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UK To Deploy More Boots To Afghanistan After Suicide Bomber Kills Six US Troops
In October, President Obama “surprised” America by deciding to halt a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Under the President’s previous plan, Washington would withdraw most of the 9,800 troops operating in the country by the end of next year, leaving a force of just 1,000. Now, all 9,800 troops will remain for “most” of next year and 5,500 troops will remain in 2017.
The decision came amid calls for stepped up action against the Taliban which briefly controlled Kunduz in September (a situation the US “corrected” by launching a brutal AC-130 gunship attack on a hospital) and are now operating in more parts of the country than at any time since 2001.
On Monday, The Pentagon said six Americans - including an NYPD detective - were killed in the country when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated near Bagram.
“All six of the NATO service members killed Monday in a motorcycle bomb attack in Bagram, Afghanistan, were American,” CNN reports. “A suicide bomber on a motorbike carried out the attack on a joint patrol of Afghan and coalition forces at about 1:30 p.m. in the Bajawri area of Bagram district.”
"As I saw firsthand during my visit to Afghanistan last Friday, our troops are working diligently alongside our Afghan partners to build a brighter future for the Afghan people," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a statement. "Their dedicated efforts will continue despite this tragic event."
Yes, the “dedicated efforts” of US personnel will “continue”, despite the fact that no one has any idea what they’re doing in Afghanistan at this juncture. Granted, the Taliban is resurgent. Have a look at the following map:
Of course if you wait around long enough (like say, 14 years) insurgent elements are bound to resurface and attempt to recapture lost territory. In short, using a reinvigorated Taliban as an excuse to keep troops in Afghanistan nearly four years after the death of Osama Bin Laden is asinine. The Taliban will always be there and at a certain point, you have to leave it to Kabul to protect their own territorial integrity.
So why stick around, you ask? Because there are bigger fish to fry (so to speak) in the region.
Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are already skittish about America's perceived withdrawal from the Mid-East and just about the last thing Washington wants to do is reinforce the idea that America is "leading from behind" by pulling thousands of troops from Afghanistan just as the conflicts in Syria and Iraq escalate.
As usual, Britain is along for the ride.
In the wake of a Taliban offensive that resulted in the fall of Sangin, the UK is sending in more "advisors" to assist in Helmand. "The Afghan government has suffered a serious setback after a Taliban offensive succeeded in taking control of much of Sangin, the Helmand town that became totemic for British forces, accounting for a third of their casualties," The Guardian writes, adding that "The Ministry of Defence said British troops had been deployed to help local forces, but would not take any combat role and would only provide advisory support."
Yes, the infamous "advisory" role. That's the same role US SpecOps were playing in the northern Iraqi town of Huwija when they jumped into a gun battle which led to the first US ground combat death in Iraq since 2011.
“As part of the UK’s ongoing contribution to Nato’s Resolute Support mission, a small number of UK personnel have deployed to Camp Shorabak in Helmand province in an advisory role," the MoD said. “These personnel are part of a larger Nato team which is providing advice to the Afghan national army. They are not deployed in a combat role and will not deploy outside the camp.”
This comes less than a week after US and British SpecOps were deployed to the area in the wake of the Taliban advance. "At least 2,000 Afghan forces have been killed or wounded in Helmand in the past year [and] reventing the provincial capital from falling into the hands of the Taliban is a priority for U.S. Army Gen. John Campbell, the commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led military coalition in Afghanistan," WSJ noted last week.
The situation is complicated by Iran's alleged support for the Taliban, an alliance that makes for strange bedfellows. Although Tehran has long been opposed to the group, checking the spread of Islamic State in Afghanistan and keeping US troops off guard has apparently taken precedence. According to Western media, Tehran is now arming and funding the Taliban in Afghanistan. The aid has been instrumental to the Sunni extremist group's recent string of military successes.
All of the above is further evidence that Afghanistan will once again become a key battleground in the Mid-East. As we've said on a number of occasions (including late last month when we learned that Russia has sent 10,000 AK-47s to Kabul), the proxy wars unfolding in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq will likely soon include Afghanistan as both the West and the Russia-Iran-Iraq nexus contemplate how best to check Islamic State's advance while simultaneously keeping a lid on the Taliban's ambitions.
We'll close with a quote from a police commander in Helmand:
“We are in the front line but we haven’t received our salaries for two months and don’t have food. We knock on people’s door to ask them to provide us food.”
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The war on terror is a war to create more terror. These wars will never end.
The US has blown over $6 trillion in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Someone got very rich. All wars are banksters wars.
But then opium production is up 4000% since US/NATO invaded. So there is your big payoff from the war.
