AFP reports that a NATO airstrike from a helicopter gunship killed three civilian men and wounded a woman in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force’s (ISAF) press release claims the helicopter crew fired at men placing IEDs next to the road and afterwards “discovered civilians in a car adjacent to the IED site.” [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Operation Khanjar’
NATO Airstrike Kills Another Three Civilians
Posted: December 18, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, Helmand, ISAF, Kandahar, NATO, Operation Khanjar, Rethink Afghanistan, Taliban, war in Afghanistan
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Troop Increase in Afghanistan Risks Spike in Civilian Casualties
Posted: December 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Helmand, Khandahar, Khost, Operation Khanjar, Rethink Afghanistan
“Loyalty to the community is…morally tolerable only if it includes values wider than those of the community.” –Reinhold Niebuhr, one of President Obama’s “favorite philosophers,” in The Irony of American History, p. 37. According to The New York Times, the new plan in Afghanistan will involve sending large new deployments of troops into insurgency-prone areas [...]
Evaluating Operation Khanjar
Posted: October 5, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, IEDs, improvised explosive devices, ISAF, McChrystal, NATO, Operation Khanjar, Rethink Afghanistan, suicide bombings
Push into Helmand triggered severe spike in civilian death rate, failed its objectives Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. ISAF commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal set out a clear marker [...]
Costs
Posted: July 8, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, Ghazni, military casualties, Operation Khanjar
U.S. military casualties since the launch of Operation Khanjar (July 2): NAME NOT RELEASED YET Derwin Williams, age 41 NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET Tony Michael Randolph, age 22 Aaron E. Fairbairn, age 20 Justin A. Casillas, age 19 Charles S. Sharp, age 20 [...]
Costs
Posted: July 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, Helmand, military casualties, Operation Khanjar
U.S. military casualties in Afghanistan since launch of new operation in Helmand: NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET NAME NOT RELEASED YET Aaron E. Fairbairn, Private 1st Class, age 20 Justin A. Casillas, Private 1st Class, age 19 Charles S. Sharp, [...]
Helmand History Hangover
Posted: July 3, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Afghanistan, airstrikes, civilian casualties, Helmand, Obama, Operation Khanjar, The Hangover
Having just seen The Hangover, I’m tempted to ask if the U.S. press corps has just taken a bunch of rohypnol before reporting on the Helmand operation. Every single report I’ve seen so far: emphasizes how absent we’ve been from the Helmand River Valley; and/or neglects to give any history about the actions of U.S. [...]
U.S. Launches Massive Assault on Taliban, Opium Stronghold in Afghanistan
Posted: July 2, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Afghan Women's Mission, Afghanistan, airstrikes, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, Obama, Operation Khanjar
Attempts to stop an escalation of U.S. military personnel and violence in Afghanistan officially failed this morning with reports of the “massive assault” under way on Helmand Province in Afghanistan. Thousands of US Marines stormed into an Afghan river valley by helicopter and land early today, launching the first major military offensive of Barack Obama’s [...]
