The U.S. army and their Taliban-al Qaeda enemy reinforced their positions amid fierce fighting in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday. Hundreds of U.S. troops were flown to the battlefield to counter the al Qaeda-Taliban fighters, who were believed to be bolstering their positions as infiltrators slip into the mountain frontline to join besieged comrades. In what has developed into the biggest battle of the war, the U.S. military said 500 of 1,000 rebels, including some high ranking leaders, had already died in six days of fighting. But General F.L. Buster Hagenbeck, commander of "Operation Anaconda," said more fundamentalist followers in the area were rushing to join in a holy war against the United States.
It'll be interesting to see where these reinforcements are coming from for the other side - seeing as how they're supposed to be surrounded. Also be interesting to see how many are al-Qaeda, Taliban, and Hezb-e-Islami. If they're Hekmatyar's men, the Karzai government will have to move against him. If not, we might as well all go home because the effort will have been wasted. |