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Operation Moshtarak taking Marjah

NATO said it hoped to secure the area in days, set up a local government and rush in development aid in a first test of the new U.S. strategy for turning the tide of the eight-year war. The offensive is the largest since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.

The Taliban appeared to have scattered in the face of overwhelming force, possibly waiting to regroup and stage attacks later to foil the alliance's plan to stabilize the area and expand Afghan government control in the volatile south.

One of the biggest helicopter assaults in British military history has been launched against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Royal Welsh took the lead with their troops and Afghan partners flying at only 500ft above the desert, landing at a series of specified targets in the Nad-e-Ali area of Helmand under cover of darkness.
The Coldstream Guards, the Grenadier Guards and the Royal Welsh have all been on the ground testing the Taliban positions and trying to get the message out to local people that the battle is about restoring order and allowing normal government to develop.
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U.S. and coalition forces have pressed a major offensive against a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. As Mandy Clark reports, Taliban is certainly not giving up without a fight.

By:CBSNewsOnline

US Marines encounter little resistance as they enter the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

By:itnnews

More than 1000 British troops are engaged in the fiercest military offensive on the Taliban since the war in Afghanistan began.

By:itnnews

British and Afghan forces prepare ground for major Helmand offensive

clipped from www.mod.uk

Over the last 36 hours elements of the Royal Welsh, Grenadier Guards and Scots Guards have taken part in an air and ground ISAF operation to the south of Nad 'Ali, Helmand province, Afghanistan.

The operation, being conducted with Afghan National Security Forces, is part of the preparation for a major ISAF offensive known as Operation MOSHTARAK.

Op MOSHTARAK has been planned to remove insurgents from areas of central Helmand not previously cleared by ISAF troops.

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Plan to Send Alleged Sept. 11 Conspirators to New York Court

This July 2009 photo downloaded from the Arabic language web site www.muslm.net shows a man identified by the site as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in detention at Guantanamo Bay. The picture was allegedly taken by the Red Cross. AP

clipped from www.foxnews.com

Mohammed and the four others -- Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali -- are accused of orchestrating the attacks that killed 2,973 people on Sept. 11, 2001, and will now be tried in a courtroom down the street from the where the twin towers fell.

"The Department of Justice will pursue prosecution in federal court of the five individuals accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 attacks. Further, I have decided to refer back to the Department of Defense five defendants to face military commission trials, including the detainee who was previously charged in the USS Cole bombing," Holder said at a Justice Department briefing.

The decision drew outrage from some lawmakers and victims' families.

By:FoxNewsChannel

Al Qaeda is training would-be jihadists from the West

For the past year, a secret has been slowly spreading among Taliban commanders in Afghanistan: a 12-man team of Westerners was being trained by Al Qaeda in Pakistan for a special mission. Most of the Afghan fighters could rely only on hearsay, but some told of seeing the "English brothers" (as the foreign recruits were nicknamed for their shared language) in person. One eyewitness, a former Guantánamo detainee with close Taliban and Qaeda ties, spoke to NEWSWEEK recently in southern Afghanistan, demanding anonymity because he doesn't want the Americans looking for him. He says he met the 12 recruits in November 2005, at a mud-brick compound near the North Waziristan town of Mir Ali. That was as much as the tight-lipped former detainee would divulge, except to mention that Adam Yahiye Gadahn, the notorious fugitive "American Al Qaeda," was with the brothers, presumably as an interpreter. More....

Is the world ready for more attacks. And is the world ready to face their enemy? From within? The leftist of the world may want to cut and run from Iraq. Fine! Shall that be the end of terrorism? If you are one to believe so then you are a fool. This, is no ignore it and it will go away issue. Islamo-fascism = Terorism = No cut or run.

Hugging Cindy Sheehan will not save this world from terrorism.

Wait maybe Obama can charm the dickens outta the Taliban. Yeah thats it. He is such a great person. Never mind the fact he has no record. Heck that makes him virtually perfect. Yeah thats the ticket. Obama will save us from the terrorist. With his smile and words.