Guerra de Afganistán

[Orel]

DEP por ambas catástrofes

[Roger]

Derrota aplastante de los talibanes en el intento de ataque de una base aérea

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/10/31/afghanistan.insurgents.killed/index.html?hpt=T2

the bodies of about 80 people were found on the battlefield a day after attackers clashed with NATO and Afghan forces in southeastern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

Foreign fighters from Arab countries and Chechnya were among the bodies found, Paktika Province Governor Muhibullah Samim said

[PelotonRueda]

Buenas.

Washington quiere enviar 1.400 soldados suplementarios a Afganistan.

Los Estados Unidos han decidido el jueves de enviar 1.400 Marines suplementarios a Afganistan, que seran desplegados en el sur del pais en el cuadro de la ofensiva contra los talibanes para " consolidar los progresos ya realizados ", antes de una reduccion programada de las fuerzas americanas.

http://www.liberation.fr/monde/01012312 ... fghanistan

Por lo que se ve, quieren dar unas "puntadas" antes de replegarse.

Saludos.

[PelotonRueda]

Buenas.

Video sobre la brigada La Fayette (Francia) y la 3ª brigada del ejercito nacional afgano (ANA) en el sur de Tagab en la provincia de Kapisa (17/12/2010).

http://www.defense.gouv.fr/terre

Saludos.

[PelotonRueda]

Buenas.

En el mensaje anterior para ir mas rapido, buscar THEMES despues ENTRAINEMENT & ENGAGEMENT OPERATIONEL y MTV 43
SPECIAL AFGHANISTAN.

Lo siento .

Saludos.

[Starfish Prime]

Así­ ha quedado uno de nuestros Linces tras pisar una mina-atentado IED.



Via : Circulo Trubia

[Mig]

Así­ ha quedado uno de nuestros Linces tras pisar una mina-atentado IED.

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/153/astan322.jpg

Via : Circulo Trubia

Y eso ¿Cuando paso? Por que el "zambombazo" debio de ser de ordago para deformar el habitaculo de semejante manera (Si arranco la puerta, la seguridad de la tripulación corrio un serio peligro).

[Voronezh]

Espero que no la arrancaran sino que hayan quitado para auxiliar al conductor
La verdad es que la deformacion del marco de la puerta del conductor es algo extraño, seria una mina de efecto retardado o un IED porque la caja es lo mas "duro", si se a deformado asi, ha debido de recibir de lleno la explosion creo yo.

[Starfish Prime]

Espero que no la arrancaran sino que hayan quitado para auxiliar al conductor
La verdad es que la deformacion del marco de la puerta del conductor es algo extraño, seria una mina de efecto retardado o un IED porque la caja es lo mas "duro", si se a deformado asi, ha debido de recibir de lleno la explosion creo yo.

Es una cosa que deberí­an de aprender muchos periolistos cuando dan noticias de accidentes de tráfico. Se ve un coche abierto en canal y sueltan : "miren en que estado se quedó el coche tras el accidente" y es que los bomberos lo han cortado con cizalla para que sea mas rápido y seguro sacar a los heridos.

[Corsair]

Buenos dí­as.

En la provincia de Badghis
Un soldado español resulta herido en un ataque de insurgentes en Afganistán

Una patrulla española fue asaltada por un grupo de insurgentes en medio de tareas de reconocimiento. Un niño ha muerto en el ataque.

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/01/26/espana/1296002335.html

Un saludo.

[Roger]

La historia de un héroe australiano, MARK GREGOR DONALDSON, miembro del SAS condecorado con la Victoria Cross en el 2009




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S25QfRu55BM

http://www.defence.gov.au/special_event ... aldson.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Donaldson



SKATEISTAN - TO LIVE AND SKATE KABUL

un documental galardonado en los festivales


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpxBGSCg ... re=related

[Roger]

La batalla por librar de IEDs "pharmacy road"


http://defenceoftherealm.blogspot.com/2 ... -road.html


http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/sh ... Bomb-Alley

[ZAITSEV]

Hoy se ha alcanzado la cifra de 1500 militares norteamericanos fallecidos en el conflicto (de casi 2400 totales).
Junto a los caidos en Irak, suman casi 6000 muertos durante la última década.

http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx

Saludos.

[Corsair]

Buenas noches.

Un blindado de las tropas españolas resiste un nuevo ataque en Afganistán.

