US operations already started in Kandahar: commanders

[Robb]

Source: AFP

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Operations to push the Taliban out of their Afghan stronghold of Kandahar are under way and will steadily build in the months ahead, military officials said Thursday.

The military and political efforts against the Taliban around Kandahar, Afghanistan's third biggest city and the militia's spiritual capital, are the next step in the US-led strategy to end a war now in its ninth year.

NATO was also planning an anti-Taliban offensive in the north this year, a German general told German ARD public radio from Kabul.

"We have been making preparation and plans concerning Operation Omaid," said General Sher Mohammad Zazai, Afghan army commander in the country's south.

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Omaid = "hope," FWIW.

[pundaint]

1. toward what End?

[Alamuti Lotus]

2. Killing people, breaking stuff, making fluffy patriotic headlines

the usual, I guess.

[MellowDem]

3. Hopefully, the end of the war... nt