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Hell In Helmand: Afghan Forces Are In Trouble

A Growing Number Of Them

Desert Its Difficult To Find Local People

Who Are Against The Taliban
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Afghan Soldiers Seldom Leave TheInstallation, And Mostly Refuse To

Conduct Missions Too Dangerous,They Say

September 11, 2013 By AZAM AHMED, The New York Times Company [Excerpts]

SANGIN, Afghanistan

Some days, the Afghan soldiers worry that the mud walls around their headquarters inthis embattled district are barely enough to keep the Taliban out.

Perhaps more problematic is that the crumbling facade appears to be keeping thesoldiers in.

Nolay Base takes direct fire almost every day from the Taliban.

With more forces lost here than almost any other district in the country, theAfghan soldiers seldom leave the ins tal lat ion, and mostly refuse to conductmissions too dangerous, they say.

And when sold iers head out to go on br ief home leaves, a grow ing number ofthem desert rather than return, their commanders say.

Its difficult to find local people who are against the Taliban, said the executiveofficer of the brigade here, Col. Abdulhai Neshat. This place is like a prison.

In this corner of Helmand Province, widely agreed to be the most critical running battle inthe country today, Afghan forces are in trouble.

Since launching their major offensive in late May, the Taliban have easilyweathered the halfhearted attempts by the Afghans to reclaim Sangin, despite aidfrom international forces.

In the past week alone, the Taliban have cleared out several villages, displacing up to1,000 people and overrunning several security checkpoints, locals and Afghan officialssay.

U.S. commanders are quietly growing alarmed, concerned that if the situation getsworse they may have to intervene for the second time this summer in an areaofficially turned over to Afghan security control.

Since the wars beginning, the district, in the heart of Afghanistans poppy-growingcountry, has been home to the fiercest fighting in the country. British and Americanforces struggled here for years, taking heavy casualties to create even just a modestsecurity bubble to free the district center from insurgent pressure.


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Those gains have started to evaporate under the Afghans this year, as casualtiesmount and as a reluctance to confront the Taliban allows the insurgents tobroaden their territory.

About 120 soldiers and police officers have been killed this summer, with more thandouble that number wounded, according to the district governor and others.

Among the ranks of soldiers, att ri tion hovers near 50 percent , counting deaths,debilitating injuries and soldiers who never return from leave, according to theexecutive officer of the main unit in northern Helmand Province, the SecondBrigade of the 215th Afghan Army Corps.

American commanders complain that their counterpar ts in Sang in have developedan addiction to bases building new fortified posts instead of leaving the onesthey have to attack the insurgents.

Even then, they are losing ground.

Afghan forces have dismant led many securi ty checkpoin ts they felt they could notdefend, and at least six have been captured and held by the Taliban since May. Inthe past week, more have been taken down, and at least four new posts have beenoverrun, local officials say.

Desperate to regain momentum, the Afghan Army has been chewing through seniorofficers here.

The commander of the Second Brigade has been fired, as has the battalion commanderin Sangin.

Casualties have taken a toll on the leadership, too: last month, the Taliban killed

the district intelligence chief.

Right now, Sangin i s like an open space for the Taliban, said the Sangin d istrictgovernor, Habibullah Shamlanai. Anyone can enter, and anyone can leave.

Sangin became the focal point of the fighting season in late May, when the Talibankicked off their biggest assault of the year.

Massing around 600 fighters in a 36-hour bl itz, the insurgents attacked about 20Afghan patrol bases in a strategic area of the d is tr ic t that borders the river .

The Afghans were overrun in some locations, while other outposts were abandoned

when the local police staffing them ran out of ammunition. An initial attempt to reclaimthe lost ground in the aftermath of the embarrassing assault was somewhat successful,but several bases still remain in Taliban hands.

In July, the Afghans mounted a major counteroffensive, drawing in an entire battalionfrom the Third Brigade of the 215th Army Corps in Marja and bringing both Britishsoldiers and American Marines onto the battlefield to assist.

But after a strong start, participants say, the Afghans refused to continue.


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Losses mounted, momentum diss ipated, and the mission was left less than halfcomplete, leaving the green zone, a lush str ip of foliage that hugs the waters ofthe Sangin River, largely in the contro l of the Taliban.

