Well on the news last night I heard that the US Military might have had Bin Idiot in their sights and missed him. He was supposedly spotted in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan and Pakistan and the US Military sent in Special Forces to try and find him and capture or kill him, they did not find him of course, or you would have seen it plastered all over the news.

What you did not hear on the nightly news was that the Afghanistan Army advised and supported by coalition forces, killed more than 200 Taliban Fighters in one battle near Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Members of the 205th Afghan National Army Corps were the unit involved. The military unit was patrolling near Regay village to clear the area of extremist Taliban fighters. Several dozen terrorist attacked the convoy from an trench system and several compounds. Taliban fighters reinforced their fighting positions from the village of Musa Qalah throughout the daylong battle. Coalition aircraft and artillery attacked the Taliban positions. The initial estimate assessed that more than 100 terrorist were killed.

In another battle that day (the 25th of Sept.) near the village of Kakrak a different unit of the Afghan Army located and attacked another large group of Taliban terrorist, fighting a six hour long battle that more than 65 terrorist dead.

Now had more than 260 people in Iraq been blown up by IED's, or 260+ people been killed in a train wreck, or any other place a loss of life of 260+ people been reported it would have made world news. But let it be terrorist being killed in Afghanistan, and nothing. Isn't it good news that the Afghan Army (with help) is able to do this, and the fact that this large number of terrorist were killed in one day should in itself be reported, no matter where it happened. But since most people think that Afghanistan is a forgotten war and that we (coalition) forces are no longer fighting there, maybe this would be a good reminder.

I just find it amazing how the media is able to select just the right stories to make the war appear one way and fail to report the positive. But hey the American people, and for the better part, the rest of the world have been brainwashed into thinking all is doom and gloom and there is no way to win any war in Afghanistan or Iraq. What you will hear is that 50 people were killed throughout Iraq. Hmmm 260+ terrorist killed or 50 people killed by terrorist. Which story should I run in my paper or on my TV show? Which one is an advantage to the terrorist if I post it? Which one will increase morale of the troops and the people back home? Or even better yet, maybe I should post or show both so that both the good and bad are shown? Which would be more "journalistic"??? Which is "fair and balanced"??