Afghan National Army Order of Battle September 2009 update
Each headquarters unit and battalion is now rated with a Capability Milestone (CM) level.
Yearly Archives: 2009
United Kingdom
Questions raised over Afghan raid to free journalist
United Kingdom
Negotiators shocked by special forces rescue raid on Taliban
Pakistan
Fearing Taliban, Pak Hindus take Thar Express to India
Iran
US intelligence agencies have concluded that Iran has created enough fuel for a nuclear weapon. IAEA chief Mohammed El Baradei urged Iran to accept the US invitation for talks. President Ahmadinejad stated that Iran’s critics are upset that his country is “more powerful than ever.”
Iran
US Official: Dialogue with "Vulnerable" Iran More Difficult
Iran
Iran™s Mousavi urges calm despite arrests
Yemen
Yemen says Shiite rebel posts recaptured
Pakistan
Stolen Nato devices recovered from Quetta warehouse
Pakistan
Pakistan – How the tide is turning in Swat
Iraq
Truck bomb in north Iraq Kurdish village kills 19
Pakistan
Pakistani attack threatens NATO route
Al Qaeda
Libyan jihad revisions
Iran
Iran may have enough enriched uranium to build a bomb, US warns
Afghanistan
US officials deny Swedish hospital was ‘stormed’
Afghanistan
German general backs officer in Afghan airstrike
Pakistan
The military killed seven Taliban fighters and detained 28 more in Swat and 30 in Khyber. The bodies of three Taliban fighters were discovered in Arakzai. The Chaman border crossing remains closed to NATO traffic.
Iraq
Three US soldiers were killed in an IED attack in northern Iraq on Sept. 8. Insurgents killed four Iraqis in a bombing in Kirkuk, a policeman in Mosul, and a civilian near Khanaqin. Security forces killed a terrorist in Mosul and detained 16 wanted men in Kirkuk, 10 in Basrah, six in Jalawlaa, four in […]
Media ethics
On Sunday, Billl Roggio reported the kidnapping of New York Times correspondent Stephen Farrell, who was freed today by a NATO operation. Farrell’s driver/interpreter Sultan Munadi was also kidnapped, and lost his life in the raid along with a British soldier. Editors at the Times had been trying to keep the abduction quiet, as they […]
4 Marines, 9 Afghan troops killed in Kunar ambush
A US Army soldier assigned to C Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, engages the enemy during a patrol near Combat Outpost Honaker Miracle in Kunar province, Afghanistan, on July 29, 2009. US Army photo by Evan Marcy. Yesterday’s ambush in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar will certainly raise additional questions about the restrictive […]
RE: When to publish images of the dead and wounded?
Click the image to view the slideshow of the suicide truck bombing at Combat Outpost Inman in western Mosul. I’m in full agreement with Bill Ardolino on the issue of whether the AP should have published the image of the US Marine who was gravely wounded in Helmand province, Afghanistan, and later died. The photo […]
Pakistan
US overlooked Pak nuke program, bomb was ready in 1983: Khan
Afghanistan
Karzai defends Afghanistan election as honest
Kashmir
Two terrorists and an Indian Army officer were killed during a clash along the Line of Control in Kashmir. The terrorists were attempting to infiltrate from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Two paramilitary troopers, one policeman, and a civilian were wounded in a grenade attack outside a police station in Sopore.
Afghanistan
NATO commandos freed a reporter kidnapped in Kunduz province; a British commando and the reporter’s driver were killed during the raid. Sixteen Taliban fighters were killed in an airstrike in Logar, eight were killed in clashes in Zabul, and two more were killed during clashes in Kandahar. A suicide bomber killed two civilians in Helmand.
Afghanistan
Times reporter is freed in Afghan raid that kills aide
Chaman border crossing closed to NATO traffic
A dispute between truckers and Pakistani border guards has caused the southern crossing to be closed for the second time in two weeks. The Taliban destroyed eight NATO fuel tankers outside Quetta.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda targeting Germany for ‘next 9/11’ – within weeks
Afghanistan
4 Americans killed in attack in Afghanistan
NATO commandos free NYT reporter
NATO commandos have freed Stephen Farrell, the New York Times reporter who was kidnapped in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz last week while covering the airstrike on two hijacked fuel tankers. Reuters reports: New York Times spokeswoman Diane McNulty confirmed early on Wednesday that Farrell had been released and Sultan [Farrell’s driver] killed. Abdul Waheed […]