CAN in Kandahar

2006 News Archive (Apr-Dec)

 

31 Dec 06

Deployed CF Troops Already Talking About Next Deployment

 

More Fighting Expected in 2007 - More

 

What Fast Air Was Up To This Week

 

LOTSA Embeds Dumped by CF on Request from Allies

 

Bad Guys Spreading Videos of Fighting

 

Polling to Assess State of Hearts and Minds

 

Commentary:  They Want Us There - Letter:  CAN Left Holding Bag

 

30 Dec 06

Alleged Deserter Tells His Side of the Story - Permalink - More - Father of Fallen Not Commenting on Allegations of Desertion by Colleague

 

Taliban Say They'll Drive ISAF Forces Outta AFG - More - more - more - more

 

AFG Figures Large in PM, GG Year End Messages - GG's Year End 

 

Message

 

SAR Tech, Former Infanteer, Raising Money to Help Injured -

 

Some of His Back Story -

 

More (.pdf) -

 

BC Legion Honours One of 

 

the Injured

 

Muslim Prayers in 

 

CAN for the Fallen - Halifax Remembers Their Fallen

 

Still No 

 

Atheists in the Trenches

 

Oldish Chappie Prepares to 

 

Deploy

 

Troubles at Timmy's

 

29 Dec 06

Did An 

 

NCO Desert? - Permalink to Article -

 

CF:  Not 

 

Proven -

 

Mor

 

e - Army.ca Discussion

 

Taliban Says They'll Drive Good Guys Outta AFG

 

Gettin' Ready for the Next Phase -

 

The Final Push? -

 

Training Up AFG Troops During the Lull -

 

Pushing In to Fix War Damage -

 

Summary from 

 

the Other Side

 

[http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20061228/AFGHANBLATCH28/Columnists/c

 

olumnists/columnistsNational/1/1/2/|Christie Blatchford Learns About Hurry Up & Wait] -

 

Another Reporter Learns About Sleeping in the Cold and Stand To -

 

It Seems CAN Allies Don't Like CAN Embeds With CAN Units-

 

Army.ca Discussion

 

DEU Considering Sending Jets

 

Bad Guys Try to Torch Fuel Tankers

 

Morphine Free Poppies?????

 

IRN Creeping Closer to AFG -

 

More

 

28 Dec 06

Slow (For Now) Chasing Taliban Outta 

 

Dodge Country -

 

A Coy, 1 

 

PPCLI Good to Go

 

PRT Hoping for More Visible 

 

Results in 2007

 

There's Tourists in Kandahar?

 

27 Dec 06

Taliban Confirm Southern Boss Nailed

 

Taliban Still At 'Er, Even With Latest Push

 

CAN Paying With Blood, Tears to Be Int'l Player

 

World Socialists Pissed that BQ Isn't Making CAN Gov't Fall on 

 

AFG

 

26 Dec 06

Canadian Press Newsmaker of the Year - The CF Soldier

 

Xmas Day for CF in AFG Windy, Cold

 

Taliban 

 

Vows to Keep Fighting, Even After OP Baaz Tsuka - Troops Back At 'Er

 

More on 

 

NLD Reporter Kept Outta CF Embed in AFG

 

Scott Taylor - Thanks is Enough, No Need for Cheesy Poems -

 

[http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1

 

167087010404&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1112188062581|Opinion - The Deaths are Not in Vain]

 

25 Dec 06

Xmas for Echo Battery -

 

No Break in Ops Tempo -

 

CDS Serves Up 

 

Xmas Dinner

 

[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061223/landmine_afghan_061223/20061224?hub=CTVNewsAt1

 

1|One Injured Soldier's Story]

 

 

Letters from K'Har

 

Wh

 

y PRT Development Work is Having a Bit of a Hard Time

 

Pete Worthington Jumps Into 

 

Media Pissing Match

 

24 Dec 06

Baaz Tsuka Entering Final Phase -

 

Kill or 

 

Be Killed -

 

How 

 

One of the Troops is Spending Xmas on OP - How Another One is Faring in 

 

FOB Wilson - Recent Pix

 

How the Taliban Work -

 

Big Taliban Boss Nailed Near PAK Border

 

Santa, UP! -

 

CDS 

 

In Country -

 

[http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&actionFor=628835&searchText=false&showTex

 

t=all|Not Safe Enough for G-G, but OK for MP's, Comedians and Ottawa News Anchor]

 

23 Dec 06

PAK Told to Stop Helping Taliban

 

CAN PM Willing to Take Heat on AFG Mission -

 

BQ Flip-flopping on AFG 

 

Mission

 

Talib

 

an Squeezed -

 

Developm

 

ent Work Continuing During Push -

 

[http://www.internal-displacement.org/idmc/website/countries.nsf/(httpCountries)/DFADB5842F9262BF802570A7004BA6F0

 

?OpenDocument&count=1000|OP Baaz Tsuka Puts Refugees on the Move]

 

Reporter's First Convoy Run

 

22 Dec 06

CDS Spending Xmas with the Troops

 

More on CAN Into the Fray on OP Baaz 

 

Tsuka - More -

 

ISAF Announces Progress -

 

107's Incoming on 

 

CAN Troops - Taliban Being Pushed Out -

 

ISAF Statement

 

More 155mm Hardware Headed to AFG

 

RCR Celebrates 123rd Anniversary in 

 

K'Har... - ...and Further Afield

 

Mo' CAN Humanitarian Aid for AFG -

 

CIDA News 

 

Release

 

19 Dec 06

Contact - Wait, Out....

 

Taliban 

 

Execute, Behead 26 to Send Message to the Lads

 

Opinion - Now Not the Time 

 

for CAN to GTFO

 

Christie Blatchford with the Troops

 

One Medic's Story

 

[http://www.therecord.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=record/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=116648374

 

0478&call_pageid=1024322085509&col=1024322199564|CAN Diplomat says Mission Worthwhile]

 

Senators Visit the Boys in AFG

 

Taliban Plan Takeover by 2010 -

 

Bollywood Film on Taliban?

 

CBC Writes Back About Their AFG Coverage

 

One Reporter's View of the Coming AFG Spring

 

Helmand Governor Canned

 

18 Dec 06

Charles Company (Again) Into the Breech -

 

Btl 

 

Gp Cdr Briefs the Company -

 

Let's Hope Taliban Know How 

 

to Read -

 

[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061218/offensive_afghanistan_061218/20061218?hub=TopStories

 

|More]

 

Can CAN PM Sell the Mission?

 

Vandoo fm Valcartier Injured in Mine Blast -

 

More -

 

more

 

CAN 

 

CDS:  Fighting Needed Right Now, Reconstruction When Safer

 

OP Falcon Summit Making 

 

Progress - Wpn Cache Spotted -

 

Tankers Waiting to Fight -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11663958112

 

83&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724|More on CAN Prep for Battle]

 

Taliban Using Human Shields

 

F

 

amily of Dead Motorcyclist Who Wouldn't Stop Wants an Apology

 

How US SF Helped Out in OP Medusa

 

Sun Chain Reporter Follows Christie into PRT Coverage

 

Bad Guys in Panjwai Nailed -

 

More

 

US Diplomat 

 

Says Time for NATO To Speak to Taliban

 

How CAN, AFG Work, Learn Together

 

FRA Pulling SF Outta AFG

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116622

 

4211085&call_pageid=1982316913|Course of War Gives Liberals an Out to GTFO]

 

Another Barber Story....

 

17 Dec 06

Brit Reporter Hangs with CAN Troops

 

16 Dec 06

CAN Cabinet Report Says AFG Not Easy -

 

M

 

ore

 

CA

 

N Troopie Injured by Landmine

 

 

More on Latest Offensive in Panjwai - CAN Troops in the 

 

Push, Too -

 

 

And the Left Just Can't Stay Out of It

 

Troops 

 

Rockin' & Rollin' on Time Off

 

CEFCOM Commander:  Mo' Troops=Shorter Fight

 

Christie Blatchford Finds What CAN Troops Are Doing on the Development Front

 

CF Air Force 

 

Faces Risks in Theatre, Too

 

CAN Agrees to Reimburse Wounded Soldiers for Lost Danger 

 

Pay - More - CF 

 

News Release

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11662242115

 

23&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|How Trevor Greene and the Family are Doing] -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11662242115

 

33&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724|Timeline of Greene's Recovery] -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11662242115

 

30&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724|Unwanted Bacteria Unwelcome Guest from AFG] -

 

How Cpl. Chris Klodt is Doing -

 

Remembering Josh Klukie in Thunder Bay

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11662242114

 

08&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467|Mounties Want to Do More in AFG]

 

AFG Poll Shows Folks Support NATO/ISAF, But Want More 

 

Reconstruction Quicker (Full report in Background section) -

 

More Polls Show Some Optimism

 

15 Dec 06

 

More -

 

more -

 

[http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southasia/news/article_1233518.php/NATO_operation_commences_in_southern_Afghanis

 

tan|more] - ISAF Statement -

 

CAN 

 

Hunting Bomb Makers

 

CAN Soldier Newsmaker of the Year

 

CAN Cop Trainer Gets Break During 

 

Home Leave

 

Sun Media Reporter Catches up with 'Barber as 

 

Confidante' Story Line

 

Sun Media Finally Pays Attention to the Reservists 

 

on Base

 

PM Rejects 

 

Change of Mission for AFG, Could Trigger Early Election -

 

[http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20061214/COAFGHAN14/Comment/commen

 

t/comment/2/2/2/|Columnist Thinks Time for Msn Overhaul]

 

[http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1

 

166136614478&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1112188062581|Columnist Explains What CAN is Doing in AFG]

 

CAN Planes Headed to AFG 

 

Stop for Gas in Keflavik

 

14 Dec 06

Fast Air 

 

Nails Panjwai Taliban HQ - Suicide Bomber 

 

in Downtown K'Har - More

 

Senlis Strikes Again - Says Troops Suffering from Lack 

 

of Development Strategy - Report Page

 

Green Party's Solution - Help 'em Grow Something 

 

OTHER Than Poppies - More on the Poppy's Role in Instability

 

PAK Has a Plan for AFG

 

CAN Trooper 

 

Questioned Following Nailing Motorcyclist Who Didn't Stop - Guy Who Didn't Stop 

 

Friend of the Pres

 

Coalition Has Nailed 2K Bad Guys Since 

 

September 1 - Lots Nabbed in 

 

PAK, Too - Big Toll on the Good Guys, Too

 

Muslim CF Red Cap Helps the Lads -

 

[http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20061214/BLATCH14/Columnists/columnists/

 

columnistsNational/1/1/7/|Christie Blatchfors on One Reservist's Last Day in K'Har]

 

Convoys Always a Gamble -

 

One Convoy Boss's Record

 

ANY Excuse for a Hockey Game, Even in K'Har

 

Loads o' Kraft Dinner Not Making It Over to the Troops

 

Human Rights Watch Calls for Truth Commission

 

POL Mil Int Good to Go

 

13 Dec 06

PM 

 

Slams BQ for Threatening Election Over AFG Mission - BQ Boss Says He 

 

Still Supports AFG Mission -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11659638114

 

70&call_pageid=970599119419|Letter - BQ, NDP Naive About Diplomacy-Only Solutions]

 

Looking Into Why Motorcyclist Didn't Stop 

 

When Ordered -

 

More -

 

more

 

[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4a9ee6ee-8a39-11db-ae27-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=7f5f6b12-2f66-11da-8b51-00000e2511c

 

8.html|AFG Pres Says PAK Behind Taliban] - Blames PAK for 

 

Instability - PAK Says Peace Deal NOT With Taliban -

 

US Still Concerned about Border Areas

 

'Policy Options' Magazine Tackles AFG Issue (all .pdf)

Historian Says Rail Line Construction an Answer

Pretty Complicated Mix, Lotsa Misunderstandings on Motive

Int'l Affairs Prof Says This is NATO's Chance to Go Big, or Go Home

CAN Senator Questions PAK's 'Friendship'

Fmr Foreign Svc Officer on the Local Element of Counterinsurgency

 

AFG Min for Rural Rehab & Dev 

 

Thanks CAN for Efforts

 

12 Dec 06

AFG Pres, Int'l Players 

 

in K'Har Talking to Southern Bosses

 

Deadly Road Almost 

 

Fixed

 

A Bit of Life on the OP -

 

There Really IS No Life Like It -

 

Protecting the Convoys

 

More on BQ Threatening Election over AFG Mission -

 

More

 

So Much for Timmy Taliban Talking - New Waziristan Taliban Boss 

 

Stirring Things Up - Taliban Storesmen Clamping Down -

 

You Think ONTARIO'S Smoking Rules Suck! -

 

Calling a Spade a Spade in Waziristan

 

Scott Taylor Takes Broad Swipe at Military vs. Aid $ Spent by CAN

 

DEU Headed South?

