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CAN in Kandahar News Archive (Apr-Dec 2006)


10 Feb 09

RCR Battle Group Troop Help in Latest Round of OP Royal Storm

Injured Soldier Recovering

 

CAN Def Min on Anti-Drug Ops:  "Canadian troops at this time are not directly involved in eradication exercises. That has not been identified as a priority for our country."

 

CAN Def Min:  "rising cost of the country's military mission in Afghanistan .... worth the expense, even though the economic crisis is starting to bite hard" - Progress, But Slow - Text of speech (.pdf permalink) - More

 

USA Pres Not Expected to Ask CAN for Mission Extension

"Real, perceived Taliban keeping Kandahar on edge" (.pdf permalink) - "Taliban's random IED attacks leave Canadian troops nervous" - Same Story, Different Headline

 

CAN Army, Air Force Practice Using New UAVs Before Heading Over (video) - How UAVs Changing the Way Wars are Fought (.pdf permalink) - Construction Engineers Train for AFG in the Tropics

 

Anti-Boeing Blogger on CAN Use of C-17

 

Former PPCLI Battle Group Commander Speaks to Military College Cadets

 

"NATO Commander Encouraged by Afghanistan Discussions in Munich" - Says Surge Needed for Five Years - Chair of USA Joint Chiefs:  "Surge in Afghanistan Unlikely to Surpass 30,000" - Aims to Increase Time Between Deployments

 

"Afghan National Police-led force kills suspected mid-level Taliban commander in Helmand" - Civvies Injured in Taliban Ambush of ISAF Patrol, ISAF Investigating

 

More on Expansion of KAF Hospital

 

UK For Min Says Taliban Creating "Strategic Stalemate" in Some Parts of AFG - UK Rejobs Ambassador to AFG as New AFG-PAK Special Envoy - Official UK Statement - Incumbent's Blog from 2007 - AUS COIN Expert's Testimony to US Senate Foreign Relations Committee - Yet Another Brit Poochie Story

 

AQ Reorgs in PAK, AFG Leads to New "Shadow Army"

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch:  "3 another tanks of American invaders destroyed in Kandahar 9/2/09" (GoogEng) - "1 tank of American invaders destroyed in Kandahar 9/2/09" (GoogEng) - "3 British invaders 2 puppet soldiers killed in Helmand 8/2/09" (Official English followed by GoogEng translation from Arabic) - "11 invaders and puppet soldiers killed in Nad Ali, Helmend 8/2/09" (GoogEng) - "7 (B)ritish invaders killed in Sangin, Helmend 8/2/09" (GoogEng) - "(F)urious battle in Helmend, 7 enemy soldiers killed 8/2/09" (GoogEng) - "(P)uppet officer and 2 soldiers killed in Nimroz 9/2/09" (GoogEng)

 

"Poppy Crop Now Targeted in Afghan War"

 

Opinion:  "Karzai and his international backers need to find a common language to describe just where the country is, where it must go, and what each partner must do to move it forward." - US Should Focus Around Kabul, Not in South, East

 

 

9 Feb 09

More CAN Troops Heading to AFG - More

 

More on (Possibly) Longer CAN Tours During AFG Elections

 

Injured Soldier Expected Back in Canada This Week

 

Haqqani Network (more background) Moving into Kandahar Province (.pdf permalink)

 

AFG Gov't Asks for ISAF Help in Nailing Drug Smugglers - AFG Minister Says NATO Should be Tracking, "Eliminating" Them - More - US General Says Raids on Drug Labs "Imminent" - New USA Envoy May Try Getting IRN to Work on Drug Smuggling, Too

 

New USA Envoy:  AFG "Tougher" Than IRQ - More

 

Helmand Official Beheaded by "Guests" - More

 

Brit Officer Who Allegedly Leaked Civvy Cas Info Also Briefed UN Officials on Same Data

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch:  Summary, Canadian casualty references, January 2009 (.pdf)

 

Opinion: "Targeting dealers poppycock; let’s buy poppy crop" - "Everyone wants a piece of the Afghan war"

 

 

8 Feb 09

Sean Greenfield, R.I.P.:  "Brave pal remembered" (.pdf permalink)

 

"With fighting season fast approaching in Kandahar, Canadian soldiers have been venturing deep into Taliban territory to gather information and disrupt their activities before summer foliage and an influx of fighters make the same tasks much more difficult."

