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	Canadian Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the Canadian Constitution, the Command-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces is vested in Queen Elizabeth II, as Queen of Canada.
		Canadian Forces personnel train to defend Canadian sovereignty, and serve operationally in Canada, in support of NATO tasks, and around the world in international and United Nations peace missions.
		The CF reserve force comprises the Primary and Supplementary Reserves, the Canadian Rangers and the Cadet Instructor Cadre and is represented, though not commanded, at the national level by the Chief of Reserves and Cadets (a Major General or Rear Admiral).
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Canadian_Forces (4794 words)

	Canadian Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Canadian Forces (CF) refers to the combined branches of military forces of the Canadian federal government.
		Canadian naval forces are deployed at bases Esquimalt B.C. on the west coast and Nova Scotia on the east coast.
		The Canadian Armed Forces date to the War of 1812 when Canadian militia units were formed assist in defending British North America from the invasions by the United States.
	www.freeglossary.com /Military_of_Canada (1529 words)

	Canadian special forces - Slider
		Special Forces duties in Canada are performed by a counter-terrorism unit known as JTF2 (Joint Task Force 2.) Canada's counter-terrorism unit is a highly secretive force about which there is very little verifiable data.
		The Canadian Airborne Regiment is frequently associated with the notion of "special forces".
		The Canadian Airborne Regiment was throughout its 27-year history a demanding parachutist unit, created and trained for conventional operations similar to those of the British Parachute Regiment, the U.S. Airborne divisions, and other NATO parachute troops.
	enc.slider.com /Enc/Joint_Task_Force_2 (2330 words)

	About JTF2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Canadians served with distinction in several types of Allied Special Forces units during the Second World War.
		The Commander Canadian Special Operations Forces is accountable to the Chief of the Defence Staff who, in turn, is responsible to the Minister of National Defence.
		Canadians can take great comfort in the knowledge that as an integral part of Canada's Special Operations Forces community, JTF 2 stands on guard 24 hours a day to defend Canadians, and Canadian interests at home and abroad.
	www.dcds.forces.gc.ca /units/jtf2/pages/about_e.asp (1122 words)

	Military creates new special forces unit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Canadian military will create a new 750-strong special forces unit to be located in the Ottawa Valley at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa.
		The new formation, to be called the Canadian Special Operations Regiment, will be in addition to the Joint Task Force 2 commando unit based in Ottawa.
		A group of about 60 specially selected personnel will be sent to Petawawa between now and March to form the unit's headquarters and support personnel.
	www.canada.com /ottawacitizen/story.html?id=ead3d771-3242-440f-a74d-397e73297668&k=80797 (570 words)

	World Affairs Board - 3 JTF operators injured
		For reasons of operational security and for the safety of those Canadian Special Operations Forces members and their families, no other information on this incident or on the special operations being conducted in Afghanistan will be released.
		The Canadian Forces issued a news release yesterday, acknowledging three JTF2 commandos had been wounded and that one was in hospital.
		I mean special forces are a very visibile part of Canada showing her support and prowess while paying a minimum price to show off that kind of support.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /printthread.php?t=9589 (1006 words)

	Canadian Special Forces
		In 1991, the regiment was in Western Sahara to monitor the cease-fire and enforce agreements between guerrilla forces and the Moroccan army.
		The final parade of the Canadian Airborne Regiment was held at CFB Petawawa in March of 1995.
		The battalion was perpetuated in the infantry commandos of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, whose Colours carried the battle honours: Normandy Landing, Dives Crossing, The Rhine, and North-west Europe 1944 - 1945.
	www.mik.fastload.org /ca/Canadian_Special_Forces.html (1541 words)

	Three Canadian special forces troops wounded in Afghan operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The other special forces soldiers were treated for their injuries and have returned to their unit, the Defence Department said Wednesday.
		The wounded Canadians are believed to have been part of major operations in which 22 suspected militants were killed in two clashes with Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces this week.
		In an unprecedented acknowledgment from a Canadian military commander, the head of defence operations confirmed in September his special forces troops had killed and captured Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/051207/w120784.html (571 words)

	Canadian commandos take out Taliban... - World Affairs Board
		Canadian special forces have maintained an almost-constant presence in Afghanistan since Ottawa first sent troops to the former terrorist haven in early 2002.
		Canadian troops hold detainees only long enough to process them and obtain any valuable intelligence before turning them over to the appropriate authorities, said Ward, who commanded Canadian troop as a colonel in Kosovo six years ago.
		While Canadian operations are usually shrouded in secrecy, observers are saying Tuesday's rare admission is part of a new transparency on the part of the military.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=8321 (956 words)

