Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's WarAgainst the GAP, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America
Minstrel Boy (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Ares Homepage A photograph of the Beast of Kandahar, the classified stealth UAV first reported in April, has emerged on a blog linked to left-wing French newspaper Liberation.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Afghan sgt. leading U.S. troops to a school got lost and can't read a map.
DVIDS RSS 2.0 Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday
An Afghan-international security force detained several suspected militants in Kandahar province today after searching a compound known to be used by a Taliban facilitator.
Stryker Brigade News (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
DVIDS has an album with 16 photos of the 5/2 SBCT. Description: U.S. Soldiers with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment conduct a dismounted patrol, Rajankala, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Nov. 27. The U.S. Army operates from combat outposts to...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
NOTE: News readers click here to watch the video. D ispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2009 -- Just on the outskirts of Kandahar airfield lies the former home of Osama Bin Laden, Tamask Farms. The area was bombed by U.S. forces in the days after the September 11th attacks. (NATO TV video. Length: 01:50.) More Combat Camera Imagery on THE TENSION Please help maintain THE TENSION by...
Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... too bad we'll be pulling out in 2011 ... so much for "we aren't going anywhere". Makes one also wonder if a little more of this kind of truth beamed into Canadian living rooms wouldn't change the negative mood, especially among Eastern Canadians. Celestial Junk Blog
The News Market (Free subscription) | yesterday
Soundbites from General Stanley McChrystal, Commander NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces Afghanistan, speaking to troops in Kandahar regarding the future strategy for
In From the Cold (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Earlier this week, we posted the latest photo of the "Beast of Kandahar ," the stealthy, high-endurance UAV that has been operating from our airfields in Afghanistan since 2007. Now. one the first sites to publish the new photo ( Gizmodo ), has more details on the drone. First of all, the Air Force has confirmed its existence and provided the UAV's designation. It's called the RQ-170...
Black Horizon (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Click to enlarge: Squared exhaust nozzle: Nose: - Steve Douglass' LINK
ABC News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Nick Shifrin is with soldiers in the city where 10,000 more troops will be sent. Kandahar - Afghanistan - United States - Society and Culture - Television
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | yesterday
A military reader writes: I've written you a few times. You've responded, once. I'm usually not too happy with you. Anyway, I'm now in Kandahar, working for Stan. That Stan. I was anti-Iraq. Beginning to now, in the US and...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
NATO commanders in Afghanistan have put Canada in charge of a district north of Kandahar city that has seen heavy fighting in the past two years.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Much of Obama's Afghan strategy will focus on the county's second largest city. Kandahar - Afghanistan - Asia - Warfare and Conflict - Afghanistan Civil War
cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Via: Flight Global: Kandahar’s Loch Ness monster has been spotted again. This time an actual photo of the beast was published by French journalist Jean-Dominique Merchet, who writes for the Liberation newspaper, on his Secret Defense blog. We last saw the mystery Kandahar aircraft in a drawing by Shephard’s Unmanned Vehicles and a very grainy photo [...]
MSNBC.com: Nightly News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Dec. 1: In the past few years, Kandahar has seen the worst of the fighting in Afghanistan—and it's where many of the additional U.S. forces are likely to go to take back the battle against the Taliban. NBC's Jim Maceda reports. (Nightly News)