 

CAN Companies Want to Help Expand KAF for Surge

 

More on CAN Engineers Training AFG Engineers, New UAVs Hitting the Skies

 

Two Americans Killed (Reportedly) Trying to Disarm Helmand IED - US Forces in AFG Statement - more

 

"Obama has demanded that American defence chiefs review their strategy in Afghanistan before going ahead with a troop surge" - SACEUR Boss Says Surge Needed

 

NATO SecGen Bashes European Countries (Again) for Not Sending Mo' Troops - CENTCOM Commander Asks Europeans for Mo' Help, Too - More - DEU, France "Dodge" Issue

 

USA Reportedly Hoping AUS Takes More of the Fight On as NLD Withdraws - More on AUS COIN Expert Speaking to US Senate Foreign Relations Committee

 

AFG Pres Invites Taliban Not Linked to AQ to Come Home - More - more

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch:  "2 puppet policeman killed in Zaranj, Nimroz 7/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic

 

7 Feb 09

CAN Def Min:  "We're not going specifically to eradicate poppy crops, but we would go after proven drug traffickers with operations linked to the terrorists"

 

Incoming CAN Commander in AFG:  “The American forces aren’t coming in superimposed on us. Their deployment is going to be complementary to us.”

 

CAN Police Training/Mentoring an Uphill Push

 

Ronald Kevin Megeney, 1982-2007, R.I.P.: Counsel for Soldier Charged in Killing says Jury Selection Process Unfair - More Legal Wrangling

 

One Tim Horton Worker's Story in K'Har, Part 1 - Part 2

 

NATO Sec-Gen: "I am frankly concerned when I hear the United States is planning a major commitment for Afghanistan, but other allies ruling out doing more"

 

Ulama Shura Cleric Killed in Kandahar Province

 

AFG Cops, ISAF Forces Kill Bad Guys in Helmand - Zabul Ops "Disrupt" Bombing Cells - More on Allegations of Civvy Deaths - AUS Troops Deal with Weapons Caches in Oruzgan

 

COIN Expert: "My impression is that Australia is actually doing very well amongst the Allies. What I would say though is we all need to look a bit more broadly beyond troops and look to things like civilian administrators" - More - USA General Tells Ft. Bragg Audience to Expect More AFG Deployments

 

"British troops to wear smart earplugs in Afghan combat"

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch:  "3 invaders killed and a some wounded in Garmser, Helmend 6/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - "(B)ritish foot patrol blew up in Sangin, Helmend 4/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - "Americans have taken their decision as per their own discretion"

 

"Humanitarian Assistance for Afghan Refugees and IDPs" 6 Feb 09 Update

 

RUS Offers Territory for USA-AFG (Non-Military) Shipments - More - more - Kyrgyzstan: Closure of USA Air Base "Final" - "US mulls Uzbek alternative" - Two Way Squeeze

 

 

6 Feb 09

Sean Greenfield, R.I.P.:  Funeral Tomorrow

 

Two CAN Soldiers Injured in Shah Wali Kot IED Blast:  Canadian Press - National Post/CanWest - CBC.ca

 

3 RCR Battle Group Work with AFG Forces, Royal Marines and US Army on OP Operation ATAL 53

 

Flickr Fotos:  AFG Sappers Trained by CAN Troops Graduate Basic Engineering Course

 

Injured Soldiers Hit the Slopes to Help Recover

 

"NATO commander tones down drug lord orders" - Meanwhile, Big Drug Haul Torched

 

OK, So Which Comes First - Decision to Send Troops or the Strategy? - USA Pressing Europe for Help

 

Taliban Bad Boy, Base North of Kajaki Nailed by Brits - Yet Another Motorcyclist Shot Refusing to Stop During a Firefight in Helmand - Six (Civvies?) Killed in Zabul Night Raid - More - more

 

Brit Poochie Story - New Rations for UK Troops - More - Review of Said Rations

 

Taliban Strategy:  Screw Up Supply Lines, Election

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch:  "The officer of puppet intelligence killed in Kandahar sity 5/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - "armored vehicles of invaders destroyed on Kandahar-Uruzgan road 5/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - "The son of governor Musa Qala mulla Abdul Salam and his bodyguards killed 4/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic

 

 

5 Feb 09

Joshua Brian Roberts, 1978-2008, R.I.P.:   Questions Linger, Even After Investigation?