 

Brit Cabinet Minister Says Time for NATO to 

 

'Get Real' About Taliban

 

Another 'Barber as Confidante' Story

 

11 Dec 06

BQ Leader Threatens Confidence Vote, Election if AFG 

 

Mission Doesn't Change -

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-12-11T222133Z_01_N11239117_

 

RTRIDST_0_CANADA-AFGHANISTAN-COL.XML|More] -

 

Army.ca discussion

 

Suspect in CAN Diplomat Killing Free?

 

Taliban 

 

to Crank Up Attacks on CAN Troops? -

 

Report Says Taliban Regrouping in 

 

PAK (See 'Background' for link to report) -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11657922095

 

56&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|Taliban Win Not Good Idea...]

 

UN Report - ISAF Wanted, Needed in AFG

 

No CF Desertions from AFG

 

Terrorism, Corruption Slow Down Development

 

Rockets During Comedy Show -

 

More on 

 

Harmonicas for the Troops

 

More 'NATO Missed Its Chance in Riga' Copy

 

10 Dec 06

Still Waiting for Changes to Policy on Danger Pay 

 

once Injured and Outta AFG

 

Xmas Greetings from Troops in 

 

Kandahar

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11657058092

 

16&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795|Time for AFG Study Group?] -

 

Army.ca discussion

 

Blogger Highlights Military, Media 

 

Forum on AFG

 

Time to Talk to Timmy Taliban????? -

 

Is 

 

Timmy Ready to Talk? - More

 

9 Dec 06

CF Exp Command Wants Most Aurora Flight Time for AFG Missions

 

One AFG Politico Doesn't Want IMF Loan

 

'Hockey Night in Kandahar' -

 

Stand Up Comedy in K'Har

 

8 Dec 06

Cpl. Storm's Daughter Youngest Memorial Cross Recipient -

 

Remembering the 'Trademark Grin'

 

Briefing Note - 

 

CAN Barred NLD Reporters from K'Har on Request from NLD Gov't

 

7 Dec 06

New Liberal Leader Proposes AFG 'Marshall Plan'

 

Incoming USA Sec Def Wants NATO to Help Mo' in AFG

 

Big Surprise - Lotsa Young Men in Infantry!

 

Lotsa Wheelchairs Headed to 

 

AFG

 

6 Dec 06

CAN Honours Contribution of Landstuhl 

 

Regional Medical Center

 

CAN 

 

General - Cdns Misinformed about AFG Mission

 

5 Dec 06

Push Against Taliban like Chemotherapy - It 

 

Tastes Bad, but It Works

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11652726110

 

55&call_pageid=968332188492|New Liberal Leader to Push Tories Hard on AFG Mission]

 

[http://www.therecord.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=record/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=116527261

 

4313&call_pageid=1024322168441&col=1024322596091|Leftie Pipes Up About CAN Mission]

 

 

4 Dec 06

Next Gang of Vandoos On Their Way

 

Remembering the Fallen in Smaller Communities

 

Fighting the Taliban, and Their Messaging

 

 

More

 

- more

 

70-80 Bad Guys (Reportedly) Nailed in Helmand -

 

More

 

- more

 

Taliban Getting Closer to Kabul

 

BBC - 'Job Half Done' -

 

Army.ca discussion

 

3 Dec 06

Three ISAF 

 

Troops Injured in Suicide Bomber Blast near K'Har -

 

Eight Killed -

 

More

 

AFG Rights 

 

Group:  Lotsa Suicides, Attempted Suicides in K'Har Area

 

Opinion:  Is NATO Up to the Fight?

 

Helmand Truce w/Taliban Splitting AFG Gov't, People -

 

More -

 

NY Times Login, if needed

 

Another Way to Say Thanks

 

2 Dec 06

Leopards, UP!

 

How the Bn 'Lost Its Soul' When RSM Killed This Week -

 

Army.ca discussion -

 

NCO's Hit Hard

 

Cabbie Shoulda Stopped

 

Some Reasons for Mainstream 

 

Media Derailing AFG Story - Army.ca discussion

 

Dutch Approach:  Walk Softly, Talk to the Dark Side? -

 

Army.ca discussion

 

S

 

coop:  CTV Finds Taliban DVD in K'Har!

 

'NATO's failure portends a wider war' -

 

Problem

 

s in AFG not JUST NATO's Fault -

 

'A chance or a trap for NATO?' -

 

Human Rights Watch's Hopes from Riga

 

USA White House Says LOTS More Opium Coming Outta 

 

AFG

 

1 Dec 06

 

Latest Fallen Arriving in Canada 6pm EST Friday -

 

BG Commander Touched More than Usual 

 

by Latest Deaths - More

 

More on Good Work Being Done by CAN in AFG

 

Time on Taliban's Side

 

Analysis - Why So Hard to Get Mo' Troops in AFG? -

 

POL Steps up to the Plate -

 

More -

 

Even DEU Media Say Not Much Happened at Summit -

 

More on Taliban Saying 

 

'Bring it On!' -

 

Anoth

 

er Way of Saying the Same Thing

 

Editorial:

 

'More 

 

Words than Help' - 'Mission partly accomplished' -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11649270105

 

22&call_pageid=970599119419|'NATO's wavering gives Taliban hope'] -

 

World Socialists' Take on Riga

 

Left Running Away with 'Aid $ to Taliban' Story -

 

More

 

GBR Moving Tps in BIH to Free Up More for AFG

 

30 Nov 06

 

CDS:  CAN Still Doing 'Heavy Lifting' -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116484

 

0611295&call_pageid=970599119419|more] -

 

[http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-30T161041Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJO

 

NC_0_India-278401-1.xml&archived=False|Taliban Scoffing at NATO Troop 'Increase'] -

 

No Move on National Caveats -

 

Calling NATO's Move What it Is -

 

CAN PM Speech Text

 

Editorials: We Can't Fight 

 

Alone - NATO Has Obligation to CAN, Too

 

Another Convoy Bombing, No Injuries

 

Taliban Disembowel, Dismember Teacher Trying to Teach Girls

 

- More -

 

US Aid $ Ending up in Taliban Hands in 

 

this Area?

 

[http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2006-11-29T114921Z_01_NOA942457_RTR

 

UKOC_0_AFGHAN-BOMBER.xml|One Bomber's Story]

 

Why Aren't We Hearing 

 

About the GOOD News from AFG?

 

More on Mourning the Latest Fallen -

 

Pembroke 

 

Daily Observer -

 

Collingwood 

 

Enterprise Bulletin -

 

Owen Sound 

 

Sun Times

---

NATO Riga Summit Highlights

 

Riga Summit Declaration Text -

 

Comprehensive Political Guidance

 

SOM

 

E Reinforcements Coming... -

 

...But Only Some, 

 

Maybe - More

 

NATO Tone Upbeat -

 

More

 

[http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2006/november/30/muslim_world_news/nato_papers_over_afghan_troop_deployment_di

 

scord.html|Discord 'Papered Over'] -

 

[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4830d196-7fd6-11db-a3be-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=7f5f6b12-2f66-11da-8b51-00000e2511c

 

8.html|More] - more

 

DEU Still Resisting Pressure to Move Tps to AFG South -

 

Spain Will Help (Only in Emergencies) -

 

SWE Condsidering Sending (A Few) More Troops

 

 

More on AFG Proving NATO's Long-Term Relevance -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116484

 

0611281&call_pageid=970599119419|NATO Losing Cred]

 

Lew Mac Says LOTS More Troops Needed in Country

---

 

More on Tim Horton's K'Har 

 

Franchise Not Being Quite So Subsidized

 

29 Nov 06

Remembering RSM Girouard, Cpl. Storm -

 

More -

 

more - more -

 

Liberal Party of Canada Statement on Latest Deaths -

 

New Democratic Party Statement on Latest Deaths

 

CAN 

 

Troop Slightly Injured in Another Attempted Suicide Bombing Attack

 

Compromise Possible on NATO Tps Fighting in AFG 

 

South? - Or Are They Split on Mo' Troops for Combat? -

 

Globe & Mail -

 

CNN -

 

Agence France Presse -

 

Reuters -

 

Getting Ready for Last Day of Conference

 

AFG 

 

Fate Tied to NATO

 

A Bit of 

 

Entertainment from Home

 

How Water Well Drilling is Progressing in AFG (333KB .pdf)

 

28 Nov 06

 

- GG Statement -

 

PM Statement -

 

CAN Def Min Statement -

 

Army.gc.ca Story

 

 

Offer TINY Concessions on Fighting in AFG South -

 

[http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-28T224411Z_01_L27793177_RTRU

 

KOC_0_UK-NATO-SUMMIT.xml&WTmodLoc=HP-C3-World-5|More] -

 

No Mo' Troops from Spain -

 

DEU Resists 'any 

 

permanently expanded presence' - NATO Sec Gen Lashes Out -

 

Dubya, Too

 

Attacks 

 

Continue, Even After Fatal Ones

 

UN Says Opium Still a Big Problem -

 

It'll Take 20 Years to Deal With -

 

'Afghanistan's Drug Industry - Structure, Functioning, 

 

Dynamics, and Implications for Counter-Narcotics Policy', UN Office on Drugs and Crime Report, 28 Nov 06

 

[http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/webapp/sitepages/printable.asp?paper=www.niagarafallsreview.ca&contentID=290188&ann

 

ewspapername=Niagara+Falls+Review|It Seems Timmy's in K'Har ISN'T Going to be Subsidized After All]

 

Two Cdns Killed - Canadian Press -

 

Globe & Mail -

 

Globe Permalink -

 

Can 

 

West News Service - Sun Media -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11646678099

 

66&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|Canadian Press, via Toronto Star]

 

Christie 

 

Blatchford:  CAN Troops NOT There to Kill Everything! - Permalink

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11646678106

 

82&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|CAN PM Lobbies for Mo' Help as Troops Mourn] -

 

CAN, NLD 

 

PMs Issue Joint Statement - Permalink to Statement -

 

NATO Eyeing 2008 Handover to AFG Security Forces?

 

- AFG 'Mission Possible' -

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-28T102529Z_01_L26756607_RTRI

 

DST_0_NEWS-NATO-SUMMIT-COL.XML&archived=False|Dubya Begging for Mo' Troops]

 

Time for a Special Envoy to Get it All Together?

 

The Big NATO Meeting Begins Today -

 

Push to 'Wholeheartedly' Support Mission -

 

Dubya in Weak Position to Push?

 

- FRA Pres Says NATO Should Bear More Burden

 

Aid Groups Tell NATO 

 

They Just Want to Do Their Job -

 

Amnesty Calls for 

 

Human Rights Tribunal Against ISAF

 

More Beer for the Troops

 

Not Many Girls Making it to AFG High 

 

School - 'Free, Quality Education for Every 

 

Afghan Child', Oxfam Report, Nov 06 - Oxfam News 

 

Release

 

27 Nov 06

Latest on Two Canadians Killed -

 

[http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-27T234200Z_01_ISL305159

 

_RTRUKOC_0_US-AFGHAN-VIOLENCE.xml|Reuters, 271842EST Nov 06]

 

Globe & Mail Talks to the Bad Guys -

 

What the Globe Would NEVER Print -

 

Army.ca Discussion

 

Suicide Bomber Hits Convoy, Kills Two Canadians -

 

[http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-27T170931Z_01_ISL305159_RTRU

 

KOC_0_US-AFGHAN-VIOLENCE.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C2-NextArticle-1|Reuters, 1317EST] -

 

CanWest News Service, 

 

1320EST - Associated Press, via Bloomberg -

 

[http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-27T085557Z_01_ISL305159_RTRU

 

KOC_0_US-AFGHAN-VIOLENCE.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C2-NextArticle-1|Reuters] -

 

Canadian Press -

 

CT

 

V.ca - CBC.ca -

 

Condolences @ Army.ca -

 

The Tragic Stats to Date, by Country (Reuters) -

 

The List, Updated (Canadian Press)

 

CAN Troops Know the Route Well...

 

Media Focus on Combat Skews Perceptions of AFG Mission

 

Fear Not the Driver 

 

for CAN Troops at the Sharp End

 

One Injured Member's Prep for Back to Work

 

CAN, NLD 

 

to Gang Up on Other NATO Countries over Caveats at Summit -

 

Pressure to Lift Combat Restrictions on Some NATO Forces

 

National Caveats/Restrictions Fact Box

 

NATO Facing Major Nexus in AFG -

 

More - more -

 

Time for EU to Step Up to Plate?

