Farah Airport (click here)
Due to the absence of railroads and the inadequacy of the road networks this airfield is one of many that have been constructed for the hauling of freight and passengers. However, it has deteriorated to the point where it is unusable due to vegetation encroachment and erosion along the entire runway length.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, gives 200,000 Afghanis (4,000 USD) to an Afghan man whose relative was one of two men who was beheaded by Pakistani militants, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 14, 2008.
Militants executed two men in Bajaur's tribal district in Pakistan, accusing them of spying and passing information to US forces in Afghanistan that enabled a deadly missile strike.
Afghanistan lashed out at neighboring Pakistan on Monday alleging that its intelligence service and army are behind the bloody Taliban-led insurgency that has killed thousands and is threatening the country. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
USA Troops in Afghanistan
NATO is floundering badly. Regardless of the leadership of allies such as Canada and Great Britain, the war to defeat the terrorist network of al Qaeda is struggling against the ravages of a nurtured Taliban from inside Pakistan !
From the beginnings of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld lead invasion into Afghanistan woefully few American troops were deployed to carry forth a 'deadly force' to end the terrorist network of al Qaeda. Instead, the war that the USA had moral authority to fight to destroy al Qaeda was diverted for a crony, oil war through deception of the American Legislature and the American people.
Today, the American people or their allies are no safer than before the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Deadly attack on US base sends worrying signal (click here)
By FISNIK ABRASHI – 3 hours ago
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An insurgent raid that penetrated an American outpost in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine soldiers, has deepened doubts about the U.S. military's effort to contain Islamic militants and keep locals on its side.
Moving in darkness before dawn Sunday, some 200 fighters surrounded the newly built base in a remote area near the Pakistan border without being spotted by the troops inside, said Gen. Mohammad Qasim Jangalbagh, the provincial police chief.
He said people in the adjacent village of Wanat aided the assault. About 20 local families left their homes in anticipation of the raid, while other tribesmen stayed behind "and helped the insurgents during the fight," Jangalbagh said.
The result was the deadliest incident for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since June 2005, when 16 American soldiers were killed as a rocket-propelled grenade shot down their helicopter....
