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"Arreglado" el asunto electoral por la vía rápida..


En Afganistań se acerca un invierno largo y duro

Una vez que ha sido definitivamente eliminada la segunda vuelta electoral del próximo sábado con una justificación falsaria y forzada por los ocupantes occidentales, la situación en Afganistán sigue deteriorándose ante la exigencia de una salida de las tropas extranjeras y el fin de la injerencia.







La estrategia de los ocupantes pasó en un primer momento por una la celebración de las elecciones presidenciales de agosto, con la esperanza de un proceso limpio que haría buena y necesaria la intervención Occidental y presentar la mejoría de Afganistán conforme a su propaganda. No hay que olvidar que desde USA-Europa se justificó la invasión y ocupación para «instaurar la democracia y la estabilidad» en Afganistán.

Pero claro, ese soñado objetivo no ha conseguido cambiar la realidad, y, por supuesto, han tenido que cambiar el guión de los ocupantes en lo que se refiere a la cita electoral, y lo que finalmente fue prioritario, celebrar esas elecciones de la manera que fuese. Y ya sabéis, desde ayer, cual ha sido el resultado final . No habrá, se suspende la segunda vuelta electoral.

Se comenta, entre quienes conocen estos arrabales imperiales, que tras los comicios, Karzai y Abdullah (los dos aspirantes) se organicen una especie de Gobierno de coalición-concentración, algo aceptable o sugerido por las fuerzas ocupantes. Pero para llegar a ese punto de "encuentro" hay que pulir ,entre otras cosas, las cuotas de poder de cada cual.

Ocho años de ocupación. Ocho años son muchos años si no se ha conseguido mejorar en algo la situación en Afganistán. Y hoy, la situación, sigue deteriorándose. Muchos ya lo llaman «Caosistán», expresión que delata el rumbo que está adquiriendo el país. Con una clase política incompetente donde las haya, con la corrupción asentada en todos los centros del poder, con un poder cada día mayor de los llamados señores de la guerra,, con un tráfico de drogas en constante crecimiento y, con una resistencia compacta y capaz de golpeo por todo el territorio.

La estrategia de los ejércitos ocupantes ha fracasado, y en esto es algo en lo que coinciden la gran mayoría de los conocedores del escenario. y lo cojonudo es que no tienen, los ocupantes, ni puñetera idea de que hacer para no perder todo. Para algunos artistas de la Admón. Obama, la solución es aumentar el nº de tropas ocupantes, y aún así no está tan claro ni es tan sencillo. El coste económico del que parten es descomunal, el aumento de bajas va en la misma proporción o el miedo a que esa apuesta acabe en pesadilla, en el temido "síndrome del Vietnam" no hace que sea muy halagüeña esa alternativa. Y ya comentaremos para la primavera afgana, sobre las opiniones públicas en EE.UU y Europa que ya comienzan a mostrar rechazo a la intervención militar.