And the illegal invaders are bringing them in...nobody is searching their bags...
also http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/252783/isis-meth-heads-tweeking-name-isl...
Bloomberg sponsored content in the middle of an article?! Wtf Tyler? Where is this going to stop? I understand you need revenue for your work, that's fair enough, I love this website and all.. but there must be a better way than spam..
Yale's Skull and Bones founding fathers and their families have been selling opium for centuries and turkey has always been a part of that trade. Only difference now is the direction it moves. Maybe the British need to make sure the Helmand province maintains production levels when they were there last.
I'm getting real tired of this movie and its sequels
the ole double tap.
Hells yea, the heroin business here in flyovertown is booming. I work with the parks on bike trail patrol, and I swear our main duty is to look for people nodding out in the parks, look for loose needles, you know - standard biking stuff. We may be #2 in the nation for overdoses - all this is way up in the last few years, when meth was the cheap drug of choice. Fa la la la la.
Quit regurgitating "the war on terror" jingoism
There is no "war on terror", there's only Imperialism, black ops, wag the dog and propaganda
what the fuck enough already - get the fuck out of afghanistan and let the beards kill each other.
Amazing how the "western media" has reported on Iran's alleged support for Taliban as the Taliban fends off attacks from isis which the western media is not reporting, is a us/turkish/saudi/israeli proxy terror force.
You guys have an unhealthy obsession with the 'holy lands'. The world is a big place just fuck off to your corner of it. Take your Israelis with you.
hey asshole - eat a dick. And try making some fucking sense.
eat dick?
Not a helpful suggestion. I am suggesting you take your boys back home and you want to feed me dick?
Fucking brain damaged. Go back to "terror network/ Israeli/Turk/Saudi axis" and all your other bullshit. You still don't understand what the fuck a bunch of white people are doing in the middle of the desert spending TRILLIONS fighting DONKEYS instead of enjoying spring break drinking and fucking. I know which one I'd rather be doing.
huh?
hey asshole - it is not my fault you can not form a coherent thought in the English language. What in the fuck do YOU think you;re talking about? Your inane comment simply doesn't follow from my comment.
That you'd rather be fucking donkeys is not germane to the discussion.
Mook.
I would rather be fucking donkeys but instead im here, in your country.
Mission Accomplished.
Can we just declare victory and get the fuck outta there already?
Somebody has to protect that TAPI pipeline route.
http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/gas-pipeline-afghanistan-gets-green-light-bri...
Bin Laden's been dead, why are we still there? Oh, Pakistan has nukes. Never mind.
That someone CANNOT be the US. So the Afghans, Pakis, Indians, and Turkmen will have to work out a strategy to get the US out. Otherwise, the pipeline will never be completed.
if only the morons could vote for Obama again, after the last again, you know that President who before and during the start of his first term said that Guantanamo would close and the war in Afghanistan would terminate immediately
not only still murdering civilians, still incarcerating kidnapped civilians and still torturing kidnapped civilians, but expanding the horrors
keep voting you dumbfucks
What? They're sending in more of our kids to be targets for those nut nobs?
How about getting the hell out of that shit hole and being home for a change?
can't happen... How the hell else do you expect to keep the heroin profits rolling in to fund black budgets?
The wars keep the Israeli-Neocon necks out of nooses. The treasonous criminals will hang if citizens anywhere catch their breaths. Peace cannot be allowed.
Those nutjobs? It's European nutjobs who seem to be obsessed with the biblical lands since about 740ad that are causing all the problems. You keep getting involved and then moan that all of us are now in your countries.
Christ was a mudskin from the east. Fucking let it go you have the US/EUR/RUSSIA why the fuck are you so obsessed with our lands? Fuck off from Jerusalem.
Euros? You mean Khazars.
At the end of the day, you're the glove and they're the hand.
Long sneakers!
And Toyota trucks
Do they have Yellow Ribbons like the US, if not suggest they need to start.
Must protect Opium Trade at all cost, never mind the Brits are as broker as the Greeks and Amerikans.
Brits love a chance at going in and controlling the Opium just look back in history at the Opium Wars. Isnt this what its all about. Osama was just an excuse to control the multibillion dollar poppy cartels
Who are we fighting?
Why are we fighting?
What exactly are America's interests? Who benefits, and in what way?
How do you "win" against people who are willing to kill themselves to take a few of us out?
What does winning look like?
How long do we "invest in winning" before we cut our losses?
Basic, fundamental questions that no one in the MSM demands answers for. They don't even ask the questions.
And the same questions apply to Syria. The distortions and outright lies I hear from 'Journalists & Commentators" on TV become more ridiculous by the day, and that goes across the spectrum from the "conservative" FOX to the "liberal" MSNBC.
http://www.amazon.com/None-Dare-Call-It-Treason/dp/0914053108
Correction. They kill themselves defending their countries. What the fuck are you doing there? Ever wonder why Europeans have been obsessed with the East since about 740ad. What the FUCK is your issue?
