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30 Nov 07

 

CAN Officers to Panjwai Elders:  Which Side Are You On, Boys? - GoogFr:  AFG Chieftains obtenir un ultimatum

 

 

CAN DefMin:  Questions Whether 50%+ AFG Really Under Taliban, Says Mission Costs (Way?) Up - permalink (.pdf) - GoogFr:   Frais de mission brusquement, dit MacKay - permalink en francais (.pdf)

 

A Bit of What Manley Panel Saw

 

CAN Soldier Will Get to Witness Birth of His Kid While Overseas - News release - Une première au Canada : Accouchement à l'hôpital de Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts retransmis en Afghanistan au moyen de la vidéoconférence

 

 

"Husband-Wife-in-AFG" Story - Les époux servant en Afghanistan n'ont pas beaucoup de temps pour eux - "Troops-Get-Hockey-Equipment" Story - "Air-Force-Does-Its-Bit-Too" Story (Brit, this time)

One CF Nurse Practitioner's Story

 

Royal Marines At 'Er in Sangin

Musa Qala Residents Worry About (Another) New Push Coming - permalink (.pdf)

 

 

Two DNK Soldiers Killed in Helmand Firefight - Deux soldats danois tués en Afghanistan - NLD Cabinet to Announce Troops Stay Until 2010 (But Maybe Fewer?) - Soldat français tué dans un attentat à Kaboul - GoogEng:  FRA Soldier Killed in Kabul Homicide Bomb Attack - Sarkozy envisage l'envoi de renforts en AFG - GoogEng:  FRA (Maybe) Sending Mo' Troops?

 

Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Academy:  Too little, too late? - permalink (.pdf) - GoogFr:  Enseignement Counterinsurgency - trop peu, trop tard?

ISAF Statement on Alleged Civvy Cas in Fast Air Hit on Taliban Bad Boy

ISAF, ANA Sign Deal to Improve Security Co-operation in North

 

 

Osama to Europe:  You May Not Want to Stay in AFG - Voice of America - Reuters - AFP (.pdf) - Ben Laden demande aux Européens de cesser leur intervention en Afghanistan - plus

Dubya:  Oh Yeah, We'd Send Troops into PAK to Get Osama - permalink - PAK:  Ya Think So?

 

 

29 Nov 07

Three Wounded in Stable Condition - Radio Canada

 

CBC Online:  CAN Panel on Future of Mission Wraps Up Visit to AFG - Canadian Press - CanWest - more -CTV.ca - Radio Canada:  Manley complète sa tournée - Presse Canadienne - plus

 

30 talibans tués dans le sud de l'Afghanistan

 

CF Combat Camera Sending Holiday Messages from the Troops

 

AFG, ISAF Forces Make Big Drug Haul in Helmand - How the Brits Helped

 

Brit Jr. For Min:  Taliban Not Threat to AFG Regime - More - more - Talibans ne posent plus de menace crédible au gouvernement afghan (ministre britannique)

 

PAK Int Agency to Allegations of Detainee Abuse:  Whatcha Talkin' About? - More - more

 

UN Report on AQ/Taliban Sanctions (44pg .pdf):  English or francais - Permalink English - Permalink francais

 

Inquest:  Brit VC Killed by Friendly Fire

 

Amnesty Program for Taliban Willing to Stop Fighting - GoogFr: Programmes Takhim e-Solh, ou PTS programme, séduisant à de nombreux mécontents talibans - Killing of afghan boy drives father into arms of Taliban

NATO Using YouTube More to Sell ISAF Message - More

Time for a New Surge, Shifting US Marines from IRQ to AFG?

Brit Gas, Bullet & Bean Haulers Help in the Fight

 

US:  No Aerial Spraying of Poppies (For Now) - More

 

 

FIN, NOR protestent contre la libération des auteurs d'un attentat contre les soldats de l'Isaf - PRT Meeting in Vilnuis, Lithuania This Week - Swiss Aid to Continue (After Withdrawal of BOTH Officers) - EST Keeping their (128) Troops in the Game - Intervention de l’armée française en Afghanistan - GoogEng:  Whining About FRA Role in AFG

Taliban Big Boy Nailed in E.AFG - Raid aérien sanglant visait des talibans, selon le Pentagone

Taliban Burning Food Aid in PAK

 

