August off to deadly start in Afghanistan

NATO says 3 US troops killed in Afghan battle

August off to deadly start in Afghanistan: NATO says 3 US troops killed in battle

JASON STRAZIUSO
AP News

Aug 02, 2009 05:29 EST

Militants in eastern Afghanistan attacked U.S. forces with gunfire Sunday after a roadside bomb hit their convoy. Three American troops died in the attack, officials said.

July was the deadliest month for international troops since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, but August has gotten off to a lethal start.

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Bomb blast in Afghanistan's west kills 10
AP

By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press Writer Alfred De Montesquiou, Associated Press Writer – 29 mins ago

KABUL – A remote-controlled bomb exploded Monday in western Afghanistan's main city, killing 10 people and critically wounding a district police chief — the main target of the attack.

The bomb went off on a crowded street near a fruit market in Herat. It injured 30 people, said Raouf Ahmedi, the top police spokesman in western Afghanistan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090803/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

thousands of innocent people in Afghanistan being killed because WE are there. Not to worry, though, we only have a couple of decades left of this disgusting violence. And, a new generation of (justified)American-hating terrorists. More chickens will come home to roost, one day. When that happens we will continue the cycle of violence.

What are they afraid of?

Amazing what an election will do.

It makes me feel like we are damned.

Please someone, tell me why we can't come home.

:thumbsup:

Likewise, those who escalate it and those who support those who escalate it!

Civilian death toll soaring in Afghanistan
By James Cogan
3 August 2009

A report issued late last month by the Human Rights Unit of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) sheds light on the rising number of innocent Afghan men, women and children who are being killed in order for the US and its allies to consolidate their neo-colonial occupation of the country.

The UNAMA report contrasted the number of officially recorded civilian deaths for the first six months of 2009 with the number in previous years. From January 1 to June 30, it registered 1,013 civilian fatalities, “compared with 818 for the same period in 2008, and 684 in 2007”. In other words, as the Obama administration has escalated the war and sent thousands of additional troops and aircraft to Afghanistan, the number of civilian deaths has soared by 24 percent.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/aug2009/afgh-a03.shtml

Hope others catch it...