 6 wks. And they were spot on regarding where the weak points were. Not a warm fuzzy feeling. And it is very curious why this has not gotten more media attention…VERY strange indeed.
Then I asked if the breach and attack were near Camp Cherry-Beasley where I thought it was and this is the response I got…
Yep, the 5 guys the make shift QRF shot were along the stretch behind Cherry Beasley and the North DFAC ending at the UAE compound. Oh and all the dead guys were wearing full ACUs complete with brown t shirt. This was not just some half assed attempt, this was well planned,
coordinated and executed. Each of the dead guys were rigged to blow with HME and grenades.
[There are guys here who] were here back in 2004-2005 and they have mentioned how different the FP is. All the concrete is gone, those of us lucky enough to be in a B-Hut are exposed; we had a contractor killed in my area (Infantry Village) in FEB by a 107 rocket that had his B-hut had something as simple as sand bags, he probably would have made it through…but they have gotten rid of those too… Billeting moves Soldiers into stacked CHUs on the perimeter with NO type of barriers in place… [removed to protect anonymity].
We have kids who like to spend their days throwing rocks across the fence into our work area trying to hit us or our VSAT. The other day one of them had a slingshot and was shooting out the big perimeter lights. BASE OP and FP were called but [the unit] was told they are not responsible for replacing the lights. NO SHIT, think you can maybe send over someone to chase them off? [If any of the soldiers in this unit do anything other verbally reprimand the kids they get UCMJ action no matter how many times they get hit with a rock] There probably was a reason these kids were going after the lights (duh), just like they were likely the ones who supplied the weapons caches they found on the perimeter the last couple days. Oh and we have had Haji come through the fence and right up to the towers at night and walk off with the solar panels…But the guards are at least in full rattle now.
We have tried to go through the right channels, we have jumped up and down and screamed about this stuff, we have gotten IG involved and we get the same BS answers and nothing changes (although IG did get their attention for about a week). Just like this incident will get people spun up for a couple weeks, then it will be back to business as usual. There was no plan for something like this, unless you call random people coming around on a gator telling you to lock and load and sit in the bunker a plan. Makes me long for the days of “stand to”. I guess that we should count ourselves lucky there was no fratricide.
Things don’t look so good out in Bagram. The BDOC at BAF never really did have it all together but now it seems like it’s all falling apart. WTF? Removing the concrete bunkers? Housing within grenade range of the hescoes? That’s JV bullshit. You don’t do that and expect to NOT have all hell break loose.
And for all those that want to throw out the “were you there?” and “did you witness this?” questions, no I wasn’t… but I have two people that way that this is about how it went down so take it for what its worth. I personally tend to believe it.
Tags: Afghanistan, ambush, attack, Bagram, Bagram Air Base, Bagram Air Field, Base Defensive Operations, breach, Camp Cherry Beasley, deriliction, lax defenses, myopia, Taliban, towers, wire
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban insurgents armed with rockets, grenades and suicide vests stormed the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field before dawn Wednesday, triggering an eight-hour firefight that killed an American contractor and at least 10 attackers and wounded nine U.S. service members.
As troops and contractors huddled in secure bunkers, the militants fired their weapons over American defenses into the base, according to Maj. Virginia McCabe, a spokeswoman for U.S. forces at Bagram. White smoke could be seen rising from the garrison as U.S. attack helicopters whirred overhead.
It was the second major Taliban assault in the Kabul area in as many days, breaking a nearly three-month lull in insurgent attacks around the Afghan capital. Eighteen people, including five U.S. soldiers and a Canadian colonel, were killed Tuesday in a suicide car bombing in Kabul.
Seriously. Why isn’t this plastered all over the news like it should be? Every time an insurgent farted near the Green Zone in Iraq the press was all over it and touting the failings of the Bush administration and how it was indicative of the futility of fighting that part of the War on Terror. Of course once the Obama administration took over it was more than happy to claim victory in Iraq and take credit for all of the work done there by the previous administration. Don’t get me wrong… I know that this kind of thing is standard practice for all administrations.
My issue is this: we have just seen a full frontal assault on the biggest US Military base in Afghanistan and there is pretty much NOTHING in the main stream media about it. It’s almost like it never happened yet this is HUGE. Attacking Bagram just north of ECP 3 within a few hundred yards of (what used to be when I was there) the Ranger and SF compounds is just brazen. The fear isn’t there anymore. The Taliban wants to lure the US into using methods that will cause civilian casualties and they want to terrorize the FOBBITs so they go home and bitch about how “bad” it is over there. They know what they’re doing and they’re working… and most America is either ignorant that the attack even occurred, don’t understand the significance, or just don’t care. Pathetic.
Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan… but embarrassing strategic shortsightedness is an abortion.
If you want to educate yourself, the story about this is here and the photo is from here.
Tags: Afghanistan, attack, Bagram, Barack Obama, ECP 3, Kabul, Taliban, Terrorists, War on Terror
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
From the Associated Press…
NEW YORK – A U.S. citizen who had recently returned from a five-month trip to his native Pakistan, where he had a wife, was arrested at a New York airport on charges that he drove a bomb-laden SUV meant to cause a fireball in Times Square, federal authorities said.
Faisal Shahzad was on board a Dubai-bound flight at Kennedy Airport when FBI agents and New York Police Department detectives took him into custody late Monday, law enforcement officials said. One official said he claimed to have acted alone.
It’s a good thing they didn’t follow the trail that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D’bag-NY) was trying to lay down…
“If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.”
And if I had to guess, I would say that Bloomberg is an idiot. Now, whose guess do you think is more accurate? Seriously. Your city gets attacked numerous times by Islamist terrorists, a car bomb shows up in Times Square, and the first people you think might be responsible are… homegrown terrorists with a political agenda harboring resentment about health care? Are you f***ing retarded?!? Jesus man! If you catch your neighbor’s dog taking a dump in your front yard over and over again and then you find a pile of dog shit on your lawn are you going to blame your own kids first?!? Mayor Bloomberg, did you spend too much time in the birth canal? Huff one too many cans of spray paint? Take one too many hits off the gravity bong when you were in clown college? The David Carradine method of self-pleasure that you’ve apparently been practicing is taking its toll on your brain cells.
The next time Mr. Bloomberg needs to make a public statement he may want to consider jamming the mike up his crack and farting so he sounds less like an asshole.
Tags: Al-Qaeda, al=Qaeda, Bloomberg is a retard, car bomb, explosives, Faisal Shahzad, FBI, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York, Pakistan, Pakistani, Taliban, terrorist, Times Square
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
MARJAH, Afghanistan – Taliban fighters holding out in Marjah are increasingly using civilians as human shields, firing from compounds where U.S. and Afghan forces can clearly see women and children on rooftops or in windows, Afghan and U.S. troops said Wednesday.
The intermingling of fighters and civilians also has been witnessed by Associated Press journalists. It is part of a Taliban effort to exploit strict NATO rules against endangering innocent lives to impede the allied advance through the town in Helmand province, 610 kilometers (360 miles) southwest of Kabul.
Increasingly? It seems odd to me that they would use this kind of language. I guess the Taliban has gone from almost always using human shields and fighting in heavily civilian areas to keep us from using our most effective weapons to using them almost completely always or in every friggin case. The Taliban LOVES to hide among civilians. If the Taliban can’t hide among civilians, they’ll take weapons off of their dead Tangos and make them civilians so we look bad. Absolutely ludicrous. I guess it’s only considered a reality now that AP journalists have witnessed and reported as fact what the military has been telling them for years.
Tags: AP, Army, Associated Press, civilians, Helmand Province, human shields, journalists, Marjah, Taliban
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
MARJAH, Afghanistan – Bombs and booby traps slowed the advance of thousands of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers moving Saturday through the Taliban-controlled town of Marjah — NATO’s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants’ grip over their southern heartland.
NATO said it hoped to secure the area in days, set up a local government and rush in development aid in a first test of the new U.S. strategy for turning the tide of the eight-year war. The offensive is the largest since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
The Taliban appeared to have scattered in the face of overwhelming force, possibly waiting to regroup and stage attacks later to foil the alliance’s plan to stabilize the area and expand Afghan government control in the volatile south.
To the Marines, soldiers, coalition members, etc going into Marjah: Happy hunting. To the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and whoever else is over there itching for a fight: You may be disappointed to find out that those virgins mentioned in the Koran are supposed to be girls… rest in pieces, bitches.
Tags: Afghanistan, battle, fight, Helmand Province, Marines, Marjah, Taliban, US Marines, USMC
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
The first three are your usual, boilerplate “drop the soap in the shower” types.
I have no idea what this is, but it looks like a penis extension for an artillery piece. I guess normal overcompensation just isn’t good enough for Red Legs… now they need to make the guns look bigger too.
