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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» recoil replied on Wed Dec 30, 2009 @ 8:24pm |
 Coolness: 86615 | that's crazy. I think that's now 6 Canadians dead in one week over there. and for what? not to mention the countless civilians killed by NATO bombs. blah. they need to get out of there.
[ www.ctv.ca ] Photos Calgary-based reporter Michelle Lang speaks with a Canadian soldier at Kandahar Airfield on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. (Colin Perkel / THE CANADIAN PRESS) View Larger Image [ CTV.ca ] News Staff Date: Wed. Dec. 30 2009 8:03 PM ET Four Canadian soldiers, along with a Canadian reporter, were killed Wednesday by a powerful improvised explosive device on the outskirts of Kandahar city in Afghanistan. The deaths occurred as they drove in an armoured vehicle through a part of the province that was generally considered safe, about four kilometres south of the city at about 4 p.m. local time. Five others were injured, and were taken to hospital at Kandahar Airfield. The Department of National Defence has not released the names of the soldiers as next-of-kin are being notified. Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang, 34, has been identified as the journalist killed. "Yesterday, Canada lost five citizens," Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard, commander of coalition forces in Kandahar, said early Thursday. "The soldiers were conducting a community security patrol in order to gather information on the pattern of life and maintain security in the area." "The journalist was travelling with (the troops) to tell the story of what Canada's soldiers are doing in Afghanistan," Menard said. Lang had just been in Afghanistan for a little more than two weeks for an assignment for Canwest News Service. It was her first assignment in the country. In total, 138 Canadian soldiers have now been killed while serving in Canada's mission in Afghanistan which began in 2002. After almost eight weeks without a fatality, five soldiers have been killed in the last week. Lang's first article from Kandahar was published on Dec. 20, 2009, with her last article posted on the Calgary Herald's website on Tuesday. She was due to return to Calgary on Jan. 22, the Calgary Herald said. Lang joined the Calgary Herald in 2002, after reporting at the Regina Leader-Post. She won a National Newspaper Award in 2008 for her health care reporting. She recently became engaged to her boyfriend, Michael Louie, and they were to be married in July. She was born in Vancouver. Lang was the first Canadian journalist killed in Afghanistan. "We are all devastated by the loss of Michelle and our thoughts right now are with her family and her fiance," Scott Anderson, editor-in-chief of Canwest News Service, told the Calgary Herald. "Journalists need to -- and do -- put themselves at risk every day to report first-hand on important stories like Afghanistan. But that doesn't make this any easier.' Colin Perkel, a reporter with The Canadian Press in Afghanistan, described the bombing as "in a single word, stunning." "It came in a relatively safe area, on a routine patrol, just one of those things and out of the blue," he told CTV News Channel by phone. "Everybody is quite shocked by what has happened." The bombing occurred in a part of the city that lies just down the road from Dand district, Perkel said, which houses one of the "model villages" that Canadian troops have been focusing on. It was Lang's first trip "outside of the wire" after spending several days touring bases with Chief of Defence Staff Walter Natynczyk. "I've seen a lot of reporters come here who seem like action junkies or kind of 'Hey, look at me, I'm in Afghanistan'," James Murray, a CBC reporter who has spent the past six of seven months in Kandahar, told The Canadian Press. "She was the kind of journalist you would want to have here. She was kind and decent, and curious." Retired major general Lewis Mackenzie said the attack was likely planned to coincide with the holiday season in Canada. "The Taliban aren't stupid, even though it's not a homogenous organization. They know very well that the psychological impact on... the Canadian public, is much more dramatic during this holiday season that we are privileged to enjoy," MacKenzie told CTV News Channel. "It's disappointing to the extreme and it's absolutely horrifying to the loved ones of the deceased." |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Smashley506 replied on Wed Dec 30, 2009 @ 8:26pm |
 Coolness: 44760 | :( My heart stops every time this happens...My dad still has 3 + months left on his tour...I feel terrible for the families... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» recoil replied on Wed Dec 30, 2009 @ 9:44pm |
| Coolness: 86615 | damn. as well as 5 Canadians killed in a bomb yesterday, 8 Americans were killed in a suicide attack today at an army base in Afghanistan.