 

28 Nov 07

Trois soldats canadiens ont été blessés - Three CF Soldiers Injured in IED Strike West of K'Har - GoogFr CBC - Canadian Press - GoogFr PC - CanWest - GoogFr CanWest

 

German TV Report on CAN Troops in Panjwai, Masum Ghar (YouTube, in German, but good video)

 

How CAN UAV is Helping in the Taliban Hunt - More - L’Escadrille de TUAV voit ce qui est invisible

 

Retour difficile des blessés de guerre - GoogEng:  Tough for Wounded to Return to the Fight

 

En soutien aux troupes - GoogEng:  Hockey Team Helps Families of the Fallen

 

NATO Cranking Up Search for Mo' Choppers - Permalink (.pdf) - More - more

 

 

Opinion:  Derrière ce gros titre figure le rappel à Berne de nos... deux officiers prêtant main-forte aux 50000 militaires alliés - GoogEng:  Swiss GTFO'ing Means TWO Troops Leave the Fray - Gotta Do More for the Hungry

 

UN Report:  3-7K Taliban in the Fight - Taliban Playing Nicer to Win Hearts, Minds? - GoogeFr:   Talibans ont évité les pires excès du passé - Taliban Running N.Helmand, Hope to Push South Soon - Musa Qala as Taliban Ghost Town

More on UK CDS Seeing Progress - More - RAF Air Control Team in Helmand

 

 

NOR Special Forces Help Free DEU Aid Worker Hostage - NOR condamne la libération des auteurs des attentats contre les troupes de l'ISAF - More on NOR Pissed at Release of Bombers - Paper on DEU Forces in AFG Recommends Mo' Troops (in the North) - Permalink (.pdf) - GoogEng:  Blogger's Assessment of AUS, NLD Staying - Blogger Pissed with Statements Made by Fmr DNK Red Cross Boss to Support Troops?

 

Brit PMC Bringing in Ex-Ghurkas to Help Guard USA Embassy

GoogEng:  Blog Review of New Book on Neo-Taliban - Amazon.ca Listing

Kids Feeling the Heat of the Fight

Paper:  "For (refugees) in Afghanistan, as well as for the country as a whole, appear bleak at the moment"

From Poppies to Cannabis...

 

27 Nov 07

CF Mil Cop First Woman to Serve in Pashmul Station - Pas facile pour femme militaire en Afghanistan

 

Conservative CAN MP Says We're Winning - Opp'n MPs Want to Know More About CAN Contracts in AFG

 

 

CAN Rockets Making it Off UK Apache Rails in AFG - Permalink (.pdf) - Let's Not Forget Royal Marine, C1A1, as Apache Weapon System

 

Breakdown of CF Cas by Vehicle Type

 

Forces canadiennes : Beaucoup de roulement - GoogEng:  AFG Making it Harder for Re-enlistments?

 

Sport Chek Sending Jerseys, Hockey Gear to Troops

Opinion:  Lettre-La paix ne s'impose pas par la force... - GoogEng:  More Than Just Force Needed

UK CDS Drops By Helmand

 

DNK Leopards Arrive in Theatre (3:17 video) - NLD Chooses AUS Bushmaster for Patrols - Que font les Français en Afghanistan ? Demandez aux Américains... - GoogEng:  USA Asking What's FRA Up to in AFG - NOR Pissed that Bombers Freed from Jail - FIN Even MORE Pissed 

 

ISAF No Longer Has Anything to Say About Latest Senlis Report - Permalink (.pdf) - Update on ISAF Ops Coming Tomorrow

UK Looking Into Allegations of Fratricide Against DNK Troops - More - Meanwhile, Bulgarian Heads Home After "an incident involving firearms, which resulted in the wounding of a French serviceman"

Video of Brit Hit in Butt Hits YouTube

 

Homicide Car Bomber Blows Up near CAN Embassy in Kabul - Attentat suicide à Kaboul: deux morts et sept blessés

Témoignage d'une alitiligérienne - GoogEng:  One Aid Worker's Testimony

What's TUR Doing About Opium, and Would it Be Useful to AFG? - GoogFr:  Opium: des solutions juridiques

 

 

26 Nov 07

The Troops Watching the Grey Cup in Kandahar - permalink (.pdf)

