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| Subject: Taliban launch 'operation' against Marines Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:07 pm | |
| Taliban launch 'operation' against Marines
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) – Afghanistan's insurgent Taliban movement said Monday they had launched a guerrilla operation to counter a major assault by US Marines on their stronghold in Helmand province.
Operation Foladi Jal, or "iron net" in Pashtu, would teach the Marines "a lesson," Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP by telephone from an unknown location.
About 4,000 Marines poured into the southern province on the border with Pakistan in an operation called Khanjar (dagger) that has faced little resistance since it was launched five days ago.
"In response to Operation Khanjar by the invading forces, we have launched Operation Foladi Jal," Ahmadi said.
"Their Khanjar will get stuck in our Foladi Jal," the rebel spokesman said.
"In this operation we'll teach them a lesson so they will never again dare to come into our areas," he said, referring to the militants' long-time stronghold.
The operation would include improvised bomb explosions and "hit-and-run guerrilla attacks.
"We will not engage them in front battles. We would rather hit them by mines and guerrilla attacks," he said.
The assault by Marines, along with about 600 Afghan forces, has pushed into several key towns in southern Helmand and aims to hold the areas to allow Afghans to vote in August 20 presidential elections.
One Marine has been killed but officials have not released casualty figures for the insurgents, adding that many seem to have gone to ground.
Officials have said the Taliban are unlikely to oppose directly such a massive insertion of Marines, but would instead resort to bombings, the main feature of their campaign against the government and its international allies.
The Taliban were in government between 1996 and 2001, until they were ousted by a US-led invasion for sheltering Al-Qaeda.
.http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090706/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanusunresttalibanoperation_20090706103610 | |
| | | Yash Member
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| Subject: Re: Taliban launch 'operation' against Marines Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:07 am | |
| The defiant message by Taliban to american forces,inspite of the operation being carried out by the pakistan in baluchistan and nwfp has not deterred them, Rather has made them bold. I think this should be a wake call to the american forces in Afghanistan, that have still a long way to go as the war in afghanistan intensifies. | |
| | | Jane Member
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| Subject: Re: Taliban launch 'operation' against Marines Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:18 am | |
| This is the first time coalition forces have had a sustained presence so far south in the Helmand River valley." After a rapid blitz involving the biggest American marine helicopter assault since Vietnam, troops have begun a 'hearts and minds' drive trying to persuade the wary and independent population they and the central government can help them | |
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