Voting Question: Is the Taliban ruling all of Afghanistan, or just a portion of it (Ie. Kandahar)?

I'm writing a research paper, and I need to gather a bit more information. Please provide me with a link if you answer. Thank you.

9 Nov 2008, 9:35 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Can anyone tell me if the 'Kandahar' in Cairo ?

Does anyone know if the 'Kandahar Indian restaurant in Mohandeseen, Cairo, is still open ? I will be visiting Cairo soon & wanted to take my pal there. Thanx guys, now i better copy your answers in case it gets deleted, lol. mmm Tandoori, i adore it tooooooooo.

8 Apr 2008, 7:23 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: 40 dead in Indian embassy blast in Afghan capital; is this bush fault and can Obama or McCain?

KABUL, Afghanistan - A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing 40 people in the deadliest attack in Afghanistan's capital since the fall of the Taliban, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT The massive explosion detonated by a suicide bomber damaged two embassy vehicles entering the compound, close where dozens of Afghan men line up every morning to apply for visas. President Hamid Karzai condemned the bombing and said it was carried out by militants trying to rupture the friendship between Afghanistan and India. The Afghan Interior Ministry hinted that the attack was carried out with help from Pakistan's intelligence service, saying that "terrorists have carried out this attack in coordination and consultation with some of the active intelligence circles in the region." The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, said Pakistan condemned the attack and terrorism in every forms. The embassy is located on a busy, tree-lined road close Afghanistan's Interior Ministry in the city middle that is protected on both ends by police checkpoints. Several nearby shops were damaged or destroyed in the blast, and smoldering ruins covered the road. The explosion rattled much of the Afghan capital. Shortly after the attack, a lady ran out of a Kabul hospital screaming, crying and hitting her face with both of her hands. Her two kids, a girl named Lima and a boy named Mirwais, had been killed. "Oh my God!" the lady screamed. "They are both dead." Najib Nikzad, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said the blast killed 40 people. Earlier, Abdullah Fahim, the spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, said the explosion killed at least 28 people and wounded 141, but an update of the number of injured was not immediately available. The Interior Ministry said six police officers and three embassy guards were among those killed. In Delhi, India's foreign minister said four Indians, including the military attache and a diplomat, were killed in the attack. Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India will send a high-level delegation to Kabul in coming days. The blast also killed five Afghan security guards at the nearby Indonesian Embassy, where windows were shattered and doors and gates broken. Two diplomats were slightly wounded, Indonesia's foreign ministry said. In Washington, Gordon Johndroe, a White home national security spokesman, offered condolences to the victims. "Extremists continue to show their disregard for every human life and their willingness to kill fellow Muslims as well as others," he said. "The United States stands with the people of Afghanistan and India as we face this common foe." Afghanistan has seen a sharp rise in violence from Taliban militants in recent months. Insurgents are packing bombs with more explosives than ever, one reason why more U.S. and NATO troops were killed in June than any month since the 2001 invasion. Still, a Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, denied that the militants were behind the bombing. The Taliban tend to claim responsibility for attacks that inflict heavy tolls on international or Afghan troops, and deny responsibility for attacks that primarily kill Afghan civilians. "Whenever we do a suicide attack, we confirm it," Mujahid said. "The Taliban did not do this one." The 8:30 a.m. explosion was the deadliest attack in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 and the deadliest in Afghanistan since a suicide bomber killed more than 100 people at a dog fighting competition in Kandahar province in February. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. In Delhi, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said the attack would not deter the mission from "fulfilling our commitments to the government and people of Afghanistan." Afghanistan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta visited the embassy shortly after the attack, ministry spokesman Sultan Ahmed Baheen said. "India and Afghanistan have a deep relationship between each other. Such attacks of the foe will not hurt our relations," Spanta told the embassy staff, according to Baheen. The Indian ambassador and his deputy were not inside the embassy at the time of the blast, Baheen said. Militants have frequently attacked Indian offices and projects around Afghanistan since launching an insurgency after the ouster of the Taliban at the end of the 2001. Many Taliban militants have roots in Pakistan, which has long had a troubled relationship with India. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the tardy 1990s, the Islamic militia was supported by Pakistan, India's arch-rival. Pakistan today remains wary of strengthening ties between Afghanistan and India. The United Nations' envoy to Afghanistan said that "in no culture, no country, and no religion is there any excuse or justification for such acts." "The total disregard for innocent lives is staggering and those behind this must be held responsible," the envoy, Kai Eide, said. The U.N. sent an e-mail to its staff advising them to stay off Kabul's roads because of reports that a second suicide car bomber was in the city. The embassy attack was the sixth suicide bombing in Kabul this year. Insurgent violence has killed more than 2,200 people — mostly militants — in Afghanistan this year, according to an Associated Press count of official figures. The embassy in the last several days had beefed up security by installing big, dirt-filled blast walls often used by military forces. While Afghanistan has seen increasing violence in recent months, Kabul has been largely spared the random bomb attacks that Taliban militants use in their battle against Afghan and international troops. In September 2006, a suicide bomber close the gates of the Interior Ministry killed 12 people and wounded 42 others. After that blast, additional guards and barriers were posted on the road. In two separate bombings Monday against police convoys in the country's south, seven officers were killed and 10 others were wounded, officials said. In Uruzgan province, a roadside bomb killed four police on patrol and wounded seven others, said provincial police chief Juma Gul Himat. In the Zhari district of Kandahar, another roadside blast killed three officers and wounded three others, said district chief Niyaz Mohammad Sarhadi. NATO's International Security Assistance Force, meanwhile, said one of its soldiers died in an attack in the south on Sunday.

7 Jul 2008, 3:16 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Was Alqaeda in Iraq before 9/11? What do you think?

