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| U.S., Afghan Forces Retake Mountain Pass |
| 2003-08-27 |
| American and Afghan forces killed about a dozen insurgents Wednesday and recaptured a mountain pass in southeastern Afghanistan - the scene of heavy fighting and U.S. bombardments this week, a local official said. Suspected Taliban guerrillas were believed to still be hiding in the rugged area in Zabul province, where U.S. and Afghan soldiers reoccupied the Moray Pass, said Khalil Hotak, chief of the provincial intelligence service. Some of the fighters escaped toward Uruzgan province to the west, Hotak said. Kind of hard to hold the high ground when we own the sky. U.S. military said that one coalition special operation soldier was shot in the shoulder during a firefight in Uruzgan on Tuesday night. Coalition aircraft — including AV-8 Harriers, A-10 Thunderbolts and Apache helicopters — fired on insurgents on Tuesday afternoon in clashes in Uruzgan, Col. Rodney Davis, spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, told a news briefing in Kabul. He said coalition forces were continuing operations in Uruzgan as well as neighboring Zabul and Kandahar. "We will continue to do what we have been doing, that is take advantage of whatever intelligence we have and kill anti-coalition forces where we find them," he said. Good Davis had no further details on casualties, and it was not possible to immediately confirm Hotak’s report that 12 or more suspected Taliban were killed Wednesday and whether the bodies had been collected. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #13 Winter is coming on? You mean the dreaded Afghan winter? It's frickin' August for cryin' out loud. |
| Posted by: R. McLeod 2003-8-28 3:12:30 AM |
| #12 odd, no mention of AC130's. The harriers and a-10's have limited dwell time, and Apaches have issues at high altitudes, IIUC. How high did they say these mountains are? |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-8-27 4:10:00 PM |
| #11 The sky is the high ground. |
| Posted by: Tresho 2003-8-27 4:00:31 PM |
| #10 Land mines are dirty, terror weapons when used in the fashion you advocate. In Vietnam, many of the VC mines were repurposed American weapons, especially mines. American doctrine for mining is for them to be in well-organized, mapped deployment protecting strategic points. Some prepostrously high percentage of American casualties in Vietnam were landmine-inflicted. There are better ways to wage war. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2003-8-27 2:38:20 PM |
| #9 Air strikes? What we should do is lay lands mine in the passes the terrorists take. Seeing thier comrades mutilated and crying for help turned alot of Paks back when we first went in to Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-8-27 2:30:52 PM |
| #8 we've been in afghan for close to 2 years now. Still have only about 10,000 troops, a couple of dozen US combat deaths. After 3 years in Nam we had 500,000 troops and 40,000 combat deaths. steverosa doesnt seem to have gotten the line - its IRAQ thats the new viet nam, not afghanistan. My suspicion is he's a plant by the hawkish side, to make the doves look stupid. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-8-27 2:21:24 PM |
| #7 just like vietnam .fight to take the hill then leave it in a couple of days . They cant stay up there forever. It is cold and winter is coming. |
| Posted by: steveerossa 2003-8-27 1:28:39 PM |
| #6 A mountain pass would be an excellent place to do a fast-track trial on the Metal Storm. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-8-27 12:37:13 PM |
| #5 When the Mujahadeem fought the Soviets in Afganistan they had Uncle Sam by their side. Now the little sheetheads want to take us on and they have, what, Pakistan, mafia, China maybe. RPGs can be a real pisser I'm sure, but they don't really match-up. Take hold where ever they are and shake the liv'n hell out of'm. Hot war. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-8-27 12:09:13 PM |
| #4 spackle with Spam works as long as there's pork in it lol |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-27 11:15:03 AM |
| #3 Frank, did you perhaps mean spackle? |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2003-8-27 11:11:16 AM |
| #2 D'oh! How about sprinkle? damn, I need some coffee |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-27 10:16:43 AM |
| #1 Collect them? sprinle baco-bits on em and let the flies have em |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-27 9:43:48 AM |