Insurgents Had Laid An Improvised Explosive Device On The Driveway OfThe Brigade Headquarters, In Plain Sight Of The Guard Towers

In August, after the end of Ramadan, the Afghan commanders were nervous, expectinganother major Taliban assault. To safeguard some of the more remote bases, thebrigade sergeant major, Zabiullah Syeddi, assembled a quick reaction force to movefarther into the hostile green zone.

As his men prepared to leave Nolay Base, taking up positions beside a row of idlingHumvees and tow trucks, a large explosion suddenly shook the ground. Severalsoldiers ran to see whether they were under attack. Sergeant Major Syeddi, a veteransoldier, swung the door of his Humvee open to investigate.

When he returned, he ran his hand over his face and shrugged. The insurgents, hesaid, had laid an improvised explosive device on the driveway of the brigadeheadquarters, in plain sight of the guard towers.

At 2 a.m. that night, the sergeant major began making a series of scheduled check-incalls to three neighboring base commanders. Two responded immediately all clear.

But there was no answer at the third, the Mahmud Agha outpost, several hundred yardsaway.

His voice grew more desperate with each call, until finally he disappeared out of sight.

He reappeared a few minutes later, walking slowly.

They were sleeping, he said.

The next morning, on the way home, the convoy drove through the Sangin bazaar, thelargest in Northern Helmand. Fabrics, food and electronics lined the shelves of dozensof storefronts as merchants and shoppers stood along the bustling road.

A line of soldiers was on a rare foot patrol in the bazaar, bunched together, guns slungloosely over their shoulders.

Near a central roundabout, the convoy stopped to allow reporters from The New York

Times to speak with a handful of residents, who offered bleak assessments.

I just stay in the shop and dont go outside, said one merchant, Hayatullah, standing atthe edge of his electronics store. This is my job, how can I leave?

A crowd gathered, describing the district as a land divided the center, which wassomewhat secure, and everywhere else, a wasteland.


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There is fighting every day every day, bullets are flying, said Hayatullah, 20, wholike many Afghans goes by a single name.

Eager to leave, the soldiers returned to their vehicles. They roared past the foot patrol asthey pulled out of the market.

Suddenly a loud explosion ripped through the air, sending up a cloud of smoke and dustnear the road. A rocket-propelled grenade aimed at the convoy had missed. The turretgunners aimed their weapons in the direction of the boom while the drivers sped off.

Seconds later, the real ambush began against the patrol left behind at the bazaar.

A 10-minute firefight raged in the heart of the market district, claiming at least twosoldiers, one shot through the eye. The Taliban, for all anyone knew, suffered zerocasualties.

The soldiers visiting the wounded in the brigade hospital, a clean facility manned by asingle medic, offered words of comfort to their comrades.

But a sense of fatalism had already gr ipped the base.

Still, Colonel Neshat seemed temporaril y jolted from the complacence that hasplagued his men. He swore to search and clear the area where the ambush wasstaged.

We have to, we have to, he said, shaking h is head in disbelief. If we don t findthem my plan is to put a good post in place to disrupt them.

POLITICIANS REFUSE TO HALT THEBLOODSHED

THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEWAR

AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

The Taliban Are Growing MoreAggressive


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Afghan Forces Have Been LosingWell Over 100 Men A Week To

Insurgent Attacks, With Close To 300Injured Casualty Levels Approach Rates That

We Took In Vietnam

This summer, while roadside bombs continued to kill a large number of Afghanarmy troops, the Taliban have been bolder about engaging in open battle,sometimes involving hundreds of militants.

Now, coalition officials said, about half of the Afghan forces casualties areinflicted by direct fire in gunfights with insurgents.

September 20, 2013 By NATHAN HODGE in Gardez, Afghanistan, and MARGHERITASTANCATI in Kandahar, Wall Street Journal [Excerpts]

Afghan troops are in the midst of their deadliest fighting season since the war herebegan 12 years ago.

The Taliban are growing more aggressive.

The Afghan forcesincluding the army, national police and village self-defense police

have been losing well over 100 men a week to insurgent attacks, with close to 300injured, through much of the summer, according to numbers provided by coalitionofficials.

