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paraclete |
09/13/06 |
diggers' secret battles revealed
By Ian McPhedran
September 13, 2006 01:00am
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
DURING nine days of fierce fighting in southern Afghanistan, Australian special forces killed more than 150 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, and suffered just six men wounded.
In the most intense battles since the Vietnam War, Diggers from the Special Forces Task Group used superior weapons and overwhelming airborne fire support from USAF AC-130 Hercules Spectre gunships.
Codenamed Operation Perth, the hardest fighting took place in July during search-and-destroy missions in the Chora district, about 40km northeast of the Australian base at Tarin Khowt, in southern Afghanistan.
Despite secrecy surrounding the 12-month special forces deployment, The Daily Telegraph can reveal previously classified details of the Diggers' campaign.
During the year-long operation the three rotations of the task group have sustained 11 casualties, including several men seriously wounded.
One commando had part of his jaw blown off, another was shot in the buttocks and an SAS specialist was hit in the abdomen. Amazingly, the round missed his vital organs.
In one action, six commandos, including the company sergeant major, who sustained leg injuries, were wounded by an enemy rocket-propelled grenade.
Several men are to be awarded gallantry medals.
The Daily Telegraph can also reveal that at the height of the battle, three AC-130 Spectre aircraft ran out of ammunition.
"That was the first time for some of the crews that they have bled the magazines dry," a special forces source told The Daily Telegraph.
The task group includes a commando platoon of 50 men from the Sydney-based 4RAR and 40 SAS troopers from the unit's No.3 squadron. The 100 support soldiers include chemical weapons experts from the Incident Response Regiment.
The commandos and SAS troopers are angry that the task group will not be replaced when it leaves later this month.
"It's not right to pull out. We shouldn't just go there for a shoot 'em up and then come home," one soldier said.
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I just want to say, with forces like these, the Muslims don't stand a chance. |
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 09/13/06 10:38 am:
Ian McPhedran reported it ,but your point is well taken . Progress not being reported has become standard operational procedure for a press that has a fixed agenda regarding the war .Obviously this does not fit into the agenda so it gets underplayed to say the least .
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