Embedding in Afghanistan
By Bill Roggio
The plan to embed in Afghanistan has come to fruition. Late next week, I will be headed to Kandahar, Afghanistan, and will embed with the Canadian Army, and will spend about three weeks in country. The activity in and around Kandahar has been intense as the Taliban are attempting to reestablish control of southeastern Afghanistan. There is still a chance I may meet up with a U.S. Army unit operating in Afghanistan (the Marine unit I wanted to embed with is rotating out of country.)
I need your help to cover the costs of the embed. We do not have the ad revenue that the major media can draw upon to fund their reporters. We're counting on your generosity and your desire for an independent media source for news on the Global War on Terrorism. Please support the Afghanistan embed, as well as future embeds in Africa and Iraq later this year by donating to the Counterterrorism Foundation. Although we are happy to accept donations of any amount we are actively seeking donors at the level of $250 and above. As a thank you for that level of contribution donors will receive day-to-day communications from me while in Afghanistan (security and logistics permitting) and pictures/reporting not published on the Counterterrorism Blog or elsewhere.
Also, I've created a page that contains the information from my embed in Iraq. This page serves as an index of posts and articles for Iraq, as well as over three hundred photographs that have previously been unpublished. The photo galleries include Election Day in Barwana, riding the Euphrates River, and a collection of guns seized from insurgents in western Anbar province. The Iraq trip was a wonderful experience, and I promise to put forth the same effort and output while in Afghanistan.
Thank you for your support. And many thanks to Marvin Hutchens of ThreatsWatch for helping me put together the photogalleries for the Iraq embed.