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Afghanistan Bomb Attacks Kill 22 US Soldiers in 48 hours
By: Ben Farmer on: 31.08.2010 [16:17 ] (1222 reads)
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Published on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 by the Telegraph/UK
Afghanistan Bomb Attacks Kill Twenty-One US Soldiers in 48 hours
Twenty-two American troops have been killed in Afghanistan since Friday in one of the bloodiest periods of the summer.
by Ben Farmer in Kabul
A series of bomb attacks have badly hit US troops in eastern and southern Afghanistan in the past 48 hours.
A US army medic runs to the scene of a road side bomb explosion in Kandahar province. (Photo: REUTERS) The death toll among in the Nato-led coalition has reached 484 this year and is predicted to far surpass 2009's total of 521.
Deaths have risen consistently each year since 2001. Afghan police and civilians have suffered far higher casualties.
The coalition blames the rise in troop deaths partly on the influx of reinforcements, which is allowing commanders to target previously untouched insurgent safe havens where rebels are mounting stiff resistance.
Gen David Petraeus, senior US and Nato commander in the country, warned last week fighting would "get harder before it gets easier".
In two of the most deadly recent incidents, three Americans died in eastern Afghanistan on one bomb attack on Tuesday. Five died in a single bomb attack in the south on Monday.
Military spokesmen would not say if the bombs hit vehicles or foot patrols.
Homemade bombs using old shells or homemade explosives and hidden in roads, tracks, walls, streams and buildings have become the Taliban's favoured weapon.
Their use has sparked an arms race with foreign troops evolving tactics, or relying on more heavily armed vehicles and mine detectors to try and avoid them.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/31-5
by Random on 31.08.2010 [18:33 ]
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more blood for Israel.
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by Sandy on 31.08.2010 [20:11 ]
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Perhaps in a financial sense..... but Afghanistan is Blood for the Pipeline, and perhaps the Peace pipeline=Iran-Pakistan-India makes this even more futile.
A war in a rmeote place where all kinds of weapons can be tested such as at Tora Bora is another advantage to the military industry and what profits have been reaped by them so far here.
remember the invasion plans were made before 911 when the Taliban refused the pipeline.
Control of Afghanistan is geo strategic too , and the 80% of the worlds Heroin poppies are another reason.
So many empires fail on this ground, it is surprising the US didnt see it coming.
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by Iron_Clay on 31.08.2010 [23:35 ]
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It won't count the bodies that died in the chopper on the way to hospital.
It won't count the bodies of any private army owned and controlled by the US.
It won't count non US citizens in the armed forces to get their green card.
It won't count any criminals in the armed forces as part or all of their jail terms.
It won't count any non action military often.
All up you can probably double the number they are quoting as "killed" in Afghanistan.
But even looking at in that positive note, there have been more American monkeys born than have dies in these wars so we are not gaining ground here ... we need a major to take the homeland out.
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by pilot-x on 01.09.2010 [04:07 ]
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Anyone seen a crying widow recently?
A burial ceremony?
Gawd they hide it well.
Pathetic beyond belief.
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by Lima-P on 01.09.2010 [06:49 ]
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quiet eye on the daily updates put out by the A Resistance itself. After all, it was you Neal who gave us the link in the first place,
Casualty figures have shot up considerably since April 10 - I think that was the date - when the AR began their present Al Faath campaign. What is surprising is that media have now begin to acknowledge part of the daily deaths among the invaders. Preparing finally to leave Afghanistan. Pakistan's finest political analyst who know his Afghanistan from top to bottom claims this is indeed the case, And now Russia is entering the war zone as well, expect further mischief,
So, all of us might well have that glorious moment ahead of us in the months to come: Seeing at long last the back of the invaders from the sacred soil of Afghanistan.
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by LittleHelper on 01.09.2010 [08:22 ]
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How long is that US/Allies invasion/occupation in Afghanistan
lasting now ?
At least 9 years, right ?
And despite it's lasting since such a long time, it was not the Afghan
resistance fighters who got tired.
They never gave in, despite the overwhelming fire power of their enemies.
Patiently and unbelievably tenacious they are fighting for their freedom.
No doubt, the Afghan resistance will prevail in the end.
To me it is yet another proof that asymmetrical wars cannot be won.
Regardless how sophisticated the invader's weaponry is, regardless
how perfect his propaganda machine works, regardless how insidious,
fascist, reckless and brutal the invader is carrying out his attacks, in
the end it is always the resistance fighters who will succeed.
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by Syrian on 01.09.2010 [10:51 ]
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I actually don't care about the number of deaths anymore, they are basically human shit and there's no reason to count them.
Permanent Injuries are better because they put a drain on the USAn. Furthermore, material damage also puts a strain on their capacity, their factories are already running at maximum.
That's why downing helicopters, destroying bases should be the primary objective. IEDs et al should be used to preoccupy these assholes while the primary objective is complete.
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by Lima-P on 01.09.2010 [19:08 ]
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Syrian, as regards the wounded and specially the permanently injured. Still the PR value of the dead soldiers should not be underestimated either. I don't know how they manage this exsctly, but somehow the AR has come to be led by great tacticians.
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