And finally my usual slam on the goat-humping, little boy-buggering, women-abusing Taliban panty-waists.
Lemme know if you like any of them.
Tags: Afghanistan, Army, brothel, DADT, demotivator, demotivators, Don't Ask Don't Tell, goats, Taliban
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
You people are sick, sick, sick. Nice to meet you.
Tags: dead Taliban, dead tango, Dead Tango Demotivators, dead terrorist, dead terrorists, demotivator, demotivators, funny, gallows humor, Sick, Taliban
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Picture Credit: My Pet Jawa
Once again proving that the Taliban are bunch of retarded, cowardly amateurs much more interested in buggering little boys than actually executing an effective attack on a sizable coalition base in Afghanistan, the Taliban managed to once again launched poorly aimed rockets at a coalition base in Afghanistan…
KABUL — A rocket strike at the major international military base in southern Afghanistan wounded eight foreign service members — four Bulgarians and four Romanians — NATO said Monday.
The rocket hit inside Kandahar Air Field on Sunday evening, said Flight Lt. Wendy Wheadon, a spokeswoman for the international force.
The attack occurred as Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolai Mladenov visited 270 Bulgarian troops who guard the inner zone of the Kandahar airport, the ministry said. Mladenov was about 400 yards from where the rocket hit and was not hurt.
Yup, that’s right… they still couldn’t manage to kill anybody. These guys are such toolbags that they can’t seem to completely take out soldiers from Eastern European armies on static targets such as gigantic air fields that serve as major logistics hubs with massive concentrations of people. Yeah, yeah, I know that eight people got hurt… but they only got hurt.
See, this is the major difference between the Taliban and US Forces. The Taliban balances old Soviet made rockets on rocks and gives them a rough angle and deflection and then they set timers and walk away. Several hours later the timers launch the rockets (which could have fallen off the rocks by that time) and they generally miss. Why? Because they’re too big a bunch of pussies to man up and keep the rockets on target because that would expose them to counter fire. What do US Forces do? Well, in the case of our buddy VT Woody, they walk out in the middle of a fire fight among a hail of 7.62 rounds, calmly prepare and deploy an AT-4, aim it at the Taliban that are preoccupied with their 7.62 round dispersal, and he lets it rip at them… which, by the way, tends to end the fire fight pretty friggin’ quick. So that’s the difference: the Taliban run away before the fight even starts, the US Army walks into the middle of it.
The Taliban: cowardly, retarded vaginae in turbans who couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn from the inside. (My apologies to any actual female sex organs or female sex organ owners that may have been offended by the comparison.)
Tags: attack, Kandahar, Kandahar Air Base, Kandahar Air Field, rocket, Taliban
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Tags: Afghanistan, dead Taliban, Dead Tango Demotivator, Dead Tangos, dead terrorists, demotivator, demotivators, he ain't right, just ain't right, Taliban
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
As impressive as an impotent octegenarian who’s hung like a mouse running around naked at the Playboy Mansion (sorry Hugh)…
Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers have attacked buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital, Kabul, setting off explosions and sparking gun battles.
Fighting erupted near the Serena Hotel and the presidential palace, although Afghan President Hamid Karzai says security has now been restored.
Officials say that two civilians and three security personnel have been killed and 71 others wounded.
Dude, you couldn’t even manage a 1:1 ratio of your dead to your victims? The kid that stood in front of the tank at Tienanmin Square did better than you losers. I mean, seriously. As tightly packed and crowded as Kabul is you couldn’t kill more people than that? And this administration is actually willing to negotiate with amateurs like you? That’s like the head coach of the Steelers watching a middle school team get their asses handed to them in a regular season game and then having the coach of that team demand that the Steelers turn over one of their 473 Super Bowl rings. Nice try, but I think it’s time you went back to quietly molesting little boys on Thursdays you amateur backwater zealots.
P.S. I’ve seen condoms made of Swiss Cheese that were more effective than you.
Tags: attack, child molesters, Kabul, Losers, suicide bombers, Taliban
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Just how much higher does the body count have to climb before we do something?
KABUL – Taliban militants wearing suicide vests and police uniforms stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early Wednesday, killing 12 people — including six U.N. staff. It was the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine next month’s presidential runoff election.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the early morning assaults, which also included rocket attacks at the presidential palace and the city’s main luxury hotel.
The chief of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, said the attack “will not deter the U.N. from continuing all its work” in the country. One of the six U.N. dead was an American, the U.S. Embassy said.