FACTS: * Abdul Rahman Yasin was the only member of the al Qaeda cell that detonated the 1993 World Trade middle bomb to remain at big in the Clinton years. He fled to Iraq. U.S. forces recently discovered a cache of documents in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, that show that Iraq gave Mr. Yasin both a home and monthly salary. * Bin Laden met at least eight times with officers of Iraq's Special Security Organization, a secret police agency run by Saddam's son Qusay, and met with officials from Saddam's mukhabarat, its external intelligence service, according to intelligence made public by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was speaking before the United Nations Security Council on February 6, 2003. * Sudanese intelligence officials told me that their agents had observed meetings between Iraqi intelligence agents and bin Laden starting in 1994, when bin Laden lived in Khartoum. * Bin Laden met the director of the Iraqi mukhabarat in 1996 in Khartoum, according to Mr. Powell. * An al Qaeda operative now held by the U.S. confessed that in the mid-1990s, bin Laden had forged an agreement with Saddam's men to cease every terrorist activities against the Iraqi dictator, Mr. Powell told the United Nations. * In 1999 the Guardian, a British newspaper, reported that Farouk Hijazi, a senior officer in Iraq's mukhabarat, had journeyed deep into the icy mountains close Kandahar, Afghanistan, in December 1998 to meet with al Qaeda men. Mr. Hijazi is "thought to have offered bin Laden asylum in Iraq," the Guardian reported. * In October 2000, another Iraqi intelligence operative, Salah Suleiman, was arrested close the Afghan border by Pakistani authorities, according to Jane's Foreign Report, a respected international newsletter. Jane's reported that Suleiman was shuttling between Iraqi intelligence and Ayman al Zawahiri, now al Qaeda's No. 2 man. (Why are every of those meetings significant? The London Observer reports that FBI investigators cite a captured al Qaeda field manual in Afghanistan, which "emphasizes the value of conducting discussions about pending terrorist attacks face to face, rather than by electronic means.") * As recently as 2001, Iraq's embassy in Pakistan was used as a "liaison" between the Iraqi dictator and al Qaeda, Mr. Powell told the United Nations. * Spanish investigators have uncovered documents seized from Yusuf Galan -- who is charged by a Spanish court with being "directly involved with the preparation and planning" of the Sept. 11 attacks -- that show the terrorist was invited to a party at the Iraqi embassy in Madrid. The invitation used his "al Qaeda nom de guerre," London's Independent reports. * An Iraqi defector to Turkey, known by his cover name as "Abu Mohammed," told Gwynne Roberts of the Sunday Times of London that he saw bin Laden's fighters in camps in Iraq in 1997. At the time, Mohammed was a colonel in Saddam's Fedayeen. He described an encounter at Salman Pak, the training facility southeast of Baghdad. At that vast compound run by Iraqi intelligence, Muslim militants trained to hijack planes with knives -- on a full-size Boeing 707. Col. Mohammed recalls his first visit to Salman Pak this way: "We were met by Colonel Jamil Kamil, the camp manager, and Major Ali Hawas. I noticed that a lot of people were queuing for food. (The major) said to me: 'You'll have nothing to do with these people. They are Osama bin Laden's group and the PKK and Mojahedin-e Khalq.'" * In 1998, Abbas al-Janabi, a longtime aide to Saddam's son Uday, defected to the West. At the time, he repeatedly told reporters that there was a direct connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. *The Sunday Times found a Saddam loyalist in a Kurdish prison who claims to have been Dr. Zawahiri's bodyguard during his 1992 visit with Saddam in Baghdad. Dr. Zawahiri was a close associate of bin Laden at the time and was gift at the founding of al Qaeda in 1989. * Following the defeat of the Taliban, almost two dozen bin Laden associates "converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there," Mr. Powell told the United Nations in February 2003. From their Baghdad base, the secretary said, they supervised the movement of men, materiel and money for al Qaeda's global network. * In 2001, an al Qaeda member "bragged that the situation in Iraq was 'good,'" according to intelligence made public by Mr. Powell. * That same year, Saudi Arabian border guards arrested two al Qaeda members entering the kingdom from Iraq. * Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi oversaw an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, Mr. Powell told the United Nations. His specialty was poisons. Wounded in fighting with U.S. forces, he sought medical treatment in Baghdad in May 2002. When Zarqawi recovered, he restarted a training camp in northern Iraq. Zarqawi's Iraq cell was later tied to the October 2002 murder of Lawrence Foley, an official of the U.S. Agency for International Development, in Amman, Jordan. The captured assassin confessed that he received orders and funds from Zarqawi's cell in Iraq, Mr. Powell said. His accomplice escaped to Iraq. *Zarqawi met with military chief of al Qaeda, Mohammed Ibrahim Makwai (aka Saif al-Adel) in Iran in February 2003, according to intelligence sources cited by the Washington Post. * Mohammad Atef, the head of al Qaeda's military wing until the U.S. killed him in Afghanistan in November 2001, told a senior al Qaeda member now in U.S. custody that the terror network needed labs outside of Afghanistan to manufacture chemical weapons, Mr. Powell said. "Where did they go, where did they look?" said the secretary. "They went to Iraq." * Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi was sent to Iraq by bin Laden to purchase poison gases several times between 1997 and 2000. He called his relationship with Saddam's regime "successful," Mr. Powell told the United Nations. * Mohamed Mansour Shahab, a smuggler hired by Iraq to transport weapons to bin Laden in Afghanistan, was arrested by anti-Hussein Kurdish forces in May, 2000. He later told his story to American intelligence and a reporter for the New Yorker magazine. * Documents found among the debris of the Iraqi Intelligence middle show that Baghdad funded the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan terror group led by an Islamist cleric linked to bin Laden. According to a London's Daily Telegraph, the organization offered to recruit "youth to train for the jihad" at a "headquarters for international holy warrior network" to be established in Baghdad. * Mullah Melan Krekar, ran a terror group (the Ansar al-Islam) linked to both bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Mr. Krekar admitted to a Kurdish newspaper that he met bin Laden in Afghanistan and other senior al Qaeda officials. His acknowledged meetings with bin Laden go back to 1988. When he organized Ansar al Islam in 2001 to conduct suicide attacks on Americans, "three bin Laden operatives showed up with a gift of $300,000 'to undertake jihad,'" Newsday reported. Mr. Krekar is now in custody in the Netherlands. His group operated in portion of northern Iraq loyal to Saddam Hussein -- and attacked independent Kurdish groups hostile to Saddam. A spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan told a United Press International correspondent that Mr. Krekar's group was funded by "Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad." * After October 2001, hundreds of al Qaeda fighters are believed to have holed up in the Ansar al-Islam's strongholds inside northern Iraq. Some skeptics dismiss the emerging evidence of a longstanding link between Iraq and al Qaeda by contending that Saddam ran a secular dictatorship hated by Islamists like bin Laden. In fact, there are plenty of "Stalin-Roosevelt" partnerships between international terrorists and Muslim dictators. Saddam and bin Laden had common enemies, common purposes and interlocking needs. They shared a powerful hate for America and the Saudi royal family. They both saw the Gulf War as a turning point. Saddam suffered a crushing defeat which he had repeatedly vowed to avenge. Bin Laden regards the U.S. as guilty of war crimes against Iraqis and believes that non-Muslims shouldn't have military bases on the holy sands of Arabia. Al Qaeda's avowed goal for the past ten years has been the removal of American forces from Saudi Arabia, where they stood in hurt's way solely to contain Saddam. The most compelling reason for bin Laden to work with Saddam is money. Al Qaeda operatives have testified in federal courts that the terror network was always desperate for cash. Senior employees fought bitterly about the $100 difference in pay between Egyptian and Saudis (the Egyptians made more). One al Qaeda member, who was connected to the 1998 embassy bombings, told a U.S. federal court how bitter he was that bin Laden could not pay for his pregnant wife to look a doctor. Bin Laden's personal wealth alone simply is not enough to support a profligate global organization. Besides, bin Laden's fortune is probably not as big as some imagine. Informed estimates put bin Laden's pre-Sept. 11, 2001 wealth at perhaps $30 million. $30 million is the budget of a tiny school district, not a global terror conglomerate. Meanwhile, Forbes estimated Saddam's personal fortune at $2 billion. So a common foe, a shared goal and powerful need for cash seem to have forged an alliance between Saddam and bin Laden. CIA Director George Tenet recently told the Senate Intelligence Committee: "Iraq has in the past provided training in document forgery and bomb making to al Qaeda. It also provided training in poisons and gasses to two al Qaeda associates; one of these [al Qaeda] associates characterized the relationship as successful. Mr. Chairman, this information is based on a solid foundation of intelligence. It comes to us from credible and reliable sources. Much of it is corroborated by multiple sources." The Iraqis, who had the Third World's largest poison-gas operations prior to the Gulf War I, have perfected the technique of making hydrogen-cyanide gas, which the Nazis called Zyklon-B. In the hands of al Qaeda, this would be a fearsome weapon in an enclosed space -- like a suburban mall or subway station. PATMOSTER: Try reading -- I include sources Of course no amount of facts, statistics, and verfiable history scould ever convince an irrational Bush hating liberal could it?

