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CAN in Kandahar News Archive (Apr-Dec 2006)


9 Mar 10

Upcoming ROTO Getting Ready in Mojave Desert - More

"Bombs and bullets all in a day's work for head of 'CSI: Kandahar' "

Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee: "Canada needs to “grow up” and start talking seriously about its role in Afghanistan once its military mission there ends in 2011" - More

BC Embed Arrives at KAF

More on Blogger's Take on "Who's Covering the Bridge?" Fracas:  Originally Aiming for More Details, Apology to Canadian General for Last Weekend - Now, Maybe This Week

"Afghan war's 'decisive phase' looms in Kandahar: Gates" - "Afghanistan Commander Sees Slow Buildup In Kandahar" - "US general pledges to secure symbolic Kandahar" - "Kandahar operation in summer, says US commander"

Canadian Detainee Fracas:  "Prime Minister Stephen Harper has defended the role of Canada's spy service in the questioning of Afghan prisoners, saying the agency respects its "international obligations at all times." " - "Canuck spies grilling Afghan detainees prompts fresh calls for inquiry"

OP Moshtarak:  Associated Press: "Karzai gets earful in town seized from Taliban" - ISAF:  "Gen. McChrystal Details Lessons of Marja Offensive" - "Operations in Helmand province will serve as a template for future operations elsewhere in Afghanistan" - UK MoD On Why So Busy in Sangin

"Soldier from 1 RIFLES killed in Afghanistan" - "3 RIFLES solider tackles live Taleban hand grenade" - Brit PM Drops By

"Australian explosive ordnance disposal specialist wounded while destroying insurgent weapons"

Talkin' to the Taliban"Karzai plans Afghan peace summit in April"

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web pages):  Karzai & Brown Allegedly Rocketed in Marjah; 20+ ISAF Troops Claimed Killed Across Helmand

 

8 Mar 10

"Officers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service have played a crucial and long-standing role as interrogators of a vast swath of captured Taliban fighters" - BruceR at Flit: "idea that Canadians were "outsourcing interrogation to the Afghans" at the time is ludicrous"

 

"Soldier from 1 RIFLES killed in Afghanistan" - Latest UK Fallen Identified

 - "SAS in Afghanistan suffers worst losses for 60 years"

 

OP Moshtarak:  LA Times: "A campaign has begun to lure residents back to war-ravaged Now Zad in Helmand province" - Registan.net on How to Move Forward in Marjeh

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web pages):  February’s Lies o’ the Month

 

7 Mar 10

 

One of Canada's Wounded Warriors Carries Paralympic Flame

 

Canadian Press embed:  Real Life =/= Movie

 

Opinion: "The West builds institutions. Afghans want informal justice"

 

"Soldier from 3 RIFLES killed near Sangin on 6 March"

 

OP Moshtarak:  "Karzai visits Afghan battle zone, vows to rebuild" - "British PM hails anti-Taliban push in southern Afghanistan" - Registan.net on Who's In Charge in Marjah

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web pages):  Canadians Claimed Killed; More Marjah Statements; Kabul Attack=Victory - Taliban Publishes Picture Book (Scribd.com)

 

6 Mar 10

"With a year left in a mission that’s cost billions and 140 Canadian soldiers’ lives, Canada takes new risks to win over villages – but is it too little, too late?"

 

AFG Detainee Handling Fracas:  "Retired judge asked to review documents in detainee affair" - More

 

"Islamic militants are being brought into the Afghan National Army through a back door recruitment scheme"

 

More on New ISAF Night Raid Rules

 

Taliban 2i/c Nabbed:  "Back to Baradar: A strategic shift, perhaps, but which way?" - "Abu Walid al Masri’s article on the capture of Mullah Baradar"

 

OP Moshtarak:  Red Cross: Taliban IEDs "prevent resumption of normal life in Marjah" - More - "New Afghan chief in Marjah has criminal record"

 

UK MoD: "Soldier from 3 RIFLES killed near Sangin on 5 March"

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web pages):  Canadian Vehicle Allegedly Blown Up in Boldak; Slew of Helmand, Kandahar Attacks, Including Stoning of AFG Cop

 

5 Mar 10

 

"Families of Canadian soldiers come to Afghanistan to mourn lost loved ones"

 

Some of What Canada's AFG Police Trainers are Up To

 

More on Blogger's Take on "Who's Covering the Bridge?" Fracas:  Blogger Says He'll Apologize to CAN General Now that US General Takes Responsibility - That Apology'll Take Longer than Planned Now

 

Canada's Post-2011 Mission Messaging Mambo ©:  CENTCOM Commander: "I’m not going to get into national decisions.” - CAN Speech from the Throne:  "After 2011, our effort in Afghanistan will focus on development and humanitarian aid."

