US resumes airstrikes after Eid al-Fitr ceasefire
US aircraft in Afghanistan resumed airstrikes against Taliban emplacements when the ten-day ceasefire during Eid al-Fitr ended today, according to Stars & Stripes;
U.S. forces in Afghanistan conducted more than 20 airstrikes against the Taliban on Saturday after an unprecedented unilateral cease-fire ended.
The strikes took place in Ghazni, Helmand and Uruzgan provinces, according to Army Lt. Col. Martin O’Donnell, spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan. The Afghan Air Force also conducted at least two independent strikes since the midnight end of the cease-fire, he said.
Afghan and U.S. forces had no choice but to resume fighting after the Taliban chose not to extend a short cease-fire it declared earlier this month, said Gen. Mohammad Radmanish, acting spokesman for the Defense Ministry.
The ceasefire was not without incidences. US forces conducted five self-defense strikes during the ceasefire. The Afghan government forces were forced to defend themselves more often;
Speaking to Pentagon reporters from Kabul earlier this week, Air Force Brig. Gen. Lance Bunch, assistant deputy air commander for USFOR-A said the Afghans carried out 38 self-defense strikes of their own against Taliban targets during the cease-fire.
Category: Terror War
BOOM! We’re back in business, right?
Bad boys being boomed?
Fine by me.
Reminder: Each boom costs $40,000 + $59,000/hour. At a rate of 10 hours per sortie, that’s about $630,000 USD.
One. Spicy. Meatball!
Funny how many attacks get launched on us during cease-fires, almost like they’re playing us.
Why do we continue to abide by a ceasefire when the enemy hasn’t? I get the self-defense actions, but why do we continue to think we’ll win hearts and minds by showing how we’ll agree to a ceasefire and allow flagrant violations of said ceasefire?
Politics, I suppose. Let the Afghani leaders meet with the Taliban under a cease fire to hash out an agreement. I’m sure there are some on both sides who don’t wish to see this happen, and thus the cease fire violations. Point is moot now, anyway.
My hypothesis, anyway. YMMV.
In an ideal world, we would go full Exterminatus within five minutes of an enemy violating a cease fire.
If our forces honor a cease-fire for a moslem holiday, then they by God better honor one each for Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah, and Independence Day.
If the vermin don’t honor their own cease fire, then give’em the whole magilla! 500 pounders right on their meeting places, their homes and anything else they think is special….let’em know the games are OVER! imho
Eid Mubarak, assholes!