6 Aug 2008, 7:51 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Hey, Brits, have you seen what your neighbors have been up to?

Midland Muslims supporting Al-Qaida attacks on troops Aug 2 2008 MIDLAND Muslims are actively supporting the Taliban and Al-Qaida in attacks on British troops, the former commander of UK forces in Afghanistan has revealed. Brigadier Ed Butler claims coalition forces have also uncovered evidence that militant Islamic groups in Helmand Province are suspected of assisting terrorist plots in Britain. Suspicions were raised earlier this year that the Taliban were recruiting increasing numbers of UK [fb01]ghters after RAF experts overheard secret transmissions - spoken in broad Midlands and Yorkshire accents. Now Brigadier Butler, 46, who led British troops in Helmand Province for six months, claims a growing number of British-born Muslims are helping the Taliban. He said: "There are British passport holders who live in the UK who are being found in places like Kandahar. "There is a link between Kandahar and urban conurbations in the UK. "This is something the military understands, but the British public does not." In February Parviz Khan, from Alum Rock, Birmingham, was jailed for life after plotting to kidnap a serving Muslim soldier on a night out on Broad road. But Khan, 37, and his gang were grabbed in a swoop by armed anti-terror cops after his home was bugged. He swiftly admitted the kidnap plot and confessed to shipping £8,000 of warfare gear including laser sights, computer hardware and clothing to terrorists killing our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another £12,000 in cash was sent to his Al-Qaida boss. Khan's "right hand man" Zahoor Iqbal - a Birmingham council truant officer - was jailed for seven years. A jury convicted him of helping supply the terror equipment. Two others pleaded guilty to a similar charge. Mohammed Irfan, 31, got four years and Hamid Elasmar, 44, three years and four months. Britain's top soldier - General Sir Richard Dannatt - slammed the plot as "cowardly and grotesque" as he heaped praise on Britain's Muslim troops. British troops have been warned to expect to be toiling through the desert plains and mountain passes of Afghanistan for years to arrive because of the resurgent Taliban. http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2008/08/02/midland-muslims-supporting-al-qaida-attacks-on-troops-66331-21460343/

6 Aug 2008, 3:15 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Does the U.S. Military Bombing Dozens in Weddings in Afghanistan Cause more or less future Terrorism?

Airstrike Kills 90 in Wedding party ANDAHAR, Afghanistan – There are accusations that U.S. airstrikes struck a wedding party in southern Afghanistan Monday - killing scores of women and kids and sending the bride and groom to hospital. "When the fighting started the jets came and bombed," said Juma Khan, who helped bring his mom and nine other women and kids to Kandahar's Mirwais Hospital. Mohammad Nabi Khan lost two of his sons, ages 4 and 11, and his wife's brother was also listed among the dead. "There's a lot of casualties," he said. "Most of them were women and kids. Many are still buried below the rubble of homes." "What nice of security are the foreign troops providing in Afghanistan?" he asked. The governor of Kandahar province confirmed 90 people had died in the attack with another 30 injured. "It was a mistake - they hit the wedding party and thought it was the Taliban," Gov. Rahmatullah Raufi told a tardy afternoon news conference. The alleged airstrikes in the Shah Wali Kot district arrive only three months after the Afghan government found that a U.S. operation had killed some 90 civilians in western Afghanistan. A U.S. report said 33 civilians died in that attack. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/11/05-7 http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/530904 76-90 Killed in August http://news.antiwar.com/2008/08/22/interior-ministry-us-airstrikes-kill-76-afghan-civilians/ http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/23/11113 50 Killed in a Wedding party in July http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7504574.stm 20 Killed in a wedding party in Afghanistan in 2002 http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/07/01/afghanistan.bombing/

5 Nov 2008, 7:26 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Is Bush trying to submarine Obama's chance of success in Afganistan before he gets an opportunity?

"Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday an air strike by coalition forces earlier this week killed some 40 civilians and wounded about 28 in Kandahar province. Karzai called on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to make it his priority to cease the killing of civilians. Scores of Afghans have been killed in U.S. air strikes this year, leading to resentment against the presence of foreign troops and a rift between Karzai and his Western backers." http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081105/ts_nm/us_afghan_violence There is no way that we have a chance of succeeding if we are killing civilians. Surely Petraeus knows that and has relayed the info to Dubya. Or is this every a fantasy again after Obama previously said in a debate that we were killing civilians in Afganistan and was immediately criticized by McCain supporters for saying it?

5 Nov 2008, 6:47 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Can anyone tell me what it's like to work a civilian job located inside the military base in Kandahar, Afghan?

Can anyone tell me what its like working a civilian position in Kandahar? I am married with two kids, and considering a six month position there located within the US Military Base?

4 Nov 2008, 9:19 pm | click here for answers

Voting Question: Is western male's abhorence for male eroticism fake/ socially engineered?

If the fear of social intimacy between men has been socially engineered by the Western society, could it be possible that straight men are not really (exclusively) heterosexual by nature, and that this 'abhorence' of sexual desire for men is a fear artificially created by the society, because afterall straight men in several other societies (including classical Greek society and modern Kandahar), where the social stigmas against man-man sexual bonds are not there are close universally into romantic relationships with other men. What is your take on it? What are the factors that force Westernized men to fake such abhorence? Is it fear of being classified as 'gay' or is it to gain social power that comes handy in the race for manhood, that comes from showing this abhorence in a heterosexualized society? http://videos-on-universal-male-male-desire.blogspot.com/

31 Oct 2008, 7:40 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Does the US only have a long term strategy of defeat in Afghanistan?

