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| Canadian General Takes Over Kabul Brigade |
| 2003-07-18 |
| A Canadian general took command Thursday of a brigade of international troops trying to bring security to Afghanistan’s war-battered capital. Brig. Gen. Peter J. Devlin assumed command from Germany’s Brig. Gen. Werner Freers during a ceremony in eastern Kabul. The brigade is part of the larger International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The brigade has 3,600 troops from 19 countries, including 350 Canadians. Its main task is ensuring order in Kabul, where where rebels have killed peacekeepers and launched regular attacks against government targets. Germany and the Netherlands jointly command ISAF until next month when NATO will take over international peacekeeping in Kabul. There are currently about 5,000 international peacekeepers in the beleaguered capital. "Beleaguered"? Next is "quagmire", I suppose. Aside from ISAF peacekeepers, the U.S.-led coalition force of about 11,000, mostly Americans, is scattered throughout south, eastern and northeastern Afghanistan hunting the remnants of al-Qaida, the Taliban and |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Zhang Fei - As a matter of actual practice, the reporters are most interested in the stories taking place where there are 5-star Hotels. If the accomodations are not up to scratch, they file from NY or London using a bunch of cobbled-together wire reports from the poor local stringers. Need a reporter? Find the best Hotel in town - and head for the bar. I know. I was married to one for 11 |
| Posted by: PD 2003-7-18 11:30:48 AM |
| #2 There are currently about 5,000 international peacekeepers in the beleaguered capital. What's weird is that I read this overheated language in newswires about Afghanistan and Iraq, but not about Chechnya, where the attitude is blase, as if sustaining dozens of KIA in single attacks is a Russian cultural tradition. All the same, I'd rather have our traditions than theirs. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-7-18 9:18:52 AM |
| #1 I like to think of Kharzai as a new age Robinson Crusoe and of Kabul as an oasis of palms rustling in the gentle breezes, a desert isle, if you will, in a sea of barking moonbats. |
| Posted by: PD 2003-7-18 2:37:32 AM |