 

AFG Detainee Handling Fracas:  "Harper refuses to give up detainee documents, says lawyers dictate censorship"

 

CENTCOM Boss:  War'll Get Harder Before it Gets Easier - More

 

ISAF Boss McChrystal Gets Even More Power - More - more - New ISAF Rules on Night Raids

 

Taliban 2i/c Nabbed:  More Bad Guys Rounded Up - More - ISAF Boss: "The arrest of the Afghan Taliban's former number two figure may have been the result of an internal feud and purge among Taliban leaders" - "Does leadership targeting fall into an overall strategic plan or is it just something we are doing because we can? "

 

OP Moshtarak:  PAK Media: "Taliban bombs still a problem for US troops in Marjah" - AFPS: "Troops in Marja Focus on Public Support for Government" - AP: "Hard part in Marjah has only just begun" - "Did the Marja offensive work?" - Voice of America: "Taliban Insurgents Mostly Cleared from Marja" - CNN: "In Marjah, it's still a competition with the Taliban" - UK MoD: "Stabilisation in Musa Qa'lah points the way forward for Op MOSHTARAK"

 

AUS Changes Names of Uruzgan Teams: Bye bye MRTF, hello MTF! - "A (UK) army helicopter pilot who was shot between the eyes by a Taliban bullet still managed to fly all 20 passengers to safety" - NATO Sec-Gen: "NATO chief says Dutch Afghan withdrawal will not set off stampede to the exits"

 

Opinion: "How ‘neo’ have the ‘Neo-Taleban’ been?" - "Creating a separate command (in southern AFG) … just doesn’t make any sense. They’re just doing it to do it."

 

Ougoing UN Uber-Envoy: "Hamid Karzai's government needs more resolve on reform, and that the international community's strategy is too 'militarily driven' and has unrealistic demands"

 

AFG Considering Banning Certain Web Sites

 

PAK Accuses IND, AFG Int of Killing Road Workers in Kandahar - Meanwhile "U.S. hones message machine in Afghanistan, Pakistan"

 

4 Mar 10

CAN Soldier Wounded in 12 Feb 10 Training Incident Recovering

 

"Canadians sponsor program to end illiteracy among Afghan police" - "High drop-out and low recruitment rates have hampered NATO efforts to boost security forces to control insurgents in southern Afghanistan"

 

More on Blogger's Take on "Who's Covering the Bridge?" Fracas:  Former CAN OMLT'eer: "Yon's little temper tantrum seems to have made the papers, I see." - "Yon's just looking for ammo to condemn the non-US elements of the mission" - More from The Torch - Meanwhile, While Blogger Bashes CAN Command, "U.S. Redraws Afghan Command" in South - More

 

"North America’s biggest military players, including top generals from Canada and the U.S., are in Ottawa Thursday to talk about the Canadian military and the mission in Afghanistan."

 

Canada's Post-2011 Mission Messaging Mambo ©:  Op-Ed: "Canada can make a huge difference by leaving a small contingent of military trainers in Afghanistan after the 2011 withdrawal deadline"

Fayetteville Observer Observer: "The escalation of the war in Afghanistan has been bleak, bloody and deadly. That won't change soon."

 

Taliban 2i/c Nabbed:  "Pakistan Agrees in Principle to Hand Over Taliban Deputy to Afghans" - More - "Finding Kabir And Baradar Wasn't Rocket Science - But About Money "

 

OP Moshtarak:  AFG Int Says Former Gitmo Guest Now Running Taliban Battle in South - More - AP: "Taliban, not drugs, focus of US-Afghan offensive" - ISAF 4 Mar 10 Update

 

5 PAK Road Workers Gunned Down in Kandahar

 

UK MoD Identifies Latest Fallen from 3 RIFLES - "Will Others Follow Dutch and Leave Afghanistan?"

 

Talkin' to the Taliban:  "The head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said Thursday that it's "high time" a political solution is found with the Taliban to resolve the more than 8-year-old conflict."

 

Taliban Statement Condemns Banning Live Coverage of Attacks (Scribd.com) - More - more - more

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web pages):  Two Americans, 5 ISAF Troops Claimed Dead in Alleged Helmand Attacks

 

"U.S. military questions Karzai's steps on corruption"

 

3 Mar 10 

Canada's Post-2011 Mission Messaging Mambo ©:  Today's Throne Speech to Confirm End of Canada's Military Mission in AFG - Editorial: "Our Afghan role remains confused"

 

USA Military blogger Calls for CAN TF Commander to be Fired Over Bridge IED Incident? - Army.ca Discussion - Former CAN OMLT'eer's Take

 

Upcoming CAN ROTO Trains in USA

 

CAN Policewoman Training AFG Women Cops

 

AFG Woman Living in CAN:  "Canadians will need to educate themselves, to truly learn about the enemy that Afghans, and now Canadians, face and to recognize it as the danger that it really is. Ask an Afghan woman, she can tell you."