Do you feel we are getting anywhere in Afghanistan? The taliban controls half of afghanistan, in the day and night time. Westerners can't even walk through Kandahar at anytime. Kabul is below siege. What has the united states achieved? We are supporting one of the most corrupt governments in afghanistan history. The people are not seeing any development to their lives, why should they care for the US? I think we need atleast 500,000 troops in afghanistan to stablize in the long term. Or we need to negotiate with the taliban to bring about a long term solution. Plus the aggressive posturing in Pakistan is detrimental to achieving any security in that region long term. Pakistan has a huge army, with a population of 173 million, thats six times the popultion of Iraq. There is no way in the world we could sustain such an occupation.

30 Oct 2008, 1:25 pm | click here for answers

Voting Question: DO you remember what a 4 star Air Force General just told us?

just a few weeks ago some 4 star said we are making progress and winning the war. Just more propaganga like nam. look below: Thoughts KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants killed more U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in June than in Iraq for the second straight month, a grim milestone capping a run of headline-grabbing insurgent attacks that analysts say underscore the Taliban's growing strength. The fundamentalist militia in June staged a sophisticated jailbreak that freed 886 prisoners, then briefly infiltrated a strategic valley outside Kandahar. Last week, a Pentagon report forecast the Taliban would maintain or increase its pace of attacks, which are already up 40 percent this year from 2007 where U.S. troops operate along the Pakistan border.

30 Jun 2008, 6:55 pm | click here for answers

Open Question: Are we "strategic" fighting the front on terrorism in Iraq?

Latest News of the Front Where' should we concentrKABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Fighting raged in Afghanistan over the weekend, with a suicide bombing slaying six people, a NATO-led soldier and an Afghan police officer dying in an "altercation," and troops killing several insurgents in battles, authorities said. Fighting between the Taliban and NATO forces continues to rage in Afghanistan. The suicide bombing on Sunday killed six people in a bazaar in Spin Boldak, located in Kandahar province, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Monday. Along with the deaths, at least 17 people were wounded, and ISAF condemned the assault. Four of those killed were Afghan border police officers, ISAF said. The location is in southern Afghanistan. The ISAF soldier and an Afghan police officer were killed after seven people were apprehended in connection with a roadside bombing in Paktia province on Sunday that targeted an Afghan National Police and ISAF patrol. The location is in eastern Afghanistan. "The detained civilians were then transferred to the ANP station at the Jaji District middle. While at the district middle, there was an altercation during which an ANP officer and one ISAF soldier were killed," ISAF said in a Monday news release. ate our forces?

29 Sep 2008, 12:11 pm | click here for answers

Voting Question: Are they any bars / pubs in Kandahar?

28 Sep 2008, 10:07 am | click here for answers

Voting Question: Can someone please translate this from Afrikaans to English? ?

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28 Oct 2008, 5:06 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Canada’s effort in Afghanistan- WHAT EFFORT!!!!?

1) Why Does Canada Not ‘PONY UP’ To Their NATO Obligations? 2) every Canada has is just 2500 soldiers in Afghanistan, that is just a POLITICAL TOKEN nothing else. Compared to how many soldiers we have that is like 5 soldiers. 3) Why do Canadians not have the Nuts to put in 12000 or more troops and receive the job done. Otherwise why even bother with your 2500 troops. Why is it always the American army that has to do every the work. Canada usually lays back and lets other nations go in and nationalize countries or battle terrorists, then go in with the United Nations as peace keepers after the fighting is done. Canadians are recognized internationally as weak and spineless. Canada’s army is pathetic. For Canada to have recognition as a G-7 country, it has to somewhere in time join the other NATO forces and receive in the battle to keep honor, and recognition of our allies. The Taliban sees Canadians as cowards, and as you state are putting extra pressure on Kandahar in the hopes that Canada will coward down, and leave the battle against terror. So if you are going to be a lousy ally and leave with your tail in between your leg, you should do that now. Let the protectors of the free world, the American military handle the job. The American military thought Canada could handle Khandahar but obviously they can’t.

28 Oct 2008, 2:59 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Why didn't the press here in the US cover the Taliban Jailbreak?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/26/2287295.htm?section=world "Afghanistan has sacked the police chief of southern Kandahar province and two senior aides over an embarrassing mass jailbreak earlier this month, the interior ministry said. About 1,100 prisoners including hundreds of Taliban rebels escaped when militant suicide bombers blew open the gates of Kandahar city's main prison on June 13. Fifteen prison guards were killed in the attack. "Sayed Agha Saqeb, police chief of Kandahar, the deputy police chief and the criminal investigation director were sacked from their jobs," an interior ministry press statement said. The trio were sent to the provincial attorney general's office for investigation over the jailbreak, it said. The Afghan Government launched an urgent probe following the incident, which came as a blow to the shaky government of US-backed President Hamid Karzai and international forces trying to stabilise the country."

27 Jun 2008, 7:12 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: The most dangerous province in Afghanistan?

What is the most dangerous state or province (whatever it is called) in Afghanistan? I heard Helmand province was one of the most dangerous but maybe Kandahar or Kabul? Where does most of the fighting take place? Or is it every over Afghanistan? Are there any safer places in Afghanistan? If so please state.

26 Aug 2008, 7:18 am | click here for answers

Voting Question: What are the motives behind Canada's precense in Kandahar & The US/UK occupation of Iraq?

I find people often receive the two mixed up, so naturally I'm confused as well, if anyone could paint a clear picture for me that'd be super. uhh okay... But arent Afghanistan and Iraq, two separate countries, last i checked Canada wasnt making any money off of its presence in Afghanistan, in fact if anything we've been loosing money. Can anyone please give me a serious answer here?

24 May 2008, 11:37 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: My son is stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Any care package suggestions?

I've asked him what I could send him, but every he asks for is beef jerky. So, anyone who has been sent there, what did you miss? What could have made you more comfortable? Did anyone send you anything unexpected that really brightened your day? What are the restrictions? Well there, Bolshevik, he's an intelligent, honorable young man. He doesn't need his mommy to tell him what to do. Thanks for being less than helpful. Thanks Guys, I wondered what the sudden taste for jerky was about. To Being; I was thinking that he is an adult who makes his possess decisions. Is this what I hoped for his future? No, this is his life and his choice. Do I support his choices? Absolutely. He is doing what he loves to do. Thanks Peanut! Fabric softener sheets! I never would have thought of that! He loves the odor of Suavitel (the fabric softener I use, my kids call it "the odor of a mom's adore).