El incidente se ha producido cuando el vehí­culo 'Lince' ha pisado un Artefacto Explosivo Improvisado (IED) en las proximidades de Sang Atesh, cuando se encontraba a unos 10 kilómetros al norte de Qala-i-Naw, según una nota del Ministerio de Defensa.

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/04/04/espana/1301942637.html

Un saludo.

[poliorcetes]

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04 ... er+Room%29

Taliban ‘Great Escape': DIY Tunnel Leads to Massive Jailbreak
By David Axe April 25, 2011 | 1:17 pm | Categories: Af/Pak


It was 4 a.m. before the guards at Kandahar's Saraposa prison even knew anything was wrong. By then it was too late: The last of at least 476 prisoners, most of them Taliban and some of them experienced commanders, had escaped the facility through a tunnel — more than 1,000 feet long — painstakingly dug into the compound over the course of five months.

The Saraposa prison break this morning wasn't just a triumph of DIY underground engineering, clandestine keys and possible double-agents. The escape amounts to a big manpower boost for the Taliban in a region where the insurgency has recently lost ground.

Equally, the breakout is a damning failure for Afghan security forces that failed to stop an even bigger escape at the same Afghan-run, 1,200-inmate facility two years ago. The threat of imprisonment is a real deterrent to insurgent activity, at least at the lowest levels. The Saraposa breakout undermines this effect.

The return of hundreds of veteran Taliban fighters to their units — just as the annual spring fighting season is getting underway — is also foreboding development for NATO forces hoping to show off lasting security gains ahead of their slow withdrawal, scheduled to begin this summer. “This will have a negative effect on Kandahar's security situation,”Abdul Wahab Salihi, the deputy intelligence chief in Kandahar, told The New York Times.

The escape from Saraposa apparently had all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster: high stakes, a fearsome antagonist in the form of NATO forces, a daring and intricate plan and alleged inside men. It was like the 1963 Steve McQueen classic The Great Escape, with the Talibs playing the McQueen role and ISAF standing in for the Nazis. The only difference is that the Talibs were way more successful than McQueen and his cohorts.


Also like a big-budget Hollywood movie, the bust-out was accompanied by a slick promotional campaign. Around the same time the befuddled Afghan prison guards were just discovering the escape hole chiseled into the concrete floor of a blue-walled cell, Taliban PR rep Zabiullah Mujahid announced the escape to Western media.

“We have planned and worked on this for five months, and the tunnel is 360 meters long,”Mujahid said in a statement. “This was very important for us; we were trying to not leave anyone behind, not even one sick or old political prisoner.”

“Our mujahedeen worked in a very careful way,”Mujahid added by way of understatement. The tunnel's diggers started their work in a house on the opposite side of the Kandahar-Kabul highway from the prison. Likely working at night, they dug underneath the highway and the prison's razor-wire-topped walls and, apparently, straight into a cell belonging to Taliban prisoner.

At least one prisoner was in communication with the diggers. “There were four or five of us who knew that our friends were digging a tunnel from the outside,”escapee Mohammad Abdullaht told the Associated Press by phone this morning.

Based on Abdullaht's statement, some of the prison guards might have been in on it, too. “Some of our friends helped us by providing copies of the keys,”the Talib explained. “When the time came at night, we managed to open the doors for friends who were in other rooms.”

Just in case the escape was detected, the Taliban had fighters and suicide bombers standing by, according to The New York Times.

Starting around 11 p.m., Abdullaht and the other ringleaders sneaked prisoners through the tunnel in groups of four or five, Abdullaht said. By sunrise, nearly 500 inmates — a third of the prison's capacity — were free in Kandahar city. Half an hour later, prison guards sounded the alarm, and nearby U.S. forces joined the hunt for escapees. CTV described a “swarm”of allied troops in and around the tunnel's outside exit.

“Some of the prisoners have already been recaptured,”Kandahar Gov. Wesa Tooryalai said this morning. CTV pinned that number at 26 … out of at least 476 total escapees.

Tooryalai was quick to assign blame. “This is absolutely the fault of the ignorance of the security forces,”he said. “This was not the work of a day, a week or a month of activities, this was actually months of work they spent to dig and free their men.”

“I don't know how many among them were leaders or prominent people,”local intel chief Salihi said of the escapees, “but if there is a fire and you put more wood on it, there will be more flames, so these escaped people will add fuel to the fire.”

Photo: Allauddin Khan/AP

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Tags: Afghanistan, Agony of A-Stan, Cops and Robbers, escape, Kandahar, prison, T is for Terror, Taliban
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