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25 December 2001 :
Fresh Attack on US Base at Kandahar Airport
NOTE:THE NEWS FOR 26 DECEMBER 2001 WILL BE UPDATED A LITTLE LATER THAN NORMAL
CHAMAN (Islam News):
US soldiers fled their positions around Kandahar Airport when they were attacked by heavy artillery at around 10am on the Sunday morning, 23 December 2001.
The firing came both from a village named Khoshab, situated to the south of airport and a mountainous region adjacent to this village.
Eye witness, driver Ahmad Ali, said that heavy artillery firing was heard from the specified region for almost half an hour.
There was then a distinct sound of the firing of both light and heavy weapons.
American soldiers in the base were seen panicking and fleeing their positions in fear.
Soon after this attack, US warplanes carried out heavy indiscriminate bombing of Khoshab and the neighbouring mountain peaks.
The civilian casualties in this attack have yet to be determined but this attack proves that forces hostile to US forces are still in the possession of significant numbers of heavy weapons such as artillery and they are hunting the US forces wherever they run or hide.
DRINKS PRESENTED TO HAMID KARZAI AND FAHEEM
KABUL (Islam News):
After the oath taking ceremony of Hamid Karzai in Kabul on 22 December 2001, the French Ambassador and Belgium's delegation visited the Ministry of Defence office to congratulate him and they presented him and both General Faheem with expensive bottles of alcoholic drink as a token of their appreciation for handing over Afghanistan to their colonisation.
Both Karzai and Faheem accepted these drinks with thanks and gratitude/servitude.
General Faheem, like General Dostam, is well known for his drinking habits.
AMERICA ABANDONS PAEDOPHILE GUL AGHA AS SOON AS ITS INTERESTS ARE MET
KANDAHAR (Special Correspondent):
The Americans have reduced their level of assistance being given to Gul Agha because they have finished using him for their purposes.
Such policies are typical of the Americans, and they will also throw away Musharraf and Pakistan once they have used them, thereby leaving Pakistan as a loser from both sides.
During the last few days, Gul Agha's fighters demanded extra payment on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, but Gul Agha clearly told them that he could not fulfil this requirement of theirs because the Americans had stopped their financial assistance.
He said that 'before we captured Kandahar and whilst we were at Takhta Pul, we were getting US$400,000 dollars per week but now after the evacuation of the Taliban from Kandahar, the Americans have turned their eyes away from us and now we get only US$50000 dollars per week with which to run the entire city.'
It must be mentioned that Gul Agha spent thousands of US dollars to get the support of the Pashtun tribes whilst capturing Takhta Pul.
He was so enthusiastic in supporting the Americans that until now, the people of Kandahar regard his men as "Those who came on shoulders of the Americans".
"IF WE ARE ATTACKED AGAIN WE WILL TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST KARZAI'S GOVERNMENT" WARN PAKTIA TRIBES
KABUL (Islam News/Radio Report):
The Paktia Tribal Lords have warned the new puppet government and America that if US warplanes bomb their territory again, they will take up arms against and fight Karzai's government.
This comes after last week's US bombing of the Paktia tribes which killed over 85 people from these tribes, including their senior tribesmen and other civilians.
An injured Tribal Lord, Haji Yaqoob, told BBC Pashto service that the US bombing was totally ridiculous as we were going to attend the oath ceremony of Hamid Karzai.
Later on, journalists who visited the site of the bombing confirmed that the Taliban and Arabs never move from city to city in such a manner for fear of aerial bombing.
The BBC representative, Raheemullah Yousuf Zai, who is also an analyst for Afghan affairs, said that the US authorities were issuing contradictory statements regarding this incident.
Initially they said that they bombed the convoy suspecting it was carrying Taliban and Arab Mujahideen.
In another statement issued after this, they said that although it was a tribal convoy, their people opened fire on us.
When the local tribes even rejected this statement, the US authorities reverted to their claims that it was a convoy of top Taliban and Arab Mujahideen leaders who opened fire on us so we retaliated.
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