PESHAWAR (AZZAM):Recent operations carried out over the last five days by American troops in Kunar, against Al-Qaida, Taliban and Hezb-e-Islami (Hekmatyar forces) have failed. The US troops destroyed five former Mujahideen bases in Darra Mengal and raided a well known Afghan Mujahideen Commander Haji Arif's house in Dangam, claiming to have recovered huge quantities of ammunition from there. The US Commandos also raided one of the houses of a commander of Hekmatyar, but they did not find anything there. The American troops returned back to their bases after five days of failure.
So why was it a failure? No shootouts? Or only little ones? Sounds like they beat up the base a little, and probably picked up some intel pieces. It's significant that the Azzam "reporters" are now grouping the Hezbers with the al-Qaeda and Taliban. |