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| Afghanistan | |
| Former ANA Soldier, Insurgent Leaders Captured | |
| 2012-07-08 | |
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, according to an Isaf statement Saturday. A joint force of Afghan and Isaf troops found the "deserter" in Nangarhar's Khugyani district and placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... him, Isaf said. He had stolen equipment belonging to Afghan cops "and was planning to attend Taliban bomb-making training in Pakistain". The forces locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! one other suspected thug during the operation, it said. The news comes in the same week that saw two Afghan troops open fire on their foreign soldier partners, cementing concerns about an increase in armed Afghan forces switching sides. An Afghan policeman killed three British troops in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... on Sunday while an Afghan soldier maimed five US soldiers on Tuesday. Security forces also captured a leader of thug group Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, two other bully boyz leaders, and "several suspected thugs" in the Kunduz district of eastern Kunduz province, Isaf said in the same statement. The IMU leader is an explosives expert who specialises in making suicide and improvised bombs for use in attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in Kunduz, it said. Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, Bob finally got to dance with Sally... another explosives specialist was captured in a joint Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... troops operation in Zharay district of southern Kandahar province on Saturday. Isaf said in the statement that the Taliban explosives specialist was responsible for coordinating and executing improvised bomb attacks against the Afghan and NATO forces throughout the region. In a separate statement released Friday night, Isaf said a foreign soldier died in southern Afghanistan as a result of a non-battle related injury. It provided no further details, referring identification to the soldier's national authorities. The soldier's death brings the number of coalition troops killed this year to 245. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Thank you, Frank G. Hat tip to Stephen King; re: Pet Semetary. A great horror novel! From right around the time King transformed from auteur to hack. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2012-07-08 18:37 |
| #3 "dead" is better |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-07-08 08:58 |
| #2 The term "captured" and "POW" are no longer used. Personnel are now "detained" by ISAF if, if, if there is enough evidence to warrant detainment. Interrogation follows detainment. If they have been detained previously and registered in the biometric program (identification system), their activities are weighed against previous activities and their status on the 'bad guy' list. A determination (by lawyers) is made regarding their future status, ie, furture detainment and eventual trial, or release. It is not at all uncommon to detain personnel who have been previously detained a number of times. If insufficient evidence is found to further detain the individual, he is usually released within a couple of weeks. If a solid case is established from the field, the detainee can then be transferred to the prison at Sarposa or the huge facility at Bagram in a pre-trial status. To say this is a difficult, frustrating process is an understatement. For quite obvious political reasons, a bulging GITMO and large, heavily populated, host nation prisons is not where the administration is going. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-07-08 07:15 |
| #1 What happens to captured enemy in A'stan these days? Do they get released or are they allowed to be broken out instead? One never hears of punishment. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-07-08 06:44 |