Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

MTCW Pic of the Day (we have two pics today)

CHRISTMAS IN AFGHANISTAN

(Above): An Afghan man shops for a Christmas tree in Kabul, Afghanistan. This photo alone shows the progress that has been made in this country. Just a few years ago the selling and buying of a Christmas tree would have warranted death to both parties by the Taliban. Today Afghan Christians are able to openly celebrate Christmas and the birth of Christ.

US Soldiers celebrate Christmas by attending midnight Catholic Mass on Christmas Eve in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

The Taliban killed six girls coming home from school in Afghanistan. This is the Taliban's genius way of protesting the government ... by killing government school children. Pure evil... recognize it and then defeat it folks.

Monday, June 25, 2007

Now this is a surprise. Some had written Spain off after they surrendered to Islamic terrorists following the train bombings in Madrid. Now Spain arrests terrorist recruiters who were sending jihadists to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is there hope?

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

ABC NEWS: Taliban al-Qaeda suicide bomber graduates headed to U.K. and U.S.

Don't you just love summertime? It is filled with so many joyous occasions. BBQ, family reunions and picnics, little league baseball and graduations. Oh, did I say graduation. Yes, I did. Turns out the Taliban and al Qaeda also enjoy summertime graduation! who knew?

According to a video taped obtained by ABC NEWS there was a graduation ceremony held for nearly 300 new suicide bomber recruits in Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. Some of the recruits as young as 12 years old!!! Oh how momma and pops must be so proud of her little jhadist graduate...

Just where are the new graduates heading? off to jhad college? oh no...they are headed to America and Europe!!! Isn't that special!

The guest speaker of the event was none other than Taliban military commander Mansoor Dadullah, probably chosen out of sympathy since U.S. Soldiers sent his terrorist brother to his ever lasting eternal dirt nap last month.

"These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places," Dadullah says on the tape. "Why shouldn't we go after them?"

Then came the valdictorian of the class to speak. This honor student's next assignment is a target in the U.K.

"So let me say something about why we are going, along with my team, for a suicide attack in Britain," he said. "Whether my colleagues, companions and Muslim brothers die today or tonight, every drop of our blood will invigorate the Muslim (unintelligible)."

I guess you have to play fill in the blank for the last word...religion maybe...

I am just wondering how you become a graduate of a suicide bomb class? What are the training requirements? how many dry runs do you do, and how do you know when one is fully trained?

Just wondering?

Oh well, these bastards will never make it to the U.S. I mean Sen. John McCain and President Bush are going to pass the amnesty bill, oops... I mean immigration bill that will surely stop all of this from happening. It's not like they will be able to just walk in the country...right?

Maybe they can get a z-visa before they blow themselves up... what do you think???

Taliban al-Qaeda suicide bomber graduation reveals more possible media bias.

ABC gets a video tape of a Taliban al-Qaeda suicide bomber graduation and it gets coverage instantly all over the news from just about every network.

Now, don't get me wrong, this is definately a worthy news story. A direct threat on our country and our allies should always be front page news.

However, there are other graduations going on in Afghanistan not just suicide bomber graduations. There are Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police recruits graduating all the time. The ANA also graduates soldiers from a NonCommissioned Officer accademy. There are also other training success stories about the ANA, but why is those graduation stories never in the news?

The stories have been written, and many of the network news have received the stories. I know they have because they are on a distribution list that gets the stories. They choose not to run them.

Here are a few links to the stories that are on a website called DVIDS. One of the stories I wrote.

ANAP Graduate Training Course

ANA Graduates Second Class of De-miners

ETTs Assist, Mentor Afghan Medics

Leading the Way: ANA Graduates 86 From Pre-NCO Course

30 Afghan Patriots Added to Police Force

Coalition Forces Conduct Training Exercise

DVIDS is a media distribution center in Atlanta, Ga. that all branches of military journalists sends there news stories, pictures and videos for them to distribute and market. The website is open to the public. So, go check them out and get the news about the war from the actual boots on the ground.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

TV Worth watching: Inside The Green Berets National Geographic Channel.

National Geographic Channel Presents

Check out the National Geographic Blog and read a first hand account from Jerry Newberry's ten days with Soldiers in Afghanistan. They are not the Green Berets but it is still a Great Read.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Comming Memorial Day: MTCW Tribute to Veterans Special

Comming Memorial Day: My Ten Days with the 1/508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Div.
I am finishing up writing my first hand account of my time spent and what I witnessed while with the elite group of Paratroopers from the 1/508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division.
I have decided to post it on Memorial Day with the MTCW Tribute to Veterans Special. It will consist of no news or politics, nothing but tributes to Veterans of the present and past.
I thought it would make a nice tribute to the Paratroopers of the present and those of the past.
The current Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division continue to make the Paratroopers of the past proud by living up to their "All The Way" motto in the Taliban strongholds of southern Afghanistan.
I will take you there with there remarkable story of courage, honor, bravery and duty.
Photo Information: A Paratrooper from 3rd plt. Co. A, 1/508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division on patrol as the sunrises in the Sangin Valley of Southern Afghanistan. The Sangin Valley is one of the heaviest poppy producing regions in the world and has a reputation as a drug lord, Taliban and al Qaeda stronghold making it one of the most dangerous places for U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Tony J. Spain, 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.