Operation Moshtarak(Afghanistan)

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Operasi Moshtarak dilancarkan di negara Afghanistan bag memburu pejuang Taliban mulai 1 Februari 2010. Lokasi utama ialah di daerah Helman , selatan Afhanistan. Pejuang Taliban menjadikan daerah Nad Ali dan daerahLashkar Gah sebagai markas mereka. Sasaran utama ialah di Marjah (atau Marje, Marja) yang telah dikuasai oleh Taliban selama beberapa tahun . Penanaman dan pengedaran dadah juga aktif di sini Marjah.
NATO mengetuai operasi ini yang diberi nama Moshtarak. Pasukan ini terdiri daripada tentera Afghanistan, tentera ISAF, USMC dan unit tentera Amerika Syarikat.

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U.S. Marine shot in head and walks away

Monday proved to be a day that one U.S. Marine will never forget. He was shot between the eyes by an Afghan sniper and walked away.
Not many people get shot in the head and walk away to tell the story. That's the way it happened for U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Koenig on Monday.
The Marines of Company B, 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment had landed by helicopter before dawn on Saturday morning in the town of Marjah to take it from the Taliban.
Lance Cpl. Andrew Koenig is a designated marksman with a job of finding and shooting hidden Taliban fighters. On Monday a Taliban sniper found Koenig first and shot him in the head almost dead-center between the eyes.
Koenig fell to the ground knowing that he had been hit. His battlefield partner Lance Cpl. Gabrian checked out Koenig but could not find any gunshot wounds on his partner. What Gabrian did find was that the plate which holds the night-vision goggles Koenig's helmet was missing. What Gabrian did find was a "thumb-deep dent" in the Kevlar shell.
The only injury that Koenig sustained was a red welt above his right eye.
Koenig went to be checked out by the medic.
Minutes later a rocket-propelled grenade exploded on the rooftop that Koenig and Gabrian had been on. Gabrian was hit with shock waves from the explosion, and suffered a concussion and hearing loss.
Gabrian and Koenig were reunited at the medic.

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bukan US Army tapi pejuang Taliban dapat rawatan segera kerana cedera ditembak

source: MSNBC

tupaiterbang

mcm citer the hurt locker...

advark

Operation Moshtarak = operasi bersama-sama

dari namanya sahaja OPERASI BERSAMA2 tetapi aslinya hanya operasi main keroyok/mengepung milisi Taliban dan tentu sahaja operasi ini selalu mengakibatkan mangsa dari civil2 afghanistan yg tidak berdosa.....AKAN BERHASILKAH OPERATION MOSHTARAK INI.. ??? wallahu 'alam

LONG LIVE AFGHANISTAN..
LONG LIVE TALIBAN..
LONG LIVE AL-QAEDA..
LONG LIVE ISLAM..

Debmey

Your taliban brothers are gettin their as-ses kicked now, so what are you doing about it?

jazim

Iyolah ass-kicked, bilo balik amerika, jadi gilo sasau x tentu hala lopeh tu tembak kepalo sendiri!

exocet

si dubuk dah start masuk ni, terhibur sket aku...

weta_studio

hope berakhir dgn cepat

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9# advark
takkan berakhir even us army akan berundur sepenuhnye

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Afghan governor raises flag over Marjah bazaar

