Hey Gene, Bloddiest in months?? OK here the blood on the other side and some good news stuff for you, hate to slap youwith facts again by you asked for it..:
Title: COALITION AIR STRIKE KILLS ENEMY COMBATANTS; DESTROYS CAVE COMPLEX IN PAKTIKA PROVINCE
Release Date: 5/15/2006
Release Number: 06-05-01PM
Description: BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – During a successful air strike May 8,
Coalition aircraft killed four enemy extremists and destroyed a truck and cave complex in the Bermel District of Paktika Province. Coalition Forces suspect other insurgents may possibly be buried in the rubble.
Prior to the strike, a joint combat team of Afghan National Army and U.S. ground forces observed individuals loading a truck near the cave and determined the personnel were moving rockets from a cave complex.
The unit assessed the activity was linked to recent rocket attacks on a Coalition fire base nearby.
A request was made for air support to attack the complex. U.S. Air Force A-10 fighter aircraft and a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, assigned to the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, Afghanistan , were directed to engage the cave complex.
The A-10 and Predator expended precision-guided munitions against the target, effectively sealing the cave from future use.
“The immediate response by these aircraft demonstrates the effectiveness of our combined air support for joint operations in theater,” said Royal Air Force Air Commodore Mark Swan, director of the Combined Air Operations Center . “Our message is very clear to those who attack innocent civilians and coalition forces: you have a choice. If you continue your terrorist activities, we will find you, we can track you, and we will take all appropriate actions to stop you.”
A patrol sent to investigate the cave received small arms fire from one enemy combatant. Coalition forces returned fire and captured the enemy combatant.
The patrol discovered two trucks near the cave. Inside the trucks, buried under gravel, were two 107mm rockets. Both vehicles were destroyed.
“This was a very successful joint combat operation with Afghan and Coalition forces as we continue to search out enemies and eliminate their capability to attack our forces,” said Lt. Col Paul Fitzpatrick, Combined Joint Task Force - 76 spokesman.
“We believe these insurgents and this cache are linked to recent rocket attacks in Bermel,” said Fitzpatrick. “The crude use of rockets by insurgents often causes damage and injuries to innocent civilians like the April rocket attacks in Assadabad that killed seven children at a school and in Kabul that injured a guard at Radio Television Afghanistan . Destroying this cache protects the lives of Afghans as well as Coalition forces.”
Coalition officials emphasized the strike is an example of the effective coordination between the Afghan and Pakistan armies being conducted along the border region to disrupt their common enemy.
Title: IED MANUFACTURERS DETAINED DURING COMBINED OPERATIONS
Release Date: 5/15/2006
Release Number: 06-05-01PM
Description:
KABUL , Afghanistan – Afghan and Coalition forces conducted a successful operation Sunday that resulted in the apprehension of seven terrorist facilitators in the Khowst region near the village of Sawazak Kala .
The purpose of this operation was to detain individuals suspected of terrorist and anti-Afghanistan activities.
These individuals are associated with and actively support the Haqqani, or “HQ,” network by providing improvised explosive device (IED) training. Additionally they are suspected of IED construction and emplacement as well as being participants during attacks on Coalition and Afghan forces.
During the course of the operation, Afghan and Coalition forces encountered hostile elements. No casualties were reported.
Four compounds and a total of 13 structures were entered during the operation. Only men of military age were questioned. The only items removed from the locations were suspicious effects directly related to the seven detainees. These items will be used in further investigations.
The seven men have been detained and are being questioned regarding their participation in terrorist activities. The targets of the operation, two key IED manufacturers, were among the seven detained.
“Effective operations such as these further increase the security and stability of Afghanistan ,” said Col. Thomas Collins, Coalition spokesman. “The Afghan and Coalition forces will not tolerate attacks against the innocent people of Afghanistan and will continue to hunt terrorists and terrorist facilitators relentlessly until they are brought to justice.”
Title: COALITION FORCES RAID INSURGENT SAFE HAVEN
Release Date: 5/15/2006
Release Number: 06-05-01P
Description: BAGHDAD, Iraq –
Coalition Forces conducted a coordinated ground and air attack against an enemy safe haven in Yusifiyah May 14, killing more than 25 terrorists, detaining four, destroying three safe houses and a vehicle loaded with weapons and ammunition.
Upon initiating the attack in the afternoon, Coalition troops immediately killed two terrorists in response to hostile activity emanating from a suspected safe house and an associated vehicle. Once the threat was suppressed by an air strike on both the car - resulting in secondary explosions - and the structure, ground troops searched the targeted areas, found two dead terrorists, detained four suspects and provided medical treatment to three injured civilians.
One adult female and one teenage female were treated for wounds and then medically evacuated with their uninjured maternal escort via helicopter to the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. Additionally, one girl was treated on-site for a superficial wound to the head. She required no further medical care and remained with her mother.
The terrorists fired at the departing helicopters including the transport carrying the injured civilian females. The ground forces called in close air support to suppress the threat, and several sorties of fixed and rotary wing aircraft attacked enemy positions and killed approximately 20 terrorists.
