Friday, February 12, 2010

Attack on Marjah.


David Guttenfelder/Associated Press

"U.S. Marines and Afghan troops launched their long-expected attack Saturday on the biggest Taliban-held town in the south, seeking to re-establish government control and undermine support for the militants in their southern heartland."

Read more here.

Taliban plan to use "hit and run" tactics.

UPDATE: "We are going to take this place and take it very hard," Senior Nato official.

2 Comments:

Blogger Long-time RN said...

Ya, thinking about the 5/2 and keeping an eye on the (internet) news.

2/12/2010 09:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A costly exercise in futility. We need to stop trying to be the world policeman, rather (let me be gender-inclusive), the world police OFFICER, on Chinese money, I might add. Doesn't anyone else see the quicksand??

2/13/2010 11:43:00 AM  

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