MARJAH, Afghanistan — Afghans on Wednesday raised their flag over a bazaar badly damaged by fighting with Taliban militants in a major US-led offensive to drive out the Taliban from a southern Afghan town.
The leader of southern province Helmand, Governor Mohammad Gulab Mangal, toured the battlefield on the fifth day of the offensive but said Marjah had not yet been "cleared" completely of militants nor the mines they had planted.
Shops and other buildings in the centre of the bazaar were badly damaged from fighting that has raged between troops and Taliban militants, and barbed wire sealed off roads believed to be heavily mined.
Asked by reporters how long it would be before the township, controlled for years by Taliban and drug lords, would be completely under government control, Mangal said troops were still active.
"From the military point of view, one cannot set an exact timeline but work to clear mines continues," he said.
Shops on either side of the dirt roads running though the bazaar were mostly closed and empty, and some were badly damaged in the fighting.
A few hundred metres along the road, troops had set up a barbed-wire cordon. Marines ordered a man who approached to lift his shirt and push up his sleeves to prove he was unarmed, before allowing him to approach.
The commander of the 4,400 Afghan forces taking part in Operation Mushtarak ("together" in Dari) indicated it was too early to say Marjah had been taken.
Standing next to Mangal at the crossroads of the deserted bazaar, General Muhaiuddin Ghori, Afghan army commander in Helmand, said his men had entered the area three days ago.
"Right now we are in Loy Char," he said, as he signalled to a trooper to raise the green, red and black Afghan flag on a long bamboo pole.
The soldier who raised the flag shouted: "Allahu Akbar" (God is greater).
Marjah has been the focus of the operation launched by 15,000 Afghan, US and NATO forces on Saturday in the biggest test of US President Barack Obama's troop surge designed to end the eight-year Taliban insurgency.
The Taliban have been accused of using civilians as human shields, forcing women and children onto rooftops and into windows as they fire from behind them onto advancing troops.
An Afghan soldier who gave his name as Ismatullah said he entered the Marjah area on Sunday and saw many residents wounded from the fighting.
"They (the militants) were not allowing people to leave their homes. I myself saw lots of people who had been hit (in the fighting) because they were firing from people's homes and we were returning fire.
"But they were hit because (the militants) were firing from their homes and not letting them leave," he said.
A Taliban spokesman has denied the reports.
Mangal said no air strikes had been called in because Marjah "is a residential area, people are there".
US Marines Corporal Matthew Ellis of the Weapons Company 1st Batallion 6th Regiment said: "I feel pretty confident we are going to take the whole city.
"It was a lot easier than they were saying it was going to be, with ANA (Afghan army) and Marines working together we have been going pretty fast.
"Every time Afghan people come to us it seems as though they are accepting our presence," he said.

mcm tak lama lagi akan berkahir

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17 Februari 2010

exocet

collateral damage is not their primary concern....kata intel & military equipment superb gler tp mesti jadik collateral damage...bukan sikit, 1 kampung kene tibai...

macam sengaja je...

advark

11# jazim

benar bro..tetapi anehnya nafsu perangnya semakin mengilo sahaja....entah setelah irak dan afghanistan negara islam mana lagi yg akan diserang oleh amerika ini...mungkinkah  iran, suriah,yaman atau mungkinkah negara komunis north korea...wallahu'alam

gede-bab

sanggup kah depa ni menghadapi perang yang panjang di sana???
bagi aku Amerika jahanam ni akan hancurkan bumi Afghan tak peduli orang awam atau taliban...

semoga Allah menangkan pejuang-pejuang islam dimana saja...amin...

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18 Februari 2010

Four NATO troops killed in Marja as Taliban holds ground

KABUL -- The sixth day of the military offensive in southern Afghanistan proved the deadliest so far as four NATO troops were killed in bombings and gun battles during the painstaking push to take back a Taliban stronghold.

From the beginning the operation in Marja -- the biggest joint military operation of the war -- coalition troops have encountered sporadic gunfire and a host of roadside bombs, many detected before they could cause damage or injury. But the Taliban resistance has appeared to intensify rather than diminish even as U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers have taken control of key roads, bridges and the defunct government center.

The top military commander in southern Afghanistan, British Maj. Gen. Nick Carter, told reporters that the operation had reached the "end of the beginning" but that it would take about month to be sure "we have secured that which needs to be secured."

Three of the four deaths Thursday came from two separate roadside bombings while the fourth service member was killed by small-arms fire, raising the death toll for the Marja offensive to at least nine NATO troops and one Afghan soldier. NATO did not release the nationalities of those killed Thursday, but a British soldier was among those who died.

The operation in Marja is not only intended to push out the Taliban but also to install a local government and Afghan security force presence where there had long been none. The grinding pace has been the result not only of regular insurgent attacks but because the prevalence of mines and bombs means that moving even short distances can take hours.

Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, the U.S. Marine commander in Helmand, told the Associated Press that progress has been steady but not yet dramatic in Marja. "I'd say we control the spine" of the town, he said. "We're where we want to be."

Also Thursday, a NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan inadvertently killed Afghan policemen and prompted calls for an investigation. The bombing took place after NATO and Afghan soldiers came under insurgent attack in the Sahib district of Kunduz province. The soldiers called in the airstrike to help and later learned that "several Afghan police were killed and wounded," according to a military statement. The Interior Ministry put the number of policemen killed at seven, according to AP.