 

26 Nov 06

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-11-26T135202Z_01_ISL305159_R

 

TRIDST_0_CANADA-AFGHAN-VIOLENCE-COL.XML&archived=False|Taliban Continue to Die]

 

 

CF for Use at K'Har PRT

 

PRT Medical Team Tours Area - More Photos from CF Combat Camera

 

Army.ca - Why Not Bring 106mm 

 

Recoiless Rifle Back for AFG?

 

 

AUS Cdo Gets Medal for Helping CAN Troops Under Fire -

 

More -

 

News Release

 

One CF Nurse's Story

 

CAN Cop Says They May Be Helping Train 'Bad 

 

Guys'

 

Getting Mo' NATO Troops to Fight Not Likely? -

 

Maybe FRA Will Enter the Breech... -

 

[http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/November/theworld_November809.xml§io

 

n=theworld&col=|Dubya Going to Push Hard at Riga Summit] - NATO 

 

Mission Big Talking Point in Riga - More

 

Worries About Piss Poor Brit Kit -

 

More - more

 

PAK Governor Suggests Peace Deal Between Taliban, Brits

 

[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061125/barber_kandahar_061125/20061125?hub=CTVNewsAt1

 

1|Civvy Barber Cutting CF Hair Has Close Call During 'House Call'] -

 

CF Sappers 

 

'Adopt' Donkey

 

25 Nov 06

 

One Unlucky CF Gunner...

 

More on Next ROTO Drug Testing

 

Bloc 

 

Quebecois:  GTFO, but 'With Honour' - Army.ca 

 

Discussion

 

Caveats Pulled for 'Emergency' 

 

Situations? - DEU Still Staying Outta 

 

the Fight in the South - DEU Media Kicks Off Piece on 

 

Caveats with Dead CAN Trooper - CBC Reporter 

 

Fleshes Out 'Caveats 101'

 

Grunts in the Mist:  AB Anthropologist Talks of Combat

 

How Can You Be a Resister 

 

When You Weren't Being Asked to Go?

 

CAN For Min Says 

 

PAK Not Doing Enough to Stop Taliban

 

More on Costs of Mission

 

Harmonicas Headed to K'Har -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11644098114

 

06&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467|More]

 

24 Nov 06

Embed on Foot Patrol with CAN Troops

 

CF Medics Doing Hard Work, Too -

 

[http://www.intelligencer.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=287813&catname=Local+News&classif=News+%2D+L

 

ocal|One Returning Reservist's View]

 

Close Call, but No Injuries, in Panjwai

 

How Much CAN Mission in AFG Might 

 

Cost

 

NATO to Talk Troop Numbers in AFG at 

 

Summit - National 

 

Caveats, Too - Permalink to G&M article -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116432

 

2250284&call_pageid=968256290204|Opinion: CAN Must Speak Up at Summit] -

 

NATO Sec Gen Wants DEU To Step Up to the Plate

 

One Outta Twenty in Next ROTO 

 

Testing Positive for Drugs??? - Permalink

 

CAN Envoy to AFG Says He 

 

Sees Progress - Response 

 

to This Article

 

AFG Mil 

 

Looking for More Stuff to Help CAN Kill Taliban

 

Why the Taliban May be 

 

Coming Back

 

DEU, 

 

NATO Head-to-head Over Caveats

 

CAN Dev Aid Agency Says CAN 

 

Making a Difference - Three Year Plan for Rebuilding K'Har -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11642358128

 

49&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724|More on Security Threatening Development]

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11642358128

 

67&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467|More on Aid Groups Dissing Military Approach as Wrong]

 

Clergy Getting Work-Up's Too

 

23 Nov 06

Digging 

 

In, Quieting Down a Bit -

 

[http://sg.f356.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=6480_7013860_10857_1536_1911_0_35345_5163_1429985221&I

 

dx=0&YY=49715&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&inc=25&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=&head=&box=Inbox|More,

 

from Globe & Mail Embed] - (Permalink)

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116414

 

9416515&call_pageid=968256290204|Column: If 'Ink Spots' Don't Work, What Else Will?]

 

Lew Mac Says LOTS More Troops Needed, Now, to Help -

 

Mo' Calls for Mo' Help

 

Analysis:  Why Caveats are Bad

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116414

 

9416546&call_pageid=968256290204|Still With the Complaints About Military Giving Out Aid]

 

22 Nov 06

 

Mine Blast -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11641071101

 

54&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724|More] -

 

more

 

 

NATO Says Violence 

 

Calming Down a Bit

 

Next ROTO Reservists Good to Go

 

CAN Mil Cdr in AFG Gets More 

 

Development Money

 

DEU Not Sending Troops South -

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-22T104629Z_01_L22905723_RTRI

 

DST_0_NEWS-AFGHAN-GERMANY-COL.XML|More] -

 

more

 

CAN PRT Does Village Clinic Work

 

Man On the Ground's Guide to Winning 

 

Hearts, Minds

 

MORE Calls to Drop Caveats (This Time from USA) -

 

Mo' Troops, Too -

 

More

 

Polio Shots for 

 

the Kids in the South - HERE'S Why Troops Still Needed

 

21 Nov 06

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11640630104

 

49&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467|CF Trying to Lure Back Spec Operators Now in PMCs] -

 

More -

 

more

 

[http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Americas&month=November2006

 

&file=World_News2006112124950.xml|Must CAN Choose Olympic Security or AFG Mission?] -

 

More -

 

[http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-21T031450Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJO

 

NC_0_India-277120-1.xml&archived=False|more] -

 

Gov\

 

't Not Worried About Having to Choose -

 

[http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&DocId=2517613#SO

 

B-1779480|Question Period Exchange, 20 Nov 06]

 

Work on 'Ambush Alley' Held 

 

Back Because of Violence -

 

AFG 

 

Rebuild Frustrating

 

NATO Apologizes for Civvy Cas, but No 

 

Signs of NATO Troops Executing Teen

 

AFG Tempo of Ops May Mean Civvies, Reservists Will Train 

 

More Troops

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116380

 

3813556&call_pageid=968256290204|Editorial - Time to Sharpen Focus of Debate to What CAN Troops Should be Doing]

 

-

 

[http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1

 

164063011205&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1112188062581|Why We're There] -

 

CAN Should be Proud

 

Time for DEU to Learn How to Kill in AFG?

 

AFG Def Min 

 

Says Training His Troops Can be Accelerated

 

One of the Injured Returns to a Hero's Welcome

 

20 Nov 06

Winter 

 

Offensive Planned Against Taliban

 

Taliban Jack Still Wants CAN Troops Outta AFG

 

UK's Blair Calls for Mo' Troops -

 

'Some soldiers in Afghanistan drink beer, the others risk their 

 

lives.' -

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-20T113012Z_01_SP251167_RTRID

 

ST_0_NEWS-AFGHAN-BRITAIN-COL.XML|Says AFG 'Key to World Security']

 

NATO Parliamentary Boss 

 

Worries About No Sense of Political Urgency over AFG

 

How Dogs are Helping the Troops in K'Har

 

Lotsa 

 

Mecca-Bound Traffic around K'Har Air Field

 

19 Nov 06

Mission Cost Climbing to (Maybe) $10B?

 

 

CAN Troops Wants Other NATO Troops to Fight, Too -

 

More

 

AFG Pres 

 

Pushes for More Development, Reconstruction - Says Violence, 

 

Instability Threatening South Asian Prosperity

 

18 Nov 06

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116385

 

2287213&call_pageid=968332188492|More Talk About 'No More Than One Tour per Troopie']

 

Liberal Leadership Hopeful Says Time to Talk to Taliban

 

 

[http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Pakistan+%26+Sub-Continent&mo

 

nth=November2006&file=World_News2006111823418.xml|NATO Sec Gen Calls for End to National Caveats] -

 

Globe & Mail -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968350116467&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1163803813989&call_pageid=968332188774|Toronto Star] -

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-11-17T185150Z_01_N17343340_

 

RTRIDST_0_CANADA-NATO-CANADA-COL.XML|Reuters] -

 

KnoxNews.com -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964

 

505&cid=1163760487547&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_Canada&call_pageid=968332188774&call_pagepath=Ne

 

ws/Canada|Calls for Clearer Mission View, Too]

 

CAN Def 

 

Min Defends AFG Mission in Quebec City -

 

More

 

- NDP MP Calls for CAN Def Min to Stop in Halifax to Sell AFG Mission

 

UN Boss in AFG Says NATO Can't Win Just by 

 

Fighting - Some Feel the Fight is Worth It -

 

Comment:  EU Should Put Up, or Shut 

 

Up, in AFG

 

Aid Group 

 

Says CAN 'Lost Its Way' in AFG -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968350116467&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1163803814025&call_pageid=968332188774|Brit MP Calls for CAN to GTFO]

 

London Students Do TOO Good a Job Collecting 

 

Goodies for the Troops

 

17 Nov 06

An Overview of 

 

Casualties, Who's Where, and Operational Caveats - Permalink

 

More USA Fast Air in AFG (Including 

 

Helping CAN Troops)

 

CAN, NLD, GBR Focus of Latest Al Queda Report on AFG -

 

Report Summary -

 

Newer AQ Report 

 

Suggests some Taliban Successes

 

Def Min in Toronto:  Hoping Cas #'s Drop 

 

During Winter - In Calgary:  Progress Being 

 

Made

 

CAN Aid Minister Discusses Contribution to 

 

AFG - CAN Helps Vitaminize/Mineralize 

 

AFG Kids

 

Survey in AFG Shows People Happier than With Taliban 

 

in Charge

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-17T103436Z_01_L16899001_RTRI

 

DST_0_NEWS-NATO-AFGHAN-COL.XML|NATO Meeting to Ask World to Rething AFG Approach]

 

[http://www.epicos.com/epicos/portal/media-type/html/user/anon/page/default.psml/js_peid/P-10a27bad0ac-10062/template/co

 

ntentLogo?articleid=66587|NLD Politico Says NATO Has to Step Up To the Plate in AFG] -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11636310193

 

29&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467|More] -

 

NATO Report: 'Afghanistan and the Future of the Alliance'

 

[http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/11/17/worldupdates/2006-11-17T004626Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-2

 

76574-1&sec=worldupdates|NLD Mil Opposes Hard-Push Approach in AFG?]

 

Rain a Problem, in AFG

 

Head of USA DIA Expects Violence to Double in Coming Year -

 

Statement to Senate Armed Services 

 

Committee (88KB .pdf)

 

16 Nov 06

CF Eyes Buying More Arty for AFG -

 

USMC M-777 Site

 

Afghan Army 

 

Good Fighters, but Not Good Soldiers Just Yet - Permalink

 

CF Def Min Says Lack of Taliban Bosses 

 

Explains Lull in Action - Better Messaging Needed

 

Brit 

 

Labour MP Says NATO Allies Letting Canada Down in AFG

 

SOMEONE Should Take Heat over Visits (but Maybe Not CF?)

 

No Ice for Hockey in K'Har?  No Problem

 

Opinion:  

 

No Good End for ANYONE in AFG?

 

15 Nov 06

New AFG South Cdr Ready to Talk to Taliban??? -

 

More -

 

UN, NLD Cdr of AFG South Disagree on Progress Made So Far

 

Def Min Explains Why CAN in AFG to 

 

Vancouver Board of Trade - More - Opinion 

 

- Def Min Needs Stronger Messaging

 

[http://www.epicos.com/epicos/portal/media-type/html/user/anon/page/default.psml/js_panename/News+Information+Article+V

 

iew;jsessionid=37B94425F4DE17CBE614D43F3BFF3D0F.tomcat5?articleid=66587&showfull=false|More Warnings of

 

Failure of Mo' Troops Not Sent] - Slovak Troops Moving to K'Har 

 

(Maybe) - Norwegian Politician says NOR SF Should Go, 

 

Too

 

World Food 

 

Pgm Cranking Up Help in AFG South -

 

WF

 

P Ops in AFG - What's Needed for 2006 (55KB .pdf)

 

UN Secur Council Team Hears Security, Opium 

 

Big Issues Still - K'Har Governor:  'Miscreants' Responsible for Trouble

 

14 Nov 06

AFG Elders Tell UN Commission They're 

 

Not Seeing Progress - More

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11631990116

 

61&call_pageid=1140433364397&col=1140433364286|CFB Trenton Learning Repatriation of Fallen Routine Too Well] -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11631990116

 

82&call_pageid=1140433364397&col=1140433364286|More of the Process of Bringing the Fallen Home]

 

 

-

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11634582144

 

88&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724|More]

 

Still MORE Calls for Mo' Troops in AFG -

 

DEU Says 'Nein' to Moving Troops to AFG Hot 

 

Spots

 

Opinion: CAN in AFG Because of 

 

UN, Not US

 

One of the Injured on OP Medusa Remembers -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11630696471

 

33&call_pageid=1140433364397&col=1140433364286|Another of the Injured Remembers]

 

Political Pissing Match Continues on Senate Committee Non-Trip 

 

to AFG

 

13 Nov 06

 

for G-G Visit to Troops in AFG

 

[http://www.jfcbs.nato.int/ISAF/Update/Press_Releases/newsrelease/2006/Release_13Nov06_279.htm?tsfsg=267680c2c3f44

 

c58980a6220b9c54a34|K'Har PRT Fixes Up Panjwai School]

 

Report:  Insurgent Attacks WAY Up

 

CAN Troops Helping AFG Troops Deal with Wpn, Other 

 

Deficiencies

 

HERE'S One Reason the Troops are Fighting....

