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CAN in Kandahar News Archive (Apr-Dec 2006)

8 Oct 09

CAN BG Commander: "Canadian troops are getting dramatically better intelligence from villagers now than they were before the summer, and they're getting more of it"

Panel Suspends Probe into AFG Detainee Treatment

Blog Watch: Someone's FINALLY Talking About Canada's (Possible) Post-2011 Mission - You Need AFG Troops to "Hold" as Part of the "Clear-Hold-Build" Approach

AFG CDS Dropping By Ottawa

How Do Reporters Get in Touch with Bad Guy Spokespersons?

Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Two Canadian "Tanks" Allegedly Destroyed in Kandahar Province - Lots of Attacks Against UK Troops Alleged, With Accusations of Destroying Shops in Helmand

U.N. Data Shows Vote Count Discrepancies - More - Canned U.N. Official Calls Election Big Taliban Victory - Some are Pissed - U.N. Defends Election Role

7 Oct 09

CAN TF Commander: "I am convinced that our greatest strategic asset is that smiling Canadian soldier who walks into an Afghan town and shakes hands with an elder and says, 'How can I help you?' "

Convoy Attacks a Growing Problem

One-Page Summaries of CAN's Progress in AFG (PDF): Canada's Six Priority Projects - Kandahar Signature Projects

CAN Embed Joins US MPs on Patrol in K'Har City - Another Embed Highlights Her Read of K'Har Air Field Atmosphere

"Wall art in Taliban prison a chilling reminder of Afghanistan's cruel past "

Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Taliban Alleges "2 tanks of the Canadian invading Forces blown up Kandahar"

More Worries about Losing Kandahar? - "The Afghan National Police (ANP) in a cleanup operation on Monday found narcotics and weapons in Taliban strong-hold Helmand province of southern Afghanistan"

UK Grenadier Guard Killed in Nad Ali Explosion - Royal Scots Borderers Headed Downrange - Radio Garmsir on the Air in Helmand - Success in Garmsir?

Initial Leaks Indicate Voting Problems from Partial Recount - Accusations of Foreign Interference

Opinion: "The question being debated in Washington and elsewhere, but not in Canada is therefore: Okay, what next?" - Cash as "A ‘weapons system’ based on wishful thinking" - "Despite years of failure, pundits still want to bribe Pashtuns" - "It’s not that the Taliban are winning, it’s that the government is losing, says an international aid expert" - "And if the debate is stuck on the strategic merits of counterinsurgency vs. counterterrorism vs. nation building, it could be that those labels are as outdated as "peacekeeping." "

AQ Presence Shrinking in AFG? - "Fighting Reinvigorated Taliban Needs Regional Plan"

Some USA Officials Leaning Toward Surgical Strikes on Bosses Rather than COIN in AFG?

6 Oct 09

More Edmonton-Based Troops Headed Downrange - More - Engineers Preparing to Go, Too

CAN Chinooks Help Keep Troops Safer

"Afghan translators who work for the military and other federal agencies at Camp Nathan Smith are divided about the prospect of fast-track immigration to Canada."

Retired CAN General: Of COURSE You Need More Troops in AFG!

CAN Senator Highlights Help Available to the Wounded

More Issues With CAN Probe of Treatment of Detainees - Questions in House of Commons - More

Ten AFG Troops Killed in Helmand Attack - NLD Defends Helmand Air Strike - Helmand Residents Want Closed Schools Reopened

NATO Types Drop By (and Visit North, Not South)

Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Attacks Claimed in K'Har, Helmand & Zabul

(Partial) Recount Underway - More - Maybe Results Next Week - New Rules Favour Karzai?

USA Def Sec: Withdrawal from Afghanistan Would Embolden Radicals - More

5 Oct 09

Families of the Fallen Remember in AFG - More

The Wounded: Cpl. Bill Kerr Walks on Pavement with CDS for First Time Since Injury - "Up to 1500 Greater Sudbury residents put aside their personal beliefs on the war in Afghanistan, and hiked Sunday, Oct. 4, for Cpl. Bill Kerr and his family." - Injured Reservist Continues to Recover

AFG General: AFG Army Should be Good to Go by 2013

Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Attacks Alleged in Kandahar City, Helmand - Taliban Web Site Complains of NATO's Human Rights Violations

Opinion: "Not much to cheer about in Kandahar these days"

4 Oct 09

"As the U.S. rethinks its strategy on Afghanistan, pressure is mounting on Canada to make a clear decision regarding the future of its hard-fought mission there."

UK Army Boss: "Britain was ready to send more troops to Afghanistan if called on to do so in the wake of the revised strategy which has been drawn up by Gen Stanley McChrystal"

"Efforts to Curb Helmand Opium Show Promise"

Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Lots of Attacks, Killings Alleged in Helmand

Bounced UN Official: "The election was a foreseeable train wreck." - More Complaints About UN's Neutrality in Election Work

Blog Watch: "Taxing International Aid to Help Afghan Gov’t?"