To put it in perspective: The Afghan forces death tol l is as much as three timesthe combined coalition and Afghan fatalities in 2010 and 2011, when the U.S. tookits heaviest casualties in the war.

U.S. Army Lt . Gen. Mark Milley, the commander of the International SecurityAssistance Force Joint Command, said Afghan casualty levels approach ratesthat we took in Vietnam.

Kabul no longer releases total Afghan casualty statistics in order, officials say, tosafeguard morale.

But Afghan officials said casualty levels for the police and army have climbed since lastyear, making 2013 the bloodiest for Afghan forces since the U.S.-led coalition arrived in2001.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai addressed the level of bloodshed in public comments onTuesday. I read the daily security reports each afternoon that say four or five civilians,


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around 14 or 15 Afghan security forces and more than 35 or 45 Taliban have beenkilled, he said. All are sad and all of them are Afghans.

Added Mr. Karzai: How long does this situation have to go on?

The Afghan army, for instance, is losing 34.8% of i ts manpower a year as soldiers

desert, are killed in battle, and are discharged because of injury or releasedbecause they completed their service, according to figures provided to The WallStreet Journal by the U.S.-led coalit ion.

Coalition officials said the Afghans have been recruiting enough soldiers and police tomake up for the high level of attrition.

But for reasons beyond troop numbers, the trends may be unsustainable. In thegeneral attrition rates, you are losing skilled fighters, said Anthony Cordesmanof the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

In the past, insurgents largely shied away from large-scale battles and inflicted the most

casualties with roadside bombs.

This summer, while roadside bombs continued to kill a large number of Afghanarmy troops, the Taliban have been bolder about engaging in open battle,sometimes involving hundreds of militants.

Now, coalition officials said, about half of the Afghan forces casualties areinflicted by direct fire in gunfights with insurgents.

While Afghan soldiers have been coming under increasing attack, it is the Afghan policeand village self-defense units, manning checkpoints, that have been taking the brunt ofsuch direct fire, said U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Joseph Osterman, the head of

operations for the coalitions joint command.

The enemy basically sneaks up to a point where they can take some initial shots, causesome initial casualties, he said.

Pvt. Wahidullah, a 23-year-old Afghan soldier who, like Pvt. Abedeen, goes by onename, was the survivor of a Taliban-initiated attack in late August.

I was just sitting in a Ford Ranger with my leg hanging over the tailgate, when gunfireripped through his convoy in eastern Ghazni province.

A bullet shattered the soldiers foot. His comrades acted swiftly, driving him to a

battalion aid station. One soldier was killed and three injured in the ambush.

Patients arrive late, they lose a lot of blood, they have a hemorrhagic shock and die,said Gen. Syed Azimi, who heads the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, the main

Afghan military hospital in the south.

Treatment also poses a challenge.


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While Gen. Azimis hospital is touted as the best Afghan medical facili ty in thecountrys south, it has no CT scan, no neurology surgeon and no eye doctor forsome of the more catastrophic inju ries caused by blasts and bul lets.

The hospital often relies on the International Committee for the Red Cross to help treatamputeeswith traumatic amputation one of the most common injuries of the war.

Struggles extend to follow-up care as well.

Afghan Army Capt. Hamidullah was caught in an ambush in Helmand province in earlyAugust . He was picked up within 10 minutes by a coal it ion chopper and taken to acoalition-run hospital in Kandahar.

But he los t an eye and suffered a head injuryand he is now on his own.

At home in eastern Nangarhar prov ince weeks after the injury, he said hes had toborrow money from cousins and relatives to pay for fol low-up treatment in India. Life is precious, and I have to get treatment wherever I can, he said.

The Afghan state has limited means to care for injured veteransand to look after thosewho didnt survive.

The government sends home the bodies of fallen troops to secure areas, but familiesliving in Taliban-held territory must retrieve their dead with private cars or taxis,sometimes across the country and at considerable expense.

The U.S. and its allies have been training the Afghan army for years, and have begun todeliver some equipmentwith more promisedto help the Afghan army defendthemselves.

Yet the augmented efforts by Afghans have yet to even solve the problem of roadsidebombs, which have plagued the coalition since the start of the war.

Maj. Hamidullah, a military doctor who heads the trauma ward at Paktia regionalmilitary hospital in eastern Afghanistan, said the number of roadside bomb andblast vic tims was 50% higher than last year.