[ www.ctv.ca ] thing is, I hear all this talk about how the soldiers over there are making the world safer - but it's not true. you dont stop terrorism by cluster bombing villages of sheep herders. these people aren't Al Qaeda and often aren't Taliban, either. I bet they don't even know what the World Trade Center is but when you invade the country they've lived in for thousands of years and start beating down, jailing and killing their family members... they are gonna want to retaliate. joining a militant group might seem like a very good idea. I can only imagine how people in Quebec or Ontario would react if a foreign army invaded and started dropping bombs on them. it's making Canadians everywhere a potential target for revenge. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» fishead replied on Wed Dec 30, 2009 @ 9:48pm |
 Coolness: 75780 | damn... my friend Brian is prepping to go back there. His tour starts in the spring. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» recoil replied on Wed Dec 30, 2009 @ 9:49pm |
| Coolness: 86615 | how long is a tour ? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Smashley506 replied on Wed Dec 30, 2009 @ 9:58pm |
| Coolness: 44760 | Originally Posted By RECOIL
how long is a tour ? Depends...it's usually either 6 months or a year. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Wed Jan 6, 2010 @ 3:25am |
 Coolness: 93605 | I never supported the invasion, but I support the mission as it stands now. I just wish more countries were involved
Sure, perhaps its not in Canada's best interest, but IMO the troops over there are having a positive impact on those that live there. Its not always about Canadians' best interest. We have to recognise that the world is bigger than us, and we're in a position to help others. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Kishmay_Pinas replied on Wed Jan 6, 2010 @ 7:40am |
 Coolness: 103365 | Holy shit! It's recoil! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Wed Jan 6, 2010 @ 1:34pm |
 Coolness: 106225 | Originally Posted By GAMOS
I never supported the invasion, but I support the mission as it stands now. I just wish more countries were involved Sure, perhaps its not in Canada's best interest, but IMO the troops over there are having a positive impact on those that live there. Its not always about Canadians' best interest. We have to recognise that the world is bigger than us, and we're in a position to help others. How are we helping? [ www.rave.ca ] |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» v.2-1 replied on Wed Jan 6, 2010 @ 1:48pm |
 Coolness: 159230 | Originally Posted By GAMOS
Sure, perhaps its not in Canada's best interest, but IMO the troops over there are having a positive impact on those that live there. Its not always about Canadians' best interest. We have to recognise that the world is bigger than us, and we're in a position to help others. Really ? A positive impact ? Do you have Afghan family over there or is this assumption based and all the fabulous news the north-american media is relaying over to the networks ? I'm sure civilians living in Kandahar aren't finding all the tanks, soldiers, bombardments, mines and control points all that "positive", mind you. Also, did Afghanistan specifically ask for anyone's help or did the American's sort of airdropped a few hundred tanks and personnel up in there after 9-11 to go on this Al-Qaeda witch hunt ? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Wed Jan 6, 2010 @ 5:36pm |
| Coolness: 106225 | "US-Led Forces Accused of Executing Schoolchildren
In Afghanistan, hundreds have taken to the streets of Kabul and elsewhere to protest U.S. killing of civilians. The incident that has sparked the most outrage took place in eastern Kunar on December 27th when ten Afghans, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed. According to The Times of London, US-led troops dragged innocent children from their beds and shot them during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from 11 to 17, all but one of the from the same family. // [ www.commondreams.org ] " Update » databoy wrote on Wed Jan 6, 2010 @ 5:57pm "Cancer – The Deadly Legacy of the Invasion of Iraq
by Jalal Ghazi Forget about oil, occupation, terrorism or even Al Qaeda. The real hazard for Iraqis these days is cancer. Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in cities subjected to heavy American and British bombardment. Here are a few examples. In Falluja, which was heavily bombarded by the US in 2004, as many as 25% of new- born infants have serious abnormalities, including congenital anomalies, brain tumors, and neural tube defects in the spinal cord. // [ www.commondreams.org ] " |
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