SUMMARY: CANADIAN FORCES REFERENCES

March 2010
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HIGHLIGHTS
 Taliban statements monitored during March 2010 claimed
responsibility for approximately 11 Canadian deaths. Canada
announced 1 death during this period.
 Since start of Taliban statement tracking in October 2008, the
Taliban has claimed an average of 16.11 Canadian casualties for
every one officially announced by the Government of Canada (725
alleged by Taliban vs. 45 reported by Canada).
 Two (2) Taliban announcements were monitored mentioning
Canadian casualties in March 2010, with an average of 7.61 such
reports per month since October 2008. This compares to eleven
(11) Taliban announcements made claiming responsibility for 46
Canadian deaths during March 2009.

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 Reports of Canadian Casualties in Taliban Statements
October 2008-March 2010
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Rep Dead
80 Cfm Dead
Tanks Dest

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40

20

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OC- NV- DC- JA-09 FB-09 MR- AP- MY- JU-09 JL-09 AG- SP- OC- NV- DC- JA-10 FB-10 MR-
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Reports of Canadian Casualties in Taliban Statements

April 2009-March 2010

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Tanks Dest

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 Location CA Pers Tanks Ref
Date Killed Destroyed
5 Mar 10 “Boldak district of 5 1 (1) (2)
Kandahar province”
6 Mar 10 “Paaendah Khan village of 6 (3)
Kandahar's Zhari district”
TOTALS 11 1
CONFIRMED CAN CAS, 1
March 2010

NOTES:
(1) Previous Taliban references to number of crew members in Canadian “tanks” have ranged from four to six. Therefore,
any reference to “all on board” allegedly being killed will be counted as an average of five.

(2) “3 tanks of the Nato invaders forces destroyed in Kandahar,” Voice of Jihad (Arabic), retrieved 5 Mar 10 at
http://124.217.251.48/%7Ealemarah/arabi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2026:2010-03-05-
18-34-11&catid=5:2009-03-12-06-25-17&Itemid=17 , official English version retrieved 5 Mar 10 at
http://theunjustmedia.com/Afghanistan/Mujahideen%20operations/March10/05-03-10.htm. Official English via
theunjustmedia.com - “Mujahideen destroyed three tanks of the occupation forces as a result separate explosions in
Boldak district of Kandahar province. In the report from the region, a patrolling tank of the Canadian invaders was blown
up with an IED at about ten o'clock on Friday, 05, morning, killing all on board. In another report, at about eight o'clock on
Thursday, 04, evening, Mujahideen destroyed two tanks of the occupying forces, one after the other with IED's on the
road to Kandahar and Herat province, the tanks were destroyed as the enemy where coming out of their military base in
the region, all the invading terrorists on board were killed or wounded. Reported by Qari Muhammad Yousuf” Arabic no
longer available (site down) as of preparation of this report.

(3) “Blast kills 6 Canadians in Kandahar,“ Voiceo f Jihad English, retrieved 7 Mar 10 at
http://124.217.251.48/%7Ealemarah/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1283:blast-kills-6-
canadians-in-kandahar&catid=1:afghanistan&Itemid=2 , PDF version at non-terrorist site available at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27961380/Blast-kills-6-Canadians-in-Kandahar . “Sunday, 07 March 2010 07:28 By Qari
Yousuf Ahmadi - KANDAHAR, Mar. 07 - A roadside bomb tore through a group of on-foot Canadian soldiers while
crossing a bridge in Paaendah Khan village of Kandahar's Zhari district, on Saturday, Mar. 06. According to the local
Mujahideen from the area, at least 6 Canadians were killed and another three were terribly hurt in the explosion, while
some of their weapons fell into the hands of the Mujahideen and the corpses of the dead Canadians were airlifted from
the area soon after the blast. The residents say some parts the bodies of the soldiers have been thrown across the field
from the force of the powerful explosion. Reportedly, an interpreter is said to have been among the dead.”

Compiled April 4, 2010

Tony Prudori, MILNEWS.ca
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