TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBERS ATTACK U.S. COMPANY IN AFGHANISTAN

Taliban attack U.S. company in Afghanistan

Suicide bombers lead attack which leads to five-hour gunbattle

Source: Reuters

KABUL — Taliban insurgents backed by suicide bombers attacked a U.S. contracting company office in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least one foreigner and wounding up to 20, a provincial official said.

The pre-dawn attack happened in relatively peaceful Kunduz province when Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers stormed the offices of Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), next to a small hotel, provincial governor Mohammed Omar told Reuters.

According to their website, the company is one of USAID's principal service providers and specializes in post-conflict reconstruction, local government, agribusiness and natural resource management.

One of the bombers blew himself up in front of the gate to allow other fighters to push inside, triggering a five-hour gunbattle with security guards and police, Omar said.

Afghan police and security guards were still fighting the insurgents, Omar said. One unidentified foreigner was killed, he said, and at least 20 people wounded including Afghan police and an unknown number of civilians.

A Filipino worker was wounded and evacuated to hospital, police said. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid said at least six suicide bombers and fighters were involved in the attack.

Kunduz province is mainly patrolled by German forces under wider NATO-command.

Insurgents have managed to infiltrate remote villages and districts in the province as they seek to push their reach and influence beyond traditional southern strongholds ahead of a looming "surge" offensive by U.S.-led coalition forces.

EXTREMELY RAW LANGUAGE IN THIS VIDEO OF 173RD AIR BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM BATTLING TALIBAN

This video is both intense and filled with salty language as the 173rd Air Brigade Combat Team takes on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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FOOTAGE OF AIR ASSAULT ON TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN (NEW VIDEO)

New video shows an air assault by U.S. troops on the Taliban in Khost, Afghanistan.

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U.S. ARMY SOLDIERS COME UNDER FIRE IN PECH VALLEY

This new video shows members of Charlie Company on a night mission into a hostile Taliban stronghold in Pech Valley Afghanistan.

The soldiers come under fire and have to battle their way out.

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ASS-KICKING TALIBAN FIREFIGHT: EXTREMELY CLOSE ENGAGEMENT (NEW VIDEO)

This is a new video showing U.S. forces battling the Taliban in extremely close proximity.

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HELLUVA FIREFIGHT BETWEEN U.S. TROOPS AND TALIBAN (NEW LIVE VIDEO)

This new live video shows U.S. troops in a helluva firefight with the Taliban in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.

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NEW VIDEO: TROOPS FROM ABLE COMPANY IN FIREFIGHT WITH TALIBAN

This is a brand new video and shows troops from Able Company suiting up and then engaging the Taliban in a bloody firefight in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.

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TOP 5 HELICOPTER ATTACKS ON TALIBAN (LIVE VIDEO)

This amazing video shows the top five helicopter attacks on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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AMAZING COMBAT FOOTAGE FROM AFGHANISTAN WAR

Video is a compilation of U.S. troops in action against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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VIDEO FROM THE FRONT LINES

Video shows our troops on a dangerous search and secure mission.

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NEW VIDEO OF U.S. ATTACK ON TALIBAN

This video just came in showing U.S. forces attacking the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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TALIBAN ATTACK AIRFIELD AS ERIC HOLDER ARRIVES IN AFGHANISTAN

Taliban attacks airfield as U.S. attorney general is in Kabul

By the CNN Wire Staff
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with Afghan officials in Kabul on Wednesday and promised the United States is committed to succeeding in Afghanistan and "breaking the Taliban's momentum."

Holder met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Minister of Justice Habibullah Ghalib, and Attorney General Mohammad Ishaq Alako to discuss the ongoing U.S. efforts to foster the rule of law in Afghanistan.
At the same time Holder was in the capital, Taliban insurgents attacked Jalalabad Airfield in eastern Afghanistan, about 75 miles away.

They hit the entrance of the facility with a car bomb, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire, said a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force.

The airfield's perimeter was not breached and several insurgents died in the attack, NATO said, without providing specific figures. Two joint security force members were injured.

In a text message to CNN, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said six men wearing suicide vests entered the airfield, killing 32 foreigners. CNN could not independently confirm those claims.

