Iraq and Afghanistan in Pictures

[Adux]

Fuck You Talibunnies.


Hooorah!!!!!!!

U.S. Marines from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, protect an Afghan man and his child after Taliban fighters opened fire in the town of Marjah, in Nad Ali district, Helmand province, February 13, 2010. U.S.-led NATO troops launched a crucial offensive on Saturday against the Taliban's last big stronghold in Afghanistan's most violent province and were quickly thrown into a firefight with the militants.

Why Democracy, Human Spirit, Secularism and Decency will triumph over ideological zombies. Un-effin awesome, Courage and Self-Sacrifice.

[Solid Beast]

Some cool pics Adux, I agree completely with your last line. But that's it, no more pics?

PS - take a look at their assault rifles, you can literally tear a watermelon in half from a mile away with such a nice optics system. This is also why Taliban will never win...because they can't aim worth sh!t and these guys can hit spit flying through the air on the surrounding hill tops.

A big hats off to the brave troops fighting in Afghanistan, pitched battles since 2001. Thousands of miles away from home, protecting a people that are notorious for being ungrateful and back stabbing. Unbelievable courage.

[Adux]

More on the way, want more

Airborne in a Black hawk helicopter on a U.S. Army medevac misssion, a Marine MP, left, guards a Taliban fighter who is wounded, along with two other seriously wounded Taliban fighters captured after a firefight, according to the Marines on the ground, over Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday Feb. 13, 2010. Aero-medical crews of Task Force Pegasus are positioned throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP)

Injured Taliban fighters receive medical treatment after they were captured, aboard a Black hawk helicopter on a medevac mission, U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Michael G. Patangan, left, from Houston, Texas, with Charlie Company, Task Force Talon, as they try to keep the fighters alive after a firefight, according to the Marines on the ground, airborne over Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday Feb. 13, 2010. U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus aero-medical crews are are supporting U.S. Marines who are taking the Taliban-held town of Marjah in a major offensive to break the extremists' grip over a their southern heartland and re-establish government control. (AP)

[Adux]

The New British Medal for Afghanistan

[Adux]

U.S. Marines board Sea Stallion helicopters en route to an air assault against the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, at a Forward Operating Base, south of Marjah, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, in the early hours of Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010. (AP)

[Selma Shirazi]

One question dear, how come the opium production in Afghanistan is at all time high despite being "liberated" by devine forces?

Talibans are killing people in their own country, Afghani drugs are killing people all over the world. Drug trafficking worth between $5-7 billion per year is the major source of incomes for talibans, money they use to buy western made weapons. Kill the drug industry and you'll drain their source of incomes.

[A1Kaid]

The NATO forces and US Forces apparently don't "touch it" or else the farmers will raise hell. They believe it will upset their counter-offensive and counter-insurgency efforts. What Senior Commanders on the ground are trying to do is replace the opium production with some other crops, this is what they say however I cannot confirm if this is what they do.

There's no denying NATO forces and especially British forces have turned a blind-eye to the opium production and have even helped to facilitate the trade by not destroying the opium farms. This is evident and reported by news media such as the BBC.