24 Apr 2008, 8:27 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Terrorist Attacks-do you feel safe where you live? ?

Do you feel safe where you live? Do you feel our administration has done a good job keeping terrorist away from our shores? 11904 terrorist (reported) have happened since 9-11.... I found this to be interesting, too.... List of Terrorist Attacks in the last 2 months. ...Date ...Country ...City ...Killed ...Injured ...Description 9/21/2008 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 60-year-old rubber worker is shot off his motorcycle by Mujahideen. 9/20/2008 Mauritania Tourine 12 0 Twelve local soldiers are kidnapped and beheaded by al-Qaeda. 9/20/2008 Pakistan Jamrud 1 1 A truck driver is shot to death by religious militants. 9/20/2008 Iraq Tal Afar 6 23 Three women are among six Iraqis murdered by Muslim terrorists in separate attacks. 9/20/2008 Pakistan Islamabad 53 257 Over fifty people are burned or blasted to death when Mujahideen attack a Marriott hotel. 9/20/2008 Pakistan North Waziristan 6 5 Six locals are blown to bits by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 9/19/2008 Pakistan Quetta 8 9 Eight students at a religious school are blown to bits by a suicide bomber. 9/19/2008 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A teenager is taken down in a steer-by shooting by Islamic radicals. 9/19/2008 Somalia Mogadishu 12 35 al-Shabaab Islamists rain down mortars on a city airport, killing a dozen civilians. 9/19/2008 Iraq Tuz Khormato 1 0 A lady is shot to death by Muslim terrorists. 9/19/2008 Afghanistan Paktika 4 2 A child is among four civilians working in a field killed by a Jihadi rocket attack. 9/19/2008 Iraq Basra 1 0 A Shia cleric is assassinated by Sunni extremists. 9/19/2008 Pakistan Swat 2 0 Islamic militants attack a bank vehicle, killing two occupants. 9/18/2008 UK Crawley 0 1 A man shouts about the Qur'an as he stabs a non-Muslim lady in the head. 9/18/2008 Afghanistan Khost 3 0 Three Afghans are taken down by a Taliban ambush. 9/18/2008 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Two family members are killed when sectarian gunmen storm their home. 9/17/2008 Ingushetia Magas 4 0 Four local security personnel are ambushed and killed by Muslim radicals. 9/17/2008 Philippines Mindanao 1 7 Moro Islamists attack a group of local soldiers, killing one. 9/17/2008 Thailand Yala 2 0 A dad and son are brutally gunned down by Religion of Peace militants. 9/17/2008 Iraq Baghdad 18 79 Eighteen Iraqis are killed in a series of Mujahideen bombing and shooting attacks. 9/17/2008 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 1 7 A lady is murdered by Islamic bombers in a residential area. 9/17/2008 Pakistan Khyber 1 0 The Taliban abduct and murder an Afghan refugee. 9/17/2008 India Srinagar 0 15 Fifteen pedestrians are injured when Islamic terrorists toss a grenade into the road outside a shopping middle. 9/17/2008 Yemen Sanaa 10 13 Women and kids are among the casualties when al-Qaeda militants stage a coordinated attack on the US embassy. 9/16/2008 Thailand Pattani 1 0 Muslim radicals murder a 50-year-old civilian outside his home. 9/16/2008 Iraq Khanaqin 4 3 Four local police are murdered by Jihadi bombers. 9/16/2008 Iraq Taji 2 16 Mujhideen manage to kill two civilians with a bicycle bomb placed in a marketplace. 9/16/2008 Pal. Auth. Gaza 1 0 Hamas gunmen attack a family home, killing a baby girl. 9/16/2008 Thailand Narathiwat 3 0 A man sweeping the curb outside his home is among two people shot to death by Islamists. 9/16/2008 Pakistan Swat 3 6 Talibanis attack a schoolhouse, killing three guards. 9/16/2008 Lebanon Ain el-Helweh 4 0 Four people are killed when Sunnis and Shia clash over their differences. 9/15/2008 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A young hospital worker is murdered by Religion of Peace gunmen. 9/15/2008 Somalia Mogadishu 4 0 Four African Union soldiers are murdered by Islamic militia bombers. 9/15/2008 Mauritania Tourine 12 4 al-Qaeda militants rake a security patrol with machine-gun flame, killing a dozen local men. 9/15/2008 Iraq Balad Ruz 22 33 A female suicide bomber sends twenty-two others to Allah with a blast in a residential area. 9/15/2008 Iraq Baghdad 13 35 Jihadis successfully kill thirteen Iraqis with a pair of strategically placed bombs. 9/15/2008 Thailand Pattani 1 0 An 80-year-old man is murdered by Islamic gunmen. 9/14/2008 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 41-year-old laborer is shot by Islamists while riding his motorcycle home. 9/14/2008 Iraq Saidiya 7 6 Jihadi bombers take down seven Iraqis with a series of blasts. 9/14/2008 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Two brothers are shot to death by sectarian rivals. 9/14/2008 Afghanistan Ghazni 7 0 Religious extremists murder seven Afghan security patrol members riding in a pickup truck. 9/14/2008 Afghanistan Kandahar 3 16 Two doctors and their drivers are murdered by fundamentalist bombers while delivering vaccine to kids. 9/14/2008 Somalia Mogadishu 3 0 Islamic hardliners celebrate Ramadan by killing a Ugandan peacekeeper and two others. 9/14/2008 Pakistan Lahore 1 0 A pregnant lady is bu Johnny P.... I have land in Superior, just in case !!!!

21 Sep 2008, 5:07 pm | click here for answers

Voting Question: Why are we not in Afghanistan?

It isn't a surprise that the Taliban are a REAL threat. This morning they beheaded and slaughtered 30 of 40 people on a bus in Kandahar, at least one was a child. I think we did the right thing going after Sadam, we NEED to be chasing Iran and dealing with Jong-Il.... however we let the Taliban slip through? WHY are we not in Afghanistan more prevalently? I'm aware we ARE there. I'm saying more "prevalently." Everyone, McCain/Obama and every supporters, act as if Iraq is our only threat. I appreciate your dedication and sacrifice for our country! I'm a military brat and truly appreciate it.. but why are we basically ... RATHER why is the media over-looking us and our need to be in Afghanistan?

