Kamdesh

In September 2005 Anti-Coalition militia stole official voting ballots in Kamdesh Nuristan endangering the validity of the elections. Although Nuristan was considered a haven for al Qaeda and other anti-American factions and not an area where American forces operated Task Force Phoenix deployed five US National Guardmen to provide an American presence and to ensure the elections proceeded. Five American soldiers a remote and dangerous province an unknown number of enemy insurgents some possibly hiding among the Afghan National Army unfriendly locals a dirty ANA officer and the Afghan National elections at stake...its amazing any of them survived.