After reading my post, you ask "What the fuck are you doing there? "
Do you not get it that I am asking the same question?
"How do you "win" against people who are willing to kill themselves to take a few of us out?"
You don't. That's the point.
The MIC lost its excuse for spending so much on the military after the Soviet boogeyman collapsed. Now we have a new boogeyman, terrorism, and it's the best boogeyman of all because it is self sustaining.
There is no winning, just unlimited profits.
I don't feel sorry for anyone who joins the military and is maimed or killed for defense contractors. *shrug*
No president in the history of the USA has caused as much carnage or started as many wars as this idiot, Obama.
And yet the D and R presidential candidates are all squabbling over who will be best at keeping Obama's wars going.
So who does one vote for if they want peace and stability instead?
Deez Nutz?
Vote from the rooftops....
Get the fuck out of the Mid East. Let Pootin pay the tab. Get the fuck out of Afghanistan. Fighting is their only livelihood, if it's not you it's each other. Have you noticed the countryside, that's all it's good for. It's what I think Hell looks like only with more flames.
Ghost soldiers ?. Names on a rooster who's paychecks goes to who knows --a
This.
God knows what drugs and money is funneled by the military to fuel our latest democracy building.
We won't ever know the details, including troop placement or bomb size, but in 'enemy' territory it sure looks like the patrol was too bunched up. That's a lot of KIAs for one bomb if they had adequate spacing.
Guy was on a motorcyle, you can carry a lot of shit on those especially in east asia they can even carry a water buffalo on a moped.
hey spread out a little you CIAs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Chapman_attack
The Afghan war and the 'Grand Chessboard' Pt.1
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"JAY: The idea of Eurasia as the key to US global power, is that the driving reason to be in Afghanistan?
BRZEZINSKI: No. I think the driving reason to be in Afghanistan, and the specific reason, is that a major attack on the United States originated from a safe haven that existed in Afghanistan. We gave the then Afghan regime, which happens to have been the Taliban regime, the option of either terminating the safe haven and handing over to us those who attacked us, or becoming the object of an unavoidable military action designed to eliminate that safe haven, in particular al-Qaeda. They chose the latter option. That's why we are in there.
JAY: In the book, you talk about the importance of Pakistan and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan and the whole issue of the energy. The argument is made?I mean, you must?obviously, you've heard it?that whether al-Qaeda has a safe haven in Afghanistan or whether it's North Waziristan or whether it's somewhere else, whether it's Hamburg?this can't be just about whether al-Qaeda has a place to launch attacks from, 'cause it can launch attacks from many places. There has to be something more in terms of the strategic vision.
BRZEZINSKI: Well, wait. I don't know whose vision you're talking about, because Obama didn't go into Afghanistan. Someone else did, right?
JAY: Right.
BRZEZINSKI: Eight years ago.
JAY: Yeah, although, although for some reason they didn't give it the same strategic weight that this administration does.
BRZEZINSKI: Well, they didn't, but they went in, and they stayed in. Now, they didn't finish the job, because then they decided to go into something else, namely Iraq, in addition to it, which was a rather dubious enterprise. But I think given the circumstances after 9/11, we really didn't have much choice in?the perpetrator was there. He killed 3,000 Americans. He had an organization. We had to eliminate it. The question is what happened after that. I was very marginally involved in that decision, very marginally, again, a little bit, like what I was talking about earlier, namely, I took part in some of the sessions in the Defense Department, the Secretary of Defense, regarding Afghanistan right after 9/11, when a number of us were consulted. But, again, I emphasize consultation is not decision-making. It's, it's a process of discussion, sometimes maybe of some use, maybe also to gain support publicly for the stated policy. But I remember conveying my view that, one, we have to go in to eliminate al-Qaeda, but do not stay in, because I know what happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan. And I said, "Do not stay in. No nation-building, democracy promotion in addition to eliminating al-Qaeda. Go in, knock 'em off, and get out." And that is my view. But, Obama?.
"
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&I...
Good ol' Zbig with the ol' "Al Qaeda" did 9/11 all by their lonesome chestnut.
Wonder how they got norad and pentagon air defenses to stand down - crafty moooslims.
This topic does not interest me. You're dumb enough to buy into the BS at this point and carry a rifle for these creatures, well...
Me, I'll just CC a pistol of varying caliber depending on the ambient temperature, stay out of symbolic tall buildings, and somehow maintain my indifference toward heroin through Herculean mental effort.
