9 Apr 09
More Troops Coming Home
Survey Says AFG Family Law Sapping CAN Support for Mission
UN Team Studying Use of Private Military Contractors Wraps Up Visit to AFG
POL Sending More Troops
Taliban Propaganda Watch: Taliban Claims 33 AFG, Foreign Troops Killed in Fighting in Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul (link to non-jihadi web page)
Opinion: "Pakistan: “The Taliban’s Godfather”?"
8 Apr 09
CAN's Former RoCK: "We have a lot of strengths that the Americans understand. They’re not going to completely overwhelm us from that perspective." (.pdf permalink)
Royal 22nd Regiment Historian in AFG
The Article on Tanks in AFG - The Torch with the REST of the Story
Stories of Some of the Returning Troops - More - more
American Company Gets Contract for Small UAVs for CAN - Original Tender Call
USA Happy to See AFG Family Law Reviewed - Review Could Take a Few Months
Afghans Often Happy to Be Safer (But Still Reluctant to Help USA Troops)
Civvies Injured in Kandaar IED Blast - Remembering One of the Fallen in K'Har
Uruzgan Political, Military Leaders Sign Deal Moving Closer to More Afghans Protecting Afghans
USA Special Envoy Wishes USA Knew More about Taliban - UK Troops Fighting the Info War in Helmand
Taliban Propaganda Watch: Taliban Claims Ambush in K'Har, Killing of Italian Troops in Zabul (link to non-jihadi web page)
Opinion: "Canada sets example for wartime grieving"
7 Apr 09
CAN Air Force to Map AFG - Politically Correct "Nose Art" on CAN Chinooks - A Sample of the Art
One of the Injured Happy to Be Home in CAN
Is CBC Still Showing Body Bags of the Fallen on Video?
CAN War Artist Continues Work on Book
More on CAN Fixing Up K'Har Irrigation System
Another CAN Poochie Story
CAN Foreign Affairs Minister Says AFG "Reworking" Controversial Family Law
US Commander Says Handoff Years Away - USMC Commandant Says Bad Guys May Have Heavy MGs to Shoot at Helicopters
Bad Boys Killed, Nabbed During Four Days Fighting in Helmand, Zabul - More - Some Killed in Uruzgan, Too
NLD Soldier Killed, Five Injured in Rocket Attack on Uruzgan Base - More - ISAF Statement
"Dutch Success in Afghanistan May Hold Little Promise for Obama"
Taliban Propaganda Watch: Taliban Claims Foreign Convoy Attack in Zabul
6 Apr 09
2 RCR Troops Start Arriving Home
Un jeune soldat canadien contribue à l'arrestation d'un présumé insurgé
CAN Psychiatrist Helping Hearts, Souls of Troops
CAN PM on AFG Family Law: "The involvement in the international community, and particularly Canada and our NATO allies, is based on the pursuit of very fundamental values in opposition to the kinds of values the Taliban stood for .... If we drift from that, there will be a clear diminishment in allied support for this venture." - Une conférence canadienne pourrait mobiliser les forces contre une loi afghane - No Furor Among Afghans - "Women choose exile as Taliban laws return" - "By re-instating Shariah law, (President Karzai) may invoke the condemnation of the western powers, but he may also earn himself the necessary blessing of the mujahedeen warlords and their followers."
Meanwhile, CAN Female Officer Keeping a Grip in Charge of Road Crews in Panjwaii - Une capitaine canadienne impose les respect aux Afghans sur un chantier
Floods in Kandahar, Avalanches in Daykundi
USA Chair of Joint Chiefs Says Troop Surge Will "certainly start to allow us to turn the tide" - "Lukewarm Afghan commitment raises credibility issues for NATO" - More - "NATO nations fail to meet Obama's hopes for boost in troops to match his 'Afghan surge' of 21,000 new soldiers"
UK CDS Blames NATO for "Failing to Resource" Mission - More
Taliban Propaganda Watch: Taliban Claims to have Destroyed 2 British "Tanks"
5 Apr 09
Sharp CAN Reservist Helps Nab Bad Guy
CAN PM: “Canada’s principal objective at this (NATO) Summit was to emphasize the importance of the commitment of NATO and its Allies to securing and stabilizing Afghanistan .... This was Canada’s key priority going into the summit and it remains Canada’s key priority” (.pdf permalink) - New NATO Training Mission in AFG - NATO Summit Statement: "NATO expands its role in Afghanistan"
President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Speech (.pdf): "Our brave men and women deployed in Afghanistan are capable, willing and professional, but they are too few in number and too constrained by national caveats." - OK, Which is it: NATO Sending 5K More Troops or NATO Sending 3K More Troops? - US Military Media Say 5K - UK Media Says 5K Too
- Aid Groups Worry Mo' Troops=Mo' Civvy Casualties - Report Details
USA, NATO Twisting Arms on New AFG Family Law - CAN, Too - ITA Considering Wd Female Troops? - More on CAN's Doing for AFG Women & Girls (.pdf permalink) - AFG Pres Says Law Being Reviewed - Says Western Response "Inappropriate"
CAN PRT Rep Tells Her Story (Thanks again, IE!)
