US-led coalition sending more than 11,000 troops against Taliban

http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564751834204734935

MUSA QALA, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S.-led coalition is unleashing more than 11,000 troops to attack militants in the southern mountains of Afghanistan, the biggest offensive since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

The force of more than 11,000 troops is by far the largest deployed in Afghanistan for one operation since the 2001 invasion. Previous offensives in the country have involved several thousand soldiers.

Conditions permitting, Thursday will mark what the military is calling the start of major and decisive anti-Taliban operations lasting through the summer. Reconstruction projects will also play a major role in Mountain Thrust.

Operation Mountain Thrust will involve about 2,300 U.S. conventional and special forces, 3,300 British troops, 2,200 Canadians, about 3,500 Afghan soldiers and air support troops, Freakley said. There will also be coalition air support.

:shrug:

It's beginning to sound a lot like the Soviets!

money come from?

Afganistan. Can't have them blowing up Cheney's retirement. Bush is going in to kill them all now.

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And that wasn't even close to enough.

An American led force of 11,000 troops will launch the biggest offensive against the Taliban since 2001 tomorrow.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1797387,00.html

population in afghanistan?

repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce

Karl Marx

many of the people now running the country with the blessings of the US are former warlords just as vile as the Taliban.