5 Oct 09
Families of the Fallen Remember in AFG - More
The Wounded: Cpl. Bill Kerr Walks on Pavement with CDS for First Time Since Injury - "Up to 1500 Greater Sudbury residents put aside their personal beliefs on the war in Afghanistan, and hiked Sunday, Oct. 4, for Cpl. Bill Kerr and his family." - Injured Reservist Continues to Recover
AFG General: AFG Army Should be Good to Go by 2013
Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Attacks Alleged in Kandahar City, Helmand - Taliban Web Site Complains of NATO's Human Rights Violations
Opinion: "Not much to cheer about in Kandahar these days"
4 Oct 09
"As the U.S. rethinks its strategy on Afghanistan, pressure is mounting on Canada to make a clear decision regarding the future of its hard-fought mission there."
UK Army Boss: "Britain was ready to send more troops to Afghanistan if called on to do so in the wake of the revised strategy which has been drawn up by Gen Stanley McChrystal"
"Efforts to Curb Helmand Opium Show Promise"
Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Lots of Attacks, Killings Alleged in Helmand
Bounced UN Official: "The election was a foreseeable train wreck." - More Complaints About UN's Neutrality in Election Work
Blog Watch: "Taxing International Aid to Help Afghan Gov’t?"
Opinion: NY Times on "10 Steps to Victory in Afghanistan"
3 Oct 09
CAN Troops Fire on Motorcycle Trying to Break Into Shura Cordon - More - more - more - more - "Militaires canadiens ont tué par balle deux hommes qui roulaient à vive allure sur une motocyclette. Ils étaient postés dans la région de Panjwayi."
"Je ne savais pas trop comment écrire cet article sur la mission de notre détachement à Kandahar, attaché avec la Compagnie A du Groupement tactique du 2e Bataillon du Royal 22e Régiment (GT 2 R22eR) du mois avril à novembre 2009."
"Afghan war zone presents career 'highlight' for Canadian soldiers going home"
How CAN Chinooks are Making a Difference
Ronald Kevin Megeney, R.I.P.: "Matthew Wilcox will likely be out on day parole even before an appeal is heard in his conviction in the death of a comrade in Afghanistan." - "The military has launched an investigation into the handling of firearms by a reserve unit sent to Afghanistan to handle security at the Canadian base in Kandahar."
"Two pages of logs showing that Canadian military police investigated whether Afghan prisoners risked torture are the latest point of dispute between the federal government and a public inquiry into Canada's handling of Afghan detainees."
K'Har Bad Boy Nabbed - YouTube video: "Afghan farmers find an alternative to growing poppies at a wheat distribution center in Helmand Province."
AUS Soldier Injured in Uruzgan - More - NLD Troops "Almost Certainly" GTFO'ing - US Marines Find MRAPS Not As Handy as Thought for COIN Fight?
USA National Defence University paper: Special Ops Forces Causing Most Civvy Casualties, So Time to Retask Spec Ops as COIN Fighters, not Terrorist Boss Killers? (PDF)
Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Attacks Alleged in Helmand, Uruzgan & Zabul
"Several analysts and opposition figures in Afghanistan say the UN's decision to fire Peter Galbraith for urging a harder line on election fraud affirms popular fears that it is the international community calling the shots on who wins."
"Task force created to combat al Qaida in Afghan prisons"
Opinion: "There's a political price to be paid for altering course on the long road home from Afghanistan" - " 'Afghanisers' pin their hopes on a bolstered national security force. First you need soldiers with patriotic, not ethnic loyalties"
2 Oct 09
Jonathan Couturier, R.I.P.: Laid to Rest
CAN TF Commander Joins AFG-CAN-USA Patrol
The Torch: CAN Troops Support UK's Black Watch in Zhari District - More
"Canadian bomb experts mentor Afghan soldiers on safely dealing with IEDs"
"The Canadian Forces is investigating allegations of misuse of firearms that first surfaced in videos entered as evidence during the recent court martial of a young Nova Scotia soldier" - Cape Breton Post article - PDF permalink to Cape Breton Post article
"A public hearing into what the Canadian army may have known about the alleged torture of Taliban prisoners in Kandahar, has been postponed" - More
CAN PM During Question Period: "The military mission in Afghanistan will end in 2011." - CAN Foreign Affairs Mininster During Question Period: "We are putting an end to our military combat mission by 2011"
"The U.S., Britain and other NATO countries are waiting for Canada to decide precisely what kind of role it can play in Afghanistan once the current mission ends in 2011, says a high-level diplomatic source." - Author/Blogger on What Canada Needs to Say to Afghanistan - Army.ca and MILNEWS.ca Blog on Deciding Next Steps - MILNEWS.ca Blog: Any Training Mission Can Only be a "Combat" Mission
US Looking Into Possible Civilian Deaths in Nad Ali Bombing Run - More - more - NLD Says One of their Planes Did It
Brit RAF Soldier Killed in Helmand
Talkin' to the Taliban: Author/Blogger Tells NDP Taliban Wants to Kill Them, Not Talk
Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): Attacks Claimed Across K'Har, Helmand
McChrystal: "The war in Afghanistan can be won if forces there change the way they fight"
1 Oct 09
AFG Troops Leaving K'Har over Pay Dispute?
CAN Chief of Defence Staff: "The influx of American troops into the Kandahar region over the past few months has enabled Canada to concentrate its efforts, both military and civilian, on a smaller area of responsibility. It has allowed Canadians and Afghans to stabilize a region of the province and establish the conditions necessary for development and governance, and it is yielding small, but important results."
DND Seeking Electronic Solution to CF Troops Talking to Afghans Without Interpreters
One of Canada's War Wounded "Overwhelmed" By Community Support - PDF version of story - homeforahero.ca
Ronald Kevin Megeney, R.I.P.: Sentenced to Four Years - CF Statement - More - more - more - more - "Caporal Wilcox est condamné au terme de son procès devant la cour martiale"
Former-OMLT'eer Blogger on Dealing with Afghan Child Exploitation and the Possibility of a "Manley 2" Commission - Toronto Star Likes Idea of Manley 2, Too
Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic Asks About Mission in Question Period - More - 18 Mar 08 Motion in House of Commons - Canada-Afghanistan Blog: "Combat vs. Non-Combat" Mission
MILNEWS.ca Blog: Who REALLY Needs Anger Management in AFG - Covering Development and Infrastructure Not Good Enough for Embed Reporter?
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan Pissed at Taliban Bombing Buses in South
UK Looking Into Leaflet Drop that Killed Helmand Girl
Taliban Propaganda Watch (links to non-terrorist web page): September 2009 Summary of Attacks on Canadian Troops Claimed by Taliban - Multiple Attacks Alleged Against UK Troops in Helmand
USA Says Taliban Bosses in PAK - Taliban Bad Boy Says Taliban Bosses are in AFG, Not PAK - Someone ELSE Saying Taliban Bosses Not in PAK
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