Clock is Ticking for CAN Web Page Developer Kidnapped by PAK Taliban - More
Anti-AFG War Protesters Now Slamming NATO, Not USA - Blog Commentary
ISAF Soldier Killed in South
"For the British soldiers stationed in Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan's insurgent-ridden Helmand province, success is not so much about building schools and wells but gaining the trust of the people."
Taliban Propaganda Watch: "Canadian invader patrol blew up, 4 soldiers killed in Maiwand, Kandahar 4/4/09" (GoogEng) - Arabic and Farsi version - Arabic and Farsi version on non-jihadi web page - More Taliban Claims in RC South - More
More on Graduating AFG Border Guards
US Army Strategic Studies Institute Paper: ".... Civilian development agencies - USAID, NGOs, the UN, the Afghan government’s National Solidarity Program - cannot do the same job as the PRTs. Each plays a role in reconstruction, but none match the PRTs’ capacity to complete projects in contested areas ...."
PAK Taliban Profits from "Blood Emeralds"
4 Apr 09
CAN PM Says He Worries Recession Could Mean More Unrest, More Casualties in AFG
CEFCOM Commander: News of More USA Troops "like music to my ears" - Former CAN TF Commander: "I think our reaction to the new U.S. strategy would be thunderous applause"
CAN Helping Rebuild K'Har Gov't Office After Homicide Bomber Attack
IEDs=3/4 Coalition Casualties in AFG
UK Sending 1K More Troops - UK's 1 RIFLES Returning Home - Update on Injured AUS Troops
Taliban Propaganda Watch: "Killing and wounding among the ranks of Enlgish (sic) troops in an attack and explosion in MusaQala in the province of Helmand 02/04/09" (GoogEng) - "Killing 4 and injuring 5 from the occupiers in 3 explosions in MusaQala in the province of Helmand 04/03/09 " (GoogEng) - "Destruction of a tank belonging to the Amercians (sic) in the province of Oruzgan 02/04/09" (GoogEng) - More Taliban Claims
UK's Times Shares Text of Controversial New Law (.pdf permalink) - "Afghan law throws wrench into U.S. bid for bigger NATO role in conflict" - "Don't abandon Afghanistan out of righteous indignation" - "How to give Taliban the finger" (.pdf permalink) - Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan web page
Opinion: "Which Way in Afghanistan? Ask Colombia For Directions."
USA Signs Cargo Transit Deal with UZB - More
3 Apr 09
CEFCOM Commander: Expect More Violence with More Troops on Ground - Says He'd Like Even More Troops
Gagetown Troops Returning
Letter Writer Calls CAN Tank Delay "Disgraceful"
CAN Troops Impressed with AFG Trainees/Mentees - Brits Train Up AFG Combat Support Troops
CAN Aid Worker: "It is impossible to count how many lives have been saved by our country's presence there"
NATO STILL Waiting for 4K More Troops Requested for the South - USA Says Some Willing to Give - May Even Twist Arms? - More
Flickr Pix: AFG Border Guards Graduate at Spin Boldak
More on Multi-Homicide-Bomber Attack on K'Har Gov't Building - Karzai's Brother Escapes Injury
K'Har Flour Merchants Sense Growing Hunger, Desperation - Moncton Day Care Collects Goods for K'Har School
UN Official: New Marriage Law Like the Old Taliban Days - AFG Envoy to CAN Gets Chastised, Too - Envoy Calls for Patience, Saying Mistakes Will be Made - More - Editorial: "Karzai needs to hear a strong, unified message: rescind this odious law before the world rescinds its goodwill and support." - "We have to accept that Afghanistan will never become a Sweden through its social justice policies, but the world must remain committed to improving the conditions of any country that legally allows husbands to rape wives."