Opinion: NY Times on "10 Steps to Victory in Afghanistan"

3 Oct 09

CAN Troops Fire on Motorcycle Trying to Break Into Shura Cordon - More - more - more - more - "Militaires canadiens ont tué par balle deux hommes qui roulaient à vive allure sur une motocyclette. Ils étaient postés dans la région de Panjwayi."

"Je ne savais pas trop comment écrire cet article sur la mission de notre détachement à Kandahar, attaché avec la Compagnie A du Groupement tactique du 2e Bataillon du Royal 22e Régiment (GT 2 R22eR) du mois avril à novembre 2009."

"Afghan war zone presents career 'highlight' for Canadian soldiers going home"

How CAN Chinooks are Making a Difference

Ronald Kevin Megeney, R.I.P.: "Matthew Wilcox will likely be out on day parole even before an appeal is heard in his conviction in the death of a comrade in Afghanistan." - "The military has launched an investigation into the handling of firearms by a reserve unit sent to Afghanistan to handle security at the Canadian base in Kandahar."

"Two pages of logs showing that Canadian military police investigated whether Afghan prisoners risked torture are the latest point of dispute between the federal government and a public inquiry into Canada's handling of Afghan detainees."

K'Har Bad Boy Nabbed - YouTube video: "Afghan farmers find an alternative to growing poppies at a wheat distribution center in Helmand Province."

AUS Soldier Injured in Uruzgan - More - NLD Troops "Almost Certainly" GTFO'ing - US Marines Find MRAPS Not As Handy as Thought for COIN Fight?

USA National Defence University paper: Special Ops Forces Causing Most Civvy Casualties, So Time to Retask Spec Ops as COIN Fighters, not Terrorist Boss Killers? (PDF)

Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Attacks Alleged in Helmand, Uruzgan & Zabul

"Several analysts and opposition figures in Afghanistan say the UN's decision to fire Peter Galbraith for urging a harder line on election fraud affirms popular fears that it is the international community calling the shots on who wins."

"Task force created to combat al Qaida in Afghan prisons"

Opinion: "There's a political price to be paid for altering course on the long road home from Afghanistan" - " 'Afghanisers' pin their hopes on a bolstered national security force. First you need soldiers with patriotic, not ethnic loyalties"

2 Oct 09

Jonathan Couturier, R.I.P.: Laid to Rest

CAN TF Commander Joins AFG-CAN-USA Patrol

The Torch: CAN Troops Support UK's Black Watch in Zhari District - More

"Canadian bomb experts mentor Afghan soldiers on safely dealing with IEDs"

"The Canadian Forces is investigating allegations of misuse of firearms that first surfaced in videos entered as evidence during the recent court martial of a young Nova Scotia soldier" - Cape Breton Post article - PDF permalink to Cape Breton Post article

"A public hearing into what the Canadian army may have known about the alleged torture of Taliban prisoners in Kandahar, has been postponed" - More

CAN PM During Question Period: "The military mission in Afghanistan will end in 2011." - CAN Foreign Affairs Mininster During Question Period: "We are putting an end to our military combat mission by 2011"

"The U.S., Britain and other NATO countries are waiting for Canada to decide precisely what kind of role it can play in Afghanistan once the current mission ends in 2011, says a high-level diplomatic source." - Author/Blogger on What Canada Needs to Say to Afghanistan - Army.ca and MILNEWS.ca Blog on Deciding Next Steps - MILNEWS.ca Blog: Any Training Mission Can Only be a "Combat" Mission

US Looking Into Possible Civilian Deaths in Nad Ali Bombing Run - More - more - NLD Says One of their Planes Did It

Brit RAF Soldier Killed in Helmand

Talkin' to the Taliban: Author/Blogger Tells NDP Taliban Wants to Kill Them, Not Talk

Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Attacks Claimed Across K'Har, Helmand

McChrystal: "The war in Afghanistan can be won if forces there change the way they fight"

1 Oct 09

AFG Troops Leaving K'Har over Pay Dispute?

CAN Chief of Defence Staff: "The influx of American troops into the Kandahar region over the past few months has enabled Canada to concentrate its efforts, both military and civilian, on a smaller area of responsibility. It has allowed Canadians and Afghans to stabilize a region of the province and establish the conditions necessary for development and governance, and it is yielding small, but important results."

DND Seeking Electronic Solution to CF Troops Talking to Afghans Without Interpreters

One of Canada's War Wounded "Overwhelmed" By Community Support - PDF version of story - homeforahero.ca

Ronald Kevin Megeney, R.I.P.: Sentenced to Four Years - CF Statement - More - more - more - more - "Caporal Wilcox est condamné au terme de son procès devant la cour martiale"