 

Anti-Soviet Fighter Says More AFGs Should Speak Out Against 

 

Taliban

 

Not a Good Day for Taliban

 

12 Nov 06

CF 

 

Stripping Phalanx Systems from Ships to Send to AFG? - MK 

 

15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS)

 

AFG Official 

 

Says CAN Troops'll Be Needed WAY Past 2009

 

[http://www.therecord.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=record/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=116319901

 

5480&call_pageid=1024321927354&col=1024322421753|One of the Injured Remembers the Fallen, Playing the Pipes] -

 

Remembe

 

ring Jamie Murphy - How One Medic Made a Difference, Even After his 

 

Injuries - More

 

UN Security Council Team in Country Assessing Security

 

Taliban Talking Tactics (Safe in PAK) -

 

PAK Strategy in Border Zones Falling Apart?

 

AFG Pres Condemns Suicide Bombers Nailing PAK 

 

Military

 

11 Nov 06

 

Why Some 

 

of the Troops Went

 

 

[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061111/remembrance_afghan_061111/20061111?hub=TopStories

 

|Remembering in AFG] -

 

More -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964

 

505&cid=1163247908955&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News

 

/News|more] -

 

more

 

 

Three Silver Cross Mothers, Not One -

 

Permalink - Cpl. Boneca's High School 

 

Remembers - Permalink - Remembering 

 

First Nation Fallen - The 

 

Guilt of One Left Behind -

 

Friends of 

 

the Fallen Meet Family of the Fallen -

 

[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061110/remembranceday_tower_061111/20061110?hub=Canada

 

|One Medal Winner Remembers Fallen Best Friend] -

 

Plaque Unveiled -

 

Truro Suffering -

 

Where the Poppies Still Grow -

 

Remembering the Wounded, Too

 

AQ Telling Bad Boys to GTFO AFG? -

 

More

 

Ex-Pres 

 

Clinton Says CAN Should Stay the Course in AFG

 

ITA Wants Int'l Review of AFG Work, but Isn't 

 

GTFO'ing

 

Senate Committee 

 

Didn't Do Anything Wrong on Way to K'Har - Demanding 

 

Apology

 

New NLD Boss Says CAN Work Has Made it Easier for 

 

Development

 

[http://www.cfr.org/publication/11984/mood_sours_in_afghanistan.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fpublication_list%3Ft

 

ype%3Ddaily_analysis|Mood Souring in AFG]

 

Karzai Wants Pashtuns on 

 

BOTH Sides of Border to Play Nice

 

Report on How Canada Has 

 

'Abandoned Peacekeeping' - 'Marching Orders' (419KB

 

.pdf)

 

10 Nov 06

Pte. Josh Klukie's Alum Remember Him in Art -

 

Permalink

 

CAN Troops Help Boy Injured in Blast

 

Uphill Push for CAN, But Change Coming

 

Excali

 

bur GPS Arty Shells, Coming to AFG - Raytheon's Excalibur Profile

 

CF Looking into Failed Drug Tests on Next ROTO

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11631126099

 

61&call_pageid=970599119419|Who Adds Those Names to CAN's Official Book of Rememberance?]

 

Bill Clinton Tells Kitchener, ON Audience AFG 

 

Mission Worthwhile

 

CBC/Environics Poll Alleges Dropping 

 

Support - Q&A @ Environics page -

 

Canadian 

 

Press - Associated Press -

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-09T015031Z_01_N08286766_RTRI

 

DST_0_NEWS-POLITICS-POLL-COL.XML|Reuters] -

 

Army.ca Discussion

 

CAN Gen Will Remember the Dead of His Pers Protection Tm

 

Karzai Interview: 'The

 

interests of Afghanistan lie in a progressive, stable Pakistan. And the interests of Pakistan are in a stable and progressive

 

Afghanistan.'

 

9 Nov 06

Thunder Bay Reservist Back from K'Har Tells Students His Story (1.12MB

 

.pdf) - Chronicle-Journal link- Permalink

 

How One CF Medic is Coping

 

Nova Scotia Legislature Endorses AFG Mission -

 

Scroll to Res'n 733 in NS Legislature

 

8 Nov 06

[http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-08T070307Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJO

 

NC_0_India-275396-1.xml&archived=False|CAN Def Min Says Taliban's Back Broken] -

 

Meanwhile, Taliban Issues New 

 

Wng to CAN Troops

 

Opinion - Time for 

 

New Approach to AFG Mission?

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11629398149

 

54&call_pageid=968332188492|Big Bill to Ship Leopards Over]

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116285

 

3414178&call_pageid=968332188774|Returning CAN General Says We Should be Proud of the Work] -

 

Applauds Public Support of Troops

 

More Poppies Moving Because of Awareness of AFG 

 

Fight

 

More on Schools Reopening in AFG 

 

South

 

7 Nov 06

USA SF Trooper Killed in Bombing 

 

Near Panjwai -

 

Initial 

 

Reports - More -

 

more -

 

more- more -

 

[http://www.jfcbs.nato.int/ISAF/Update/Press_Releases/newsrelease/2006/Release_07Nov06_266.htm?tsfsg=499f710de7aef

 

dfd0d972481ada40f17|ISAF Statement] - Army.ca Discussion

 

New Wikipedia Listing on Battle(s) of Panjwai

 

Tough Go Training AFG Military, but Necessary

 

[http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=November&x=20061106151621MVyelwarC0.

 

1369745|NATO Pushes More Development...] - ...but NGO's Worry about Backlash -

 

[http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/November/subcontinent_November204.xml

 

§ion=subcontinent&col=|Backlash Already Begun?]

 

6 Nov 06

CAN Def Min Says They're 'Scrambling' for Troops for 

 

AFG

 

[http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/capital_van_isl/story.html?id=70782668-5abf-495c-8e2d-fa37f66139df&

 

k=83914|Women, Including CF Members, Taliban Targets in AFG]

 

Schools Reopen in Panjwai

 

Opinion - Let's Figure Out What 

 

We Can Do, and DO IT, Before Leaving

 

CF Paid $16.5M to Demob AFG Troops -

 

Wikipedia:  Program

 

Handing Prisoners Over to AFG=No 

 

NATO System of Getting Int from Them

 

NATO Sec Gen Wants Shakeup - EU To Train Cops, US to Train 

 

Mil - More -

 

more

 

Report:  No Quick Fixes

 

5 Nov 06

CAN General Frustrated AFG Troops Can't Help 

 

CAN Troops Much - More

 

Another General 

 

Expects Tough Talk at NATO Table

 

 

Ipsos-Rei

 

d Poll Says CAN Support for AFG Dropping

 

Turks Opening Up New PRT in Wardak

 

AFG Drug Problem Not Easy to Solve

 

Looking 

 

for Ways to Share Donations with Troops, AFG

 

4 Nov 06

Body Counts:  Numbers, But Not the ONLY Indicator

 

Another CAN 

 

General Predicts a Decade of Work in AFG

 

AFG Envoy to 

 

CAN - Mission Crucial

 

Taliban Moving the Show to Urban Areas? -

 

Gonna Hit Europe, Too

 

If You Can't Get a Story with 

 

Puppies.....

 

And the World Socialists HAVE TO Chime In, Don't They?

 

3 Nov 06

2RCR CO - Positive Drug Test=No Go to 

 

AFG Next ROTO

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=969483191630&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1162507816738&call_pageid=968867495754|CBC Radio One Does Radio Drama on AFG Mission Starting 3 Nov

 

06]

 

Even Saturday Night Live Creator Supports CAN's 

 

AFG Mission

 

Dealing with the Psychological Pain Back at 

 

Home

 

Editorial - 

 

Let's Not Forget History

 

[http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-03T003008Z_01_N02203704_RTRU

 

KOC_0_US-AFGHANISTAN-TALIBAN.xml&WTmodLoc=IntNewsHome_C1_%5bFeed%5d-2|Success Linked to

 

Successful Reform]

 

2 Nov 06

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968350060724&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1162421411330&call_pageid=968332188854|Progress Seen as CAN-NLD Handover Proceeds]

 

Next ROTO Thinned

 

CF Auroras to Help Collect Int Over AFG?

 

CF Team Starting Radio Kandahar to Spread the Message

 

More on Taliban Refusing to Talk Peace

 

UN Calls for 

 

Strengthening Disarmament Process Following Warlord Clashes

 

NATO Bosses Say K'Har 

 

Getting Better for Development, Investment

 

Joint AFG-NATO Op to Press Taliban Thru Winter

 

NATO Boss Says Time for More EU, UN Involvement in AFG

 

[http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&actionFor=619562&searchText=false&showTex

 

t=all|Stars Headed to K'Har]

 

1 Nov 06

 

Hands Over to NLD in AFG South - More

 

AFG Army Cdrs Want Eqpt

 

Hard At 'Er in Kandahar 

 

Area

 

CAN Def Min Says  No Plans for 

 

CF-18's in AFG

 

NATO Mil Boss Says CAN 

 

Tested, CAN Did Great

 

Preparing for 

 

AFG in AB

 

What the 

 

CAN Taxpayer is Paying for Timmie's in K'Har

 

Sorting Out Who's Who in Talibanville

 

'Warfighters, Not Missionaries - The origins of the 

 

three-block war', Jon Elmer, Dominionpaper.ca, viewed 1 Nov 06.

 

31 Oct 06

Frie

 

ndly Fire Injured Officer Back In the Fight

 

Vando

 

os On the Way -

 

More

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116224

 

8614282&call_pageid=968332188492|CF-18's Standing By for NATO, Could End Up in AFG?]

 

CAN Commander Says We Can Fight 'em in AFG, or We Can Fight 'em at Home

 

Mo' $ Sought for AFG Mission -

 

More -

 

Supplementary Estimates 'A', 27 Oct 06 (1.1MB .pdf)

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116224

 

8614277&call_pageid=970599119419|Military Spouse Has Bone to Pick with Taliban Jack Layton]

 

Father of Fallen Says CAN Should Play AFG Mediator

 

Sun Chain Papers Do \\"AFG Mission 

 

Support on the Street\\" Tests - Toronto - Winnipeg -

 

Ottawa -

 

Edmonton-

 

London -

 

Calgary

 

How the War is 

 

Changing CF Troops

 

One Column's View of CAN's So-Called 'War Resister' -

 

Army.ca Discussion

 

Fmr 

 

CAN For Min Says NATO is Toast if Mo' Troops Aren't Moved to AFG South

 

CAN Def 'Analyst' Compares IRQ to AFG

 

Village Elders 

 

Turn Down School for Girls to Avoid Taliban Retribution

 

30 Oct 06

Columnist - Not Enough Attention Paid to AFG Valour Medals Announced -

 

Taliban Doesn't Need Own PR Bureau

 

CF Hercs Flyin' Low, Heavy & Slow in AFG

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11621622100

 

86&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467|The CF Amulet Checking for Radiation]

 

CAN Academic in 

 

AFG Says Troops Aren't Winning Hearts and Minds -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11619858100

 

57&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795|Opinion - If We Can Ship Tanks, Can't We Ship More Aid?]

 

Taliban Analysis 

 

Says CAN will GTFO, or Face Own 9-11

 

CAN Prepares to Hand Over Command of AFG South to 

 

NLD General - More -

 

What General Ton van Loon was Doing in '99

 

CAN For Affairs Buying Stuff for AFG Cops

 

USA Twisting FRA, ITA, DEU, ESP Arms to Get 

 

Troops into the Fight

 

29 Oct 06

Survey Says Canadians Do Support 

 

the Fight in AFG - Permalink

 

Taliban Plans to Fight Thru Winter, Cut Off Kabul -

 

Turns Down Offer for Peace Talks with Karzai -

 

Some Taliban Were Apparently Anxious to Talk

 

NATO Apologizes for Civvy Deaths -

 

Not Good Enough for World Socialists

 

Soviet 

 

AFG Vets Say It's Unwinnable

 

Opinion - Have We Short-changed AFG?