	060821-01\|Special Forces Soldiers honor First Special Service Force vets at 60th reunion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With representatives from all seven U.S. Army Special Forces groups and the U.S. Army Special Forces Command present, the Green Berets – joined by their Canadian Special Forces colleagues – provided interpretive equipment displays, parachute jump demonstrations, and participated in all FSSF remembrance activities during the three-day reunion.
		The FSSF is recognized as the predecessor of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces groups, the first of which stood up in 1952 and based much of its original doctrine on the FSSF’s experiences.
		At a banquet Aug. 19 held in honor of the Force, hundreds of people – Force veterans, along with their families and friends – gathered with the dozens of present-day Soldiers to honor fallen comrades, recall the unit’s history and recognize the legacy of modern Special Forces units spawned by the Force’s creation.
	news.soc.mil /releases/06AUG/060821-01.html (1334 words)

	Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels
		He said the medals would be a badly needed boost to the morale of the almost 900 Canadian soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan, especially after four of their comrades were killed and eight others wounded in last week's friendly fire incident.
		Canadian snipers were reportedly outstanding in the fighting around the mountainous al-Qaeda bastion east of Gardez, code-named Operation Anaconda.
		The battle pitted the two Canadian sniper teams against an enemy that showered the assaulting coalition troops with mortars and machine-gun fire as soon as they jumped from their helicopters.
	www.riflebarrels.com /articles/50calibre/50sniping.htm (1253 words)

	Rescue in Iraq Surprises Canadians (phillyBurbs.com) \| Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		TORONTO - While Canadians rejoiced at the news that two of their citizens were rescued from captivity in Iraq, some were surprised to learn Canadian special forces were involved in the mission and curious as to how many troops are on the ground.
		Canadian Defense spokeswoman Lt. Morgan Bailey told The Associated Press on Friday that only a handful of Canadian troops were on the ground in Iraq.
		He said it is common for countries to send their special forces quietly to train in live combat situations, as the experience is invaluable.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/87-03242006-631650.html (831 words)

	Three canadian soldiers wounded in Afghanistan
		The department says one Joint Task Force 2 soldier is being treated in hospital while the other two have been treated for their injuries and have returned to their unit.
		"For reasons of operational security and for the safety of those Canadian Special Operations Forces members and their families, no other information on this incident or on the special operations being conducted in Afghanistan will be released," the department says in its release.
		Last Sunday, a Canadian soldier suffered relatively minor injuries in Afghanistan after a coalition convoy was attacked as it passed through the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.
	www.kashar.net /complete.asp?id=2762 (438 words)

	Elite Canadian Explosives Expert Disappears
		A missing Canadian soldier who vanished this summer is a member of the army's elite JTF-2 special forces squad, and the military is growing increasingly worried that the explosives expert has "gone off the reservation."
		Major James Simiana, a spokesman for JTF-2, confirmed Sgt. Paisley was a member of the Canadian special forces unit and that he served with it in Afghanistan last year helping to hunt down al-Qaeda and Taliban holdouts around Kandahar.
		Canadian government officials confirmed Sgt. Paisley's disappearance when the report was raised in a briefing with journalists travelling with Jean Chrétien, the Prime Minister, to the annual leaders summit.
	www.rense.com /general43/slite.htm (770 words)

	Canada's Elite Secret Army
		The most secret, unpublicized and least known branch of the Canadian military is also its most controversial and, arguably at the root of many of the problems that have beset our Armed Forces in the past decade.
		JTF2 is a hyper-secret, elite counter-terrorist and VIP security force of some 250 hand-picked volunteers who are super-fit and super-trained, whose identities are secret, whose budget is classified and who are our version of Britain's SAS and U.S. Special Forces.
		SAS and U.S. Special Forces operations have MI6 and the CIA as intelligence sources, but JTF2 is without a similar resource, and must depend on allies.
	www.hackcanada.com /canadian/freedom/secretarmy.html (1301 words)

	Afghans Protest Special Forces Raid
		The pre-dawn raid has emerged as one of the most controversial operations since the U.S. military shifted gears from forcing the collapse of the Taliban regime to the hunt for surviving pockets of al-Qaida and Taliban fighters.
		The Pentagon insists that Special Forces attacked a legitimate military target in the raid on an ammunition dump that intelligence analysts believed was being used by al-Qaida or Taliban forces.
		–Australian special forces in southern Afghanistan have destroyed a cache of weapons and explosives at an al-Qaida cave complex, the Australian Defense Force said Wednesday in Canberra.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines02/0130-03.htm (851 words)

	Home \| National Defence and the Canadian Forces
		Budget 2006 and the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces
		Sarnia, Ontario – The Canadian Forces Snowbirds were delighted to participate in the Great Canadian Fly In September 23 and 24 in support of the United Way of Sarnia-Lambton.
		Two Canadian soldiers killed, a number of ISAF forces injured in Afghanistan
	www.forces.gc.ca /site/home_e.asp (156 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Canadian hostages heading home
		Two Canadian peace activists held hostage for almost four months in Iraq are due to leave Baghdad as they begin their journey home.
		Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, and James Loney, 41, were released along with Briton Norman Kember, 74.
		Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the Canadian special forces were only in Iraq temporarily to carry out the rescue.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4844642.stm (298 words)