NLD Troops Under Pressure - AUS Troops Nail Helmand Bad Boy IED Facilitator
More on Less-Than-Monolithic Taliban
Taliban Propaganda Watch: Taliban Take Credit for Multiple Blasts at K'Har Gov't Complex
'Back From The Brink? A Strategy For Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan', Asia Society Task Force, 1 April 2009
2 Apr 09
Returning CAN Convoy Driver Reminds Us It's Dangerous for Them, Too
CAN Army Door Gunners "protect helicopter crews, aircraft and cargo"
Little Girl, Helped by Now-Wounded Soldier, Wants to Help - How Many CAN Wounded?
CAN Leery About RUS, IRN Getting More Involved in AFG? - IRN Underwhelmed at Mo' USA Troops in AFG
Family of One of the Fallen Finds New AFG Law for Some Wives "Insulting" - CAN PM "Deeply Troubled" by New AFG Law - More - more
UN Sec-Gen "Appalled" at Homicide Bomb Attack on K'Har Gov't Building - Attack Death Toll Climbs - Including Director of Education Working with CAN on New Schools - Multi-pronged Attack=Smarter Taliban?
Human Rights Groups Call for Uniform System of Compensation for Families of Civvies Killed in Mil Ops - Open Letter to NATO (.pdf)
Remember This Girl? She's Been Attacked Again, and the Family Had to Run Away - Brits Helping Schools
20 Bad Guys Killed in Kajaki
USA General Wants Even MORE Troops in 2010 - UAE Keeping Its Troops in AFG For Now
Talkin' to the Taliban: Taliban Spokesperson Calls USA Reconciliation Offer "lunatic"
Opinion: "Canada has a duty to downtrodden nations"
USA Special Ops Command Boss Agrees with Focussing on al-Qaida
Red Cross Asia Boss: Not Looking Good for PAK, AFG - Brit MP on Aid Work in AFG: "Working in insecure environments results in extra costs, in particular, in providing staff and consultants with adequate security. (UK's Department for International Development) lacks adequate information, however, on these extra costs."
"Re-emerging Alliance between Pakistani Military and Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan"
1 Apr 09
CAN Brokers Deal to Calm AFG-PAK Border - More - more - CAN Foreign Affairs Minister: "What we want is a functional border between two countries"
Think Tank Author After Visit with CAN Troops: "the situation in Afghanistan was fairly bad, but the prospects for the future are reasonably good, at least relative to the standards and expectations of the Afghan people"
Injured Reservist Recovering in Kingston
Former CAN Commander to Families: "Your loved one's loss is not for naught, it's not a waste, it's not in vain because there's tangible progress being made on the ground"
CAN Pissed at New Marriage Law in AFG Making It Illegal for Wives to Refuse Sex with Husbands
Different National Tastes at K'Har's Tim Hortons
"NATO's Afghanistan Report 2009 now public"
NGO, Saying Aid's Not Getting Where It's Supposed To, Calls for De-linking Aid from Military - More - OXFAM Worker Blogs from Kandahar
UN Sec Gen Warns Election Has to be Done Right (Or Else It Could Be Worse than Now) - Speech
Contractor Killed in 20 Mar 09 K'Har Rocket Strike Identified as Filipino - Philippines Gov't Reminds Citizens About Ban Against Exporting Labour to AFG
Three Homicide Bombers Attack K'Har Int Centre (Only One Sets Self Off) - More - more
Bad Guys Killed in Derahwat district of Uruzgan - Some Nailed in Helmand, Too - More - AUS SF Kills IED Facilitator in Uruzgan
Flickr Pix: ISAF Boss Visits Tarin Kowt
Talkin' to the Taliban: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered an olive branch .... to Taliban fighters who reject al-Qaida"
Taliban Propaganda Watch: "Martyrdom attack Harvests 13, including 4 Canadian soldiers in Kandahar" (GoogEng, item 6) - Original in Arabic - "3 explosion killed 8 and wounded 5 puppet soldiers in Helmend 31/3/09" (GoogEng) - "10 terrorists killed in Helmand" - "9 American invader army terrorists killed in Helmand" - "(T)ank of American invader terrorists blew up in Garmser, Helmend 31/3/09" (GoogEng) - More Taliban Allegations
PAK Taliban Threatens Attack on USA
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