AH-64S MAKE UP "RULES OF ENGAGEMENT" AS THEY BLAST THE HELL OUT OF TALIBAN

The "rules of engagement" are for the brass, but when you are putting your own ass on the line you make up your own "rules of engagement" as you go through a battle.

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KICK ASS FOOTAGE OF MARINE FIREFIGHT IN "OPERATION SPEAR"

Watch and listen as a platoon leader gives his Marines instructions on the "real" rules of engagement and not what you read or hear about in the mainstream media.

The Afghanistan war is not a video game and our guys do what they have to do to stay alive.

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WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN AFGHANISTAN? PETRAEUS WARNS OF "TOUGH FIGHT AHEAD"

General David Petraeus told the Senate Confirmation Committee that we can expect "tough times ahead" in Afghanistan.

Why are we even in Afghanistan?

Al Qaeda has left the country and are in Pakistan.

Are we into nation building?

Combat troops DO NOT DO nation building.

Petraeus warns of 'tough fight' in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US General David Petraeus -- named as the new commander in Afghanistan -- on Tuesday touted signs "progress" in the Afghan war but warned of a "tough fight" ahead against Taliban insurgents.

The NATO-led force "has achieved progress in several locations" this year, including in the southern Helmand province, Petraeus told senators at a hearing on his nomination as the next commander.

The general's insistence that the campaign was making headway came amid fraying public support for the war and growing impatience in Congress about the nearly nine-year-old mission.

President Barack Obama called on Petraeus to take the helm in Kabul after sacking General Stanley McChrystal as commander last week.

McChrystal was forced to step down over a bombshell magazine article that quoted him and his staff disparaging their civilian counterparts in the administration, including Obama himself, the US envoy to the region and the US ambassador.

Seeking to reassure lawmakers about festering tensions between military and civilian leaders, Petraeus vowed to forge close cooperation with his civilian counterparts in the administration.

"We are all firmly united in seeking to forge unity of effort," Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

He recounted how during his time in Iraq, he worked "very closely" with the then-US ambassador in Baghdad and that he would do the same with the American ambassador in Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, as well as NATO and UN envoys.

McChrystal and Eikenberry had a tense relationship and had sharply disagreed last year over plans for a major troop "surge" in Afghanistan, which Obama approved over the ambassador's objections, which were leaked to the media.

Petraeus said there had been "security gains" over the past year in Afghanistan and credited McChrystal for reshaping the campaign.

But he warned that violence would likely rise as Islamist insurgents seek to test NATO's will and push back against US-led offensives.

"My sense is that the tough fighting will continue; indeed, it may get more intense in the next few months," he said.

"As we take away the enemy's safe havens and reduce the enemy's freedom of action, the insurgents will fight back."

The general's comments came as the death toll of foreign soldiers in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban came to 100 for the month of June alone, according to an AFP tally.

An announcement by the Pentagon on the death of an American soldier on June 24 in the western province of Farah took the toll for the year to date to 320.

The toll for 2009 was 520.

AFP's figures are based on a tally kept by the independent icasualties.org website.

BLACKHAWK---AIR ASSAULT COMPANY

Video of Blackhawk Air Assault Company on a mission to rout out the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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101st AIRBORNE MEDEVAC TEAM RUSHES TO SAVE WOUNDED GIS FROM ROADSIDE BOMBS

This is a video showing members of a 101st Airborne Medevac Team out of Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan as they rush to save the lives of wounded American soldiers who were the victims of a roadside bomb.

Two soldiers die before they can be evacuated.

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THE UGLY OF AFGHANISTAN WAR: WHAT YOU WILL NEVER SEE ON AMERICAN TV

An Army medic talks about his mission with a Medevac Rescue Team to rescue wounded Americans and a young Afghanistan girl who lost her leg from an mortar explosion.

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FASCINATING VIDEO OF MEDEVAC CREW EVACUATING WOUNDED FROM BATTLEFIED

This ABC News video shows a Medevac Rescue Team racing to evacuate two American soldiers wounded in a battle with the Taliban.

The video shows the Medevac helicopter rushing to save the wouded GIs and get the wounded off the battlefield and to a field hospital.

