Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Good News from Afghanistan
The little noticed, soon to be completely forgotten, battle of Sperwan Ghar, a hill 40 miles southwest of Kandahar, is finally given a little press coverage in the Fayetteville Observer; Fayetteville is where Fort Bragg is located.
The battle took place in September (the dreaded Fall Taliban Offensive) and we took it right to them. My favorite paragraph:
About 900 Taliban fighters died in the month, during what was dubbed Operation Medusa. Soldiers from the 3rd Special Forces Group, the Canadian army and Afghan forces battled insurgents, who decided to stand and fight. Bigger clashes have become more common — U.S. Army spokesman Clifford Richardson said that more than 2,000 Taliban deaths have been confirmed in just the last four months.
OK, OK the big bad Taliban is back in ever greater force, with ever better equipment and are standing and fighting. And we are stacking them up like cordwood. You'all come back now, ya'hear?
(h/t Big Lizards)
The battle took place in September (the dreaded Fall Taliban Offensive) and we took it right to them. My favorite paragraph:
About 900 Taliban fighters died in the month, during what was dubbed Operation Medusa. Soldiers from the 3rd Special Forces Group, the Canadian army and Afghan forces battled insurgents, who decided to stand and fight. Bigger clashes have become more common — U.S. Army spokesman Clifford Richardson said that more than 2,000 Taliban deaths have been confirmed in just the last four months.
OK, OK the big bad Taliban is back in ever greater force, with ever better equipment and are standing and fighting. And we are stacking them up like cordwood. You'all come back now, ya'hear?
(h/t Big Lizards)
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 10:49 PM 
