Nederlanders in Afghanistan

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Op vrijdag 19 mei 2006 19:47 schreef sp3c het volgende:
daar heb je geen tank voor nodig natuurlijk

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Op vrijdag 19 mei 2006 21:39 schreef sp3c het volgende:
ja en dan duikt hij opzij en staat hij achter je maar je kanon kan niet draaien in de nauwe straatjes en dan wat?

je voelt je volgens mij best stom als je door je hoofd geschoten wordt terwijl je het machinegeweer op het dak van 65 ton pantser staat te draaien den ik

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KABUL (Reuters) - Heavy fighting erupted in southern Afghanistan on Saturday and both international and Afghan government forces suffered casualties, military officials said.

Fighting in recent days has been some of the fiercest since the Taliban were overthrown in 2001, and it comes as thousands of NATO peacekeepers are arriving in the south.

The violence on Saturday erupted in the Sangin district of the southern province of Helmand.

"There has been some heavy fighting in Sangin and there have been coalition and ANA casualties," said Major Scott Lundy, a spokesman for international forces, referring to the Afghan National Army.

He declined to provide more details saying the situation was "fluid".

General Rahmatullah Raufi, the Afghan army's southern commander, said more than 10 Taliban had been killed and Afghan forces had suffered losses but he could not say how many.

A spokesman for the Taliban, who are fighting to oust foreign forces and defeat the Western-backed government, said the Taliban ambushed a convoy of Afghan police and soldiers in the district.

The spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, said many police and soldiers had been killed and some had been captured. Five Taliban were also killed, he said by telephone.

Taliban spokesmen regularly exaggerate their enemies' losses and play down their own.

The Taliban have stepped up attacks on foreign and government forces in recent months as NATO is expanding its peacekeeping force from 9,000 to 16,000 in preparation for taking over security responsibilities in the south from U.S.-led forces.

A U.S. soldier was killed and six wounded during a battle with insurgents in the southern province of Uruzgan on Friday, the U.S. military said. Twenty-four U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year.

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Op zaterdag 20 mei 2006 15:32 schreef sp3c het volgende:
afaik zijn de leopards door Zuid Afrika getest zonder al te veel problemen

punt wat ik probeerde te maken is dat leopard2 op ongeveer dezelfde techniek is gebaseert als pzh2000 afaik

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Op zondag 21 mei 2006 11:28 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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duitse techniek

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Making sure heroin addiction continues unabated is such a lucrative business for the CIA and Wall Street investors, Bush decided "not to destroy the opium crop in Afghanistan. President Bush, who previously linked the Afghan drug trade directly to terrorism, has now decided not to destroy the Afghan opium crop," Charles R. Smith reported for NewsMax on March 28, 2002, as Bush's illegal invasion of the country was well underway. "Several sources inside Capitol Hill noted that the CIA opposes the destruction of the Afghan opium supply because to do so might destabilize the Pakistani government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf. ... The threat to overthrow Musharraf is motivated in part by Islamic radical groups linked to the Pakistani intelligence service, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The radical groups reportedly obtain their primary funding through opium production and trade." In fact, destroying the opium crop would have put a terrible financial squeeze on the agency and angered financiers who routinely trade in misery and death.

Naturally, the Times did not bother to mention the fact the Taliban attempted to eradicate opium production and this was likely one of the reasons Bush the Junior invaded Afghanistan. "Although the Taliban had virtually stamped out poppy production, the country now accounts for two-third of the world's heroin. As hard as it may be to believe, there is compelling evidence that the US (via the CIA) may be directly involved in narco-trafficing," notes Mike Whitney, who cites the following from Portland Independent Media:

Before 1980, Afghanistan produced 0% of the world's opium. But then the CIA moved in, and by 1986 they were producing 40% of the world's heroin supply. By 1999, they were churning out 3,200 TONS of heroin a year--nearly 80% of the total market supply. But then something unexpected happened. The Taliban rose to power, and by 2000 they had destroyed nearly all of the opium fields. Production dropped from 3,000+ tons to only 185 tons, a 94% reduction! This enormous drop in revenue subsequently hurt not only the CIA's Black Budget projects, but also the free-flow of laundered money in and out of the Controller's banks.

It also put a pinch on the criminals and gangsters in Pakistan. "The Taliban's actions ... (destroying the opium crop) severed the ruling military junta in Pakistan from its primary source of foreign revenues and made bin Laden and the Taliban completely expendable in the eyes of the Pakistani government. It also cut off billions of dollars in revenues that had been previously laundered through western banks and Russian financial institutions connected to them," explains From the Wilderness. "Prior to the WTC attacks, credible sources, including the U.S. government, the IMF, Le Monde and the U.S. Senate placed the amount of drug cash flowing into Wall Street and U.S. banks at around $250-$300 billion a year," not exactly small potatoes.

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Op maandag 22 mei 2006 12:07 schreef franske19 het volgende:
Leuk weer zo'n conspiracy theory stuk maar wat heeft het met Nederland (in Afghanistan) te maken?

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Op maandag 22 mei 2006 14:19 schreef sp3c het volgende:
De echte reden van de missie is de uitbreiding van ISAF naar het Zuiden, dat is de reden dat we ernaar toe gaan ... je moet niet overal complotten achter willen zoeken

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Op maandag 22 mei 2006 15:00 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Ik weet niet of serieuze bronnen het beweren en dat maakt ook niet uit. Dat witwassen van 250 miljard dollar, zal toch wel niet gebeuren door dezelfde personen die beslissen dat de troepenmacht in zuid-Afhanistan uitgebreid moet worden, of wel?

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Prior to the WTC attacks, credible sources, including the U.S. government, the IMF, Le Monde and the U.S. Senate placed the amount of drug cash flowing into Wall Street and U.S. banks at around $250-$300 billion a year,” not exactly small potatoes.

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Op maandag 22 mei 2006 15:47 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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Die bronnen worden overigens gewoon niet gegeven. Maar stel dat het waar is, dan gaat het om het witwassen van drugsgeld. Afghanistan heeft er niet per definitie iets mee te maken! En Ford al helemaal niet...