20 Afghan Police Dead In TalibanAmbush:

Report Had Claimed Peace Had BeenRestored In The Area

September 19, 2013 By RFE/RLs Radio Free Afghanistan


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AIZABAD, Afghanistan -- Taliban f ighters have ambushed a police convoy inAfghanistans nor thern Badakhshan Prov ince, kil ling 20 of ficers and wounding 12others.

The Taliban claimed to have killed 25 government soldiers and captured 12 others,including an officer.

Afghan media reports this week said an operation was under way in BadakhshanProvince to clear Taliban militants and their multinational terrorist associates fromWardoj.

That report claimed the operation was nearly completed and that peace had beenrestored in the area.

16 September 2013 IHS Janes Terrorism Watch Report

15 security personnel were wounded in a vehicle-borne improvised explosivedevice (SVBIED) attack by Taliban militants in Saroza distric t in Afghanis tans

Paktika province on 13 September, Khaama Press and Pajhwok reported.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

Taliban Kill Provincial AfghanElection Chief:

Kunduz, Which Borders Tajikistan, Is In

The More Peaceful North OfAfghanistan

September 18, 2013 AFP

Kunduz, Afghanistan: Taliban assassins riding motorbikes killed a senior election officialin northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, raising fears the presidential vote due in Aprilwill trigger a surge in violence.

Amanullah Aman, the head of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) in Kunduzprovince, was killed by two gunmen outside his home in Kunduz city as he left for work.

He was the first election official to be killed since candidate nominations opened onMonday.

Aman was shot dead in the morning in front of his house as he was leaving for hisoffice, Kunduz provincial spokesman Enayatullah Khaliq said.


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Two men on motorcycles opened fire on his car and severely wounded him, he laterdied in the hospital.

Deputy police chief Ebadullah Talwar said that Aman was killed after going groceryshopping and was not accompanied by any bodyguards. Talwar added that five arrestshad already been made, but gave no further details.

The Taliban, who often target government officials, released a brief statement on theirwebsite claiming responsibility for the attack.

Last month Taliban leader Mullah Omar called the election a waste of time, but has sofar stopped short of threatening an increase in attacks targeting preparations for the voteon April 5.

Well boycott elections in April. We did not say well attack it, but the commanders onthe ground will, one member of the Taliban, which dismiss Karzai as a US puppet, hesaid recently.

Kunduz, which borders Tajikistan, is in the more peaceful north of Afghanistan, but it isstill a hotbed of Islamist insurgent activity.

The province is also a major route for drug trafficking and has a volatile mix of rivalethnic groups and armed militia.

Former Afghan Senator Defects ToTaliban Along With A Number Of His

SupportersSep 19 By Ghanizada, Khaama Press

According to reports, a former Afghan senator has joined Taliban group in northern Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan and has announced his support to Taliban group.

Qazi Abdulhai reportedly joined Taliban group along with a number of his supporters.He was also a former commander of Afghan local police (ALP) forces in Kohistanat area.

Taliban group following a statement confirmed that senator Qazi Abdulhai had recentlyjoined Taliban group along with his supporters.

An interview of the former senator was also published by Taliban group in its website,which confirms his defection to Taliban group.

The interview is mainly focused on motives behind Qazi Abdulhais defect to Talibangroup and the current situation in northern Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan.


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Local government officials confirmed that the former senator was in contact with theTaliban group, however, they said that they are unaware if Qazi Abdulhai had joinedTaliban group.

The officials further added that Qazi Abdulhai also visited the Taliban council in Quettacity.

THIS IS HOW OBAMA BRINGS THEM HOME:ALL HOME NOW, ALIVE

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FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh hadI the abili ty, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream ofbiting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

For it is not l ight that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whirlw ind, and the earthquake.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom theyoppose.