Persistent Rumor: U.S. Helicopters Ferrying Taliban


Ahmad Kawoosh
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
November 3, 2009
Persistent accounts of western forces in Afghanistan using their helicopters to ferry Taleban fighters, strongly denied by the military, is feeding mistrust of the forces that are supposed to be bringing order to the country.
One such tale came from a soldier from the 209th Shahin Corps of the Afghan National Army, fighting against the growing insurgency in Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan. Over several months, he had taken part in several pitched battles against the armed opposition.
“Just when the police and army managed to surround the Taleban in a village of Qala-e-Zaal district, we saw helicopters land with support teams,” he said. “They managed to rescue their friends from our encirclement, and even to inflict defeat on the Afghan National Army.”
This story, in one form or another, is being repeated throughout northern Afghanistan. Dozens of people claim to have seen Taleban fighters disembark from foreign helicopters in several provinces. The local talk is of the insurgency being consciously moved north, with international troops ferrying fighters in from the volatile south, to create mayhem in a new location.
Helicopters are almost exclusively the domain of foreign forces in Afghanistan – the international military controls the air space, and has a virtual monopoly on aircraft. So when Afghans see choppers, they think foreign military.
“Our fight against the Taleban is nonsense,” said the soldier from Shahin Corps. “Our foreigner ‘friends’ are friendlier to the opposition.”
For months or even years, rumours have been circulating in Afghanistan that the Taleban are being financed or even directly supported militarily by the foreign forces.
In part it stems from an inability to believe that major foreign armies cannot defeat a ragtag bunch of insurgents; in addition, Afghanistan has been a centre of foreign intrigue for so long that belief in plots comes naturally to many war-weary Afghans.
The international troops hotly deny that they are supporting the insurgents.
“This entire business with the helicopters is just a rumour,” said Brigadier General Juergen Setzer, recently appointed commander for the International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, in the north. “It has no basis in reality, according to our investigations.”
The general added that ISAF-North had overall control of the air space in the northern region.
But the persistent rumours that foreign helicopters have been sighted assisting the Taleban in northern Afghanistan were given an unexpected boost in mid-October by Afghan president Hamed Karzai, who told the media that his administration was investigating similar reports that “unknown” helicopters were ferrying the insurgents from Helmand province in the south to Baghlan, Kunduz, and Samangan provinces in the north.
Captain Tim Dark, of Britain’s Task Force Helmand, was vehement in his reaction.
“The thought that British soldiers could be aiding and abetting the enemy is just rubbish,” he said. “We have had 85 casualties so far this year.”
ngineer Mohammad Omar, governor of Kunduz, refused to comment on the issue, but Enayatullah Enayat, governor of Samangan, also denied that the helicopters were moving the opposition around in Samangan.
“I am in contact with both national and foreign forces in Samangan,” he said. “I have not seen any suspicious helicopters bringing in the Taleban.”
The north has recently witnessed a spike in insurgent activity, particularly in Kunduz and Baghlan. Provinces that were relatively calm even six months ago are experiencing armed attacks, suicide bombings, even outright Taleban control over several districts.
In a district of Baghlan province, Baghlan-e-Markazi, residents witnessed a battle last month in which they insisted that two foreign helicopters had delivered the Taleban fighters who then attacked their district centre.
“I saw the helicopters with my own eyes,” said Sayed Rafiq from Baghlan-e-Markazi.
“They landed near the foothills and offloaded dozens of Taleban with turbans, and wrapped in patus (a blanket-type shawl).”
According to numerous media reports, the Taleban attacked the district centre, and the district police chief along with the head of counter-narcotics and a number of soldiers were killed.
Commander Amir Gul district governor of Baghlan-e-Markazi insisted that the Taleban fighters had been delivered by helicopter.
“I do not know to which country the helicopters belonged,” he told IWPR. “But these are the same helicopters that are taking the Taleban from Helmand to Kandahar and from there to the north, especially to Baghlan.”
According to Amir Gul, the district department of the National Security Directorate had identified the choppers, but it refused to comment.
Baghlan police chief Mohammad Kabir Andarabi said that his department had reported to the central government that foreign helicopters were transporting the Taleban into Baghlan.
The Baghlan provincial governor, Mohammad Akbar Barikzai, told a news conference on October 21 that his intelligence and security services had discovered that unidentified helicopters were landing at night in some parts of the province.
“We are investigating,” he said.
Rumours have reached the point where US ambassador Karl Eikenberry felt compelled to address them last week at a ceremony honouring the more than 5,500 Afghan police and soldiers who have died during the present war.
The reports were “outrageous and baseless”, said Eikenberry, as reported by McClatchy newspapers. “We would never aid the terrorists that attacked us on September 11, that are killing our soldiers, your soldiers, and innocent Afghan civilians every day.”
Afghan political analysts have woven elaborate theories as to why the foreign forces would be helping the Taleban.
According to Rahim Rahimi, a professor at Balkh University, America and the United Kingdom are trying to keep all of Afghanistan insecure, so that people feel the need for the foreign forces.
“They will try and destabilise the north any way they can,” Rahimi said. “It is a good excuse to expand their presence in the area, to get a grip on the gas and oil in central Asia.”
Fighting Islamic extremists was one way to insert themselves into the area without provoking a fierce reaction from Russia and the Central Asian governments, he added.
Numerous websites have devoted blogs, columns and “investigative reports” to the helicopter rumours; literally everyone has heard the whispers, and many, if not most, believe them. It provides an added reason to suspect and fear the foreign forces, as well as an explanation for the rapid spread of the insurgency throughout the country.
In the end, it may not really matter whether the rumours are ever substantiated. The firm belief that Afghans have in them can determine attitudes and behaviour, further fueling mistrust of the westerners in their midst.

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de esta ya no queda ningun nuristani en Nuristan


Dios que desastre..entre hijoputa y hijoputon

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Lástima con la base que tenían tan mona al lado de ese río tan estupendo, y tener que salir por piernas, hasta se olvidaron la cinta de correr (min. 18;25). y la estática en el 24.

The 30,000 additional troops that I'm announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 -- the fastest possible pace -- so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They'll increase our ability to train competent Afghan security forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight. And they will help create the conditions for the United States to transfer responsibility to the Afghans.