al-Qaeda and Taliban

[Hakki Alacakaptan]

A chest-puffing story of Canadian bravery from CBC. I guess the salient
facts are true, though. It's an example of detailed war reporting - although
the accounts of members of such small units are very hard to verify -  that
we almost forgot ever existed.

http://cbc.ca/cp/world/020318/w031854.html
Canadian snipers operate with cool but deadly efficiency in Afghan battle

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (CP) - Canada's snipers have ducked mortars and dodged
bullets in eastern Afghanistan in the last two weeks. They were nearly shot
to pieces by a U.S. Apache helicopter gunship - it stopped firing just in
the nick of time.

They are said to have the highest number of confirmed kills of any regular
army unit in the battle, though they deny it. And three of them, along with
three U.S. special forces soldiers, also rescued a company of the American
101st Airborne Division that was pinned down by enemy fire on the first day
of Operation Anaconda
(...)
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The Wash. Times also carried the story without giving the Canadians the
limelight.

 || -----Original Message-----

 || From: pms

 || US military have again performed miserably at Shah-e-kot.

 || Canadian snipers got most of the kills and _they_ were almost

 || wiped out by

 || friendly fire from a US Apache. Now US central command is

 || calling in 1700

 || British commandos as its own troops have proven useless.

 ||

 || Who's putting this info out, I need them on my desk-top?

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