The rest of ya, well have fun storming the castle.
if the brits like this war - I say go for it. what a waste of lives to enrich the few, while maintaining and expanding the police state at home..both in london and USA..isolationists seem to kill alot less of our young men..but at a great loss of profit to the elite.
My son had two deployments there with the 82nd Airborne. He went over believing he could make a difference even though I told him it was not possible. He came back totally different and indifferent to the situation there. You are correct that fighting is just a job over there. He said the Afghan Army all the way to the top is the biggest bunch of lazy, drug addled, losers with low IQs from inbreeding with the sheep. When things get tough the soldiers will just change sides. They do that all the time anyway. It's all tribal. What are we doing there? I've heard all the excuses and explanations and I still want to leave the place and let it go back to the 3rd century. Fuckem!
Cant leave them completely a bunch of them are in Europe now.
If the Taliban get control they'll stop the opium production.The main goal of the CIA is to increase opium production.They don't care about American lives.The money is laundered through so-called "government operations" making them immune to prosecution.New York banks such as CitiBank act as servants to the CIA.The funds are outside of the General Accounting Ofice and are used to bribe and overthrow foreign politicians and arm supporters in U.S.government operations around the globe in support of the military industrial complex.President Eisenhower warned Americans long ago about this.AfganLand is looked upon as the strategic point to eventually bring in nuclear weapons to point at Russia and China.
nonsense and bullshit.
Taliban were and are notorious opium producers.
Who are the notorious opium pushers that buy the drug from the Afghans, that'd be the question.
Notice these kind of questions just cannot seem to get answered, sort of like who is buying the stolen oil from ISIL. Amazing, yes?
I suggest maybe starting with a well known outfit out of Langley VA.
There is photo evidence of British soldiers setting up camps where opium is grown, and also giving the pickers an armed guard.
lot of heroin comes in thru Ramstein so expect Germany to send more troops also to protect the US & Allies drug empire
Let them rule their own country and get all our soldiers out of that place.
Let's respect their way of living, even if we do not like it.
and let's close our borders.
"The Pentagon said six Americans - including an NYPD detective"
NYPD? A little out of their jurisdiction I'd say... by about 12000 miles.
The NYPD has drones, it's own navy, attack helicopters... I said years ago they'd eventually have ballistic missiles.
The NYPD is probably larger than the militaries of some countries.
I thought NYPD were at war with Black Americans, not Afghans.
NYPD will serve whoever pays them the most and still allows them to kill whoever they want.
Dup. Sorry. Don't know how that happened.
Its really a sad state of affairs if that is true, and i believe it myself, why else would opiom production be up? We are so fucked!!
"As I saw firsthand during my visit to Afghanistan last Friday, our troops are working diligently alongside our Afghan partners to build a brighter future for the Afghan people,"
Hey there dickhead. Get a clue. The Afghan people do not want your stupid bridge and your own people do not want to pay for it.
This is what winning looks like.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI
As the Taliban close in on Kabul this is shaping up to be another Vietnam style helicopter dash from the roof of the USSAN Green Zone "embassy" and typically the Britlander mob still haven't figured it out even after centuries of getting their ass kicked by Pashtuns. It's obviously over but the Cameroon mutt will keep dumping all the canon fodder on the flames that the Anglozionazi Golem in Washing town demands.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-the-legacy-of-the-british-empir...
Excellent documentary. Thanks for posting. Should be required viewing by all. Does not take much to understand what a shit storm the ME is and why USSA involvement is a total waste of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI
The UK/US axis of evil has been shut out of Syria -largely because of Putin - but also because of political and public opposition in the UK against he bombing of Syria. It appears an alternative bombing ground is being prepared in Afghanistan with the propaganda having commenced last week by showing images of alleged ISIS terrorists in the Afghan mountains. Anyway, the UK/US have probably already started the slaughter, while we were distracted by Trump.
“All six of the NATO service members killed Monday in a motorcycle bomb attack in Bagram, Afghanistan, were American,” CNN reports.
They weren't NATO service members. They were American service members you ignorant fucks Masoud Popalzai and Barbara Starr. They did not enlist in NATO.
NATO should have died with the death of the Warsaw Pact. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Half way around the world. Neocon warmongering bitches.
Edit: Oh fuck, it was our SecDef Ash Carter that said, if quoted accurately, that they were NATO service members. The FUSA, Former United States of America it is officially.
I DID said it (tough not in ZH) that NATO WOULD BE COMES BACK TO THE NATIONS THAT THEY'RE DESTROYED. FOREVER..!!
See what i means, by NOW?? Nearly nobodies believes my words at that time. But, i am a patients man. I just know from the start. That this is going to happens..
moar boots == moar def contractors =
= more risk == moar money == 100x
merchants of death