 

In Case You Need Ammo On What the Taliban is Like for Women

 

28 Oct 06

 

AFG, Get Own 9-11 -

 

Msn Getting Harder to 

 

Sell

 

Media Coverage of First Valour Medals Outta AFG -

 

Canadian Press -

 

CBC Online -

 

CTV.ca

 

- Calgary Sun -

 

Ottawa 

 

Citizen - Halifax Chronicle-Herald

 

Fast Air Makes CF Troops Sleep Better at Night

 

Remembering One of the CF Fallen -

 

Counterpoint, From a Colleague

 

[http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=aBXaza0sa2qzpa4a3Qa6qa.axamal&folder=aBDasaian729&Name

 

=Business&sImageFileName=&dtSiteDate=20061028|Buyin' Local in AFG]

 

More on Taliban Using Human Shields -

 

NATO Confirms Civvy 

 

Deaths - Human Rights Group Want 

 

NATO to Prevent Civvy Deaths

 

27 Oct 06

 

Citation Details -

 

MSM's, Mentioned in Dispatches As Well -

 

Background on the Medals -

 

CDS Statement -

 

PM, Def Min Congratulate Troops (On Party Web Page?) -

 

Army.ca on awards -

 

Army.ca on Why PM Congrats on Party Web Page

 

The Story of 

 

Another of the Injured in Friendly Fire Incident

 

One of Those Who Help the Dead Coming Home

 

 

[http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/October/subcontinent_October989.xml&sec

 

tion=subcontinent&col=|Taliban Using Human Shields] -

 

More -

 

NATO Looking into Civvy Deaths -

 

[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3b89cc6c-6529-11db-90fd-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=4e612cca-6707-11da-a650-0000779e23

 

40.html|NATO Denies It's Dropping the Ball]

 

Talban Handpicking its Politician Targets -

 

Using More Homicide 

 

Bombers

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-10-27T094822Z_01_SP294574_RTRID

 

ST_0_NEWS-AFGHAN-COL.XML|Taliban Accuses NATO of 'Genocide']

 

US Mil Boss in AFG Calls for Patience in 

 

Mission

 

And We Thought WE Had Crappy Equipment!

 

Even Orphanage Run Risky -

 

More from Canadian Press

 

Anti-War Protesters to Gather in Halifax Saturday

 

26 Oct 06

What's the Deal with High Positive Rate on Drug Tests with Next 

 

ROTO? -

 

[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061025/afghanistan_drug_test_061025/20061025?hub=CTVNew

 

sAt11|Even WILDER Speculation About Failure Rates]

 

Truckers? -

 

Or Maybe 

 

More to Re-Roling? -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968350060724&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1161814212710&call_pageid=968332188854|How About Mandatory Inf Duty On Enrollment?]

 

Are They Actually Preparing to Send CF Sea Kings 

 

to K'Har? -

 

More

 

Calling Up Mo' Leopard Spares

 

Opinion:  We Owe It to AFG -

 

We Can't Do It Alone

 

25 Oct 06

Ottaw Public Meeting of Lobby Group Pushing for 

 

Regulation of Opium in AFG (Transcript to be posted here when avaiable)

 

Bad Guy Ass Continues to Be Kicked in South -

 

48 More to Allah

 

Starting Drug Tests on Next ROTO Bound for AFG

 

CAN Officers 

 

Work from Inside to Train AFG Gov't Ministries, Officials -

Permalink

 

 

Wants CAN To Push Opium Regulation in AFG -

 

M

 

ore -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968793972154&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1161726632759&call_pageid=968332188492|more] -

 

Senlis Council news release -

 

Report - 'Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan'

 

Editorial - Time for PM Address to Nation 

 

on AFG

 

Editorial on 'Re-Roling' in CF

 

Hezb-e-Islami Now 

 

Officially Terr Group in CAN -

 

Raising $ Here to Kill Over 

 

There -

 

more -

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-10-24T164627Z_01_N24199226_

 

RTRIDST_0_CANADA-SECURITY-CANADA-GROUP-COL.XML&archived=False|more] -

 

Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC) 

 

Profile - PSEPC News Release

 

CIDA Minister's Visit 'had 

 

exactly the opposite effect as was intended.'

 

Senate Committee Tries to Set 

 

Record Straight About Dubai Stay

 

24 Oct 06

Commons Def Committee Hears 

 

AFG Gov't Building Msn Years, not Months Long

 

How the AFG Army is Helping 

 

CAN Troops at the Sharp End

 

Def Min:  No 

 

Blue to Green, Longer Tours -

 

M

 

ore -

 

[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061023/oconnor_rerolling_061023/20061023?hub=CTVNewsAt1

 

1|more] - more -

 

What was 

 

Written Before -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968793972154&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1161640212597&call_pageid=968332188492|So Which Is It?] -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11616402120

 

87&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795|Toronto Star Editorial]

 

Sgt Tedford Laid to Rest -

 

More

 

Commentary - 'Hard to report on achievements yet to be made'

 

Families of Some of the Fallen Question Mission -

 

More

 

CAN 

 

Troops Cleared of Nailing AFG Cops

 

Taliban Boss Warns NATO to GTFO -

 

More on NATO-Taliban 

 

Disengagement Talks Through Elders

 

USA Now Asking DEU to Move 

 

Troops into South - DEU Says 

 

They're Still Committed

 

CAN Aid to AFG Widows to Continue

 

Leftie Questions for Hillier -

 

US Author, Critic of 

 

USA Approach, Says CAN Approach Counterproductive

 

23 Oct 06

 

Area - CAN Aid Minister Pops in for Visit to K'Har -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968350060724&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1161553809587&call_pageid=968332188854|But Stays Behind the Wire] -

 

And Not Very Long, At That

 

Mil Analysts Say CF Blue-to-Green Not So Simple

 

New Reality for CAN in AFG:  More Cas, Harder Fights

 

Injured Soldier Pushes On

 

High School Co-op Program Under 

 

Fire Because of AFG

 

[http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1

 

161553810756&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1014656511815|Legion Gets K'Har CAN Flag for Sending Goodies to

 

Troops]

 

AB Town Sends Kraft Dinner to the Troops

 

Canada's AFG Quitter Resister -

 

[http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1

 

161553810753&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1014656511815|Taking The Shpeel On the Road]

 

22 Oct 06

LFWA Boss Says Longer Tours Possible -

 

[http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/cityplus/story.html?id=deeed8d4-db2d-4126-88e3-c4825da21673&k=2348

 

4|More] - Army.ca Discussion

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968350060724&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1161467439234&call_pageid=968332188854|NATO Investigating Reports of Killing of Civvy Near K'Har] -

 

[http://www.jfcbs.nato.int/ISAF/Update/Press_Releases/newsrelease/2006/Release_18Oct06_228.htm?tsfsg=c221b22412958

 

0d836d0e4fce6bb8bfe|ISAF Statement]

 

Mullah Omar Promises More 

 

Attacks

 

 

One Injured Reservist's Struggle to Come Back -

 

More

 

Deals May Be Cut Between CAN, Taliban in K'Har Area??? -

 

No Shortage of Threats Being Made Out There

 

Opinion - CAN Needs Mil 

 

Help, Aid to Get Job Done

 

Reporter Sees Different AFG in Car, Mil Convoy Rides

 

21 Oct 06

 

 

More

 

PAK Muslim Clerics Ordering Taliban into AFG -

 

Opinion - Can't Nail Taliban 

 

While PAK Lets Them Roam -

 

PAK Happy 

 

to See Taliban in Charge (Again) in AFG

 

Dutch Sending Mo' Troops, Norway Declines with Thanks

 

Advisory - Pte. Williamson's Internment -

 

Family Impressed by Support -

 

Advisory - Sgt. Tedford's Internment

 

 

CF Not Releasing Exact Number of Wounded from AFG

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11613810244

 

43&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467|Re-roling: CAN Blue-to-Green Program?]

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11613810238

 

34&call_pageid=970599119419|Editorial - Let's Look at CAN Aid in AFG, and Fix It if Needed]

 

More on CAN Looking for Mo' Help in AFG -

 

CAN For 

 

Min Calls NDP 'Naive' For Their Position on AFG

 

20 Oct 06

CAN Tells NATO Says We Can't Keep 

 

Going It Alone - Mo' Calls for Mo' Help -

 

More -

 

more

 

Meanwhile, FRA Reviewing Its Role

 

NATO Boss Says Homicide Bombers Won't Stop Alliance

 

Letter - CAN Aid Not Held Up Because of Lack of Aid

 

Opinion - 'There is never going to be a NATO victory in 

 

Afghanistan'

 

CAN Senators See Plot to Foil Their Digging 

 

into AFG

 

More AFG Leaders in Terr Sights

 

UN Says Aid Harder to Deliver

 

Naughty DEU Spec Forces -

 

More

 

NATO Regrets Civvy Cas -

 

World Socialists Pipe Up

 

19 Oct 06

Def Min Says Troops to Be Limited to 

 

One ROTO? -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968350116467&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1161208213868&call_pageid=968332188774|More] -

 

Army.ca Discussion

 

CDS Says Mission 'Successful, but 

 

Demanding'

 

A Reservist Snapshot in Winning Hearts and Minds

 

NATO Sec-Gen Calls for 

 

More Help in AFG

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968793972154&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1161208213873&call_pageid=968332188492|Aid Groups Reject AFG Projects - Too Closely Linked to Military

 

Ops]

 

Teens with AK's 

 

AFG Police Backup for CAN Troops?

 

AGAIN With the 'It's the Liberals' Fault'

 

Karzai Says Mullah Omar Hiding in PAK

 

Opinion - Karzai Better Off Meeting With Pashtuns Than Having AFG-PAK Jirga?

 

CAN Pot Plant Fight in AFG Parable for Drug War?!?!?

 

18 Oct 06

CAN CDS Pushing 

 

NATO Allies for More Military Help in South -

 

More

 

 

Remembe

 

ring the Fallen in Petawawa

 

Analysis - West Running Out of Time in AFG

 

Analysis - 'Jihadis Go Home'

 

CAN PM Defends Pace of Development in AFG -

 

Says It's Too Dangerous -

 

[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061017/afghanistan_reconstruction_061017/20061017?hub=Cana

 

da|More] -

 

[http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&DocId=2406090#SO

 

B-1698686|17 Oct 06 Question Period, Question 1] -

 

[http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&DocId=2406090#SO

 

B-1698919|Question 2]

 

CAN 

 

Senators Spent it Up in Dubai While Waiting to Get Into AFG?

 

NATO Boss Says Window is Open to Do Something Now -

 

NATO, AFG Forces Preparing for 

 

Country-wide Op -

 

[http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=October&x=20061017173248idybeekcm0.585

 

705|ISAF Boss Calls for Faster Developmement to Win Hearts, Minds] -

 

More -

 

Says the Troops are Tough -

 

Transcript of 17 Oct 06 Media Briefing

 

CF Budman Sniper Investigation 

 

from AFG Delayed - A Bit of Background -

 

Army.ca Discussion

 

Analysis:  Change of Tactics=Peace?

 

ISAF Says Mid-Level Taliban Boss Nailed in Air Strike

 

'It's the Tribes, Stupid'

 

Analysis:  NATO Now Main Security Presence in 

 

AFG

 

Brit Commander Says 20 More Years of Troops Needed -

 

More

 

PAK Says AFG Not Helping in Drug Fight

 

Brits May Send Tps from IRQ to AFG

 

17 Oct 06

An Injured CF Soldier Shares his Pain, and his Memories

 

Globe & Mail Editorial:  We Should Keep At 'Er

 

Two RCR Troops Killed in Attack in southern AFG -

 

They're Home

 

Brits Pulling Outta Helmand Hot Spot District

 

Suicide Bomber Rams CAN Convoy near 

 

K'Har Monday

 

Redevelopment Isn't Happening because CIDA's Holding Back 

 

Cash?

 

NATO Boss says PAK-AFG Border Still not Sealed

 

CAN Joining USA Effort to Learn More 

 

About IEDs

 

AFG Merchant Says CF Troops Appreciated, but AFG Gov't Needs Work, Too -

 

Globe & Mail Columnist Agrees

 

Vandoos Training in Wainwright Trash Mess

 

Even Brit PM Wants Cdns to Support AFG Mission

 

16 Oct 06

RCR Charles 

 

Company Mourns, Again -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968705899037&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1160949009995&call_pageid=968332188492|More Tears in Petawawa] -

 

Same Road, More Cas

 

More on Evacuated Injured Not Getting Danger Pay Any More

 

Alternative:  Makin' Enemies Instead of Friends?

