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Updated ~11:30UTC and ~00:30UTC

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CAN in Kandahar News Archive (Apr-Dec 2006)


4 Nov 09

First Round of Sacrifice Medals to be Presented Today

 

CAN Auditor-General:  Buying New Hardware for AFG Could be Faster

 

Five Brits (Grenadier Guards and MPs) Killed by AFG Cop in Helmand:  List of the Latest Fallen - Taliban Claim Responsiblity - SAS Reportedly Now After Rogue Cop - Betrayal = New Doubts? - "Slayings by 'rogue' Afghan cop underlines dangers to Canadian mentors"

 

CAN Detainee Handling Fracas:  "Brig.-Gen. Ken Watkins, the military judge advocate general, claimed solicitor-client privilege about whether he'd seen warnings from a diplomat in Kandahar"

 

Blog Watch:  Micro-Preview of CBC TV's "The Border" in AFG Tonight - More

 

Presidential Candidate who Stepped Down Now Says Karzai's Appointment "Lacks Legitimacy" - Opinion: "Elections could be the country's undoing. Or, it could be a good start for much-needed reform."

 

Suspected Bad Guys, Lots of Explosives Seized in Kandahar - Aussie Special Forces Seize Weapons, Ammo, IED Parts and Drugs in Uruzgan raids - More - Bigger IEDs + Troops Thrown Around in MRAPS = More Spinal Injuries in US Casualties

 

RUS Media on Where Taliban Gets its Money

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web page):  Attacks Claimed in K'Har, Helmand & Nimroz -   "Colonialism" Big Theme in Latest Statement

 

3 Nov 09

 

Steven Marshall, R.I.P.:  He's Home - More - more - more

 

Special Remembrance Day Event with One of Canada's War Wounded - Wounded Troops to Receive Segways to Help Get Around

 

Worries About RCMP Coverage if Injured Overseas?

 

"Canada prepares for violent winter in Afghanistan as Taliban changes tactics" - CAN BG Commander Would Love to See More U.S. Troops in K'Har" - Mission Changing from "eradicating the Taliban to gaining support of population in suppressing insurgency"

 

Hallmark Canada Offering Free "Canadian Heroes" Cards November 9 to 11 - The Available Cards

 

Karzai Offers to Bring Taliban Into the Tent (Taliban Say "No, Thanks") - "Karzai Credibility Still in Question Despite Poll Win" - UN Sec-Gen Calls on Karzai to "ensure freedom and democracy for all Afghans" - Obama Gives Karzai Six Months to Clean Up Corruption - Opponent to Cry Fowl Now?

 

Five Brits (Grenadier Guards, MPs) Shot Dead in Helmand by AFG Cop - ISAF Investigating - MoD Statement - "Afghan police infiltrated by Taliban 'at every level' " - More

 

Combat Advisors See Afghan Troops in Action in Kandahar

 

Blog Watch:  More Calls for "All Civvy, No Military" UN Mission (And Why It Won't Work) - What ELSE to Think Of for Next Year's AFG Elections - Watch for "Afghanistan in Caledon" on CBC-TV's "The Border" Thursday Night

 

IED wounds 2 AUS, 1 ANA soldiers in Uruzgan (PDF) - Europe (Still) Reluctant to Send More Troops - Still, World Socialists are Pissed with Europe

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web page):  Attacks Alleged in Kandahar, Helmand and Uruzgan

 

2 Nov 09

 

Steven Marshall, R.I.P.:  "Family says Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan died doing what he loved"

 

CEFCOM Commander: Winning in Afghanistan "involves a different timeline and different set of criteria than in other wars in which this country had fought"

 

Blog Watch:  DND Beefing Up LAV II’s Belly Armour

 

UN SecGen: "I welcome today's decision by Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission to forego a run-off vote and to declare Hamid Karzai as the winner of the 2009 presidential elections." - NATO Sec-Gen Congratulates Karzai - CAN PM Congratulates Karzai - PM's statement - "Karzai vows to wipe out Afghan corruption" - "Karzai Is Vague on Confronting Corruption in Afghanistan" - "Afghan president says all welcome in his gov't" - Counterpoint:  "After a blatantly fraudulent ‘election’ and now mainstream media exposure of the Karzais’ nepotism and corruption, the work of the anti-war movement should in a sense now be easier, if also more urgent than ever."

 

CAN Officer at US Army/USMC COIN Centre: "Next year, (parliamentary and district) election security will require a full court press by all security stakeholders."

 

"Defence Minister Peter MacKay has ordered officials to look into allegations that innocent Afghans may have been sent to jail due to botched translations by Canadian military interpreters."

 

Royal Visit to Canada:  "Prince Charles said Monday that Canadians are serving with the "greatest possible distinction" in Afghanistan and that his heart goes out to the family of the latest soldier killed there."