	Welcome to Canadian Government Executive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Barr is tasked with assembling under one integrated command the various special operations forces throughout the CF, including Joint Task Force 2, special operations that formerly supported primarily JTF2, and all elements of 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron.
		The Special Operations Regiment will also be able to do independent operations, but their primary purpose will be to add that additional part of the special operations team that we didn’t have.
		Special operations, in fact, is expected to double in size.
	www.vanguardcanada.com /CanadianSpecialOperationsForcesCommand (864 words)

	New Canadian Forces operational commands take charge of domestic, special and international operations : ArriveNet ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEFCOM), commanded by Major General Michel Gauthier, is responsible for all international operations.
		Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM), commanded by Colonel David Barr, is responsible for all special forces operations.
		Canadian Operational Support Command (CANOSCOM), commanded by Brigadier General Daniel Benjamin, is responsible for providing support to the operational commands including but not limited to logistic, engineering, health services, communications, and military police support, etc.
	press.arrivenet.com /business/article.php/747369.html (371 words)

	RCI: CANADIAN SPECIAL OPERATIONS REGIMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the first week of this new year it was announced that the Canadian Military is creating a new Special Forces Unit.
		There are demands to increase the forces to 75 thousand, and perhaps as many as 90 thousand members.
		It too, is being expanded, under the umbrella of the new "Canada Special Operations Command." Eventually this formation, with the combined units and regiments under its command, will grow to about 22 hundred to 25 hundred members.
	www.rcinet.ca /RCI/EN/chroniques/16772.shtml (404 words)

	Coalition forces
		Naval forces operating in all areas of operations in interdiction and combat support missions.
		Canadian Special Forces were deployed in the full range of missions.
		Polish Special Force GROM in combat operations in Afghanistan.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Terror/Coalition.html (689 words)

	USATODAY.com - Afghans protest U.S. Special Forces raid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Pentagon insists that Special Forces attacked a legitimate military target in the raid on an ammunition dump that intelligence analysts believed was being used by al-Qaeda or Taliban forces.
		• Australian special forces in southern Afghanistan have destroyed a cache of weapons and explosives at an al-Qaeda cave complex, the Australian Defense Force said Wednesday in Canberra.
		• Canadian special forces members in Afghanistan have turned over captives to U.S. forces, Defense Minister Art Eggleton disclosed Tuesday, fueling debate in Canada about whether Taliban or al-Qaeda captives should be treated as prisoners of war or turned over to U.S. authorities, who refuse to consider them war prisoners.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/01/30/afghans-protest.htm (740 words)

	Canadian Special Operations Forces Command ..:: Welcome ::..
		On behalf of the men and women in the command, welcome to the world of Canadian special operations.
		With the establishment of Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, the Canadian Forces now has an enhanced and expanded special operations capability to provide the Chief of Defence Staff and operational commanders agile, high-readiness Special Operations Forces capable of operating across the spectrum of conflict at home and abroad.
		Whether members of JTF-2, the Special Operations Aviation Squadron, the Joint Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence Company, or the Canadian Special Operations Regiment, all of our personnel are committed to the special forces ethos.
	www.cansofcom.forces.gc.ca /en/index_e.asp (167 words)

	JTF-2 (Canadian Special Forces) Awarded American Citation
		The only other Canadian unit to receive the citation is the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, for actions at the 1951 Battle of Kapyong during the Korean War.
		Officials say that's because the U.S. special forces number in the tens of thousands, while Canada's contingent is believed to be fewer than 1,000, and members could be targeted by terrorists.
		It was the first evidence that Canadians had taken prisoners during the conflict, coming at the peak of debate over the fate of al-Qaida and Taliban fighters captured by the Americans.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1296900/posts (616 words)

	Groupe CNW
		Elements of Canadian Special Operations Forces are deployed in Afghanistan.
		They comprise carefully selected and highly skilled members of the Canadian Forces who are trained and ready to carry out a wide spectrum of special operations throughout the Afghan theatre in support of the Government of Afghanistan.
		Canadians should be extremely proud of the work they do.
	www.newswire.ca /fr/releases/archive/December2005/07/c4367.html (281 words)

	MILNET: Canadian Special Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The following is a synopsis of a Canadian Special Forces unit during the mid 1950s to late 1980s, sent to us by a member who wishes to remain anonymous.
		The Canadian government, as witnessed by the disbanding of the CAR or Canadian Airborne regiment, has been reticent to have that particular designation attached to any unit of the Canadian Armed forces.
		While Canadian intelligence gathering still falls to CSIS and the RCMP, along with units of the SIU (DND), the main force currently in place for anti-terrorist activities (both at home and abroad) is the JTF2.
	www.milnet.com /canada.sf.html (308 words)

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