20 Oct 2008, 8:22 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: UK Charity Worker Was Killed In Kabul?

A lady working for a UK-registered charity has been shot dead close Kabul University in the Afghan capital. Gayle Williams, 34, was a UK and South African national. She was killed by two men on a motorbike, witnesses told the BBC. The Taleban are reported to have said they killed her because she was working for a Christian organisation called Serve Afghanistan. In August the Taleban killed three foreign women close Kabul. Further worries Ms Williams was killed while walking to work, police said. An eyewitness told the BBC that two men on a motorbike drew alongside her. One man then got off the motorbike and shot her at close range before jumping back on the bike and escaping. Mike Lyth paid tribute to Ms Williams kids on the road going to school also saw the incident. "Some bullets hit her body and some hit her leg and when police got there she was dead," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told the AFP news agency. The BBC's Martin Patience in Kabul says this is not the first time that a foreigner has been killed in the Afghan capital by armed men. But the incident will lift further concerns about the security situation in Afghanistan, our correspondent says. In the past week, there have been three assassinations in the southern city of Kandahar, every carried out by men on motorbikes. Operations suspended Serve Afghanistan is a UK registered charity whose overseas staff are volunteers. It focuses on education and training for people with disabilities. The charity's chairman, Mike Lyth, said the staff and volunteers were in shock over the killing. Police at the scene of the shooting He said: "She had been there for about two-and-a-half-years and was managing a community development project focused on disabled people. "We are deeply saddened about what has happened. She was absolutely lovely and was full of life. A sportswoman and mountaineer - she just loved that sort of thing. "The thought of Afghanistan must have seemed an adventure for her." Taleban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told AFP that they killed Ms Williams "because she was working for an organisation which was preaching Christianity in Afghanistan". Mr Lyth believed more attacks were imminent and said: "It is happening increasingly often in countries like Afghanistan. It is a policy of the Taleban to destabilise and knock the government by knocking out every of the aid and NGOs working there." He said Ms Williams's fellow volunteers needed to discuss their next course of action. In August another aid group, the International Rescue Committee, suspended operations after three of its foreign female staff - a British-Canadian, a Canadian and a Trinidadian-American - were shot with their Afghan driver close to Kabul. The Taleban claimed responsibility for that attack, saying the women were foreign spies. What do you think of this? Does it not view muslims in a bad way? Why would they kill a lady who was preaching about christainity? Is it wrong for someone to tutor someone about a different religion other than islam?

20 Oct 2008, 2:19 pm | click here for answers

Open Question: Does the American public believe that there will be a military victory in Afghanistan?

I don't think so. I don't think we will defeat the Taliban in the long term. Kandahar is run by the Taliban, day and night, its almost impossible for westerners to walk around there. Kabul is below siege from the north west and south at night. Afghanistan is a land that just can't be conquered. Logistically its very difficult. It takes up too many resources. The Greeks, the Persians, the British, the Russians every failed. Why does this coalition think it will succeed. Here is my solution. clip off the life line of the Taliban, legalize the poppy crop. This is the only thing Afghanistan really produces. Legalize it and give contracts to local companies to make it into morphine. This will provide jobs for the local population, encourge developement and investment and take away the power of the warlords. Also there are some factions of the Taliban which are worth negotiating with. They are just frustated with the corruption of the national government. The Taliban of 2001 does not exsist anymore as a organization.

20 Nov 2008, 11:27 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Bakit hanggang ngayon'y d p inaalis ng phil gov't ang Ban dto s Afghanistan ok n man dito nga ako sa Kandahar

20 May 2008, 11:48 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Who was the Weakest Indian Prime Minister , since India's Independence ?

In my opinion , BJP PM Atal Behari Vajpayee was the weakest PM Ever, the way we surrendered in Kandahar proved that .

19 May 2008, 5:57 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Would you trust BJP Government , in a War Against Islamic Terrorism ? Can they be Hard on Muslims ?

Vasundra Raje's Government in Rajasthan has proved that , BJP is Soft on Islamic Terror , they have no intention of Fighting Islamic Terrorism . They are Here for Votes & Money that is to be made while in power . BJP government when in Power , showed how Shameless its leaders were . You had shameless grovelling surrender Kandahar Episode , then How we had the then Impotent PM Atal Behari Vajpayee made our Country India more Impotent than it really is , compared to Pakistan & Afghanistan .. United States constantly told him to talk to Pakistan , that's exactly what they eventually did . Obviously US never Included India in their Global War on Terror , they rather chose Pakistan , over India . Even todate China has laid claim on Entire state of Arunachal Pradesh , Now recently SIKKIM . It won't be long before whole of NorthEast slips . Obviously Chinese Don't respect this government at every . Hindus in northern India are Genuinely WEAK .....& PC .

19 May 2008, 5:55 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Can I thank Canadian troops and make a point about Canada? (see below)?

(Excerpt from yahoo! News Article) Afghan and NATO forces rout Taliban: governor "On Thursday, Afghan and mostly CANADIAN NATO forces attacked foe positions, having used helicopter gunships at the start of what had shaped up to be one of the biggest battles in Afghanistan in recent years. NATO has said the offensive, which began on Wednesday, was expected to last until the weekend, and it estimated that some 600 Taliban fighters had slipped into the Arghandab valley. Kandahar provincial governor Assadullah Khalid told a news conference that the Taliban had been driven out, and troops were searching villagers' houses for fighters left behind. So you look? Canadians are tough and powerful and have just demonstrated it clearly. They just do not engage in wars unless there is no other conceivable option. You don't just magically inherit the second largest country on earth and by coincidence it's the most peaceful country. Canadians are nonviolent by choice! And Canadians make it appear such that a little child from Nigeria is mightier than the world's most bad macho dictator. I'm not Canadian, I just like them a lot

19 Jun 2008, 9:56 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Is this good news or bad for liberals Democrats?

ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan - Afghan and Canadian forces moved into villages outside Kandahar on Wednesday to root out Taliban militants, killing at least 36 insurgents, while an explosion elsewhere killed four British soldiers, officials said.

18 Jun 2008, 10:32 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: How can Osama make videos?

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17 May 2008, 7:21 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Why is the USA operating a madrassa in Cuba?

"A McClatchy investigation found that instead of confining terrorists, Guantanamo often produced more of them by rounding up common criminals, conscripts, low-level foot soldiers and men with no allegiance to radical Islam — thus inspiring a deep hatred of the United States in them — and then housing them in cells next to radical Islamists. "The radicals were quick to exploit the flaws in the U.S. detention system. "Soldiers, guards or interrogators at the U.S. bases at Bagram or Kandahar in Afghanistan had abused many of the detainees, and they arrived at Guantanamo enraged at America. "The Taliban and al Qaida leaders in the cells around them were ready to preach their firebrand interpretation of Islam and the need to wage jihad, Islamic holy war, against the West. Guantanamo became a school for jihad, complete with a council of elders who issued fatwas, binding religious instructions, to the other detainees." http://www.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/story/38779.html

17 Jun 2008, 3:37 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: 1200 prisoners escaped from Kandahar and now the Taliban has a full-scale offensive, and the Surge is working?