Frederick Douglass, 1852

The past year every single day of it has had its consequences. In the obscuredepths of society, an imperceptible molecular process has been occurringirreversibly, like the flow of time, a process of accumulating discontent,

bitterness, and revolutionary energy.-- Leon Trotsky, Up To The Ninth Of January

Tomahawk Missile Warriors


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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Washington, D.C. Sept. 1986. Photograph by Mike Hastie

From: Mike HastieTo: Military Resistance NewsletterSent: September 18, 2013Subject: Tomahawk Missile Warriors

Tomahawk Missi le Warriors

Washington, D.C. (the place where I was born in 1945),has become a parasitic, malignant disease of nationalism.Its logo should be the Tomahawk Missile,which is such a disgrace to American Indians.Just like the name Washington Redskins.Or, a high school in Richland, Washington, where Hanfordwas responsible for the development of the Atomic Bomb.They arent called the Richland Bobcats,they are called the Richland Bombers.Im sure the high schoo ls in Hiroshima or Nagasakidont have a student exchange program with theRichland Bombers.


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Everyday, the rhetoric coming out of our governmentin Washington, D.C. is filled with the poss ibil ity of yetanother war with a count ry that has been deemed anenemy of the civilized world.

America is the cop of the world, protecting the salvat ionof the innocent against the barbarity of a rouge state.

That has become the lie that is on th in ice around theworld.

America has run its course of decept ion.The U.S. Empire playbook has run every play so manytimes, that the worlds moral defense knows it by heart.Its over America, the emperor has finally been caughtmolesting little countries.Your own troops are now figuring out the betrayal.

And, as Malcolm X once wrote:The only thing worse than death is betrayal.

I am often reminded of the profound statement that

Dalton Trumbo wrote in his classic World War I novel,Johnny Got His Gun: If the thing they were fighting for was important enoughto die for then it was also important enough for them to bethinking about it in the last minutes of their lives. That stoodto reason. Life is awfull y important so if youve given it awayyoud ought to think with all your mind in the last momentsof your life about the thing you traded it for. So, did all thosekids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty andhonor and the safety of the home and the stars and stripesforever? Your goddamn right they didnt.

58,000 American sold iers died in Vietnam for anApocalypt ic Lie, just like the Richland High Schoolcheerleaders are yelling: Go...Fight...Win...Bombers!!

Mike HastieArmy Medic VietnamSeptember 17, 2013

Everyone should know one simple statistic:The Washington, D.C. memorial to the

American war dead is 150 yards long. If amemorial was built w ith the same density

of names of the Vietnamese who died, itwould be nine miles long.

Philip Jones GriffithsCombat PhotographerVietnam War


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Photo and caption from the portfol io of Mike Hastie, US Army Medic, Vietnam1970-71. (For more of his outstanding work, contact at:([email protected]) T)

One day while I was in a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper round went over my head.The person who f ired that weapon was not a terroris t, a rebel, an extremist, or aso-called insurgent. The Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a citizenof Vietnam, who did not want me in his country. This truth escapes millions.

Mike HastieU.S. Army MedicVietnam 1970-71December 13, 2004

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Support For Intervention InSyria Proved Lower Than

Supporters In Either PartyExpected

Support For Intervention AbroadHas Declined Across The Board A Record Low 49% Of Americans

Say They Trust The Government ToHandle International Problems

The Bigger Gap May Be Between ElitesIn Both Parties, Who Tend To Favor AnAssertive American Role Abroad, And

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A new Reason-Rupe survey asked Americans whether they thought Mr. Obamashandling of foreign policy was better, worse or about the same as PresidentGeorge W. Bushs. The results: 32% said better, 32% worse, 32% about the same.

September 16, 2013 By GERALD F. SEIB, Wall Street Journal [Excerpts]

Regardless of how it might change the Middle East, the crisis over Syrias chemicalweapons already has revealed something profound about the U.S.: It has shown justhow deeply American attitudes toward foreign engagements have changed.

Support for intervention abroad has declined across the board, and differences betweenthe two parties toward both the narrow question of striking Syria and broader efforts toengage overseas are shrinking.

Americans who were most likely to support a muscular stance abroad in the pastRepublicans, conservatives and older menhave grown noticeably less enthusiastic;their attitudes now arent much different from the rest of the population.

Moreover, the oft-repeated analysis of recent days that liberal Democrats and libertarianRepublicans have come together to form an odd-bedfellows coalition opposed to actionin Syria is correct, but incomplete.

Even among independents in the political middle, the appetite for internationalinvolvement has fallen noticeably.

Those attitudes emerge from public polling in recent days, particularly a Wall StreetJournal/NBC News poll completed last week.

