Operation Solomon’s Pass:
Operational Details:
March 2007, Southwest region Afghanistan, Village of Solomon...
All paths lead to SOLOMON.
In an effort to reduce illegal drug trafficking out of Afghanistan, DEA officials in cooperation with the US, British, Canadian and Afghan Army, privately conducted several sweeps of suspected warehouses storing Opium Poppies.
They managed to destroy eighteen Poppies caches and arrested over two hundred suspects. Amongst those arrested were two high level Taliban Officers. The information gleaned from them led to the assault on the production and storage facility in the Village of SOLOMON.
However the DEA and Military force of over One Hundred, were slaughtered in the mountainous “Solomon’s Passâ€