Technicalities. AP reported this morning that 1200 BROKE OUT OF PRISON, among them 400 SUSPECTED TALIBAN. Mebbe you didnt read last months news that in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, the neo-colonial puppet govt fought the Mahdi Army to a standstill; the Surge is more anal retentive misdirection by your prez. Technicalities. AP reported this morning that 1200 BROKE OUT OF PRISON, among them 400 SUSPECTED TALIBAN. Mebbe you didnt read last months news that in Baghdad, Iraqs capital, the neo-colonial puppet govt fought the Mahdi Army to a standstill; what part of THE SURGE AINT WORKEN dont you understand? Oh, sometimes my computer stutters like some of y'every say Obama does, but least we have a point that is not juust below our hats. It dont matter if the Surge is on the moon, it aint worken and thats the point. Nobody needs a geography lesson, every you suckers need a lesson in THINKING: the SURGE AINT WORKEN. Now correct my spelling, okay? THE SURGE AINT WORKEN. KEEP UP. Hay, neo-cons, I kno you still stuck on the geography aspect and you are confused because of the situation where our troops are hanging back in Kandahar and Baghdad because our generals dont kno what to do and the politicians play suckers like you JUST LIKE YOU JUST GOT PLAYED stuck on the wrong part of the question. Like I always say: DOOOOOSH! In your puppet-mouth.

17 Jun 2008, 12:12 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: With Congress ( UPA ) Government in Power , Even God has Chosen to forsake the Hindus ? Agree with me .?

With Congress ( UPA ) Government in Power , Even God has Chosen to forsake the Hindus ? Agree with me . With the Congress Party & Nehru Gandhi Dynasty , atleast they are loyal to Muslims & Xtians ( And Pakistan ) . When Advani & Atal Combine , we saw the Worst Governments ever : Shameless Crooks ( Along with Jaswant , Fernandes & others ) . Forgot Tehelka or Kandahar . I believe PV Narasimha Rao was the Best PM Ever in Modern Day India .

16 May 2008, 9:59 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Tonight on Iranian TV?

6.00: G-Had TV. Morning prayers. 8.30: Talitubbies. Talitubbies say "Eh-oh". Dipsy and Tinky-Winky repair a Stinger missile launcher. 9.00: Shouts of Praise. More prayers. 11.00: Jihad's Army. The Kandahar-on-Sea battalion repulse another attack by bad, imperialist, Zionist backed infidels. 12.00: Ready, Steady, Jihad! Celebrities make lethal devices out of everyday objects. 12.30: Panoramadan. The programme reports on America's attempts to take over the world. 13.30: Xena. Modestly dressed housewife Xena stays at home and does some cooking. 14.00: Only Fools and Camels. Dhal-Boy offloads some Chinese rocket launchers to Hamas. 14.30: Green Peter. The total of Kalashnikovs bought by the milk bottle top appeal is revealed. 15.00: Madrasah Challenge. Two more Islamic colleges meet. Bambah Kaskhain asks the questions. 'Starter for ten, no praying.' 15.30: I adore 629. A look back at the events of the year, including the Prophet's entry into Mecca, and the destruction of pagan idols. 16.00: Question Time. Members of the public face questions from political and religious leaders. 17.00: Koranation road. Deirdrie faces execution by stoning for adultery. 17.30: Middle-East Enders. The entire cast is jailed for unislamic behaviour. 18.00: Holiday. The team go on pilgrimage to Mecca. Again. 18.30: Top of the Prophets. Will the Koran be No.1 for the 63,728th week running? 19.00: Who wants to be a Mujahadin? Mahmoud Tarran asks the questions. Will contestants phone a mullah, go 'inshallah', or ask the Islamic council? 20.00: FILM: Shariah's Angels. The three burkha-clad sleuths go undercover to expose an bad scheme to educate women. 21.30: Big Brother. Who will be taken out of the home and executed this week? 22.30: Shahs in their Eyes. More hopefuls imitate famous destroyers of the infidel. 23.30: They think it's Allah over. Quiz culminating in the 'Don't feel the Mullah' round. Midnight: When Imams Attack. Amusing footage shot secretly in mosques. The filmers were also secretly shot. 00:.30: The West Bank Show. Arts programme looking at anti-Israel graffiti art in the occupied territories. 01.30: Bhuffi the Infidel Slayer. 02.00: A book at bedtime. The Koran. Again.

16 May 2008, 4:14 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Is NATO losing the fight in Afghanistan?

Since the jail break of over 850 talibans, several villages, close Kandahar, are now back below Taliban control. The Taliban are now threatening to take over Kandahar, as well. Is this considered a loss of the war for NATO? Or is it just a minor setback? Your thoughts, please.

16 Jun 2008, 5:56 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Do you think the taliban are going to attempt to retake Kandahar?

After the jailbreak and another 500 troops in the area right next to Kandahar, plus the fact the allied forces are demoralized right now. Do you think the Taliban are going to try to attack the city?

16 Jun 2008, 3:39 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: hejabiran is located at 30 kandahar street tel 68930034?

16 Jul 2008, 12:00 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Canadians: Afghanistan Involvement, How Capable Is your military? ?

This will be a very long question, Please only answer if willing to read. Would appreciate detailed answers About 7 months ago the Associated Press reported ‘France is to meet a Canadian delegation Friday on Ottawa's appeal for 1,000 extra troops to support its beleaguered force in volatile Kandahar province’. Also Here in Yahoo Answers, there was a question posted ‘Has anyone talked to Canadian Soldiers who have been to Afghanistan about what they think about the mission? Here is the link : http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... The best answer chosen by voters wrote ‘Canada has around 2,600 troops & the USA has over 23,000 troops. Lets talk when you send 10,000 or when you could defend yourself.’ My question to Canadians is this: How do you guys feel that Americans think that they have to bear the burden of defending Canada or that Americans think that Canada is not capable of defending themselves as shown by one of the answers in the link over. In fact Americans are always joking that Canada does not have an army. My second question to Canadians is this: How do you feel when a major news source mentions that your troops are beleaguered, which basically means struggling. Do you Canadians not feel the need to defend such remarks made by a credible news agency calling your soldiers incapable of dealing with the problems in the Kandahar Province. My third question to Canadians is why does your government not respond to such unflattering and demeaning comments made by credible news agencies such as those that I mentioned over. Finally how do you Canadians feel when Americans joke that Canada does not have an army (heard it on the Conan O Brian show and even on Law and Order), or that the US could invade Canada within 5 minutes or if not for the US, Canada would be a Russian territory by now. Thanks to everyone answering this, I appreciate your time. I apologize if this offends some but this is the impression I receive of the Canadian military everytime I read articles in news media or on the internet or from here on Yahoo answers and wanted to receive your opinions.

