El Diario Exterior [in Spanish]:
"In Afghanistan there is an important level of unsecurity", with these words Spanish Minsiter of Defense, José Antonio Alonso, has admitted about the situation in the country where Spain has sent troops.
In his appearance before the Congress' Commission of Defense, Alonso has revealed "two significative incidents": one on Dec 13th and other on March 15th. On March 15th a device exploded at 200 metres from a military convoy, when a motorcycle driven by 2 Afghan civil people exploded.
According to Alonso, in the explosion one of the Afghan was killed when he was manipulating the device, with which they were going to attack Spanish forces or from other countries. About the other incident, happened on Dec 13th, he detailed that it was a suicide attack, in which his author was killed and there were no hurt in the Spanish forces, who came back to base with no problems.
But the motive of his appearance before the Congress' commission has been the explosion which killed Spanish soldier Idoia Rodríaguez, of which he said that in the attack was used a "very potent anti-tank mine", which were used in 2001, before the entry of international allied troops in the country.
He also mentioned that the mine had between 6.2 to 6.9 kgs of explosive, used normally by the insurgence. This mine is extremelly dangerous and potent.
He also admitted that the soldiers who go on mission, take risks and added that the Government is compromised on the reconstruction and help to the Afghan people. After reassuring that the militar presence in Afghanistan "is not war-like", he stated that, thanks to the Spanish soldiers more than 20 tons of humanitarian help had been given to Afghan people.
It is especially curious that he remarked that Afghanistan is a not war-like operation, because just afterwards he added Spanish troops were "protecting the rear of the Allied troops that are fighting Taliban [Operation Achilles]. We would never be very effective if we let pass the Taliban that are fleeing from combats".
As ever lies, and more lies...
h/t Etimologías.
Related news: Prodi backed in Afghan vote. h/t Poliblog. The most interesting thing here is the position of Berlusconi:
In previous votes on Afghanistan, he has been propped up by the centre-right opposition led by Silvio Berlusconi, which supports the deployment.
But Mr Berlusconi has become more critical - notably of the way in which the government negotiated the release of an Italian journalist kidnapped in Afghanistan by the Taleban, a deal which saw five Taleban prisoners freed in exchange.
Looks like Berlusconi had listened then to some of the most prominent Italian bloggers who were against backing Prodi because that only meant backing his [disastrous] policy.
Related posts:
About Idoia's death: Spanish soldier killed in Afghanistan.
About Afghanistan: Problems for Prodi after Aghan Taliban freed, Italian reported freed..., Al-Qaeda amenaza a España por presencia en Afganistán, Afghanistan: last news, Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2006, Some links.
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