 

15 Oct 06

Gov Gen Statement on Latest RCR Deaths -

 

PM Statement -

 

Def Min Statement -

 

On Their 

 

Way Home

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968705899037&c=Articl

 

e&cid=1160911660495&call_pageid=968332188492|Names of Two Latest Fallen Released] -

 

More -

 

more

 

- more - Post 

 

Condolences to Army.ca

 

Photos: Pte. Blake Williamson - Sgt. Darcy Tedford

 

4GW Theorist's Answer to Dealing with AFG

 

2 More 

 

RCR Dead -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11608626464

 

18&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|Canadian Press, Reuters] -

 

Canadian Press (short) -

 

Canadian Press (longer)

 

CF Reserve Officer Injured in Axe Attack Ready for Rehab

 

How NHL's Trevor Linden 

 

Made It Through AFG

 

Brit Paratrooper-Medic in Line for First AFG VC

 

14 Oct 06

CF Statement on Latest Two Cdns Dead -

 

CBC Online -

 

Canadian Press -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11608252290

 

17&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154|Associated Press]

 

UN Extends ISAF Mandate Until Oct 2007 - Security Council Res'n 

 

1707 (2006)

 

Big Turnout at Sgt. Gillam's Funeral in 

 

NF

 

The Bits o' Battle 

 

We Don't Hear About, or Unsubstantiated Rumour?

 

On Ptl 

 

with the RCDs in K'Har -

 

Convoys Put 

 

CF At Risk

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11607762341

 

84&call_pageid=970599119419|AFG Mission Albatross Around Harper's Neck?]

 

AFG Reconstruction Needed 

 

Quick to Win Hearts, Minds

 

Spanish Think Tank - NATO's Job is to Fight Jihadis

 

13 Oct 06

Remembering 

 

the Fallen

 

There Really IS a Kandahar in Saskatchewan -  

href=\"http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?local=h&scale=1000000&title=Kandahar%2C%20SK&lon=

 

-104.36083&lat=51.7589996076151&icon=x\">Kandahar, SK

 

Two NATO Troops Injured in Blast -

 

Agence France Presse -

 

Reuters -

 

Voice of America -

 

Al Jazeera

 

[http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-10-12T204650Z_01_N123494

 

86_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-CANADA-MARIJUANA.XML|CAN Tps Fighting Pot Forests]

 

AFG Leader of Upper House Threatens to Resign Over Corruption -

 

More

 

PAK Becoming AQ Sanctuary

 

2001 Fight for Kandahar Not Exactly as Portrayed?

 

Finn Friendly Fire

 

 

UN Sponsored Refugee Return Ends

 

12 Oct 06

 

Tpr. 

 

Wilson's Home Now - Cpl. Mitchell Burial Coming at Nat'l 

 

Cemetery - Statement from Mitchell Family -

 

Mitc

 

hells Getting By, Minute by Minute - RCD Memorial Page

 

NF Community Wants Troops to Know We Remember

 

AFG Troops Need Work Still

 

AFG, Five Yrs Later, By Numbers -

 

Next Six Months Critical

 

'Armoured' vs 'Blast Resistant' Vehicles for Beginners -

 

More

 

Brits Contracting Out Extra Tpt Chopper 

 

Support

 

More Support for AFG-PAK Tribal Talks -

 

PAK Pres Says No Guarantees of Peace, Even with Taliban Deal -

 

Still, Worth a Try -

 

Taliban Still Dyin'

 

Development Critical to 

 

Beating Taliban -

 

[http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&actionFor=616075&searchText=false&showTex

 

t=all|CAN Sending $18M] -

 

USA Aid 

 

Agency Investing in Micro-Loans for Farmers -

 

Are 

 

Contractors Ripping Off Taxpayers?

 

NATO Boss Thanks PAK for Helping Fight 

 

Bad Guys

 

Taliban Claims Hundreds of Homicide 

 

Bombers Good to Go

 

ISAF Cdr Quoted Saying PAK Soon to be Part of ISAF HQ in 

 

Kabul

 

11 Oct 06

Pte. Klukie Laid to Rest - More -

 

Funeral Program (.pdf)

 

London to Bury Tpr. Wilson -

 

Message from Family -

 

Popular @ School -

 

'While always hard, a soldier's death is never new' -

 

Comrade Misses Him on Leave

 

More on How MCPL Franklin is Doing

 

NATO Says Fewer Attacks in South

 

Tech Briefing on CAN Aid Work in Ottawa Today

 

Brits Getting Mo' $ for Svc in AFG, IRQ

 

UN Aid 

 

Workers Hope NATO Running the Show=Mo' Aid Flowing

 

[http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=your%20say&subclass=general&story_id=515908&category=Opinion&m=

 

10&y=2006|400 Aussies Moving to NLD PRT Base]

 

West Has to be Careful Pushing PAK Too, Too Hard

 

UN Checking Things Out Next Month

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11604306125

 

78&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|Rough Guide to Panjsher]

 

10 Oct 06

Pte. Klukie's Funeral in Thunder Bay Today -

 

A Private Affair -

 

A few my personal highlights -

 

More on Funeral

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116043

 

0612434&call_pageid=970599119419|Big Turnout at Ramp Ceremony for Tpr. Wilson] -

 

Family Not Expecting It -

 

Post Condolences to Army.ca

 

CAN 

 

Preparing to Ramp Up Info Campaign on AFG Development Work

 

Not a Great 

 

Thanksgiving for Latest CAN ROTO

 

More on Danger Pay Ending Outta Theatre

 

Where the Injured Stop Before Reaching Germany

 

NATO commander meets Musharraf amid Taliban fracas

 

9 Oct 06

[http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/HandoverInHelmandAs3CdoBrigadeReplace3Para.htm

 

|Brit Paras Outta Helmand, Royal Marines In]

 

CAN Def Min Calls (Again) for More Troops in S. AFG

 

CF Def Min 

 

- No Changes Coming to Danger Pay, but Injured will be Helped

 

Analysis Says CAN in 

 

AFG 'desiring economic power, expressing military force'

 

Injured CF Medic Teaches Troops How to 

 

Administer First Aid to Selves

 

Opinion - CAN Needs to Get GBR to 

 

NOT Agree to Truce in Helmand -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116017

 

1410676&call_pageid=1109682110623|Too Soon to Balk at AFG Msn]

 

RCD 

 

Tpr. Wilson On His Way Home -

 

More -

 

Expert Wonders 

 

Why Nyala Failed to Protect

 

Some of the Stats

 

[http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Pakistan+%26+Sub%2DContinent

 

&month=October2006&file=World_News2006100881519.xml|Mullah Omar Hiding in AFG?]

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-10-09T104642Z_01_ISL38217_RTRID

 

ST_0_NEWS-AFGHAN-VIOLENCE-COL.XML|Taliban Getting Kicked a Bit]

 

How the Taliban Works -

 

Trying to Turn Some

 

Hekmatyar Pushes Getting Rid of Foreign Troops

 

Brits Move Toward Having More Locals Defend Bits of 

 

Helmand - More

 

[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=U2T0BAYTGRPHVQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2006

 

/10/08/nafghan08.xml|Brit Officers Say They Won't Get What They Need]

 

8 Oct 06

Gov Gen Statement on Latest RCD Trooper Killed -

 

PM Statement -

 

Def Min Statement

 

Royal 

 

Canadian Dragoons Mourn Latest Death -

 

More Details of the 

 

Deadly Contact - The Fallen, So Far

 

CA

 

N Def Min Says More Nations Should Work Outside the Wire in AFG

 

NATO Boss Says He Can Understand Why Some 

 

Afghans Go Taliban

 

CIDA Stops Giving Away Fish, Starts Teaching 

 

Widows to Fish

 

IND Worried About Taliban in AFG

 

Don't Expect to See 

 

Prince Harry in AFG - More -

 

Why He 

 

Should be Allowed to Go

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11602590125

 

46&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|Toronto Star Trolls Public Forum for Feedback on the

 

Danger Pay Question] - Army.ca Thread

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116017

 

1411452&call_pageid=968332188492|CDS Calls for Fewer Op Caveats, More European Troops in AFG to Fight More]

 

More on PAK's Deal with Taliban

 

Deadly Stats in AFG -

 

More

 

Brits Promised All They Need

 

Brit Troops 

 

Dyin' while K'Har Troops Partyin'?

 

7 Oct 06

 

Fallen 

 

RCD Trooper Identified -

 

[http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&actionFor=615663&searchText=false&showTex

 

t=all|CF Statement] - Canadian Press -

 

CTV 

 

News - CBC News -

 

Reuters

 

Full Obituary for Pte. Klukie -

 

[http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=615

 

665|More Details on Funeral] - OC Says Klukie Attended Cpl. Boneca's 

 

Funeral While on Leave -

 

More

 

Latest on RCD Deaths - Some Details of the Fatal Contact

 

AFG 'sinking into deeper insurgency'

 

Blog Opinion - Falling Apart Because Not Enough 

 

Troops - Taliban Perking 

 

Up? - 'Taliban Intifada' Coming in the Next Year? -

 

Karzai Wants Big Meeting of the Pashtuns (AFG & PAK) to Crush 

 

Taliban

 

'The winter war:  Nato must press home its advantage in 

 

Afghanistan' - Army.ca discussion

 

CENTCOM General says Media Focuses on Attacks, Even if 

 

Progress Made -

 

See What He 

 

Means?

 

CF 

 

Reconsidering 'No More Danger Pay Back in CAN' Rules -

 

More -

 

Father of Injured Stunned -

 

Army.ca discussion

 

6 Oct 06

 

Fallen RCD's Home -

 

More -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964

 

505&cid=1160171410962&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News

 

/News|more]

 

Thunder Bay School Remembers Pte. Klukie

 

CAN Aid $ to AFG Need Sorting Out -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116008

 

5010938&call_pageid=971358637177|More] -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=116008

 

5010255&call_pageid=970599119419|more]

 

CF Troops Still Under Fire

 

Injured CF Troopers Find Out Danger Pay Ends When They Return to CAN -

 

More

 

New CAN 

 

Poll - More Support for Combat, but We're Not Seen as Winning? -

 

IPSOS Reid Site -

 

More Details -

 

PM Says Cas Are the Price of Leadership in 

 

Global Issues

 

Time for PM to Get on TV and Communicate -

 

More 

 

of the Same Idea

 

Return of the Taliban

 

Taliban Jack Wants Us to Negotiate with Taliban

 

Commentary - Wrong Mission

 

UN Peacekeeping 

 

Boss says CAN Right to Keep Troops in AFG

 

NATO Commanders want Their Gov'ts 

 

to Bash PAK for Helping Taliban

 

Pentagon Disagrees with Bleak Forecast of 'Newsweek' -

 

'Newsweek' Article in Question

 

5 Oct 06

Some of How the Latest Two 

 

Deaths Happened - One of the Dead Saved Others by Shooting 

 

Back

 

Ghurkas Kick Ass

 

NF soldier slain in Afghanistan was eager to see family -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11599986175

 

29&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|More]Asked 

 

Aunt to Pray for Him - Cpl. Mitchell - 'A dedicated 

 

soldier and a devoted family man' -

 

[http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1

 

159998618339&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1014656511815|More]

 

Funeral Tuesday, Place to Post Online Condolences -

 

Army.ca Condolences thread -

 

Legacy.com Online Condolences for Pte. 

 

Klukie's Family

 

NATO Takes Control of Entire AFG Mission

 

CF Danger Pay Ends When Troops Out of Danger! -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11599986175

 

17&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467|Liberals Want Danger Pay for Injured Outside Theatre of Operations]

 

More 

 

Stories of the Wounded

 

4 Oct 06

Tr

 

oops Still Getting Shot At, Heavy

 

Latest Fallen Identified as Members of Surveillance Troop -

 

Reportedly Killed in Ambush -

 

Eight Others 

 

Wounded - Earlier Reports Indicated One Missing (Not the Case -

 

Def Min Statement

 

More on 

 

Repartiation Tuesday Night - More -

 

more

 

Latest Roll of Honour

 

Afghan Cotton Looms Part of the 

 

Answer?

 

One Step Closer to CF Panzers in AFG -

 

Now the Brits Want 'Em, Too

 

Brits Aching for More, Newer Choppers, 

 

Too

 

One Less to Hunt Down...

 

BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG Mistake, Buddy!

