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2 A little resident of Regay watches the patrol pass. PHOTO: ADAM DAY In the early afternoon of Operation Ateesh Bazi’s second day, as our patrol staggered through its 10th hour and third suspected insurgent stronghold, the heat became something more vivid and invasive than a...
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3 . PHOTO: METROPOLIS STUDIO Rick Hillier is still grinning, even if just barely. After more than three years at the head of Canada’s armed forces and at the centre of relentless media attention and political controversy over the war in Afghanistan, Chief of the Defence...
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1 Bravo clears a compound PHOTO: GRAEME SMITH Part 3: The Fall of Objective Rugby. Whatever the new rotation of Canadian soldiers were expecting to find when they rotated into Kandahar in August 2006, it wasn’t this. They had trained for counter-insurgency warfare, but what they...
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1 Part 2: Death in a Free Fire Zone. ILLUSTRATION: DAVID CRAIG An overview of Objective Rugby during the battle. 1: Near the white schoolhouse, 7 Platoon is caught in a deadly crossfire where Rick Nolan and Shane Stachnik are killed. 2: Afghan National Army soldiers...
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3 PHOTOS: DND; CHARLES COMPANY; ADAM DAY A Canadian soldier ducks as a helicopter lifts off during Operation Medusa. Inset top: across the Arghandab River, the area around the white school burns as the Canadians attack. Inset bottom: the town of Bazaar-e-Panjwai with Mar Ghar in...
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0 PHOTOS: ADAM DAY From top: The Provincial Reconstruction Team’s CIMIC detachment on the highway to Panjwai; Sergeant Chris Augustine (left) and Warrant Officer Dean Henley take notes during a meeting with villagers. Canadian soldiers are fighting a war in Afghanistan. In Spin Boldak, at the...
Operation Medusa
