al Qaeda Hideout Attacked

So says the Blotter: Generally speaking, you can assume the level of the al Qaeda target by the amount of resistance being met. The resistance in this case sounds fairly high. Still, it's difficult to imagine Osama or someone close entering Afghanistan, instead of hanging on the Pakistani side of the border. Who the hell knows. Most of the real news we get from there comes days afterwards, especially when it involves captures of high value targets. Allah has more on that.

For the past two days, U.S. and NATO forces have been conducting a major attack against a compound in a remote area of Eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden or another senior al Qaeda leader may be hiding, ABC News has learned.

According to eyewitnesses and local reporters in Kunar province, Coalition forces launched a fierce attack on a small enclave in the village of Mandaghel, approximately 17 miles from the border with Pakistan, on Friday afternoon. Warplanes pounded the positions ;  U.S. special forces and Afghan National Army soldiers moved in shortly afterwards.

The assault appeared to  meet stiff resistance from militants  at the compound. Heavy artillery and gunfire could be heard for hours,  local witnesses said . A handful of civilians were reportedly wounded in the strike. Though sealed off from outside access, the area now appears to be under coalition control.

Comments

[Jeff]

Sweetness! Lets blow those Islamic terrorists into tiny bits.

Where is the Holy Handgrenade when you need it?

And the leftards will freak out (saying that we should not be doing this- yawn)... NOW!

[Darth Malice]

"Do what must be done Lord Vader,do not hesitate,show no mercy"

[Legalize]

Sounds like they think they have someone important. Good. And, Jeff, you know that those to the left of you have consistently and vocally supported escalated activity in Afgahnistan, and have since the begining of operations there. So. Kindly. Cut the crap.

[Darth Malice]

The Left was screaming quagmire in Afganistan before Iraq.

[Legalize]

"The Left was screaming quagmire in Afganistan before Iraq."

Nope. That's a lie. "The left" has consitently argued for an escalated presence in Afghanisan.

[Jeff]

There was one person who didn't vote for the invasion of Afghanistan. A Republican. I mean Democrat.

Nope. The left was for leaving Afghanistan, then Iraq came, and they wanted to stay, now they are agnostic about it. I remember right after Dick Cheney's failed assassination attempt, posts at the Daily Kos, and the Democrat(ic) Underground, went crazy with, Afghanistan is a quagmire, we must leave. Go check, you are a researcher for a lawyer, you know how this works.

"I was for it, before I was against it, now I'm not sure."

[Phoenix]

This was why Cheney made a visit to Musharraf. It had to look as if Musharraf had nothing to do with this. All this stuff is planned to keep Musharraf in power because sooner or later our forces will slide across the border to meet up where the CIA have been conducting their clandestine work.

It's all about playing to the public of any leader's domain.

[Darth Malice]

Cheney I am sure had a few choice words for Musharraff."I hope I don't have to leave a garrison".

[Legalize]

I think you have it about right, Phoenix and Darth. Looks like the good old Nixon-Kissinger-good-cop-bad-cop routine to me.