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...Last June, hundreds of Taliban fighters surged into Chora, 35 km north of Tarin Kowt, attacking ISAF, Afghan Army and government positions. In four days of fighting, scores of Taliban were killed. But Afghan civilians also suffered terribly. According to a report by the U.N. Assistance Mission and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, the Taliban forced local people to give them food, used them as human shields, tortured them, cut out their tongues or hacked off their hands, and set them on fire. The report estimated that 60 to 70 civilians were killed in the Chora fighting. While...
...Australian special forces, on the other hand, have been accused of fighting too aggressively. Few question their effectiveness at disrupting the enemy and tracking and killing "high-value targets." The previous Taliban boss of Uruzgan, Qari Faizullah Mohammed, was sitting under an almond tree at Tora Chena, about 8 km from Tarin Kowt, when "somehow the Australians managed to target his seat under the tree and dropped a bomb on it," says elder Obeidullah. "They killed 33 Taliban that day." After tracking Taliban leader Mullah Pi Mohammed into the mountains near Deh Roshan, Australian troops killed him and most...
...stringent ISAF rules of engagement are sometimes given different emphases by the Dutch and the Australians. In October, the Dutch tipped off Uruzgan's new governor, Assadullah Hamdam, that a major operation, Spin Ghar, was about to be conducted in the Baluchi Valley, 16 km north of Tarin Kowt. They dropped leaflets and broadcast messages telling villagers how to protect themselves during the operation, which involved Australian, Dutch, Afghan and British forces. Rietdijk says Spin Ghar uncovered many weapons caches without a single civilian casualty. But Australian SAS sergeant Matthew Locke was shot dead on a reconnaissance mission, and Dutch...
...sorry that the local-food movement is cramping Joel Stein's style [Jan. 21]. But just because 100 miles (160 km) has been used as an arbitrary procurement distance doesn't mean that people who try to eat locally walk around the supermarket with a GPS unit. I still enjoy bananas and coffee, and I have no problem drinking beer that comes from?gasp!?California. The point of eating locally is to become more familiar with our food. It's nice to hear a farmer say that my rib-eye steak came from a cow that ate local pasture...
...that Gazans have exploded out of their besieged enclave, it may be up to Israel to seal the border again, since the Egyptians are showing no signs of closing it. Israel corralled Gaza's 1.5 million people behind a 40-mile-long (64 km) concrete barrier hoping that the controversial blockade?described as "collective punishment" by many aid organizations?would turn the Palestinians against their Hamas overlords. But with the siege broken, even if temporarily, Hamas, with its explosives no less, has earned the gratitude of hungry Palestinians and gained a longer lease in Gaza...