 

CAN Troops Do Gas Station Recce in Zhari

 

New K'Har Governor: Wants to Talk to Taliban, Promote Girls' Education & Rights

 

Not Just Families, Friends Sending Care Packages

"Afghan detainee hearing blocked; Justice Department wants inquiry to be stayed" - More

 

USA Finalizing Surge Plans - More - "Afghan Defense Chief Says More Foreign Troops Will Curb Civilian Deaths"

 

UN Sec-Gen Drops By for Security Talks - Confirms Support for AFG - More - Drops By PAK, Too

 

NATO Mil Boss Taking Second Look at Rules for Fighting Drug Lords

 

Blast Kills Helmand Governor's Bodyguards - More

 

AFG Says Bad Guys Coming from IRQ - More - AFG Minister:  Six Outta Ten Taliban Foreigners - Taliban Using Fear, Persuaion in the Fight

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch:  "tank of invaders blew up in Kandahar 3/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - "In explosion many puppet soldiers killed in Kandahar 3/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - "vehicle of puppet army blew up in Kandahar 3/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - "tank of invaders destroyed in Girishk, Helmend 3/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - "Vehicle of puppet army blew up, 6 soldiers killed in Uruzgan 3/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - Interview with "Mullah Alauddin, commander of Islami Emarate Afghanistan in Kandahar" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic

 

Opinion:  "A radical solution is for the US and its European allies to buy up the entire Afghan opium crop every year and turn much of it over for medical purposes around the world."

 

USA January 2009 Report to Congress on AFG (.pdf)

 

RUS:  We Want to Help USA in AFG - Meanwhile, in the Bigger Picture....

 

 

4 Feb 09

Sean Greenfield, R.I.P.:  He's Home - More - more - more - more - more

 

CAN Troops Waiting for NATO Guidance on Hunting, Killing Drug Lords - "Pentagon and NATO officials are weighing options to act against Afghanistan’s poppy-producing industry in light of evidence indicating that associated illegal drug sales help to fund terrorist operations"

 

CAN Women Flying CAN Choppers - More on CAN's Helicopters, UAVs in the Fight

 

Opinion:  "President Barack Obama visits Ottawa Feb. 19 to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It's entirely possible Obama will ask Harper for further commitments beyond Canada's current Afghanistan withdrawal date of 2011. Canada's answer should be no." - "Even as United States President Barack Obama prepares to deploy more military forces to Afghanistan .... a consensus on overall US strategy there remains elusive."

 

Flickr Photos of KAF Hospital Expansion

 

ISAF Forces Take Care of Compound Full of Bad Guys in Helmand Mine in K'Har Defused, Would-Be Homicide Bombers Nabbed in Uruzgan

 

UN Rep Says 2,100 Civvies Killed in 2008 - Taliban Responsible for More Than Half the Deaths - More - Meanwhile, Brit Officer Charged Under Official Secrets Act for Casualty Leaks to Human Rights Worker

 

UN Releases Afghanistan 2009 Humanitarian Action Plan

 

US Security Contractor Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Scientist Burning Case - More - more

Pentagon Spokesperson:  Mo' Troops Needed to Establish "Baseline of Security" - Full Transcript of Briefing

 

 

3 Feb 09

Sean Greenfield, R.I.P.:  Arrives in CAN This Afternoon - More - more

 

James Hayward Arnal, 1983-2008, R.I.P.:  One of the Fallen Gets His Birthday Wish

 

CAN Griffon Choppers Complete First Sortie at War - More

 

Wanted Cheerleading Team to Cheer Up USA Troops in AFG

 

"NATO commanders in Afghanistan want a virtual version of the country, to test out battle plans and forecast future unrest."

 

AFG MPs Pissed at Delayed Election - K'Har Governor: Harsh winter, not violence, delayed presidential vote

 

ISAF Commander Pissed at Homicide Bomber Attack at Uruzgan Cop Training Centre

 

"Accidental Guerillas" in Uruzgan

 

"Taleban Hamper Musa Qala Reconstruction Efforts"

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch:  "Martyrdom attack killed 27 puppet soldiers in Uruzgan 2/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - "More 16 puppet soldiers killed in some attacks in Kandahar 2/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic - "2 vihicles of puppet police destroyed in Kandahar 2/2/09" (GoogEng) - Original in Arabic

 

Opinion:  "Propaganda infuses news from Afghanistan" - Army.ca Discussion - "The painful truth is that Canada will not be capable of remaining in Afghanistan in a combat role beyond 2011." - The Torch:  CBC, Documentarist Discovers CAN Not "Peacekeeping" in AFG!

 

Pomegranates Bring in $ in K'Har

 

"Top UN official to Afghanistan calls for push to end opium production" - "UN drugs tsar warns of "Pyrrhic victory" against Afghan opium" - Afghanistan Opium Winter Assessment Jan 2009

 

Khyber Pass Bridge in PAK Blown, Blocking NATO Supply Line - More - more - more - Tricky Routes=No Doritos, Irish Spring Soap

 

 

2 Feb 09

Sean Greenfield, R.I.P.:  On His Way Home - More - more - Mother, Friends in Petawawa Mourn - More - more - ISAF Statement - ISAF Photos of Ramp Ceremony

 

Taliban Attack Patrol Base Bandit, Civvies Killed - More - more

 

FOB in Helmand Helps Locals Through Clinic - Photos of Clinic - DNK Running Radio Station, Too - Photos:  Brits Teach Locals About Mines - DNK Troops Working with AFG in Helmand After Major Op

 

Latest Brit Fallen Friendly Fire?