 

CAN Def Min Warning Against Lack of Resolve - More - GoogFr:  MacKay dit troupes ont besoin de notre soutien - plus

 

Face aux «durs» Tchétchènes - GoogEng:  Vandoos Up Against Hard Chechens in K'Har

 

AQ Video of K'Har Ambush - Chinook Breaks Landing Gear on Landing in Helmand

 

US NSC Report Says AFG Targets Not Being Met - More - permalink (.pdf) - more - Conflit s’enlise, selon la Maison-Blanche

 

More on 82 Abn on Patrol in Ghazni

OPSEC while fighting a war in a digital age

Soldats tournent le dos à l’armée - GoogEng:  Troops Leaving CF, Leaving CF Short?

 

Opinion:  "Perhaps the most tragic Canadian death in that land of valleys, mountains and caves...is one who despaired and took his own life." - Afghans don’t have option of ignoring Iranian neighbours - "Why on Earth are the NATO and U.S. forces and their Afghan allies killing more civilians than the Taliban?"

Deux soldats danois tués par des tirs britanniques - DNK Troops Killed in Sept 2006 by Brit Fire

 

Fmr Brit Army Boss:  UK forces facing "operational" defeat in AFG because government underfunding

Blogger with the Scots Guards in Helmand - "Playstation Gen" in Helmand

Business (Way Too) Good in Herat Burn Unit

 

 

Complaints About NOR Medics Being Too Well Armed? - Prodi à nouveau en difficulté à cause de l’AFG - GoogEng:  ITA PM Under Pressure with Latest Cas - ITA Staying (But Looking at New Plan?) - Even SOCCER GAMES Had a Moment of Silence for Fallen ITA Sapper - Général Waldemar Skrzypczak refuse de croire à la culpabilité des soldats polonais - GoogEng:  POL CDS Refuses to Believe Troops are Guilty

 

CHN Got More than JUST Copper Mine Deal

 

25 Nov 07

CAN Def Min Calls for Cdns to Stay the Course, Support the Troops

 

How the CF Herc Pilots Help in the Fight - GoogFracais:  CAN cargaison pilotes rencontrent genre différent de l'ennemi au cours de la mission AFG

 

More on Suicide Vandoo Laid to Rest - More - Funérailles de Frédéric Couture - plus

 

Opinion:  Et si le Canada perdait la guerre d'AFG? - GoogEng:  What if CAN Loses? - "Fatal Military Quagmire" Screed

 

 

« Si les talibans envoient leurs troupes de choc dans la région de Kandahar, c'est une preuve qu'elle revêt une certaine importance pour eux » - GoogEng:  Ret'd Gen Says if Taliban's in Town, They Want the Ground Bad

RMC Alum Help the Wounded

Eglises du Canada et le débat sur la présence militaire en Afghanistan - GoogEng:  CAN Churches & AFG Debate

Kandahar, où opèrent les Mirage français - GoogEng:  K'Har, Home of FRA's Mirage Jets

 

Taliban Claim Reclaiming a Bit of Farah - More - Spreading North, Too - More

Bad Boys Nabbed in Raid Against Taliban Wpn Smuggling Op in Zabul

Taliban Using Human Shields in Oruzgan Raid that Killed AUS SF Trooper

NY Times Slide Show of USA 82 Abn Ptl

ISAF Statement on Attack that Killed ITA Sapper

 

 

24 Nov 07

Hillier rejects idea of taking fight to PAK - Likes the "Mo' Troops" Idea from Senlis, Though

 

New CF Boss of AFG Military Mentoring Pgm: CF Troops will soon find "rapidly changing military landscape"

 

L'armée peint un portrait trop rose de AFG

 

More on Taliban Attack on AFG Cop Checkpoint in Arghandab

 

Opposition CAN MPs Accuse CF of Secrecy Re:  Taliban in AFG - Still No Report Posted to Committee Page

 

FRA For Min Defends CAN Treatment of Detainees

Big foreign firms still receive lion's share of reconstruction work

Opinion:  Forces limit contract information to protect AFG lives - Ottawa's line contradicted by latest Senlis report - How We Might Just Defeat the Taliban - OTAN sur la sellette - GoogEng:  NATO Under Fire

Lotsa Bottled Water on Base

 