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WOUNDED U.S. SOLDIERS ARE AIR LIFTED OFF THE BATTLEFIELD IN AFGHANISTAN

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GIs FROM BAKER CO. ENGAGE TALIBAN FROM OUTPOST MUNOZ

New video shows GIs from Baker Company in a battle with the Taliban at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Munoz in Afghanistan.

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TALIBAN ATTACK U.S. TROOPS IN PECH RIVER VALLEY AFGHANISTAN

Video shows U.S. troops under heavy attack from the Taliban in Pech River Valley, Afghanistan.

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HOW AFGHANISTAN BECAME THE IGNORED WAR

(Editor's opinion): In my opinion the Afghanistan war became the ignored war by both the media and the public because there is no vested interest in the war by Americans. If we had a military draft like we have had for every war since World War II, I feel it would be an entirely different story.

CORKSPHERE editor, BILL CORCORAN

How Afghanistan became the ignored war

By Julian E. Zelizer, Special to CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/06/28/zelizer.afghanistan.ignored.war/index.html?section=cnn_latest

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Julian Zelizer says Afghanistan war has gotten very little public attention in the U.S.

He says it has cost the nation greatly and there's no assurance of victory
War overshadowed by economic crisis and reluctance of both parties to criticize, he says

Absence of a draft also limits U.S. attention to war, Zelizer says

Editor's note:Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security -- From World War II to the War on Terrorism" and of a book on former President Carter, to be published next fall by Times Books.

Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- If the Korean War, which began 60 years ago this past weekend, was America's forgotten war, Afghanistan has been America's ignored war.

Since President Obama authorized a surge of troops in Afghanistan in December 2009, there has been a notable absence of public debate or interest about this conflict.


Although the media has tracked conditions on the ground and more recently has examined the rapid deterioration of U.S. military strategy, Afghanistan has not elicited the same kind of civic dialogue that surrounded President George W. Bush's war in Iraq and certainly nothing like President Johnson's war in Vietnam.

Indeed, when the controversy over Gen. Stanley McChrystal's comments in Rolling Stone magazine erupted in the past week, one of the most surprising aspects of the story was that, for a brief moment, Americans were actually talking about Afghanistan once again. Our nation is in the middle of a war that has gone on for over nine years, but many people have not been paying attention.

Afghanistan cannot be ignored. The war, which started in the aftermath of 9/11, costs the federal government about $6.7 billion a month. That's more than the monthly cost of Iraq.

June 2010 marked one of the deadliest months in this war. Since the war began, more than 1,000 American servicemen and women have died.

The government of Afghanistan, our ally, remains mired in corruption and teeters on instability. Gen. David Petraeus' counterinsurgency strategy is apparently not working its magic.

Many experts doubt that the president can abide by the July 2011 timetable that he set to begin withdrawal. The end is not in sight, and it is unclear whether policymakers even know what the end is. According to Newsweek, one expert working with the Pentagon commented, "We could sink in billions more dollars for another 10 to 20 years, and if we're lucky, we'll get Haiti ..."

What accounts for the utter lack of attention to this war?

The first factor has been the fragile state of the economy within the U.S. The severity of economic conditions since the financial crash in the fall of 2008 has naturally led citizens to focus on the health of their pocketbooks and the stability of their mortgage payments rather than on war and peace. The listless recovery that has left high rates of unemployment has means many families don't have the time or energy to pay attention to events overseas.

The second factor has to do with the political incentives that inhibit liberals and conservatives from making too much of an issue of this war. Many liberal Democrats have been either angry or quietly uneasy with Obama's decision to escalate troop levels in Afghanistan.

Yet they have generally remained silent since the surge began, fearing they could undercut Obama as he moved forward with health care, a high priority for Democrats.

They were also in a bind since they had based much of their criticism of President Bush on the claim that he had diverted resources from the war in Afghanistan, where the terrorists who perpetrated 9/11 had been given shelter by the Taliban, and used them for the war in Iraq, which they said was not essential to the war on terrorism.

At the same time, conservatives have not made much noise either. Although there are many conservatives who support President Obama's strategy, there are also political factors at work. Talking too much about Afghanistan cuts against a central argument that they want to make about this administration: that Democrats are weak on defense.