15 Sep 2008, 2:43 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Is this really Osama bin Laden? (video link)?

this is the video to have reportedly been found in Kandahar, it allegedly shows Osama taking responsibility for 9/11. IS this really Osama? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41UAnkQARFs&feature=related

15 May 2008, 3:58 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: What about that Kandahar, Afghanistan prison break?

Like them or not, you've got to hand it to the Taliban. Those guys busted into the main prison with weapons and explosives and released around 1,000 Taliban prisoners. Right below the noses of American and Canadian troops stationed nearby. Now that's cajonas! What an embarrassment for Nato.

14 Jun 2008, 12:15 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: What will be Bush's response to the 870 prisoners that the Taliban helped to escape today?

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - About 870 prisoners escaped during a Taliban bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan that knocked down the front gate and demolished a prison floor, Afghan officials said Saturday. And in western Afghanistan on Saturday, a roadside bomb exploded close a U.S. military vehicle, killing four Americans in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in the country this year, officials said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

14 Jun 2008, 11:56 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Pathans? How many Pathans are here?

I was just wondering...a couple of years ago I didn't even know there were Pashtuns in Pakistan lol so i'm like are every the Pashtuns in Pakistan refugees from Afghanistan??? lol And then I learned about Quetta n Peshawar that they're Paki Pathans cities. So if you're a Pathan/Pashtun where are you from? I'm from kandahar, Afghanistan..I've never been there. And do most Pakis talk pashto? Thanks! sanga yea, zoya? :-) lol yeah true, if my parents had not hopped over the border I would have never been born. so what???? okay i'm bored right now lol faraz dude why you hatin son? lol your answer was mean and who cares what passport you use why would anyone stay in a war stricken country?

14 Aug 2008, 4:30 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Moslems, when will you take control of these people? see detail?

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two men on a motorcycle used water pistols to spray acid on girls walking to school Wednesday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, blinding at least two of them, military spokesmen said. the whole of Afghanistan is like this and similar beastly behaviour is state sanctioned in so called civilised Moslem countries ie Saudi Arabia Iran etc etc that is the difference , STATE SANCTION

13 Nov 2008, 2:16 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Is the Taliban jail-break an indication of the futility of the conflict in Afghanistan?

The Taliban have busted their buddies out of captivity in Kandahar...about 1,000 of them are out. These men were captured over many campaigns and now they are back in action and ready to kill coaltion troops. Isn't this just another indication of the pointlessness of the whole conflict...one step forward, two steps back? Does anyone seriously think that the Taliban can be completely defeated given their links to the Pashtun tribes?

13 Jun 2008, 5:50 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: The true face of the Taliban, how can anyone defend them or object to our troops in Afghanistan?

The only difference between this and what was happening prior to our troops being there is that then these girls would have been taken to a football stadium and murdered http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Motorbikers-toss-Acid-At-Schoolgirls-In-Kandahar-Afghanistan/Article/200811215149805?lpos=World_News_First_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_2&cover=ARTICLE_15149805_Motorbikers_Throw_Acid_At_Schoolgirls_In_Kandahar%2C_Afghanistan

12 Nov 2008, 5:38 am | click here for answers

Resolved Question: When it is 4pm Tuesday in Ottawa, Canada, what time is it in Kandahar, Afghanistan?

12 May 2008, 2:47 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: DID I qualify for the ISAF medal?? I believe that I did?

I served in Kandahar between dec 2004 and may 2005 and have been told I didnt qualify for the medal as I was "below american command"........ but according to the SHAPE (Supreme HQ Allied Forces Europe) website criteria I fulfil this as I was serving in the JOA (Joint Area of Operations) after April 2004 below NATO command /OR/ was directly supporting NATO forces. Is this true, please?. My medals office need convincing. Many thanks thanks for your respones.I DID serve from dec 04 to may 05 in the Royal Air Force at Kandahar airbase. my commanders were british but the bigger picture may be that (the reason ive been given for not qualifying) was that the airbase (and operations in afghanistan at that time) were below american auspices and the british didnt take control until later...

12 Jul 2008, 3:21 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Bin Laden...any Theories?

Found these questions on a Webpage...Really Interesting. http://www.rense.com/general24/t500.htm 71. Why did the Pentagon release a new video version or translation of the Bin Laden Home video? 72. Why it was released only 8 hours after translation by the German magazine MONITOR on December ? 73. Why were the four translators prior US-Government workers? 74. When was the Bin Laden Home Video found and who found it? 75. Who found the video if Northern Alliance and US troops had not yet arrived in Kandahar or Jahalabad? 76. Does the timestamp on the Bin Laden video indicate that it was found two weeks after it was produced? 77. Why was the public not informed who found the video and when? 78. Why according to MONITOR magazine, were the most controversial statements translated incorrectly? 79. Why was the video released? 80. Who gave the final decision to release it?

11 Nov 2008, 7:21 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: Looking for a working clock for my desktop that shows Kandahar time, any ideas on where I would go? thanks?

My stepson is a Canadian Soldier that just got shipped to Kandahar, and I am looking for Kandahar time.

10 May 2008, 12:44 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: For Americans, Canadian Forces?

first, Do not be rude or be derogatory This question is for Americans and what they think about the Canadian Military Yes Canada does have a military and a well trained one, this question is not about whos military is better or who can blow more stuff up. I was wondering what Americans think of the Canadian Military. I have seen a lot of Americans be rude and make comments like "what military" and "Canada has a military" Yes Canada does and we do a lot of training with the US military. We are currently in Afghanistan right now and have had 85 Soldiers killed from the time we first deployed in February 2002. We currently have about 2500 soldiers in Afghanistan based in Kandahar. We have even been asked by the American Military to help them train to go to Iraq in Fort Bliss texas. Some people say Canada has the best Trained soldiers this may be somewhat true as we do train our soldier well. Anyway wahts your opinion on the Canadian Military http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgmks1FiNck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K6lNQclaKw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGY9L3cYLq8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvcQ7c_3Qys

10 Jun 2008, 4:46 pm | click here for answers

Resolved Question: i am 18 years old Afghan girl, i live in Kandahar, Afghanistan. want to study abroad.?

i want to study in the United State as a forieng exchange student, but i am not able to acheive a scholarship, though i have applied online more than 3 times, i have successfuly passed their every scholarship processes. but whenever the deadline for the scholarship is close they cease answering or not replying. i don't know whether those scholarship websites are real or fake. but i would like to request you brothers and sisters to help me to find some one who really can help me or any website that you think its trust worthy or real.. looking forward to hearing from you soon. Best wishes.

1 Jul 2008, 11:49 pm | click here for answers