Funérailles du soldat Frédéric Couture célébrées à Roxton Pond - GoogEng:  Funeral for Injured Vandoo Suspected of Killing Himself

 

Three Civvies Allegedly Killed in Oruzgan Bomb Factory Raid - AUS Looking Into It - Statement from Family of Fallen AUS SF Trooper

ITA Sapper Killed by Homicide Bomb Attack West of Kabul - More - GoogEng from Italian - Militaire ITA succombé à ses blessures

Royal Anglians Back into the Breach Soon? - NLD Reportedly Extending Mission Two Years to 2010 - Bavure polonaise en AFG - GoogEng:  More Questions About POL ROEs

UK Gunner Twins Get AFG Campaign Medal

Corruption, bribes and trafficking: a cancer engulfing AFG

 

 

23 Nov 07

Remembering in Valcartier - Soldat de Rivière-Rouge meurt en AFG

 

Intervention de l’OTAN au Pakistan: la proposition tombe à plat à Ottawa - GoogleEnglish:  Bloc, Liberals Don't Like Troops-Into-PAK Idea - CF Painting Not-Quite-As-Pessimistic View Than Latest Senlis Report - L'armée canadienne peint un portrait trop rose du conflit - Leaders reject Senlis report of Afghan 'crisis' - Président Karzaï, OTAN réfutent un rapport d'experts

 

Sec Gen to Bring Optimistic Message to Manley Panel in Kabul Today

 

NATO Sec Gen:  ISAF Forces "doing all they can to avoid Afghan civilian casualties" - Sees Progress - OTAN Sec Gen en visite en AFG

 

L'armée AFG désormais prête à déployer 24000 soldats - GoogleEnglish:  More AFG Troops Ready for the Fight

 

Seven AFG Cops Killed in Arghandab District, K'Har Province - Sept policiers tués dans le sud

CF Training AFG Cops in First Aid - CAN Aid Also Funding Civvy Community Health Workers

CF Support Agency Civvy Wants to Head Back

Polyglot (USA) Thanksgiving @ FOB Airborne in AFG

Karzai:  Taliban Want a Solution, Too - More on Taliban "Reaching Out" to Central Gov't - Contacts taliban-gouvernement - Karzaï démenti rumeurs portant sur la coopération entre IRN, Taliban - GoogleEnglish:  AFG Denies (Again) IRN Linked to Taliban

Chef d'état-major de la Défense italienne: situation en Afghanistan exige plus une stratégie politique qu'une stratégie militaire - GoogEng - New NATO Mil Chair:  More Political than Military Strategy Needed

 

Opinion:   "the yawning gap between what the NATO capitals regard as success, and the reality on the ground is in danger of becoming an exercise in political and bureaucratic self-delusion" - "Senlis report gives a harsh assessment of Nato prospects in Afghanistan, but it still reflects the fantasy that there is a military solution"

 

Blandine Couillard récupère son passeport - GoogleEnglish:  Arrested U of Sherbrooke Reporter Gets FRA Passport Back

 

Nailing Taliban in Oruzgan

AUS Spec Ops Trooper Killed in Raid on Oruzgan Bomb Making Factory - More - Father of Fallen Proud

Brit VC Nominee:  "The injured guys just aren't appreciated enough." - How Some are Being Treated in UK

ISAF nails "foreign fighter facilitators" in Ghazni - Coalition mène une opération contre des militants étrangers

PM polonais prêt à s'excuser auprès de la nation afghane - GoogEng:  POL PM Seeks Forgiveness if Mistakes Made in Incident Under Investigation

 

 

Supporting vulnerable Afghans in Balochistan's refugee villages

 

La Chine a devancé les Etats-Unis, la Russie et le Canada pour un deal pour une mine de cuivre - GoogleEnglish:  More on CHN Beating Out CAN, RUS, USA for Copper Mine Deal

 

22 Nov 07

Think Tank Recommendations:  Double NATO Troops in AFG, Have 'em Hunt Taliban in PAK, and Have 'Em Deliver Aid in AFG - Full report (.pdf, 111pg, 3.3MB) - Executive Summary - Security Recommendations - Development Recommendations - News Release - News Coverage:  Focus on "Half of AFG is Under Taliban Thumb" Story Line - L'OTAN est incitée à attaquer les bases talibanes au Pakistan - News search "Senlis" results (.pdf) - Résultats de nouvelles recherche "Senlis" (.pdf)

