The Christmas period has seen troops from Norway involved in several battles across northern Afghanistan, with the Maimana Norwegian field hospital admitting injured Afghan fighters as the insurgency continues. The Norway Post reports that despite the skirmishes, no Norwegian troops have been seriously injured.
In the first of the attacks, which took place on 22nd December, a small arms-and-grenade attack on a Norwegian Military Observer Team (MOT) in western Faryab led to NATO being called on to provide assistance from the air. The following day, an MOT patrol vehicle was damaged during a similar attack while two further patrols from the Maimana base camp also were fired upon.
Norwegian training officers, on patrol with an Afghan police and army unit then came under fire on Christmas Eve, west of the Maimana camp with government troops sustaining several injuries. On Christmas Day a mission with drone and helicopter support was deployed to an under siege Afghan border post by Norwegian and Afghan troops with two members of the local border police evacuated.
Earlier this month it was announced that Norwegian forces, which number around 500 in Afghanistan, were involved in fighting every third day on average. The fighting is centred on the Faryab province, where Norway leads the Provincial Reconstruction Team in what is generally considered one of the quieter regions in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
“The frequent clashes are due to the fact that the Afghan military now feel they are making progress. For this reason they more often attack insurgents, and the Norwegians who act as instructors and support, accompany them,” said head of the Norwegian contingent Colonel Kurt Arne Gimre.
Norwegians and Scandinavians are shocked and appalled to read that Norwegian soldiers actually enjoy killing Afghan resistance fighters, who are fighting the foreign occupation of their country. The Norwegian magazine Alfa coming out this week carries an article with interviews with Norwegian snipers who brag about killing Afghans from more than 2,500 meters.
Norwegians and Scandinavians are shocked and appalled to read that Norwegian soldiers actually enjoy killing Afghan resistance fighters, who are fighting the foreign occupation of their country. The Norwegian magazine Alfa coming out this week carries an article with interviews with Norwegian snipers who brag about killing Afghans from more than 2,500 meters. Really horrible news.
For that small a number of troops there, that certainly is a lot of fighting. America and other countries have thousands upon thousands of troops there and probably still do not fight that much. This should be interesting to say the least to see how much longer this war will last.
A trillion $ worth of metals have been discovered in Afghanistan, like Gold and lithium, so the Americans are going nowhere, at least until all natural resources are gone,
as bad as that is i wonder what would happen if a trillion dollars would be given to Talibans, or similar group of crazy people,
some dangerous countries in the region already have nuclear weapons, like Pakistan and Israel for example,
the best thing that could happen to Afghanistan is to be robbed, then the Afghans can go back to the Opium production and continue to export misery.
All this war is going nowhere just like when the Soviets went! Every country will be pushed out in the end!
it’s true All this war is going nowhere just like when the Soviets went! Every country will be pushed out in the end!
Jesus walks.. or. Does he? I mean, what would happen if we left the middle east? Would there be an increas in terrorism on western soil? A withdraw of the US troops would probably lead to an economic crisis in America.
All this war is going nowhere just like when the Soviets went! Every country will be pushed out in the end!
about Norwegian pollution, national weapons production isn’t involved as much as claimed, imo.
The culprit: they must realize a better trasportation system that it would decrease air traffic (think about: several Norwegian air routes are the busiest across the whole Europe !)
WHAT A SHAME ON NORWAY FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN AND OFFERING THE NOBEL PEACE PRICE TO OBAMA IN THE NAME OF PEACE IN DISGUISE NORWAY SELLS WEAPONS AND POLLUTE THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE NAME OF PEACE THEY BULLY THE THIRD WORLD WITH ECONOMIC AID BUT THE WITH THEIR CONDITIONS OF SELLING THEIR WEAPONS ITS GOOD SOON THE FOREIGEN POPULATON IS GOING TO BE HIGH.