“Thousands of our men have been martyred and as for your soldiers, we did not go after them to other countries. They came to our country and they have been torturing us and have sabotaged our government!….We are approaching total success as most of the country is now under our control…..when NATO leaves it will be as it was before, the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan.”-Qari Nasrullah
Bamyan Province: Taxpayers in New Zealand can be proud that they’ve paid for the World’s largest “off grid” solar power project! It cost $18 million USD.
Farah Province: Bala Baluk District, U.S. led NATO forces launched an attack, destroying one Mosque and several homes. Four Mujahideen killed, one Mujahid killed.
Farayb Province: Qaisar District, two Afghan border police were killed, nine wounded when a bicycle bomb exploded.
Kandahar Province: Zhari District, four U.S. Army personnel were killed by explosion. They were from California, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Oregon. U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Command said one of those killed was a CID agent assisting Special Forces in investigating a possible crime by U.S. personnel. Mujahideen say they were defending their area from a heliborne op by U.S. forces. They say dozens of U.S.-NATO personnel were wounded from multiple explosions. Mujahideen say they captured M4 assault rifles, a rocket launcher, three night vision goggles and other equipment.
Kunduz Province: During a surprise visit the German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere, and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerewelle, turned over one of the German army bases to the Afghan government. The unnamed base is in the northern part of the province.
Helmand Province: A U.S. Marine Lance Corporal from Wisconsin was killed in a non-combat incident. That’s the officials U.S. story, however, Mujahideen claim they killed one, and wounded another, U.S. personnel in a firefight in Nad Ali District.
Maidan Wardak Province: Chak District, Israeli style U.S. led Afghan government home invasions left eight people dead, and five people were kidnapped.
Nangarhar Province: U.S.-NATO airstrike kills five civilians hunting for food! Local police confirm a group of as many as 20 men were out hunting wild birds for food! Police say the men were using air powered rifles, not military weapons. U.S.-NATO officials are refusing to comment. In Khogiyani District, a man was kidnapped by U.S. led government forces during an Israeli style home invasion.
Nuristan Province: Wama District, a police chief was killed while on his way to inspect police personnel. His vehicle ran over a landmine.
Zabul Province: A U.S. Army Specialist from Ohio was killed in a Green on Blue attack. The Afghan government personnel was killed.
The Afghan Interior Ministry claims that 107 Mujahideen were killed, and 52 captured in military ops around the country.
Mujahideen claim another dozen or more Afghan police and army personnel have switched sides.
“…..67% of the 72,000 equipment items have already been removed from our Marine Corps portion of the joint and coalition Afghanistan battle space. We have reduced 5.35 million square feet of aviation matting to 150 thousand square feet today. Additionally, of the over 42,000 total items retrograded to date, 60% of those are being inducted for reset actions at our depot maintenance plants.”-USMC Lieutenant General William Faulkner
“One cost driver is multi-modal transportation. While over the past several months multi-modal has been the primary means to move retrograde and redeployment cargo out of Afghanistan, projected volumes of cargo along the Pakistan Ground Lines of Communication are increasing and are currently trending at or near 50%. Surface lines of communication, the Northern Distribution Network and PAKGLOC are critical to achieving the retrograde velocity necessary to meet timelines and they are less expensive than multi-modal and direct air transportation.”-U.S. Army Lieutenant General Raymon Mason