UK troops kill second Taliban leader in two weeks

British Forces in Afghanistan have killed their second senior Taliban leader in a little over two weeks, striking a critical blow to the insurgency’s command and control capabilities in Helmand.

Bishmullah was a senior key facilitator and logistician responsible for the Northern Helmand region. He is believed to have commanded numerous fighters and was identified by Task Force Helmand as a key player in the insurgency, and criminality, before the strike.

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Georgians Train Iraqi Mortar Teams

Iraqi Army Soldiers participated in a five-day mortar training course with the 1st Georgian Brigade.

Iraqi Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 32nd Iraqi army brigade’s first and second companies trained on mortar procedures and crew drills, culminating in a live fire exercise north of al Kut July sixth to tenth.

The tone for the training program arose after IA Soldiers found two 60mm mortars in a weapons cache. The battalion brought a request to their U.S. Military Transition Team to supply sights for the mortars.

Since the design is not one compatible with U.S. systems, and mortar sights are very difficult to procure, the MiTT team requested assistance from the Georgian Soldiers, said Cpt. Paul Santamaria, of the MiTT team.

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Al Qaeda Recruits Foreign Jihadi Fighters for Afghan War

Afghanistan has been drawing a fresh influx of jihadi fighters from Turkey, Central Asia, Chechnya and the Middle East, one more sign that Al Qaeda is regrouping on what is fast becoming the most active front of the war on terror groups.

More foreigners are infiltrating Afghanistan because of a recruitment drive by Al Qaeda as well as a burgeoning insurgency that has made movement easier across the border from Pakistan, U.S. officials, militants and experts say. For the past two months, Afghanistan has overtaken Iraq in deaths of U.S. and allied troops, and nine American soldiers were killed at a remote base in Kunar province Sunday in the deadliest attack in years.

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Young U.S. Soldiers In Iraq Long for Action in Afghan War

Spc. Grover Gebhart has spent nine months at a small post on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq feels he’s missing the real war — in Afghanistan, where his brother is fighting the Taliban.

With violence in Iraq at its lowest level in four years and the war in Afghanistan at a peak, the soldiers serving at patrol station Maverick say Gebhart’s view is increasingly common, especially among younger soldiers looking to prove themselves in battle.

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Mosul Voter Registration

U.S. Soldiers are assisting with voter registration in the city of Mosul.
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Afghan National Army Tanks

American tank crews mentor Afghans using the equipment left behind by a former adversary.
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Guard/California Fires July 10, 2008

The weather in northern California is getting drier and hotter and it’s making a bad situation worse for firefighters.
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Iran Missile Tests Latest

Iran’s testing of long-range missiles is another sign that the country poses a real threat - but it doesn’t pull the U.S. any closer to a military confrontation.
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PHIL GRAMM IS WRONG! HERE IS WHAT HE SHOULD OF SAID

November 2006 price of gass $2.33. The democrats are elected to end Iraq war. Not only do they not end war what they are wrecking the economy.
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Irrational Leftist Tells Americans to Learn Spanish

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