 

Brit Paras Wind Down Helmand Tour

 

One More Day Before NATO Takes the Helm Across AFG -

 

[http://www.jfcbs.nato.int/ISAF/Update/Press_Releases/mediaadvisory/2006/Media_advisory_03Oct06_71.htm?tsfsg=c58cbb

 

f72a7e8cef4ec3695dba256bb6|NATO Media Advisory]

 

[http://www.jfcbs.nato.int/ISAF/Update/Press_Releases/newsrelease/2006/Release_02Oct06_197.htm?tsfsg=9037bd78d11f2

 

23928ac99e9f677481a|Development Phase of OP Medusa Continues]

 

[http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/printArticle.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=110635&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=2

 

6|Opinion] - 'Perhaps if the US and its allies had smothered the country in troops and drowned it in aid at the outset, the rapid

 

increase in security and prosperity would have created a solid base of support for the government they installed under President

 

Karzai.'

 

Tunes Fer the Taliban?

 

3 Oct 06

Newest CF Dead ID'ed as Sgt. Craig Gillam 

 

and Cpl. Robert Mitchell -

 

[http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=615

 

070|CF Statement] - Canwest 

 

News Service Account -

 

Reuters

 

Pte. Klukie Back in Canada

 

Klukie's Death 'sad day' for Home Town -

 

Initial Obit

 

CAN CDS Wants to Get Cas Replacements 

 

in Theatre Faster

 

Some Mil Worried About Not Getting Message Across to Cdns -

 

Should Def Min Do Cross-Country Tour Boosting Support for AFG Mission?

 

Opinion - Latest CAN Poll #'s 

 

'Distressing' - CAN For Min Dismisses Poll Results

 

Brit General says Taliban 'Practically 

 

Defeated' in Helmand

 

[http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-10-03T090736Z_01_L03605392_RTRU

 

KOC_0_UK-AFGHAN-NATO-TROOPS.xml|Mo' NATO Calls for Mo' NATO Troops] -

 

NATO Parliamentary Assembly Statement, 29 Sept 06]

 

PAK Officials Say Taliban NOT Driven by PAK Int -

 

Quite the Juggle for PAK

 

More on 'Hearts & Minds' in Pashmul -

 

More

 

Hearts & Minds, One Chicken Dinner at a Time

 

Brits Cut Deal with Taliban? -

 

USA Senator Calls for Bringing Taliban into 

 

AFG Gov't

 

JPN PM Wants to Extend AFG Presence by 

 

a Year

 

2 Oct 06

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=115971

 

2646101&call_pageid=968332188492|Klukie Death - Buddy Says He Didn't Suffer]-

 

More on His Last Day

 

Schoolhouse 

 

Covered in Taliban Trainees' Names

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11597409088

 

31&call_pageid=1140433364397&col=1140433364286|Military Officials Confused by Lack of Gov't Support for Mission?]

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11597409088

 

26&call_pageid=1140433364397&col=1140433364286|Red Cross Says CAN Following All Rules with Prisoners]

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11597409089

 

83&call_pageid=1140433364397&col=1140433364286|CAN Def Min Calls on NATO Countries to Loosen Rules for

 

Deployed Troops]

 

Survey 

 

Says Almost 6 Outta 10 Cdns Surveyed See AFG as 'War We Can't Win' -

 

CDS Says Support for Mission is 

 

NOT Dropping

 

'In Afghanistan, US troops tackle aid projects - and 

 

skepticism'

 

Analysis - 'Taming the Afghan badlands'

 

PAK Workin' Both Sides -

 

Yeah, It's RETIRED Int Guys Behind 

 

the Taliban....

 

AFG Considering Herbicide in Drug Fight

 

1 Oct 06

Pte. Klukie on his way home

 

It's All About Tribalism -

 

More (Including How PAK is the 'Good Guy')

 

More About Pte. Josh Klukie -

 

CanWest 

 

wire - Friends Proud - Friends, Neighbours Comment -

 

Army.ca Condolences Thread

 

CAN General in AFG - Sometimes, we are our worst critics

 

Next ROTO 

 

Getting Ready in Gagetown -

 

CDS - 

 

LAV Upgrade Coming, More Infanteers to be Trained

 

PAK, AFG Agree to Hold Jirgas from Both Sides of Border

 

Brits Cutting Deals with Taliban??? -

 

UK Defends its 'Alamo' in Helmand -

 

Some Brit Bosses Warned About Two Fronts -

 

The War the Media Don't See -

 

More on the Medals in the Pipeline

 

30 Sept 06

1 RCR Soldier Killed by Mine Identified -

 

Gov-Gen Statement -

 

PM Statement

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diligence, and your patience!

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11 Jul 06

Troops Fined for Negligent Discharges

 

Rumsfeld Wants Bigger NATO Role

 

10 Jul 06

Deal Signed Last Year Relieves CAN from Liability for Injuries, 

 

Damage in AFG -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=115248

 

3906834&source=somnia|Widow Gets Sheep, No Money, No Letter after Husband Killed at Checkpoint]

 

Royal Irish Reg't to Reinforce Brits in AFG -

 

SAS, SBS Troops Getting Busier, Too

 

Is High-Tech Mil Power Enough to Beat Taliban?

 

 

9 Jul 06

Special Report:  Thunder Bay Reservist Killed in AFG Firefight

 

Brits Sending in Mo' Troops -

 

More

 

8 Jul 06

 

Two 

 

Canadians Injured, One Seriously, in Firefight -

 

More

 

 

Brit Def Min Says Brit Presence 

 

Cranking Up Taliban

 

Push Continues in S. AFG -

 

More

 

Commentary - AFG is Nobody's War?

 

7 Jul 06

Mil Police Probe Clears CAN Troops Who Shot, 

 

Killed Civvy at Checkpoint -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11522659271

 

79&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|More] -

 

more -

 

more -

 

CF Statement

 

CAN Cdr - Tide is Turning for CAN Troops -

 

Conditions Taking Toll on Hardware, Though

 

More on 

 

Family of Injured Artilleryman

 

Karzai Says It's the Fault of Foreigners

 

6 Jul 06

Injure

 

d M/Bdr Returns to CAN

 

 

CAN to be in AFG Long Time if AFG Cops, Mil Not Trained Up

 

5 Jul 06

Converted Taliban Dies of Medical 

 

Complications

 

More on CAN Punch-up with Taliban

 

Column - Canadians Not Sure About AFG

 

MA

 

JOR Heat an Enemy

 

Psychiatrist - War Easier to Grasp than Peacekeeping

 

OP 

 

Mountain Thrust Pushes On...

 

4 Jul 06

Canadian troops skirmish with Taliban near 

 

Kandahar

 

Mending the 

 

Wounded in K'Har

 

More Rockets...

 

3 Jun 06

Calgary Anthropologist Studies PPCLI 'grunts 

 

in the mist' - Anne Irwin Bio

 

Is What We Get from Embeds in AFG the WHOLE 

 

Truth?

 

So Much for Shattered Remnants of Taliban...

 

Trying to Sub Pomegranates for Opium

 

2 Jul 06

CAN Tories Want Election Before Quebec Soldiers Die in AFG

 

Opinion - We'll Never Get a Grip on the Pashtuns

 

1 Jul 06

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-07-01T103758Z_01_ISL66357_R

 

TRIDST_0_CANADA-AFGHAN-VIOLENCE-COL.XML|More on K'Har Airfield Rocket Attack] -

 

More -

 

CAN Trooper Critically Injured

 

107 mm Rocket Attack Doesn't Stop 

 

Canada Day BBQ - Section Commander Waits By Wounded Colleague

 

Brits Call for Mo' Troops, Fast Air -

 

More -

 

Busy Brits -

 

Map o' Last Month's Brit Punch-Ups

 

30 Jun 06

CAN 

 

Troops Injured in Rocket Attack on K'Har Airfield -

 

More -

 

more

 

Radio Free Europe AFG Report:  Connie Rice on AFG, Drugs Down but Still Affecting 

 

AFG, IRN

 

Heating Up in South

 

Survey:  Six Outta Ten East Coasters Say \\\\"No\\\\" to Mission Extension

 

29 Jun 06

At Long Last, Timmy's is in the House!

 

New CF Choppers Won't Help in AFG -

 

CF News Release on Choppers

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11515314127

 

75&call_pageid=968332188492|More Bashing of Senlis Report] -

 

More -

 

more

 

Brit Spec Forces Killed in Taliban Snatch Patrol -

Part 

 

of Bigger Int War On Against Taliban

 

28 Jun 06

Taliban Split on 

 

Nailing Canadians in Part of Kandahar

 

Report:  Opium Fighting Policy Costing CAN Lives -

 

News Release -

 

Report (.pdf.

 

2M) - Army.ca Discussion

 

CF In-Theatre 

 

Commander Dismisses Report - PM, Too

 

Injured CAN Officer Returns to Edmonton

 

AFG villagers:  You Don't Protect Us, We Won't Rat on Terrs

 

27 Jun 06

CAN General Praises Karzai

 

Troops Missing the Little Things

 

NATO to Grow Force 

 

to Occupy Unsettled Territory in South

 

Another CF Medic 

 

Mission in Taliban Country

 

POL Cutting Number of Troops to be Sent to ISAF

 

26 Jun 06

Latest on OP Mountain Thrust

 

AFG Bad Guys:  We Kicked Yer Ass Once, Brits, and 

 

We'll Do It Again

 

Mom of 6 Prepares to Deploy to AFG

 

Hillier:  What do You Mean We're Not Being 

 

Successful?

 

Yanks Scratch Heads over No 

 

CAN Choppers in Theatre

 

Taliban, AQ & Narcotraffickers Deadly Troika -

 

Opium Haul Dropped a Bit, Though

 

How USA Space Command is Helping Win the War on the 

 

Ground

 

25 Jun 06

[http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/25062006/2/world-ramshackle-looking-canadian-base-hospital-works-miracles-afghan-wounded.

 

html&printer=1|CF Medics Make a Difference in Hinterland]

 

GG 

 

Speaks to Next ROTO in Petawawa

 

Taliban Ceasefire in Waziristan?

 

More Punch-ups in OP Mountain 

 

Thrust

 

Column:  Europeans Taking 

 

Different Approach than Yanks in AFG

 

24 Jun 06

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11510994105

 

29&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|CAN PM's Electoral Fate Linked to K'Har]

 

23 Jun 06

Timmy's, 

 

UP!

 

One Way to Target Aid Effectively

 

[http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1

 

151013013711&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1112101662670|AFG Pres Now Worried About Taliban Body

 

Counts?!?!] - Coaltion Reminds Him It's Not 

 

JUST About Nailing Taliban

 

22 Jun 06

One of the Fallen Remembered Through Scholarship

 

Poll:  Support for AFG Mission Climbing in CAN -

 

News Release (.pdf)

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=115092

 

7811455&call_pageid=970599119419|More on Rash of CAN Injuries in K'Har] -

 

Two Guys Actually Survived Both Attacks

 

CDS:  Heavy Choppers Would Make K'Har Mission Safer for Troops

 

Battles escalate in AFG -

 

AQ 2 i/c Calls for Ramp Up of Opposition 

 

Against Coalition Forces in AFG

 

 

21 Jun 06

Four CAN Troops Injured in OP Mountain 

 

Thrust - Four More Injured in Other Blast

 

Can Freedom, Opium Co-Exist?

 

Opinion:  When you help, it’s first about them, not you.

 

Taliban Still Pushing Hard to Keep Girls Outta School

 

20 Jun 06

Is AFG Too Far Gone?

 

[http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060619/afghanistan_romanians_060620/20060619?hub=TopStorie

 

s|Bomb Kills ROM Trooper Working with CAN Soldiers] -

 

[http://www.mediafax.ro/english/articole-free/Romanian-Soldier-Dies--Four-Injured-From-Blast-In-Afghanistan-505495-9.html

 

|ROM Media Coverage]

 

Watching Lord Stanley's Cup Head South in K'Har -

 

More

 

Bad Guys Learning Lessons from IRQ

 

19 Jun 06

One of Canada's Badly Injured Getting 

 

Better

 

Interpreters for CAN Troops Feeling Pressed 

 

to GTFO

 

On Patrol with 9 Platoon

 

Where is Aid $ Headed to IRQ, AFG NOT Going?