They are accurately reflected in Congress, where support for intervention in Syria provedlower than supporters in either party expected.

Whats striking about this new reality is that it isnt fundamentally partisan in nature.

A new Reason-Rupe survey asked Americans whether they thought Mr. Obamashandling of foreign policy was better, worse or about the same as President George W.Bushs. The results: 32% said better, 32% worse, 32% about the same.

The bigger gap may be between elites in both parties, who tend to favor anassertive American role abroad, and average Americans, who arent as conv inced.

A new Gallup survey finds a record low 49% of Americans say they trust the governmentto handle international problems.

But the best reading of current feelings and how they have changed may come in aquestion from the new Journal/NBC News poll on the choice between engagementabroad and engagement at home. Those surveyed were asked whether they thought

America should continue to push to promote democracy and freedom abroad becausethat would make the U.S. more secure, or whether America is doing too much abroadand should focus more on problems at home.


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Eight years ago, in response to that question, 54% said the U.S. should be focusedmore on problems at home. This month, agreement with that idea soared 20 percentagepoints, to 74%.

The biggest shift over the past eight years has come among Republicans andconservatives. In 2005, 32% of Republicans said the countrys emphasis should be on

the home front. Now, 77% want the emphasis at home, and just 19% want to focus onpromoting democracy and freedom abroad.

The shift toward focusing on the home front was similarly large among self-identifiedconservatives and independents, and also significant among upper-income Americansand older men. Overall, Democrats wanted to focus at home five years ago, and still dotoday, even as their own president has argued for Syrias importance to U.S. nationalsecurity.

And on the question of a strike on Syria specifically, majorities of Republicans,independents and men all say military action isnt in the national interest.

Sergeant On C-17 To Afghanistan PukingLike Hes About To Storm Normandy Or

Some Shit

September 17, 2013 by Paul, The Duffel Blog

KABUL A platoon sergeant on his first deployment to a combat zone is sitting in hisseat on a C-17 aircraft puking and praying to God like hes about to storm the goddamnbeaches of Normandy or some shit, sources confirmed today.
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I looked over and saw him kiss the cross around his neck and start praying, said LanceCorporal Michael Nellis. Then I was like, shit. We havent gotten any ammo yet. I dontwant to die.

Sgt. John Vagitis, 29, has been seen exhibiting nervous behavior throughout the shortflight from Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan to Bagram Air Field.

Sources confirmed that Vagitis was seen looking at photos of his wife and kids, as if hewas about to run a full frontal assault up Hamburger Hill in Vietnam, never to see themagain. Later in the flight, he was also seen puking into a bag, mumbling somethingabout Johnny Taliban being everywhere.

Im not exactly sure what his problem is, said Private First Class Evan Rodriguez.Going to Bagram is better than our shitty barracks in Hawaii.

Moments after Rodriguezs comments, Vagitis was seen rubbing an already fadedpicture of his wife, taken from a small locket he keeps in his shoe, like hes not going tosee her on Skype every night of the fucking week.

What was that?! What the fuck was that noise?, asked Vagitis, after a bump washeard likely from turbulence and not in any way close to the sound of a Taliban-fired DShK machine gun. Are we under attack?

At press time, the C-17 had landed safely at the massive air base and Vagitis was laterseen at Green Bean cursing after spilling coffee all over the Bronze Star citation he waswriting for himself.

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ANNIVERSARIES

September 20, 1830:

Honorable Anniversary: A Group Of 38 Free Black AmericansFrom Eight States, Met In Philadelphia,


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Pennsylvania, With The Express PurposeOf Abolishing Slavery

Richard Allen

Carl Bunin Peace History September 17-23

The National Negro Convention, a group of 38 free black Americans from eightstates, met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the express purpose of abolish ingslavery and improving the social status of African Americans.

They elected Richard Al len president and agreed to boycott slave-produced goodsand encourage free-produce organizations. The most active would be the ColoredFemale Free Produce Society, which urged the boycott of all slave-producedgoods.

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The Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage, by Susan Altman, Copyright 1997,Facts on File, Inc. New York [Excerpt]

September 20, 1830

On this date in 1830, the National Negro Convention met in Philadelphia, PA. This groupgathered for the express purpose of abolishing slavery and improving the status of

African Americans.

