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18 Villages Get 18 Canals Cleaned
The Iowa National Guard’s 734th Agribusiness Team completed 18 small-scale cash-for-work canal cleaning projects serving an equal number of villages May 4. The projects employed several hundred men for more than two weeks in April. Each project cost less than $2,000, but village elders said each project in their area had a significant impact. “This was excellent,” said Mohammed Rahim, an elder from Thesha, a village south of Asadabad, the provincial capital. “We got our canal cleaned, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Humanitarian Assistance, Military, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Chicken project is something to cluck about
The Iowa National Guard’s 734th Agribusiness Development Team conducted a quality assurance /quality control check at a small poultry project in Karula, Jan 13. What the ADT found was that small poultry projects aimed at helping a handful of Afghan families at a time are not costly, provide much-needed income and dietary protein and appear sustainable. The Iowa ADT initiated the project in December by giving 23 hens and two roosters each to six families who live … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Dakota Meyer – American Hero
It wasn’t a very big battle, as battles go. The Sept. 8, 2009, ambush on a joint patrol of Afghan National Security Forces and Coalition forces in Ganjgal village, Kunar Province, Afghanistan cost the lives of five Americans and nine Afghans. Like so many heartbreaking battles in this war, it need not have turned out this way. The official report on this action reads: During mission execution on 8 September 2009, the actions of key leaders … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Dakota Meyer, Heroes, Marines, Military, Tenth Mountain Division, War on Terror, WOT Heroes, WOT Medal of Honor
Solar Power to Light Up Afghan Schools
Four years ago children sat sprawled on the ground under a tree in the village of Lahor Dag, intently listening to their headmaster in a make shift school. Shortly after, The United Nations Children Fund brought them a tent for a classroom. Today, the finishing touches are being made on a two-story brick and mortar school that will offer classrooms, furniture, offices and something many of the students do not have at home – electricity. Lahor Dag … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Green, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Heavy fighting in Kunar Province
A combined force of more than 600 Afghan and International Security Assistance Forces are conducting operations against al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents in Kunar province June 27. At present, a number of insurgents have been killed in the attack against al-Qaida and Taliban leadership in the area. ISAF and Afghan authorities confirm three of their forces have died in the battle, including two U.S. service members. “We will continue to take the fight to the enemy alongside our Afghan partners,” said Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell, commanding general of Regional Command-East. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families who lost loved ones in the fight against our common enemies, the Taliban and al-Qaida”. The combined force has taken precautions to prevent collateral damage, and ISAF has no reports of injuries to civilians. The fighting … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Terrorist Death Watch, War on Terror
Road building is also building Kunar
A road can be more than just a means of transportation – especially in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan workers have spent the past year paving a stretch of road that runs through the heart of Kunar province and its main valley. About 13 kilometers of section near Forward Operating Base Bostick are complete, with more planned to help connect northeastern mountain communities to the Afghan government in Jalalabad, officials said. U.S. Army Capt. Brian J. Stoffer of Winsor, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Paved roads pave way for peace
Getting through downtown Asadabad, Afghanistan, just became easier thanks to four kilometers of new roads that were completed, Dec. 13. Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team engineers completed their final quality assurance check prior to a dedication ceremony with Fazlullah Wahidi, Kunar provincial governor, and village elders on a clear, warm day. The roads, worth $935,000, took nearly a year to complete and used concrete and double-bituminous surface treatment to pave the roads that will benefit hundreds of families … Read entire article »
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Afghan activity continues unabated
ISAF reports 1 and 2 In Helmand province a joint security force detained a suspected militant commander and several suspected militants linked to the narcotics industry in Nahri Sarraj district, during an Oct. 11 operation. Haji Khan Mohammed is considered a senior power broker in the district, and it is believed that his drug operations provided financial support to enemy fighters throughout southern Afghanistan. During the operation joint security forces received machine gun fire from militants shooting from multiple compounds. The forces moved the fighting away from the compounds and detained the militants. The joint force also found a weapons cache consisting of 40 rocket propelled grenades, two ammunition vests, several thousand machine gun rounds, several five-gallon jugs used in constructing homemade explosives for roadside bombs, three AK-47s and 20 mortar rounds. The cache … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Terrorist Death Watch, War on Terror
Roads to tie Afghanistan together
New roads and bridges in Afghanistan’s Kunar province are going a long way to help both residents and troops in the northeast border area, U.S. military and civilian engineers say. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the international forces’ provincial reconstruction team for Kunar province held a joint flyover Sept. 20 of current road and bridge projects in the province and made an assessment. “Overall, we all were very happy with the progress on the various … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Rebuilding, War on Terror
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