Continuing Problems for Coalition Forces in Afghanistan February 20, 2008
Posted by Ghuraba in : Islamic Emerate of Afghanistan, Mujahideen, Sharia, Taliban , add a commentAustralia Is Unable to Boost Afghanistan Force, Fitzgibbon Says
By Gemma Daley
Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — Australia’s forces are stretched to the limit and the country is unable to contribute more soldiers to help NATO troops fight the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
“We are already doing more than our fair share,” Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said today in an interview in the capital, Canberra. “We really don’t have the capacity.”
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has led calls for North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to contribute 7,000 more combat soldiers to southern Afghanistan. Australia is a partner of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force and has 1,000 personnel in southern Uruzgan province and around Kandahar Airport.
A U.S.-led military coalition ousted the Taliban after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, then handed the Afghan mission over to NATO command as President George W. Bush’s attention shifted to Iraq. Pitched to Europeans as a peacekeeping assignment, the increasingly violent campaign is losing public support in Canada and Europe.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=a1hOUEce4iq8&refer=australia
Allahu Akbar!
The mujahideen stayed steadfast in the Jihad and Allah Azzawajaal rewarded them and Inshallah will continue to reward them with victories. This is great new for the every one except the murtads and the mushrikeen, may Allah continue to embarrass the kuffar and the hypocrites ameen.
What is the Least we can do for the Mujahideen!!! February 18, 2008
Posted by Ghuraba in : Islamic Emerate of Afghanistan, Islamic Emerate of Irak, Mujahideen , 2 commentsEnjoy the video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I5sDa5FjkTA
The State of Afghanistan February 16, 2008
Posted by Ghuraba in : Islamic Emerate of Afghanistan , add a commentDefeat a “real possibility” in Afghanistan: Ashdown Wed Feb 13, 5:44 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - NATO is in disarray and the West faces defeat in Afghanistan unless it overhauls its counter-insurgency and reconstruction strategy, Britain’s Paddy Ashdown wrote in an article published on Wednesday.
Ashdown, who was rejected last month by Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the post of senior U.N. envoy to the country, called in the Financial Times for renewed efforts to win Taliban moderates away from the insurgency.
“With fighting in Afghanistan now entering its seventh year, no agreed international strategy, public support on both sides of the Atlantic crumbling, NATO in disarray and widening insecurity in Afghanistan, defeat is now a real possibility…
“We have not lost in Afghanistan … But we will lose if we do not start doing things differently,” he warned.
Ashdown said the consequences of failure in Afghanistan would be appalling.
“Global terrorism would have won back its old haven and created a new one over the border in a mortally weakened Pakistan,” he said.
Ashdown called for more cooperation between international military and civilian efforts and a greater focus on governance and the rule of law across in a country where corruption and lawlessness is widespread.
Of an international security effort which has at times caused civilian casualties, he said:
“Breaking up the Taliban by winning over the moderates is a far better route to success than bombing and body counts.”
U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban government in 2001, but Taliban rebels launched an insurgency two years ago and violence has risen sharply since then.
Washington has called on NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan and to commit more of them to the south of the country where the Taliban insurgency is strongest.
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