 

Homicide Bomber Kills Almost 20 at Uruzgan Police Training Centre - More - UN Uber-Envoy: "I am deeply saddened by the news we have received today from Uruzgan province of a bomb attack at a police centre in Tirinkot that has left many dead or wounded."

 

Analysis:  "Taliban and Afghan drug barons unite to create instability" - UN Uber-Envoy: "Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is set to shrink this year, which could deal a major blow to the illicit drug industry"

 

Taliban statement on tribal militias: "....The formation of new militias is testifying the fact that US, NATO and Afghan National Army and Police forces have completely suffered defeat against the Taliban.  They are like a drowning person trying to catch any floating object.  They are repeating the same communists’ experience...." (.pdf permalink of entire statement)

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch:  Summary, 25-31 Jan 09 (.pdf) -  "1 tank of Canadian invaders army destroyed in Kandahar" (second item) - "Tank of british invaders destroyed in Kandahar 1/2/09" (GoogEng) (Original in Arabic) - "Attack on base of puppet army in Nimroz 1/2/09" (GoogEng) (Original in Arabic)

 

Opinion:  "How the Afghan War Threatens Nato" - "Can the New Administration Keep Canada as an Ally in Afghanistan?"

 

 

1 Feb 09

Sean Greenfield, R.I.P.:  CF Statement - Commander in Chief Statement - Prime Minister's Statement - Minister of National Defence's Statement - Canadian Press - CanWest/National Post - Calgary Herald - CTV.ca - CBC.ca - Pembroke Daily Observer - Reuters - Agence France-Presse

 

How CAN Air is Helping Get Things Done More Safely - "Surge of U.S. troops in Afghanistan will take weight off Canadians, allow more reconstruction, training"

 

More on K'Har Governor Visiting CAN Asking for Help - "Young Drug Addicts Population Soaring in Kandahar"

 

New AFG "Security Unit" funded by USA for Hot Spots?

 

Latest Brit Fallen Identified

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch:  "6 puppet army soldiers killed, check post demolished in Kandahar 31/1/09" - "2 supplies trucks of American invaders were destroyed in Kandahar 31/1/09"

 

How USA Spec Forces Handled "Tribal Engagement", Page 1 - Page 2 (.pdf permalink of entire article)

 

Constitutional Question Over Pres Election Delay?

 

 

31 Jan 09

Joshua Brian Roberts, 1978-2008, R.I.P.:  Parents Want New Investigation into Death

 

Robert Thomas James Mitchell, 1973-2006, R.I.P.:  Parents Receive Peace Tower Flag

 

Injured CAN Soldier Continues to Recover - More on Injured Sniper Marrying His Medic

CAN Trainer:  “It’s like watching a child grow .... But we’ve made some progress.”

 

CAN Pay Clerk Helps Smooth the Paperwork - CAN Embed Gets Chopper Ride

 

Coming ROTO Practice in USA Desert

 

Four Killed, Eight Nabbed in IED Cell "Disruption" in K'Har (See Taliban version third item below in "Taliban Propaganda Watch")

 

Most Students @ K'Har School Back At It After Acid Attacks

 

Brit Soldier Killed in Helmand Firefight - More - "Danish soldiers in Afghanistan are only able to rely on necessary air support in 75 percent of operations" - "British troops in Helmand get extra helicopters at last"

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch:  "5 Puppet army soldiers killed in Kandahar city 30/1/09" - "Attacked on supplying convoy of American invaders in Kandahar 30/1/09" - Official English-Google English translation of Arabic portion - "American invader army terrorists martyr 5 civilians in Kandahar 30/1/09" - "American invader terrorists martyred 3 civilians in Zabul 30/1/09" - More Pictures of Taliban Fighters (.pdf screen capture)

 

"A U.S. government oversight agency says Afghanistan's reconstruction program has no coherent spending strategy to implement its goals." - Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) January 30, 2009 Quarterly Report to Congress (Alternate report - 11Mb .pdf - download site)

 

AFG Pres Picks on West During Election Campaign

 

RUS Media says RUS, NATO Agree to Supply Routes

 

 CAN in Kandahar News July 2007


 

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