 

Brit 

 

Paras Take Fight to Taliban in Helmand - More -

 

Doing Better than Planned

 

[http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Taliban_step_up_attacks.html?siteSect=143&sid=6823913&cKey=11

 

50704482000|Taliban Cranking Up Heat in South] -

 

Brits Dishing it Out, Too -

 

Yank View of OP Mountain Thrust -

 

UN:  Be Careful of Civvies

 

18 Jun 06

Some, Not All, Dead CF Troopers Get Special Pay-out

 

[http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060619/wl_asia_afp/usmilitaryafghanistan_060618204206;_ylt=Amnw9UKZ8D_X2uLOcBQ

 

blZ9sbEwB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl|White House: Taliban Testing Our Will]

 

CAN 

 

Lt-Col:  Making Progress against Bad Guys

 

CF Clearance 

 

Diver Helping Sappers in AFG

 

More USA Fast Air -

 

 

LOTSA Refugees

 

17 Jun 06

Is the Coalition's Latest Convert Mastermind of 

 

some Attacks on Canadians? -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11504946105

 

22&call_pageid=968332188492|More]

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-17T091618Z_01_SP239585_RTRID

 

ST_0_NEWS-AFGHAN-VIOLENCE-COL.XML|Takin' 'Em Out, A Few at a Time] -

 

NATO:  They're Testing Our Will

 

16 Jun 06

Taliban Boss Defects 

 

after Medical Tmt from Canadians - More -

 

more

 

Blog:  Soft Tgts at K'Har Airfield

 

After 2009, Though, 

 

Back Ya Come - NATO Sec Gen Urges Others to 

 

Step Up to the Plate, Too

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11504082110

 

28&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467|NATO Sec Gen: We're Not Leavin' Yet, Taliban!] -

 

Still, Long, Hot Summer Expected

 

Mountain Thrust Taliban Dead Count Climbing -

 

Still, Suicide Bombings Pissing off Residents

 

15 Jun 06

Blog:  Op Mountain Thrust, Three Days In

 

CAN to Increase Troops for Div HQ if it Takes Over ISAF -

 

Army.ca Discussion

 

Bus Bomb Go Boom, Kills Workers on Way to 

 

K'Har Base - More -

 

more -

 

more

 

Brits Prep for Air Assault Against Taliban -

 

More on Big Push -

 

more

 

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11503218114

 

00&call_pageid=970599119419|Letter to Editor: Send Armed CAN Aid Workers to Build Trust in AFG]

 

CAN Pledges $15M for Irrigation in AFG

 

14 Jun 06

One of the Injured Doing Better

 

Poll:  Support for AFG Mission Growing

 

CAN Troops Getting 

 

Ready to Hit the Hills Again - Part of Big Push

 

13 Jun 06

Two Canadians Seriously Injured in Firefight -

 

Ma

 

p of Area - Mopping Up Afterwards

 

Taliban Nails District Int 

 

Boss

 

Brits Facing More Fighting, Too

 

Mor

 

e Carrot Than Stick?

 

US Congress Thanks CAN for AFG Commitment

 

Heat as Enemy

 

12 Jun 06

CAN Troops 

 

Need Choppers

 

Karzai Says He IS Forming Militias After All?

 

Taliban as strong as 

 

Karzai is weak

 

CAN Troops Hunting Again

 

Media Helped Pay for Harper's Trip to AFG

 

11 Jun 06

[http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Getting_desperate_Afghanistan_mulls_forming_militias.html?siteSect=14

 

3&sid=6800695&cKey=1150015086000|Great, More Ambivalent People with Guns from the Government...] -

 

AFG Pres Denies Wanting to 

 

Create Militias

 

Taliban Takes Credit for Burning Down Almost Four Dozen 

 

Schools

 

10 Jun 06

CDS:  Afghans are Ambivalent about Taliban in S. AFG -

 

ambivalent:  uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow

 

- Same Wire Story, but Now Afghans are \\\\"Neutral\\\\"

 

[http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-06-10T142520Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJO

 

NC_0_India-253902-2.xml&archived=False|Troops Helping Afghans Nailing Taliban]

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964

 

505&cid=1149938052331&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_Ontario&call_pageid=968256289824&call_pagepath=Ne

 

ws/Ontario|Grand Opening of Forward Operating Base Martello] -

 

 

More - Kinda Old News, Though, to Globe & Mail -

 

Pix of FOB Martello

 

Testing Troops for Possible Direct Soldier-to-soldier Battlefield Transfusions

 

Romanians Covet Canadian Kit

 

9 Jun 06

Nailing of IRQ's AQ Boss Soothes the Savage Breasts of 

 

the Troops in AFG - Mullah Omar:  Don't Worry, It 

 

Won't Make Any Difference

 

Taliban Starting to Destroy Bodies

 

8 Jun 06

NATO Confirms Plans to Expand Force -

 

More -

 

more -

 

[http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/NATO_vows_to_boost_Afghan_mission_despite_violence.html?siteSec

 

t=143&sid=6791694&cKey=1149775946000|more]

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964

 

505&cid=1149762907373&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News

 

/News|One Section, 100 Metres, Donkey to Your Front....]

 

Lotsa Reasons for More 

 

Violence in South - More

 

Former NDP 

 

Boss-Wanna Be Liberal Boss:  AFG Mission Should be Over Sooner

 

7 Jun 06

[http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=598

 

309|Capt. Goddard Laid to Rest in National Military Cemetery Today] -

 

More -

 

more

 

CAN Gov't Denies Kidnapping of Canadians -

 

More

 

A Bit of Incoming

 

Big $ for Mission

 

6 Jun 06

Arrests in Canada Highlight Reason for Mission in AFG

 

Angus Reid Poll:  Most Canadians Oppose 

 

AFG Mission

 

Report:  New Approach Needed in Neighbouring 

 

Brit Territory - Report - \\\\"HELMAND AT WAR: 

The changing nature of insurgency in Southern Afghanistan and its effects on the future of the country\\\\" -

 

More

 

One Sick, Brit Reporter's Take

 

5 Jun 06

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11494608180

 

46&call_pageid=968332188492|Bracing for \\\"Cruel Summer\\\" in K'Har]

 

4 Jun 06

CAN Commander:  Pumping it Up to Take Fight to 

 

Taliban

 

Suicide Bomber Strikes Approaching Canadian Troops -

 

[http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southasia/article_1169550.php/Afghan_governor_escapes_suicide_blast_officials_body_fo

 

und|Governor the Target] -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964

 

505&cid=1149420427644&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News

 

/News|More] - more -

 

Quick Thinking NCO Saved the Day

 

CDS:  Handing Over Prisoners to AFG Right Thing to Do -

 

AFG Def 

 

Min:  What Bad Treatment of Prisoners?

 

Latest Polling:  4/10 Cdns Support AFG Mission Extension

 

3 Jun 06

Canadians Keeping Some Taliban from Being 

 

Summarily Executed by Afghans -

 

Still, Don't 

 

Sell Afghan Army Short Just Yet - Wash Post Login

 

2 Jun 06

Warning to Cdns in K'Har from Taliban Mil Boss

 

The REAL Old Timer in K'Har

 

1 Jun 06

CAN GG Denied Trip to Visit Troops, Twice -

 

Tories Playing Politics?

 

[http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&actionFor=597635&searchText=false&showTex

 

t=all|CF Statement on New Armoured Vehicles]

 

31 May 06

More Nyalas Coming for CF in AFG -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11490270118

 

78&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467|Parking the G-Wagens]

 

Rem

 

embering Captain Goddard at Home Station

 

CF Def Min:  We'll Treat Prisoners According to 

 

Geneva Conventions - Is This What Troops on the Ground are Hearing? -

 

NDP MP Wants Better 

 

Treatment -

 

[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/military.asp?Parl=39&srParty=0&srProvince=0&ParlName=ALL&srCon

 

flicts=0&srShowDetails=1&Language=E&Chamber=H&Hist=Y&Submit=Search|Media SAYS He's a Former Military

 

Officer, but He's Not Listed in the Parliamentary Guide as One] - OK, His Bio Lists Him 

 

as a \\\\"Recreation Officer\\\\" with the CF

 

Busy Summer for Taliban So Far -

 

Riots, Renewed Attacks Underscore Taliban 

 

\\\\"Resilience\\\\"

 

 

30 May 06

CAN Def Min:  

 

Canada Not At War in Kandahar

 

GG Warned 

 

Against Visiting the Troops

 

USA Fast Air Nails More Taliban -

 

Mor

 

e

 

29 May 06

Troops Injured in RPG Hit on LAV

 

CAN Foreign Minister:  Can't Predict Pull-Out Date -

 

CSIS Ops Boss:  CAN Has AQ Trained Agents in Country -

 

CAN Senate Looks at AFG Mission -

 

Care to Watch/Listen?

 

Liberals Blast PM for Switcheroo on Coverage of Repatriated Fallen

 

28 May 06

Capt. Goddard's Replacement On the Way to AFG

 

Analysis:  Taliban Push Means US Ain't Goin' Anywhere Yet

 

\\\\"Corruption, government failure fuelling Afghan 

 

insurgency: analysts\\\\"

 

26-27 May 06

Capt. Goddard's Funeral

Media Highlights (.pdf)

Canadian Press:  Remembered as Good Soldier

 

Dad Blasts PM for 

 

Media Ban at Repat - Canadian Press -

 

Were Parents Consulted? -

 

PM Reconsiders Outright Ban

 

MILNEWS Exclusive:  Time for CAN to Use Own Fast Air in AFG? -

 

Tough Choices for AFG Villagers

 

Firefight in Panjwai -

 

More -

 

more -

 

Villagers GTFO'ing -

 

More

 

Bloody Week in AFG

 

Is Canada Missing Opportunities in AFG?

 

25 May 06

Alr

 

eady Talking \\\\"Exit Strategy\\\\"

 

Roadside 

 

Bomb Injures Five Cdns in LAV III

 

[http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Pakistan+%26+Sub%2DContinent

 

&month=May2006&file=World_News2006052622517.xml|AFG Pres Visits K'Har, Protected by CAN Troops] -

 

More -

 

Promises More Security for Area

 

24 May 06

Vets' Orgs:  First Woman Killed in Combat Deserves 

 

Special Place in Cemetery, History -

 

Wil

 

l Be Buried in National Military Cemetery - CF National Military 

 

Cemetery web page

 

Locals Help Thwart Attack on Cdns

 

23 May 06

Getting Hotter Around K'Har

 

22 May 06

CF Tells Villagers:  Help Get 

 

Bad Guys to Get Aid

 

Injured PPCLI Returns to Canada

 

UN:  We're Staying Put, Even if It's Heating 

 

Up - More

 

21 May 06

Nichola Back in Canada

 

Karzai Thanks CAN for Mission Extension

 

UK Troops Under Threat in Neighbouring Province as PAK 

 

Drives Taliban Out

 

20 May 06

TF Commander:  Goddard Killed in Ambush -

 

More

 

Funeral Open to Public

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11480778156

 

44&call_pageid=968332188492|Canada's First Silver Cross Husband] -

 

CF Statement -

 

CFAO 18-19:  Memorial Cross

 

NATO General:  Drugs Big Test in AFG -

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-05-20T074314Z_01_L20403617_RTRI

 

DST_0_NEWS-AFGHAN-OPIUM-COL.XML|More]

 

19 May 06

CF Statement:  FOO Killed in AFG -

 

PM Statement -

 

GG Statement

 

Intial Reports-

 

More -

 

[http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-05-17T203654Z_01_SP4924_RTR

 

IDST_0_CANADA-AFGHAN-VIOLENCE-COL.XML|more]

 

Eager to Serve

 

Women in CF Equal? -

 

Women Not In Combat in Many Other Places

 

[http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-canada-afghanistan,0,1763112.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headli

 

nes|Canada Votes to Extend AFG Mission to 2009] -

 

[http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-05-18T030831Z_01_N17339394_RTRU

 

KOC_0_UK-AFGHANISTAN-vote.xml|Retuers] -

 

Bloomberg -

 

Al Jazeera -

 

Xinhua -

 

BBC News Online

 

Political 

 

Gamble Pays Off - More -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11479026162

 

74&call_pageid=968332188492|How PM Cornered Them] -

 

Conservative Politics Behind One Liberal's Vote -

 

[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=11479890165

 

05&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home|Knifing One Liberal Leadership Candidate?]

 

How the Previous Regime \\\\"Decided\\\\" on K'Har PRT Mission

 

World Socialist Press Whines about CAN Mission

 

25 Apr 06

More on No Media at Repatriation

 

Where's Those Nyala Armoured Jeeps? -

 

Army 101:  Nyala Route Proving Vehicle -

 

Wikipedia on RG-31 - Let's 

 

Not Forget:  It's NOT a Panacea, Though

 

 

24 Apr 06

Latest Dead Coming Home -

 

No Media Invited -

 

Mo

 

re

 

Villagers Say They Weren't Involved in Latest IED Attack

 

23 Apr 06

NY Times:  Bomb Linked to CAN Searches, Earlier Ops - More

 

Rockets, Incoming

 

A Bit More Detail on IED Attack

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