This first meeting of the National Negro Convention would initiate a trend that wouldcontinue for the next three decades.

The formation of another organization had been recommended one which would becalled the American Society of Free Persons of Labor. This group would branch out toseveral states and hold their own conventions.


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These, in turn, would lead to the formation of other organizations. The number ofconventions, held at local, state, and national levels, blossomed to such a level that, in1859, one paper would report that colored conventions are almost as frequent aschurch meetings.

September 23, 1939:Disgusting Imperial Anniversary;Hitler Sells Lithuania, Stalin Buys

Carl Bunin Peace News 9.23 9.30

Nazi-led Germany [capitalists pretending to be National Socialists] and the CommunistSoviet Union [capitalists pretending to be Communists] considered enemies at the time,negotiated an addendum to the Hitler-Stalin Pact ceding Lithuania, the smallindependent country on the Baltic Sea, to the Soviets sphere of influence [translation: tothe Russian Empire] in exchange for 7.5 million gold dollars.

Josef Stalin, the Georgian who was General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party,and Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, had agreed the previous month to allowGermany free reign [translation: to expand the German Empire] in eastern Europe,leading to Germanys invasion of Poland.

OCCUPATION PALESTINE


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Zionist Occupiers Destroy PalestinianOlive Trees, As Usual

Several of the olive trees damaged early Sunday morning in the South HebronHills/Photo: Operation Dove

More damaged olive trees/Photo: Operation Dove


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The damaged olive trees belong to Ibrahim Rabai/Photo: Operation Dove

09 September 2013 Written by Operation Dove, AIC

Ten olive trees were seriously damaged early Sunday morning by Israeli settlers in theSouth Hebron Hills.

The olive trees, located in the Humra valley located adjacent to the Israeli outpost ofHavat Maon (Hill 833), belong to Ibrahim Rabai from the nearby village of At-Tuwani.

Israeli police visited the area Sunday afternoon to document the incident, and this

morning Rabai will officially file a complaint with the police.

In the last 30 days a total of 18 olive trees have been seriously damaged in the Humravalley.

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CLASS WAR REPORTS

Militants Have Increased

Attacks Since Morsis Downfall,Targeting Security Forces

Insurgents Attack In The Sinai OnAn Almost Daily Basis And Are

Carrying Out Operations

Elsewhere Clashes Were Also Reported In

Bahaira In Northern Egypt Police General Shot Dead


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Security forces stand guard during clashes with insurgents in Kerdasa, September 19,

2013. Photo: Reuters

09/20/2013 By REUTERS & by Naharnet Newsdesk

State television and newspapers said government forces had taken control of the townof Kerdasa but security sources said the area had not yet been stabilized.

On Thursday, army and police forces stormed Kerdasa where Islamist sympathies rundeep and hostility to the authorities has grown since the army overthrew and imprisonedPresident Morsi on July 3.

So far 85 people have been arrested and security forces are scanning the area. Statetelevision said dozens of weapons including rocket-propelled grenades were seized inthe operation.

Islamist militants have increased attacks since Morsis downfall, targeting security forcesin the Sinai near Israel on an almost daily basis and carrying out operations elsewhere,

A pol ice general was shot dead during the Kerdasa operat ion and at least ninepolicemen and soldiers were wounded by a hand grenade in clashes with mi litantson Thursday.

Securi ty forces had been absent from the area since August 14 when an attack onits main po lice station left 11 police officers killed.

A police officer at the scene said they have around 150 arrest warrants for peoplesuspected of involvement in attacks on the police station and a church in Kerdasa.

The Kerdasa police station was set on fire after it was hit with rocket-propelled grenadeson August 14, the day that police stormed pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo, killinghundreds of his supporters.

An explosive device targeting three buses carrying soldiers, was detonated on a road toRafah, near the border with Gaza, said security officials. There were no injuries, armysources said.


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Sporadic clashes erupted after Friday prayers as supporters of Egypts ousted Islamistpresident Mohammed Morsi demonstrated in several cities, leaving some peoplewounded, state media and a witness said.

State news agency MENA reported that six people were also wounded in the city ofSuez, while 30 people were arrested in Alexandria.

Clashes were also reported in Bahaira in northern Egypt.

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