Let me get you up to date with the daily reporting in the BG.
September 10:
September 11:
September 12:
Wow, war must be over, huh? No bombings, no battles, no broken-down doors, no nothing!
September 13:
"Wave of violence kills 50 in Afghanistan; 5 US troops die in roadside attacks" by Rahim Faiez, Associated Press | September 13, 2009
Aaaah!!!
KABUL, Afghanistan - About 50 civilians, security forces, and militants were killed in a wave of violence across Afghanistan, including a bomb that left 14 Afghan travelers dead in one of the country’s most dangerous regions. Five American soldiers died in two attacks using roadside bombs....
Taliban militants also staged suicide attacks - and came under attack themselves. Coalition and Afghan forces yesterday killed 11 militants during an overnight raid in northern Kunduz province, said Abdul Razaq Yaqoubi, the provincial police chief.
Where they barbecued those people in a fireball!
The operation targeted Taliban fighters who helped foreign fighters and suicide bombers infiltrate the region, said Captain Elizabeth Mathias, a US military spokeswoman....
Yeah, yeah, yeah, war criminal!
The attacks Friday and Saturday reached a broad swath of the country, demonstrating the spread of the Taliban insurgency, which had been largely confined to the country’s south and east in the years after the 2001 US invasion.
Translation: We are losing big-time! That's why America wants to come home.
Half of those killed in the most recent attacks were civilians, who often find themselves caught in the grinding war between the Taliban and US and NATO forces. Bombs caused most of the casualties - including homemade blasts in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar and a neighboring province that together killed 20 civilians.
But when an airstrike hits, YOW!
Authorities reported a string of deadly militant attacks in the south and east.
In Kandahar, two suicide bombers on a motorbike tried to attack an office of the country’s intelligence agency yesterday. Officers and the bombers traded gunfire. One bomber blew himself up and killed an intelligence officer, while the other bomber’s explosives went off but didn’t kill anyone, said Kandahar deputy provincial police Chief Fazel Hamid Sherzad.
Also in Kandahar, six civilians were killed by a homemade bomb Friday in Maiwand district, said district police Chief Bashir Hamad. In neighboring Uruzgan Province, 14 civilians were killed Friday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Churra district, the Interior Ministry said. Roadside bombs planted by militants are usually aimed at troops, but hundreds of civilians have been killed by them.
Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't think the Muslims do it to each other.
I think it is "Al-CIA-Duh."
A Taliban ambush, meanwhile, killed six private security guards working for a construction company in the eastern province of Kunar on Saturday, said Gen. Khalilullah Ziayi, the provincial police chief. Ten guards were wounded, he said.
Also in the east, a suspected militant rocket attack killed three civilians in Sabari district of Khost, said Wazir Pacha, spokesman for the provincial police chief. Four police were killed in Nangarhar late Friday when militants attacked a border police checkpoint, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, spokesman for the governor.
Gee, after NO VIOLENCE at all(?) all hell breaks loose!!!!!
In eastern Paktika Province, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in Bermel district. Only the bomber died, the Interior Ministry said.
Well,..... Didn't really fail, did he?
A roadside bomb and gunfire attack in western Afghanistan killed three Americans, while another roadside bomb killed two Americans in the east, said Chief Petty Officer Brian Naranjo, a spokesman for the US military command in Kabul. No other details were available.
And check out this odd, odd accounting of I don't know what:
In Kabul yesterday, an American service member and an Afghan police officer got into an argument because the American was drinking water in front of the Afghan police, who are not eating or drinking during the day because of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, said the district chief, Abdul Baqi Zemari.
The police officer shot the American and seriously wounded him, while other American troops responded and seriously wounded the police officer, Zemari said.
A US military spokesman, confirmed an incident between Afghan police officers and a US police mentoring team.
Oh, this is going splendidly.