It is hard to make a hawk look like a dove. By focusing on other national security issues, such as President Obama's efforts to strengthen civil liberties in the war on terrorism, conservatives have found easier targets. Afghanistan, where Obama has continued and accelerated a central component of Bush's war-on- terrorism strategy, does not fit neatly into their narrative.

Finally, there is the persistent effect on wartime politics that results from not having a draft. Without a draft, many Americans simply don't feel or fear the costs of war. They don't feel the urgency of paying close attention to what is going on. Rather, our nation depends on the valiant efforts of our professional army to handle these challenges.

President Nixon, who pushed for the end of the draft in 1973, believed from the start of his term that much of the grass-roots anti-war movement was driven by the fears of middle-class families that their children would be sent into war. Nixon made ending the draft a top priority because he believed it would undercut this sentiment. Anti-war activism, in his mind, had to do primarily with having to go to war rather than the war itself.

In many respects, Nixon's prediction turned out to be true. Even with President Bush's war in Iraq, which strained public opinion and required more ground troops than any war in recent history, the nation did not experience the kinds of grass-roots protests that rocked Lyndon Johnson's administration in the 1960s.

The absence of a draft, combined with the unwillingness of Democrats or Republicans to call on citizens to sacrifice for the war effort through other means (such as higher taxes) produced national apathy even though our men and women are right in the middle of a conflict.

As a result of these factors, Afghanistan has remained off the radar.

Perhaps with the McChrystal controversy, the nation will start asking tougher questions about what is going on in this war, what our objectives are and how the strategy is working.

Unfortunately, we will most likely turn our attention back to other issues, such as the feature story in Rolling Stone called "Lady Gaga Tells All." In doing so, we will continue an unhealthy pattern of fighting wars outside of the public mind.

AMEN!

NEVER SEEN BEFORE LOOK AT THE AFGHANISTAN WAR

Video is a never before seen look at the Afghanistan war from a variety of angles.

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AC-130 GUNSHIP PUTS THE ASS WHOOP TO THE TALIBAN

Fantastic aerial footage showing an AC-130 gunship putting the ass whoop to the Taliban on the ground in Afghanistan.

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VIDEO OF RUSSIAN/AFGHANISTAN WAR--1978-1989

Compilation of stills from the Russian/Afghanistan war that lasted from 1978 to 1989 and cost the Russians over 15,000 troops.

The United States has now been in Afghanistan nine years and nothing has been accomplished.

The U.S. just passed the 1,000 milestone in American troops killed in Afghanistan.

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CNN DOCUMENTARY OF SOVIET FAILED ATTEMPT TO TAKEOVER AFGHANISTAN

The Soviet Union lost more than 15,000 men in the Afghanistan war.

This CNN documentary chronicles how the Soviet Union lost the war with Afghanistan.

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"WE'RE F#%&@ING LOSING THIS THING"

New video from Robert Greenwald's BraveNew Films, producers of "Rethink Afghanistan, talking to GI's who have seen action in the Afghanistan war including recently relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal and what they have to say about the strategy for winning the war.

It's an eye-opener.

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2 MORE U.S. SOLDIERS DIE IN AFGHANISTAN WAR

Two more US troops die in Afghan war
Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:18:59

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U.S. military has announced the deaths of two of its soldiers in Afghanistan amid a surge in Taliban attacks against foreign forces in the country.

A statement by the US military said on Sunday that six other Americans were wounded in the eastern province of Kunar. It says an Afghan soldier was also killed in the incident.

Meanwhile, a Taliban spokesman has confirmed the attack and said they have inflicted heavy losses on the American and Afghan forces. The fatalities also push the number of foreign troops killed so far this month to 92. June has been the deadliest month for foreign troops since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan began in 2001.

The latest deaths bring the number of NATO troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year to 312.

RUSSIA REMEMBERS DEADLY WAR IN AFGHANISTAN (VIDEO)

We learn from history, or should learn from history, or we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

This graphic and sometimes gory video spells out what the Soviets found out when they tried to invade and takeover Afghanistan.

The same thing is happening with the United States that happened to the Russians when they invaded Afghanistan.

We haven't learned a thing from the past and are now doomed to repeat the mistakes the Soviet Union made in Afghanistan.

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