They’re trying to kill UN election workers. Read that again: election workers. The Taliban is trying to cause this government and the next to fail in one fell swoop before the people of Afghanistan have even had their say. We cannot, I say again CANNOT, wait for election results before we send in troops to get the situation stabilized. What the hell has to happen before we act?!? We’re quickly becoming a laughing stock in the region and the entire Islamic world. A loss of face in this situation isn’t just an embarassment, it’s a national security issue. If we’re perceived as weak by our Jihadi enemies, they will use that perception as an invitation… and as we’ve all seen before, that’s not good.
Even as our Secretary of State is in Pakistan assuring that country that they have our full support, the Taliban/al Qaeda/Death Inc is sending their own message in their own particualr idiom…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A car bomb tore through a busy market in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 91 people as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the country and pledged American support for its campaign against Islamist militants.
More than 200 people were wounded in the blast in the main northwestern city of Peshawar, the deadliest in a surge of attacks this month. The government blamed militants seeking to avenge an army offensive launched this month against al-Qaida and Taliban in their stronghold close to the Afghan border.
They did this when our own Secretary of State was visiting their country. They don’t fear us anymore. Hell, they don’t even respect our strength anymore. We need to correct that and we need to correct that fast. The John Kerry’s of the world be damned… we need real leaders with real experience and a real plan and we need them really fast.
The time for deliberations is over Mr. President: it’s time to sh*t or get off the pot… and getting off the pot isn’t an option.
Tags: Afghanistan, attack, bomb, Election workers, Hillary Clinton, Islamist militants, islamists, jihad, Kabul, killed, Pakistan, Peshewar, Secretary of State, Taliban, UN, UN election workers, United Nations
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
So the ballots and attending voting gear are on their way to Afghanistan via the UN. Just out of curiosity, how do they expect to have a fair and unbiased election this time if there were cases of voter fraud when Afghanistan was more stable back on August 20th when they voted in the first place? The Taliban is still going to be intimidating voters and NATO forces in Afghanistan just don’t have the manpower to secure all of the polling places. Obama has said that he wanted to wait out sending more troops until the elections were over, but that’s like saying you want to hold off on putting on a condom until you see the results of the post coital pregnancy test. Too late.
Now Pakistan is begging for NATO troops (read “the U.S Military”) to help seal the porous border on Afghanistan’s south/south east so that it will act as an anvil to the Paki Army’s hammer in their operations in Waziristan… but there is no anvil to be had. The Taliban is enjoying a resurrection in both Afghanistan and Pakistan and everyone with even a modicum of firsthand knowledge knows that the time to act is now and the way to act is decisively with force of arms in order to quell their uprising. But alas, the only commitment to a decision we’ve seen to send or not send more troops is once again a vote of “present”. Sorry Mr. President, there is no “present” vote allowed on this one.
When I was in Afghanistan for the first elections there, we had to provide a very clear and imposing presence to let the Taliban know that we weren’t going to be taking any of their guff and even that didn’t deter them from trying to disrupt the polling place activities even in their weakened state. It will take a lot more than a bunch of civilian election workers in UN armbands to deter them now.
Tags: Afghanistan, Army, ballots, Elections, Hamid Karzai, Karzai, McChrystal, Obama, run off, Taliban, troops, UN, Waziristan
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
Always friendly faces in Wardak... well, friendly toward the Taliban.
KABUL – Bombs have killed one American and two Polish troops in Afghanistan, military officials said Saturday.
Violence in this country has surged in recent months as insurgents grow bolder and the U.S. debates whether to send additional troops.
The U.S. service member died Saturday of wounds suffered in a bombing in southern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.
The Polish soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in eastern Wardak province on Friday, Poland’s Defense Ministry said. Four others were wounded.
Uh, correction: the insurgents are growing bolder BECAUSE the U.S. is debating whether or not to send in more troops, not AS it debates sending more troops. They’re growing bolder because they can see cracks in our political resolve and they can smell weakness in our indecision. Now what was it that the President said during his speech at Camp Victory? Ah yes, “When we send our young men and women into harm’s way, we have a solemn obligation… to never, ever, go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace and earn the respect of the world.” It’s time to take a dump or get off the pot. Oh, and getting off the pot isn’t an option right now.
Tags: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Army, bombs, killed, Obama, Taliban, Wardak, wounded
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And last but not least (well, maybe least) this gem…
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