 

UK General Takes Command of RC-South - More - Outgoing NLD Commander Says ISAF Regaining Initiative

 

Bad Boys Detained in IED Lab Raids in K'Har, Helmand

 

Inquiry into Nov 2008 Death of AUS SF Officer in Uruzgan:  "The risk of a casualty occurring in Afghanistan was increased by the deficiencies in training, assessment, certification and leadership" - More - more - Latest Brit Fallen Killed on LAST DAY of Tour while Defusing IED

 

ISAF Director of Intelligence:  "The expansion of Islamic extremist groups across the Afghanistan-Pakistan region is “the worst I’ve seen it,” with Afghan insurgents receiving help from Iranian operatives and “very possibly” freelancing Pakistani intelligence agents, as well as a small but growing number of “deadly” foreign fighters."

 

Talkin' to the Taliban:  Hilary Clinton Says U.S. In Contact with Taliban? - One Version:  USA Offering Taliban Control of Some Provinces in Exchange for Keeping Bases in AFG - Taliban Spokesperson Quoted Admitting to Mediated Talks - More

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web page):   Taliban Claims Responsibility for 27 Allied Troops Allegedly Killed, Injured in Kandahar - Taliban Point Out Contradiction of Disarming Tribes, then Creating Tribal Militias - Leader Important to Taliban Dead?

 

Strategy Page on Taliban Helicopter Rumours: "Taliban helicopters are unlikely. Even if they came from Pakistan (where the Pakistani military has helped out that way in the past), avoiding NATO aircraft, and American spy satellites, would be difficult to do every time."

 

"The Pushtun tribes in southern Afghanistan now produce 90 percent of the worlds heroin, and most of it is produced in the Taliban heartland, particularly Helmand province. While there is a terrorism problem in Afghanistan, it's become mostly a drug problem."

 

Academic:  "That few Taliban leaders in either branch are likely to betray al Qaeda does not mean that all efforts to peel off or “flip” Taliban members are worthless."

 

1 Nov 09

 

Steven Marshall, R.I.P.:  Prime Minister's statement - "Hard to Believe He's Gone" - Arriving Home Tomorrow

 

Parents Worry as More Troops Head Downrange

 

Election, Round 2:  Run-off Cancelled, Karzai Declared Winner - More - UN SecGen in AFG for Poll Meetings - Says UN'll Stay in AFG - "With few options, US accepts Karzai"

 

President's Brother Denies Bankrolling by CIA, Says He Shared IED Int with Canadians

 

Canadian Press on Translation Woes in AFG:  Translator Says He's Frustrated that More Canadian Pashto-Speakers Aren't Heading to AFG to Help - More - Meanwhile, U.S. "Military 'terps' head to war to win peace -- and visas"

 

Blog Watch:  The Torch: "The Third Way: Ending the Illusions in Afghanistan," Part 2

 

CAN-funded Kandahar School Project Sees Grads

 

"A joint Afghan-International Security Assistance Force operation detained one militant in Kandahar province on Sunday while in pursuit of a Taliban district leader and senior commander of a sizable militant element in the area."

 

More on Haqqani Network, al Qaeda, behind attack on UN guesthouse in Kabul

 

Brit Logistician Killed in Sangin IED Blast - "Spy chiefs fear Al-Qaeda is intercepting (mail) to (British) troops in Afghanistan in a bid to target their families."

 

"Russians managed to buy off some tribes, but this did not work with many tribes because the top guy who took the money, often did not spread it around much. So his minions would often keep on causing trouble."

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web page):   October Summary of CAN Casualties Alleged by Taliban - Alleged IED Attack on Canadian Tank in Panjwai - US Accused of Killing 8 Civilians in Uruzgan Air Strike

 

1 Nov 09 

Steven Marshall, R.I.P.:  On His Way Home - More - "Remembered as devoted friend with contagious sense of humour" - More - Governor General's statement - Minister of National Defence's statement

 

Justin Boyes, R.I.P.:   He's Home - More

 

Election, Round 2:  Karzai's Opponent May Pull Out of Run-off Election - More - more - "Security, not candidates, will determine whether voters in (Arghandab) risk going to the ballot box for next week's disputed presidential run-off vote." - What next:  "Weak gov't" or "Uncertainty, But Also Opportunities"? - "Afghan Vote Boycott Won’t Affect Poll: US "

 

AFG Int Claims Advance Info on Kabul Attack on U.N. Staff - Allegedly Co-ordinated by Warlord and AQ - Six Held Linked to Incidents - More

 

"Iranians, Pakistanis play role in growth of Taliban force"

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web page):   20+ Brits Alleged Killed in Helmand Attacks - Account of Kabul Attack Admission of Taliban War Crime?

 

Opinion:  "One factor of special sensitivity and importance that receives almost no attention either in the public debate about Afghanistan or in the internal policy battles of the Obama administration may well be the most important of all: the domination of the Afghan armed forces, police, secret police and intelligence agencies by leaders of the Tajik ethnic minority"

 


Archives 

CAN in Kandahar October 2009

CAN in Kandahar September 2009

CAN in Kandahar August 2009

CAN in Kandahar July 2009

CAN in Kandahar July 2007


 

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