 

CIDA Advisor in K'Har: “We have provided (about) 2,000 farmers in each of the six key districts (of Kandahar) with wheat seed. It’s really hard to know exactly what impact that has, but obviously the hope and intent is that it will be planted. You just don’t know what the impact directly is.”

 

CAN Prisoner Handling Fracas:  "Liberal MP's motion could set the stage for constitutional clash over abuse documents" - More

 

Latest UK Fallen Identified - Brits Kill IED Planters w/Artillery

 

OP Moshtarak:  "At a minimum, at least two battalions should stay in Marja permanently, to undergird the new government (and) live right inside the town, providing security and guidance from within." - More - American Forces Press Service: "Marja Clearing Phase Nears Completion" - ISAF Commander Drops By - Brit Aid Work in Helmand w/Moshtarak - ISAF: "While progress is taking place in southern Afghanistan following Operation Moshtarak, insurgent attacks have continued to harm civilians and impact their freedom of movement in Kandahar and Helmand."

 

Mortars, IED Components Nabbed in Helmand, Uruzgan - Big Drug Cache Nabbed in Nimroz

 

Talkin' to the Taliban:  "Karzai's invitation to Taliban creates discord and confusion"

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web pages):  Almost 50 American, ISAF Troops Claimed Killed in Alleged Attacks across Helmand

 

USA Envoy Worries Over AFG Media Restrictions - More

 

2 Mar 10

CAN Vet of Afghanistan Waits to Give Himself Permission to Share Stories

 

CAN Prisoner Handling Fracas:  Damian at The Torch Pissed at Toronto Star Columnist's Coverage - More from BruceR at Flit

 

Triple Blast in K'Har Claims 8 Lives (Including Civilians) - More - more

 

Blog Watch:  COIN = ISAF people knowing AFG people - Problems with Night Raids - "Strangers at the Door: Night Raids by International Forces Lose Hearts and Minds of Afghans" (PDF)

 

OP Moshtarak:  Financial Times: "Focus in Marjah turns to building government" - BBC: "First steps for stability in Marjah?" - Analyst Says Way to Win Peace is Through Taxes, Census - Other Analysts Pipe In About Marjah Campaign - Counter IED Troops Making a Difference - AFG Second VP Drops By Marjah - More - 2VP "Speaks With Warmth, but Reaps Cool" - NPR: "Marjah Effort Shows Values, Flaws Of Afghan Forces"

 

UK 4 RIFLES Soldier Killed in Sangin Firefight - Princess Anne Drops By

 

Suspected Bad Boys Nabbed in Helmand

 

AFG Int Service Bans Live, Videotaped Broadcast of Taliban Attacks in Progress

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web pages):  TPW RC-SOUTH: Multiple Attacks Alleged ISAF Tps, AFG Cops in Kandahar; Latest Statement on Moshtarak

 

"Pakistan seizes key Taliban, Al-Qaeda base"

 

1 Mar 10

How CAN Troops Did Their Part to Help Canada Win Hockey Gold - More

 

Canada's Post-2011 Mission Messaging Mambo ©:  Opinion:  "When Parliament resumes on Wednesday, the prime minister must explain how he sees events unfolding in Afghanistan over the next few years."

 

" 'Gradual' campaign likely in Kandahar"

 

OP Moshtarak:  AP: "Marines, Afghan troops to stay months in Marjah" - AP: "Troops clear last of Marja"

 

Taliban 2i/c Nabbed:  PAK "Wipes Out" Half of Taliban's Quetta Shura - "What can Pakistan gain from capture of Taliban leaders?"

 

Two Taliban Commanders Nabbed in K'Har - "ANP Finds Two Caches in Dai Kundi Province" - "ANA Distribute Clothing, Food in Zabul Province"

 

Blog Watch:  What the Associated Press Missed About Complaints of Civilian Casualties - "Afghans are sick of fighting .... Afghans on the whole long for unity and reintegration might just be a way to achieving it." - "Taliban playing nicer?"

 

Afghan Human Rights Group Bashes Taliban for Civilian Casualties - Taliban Kill 11 Civilians with Helmand IED - Five Afghans, One POL Soldier Killed in K'Har City Blast - More - more

 

Taliban Propaganda Watch (all links to non-terrorist web pages):  Police Commander Allegedly Killed in Kandahar; Five Taliban Statements on Alleged Helmand Incidents

 

"ISI hand in Taliban's Kabul attack?" - "Saudi concerned over growing links between Taliban, Qaida" 


Archives 

CAN in Kandahar February 2010

CAN in Kandahar January 2010

 

CAN in Kandahar December 2009

CAN in Kandahar November 2009

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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