Opinion
Barry Artiste
Let’s hope this will cut our losses, while at the same time cut the life short of the Taliban with extreme prejudice in ridding the Taliban from the face of the earth.
Meanwhile troops in a scene reminicent of Vietnam using Jimmy Hendrix to startle troops as they stafe the area, are using Limp Bizkit and Rage against the Machine in getting their point across. The Canadian Troops are “playing it loud and playing it proud”!
No word if these musicians will be requesting royalties. One wonders what the music would sound like played in the local language of Pashtu?
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2008/08/25/6567116-cp.html
Canadians ‘clear out’ bomb-making Taliban strongholds after fatal blast
By Tobi Cohen, THE CANADIAN PRESS
PASHMUL, Afghanistan – The death of three Canadian combat engineers along the highway that runs through what’s been called the most dangerous patch of land in the world merely toughened the resolve of soldiers embarking on a massive assault, military officials said.
The fiery roadside bomb attack on Highway 1, just four kilometres west of a Canadian forward operating base in Zhari district, came as hundreds of soldiers began mounting up in an operation last week.
Its goal was to take back control of nearby Pashmul district and its villages of Mollayan, Degaran and Burmohammad – Taliban strongholds that had presented a virtually impenetrable challenge for this fifth rotation of Canadian troops in Afghanistan.
The deadly bomb blast highlighted the need for the offensive, aimed at destroying facilities where insurgents strategized and produced the improvised explosive devices – or IEDs – used against vehicles on the highway.
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