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malaise

(269,157 posts)
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 12:18 PM Aug 2012

Three more US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last night

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/11/six-us-soldiers-killed-afghan
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Six US soldiers were shot dead on Friday by Afghans, including police, in southern Helmand province – a grim reminder of the growing threat foreign forces face not just from the Taliban but also from their supposed allies.

It was the bloodiest single day for foreign troops in the province since six British soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in early March.

Three US Marine Corps special operations troops were shot dead in the early hours of Friday morning in Sangin district, a northern corner of the province that has seen heavy fighting. The killers were an Afghan police commander and some of his men, who had invited the US officers to join them for a meal and to discuss security, Afghan officials said.

Then in the evening, an Afghan man shot dead three other foreign soldiers who worked on a joint base with him, the Nato-led coalition said. It does not reveal nationalities of soldiers killed during operations, but Afghan officials said the men were from the US.
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Bring the troops home
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Three more US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last night (Original Post) malaise Aug 2012 OP
Why Zax2me Aug 2012 #1
Bring them home AND Agony Aug 2012 #2
Get us OUT of there! Chuuku Davis Aug 2012 #3
Hearing The Doors in my head: coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #4
It's sickening malaise Aug 2012 #6
More cannon fodder in a lost war fought for PR. Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2012 #5
 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
4. Hearing The Doors in my head:
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 01:23 PM
Aug 2012

Make a grave for the unknown soldier
Nestled in your hollow shoulder
The unknown soldier

"The Unknown Soldier"

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RIP, troops, sacrificed upon the altar of imperial hubris to the God of Mammon.

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