 

Meanwhile, Senlis Also Lays Out Business Case for Lotsa Little Labs Making Medicine Outta Opium Across AFG - Report Summary

 

Taliban Claim Nabbing, Beheading Cops in Sangin

More on CAN Private Security for Kabul Embassy - Lotsa Work for Private Sector Security These Days

Karzai:  Yeah, We've Been Talking to the Taliban

Opinion:  CAN Senator Says CF Just Lucky Not Seeing More Cas (.pdf)

AFG Not Exactly Supporting CAN in UN

 

Macleans Magazine Shares Some CF Fallen's Last Letters Home (.pdf) - Returning CF Nurse Shares Story

CAN Def Min Calls Opposition "Un-Canadian" for Allegations of Youth Detainees

 

POL Troops Under Fire for ROEs? - More on Swiss GTFO'ing - L'armée suisse retire son personnel d'AFG - AFG Passes on CZE Submachine Guns, Accepts Gunship, Transport Choppers (.pdf)

Arbour:  Time to Press Harder to Clean Up AFG Justice System

PAK:  No, We're NOT Going to Kick Out AFG Refugees (Suddenly)

 

Helmand Farmers Chopping Down Pomegranate Trees, Planting Opium - One Aid Group's Explanation (.pdf):  "If I grow onions I have to take them to the market and in doing so I may have to go through a of checkpoints. In doing so I will have to pay backsheesh to the ANP, militia or whoever it might be. By the time I get to the market I am uncompetitive at best; at worst I can suffer physical injury. It is far better to grow a crop where the trade comes to you; it arrives at your farm gate and buys from you. They inherit the transaction and transportation costs. If there is a degree of insecurity and you have to leave the house you can take with you a few kilograms of opium; you cannot carry a bag of onions."

 

OXFAM Report to UK House of Commons Committee (.pdf)

Journalism Trainer's Day: "A suicide bomber in a white Toyota Corolla is reportedly looking for us in the streets of Lashkar Gah, one of our reporters is in jail, three out of four of our team are down with some form of dysentery, and the only plane out has just nicked a propeller trying to land on the rock-strewn dirt strip that passes for a runway."

 

 

21 Nov 07

They're Home - more - Dépouilles des deux militaires tués en Afghanistan rentrent eau pays - plus - plus

 

Fmr CAN Btl Gp Cdr Says Situation Improving

 

Civvy Contractors Free Up Bayonets - More on Contracting in AFG - What a Surprise!!!:  CF Has to Buy Rifles, Bullets

CF Looking for Civvy Help in Investigating IEDs - MERX Request for Proposals - permalink to RFP (.pdf) - Canada d'investir $210 million dans la recherche et développement pour combattre les redoutables engins explosifs improvisés - GoogleEnglish:  $210M into CAN Anti-IED Research

 

USA Ambassador to CAN:  "We can't give people hope and then walk away and leave them at the hands of their oppressors..." - Albright plaide pour la poursuite de la mission en AFG - GoogleEnglish:  Fmr USA For Min Wants AFG Mission to Continue - CAN Think Tank Academic:  "You just can't walk away from it, even if we got in there not knowing what we were doing. We're there."

 

CF General/NATO Mil Chair:  Development, Governance Work Underfuded - NGO to Lay Out What CAN's Success Measures Should Be in AFG

 

UN Human Rights Boss:  "I am reassured that there has been a sober realisation by ISAF commanders of this concern and a willingness to address (civilian casualties)  in a constructive way." - Alternate site for statement (.pdf) - More - more - more - GoogleFrancais:  Arbour dit "le nombre de victimes civiles résultant de la FIAS et d'autres opérations militaires internationales atteint des niveaux alarmants dans le courant de cette année" - plus - plus - plus

 

CAN PM Says Only Single "Credible" Case of Torture in AFG - Meanwhile, USA Routinely Transferring Prisoners to AFG Authorities

Opinion:  "Afghanistan has a long way to go before it can be described as a country that is not only stable, but adheres to the rule of law." - "I dare anyone to read (Christie Blatchford's new book) Fifteen Days, then stand before Canadian warriors ....  and tell them that Canada is wrong-headed in its involvement with Afghanistan." - more - Comparing Soviet, Western "Propaganda" on War in AFG

