Reading Between The Lines At Chrenkoff

     Chrenkoff is a party worker of the Liberal Party of Australia.  They would be considered Conservatives in America.  With a little financial help from the US right-wing press, he puts together a weekly report of "good news" from Iraq, and a monthly report on Afghanistan.

     I here summarize some of this good news.  This is all from the last five weeks, and each has its own link.  This isn't part of the list, but I couldn't leave it out... "[t]he president of Afghanistan's supreme court has issued a fatwa or religious edict saying that anyone who kills a foreigner will be sentenced to death."  It is a screwed up country that protects foreigners more than its own people.  Oh, I guess it would mostly be Americans who are protected.  Send them over a wet kiss for me, OK?

• April 30 ... killing of four Taleban ... airstrike ... suspected insurgent camp ... central Afghanistan
• April 30 ... senior Taleban commander killed ... another captured ... Zabul and Kandahar provinces
• May 1 ... arrest of four Taleban ... Uruzgun province
• May 2 ... two Taleban militants ... arrested ... Uruzgan province
• May 2 ... capture of six Taleban ... Kandahar province
• May 3 ... TwentyForty Taleban killed and six arrested ... near Deh Chopan in Zabul Province
• May 3 ... Another 20 Taleban were killed near Kandahar ... nine Afghan Army soldiers dead
• May 3 ... recovered a significant arms cache ... Farah province
• May 8 ... Police ... province of Kandahar claimed ... arrested 15 Taleban activists and four foreigners ... The crackdown on insurgents lasted three days
• May 8 ... Four suspected Taleban fighters ... killed ... policeman was injured ... Zabul province
• May 8 ... arrest of four gunmen ... Ghazni province
• May 9 ... Twenty three Taleban killed ... province of Laghman
• May 13 ... Security officials ... discovered and defused ... explosives ... Nangarhar province
• May 14 ... arrest ... Nangarhar province ... two Afghans and one Pakistani ... four remote control bombs ... explosives
• May 15 ... Afghan security forces ... discovered and diffused several small bombs ... Paktia province
• May 16 ... arrest ... of a man who confessed to a bomb attack against the Kabul Air Force University last year ... in Kabul
• May 16 ... capture of three insurgents ... Khowst province
• May 17 ... Police ... thwart possible rocket attack ... Paktika Province .."13 scud rockets" (LIE!)
• May 17 ... arrest ... Uruzgan province ... 15 Taleban fighters
• May 18 ... Four Taleban ... arrested ... Kandahar province
• May 18 ... Italian forces ... uncovered a huge weapons cache
• May 21 ... Twelve Taleban killed ... Paktika province
• May 23 ... Two Taleban ... killed and 10 others detained ... Uruzgan province
• May 24 ... huge cache of weapons ... Paktia province
• May 24 ... police discovered 140 kilos of explosives ... Kabul province
• May 25 ... huge weapons cache seized ... Ghazni province
• May 26 ... arrest ... 19 people allegedly involved in bombing ... Baghlan province
• May 26 ... arrested five suspected fighters and seized 350 shotguns ... Zabul province
• May 30 ... Eleven Taleban soldiers ... killled ... and three others including a high-rank commander arrested ... province of Zabul
• May 30 ... up to nine Taleban ... killed ... along the Afghan-Pakistan border

     The war in Afghanistan started October 7th, 2001, three years and nine months ago.