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Some people said it was a hoax. It was most certainly not. The Seattle Times has a story on Army Private Aaron Fairbairn, who was killed by a jihadi suicide bomber on his base in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend. Read the whole account here: David Masters and his wife, Shelley, laughed in relief Friday [...]

Got back to my hotel after a wonderful time at the Dallas Tea Party only to read of a father’s heartbreak. David M. Masters passed along devastating news on Twitter this evening that his son, Aaron, was one of two American soldiers killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan today. His message: America’s North Shore [...]

Keep our Marines in your prayers as head off for the holiday weekend. Freedom is not free. Via AHN, the latest on the surge in Afghanistan: One American Marine has been killed as U.S. and Afghan forces on Friday continued their massive offensive deeper into Helmand River valley. The assault, the first major Afghan operation [...]

“Irony can be so ironic sometimes…”

A 17-year-old girl was publicly flogged by the Taliban in Pakistan’s Swat Valley (yes, really) after a neighbor accused her of adultery. Her brother held her down as the Muslim adultery police whipped her. A crowd stood by, watching silencing, as she screamed face down in the dirt. The stone-age sharia worshipers passed video of [...]

“‘Moderate Taliban’ is like ‘moderate killer’. Is there such a thing?”

“You can take my leg, but you can’t take my heart and you can’t take my soul. I’m a Green Beret.”

“I’ll continue my schooling even if they try to kill me. I won’t stop going to school.” – Shamsia, 17, victim of jihadist acid attack in Kabul.

Apathy.

Treachery. Plus extra bonus treachery from British citizens.

Whoa. That’s quite a show of strength by the Taliban. ______ {Post by See-Dubya}

Precursors to terror. Plus a similar case in Mexico.

Sort of missing the point of the whole fight.

An advance in border security? Of course there’s a catch.

LBDS.

Sexist British paratroopers back up their claim that the Taliban “fight like women”.

Lone survivor, American hero.

“At least one Taliban compound was hit–pretty much obliterated—by a Cobra gunship…” (Updated)

Righteous punking.

Re-snatching victory from the grubby hands of defeat which snatched it from the jaws of victory.

“It’s the re-Talibanization of Afghan society.”

Help.

Courage. Sacrifice. Valor.

Counterterrorism analyst Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is embedded in Iraq. Read his latest dispatch from outside the wire: Patrolling Yarmouk. Outside the Wire’s J.D. Johannes, embedded with the Black Lions of Task Force 1-28 in Baghdad, reports on the “cellular battlespace.” Miblogs reporting… Desert Flier, a flight/trauma nurse in Anbar province, blogs about Ramadi all-nighters. Stimp at [...]

Score.

Paratroopers from B Company, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division moves out on patrol into the Ghorak Valley of the Helmand Province in Southern Afghanistan during “Operation Achilles March 6. Photo by Spc. Matthew T. Littel, U.S. Army From time to time, Staff Sergeant D (on the Pakistan-Afghan [...]

Terrible news: A leading Afghan official working on women’s rights has been shot dead in the southern province of Kandahar. Safia Amajan, head of the province’s women’s department, was leaving her home for work when a gunman on a motorcycle opened fire, police said. She may have been targeted by Taleban militants because of their [...]

Bill Roggio of The Counterterrorism Blog is there, reporting on the riot aftermath: The violence was not Taliban-inspired, but composed mainly of Hazaris. The Haziris are an ethnic group that fought the Taliban under the banner of the Northern Alliance and followers of Ahmad Shah Masood , who was killed by al-Qaeda two days prior [...]

Arthur Chrenkoff has the round-up of good news from Afghanistan. In not-so-good news: – Ousted Taliban thugs beheaded 10 Afghan policemen. – Four terror suspects escaped from Bagram, the main U.S. base in Kabul. – The body of a fourth Navy SEAL–the last member of an ill-fated, four-man Special Forces unit that disappeared last month–was [...]

From Kabul, Afghanistan via NYT: United States and Afghan troops today reached the site of a downed military helicopter that crashed in a mountainous area this week, the United States military announced. The military said Wednesday that the aircraft appeared to have been brought down by hostile fire. Keep the fallen heroes and their families [...]