 

Une journaliste risque l’expulsion du Canada - La FPJQ proteste contre une arrestation a Sherbrooke - plus - Communiqué de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec - GoogleEnglish:  Reporter from France, Writing for U of Sherbrooke Paper, Arrested at Anti-War Rally in Sherbrooke, Risks Explusion from CAN - More GoogleEnglish - Blogger's View of Original Protest - GoogleEnglish version of QC Journalists Federation statement

 

USA, AFG Troops Bring Medics to Kandahar City, Tag Ab Valley - AFG Troops Nailing Taliban in Oruzgan

L'armée suisse se retire d'AFG - GoogleEnglish:  Swiss Troops GTFO

Brit MPs Worried about Taliban - Report - Itinerary During AFG Visit - More

AFG Red Crescent Worried About Internal Refugees, Too - Security Situation Limiting Returns

CHN Wins Copper Mine Deal in AFG

 

20 Nov 07 

Zhari:  CF Maintains Presence, but Taliban Pushing

Quebec soldier to march behind her partner's coffin

Analyst:  Can't Protect 100% Against IEDsRate of CF Wounded Up? (.pdf)

 

Son fils militaire s’est enlevé la vie - GoogleEnglish:  More Troops Committing Suicide?

CF paying K'Har warlord for services in AFG? - Tim Hortons à Kandahar : sa présence soulève des questions - How Tim's Got to AFG

CAN Def Min:  Kids Kept Separate in AFG Jails - More - CAN Opposition Pile on Gov't Over AFG Prison Conditions, Abuse - Des mineurs remis aux autorités afghanes

 

Débats intenses sur l'achat de chars de combat

L'Afghanistan veut plus que des puits - GoogleEnglish: AFG wants more than just wells dug by CAN

 

Opinion: AFG Not Lost (But Way More Development Needed) - Jihadists aren't in AFG because 'we' are - GoogleFrancais: Jihadistes ne sont pas en AFG parce que "nous" sommes la

Chretien: "si les Américains ne s'étaient pas engagés en Irak .... ces ressources auraient pu être consacrées à l'Afghanistan" - GoogleEnglish: Chretien Says USA Shoulda Put Troops into AFG, Not IRQ

Blood Donation Campaign @ K'Har Hospital

Taste of home for troops

Taliban Nailed in Oruzgan

 

19 Nov 07

 

CAN, AFG Troops Keep Pushing Taliban - Une centaine talibans de tués ou blessés au sud - CAN Troops Retake Taliban Birthplace (In Spite of Human Shields)

 

Latest CF Fallen Continue Their Trip Home - More - Des mois plus calmes à prévoir - Hommage aux militaires canadiens - Cérémonie en l'honneur de deux soldats canadiens tués - Michel Lévesque : fier et courageux - Plus - Déclaration de la famille du Soldat Michel Jr. Lévesque - GoogleEnglish:  Levesque family statement - Nicolas Beauchamp : “Il s'en allait en mission pour aider” - Plus - Young Quebecers felt called to duty - Small-town Quebec man was 'confident in our army' - A spouse loses her comrade, a bride-to-be loses her groom

 

Latest CAN Leopard Lease from DEU Tangled with Bureaucracy

 

Drug Poochies Busy @ KAF

 

How the Private Sector is Helping Keep CF Troops Fighting - Tim Horton's in AFG Pretty Pricey

 

Opinion:  Mort de deux soldats de Valcartier: «signaux inquiétants» - Là où la mort peut frapper à tout moment - Western countries don’t treat detainees well either - Le retrait d’Afghanistan est-il en train de devenir une option?

 

Taliban Hangs AFG Cops in Oruzgan

 

UK Royal Marines Headed Back Next Year - NZL Troops Extend Tour - Nouvelle-Zélande poursuit son déploiement militaire en AFG - DEU Says They're Not Letting Allies Down

 

UN Agency Calls for Harder Push Against Opium - More - UN Office on Drugs & Crime news release on latest study - report (.pdf) - Alternate download site

 

AFG fifth last on global index of human development - More - 2007 Afghanistan Human Development Report - report (.pdf) - Alternate download site

 

 

18 Nov 07