During the fighting, terrorists in a truck tried to penetrate the security perimeter and were engaged by the ground troops. The three enemy who occupied the vehicle were killed; one was wearing a suicide vest and detonated it after he was shot by the ground troops, injuring no one and killing himself.
Title: COALITION FORCES CONDUCT RAIDS; DETAIN 8, KILL KNOWN TERRORIST
Release Date: 5/15/2006
Release Number: 06-05-01PJ
Description: BAGHDAD –
Coalition Forces conducted a series of raids in the vicinity of Latifiyah May 13-14, killing known terrorist Abu Mustafa and 15 other suspected al-Qaida associates and detaining eight suspects. Abu Mustafa was wanted for his involvement in the shooting down of an AH-64 helicopter earlier this year.
Coalition Forces also treated four civilians and two of the suspects for injuries sustained during the raids.
Iraqi and Coalition Forces were searching for Abu Mustafa, a member of al-Qaida, because of his leadership role in the April 1 downing of the AH-64 helicopter in Yusifiyah. Abu Mustafa was also a known weapons smuggler who allegedly facilitated the movement of missiles and rockets within the al-Qaida terrorist network.
In the evening on May 13, Coalition Forces initiated four associated raids. The initial raid resulted in the killing of Abu Mustafa and an unknown affiliate who were located near Latifiyah, a village approximately 25 km southeast of Baghdad.
Additionally, intelligence officials identified several other areas connected to Abu Mustafa’s cell members. Coalition troops assaulted three of those sites, located approximately six km north of where Abu Mustafa had been killed the day prior. Upon arrival at the first of these, Coalition Forces engaged more than 15 al-Qaida terrorists who were attempting to establish defensive positions or escape. Coalition Forces, supported by fire from helicopters, engaged the terrorists. Coalition Forces confirmed 14 suspected terrorists were killed and also discovered Abu Mustafa’s body which had been moved to this new site.
Coalition troops also found several women and children inside the house. Two women and two children were inadvertently wounded by shrapnel. The forces immediately treated the injured on site. One of the women and one child required no further treatment. After initial treatment for a wound to her abdomen, the second woman, who is pregnant, was medically evacuated to the 10th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad for additional medical care. The other child, 20 months old, was also evacuated to the 10th CSH with her uninjured mother. All evacuated to the hospital are in stable condition.
Title: ANA OPENS BASE, BRINGS STABILITY TO KUNAR PROVINCE
Release Date: 5/15/2006
Release Number: 06-05-01P
Description:
KUNAR PROVINCE , Afghanistan – The Afghan Flag was raised over a remote outpost in the Korangal Valley May 7, bringing the promise of stability and national unity east into this turbulent region.
Representatives from the Afghan National Army, Border Police and local leaders met to establish the ANA Forward Operating Base Lumberyard and discuss an end to the lingering enemy resistance in the area.
FOB Lumberyard is the first permanent base in the Kunar Province . It is centrally located on high ground so ANA troops can observe all avenues of approach into the valley, and the Afghan Flag is visible to all who enter the Valley.
Chief of the Afghan National Army’s General Staff Gen. Bismullah Khan listened to local leaders during a Shura (tribal meeting) and extended an offer of peace. “The path to reconciliation is open,” he said. “The people still fighting in the hills against a stable Afghanistan are fighting for the wrong reasons.”
Khan explained that it is the leaders’ responsibility to protect their villages, and their responsibility to bring in their cousins who are still fighting.
“Bring them or their weapons to us,” Khan said. “If they stop fighting, they can join the rest of Afghanistan . We won’t arrest them and they can live in their houses with their families.”
Kunar Province , located in the northeastern part of the country on the border with Pakistan , has historically been one of the most dangerous provinces in Afghanistan . Freedom fighters fought and hid in the rugged, mountainous region during the Soviet occupation.
Last month, ANA soldiers went on the offensive with Operation Mountain Lion and stormed into the valley in the largest military effort since the Taliban was overthrown four years ago.
Khan urged the local leaders to ask their lingering fighters to join with the rest of Afghanistan . “We should cooperate and continue the proud Afghan tradition of fighting
for Afghanistan .”
In a show of solidarity, the Korangal Valley leaders told Khan he merely has to tell them when the ANA wants to pick up the weapons or rogues, and they will have them ready.
The ANA has conducted operations in Kunar Province before, but Operation Mountain Lion stabilized the area and set the conditions for the Afghan Government to establish FOB Lumberyard.
Immediately following Operation Mountain Lion, ANA soldiers hosted a six-day medical civic assistance program at FOB Lumberyard where they provided more than 6,000 Afghans with medical care. In addition to immediate medical care, the Afghans received hygiene classes and left the FOB with tarps, blankets, metal stoves, grain, beans, rice, cooking oil, tea, sugar and backpacks for children.
Darn sounds like a lot of terrible stuff there. I would hate to be a terrorist in these events and glad to be a civilian. Wonder how many of those given things like food, stoves, blankets ect.. never had much before this? I would venture to think they like the stuff.
Good news is so hard to find, I had to open my eyes and press a button.!! Ouch that hurt!! 
